TA55

==Chapter 55 - The Armada==
Nyasa Coast Guard Station
Nyasa Star System
Former Rim Territories, Periphery
3170
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The Nyasa station existed for a reason.  The terraforming crew working with the single planet in the system.  During the Rim Worlds Republic, Nyasa had been a relatively minor planet, depending on Star League terraforming equipment and heavy funding from House Amaris.  Reclamation of Nyasa was green-lit under former Duchess Sharon Ngo in 3142, as a testing site for prototype terraforming gear and methodology. One of the half dozen or so 'abandoned' worlds chosen due to known issues and a closeness to habitability.
Nyasa wasn't all the way there yet, but men could once again walk the surface, and the imported biologicals were shaking out into something resembling the seeds of a workable ecosystem.
In as few as five hundred years, Nyasa would be virtually indistinguishable from an earthlike environment, one with plentiful water and rich soils.
For the time being, the atmosphere was still toxic to humanoid life, the introduced green plants and lichens scrubbing endlessly on the planet's carbon-dioxide and ammonia atmosphere.
The Coast Guard was originally here to keep the locals at bay-keep the scattered groups of the "Rim Territories" from stealing the valuables before the work was finished. 
The Exploration Initiative changed that, and further changes were wrought by the second and third deep-range expeditions.
The resultant expansion of LCN assets, added Coast Guard vessels, and the building of what amounts to a massive expeditionary base, required some redrawing of political lines.
While the Lyran Navy had stood on the throat of Clan Ghost Bear and strangled the Rasalhague Dominion into submission, the LCAF's ground arm moved eleven full combat forces RCTs to in to clean the bandits out of the Rim Territories. Retaking worlds of Canal, Main Street, Engadine, Elume, Tsarahavana, Issaba, and conquering the Bandit havens of "Pain" and "The Rack".
Regional Coast Guard forces from the Commonwealth worked in concert with the Transport Command under the over-all administrative organizational help of Kowloon's Coast Guard center at Spider Moon. 
No Pirate was left uncaught, there would not be a repeat performance from the Morrison's Extractors.
Telescopes at Nyasa recorded the appearance of a dozen lights in the blackness beyond that system's Oort cloud, and the warning was composed.
The enemy was coming.
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