Site Excalibur

**DISCLAIMER AND AUTHOR'S NOTES**
**Location of Interest 001** is inspired by:
* Site Anvil, from the DAMOCLES Initiative hub

**Official Designation:** Extrasolar Starship Rendezvous Point
**Site Identification Code:** HERACLES Site Excalibur
**Codeword Clearance:** L4/ROUND TABLE
**Additional Codewords:** L4/HERACLES

## General Information

**Founded:** 0.0.0 Excalibur; Mercury H+4785 (approx. 2031 CE)

**Location:** MAGISTER-1e (Excalibur)

**Purpose:** Starship Staging Point, Species Preservation Colony

## Site Overview

Site Anvil is the name for the first permanent human outpost outside of the Luna system. Located in the MAGISTER-1 star system, Site Excalibur was established under the auspices of the HERACLES Initiative to serve as a staging point for all HERACLES starships and to ensure that the survival of humanity following the potential destruction of Armanya continues.

Following the launch of the exploratory vessel *Magellan* in 2011, plans for the first extrasolar human outpost were being drawn and prepared. On April 5, 2015, through the timely intervention of the Paranormal Forces Coalition the arrival of refugees from Earth following a global cataclysm led to calls for solutions to this; special operations forces teams sent to figure out the cause discovered in one of the XEDRA facilities that had the blob codenamed XE-037 failed to take into account its hostility, resulting in the world's doom. After the reports and evidence (thaumaturgically annihilated of any of the blob) were passed up to the Charybdis Organization and sent to the Paranormal Forces Coalition, it was ultimately decided that, should XE-037 ever enter Armanya, the survival of humanity must come first.

Anti-XE037 measures and countermeasures in the form of new-generation reality anchors, eigenweapons, thaumic shielding systems, and thaumaturgical purification systems were developed to only wipe out XE-037, with the gods promising to help out by using their powers to stop the spreading contamination of XE037 and, if the worst comes to pass, unleash the End Times as detailed in the Multilateral Emergency Protocol END TIMES. The Paranormal Forces Coalition Interstellar Threats Taskforce collaborated with various space agencies and companies to help produce new spaceplanes, develop the existing interplanetary colonies, set up new mining outposts and habitats, and construct new colonial settlements, sometimes with support from the gods and their hosts.

Plans for the first extrasolar human outpost was taken up by the HERACLES Initiative and, with the funding, manpower, paratechs and resources acquired, created a second starship, *Jehovah's Witness*. After discussing with and receiving support from the gods, additional starships were to be built in order to send people to far-off worlds.

The MAGISTER-1 star system was selected from a prepared list of extrasolar star systems by vote prior to the launch of *Magellan*, and it is one of the many locations the *Magellan* would receive news and messages from Armanya following the completion of its mission to Aurora Centauri. Because it is one of many potentially habitable planets, it was made a candidate for a planetary colony.

Ten years after it was established, the arrival of the Novayan starship *Human Odyssey* led to communications between the Novayan leader and the Director of Site Excalibur, revealing that new para/techs were produced, such as construction drones. Soon after the drones on-board the *Human Odyssey* were deployed towards the planet to establish Site Camelot before the people the ship carried, consisting of Novayans, Japanese, French, Germans Filipinos, British and Americans, settled in.

## Facilities

Site Excalibur has under its jurisdiction a number of permanent installations and assets in the MAGISTER-1 system. This includes numerous satellites orbiting MAGISTER-1 and its planets, and research outposts on MAGISTER-1d, MAGISTER-1c and MAGISTER-1f. The majority of facilities were on or orbiting around Excalibur.

## Staffing Information and Site Culture

As dictated by the HERACLES Initiative leadership, Site Excalibur operates on a multipartite structure, with duties divided among various personnel.

Rather than a multi-member control council, leadership of Site Excalibur lays in a single director, or a governor, who is elected by the colonists. To prevent any sorts of infighting and promote social cohesion, senior administrative personnel retain only few privileges and/or additional benefits in comparison to lower-ranking personnel and civilians. Services and procedures were designed to be both egalitarian and communal as possible in order to dissuade class-based resentment division among the colonial population.

After Site Camelot was established, the two colonies established a trade route, which would serve as the very road from which the people of both colonies would travel down whether on foot or by vehicle.