Compiegne Naval Academy

CLASS: Commentry (Refit)

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

CREW: 1400

Compiegne was a contemporary civilian housing facility that was built in 690 AGS at one of the intersections of the Ile-de-France trade lanes. Initially operated by Nery Space Construction, a medium-sized space company, the facility was later bought by Solar Engineering, who transformed it into their space-based headquarters.

However, after centuries, EFL merged with Solar Engineering, and most of their facilities on Aubigny could perform the same tasks as the space station, rendering Compiegne obsolete for EFL. Subsequently, the Gallic Navy bought the facility, and it was converted into a space naval academy to train new officers and crew for the military's wounded. The facility underwent extensive retrofitting for this purpose.

During the same year, a docking bay was added to the academy to host the derelict hull of the battleship Montreuil, which serves as a museum vessel commemorating the Second Gallic War.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Gallic Navy
* IDF Shipping

* EFL Oil and Machinery
* IDF Shipping
* Gallic Metal Service

## News

Once a beacon of our national ingenuity, Metz was the site of the experimental Metz Mirror Array, more commonly known as the MMA project. The project was intended to assist the terraforming operations through a sophisticated array of orbital mirrors. The array would redirect additional sunlight onto the equatorial band of Metz, further raising local temperatures on the otherwise icy world.
Decried by its detractors as a "fool king's endeavour", the ambitious project never had the opportunity to prove its capabilities, as the nearly complete array fell victim to Kusari's invasion of Lorraine. With the array gone and supplies severed, the terraforming project and the biosphere it maintained collapsed during the occupation, leading to widespread famine across Metz. Unfortunately, in the wake of King Charles' gambit in Bretonia and the near complete destruction of Lorraine and Languedoc by Kusari forces, the Union government has declared the system a total loss and ordered a full evacuation of the planet.

Ageira disputed this finding in their own press release, calling EFL 'fantasists' and countering that their own scientists had narrowed the cause to a rare 'hypernova' stellar event that originated outside the Sirius sector. Both corporations claim that network-wide hardware safeguards have been implemented that would prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Independent researchers have sharply criticized the corporate announcements, accusing both of self-interested misdirection.
Professor Sophia Nagel from Heisenberg Research Station called EFL's accusation 'incoherent' and the hypernova explanation 'nonsense' that did not explain the characteristics of the 'Blackout Pulse'. Despite multiple different Pulse recordings being widely disseminated across the neural net, public efforts have so far failed to triangulate its source.

The acceptance and incorporation of the Royal Enclave comes amid sweeping changes in our governmental body to a military structure to ensure swifter and more capable responses should such a cowardly invasion occur again.
Many fear the incorporation of the Enclave will lead to the Sirian Houses recognizing Kusari's claims of Gallia still having and utilizing weapons of mass destruction like the Warwolves used during the Glassing of Leeds, though rumors have already started to spread that the dismantling of these weapons is a concession the Royal Enclave has agreed to do.
As one of the first acts of the new government, a controversial peace treaty has been signed with Kusari, giving the invading House rights to Tau-53 and mining rights to Tau-23. While some voice discontent with this agreement, the government has pointed out that the war has led to an increase in criminal activity in Gallia that requires immediate attention to control.
One government official was cited saying "We have done well for centuries on our own, if Kusari wants to burn bridges with this agreement we will simply focus on our own development and our relations with Rheinland instead."

## Rumors

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