Baradec

**Baradeç** is a B-type star inside the **Majestic Cluster** of the like named Majestic Galaxy. At around 6.3 Solar Masses it is among the heaviest and most luminous stars within the Majestic Galaxy. The Star is currently under the occupation of the Supreme Entity of Vondunke.

The star is the host of the orbital Varadeç Military Base. A large Vondunke military complex capable of transforming into a Dyson structure capable of turning the tide in a war against any power less than that of a well established interstellar empire.

## Vondunke Military Base

The Vondunke maintain a compact series of military installations on the fringe of the **Baradeç** system around 225 AU out from the star. The Base, named **Varadeç Verkraeçk**, is the only major satellite of Baradeç with all other having been robbed by an earlier Vondunke colonization effort called the **Sixth Bloom**. The Base consists of a large gas giant weighing 3.6 Jupiter masses. The Giant is orbited by half a dozen roughly Martian sized moons and several orbits filled with large structures capable of rapidly reaching the inner system and unfurling into extensive light nets which collect and redirect light to stations capable of forming miniature Nicoll-Dyson beams.

The Base is not federated into the Supreme Entity but is rather directly overseen by the Strategic Commission which is itself overseen by the Supreme Directory of War. Permanent habitants are considered a part of the **Çaçen** **Federate** who were responsible for colonization at the beginning of the Vondunke-Selthen War entitled the **Grey Wars**. Non-Permanent residents, who typically stay for a shifts lasting a thousand years or so, Fall under jurisdiction of their home Federates. However both the Çaçen citizens and others are subject primarily to **Supreme Law** and **Military Law** as well as local **Traffic Laws**.

The Installation is headed by **Executive Commander** Nadraekoç and **Chief Armada Admiral** 'Traphaeçk who answers to Nadraekoç. The bases navy is comprised of around 1,000 Battle Stations and nearly 100,000 Dreadnoughts.

## History

**Baradeç** was born in a former star forming Nebula shortly before the late Stellfix Galaxy's high speed collision with the Silky Way. Serving as one of the few remaining stars to the new "Majestic Galaxy", it became the galaxy's new largest star as most others are now constituents of the Silky Way.

As the Vondunke neared their first real conflict with another race, they needed something to give them an edge over the energy saturated, yet technologically inferior **Eesceen Federation**, because for the most part the Vondunke never kept permanent bases around stars. There plan was to send an, out of the way, colonization effort to Baradeç which had a luminosity more than twenty times any other star in the **Majestic or Oblivion** **Shoals**. **Çaçen**, one of the largest **Federates**, was allocated the task of building a super-weapon around Baradeç which would turn the tide of the **Grey Wars**. During the **Fourth** and **Fifth Blooms**, the Dyson structure grew in size and strength as it unleashed larger and larger waves of **Relativistic Kill Missiles**. The Eesceen host K/M-type stars of Escene and Nyscene eventually proved no match and were unable to continually disable the ever increasing waves or return sufficient fire.

After the war, during the **Sixth Bloom**, the star's orbital bodies were harvested in typical Vondunke style, with only a highly classified (if not well-known, given the technological resources of even the most laymen of astronomers) military installation left in orbit, in case of another conflict.

Today the military base remains and is by far the most significant of all the Vondunke posts, even on par with some of the lesser Vondunke Federates.

1. ↑ It sounds far fetched but Vondunke medicine is just so that members of it's race don't typically die from natural causes anymore.
2. ↑ The successor to the old Stellfix which was the galaxy's name before the majority of the stars were absorbed by the Silky Way
3. ↑ Also spelled Çaççen
4. ↑ Chunks of mass, sometimes self guided, accelerated to a significant fraction of light speed (usually 98% or more) whose kinetic energy, upon impact, according to e=mc2, would transfer practically all of it's mass-energy. Devastating continent, if not, planetary sized areas with a single missile