Leonis Chapter

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**The Leonis Chapter** are one of the twenty-four chapters of Humanity. Following the Great Human Migration, they reside on the planet E'blanche in the Canol system.

## History

### Colonisation on E'blanche

Sometime during the Great Human Migratio, the Leonis Chapter settled on E'blanche, which was selected and prepared by the Calan race..

### Golden Era of the Leonis Chapter

In the year OA16,821, the Steale family discovered a vein of Bijoubleu, a rare fuel source, near their village of Narsolo. They established the Bijoubleu-Steale Industires to benefit financially and helped to increase their Chapter's economy by creating interplanetary trade. The E'blanche Government worked directly with the family to establish trade routes that would greatly improve the Chapter's economy by consequence. In the following centuries, the technology of the colony was modernised and the Chapter returned to increase space travel as their ancestors once were able.

### Mining Wars

Great prosperity brought with it greed and competition. Wars were started for the jurisdiction of ores, including the First Mining War - a civil war - which broke out among conflicting families, including the Steales.

The Second Mining War was started following a political dispute between the government and Swindlehurst family of Regalis, where a new fuel source was discovered. This new product was vastly inferior to Bijoubleu and was eventually abandoned by the royal family.

In OA19,606, the Third Mining War was started as the Flametraders Syndicate attempted to reestablish a previously abandoned trade route with a new version of Bijoubleu - again, inferior to the original. Due to an unofficially intergalactic patent, the E'blanche Government, coaxed by the Steale family, attempted to cease all trade operations on Aske, where the new product was found. The Syndicate, offended by the threat of patent, directly bombed the E'blanche Military Force barracks and Bernard Academy as a way to simultaneously dissuade interference and destroy the Chapter's fighting capacity. The bitter war, mainly comprising of random skirmishes, lasted six years before finally ending in OA19,612, following an unexpected injunction by the Calan race who claimed the war was encroaching on their territory and warranted their involvement in its resolution.

### The Gathering

In the year OA19,650, like many other Chapters, the Leonis Chapter suffered victims of the Disappearing, in which innocent civilians vanished without trace. This coincided with the materialistaion of the Asylum, which the general population blamed. Despite sending volunteers to confront the mysterious object, the Chapter's attempt at truth is fruitless. Instead, they agree to meet the Calan at a vast conference on Castell. Sir Elis Newman is voted as speaker for the Chapter and other important participants include new Administrator Dominic Drindlock, General Rafe Newman and Baroness Edwina Norwood.

## Culture

The Leonis Chapter are primarily associated with the mining industry, due to their discovery of rich veins of Bijoubleu in the Crin valley. This led to almost two-thousand years of economic prosperity and vast interplanetary trade.

Following the demise of the mining industry, the Chapter turned to freshwater aquisition in the North White Sea as a new form of trade.

## Notable Individuals

* Administrator Xavier Bernard
* Professor Kalet Steale
* General Rafe Newman
* Administartor Dominic Drindlock