Sournia Repair Yards

CLASS: Désix

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

CREW: 700

Sournia Repair Yards is currently the largest and most important space installation of the Maquisards. Sournia is essentially one giant space dry dock with associated workshops and simpler foundries. While it prevents the construction of a completely new spaceship, it allows for the repair of even very badly damaged Maquis ships that would otherwise have to be scuttled and abandoned.

Its origins date back to 831 AS, when all the jump holes in the Lorraine system collapsed, allowing the Maquisards to concentrate their forces in the southwestern parts of Gallia. Despite the use of knowledge gained from the remains of Issoudun in Orkney, the construction of such a massive space installation was by no means easy for the Maquisards. Sournia was immediately plagued by several structural flaws, the main one being the construction of the main beams, which have proven to be of sub-standard quality. Less than a year after they were built, they have already developed micro-cracks with the potential to compromise the structural integrity of the drydock itself in the future. Replacing them, however, is no longer economically or technically feasible, and so this is a weakness that the Maquisards will have to reckon with.

Because Sournia is structurally weaker than it should be due to these major internal defects, the Maquisards have been forced to commit more men and ships to her own protection - even at the cost of less comfort for all aboard the Sournia, where personal privacy is something virtually unheard of.

## 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.

Professor Nagel and her team are certain the Pulse originated from outside Sirius, but are otherwise no closer to identifying its source or mitigating a future Blackout event. "Following the Blackout, we began to see immediate signs of jump hole destabilization in multiple different regions, with many ultimately falling out of phase alignment altogether", she commented. The dramatic upending of Sirius' jump hole network has already prompted many groups to abandon stations and withdraw from systems that appear to risk being cut off.
While months-long trips between the stars are possible thanks to the Liberty Engine and many centuries of innovation, few ships are designed or provisioned to make such arduous journeys. Those who were displaced by Sirius' redrawn map hope that system connections will return, while adventurers and explorers rush to discover new routes.

The course of the Second Gallic War has proved many times that we can fulfill our obligations and act with honour and courage. The presence of Maquis on Planet Marne is stronger than ever, and several space ports on the planet are fully under our control, open for ships of our other allies, the Brigands and the Corse. Gallic Brigands and Unione Corse do not participate in our fight for the overthrow of the monarchy in Gallia, however, they share our desire for freedom from the control of corrupt officials and Gallic corporations.
The liberation of Languedoc, a massive operation of the Council in which we participated, was our most recent - and most deadly - strike against the monarchy. While several hundred of our fighters were destroyed by the Gallic Navy during this operation, the goal is now achieved: isolation of Gallia from Sirius is a thing of the past. The Maquis also played an important role in securing a secret passage in the Lorraine mine fields. Unione Corse delivered us the prototypes of the devices that the Gallic Navy was going to use to neutralise their mines when the time for the Sirius-wide invasion came. Council engineers recreated those devices in sufficient numbers to disable a large portion of the Lorraine mine field, revealing a nearby system that is known as Omicron Tau by Sirius naming conventions.
Despite our recent victories, the Second Gallic War is far from over. Gallic fleets are gathering strength, and soon they will inevitably gain the upper hand in Languedoc. Our current objective is to secure our installations in the asteroid fields of the Gallic systems. We will also aid in defending the Champagne system from any Royal Navy attacks. Planet Marne is a new home to many of us. Fresh air instead of recycled space station atmosphere, fresh food instead of synthetic substitutes - this is what we missed for so long, and what this war's successes have made accessible for us.

## Rumors

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