Serendip Belt (world)
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| Serendip Belt/New Islands (Reft 1323) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classic Era (1115) | A000959-C
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| See also | UWP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
C-Jammer eventually found and settled Serendip Belt in 4608.
During the Third Frontier War (5501), the Clusters were inadvertently contacted by an Imperial strike cruiser (El Dorado) which had misjumped as a result of battle damage. It sought help (at Serendip Belt) and succeeded in repairing its jump drives; through the use of auxiliary tanks, it then returned to the Imperium.
In 5504, the Serendip Belt starship C-Breaker made its first jump.
With the end of the war (5534), the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service followed up on the Navy’s report and dispatched a survey team to establish relations. Upon their arrival, they found that the Serendips had already duplicated the jump drives they had seen (and helped repair) and were themselves in the process of establishing control over the entire cluster. The Survey team carefully distributed jump drive technology to seven other systems and helped reestablish a balance of power within the region.
The asteroid belt at Serendip is a rich storehouse of mineral wealth; it is inhabited by independent merchants and miners under a feudal technocracy form of government. The center of government is still the C-Jammer. Serendip controls nearby Gloire as an agricultural colony.
Serendip Belt took over Gloire by direct military conquest.
When one planet has grown too powerful, the others have allied to bring pressure to stop it, as happened to Serendip Belt in 5542, when it was forced to give up its control of Topas, Elysee, and Besancon.
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| – The Zhodani Base - Christopher Thrash |
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