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'''St. Jean''' is a colony world located in the [[Deep Periphery]], approximately 150 light years spinward of [[Nueva Castile]]. The colony is home to an order of Franciscan monks. During [[Operation Revival]], the colony was occupied by [[Clan Jade Falcon]] and used as a storage depot for Jade Falcon invasion forces.
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==Political Affiliation==
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==Sources==
* ca. [[2750]] - colony established, affiliation unknown<ref name="ToF"/>
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* [[Explorer Corps (sourcebook)]]
* [[2825]] - "St. Jean - as the monks called it -" mentioned in diary of questionable authenticity<ref>''Jihad Secret: The Blake Documents'', p. 123</ref>
 
* [[3050]] - independent colony of Franciscan monks; occupied by [[Clan Jade Falcon]] after 13 January<ref name="ToF"/>
 
* [[3059]] - [[Clan Jade Falcon]]<ref name="EC"/>
 
* [[3095]] - unknown/contact lost; implication that the colony was destroyed, abandoned or otherwise lost<ref name="IE32"/>
 
  
==St. Jean II==
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===Planetary History===
 
'''St. Jean''' (also occasionally written with a dash, i.e. '''St-Jean''') is a colony in the [[Deep Periphery]], approximately 150 light years [[spinward]] of [[Nueva Castile]]. It is unclear when exactly it was first colonized; as of the mid-[[thirty-first century]], certain structures on St. Jean were described as "over three centuries old" already. The system notably features a space station at its zenith [[jump point]] as of [[3050]] that was described as a full-blown [[DropShip]] maintenance yard.
 
 
 
By [[3050]] the colony was home to an order of Franciscan friars, who would activate the otherwise mothballed space station by means of a pair of long range shuttles to service visiting spaceships in exchange for needed goods. During [[Operation REVIVAL]], the colony was occupied by [[Clan Jade Falcon]] and subsequently used as a surface cargo waystation for Jade Falcon invasion forces.
 
 
 
Prior to [[3095]], [[Interstellar Expeditions]] sent three [[JumpShip]]s to St. Jean and [[Ghent]]. None of those ships returned.<ref>''Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3'', p. 31</ref> It was assumed that the colony had been destroyed, and St. Jean was marked accordingly on an Interstellar Expeditions star map as of 3095.<ref name="IE32">''Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3'', p. 32</ref>
 
 
 
The St. Jean colony is situated on the system's second planet. The planet was described as a reddish-brown world with a thin layer of clouds ringing the equatorial region.<ref name="ToF"/>
 
 
 
The colony, located in a deep equatorial rift called Trinity Valley, had once been set up to house tens of thousands of people but by [[3050]], barely 200 Franciscan monks lived at the monastery settlement which was the only settlement on the planet. An array of nav beacons is available to guide approaching DropShips into the rift. Unspecified terraforming machines are mentioned, as is an ancient weather station on top of Mount Dolus in the Fraticelli mountain range, thousands of kilometers away from the monastery settlement (and apparently to the east, as the upper plains 1,100 km west of the Fraticelli mountain foothills seem to be located between the mountains and the colony). The Fraticelli mountains include the Benedict's Garden caldera, suggesting volcanic origin.<ref name="ToF"/>
 
 
 
The moon of St. Jean is falling towards the planet slowly, but much faster than had been predicted when the colony was initially set up. While expected to hit the surface several millennia down the road, it did draw the planet's atmosphere into space at a much higher rate than anticipated. As a result, the ancient terraforming machines could not keep up with the loss of atmosphere and most of the planetary surface was dead by 3050, with only the deep equatorial valley still able to sustain life. It was expected that there would be no breathable atmosphere left after twenty years, i.e. by ca. 3070.<ref name="ToF"/>
 
 
 
===Military Deployment===
 
====3059====
 
* [[74th_Battle_(Clan_Jade_Falcon)|Raptor Battle Cluster]] (Veteran) (45 [[OmniMech]]s, 15 [[Elemental]] [[Point]]s and 30 [[OmniFighter]]s)<ref name="EC"/><ref>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', pp. 107, 154, homeworld given as "Deep Periphery"</ref>
 
:* CO: [[Star Colonel]] [[Amado Roshak]]
 
 
 
==Map Gallery==
 
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==Nearby Systems==
 
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{|class="wikitable nearby-systems" style="background: #gray; text-align:center; border: 1px solid black;"
 
! colspan="8" | Closest 20 systems (0 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
 
|-
 
| class="over60" | [[Ramsey]]
 
| class="over60" | 76.1
 
| class="over60" | [[Santiago (Periphery)|Santiago]]
 
| class="over60" | 168.9
 
| class="over60" | [[Castile]]
 
| class="over60" | 195.1
 
| class="over60" | [[Aragon]]
 
| class="over60" | 209.8
 
|-
 
| class="over60" | [[Galicia]]
 
| class="over60" | 211.8
 
| class="over60" | [[Graystone]]
 
| class="over60" | 213.3
 
| class="over60" | [[Kinbrace]]
 
| class="over60" | 214.5
 
| class="over60" | [[Hallelujah]]
 
| class="over60" | 221.5
 
|-
 
| class="over60" | [[Glory (Escorpión_Imperio)|Glory]]
 
| class="over60" | 226.6
 
| class="over60" | [[León]]
 
| class="over60" | 226.8
 
| class="over60" | [[Granada]]
 
| class="over60" | 228.8
 
| class="over60" | [[Córdoba]]
 
| class="over60" | 238.6
 
|-
 
| class="over60" | [[Valencia]]
 
| class="over60" | 247.7
 
| class="over60" | [[Asturias]]
 
| class="over60" | 254.9
 
| class="over60" | [[Khanquest]]
 
| class="over60" | 257.7
 
| class="over60" | [[Navarre]]
 
| class="over60" | 259.5
 
|-
 
| class="over60" | [[Holdout]]
 
| class="over60" | 264.3
 
| class="over60" | [[Danzig]]
 
| class="over60" | 279.9
 
| class="over60" | [[Winston (system)|Winston]]
 
| class="over60" | 280.9
 
| class="over60" | [[Antwerp]]
 
| class="over60" | 281.2
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
==References==
 
<references />
 
 
 
==Bibliography==
 
* ''[[Explorer Corps (sourcebook)|Explorer Corps]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]''
 
* ''[[Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
* ''[[Trial of Faith]]''
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:Systems]]
 
[[Category: Clan Jade Falcon Systems]]
 

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