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Odessa IV is probably best known for harboring one of the Word of Blake's Hidden Five worlds. The naval base named "The Ruins of Gabriel" was located near this gas giant. Located at the edge of the system, activity around Odessa IV is also obscured by an asteroid belt between Odessa III and IV.<ref name="JHS:3076p13"/>
 
Odessa IV is probably best known for harboring one of the Word of Blake's Hidden Five worlds. The naval base named "The Ruins of Gabriel" was located near this gas giant. Located at the edge of the system, activity around Odessa IV is also obscured by an asteroid belt between Odessa III and IV.<ref name="JHS:3076p13"/>
  
It was constructed under the orders of General [[Alexander Kerensky]] by the [[Star League Defense Force]] in secret toward the end of the Rim Worlds campaign, 2769–2772, to act as a re-supply and staging base for the upcoming campaign for Terra. This large complex contained several pressurized and unpressurized repair facilities and an extremely large habitat. By placing it well outside the traditional polar jump points, it was largely safe from detection. Though mostly stripped in the lead-up to the Exodus, some supplies or vessels too crippled for the journey might have been left behind.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3057, Revised'', pp. 182–183</ref>
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It was constructed by the [[Star League Defense Force]] in secret toward the end of the Rim Worlds campaign, in 2769–2772. This large complex contained several pressurized and unpressurized repair facilities and an extremely large habitat. By placing it well outside the traditional polar jump points, it was largely safe from detection. Though mostly stripped in the lead-up to the Exodus, some supplies or vessels too crippled for the journey might have been left behind.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3057, Revised'', pp. 182–183</ref>
  
 
Information uncovered during the Jihad indicated that ComStar had discreetly taken effective possession of Odessa IV and the former SLDF naval base concealed nearby when the chaos of the First Succession War was engulfing Odessa III. With the population of the primary world in the system in sharp decline, astronavigational records relating to Odessa IV would easily have been lost, removing pirate points and other such features from common knowledge. Traffic so far away from Odessa III at the time most likely escaped any attention, and ComStar evidently made discrete, subtle changes to the surviving records for the system, increasing the apparent effect of existing hazards such as gravity anomalies in small, difficult to detect ways, all close enough to the true nature of the conditions around the large planet to escape notice.<ref name="JHS:3076p13"/>
 
Information uncovered during the Jihad indicated that ComStar had discreetly taken effective possession of Odessa IV and the former SLDF naval base concealed nearby when the chaos of the First Succession War was engulfing Odessa III. With the population of the primary world in the system in sharp decline, astronavigational records relating to Odessa IV would easily have been lost, removing pirate points and other such features from common knowledge. Traffic so far away from Odessa III at the time most likely escaped any attention, and ComStar evidently made discrete, subtle changes to the surviving records for the system, increasing the apparent effect of existing hazards such as gravity anomalies in small, difficult to detect ways, all close enough to the true nature of the conditions around the large planet to escape notice.<ref name="JHS:3076p13"/>

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