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After twenty-two months the Expedition reached the edge of the unexplored [[Hyades Cluster]]. It proved to have a massive asteroid field obscured by dust and radiation.  Two ships were lost penetrating the cluster. Once inside though the Calderon Expedition found no less than eight star systems with a total of thiryt-seven planets, ten of which were ideal for human habitation.  Samantha decided that the Hyades asteroid field provided a fantastic natural barrier to invasion and piracy. On 23 January [[2253]], Samantha Calderon set foot on the world [[Taurus]] (named for her second husband, [[Victor Taurens]] who died entering what's now called [[Flannagan's Nebulea]]).<ref>''The Periphery'', p. 15</ref><ref name=HMPSp14/> For the next fifteen years Samantha's dream of idyllic isolation beyond the reach of governments and social oppressors was a reality.  Her colony soon doubled and redoubled in size. Her dream ended in a freak accident that claimed her life on 14 March [[2268]], but her visionary leadership and legacy of personal courage created a foundation from which a stable interstellar political state would grow and endure for over eight centuries. Despising the hated, brutal, but democratic [[Terran Alliance]], her son [[Timothy Calderon]] and the Taurian people agreed that the Protectorship would remain a hereditary Calderon title, further distinguishing the Taurians from the heart of the Inner Sphere.<ref>''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', pp. 46–47</ref>
 
After twenty-two months the Expedition reached the edge of the unexplored [[Hyades Cluster]]. It proved to have a massive asteroid field obscured by dust and radiation.  Two ships were lost penetrating the cluster. Once inside though the Calderon Expedition found no less than eight star systems with a total of thiryt-seven planets, ten of which were ideal for human habitation.  Samantha decided that the Hyades asteroid field provided a fantastic natural barrier to invasion and piracy. On 23 January [[2253]], Samantha Calderon set foot on the world [[Taurus]] (named for her second husband, [[Victor Taurens]] who died entering what's now called [[Flannagan's Nebulea]]).<ref>''The Periphery'', p. 15</ref><ref name=HMPSp14/> For the next fifteen years Samantha's dream of idyllic isolation beyond the reach of governments and social oppressors was a reality.  Her colony soon doubled and redoubled in size. Her dream ended in a freak accident that claimed her life on 14 March [[2268]], but her visionary leadership and legacy of personal courage created a foundation from which a stable interstellar political state would grow and endure for over eight centuries. Despising the hated, brutal, but democratic [[Terran Alliance]], her son [[Timothy Calderon]] and the Taurian people agreed that the Protectorship would remain a hereditary Calderon title, further distinguishing the Taurians from the heart of the Inner Sphere.<ref>''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', pp. 46–47</ref>
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