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==Description==
The '''Erit Star Cluster''' (or simply Erit Cluster) is a star cluster situated within the area otherwise known as the [[Dark Nebula]], approximately 700 lightyears [[coreward]] from [[Terra]]. It comprises of twelve stars, with four ([[Erit]], [[Nakfa]], [[Sebderat]], and [[Drovahchein]]) featuring planetary systems in the habitable zones.<ref name=HitD/>

The Cluster's capital city is Gharisport, on Drovahchein II's minor southern continent.<ref name=DTR/><ref name=HitD/>

==History==
Following the Erit Cluster's discovery by the [[Rim Worlds Republic]]'s RWRS ''[[Sarkor]]'' in [[2456]], all four were colonized and terraforming efforts were undertaken.<ref name=HitD>''Tamar Rising'', p. 61: "A Haven in the Dark"</ref> Although the Dark Nebula area is notoriously difficult to navigate, a trade hub developed and shipyards were established in the Eritese systems to service visiting vessels.<ref name=HitD/>

The cluster was occupied by the [[Star League]] in the [[Reunification War]] and the [[Department of Mega-Engineering]] used its industry to help build the [[Camelot Command]] naval base elsewhere in the Dark Nebula. Trade flourished and the Eritese grew wealthy, though they would later secretly support the Rim Worlds Republic's efforts to build a navy of their own.<ref name=HitD/>

Following the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the demise of the Rim Worlds Republic, the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] annexed the Dark Nebula (and the Erit Cluster within it), but largely left the Eritese traders to their own devices.<ref name=HitD/>

As of ca. [[3024]], the Erit Cluster was described as "a tiny island of relative prosperity and technology in a rising sea of barbarism"<ref name=DTR>''Decision at Thunder Rift''</ref> and was nominally under the rule of [[House Steiner]], though actually ruled by the traders of [[House Mailai]], who maintained a network of trade contacts between the Eritese systems and the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] as well as [[Periphery]] systems beyond the Commonwealth's border.<ref name=DTR/> During this time, the techs of Gharisport were still capable of overhauling a worn-out [[JumpShip]], as they demonstrated on [[Renfred Tor]]'s ''[[Merchant (JumpShip class)|Merchant]]''-class ''[[Invidious (Individual Merchant-class JumpShip)|Invidious]]'' in or shortly before 3024.<ref name=DTR/>

During the [[Clan Invasion]], the Dark Nebula was initially ignored, and any attention it received was focused on the Camelot Command naval facility; it was only after the [[Battle of Tukayyid (3052)|Battle of Tukayyid]] in [[3052]] that [[Clan Jade Falcon]] assumed control of the Erit Cluster and assimilated House Mailai's operations into their merchant caste.

In [[3071]], [[Clan Ice Hellion]] assaulted the Jade Falcon holdings and seized Camelot Command; it is unknown if they also attacked other systems in the Dark Nebula. In any case, Clan Jade Falcon defeated the Ice Hellions in concert with [[Clan Hell's Horses]] in the following year and Clan Hell's Horses migrated into the [[Inner Sphere]], taking over the Erit Cluster.<ref name=HitD/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]'' (novel)
* ''[[Tamar Rising]]''

[[Category: Special Astronomical Features]]

Erit Cluster - Revision history

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