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| name = Ross 248
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| class = M6V<ref name=ISP3-25>''Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3'', p. 25: "Ross 248/Terrelibre"</ref>
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| recharge stations = Zenith, Nadir<ref name=ISP3-25/>
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==System Description==
The '''Ross 248''' system was home to at least eight planets, two of them inhabited, and also hosts one manmade facility.<ref name=ISP3-25/>

Similar to [[Luyten 68-28]], Ross 248 was an uninhabitable system approximately 10.3 light years from [[Terra]] that served as a Fleet Yard for the [[Hegemony Armed Forces]], [[Star League Defense Force]], [[Com Guards]], and finally the [[Word of Blake Militia]].

'''Terrelibre''' was one of three independent [[Slowboat Colonization]] to reach a new system and successfully colonize it.<ref name="JCIP2p66/> Ross 248 was deliberately selected for its lack of habitable worlds.<ref name=ISP3-25/>

The two inhabited planets together form the Terrelibre colony. The hostile environments on '''Mergelée''' and '''Rochegelée''' kept Terrelibrans in enclosed habitats, and inspired a relatively belter-like culture, but the benefits of living in natural gravity and in close conjunction with ComStar have created a society more closely aligned with the [[Inner Sphere]] than segregated from it.

==Political Affiliation==
* [[2145]] - Independent<ref name=ISP3-25/>
* ca. 2330 - [[Terran Hegemony]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>
* ca. [[2785]] - [[ComStar]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>
* ca. 3068 - [[Word of Blake]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>
* [[3095]] - [[Republic of the Sphere]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>

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==Mergelée==
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| name = Mergelée
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| position = Seventh<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| distance = 2.35 days<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| moons = 2 (Timor, Metus)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| gravity = 0.75<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| pressure = Trace (Toxic)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| temperature = –152°C (Cryogenic)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| water = None<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| life = None<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| continents =
| colonized = [[2145]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| demonym =
| language =
| religion =
| population = 12,150,000 (3095)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| ruler =
| political = Premier [[Juan Flores]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| commander =
| capital =
| hpg = B (located at the fleet base site)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
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==Planetary History==
Nothing was known on its fate until the 2330s when the records of the slowboat projects were rediscovered by historians. This prompted the [[Terran Hegemony]] to launch a much publicized "quest for the lost colonies." By [[2338]], it was found that Terrelibre was growing, if not prospering. The Hegemony offered them passage to a habitable planet, and some of the population left, though the majority decided to remain as they disliked the Hegemony's oppression of Terrelibre's motherland. In fact, Terrelibre’s population grew soon afterward with a flood of
European immigrants.<ref name="JCIP2p66>''Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2'', pp. 66–67: "Terrelibre"</ref>

After that, the colony came to host a [[Hegemony Armed Forces|THAF]] fleet base that used the system's astronomical name, Ross 248, for misinformation purposes. This base would be administered by the [[SLDF]], with Terrelibre providing most of the personnel and materials for that base.<ref name="JCIP2p66/>

Orbiting a red dwarf star, the Ross 248 Fleet Yards was a sizable and virtually impregnable space station buried within a metallic asteroid five kilometers in diameter. Located outside the system's small proximity limit, [[JumpShip]]s and [[WarShip]]s could arrive conveniently close to the facility. Set up by the [[Terran Hegemony]] and the [[Star League]], much like the Luyten Yards, Ross 248's location would be a carefully kept secret.<ref name=ISP3-25/>

Falling into ComStar hands in the wake of the [[Amaris Coup]], the Blessed Order would use Ross 248 as one of the two bases for its hidden fleet of WarShips, becoming the home port for the Com Guard [[ComStar WarShip Fleet|Second WarShip fleet]]. As part of [[Operation Odysseus]], the WoBS ''[[Blake's Redemption]]'' and ''[[Deliverance (Individual Essex-class WarShip)|Deliverance]]'' raided this system and attacked the ships of the Second Fleet. They inflicted major damage to the ComStar vessels, but were seriously damaged themselves.<ref>''Field Manual: Free Worlds League'', p. 116: These ships are listed as a ''[[Vincent]]'' and an ''[[Essex]]'' class, but no information is given as to which ship is which type</ref> While keeping its location hidden for security purposes, as part of the Order's efforts toward openness in the wake of the [[ComStar Schism|Schism]] it did reveal the existence of the facility immediately prior to [[3062]].<ref name=ISP3-25/><ref name=FMCS-44>''Field Manual: ComStar'', p. 44: "The Com Guards - The WarShip Fleet"</ref>

Taken by the Word during the [[Jihad]], the Blakists allowed the Terrelibrans to maintain their autonomy in exchange for continued staffing of the Fleet Yards. After the Luyten Debacle, [[Stone's Coalition]] would take no chances in eliminating the Ross 248 Fleet Station, jumping an unmanned JumpShip into the heart of the facility and triggering a chain reaction with the KF cores of the docked Blakist JumpShips and WarShips. Causing a kiloton-scale explosion, the conventional troops that followed encountered little resistance from surface gun emplacements.<ref name=ISP3-25/>

In the wake of the Jihad, the [[Republic of the Sphere]] would lay claim to the system and the remains of the Fleet Yards, the Terrelibrans happy to cede the wreckage to [[Devlin Stone]], with a thorough investigation confirmed no lurking Blakists in hiding. With the Republic revealing the system's location after the Jihad, the local population were content to return to the existence they had known for centuries, maintaining minimal contact with the Inner Sphere in general while producing JumpShips at an amazing rate for the Republic's relocation programs.<ref name=ISP3-25/>
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==Rochegelée==
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| name = Rochegelée
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| position = Eighth<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| distance = 2.36 days<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| moons = 4 (Dijon, Besancon, Montbard, Langee)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| gravity = 0.75<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| pressure = None<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| temperature = –172°C (Cryogenic)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| water = None<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| life = None<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| continents =
| colonized = [[2145]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| demonym =
| language =
| religion =
| population = 16,200,000 (3095)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| ruler = Premier [[Juan Flores]]<ref name=ISP3-25/>
| political =
| commander =
| capital =
| hpg = B (located at the fleet base site)<ref name=ISP3-25/>
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===Military Deployment===
====3062====
* Com Guard Second Fleet:<ref name=FMCS-44/>
:*CSV ''[[Blake's Strength]]'' - ''[[Black Lion]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Narbonne]]'' - ''[[Dante (WarShip class)|Dante]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Manchester]]'' - ''[[Suffren]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Blake's Vision (Individual Lola III-class WarShip)|Blake's Vision]]'' - ''[[Lola III]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Ranger (Individual Lola III-class WarShip, ComStar)|Ranger]]'' - ''[[Lola III]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Enlightened Path]]'' - ''[[Volga]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Defender of Versailles]]'' - ''[[Essex]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Resilience]]'' - ''[[Vincent]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Determination]]'' - ''[[Vincent]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Plymouth]]'' - ''[[Faslane]]''-class
:*CSV ''[[Dun Laoghaire]]'' - ''[[Faslane]]''-class

==References==
<references />

==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: ComStar]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Free Worlds League]]
* ''[[Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3]]''
* ''[[Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2]]''

[[Category:Systems|Ross 248]]
[[Category:Systems with Undetermined Coordinates|Ross 248]]
[[Category: ComStar Systems]]
[[Category: Republic of the Sphere Systems]]
[[Category: Terran Hegemony Systems]]
[[Category: Word of Blake Systems]]

Ross 248 - Revision history

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