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Rouen Base, Sol System Oort Cloud
In order to have large amounts of various metals for use in the USNiE, Fleet Admiral Harmon orders the total annexation of the Epsilon Octanus asteroid belt between Caelmare and Grath. A fleet of twenty destroyers, four dreadnought battleships, twelve battlecruisers, and two supercarriers set the coordinates to the system and enter slipspace.

Epsilon Octanus System
The fleet exits slipspace after a two hour jump between human controlled space. All ships then perform a burn to use Grath's gravitational field as a slingshot directly into the asteroid belt. After a forty minute flight past the gas giant turned into a Grath-sized red dwarf, the fleet reaches their destination.

The fleet splits up to cover all of the belt. Destroyers deploy radar and communication probes across the outer edges of the asteroid field while the dreadnoughts deploy ex-NORAD Ruby-class missile ships refitted into mining ships and the carriers launch construction drones to build defense installations on large microplanet-sized asteroids.

Now that the USNiE has control over the EO asteroid belt and all its resources, it's time for a base of operations within the system. An asteroid roughly the size of Mercury is chosen to be the new base/colony. Originally designated by NASA's Glenn Space Telescope orbiting Tenelapis as 2015 BX1337, the asteroid is renamed "Angolis" and designated as a planet.