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		<title>Siddharth1: /* Characteristics of Cobblestone */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;Characteristics of Cobblestone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 19:22, 8 September 2025&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l27&quot;&gt;Line 27:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Planet Cobblestone is unusual for its especially rough surface. A typical planet will not have more than 12 to 20 miles&amp;#039; difference between its highest point and lowest natural points. Cobble sees an average of forty, with some points up to 60.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Planet Cobblestone is unusual for its especially rough surface. A typical planet will not have more than 12 to 20 miles&amp;#039; difference between its highest point and lowest natural points. Cobble sees an average of forty, with some points up to 60.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;This leaves the planet with deep oceans and incredibly high mountains. Large regions of the land area have atmosphere &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;that is &lt;/del&gt;too thin to &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;breath&lt;/del&gt;, while near the coast high pressures cause some problems. Cobble is known for extreme weather conditions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;This leaves the planet with deep oceans and incredibly high mountains. Large regions of the land area have &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;an &lt;/ins&gt;atmosphere too thin to &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;breathe&lt;/ins&gt;, while near the coast high pressures cause some problems. Cobble is known for extreme weather conditions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also of note is the degree of change. Cobble&amp;#039;s surface is dominated by gentle slopes, sometimes uniform over huge distances. There are not many of the very traditional mountain ranges as most people know them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also of note is the degree of change. Cobble&amp;#039;s surface is dominated by gentle slopes, sometimes uniform over huge distances. There are not many of the very traditional mountain ranges as most people know them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Siddharth1</name></author>
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		<title>Siddharth1: /* History */</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 00:42, 30 May 2024&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l6&quot;&gt;Line 6:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System (often called just &amp;quot;Cobble&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System (often called just &amp;quot;Cobble&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station(named Deep Space FUS-944, or mor commonly &amp;quot;Station FUS-944&amp;quot;) orbiting one of the gas giants in the outer solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The Runarins&amp;#039; goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station (named Deep Space FUS-944, or mor commonly &amp;quot;Station FUS-944&amp;quot;) orbiting one of the gas giants in the outer solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The Runarins&amp;#039; goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn its support. A few private groups attempted to maintain Station FUS-944, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn its support. A few private groups attempted to maintain Station FUS-944, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>CourseDirector at 01:26, 16 June 2020</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l6&quot;&gt;Line 6:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System (often called just &amp;quot;Cobble&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System (often called just &amp;quot;Cobble&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station orbiting one of the gas giants in the outer solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The Runarins&amp;#039; goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;(named Deep Space FUS-944, or mor commonly &amp;quot;Station FUS-944&amp;quot;) &lt;/ins&gt;orbiting one of the gas giants in the outer solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The Runarins&amp;#039; goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn its support. A few private groups attempted to maintain &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the station&lt;/del&gt;, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn its support. A few private groups attempted to maintain &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Station FUS-944&lt;/ins&gt;, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In A.Y. 2904, a Foundation ship (which still made regular patrols) made a fly-by of the abandoned station and noted some intriguing changes. The huge station had been a long, narrow tube with very heavy armor, but had collapsed into a rough, oblate spheroid, and over the eight hundred years it had sat abandoned, had even gathered dust and frozen gasses. While this process was certainly not unexpected (the station relied on &amp;#039;active&amp;#039; structural integrity to maintain its shape, and had a high mass), it was still interesting to observe none the less, and made the rounds on various &amp;quot;interesting news&amp;quot; sites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In A.Y. 2904, a Foundation ship (which still made regular patrols) made a fly-by of the abandoned station and noted some intriguing changes. The huge station had been a long, narrow tube with very heavy armor, but had collapsed into a rough, oblate spheroid, and over the eight hundred years it had sat abandoned, had even gathered dust and frozen gasses. While this process was certainly not unexpected (the station relied on &amp;#039;active&amp;#039; structural integrity to maintain its shape, and had a high mass), it was still interesting to observe none the less, and made the rounds on various &amp;quot;interesting news&amp;quot; sites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>CourseDirector</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://thecoursebooks.com/index.php?title=Cobblestone&amp;diff=11516&amp;oldid=prev</id>
		<title>CourseDirector at 23:26, 26 December 2018</title>
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		<updated>2018-12-26T23:26:31Z</updated>

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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;← Older revision&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 23:26, 26 December 2018&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l35&quot;&gt;Line 35:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cobble is also home to two orbital elevators.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cobble is also home to two orbital elevators.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Siddharth1: /* History */</title>
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		<updated>2018-01-20T21:08:56Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;autocomment&quot;&gt;History&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Revision as of 21:08, 20 January 2018&lt;/td&gt;
				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l6&quot;&gt;Line 6:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 6:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System (often called just &amp;quot;Cobble&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System (often called just &amp;quot;Cobble&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station orbiting one of the gas giants in the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;out &lt;/del&gt;solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;sublight-capable &lt;/del&gt;fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The Runarins&amp;#039; goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station orbiting one of the gas giants in the &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;outer &lt;/ins&gt;solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The Runarins&amp;#039; goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn its support. A few private groups attempted to maintain the station, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn its support. A few private groups attempted to maintain the station, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In A.Y. 2904, a Foundation ship (which still made regular patrols) made a fly-by of the &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;now &lt;/del&gt;abandoned station and noted some &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;intriguiging &lt;/del&gt;changes. The huge station had been a long, narrow tube with very heavy armor, but had collapsed into a rough, oblate spheroid, and over the eight hundred years it had sat abandoned, had even gathered dust and frozen gasses. While this process was certainly not unexpected (the station relied on active structural integrity to maintain its shape, and had a high mass), it was still interesting to observe none the less, and made the rounds on various &amp;quot;interesting news&amp;quot; sites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In A.Y. 2904, a Foundation ship (which still made regular patrols) made a fly-by of the abandoned station and noted some &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;intriguing &lt;/ins&gt;changes. The huge station had been a long, narrow tube with very heavy armor, but had collapsed into a rough, oblate spheroid, and over the eight hundred years it had sat abandoned, had even gathered dust and frozen gasses. While this process was certainly not unexpected (the station relied on &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#039;&lt;/ins&gt;active&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#039; &lt;/ins&gt;structural integrity to maintain its shape, and had a high mass), it was still interesting to observe none the less, and made the rounds on various &amp;quot;interesting news&amp;quot; sites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;More importantly, it sparked an interesting idea. In A.Y. 8913, a terraformer working for the Foundation&amp;#039;s [[Terraforming#WorldCraft Terraforming Firm|WorldCraft]] subsidiary made a proposal. FUS-944 had no suitable planets for terraforming, but it had, in the terraformers&amp;#039; own words, &amp;quot;a bunch of other random crap floating around&amp;quot;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;More importantly, it sparked an interesting idea. In A.Y. 8913, a terraformer working for the Foundation&amp;#039;s [[Terraforming#WorldCraft Terraforming Firm|WorldCraft]] subsidiary made a proposal. FUS-944 had no suitable planets for terraforming, but it had, in the terraformers&amp;#039; own words, &amp;quot;a bunch of other random crap floating around&amp;quot;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l17&quot;&gt;Line 17:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 17:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;With its new terraforming fleet under construction in the [[Markhot System]], WorldCraft gathered eighteen ships at FUS-944. Their first act was to move a small, rocky planet from the inner solar system into the habitable zone. Then then moved a second, mostly icy planet from further out, and dragged in various asteroids and other debris. All of these were set on the same orbital path and allowed to collide. The collision of the two small planets was a major event, observed live by over ten thousand starships and around twelve million spectators.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;With its new terraforming fleet under construction in the [[Markhot System]], WorldCraft gathered eighteen ships at FUS-944. Their first act was to move a small, rocky planet from the inner solar system into the habitable zone. Then then moved a second, mostly icy planet from further out, and dragged in various asteroids and other debris. All of these were set on the same orbital path and allowed to collide. The collision of the two small planets was a major event, observed live by over ten thousand starships and around twelve million spectators.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;WorldCraft also dragged six moons from gas giants and hundreds of cometary fragments, piling them all together until the mass equaled a standard-sized planet. The mass, aided some by the terraformers, quickly formed a roughly spherical shape. Atmosphere (again taken from the gas giants) was added, orbit and rotation adjusted, and finally, in just twenty years, a planet had &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;quite literally &lt;/del&gt;been &amp;quot;built&amp;quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;WorldCraft also dragged six moons from gas giants and hundreds of cometary fragments, piling them all together until the mass equaled a standard-sized planet. The mass, aided some by the terraformers, quickly formed a roughly spherical shape. Atmosphere (again taken from the gas giants) was added, orbit and rotation adjusted, and finally, in just twenty years, a planet had been &amp;quot;built&amp;quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terraforming would require another two centuries to complete, but the new planet was quickly named &amp;quot;Cobblestone&amp;quot; for its lumpy shape.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terraforming would require another two centuries to complete, but the new planet was quickly named &amp;quot;Cobblestone&amp;quot; for its lumpy shape.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Siddharth1</name></author>
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		<title>Siddharth1 at 17:06, 9 June 2017</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cobblestone is both the name of a planet and &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s &lt;/del&gt;solar system, and is an important trading hub along the [[Steel Road]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cobblestone is both the name of a planet and &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;its &lt;/ins&gt;solar system, and is an important trading hub along the [[Steel Road]]&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cobblestone was originally called FUS-944&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, &lt;/del&gt;only solar systems with inhabited worlds are given formal names. The rest are &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;givin &lt;/del&gt;labels.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cobblestone was originally called FUS-944&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;: &lt;/ins&gt;only solar systems with inhabited worlds are given formal names. The rest are &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;given &lt;/ins&gt;labels.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System(often called just &amp;quot;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;cobble&lt;/del&gt;&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;-over &lt;/del&gt;along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Cobblestone System (often called just &amp;quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Cobble&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station orbiting one of the gas giants in the out solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of sublight-capable fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Runarin&lt;/del&gt;&amp;#039;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;s &lt;/del&gt;goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station orbiting one of the gas giants in the out solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of sublight-capable fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Runarins&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;#039; goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s &lt;/del&gt;support. A few private groups attempted to maintain the station, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;its &lt;/ins&gt;support. A few private groups attempted to maintain the station, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In A.Y. 2904, a Foundation ship(which still made regular patrols) made a fly-by of the now abandoned station and &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;notted that &lt;/del&gt;some intriguiging changes &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;had happened&lt;/del&gt;. The huge station had been a long, narrow tube with very heavy armor, had collapsed into a rough, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;oblite &lt;/del&gt;spheroid, and over the eight hundred years it had sat abandoned, had even gathered dust and frozen gasses. While this process was certainly not unexpected(the station relied on active structural integrity to maintain &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s &lt;/del&gt;shape, and had a high mass), it was still interesting to observe none the less, and made the rounds on various &amp;quot;interesting news&amp;quot; sites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In A.Y. 2904, a Foundation ship (which still made regular patrols) made a fly-by of the now abandoned station and &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;noted &lt;/ins&gt;some intriguiging changes. The huge station had been a long, narrow tube with very heavy armor, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;but &lt;/ins&gt;had collapsed into a rough, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;oblate &lt;/ins&gt;spheroid, and over the eight hundred years it had sat abandoned, had even gathered dust and frozen gasses. While this process was certainly not unexpected (the station relied on active structural integrity to maintain &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;its &lt;/ins&gt;shape, and had a high mass), it was still interesting to observe none the less, and made the rounds on various &amp;quot;interesting news&amp;quot; sites.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;More importantly, it sparked an interesting idea. In A.Y. 8913, a terraformer working for the Foundation&amp;#039;s [[Terraforming#WorldCraft Terraforming Firm|WorldCraft]] subsidiary made a proposal. FUS-944 had no suitable planets for terraforming, but it had, in the terraformers own words, &amp;quot;a bunch of other random crap floating around&amp;quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;More importantly, it sparked an interesting idea. In A.Y. 8913, a terraformer working for the Foundation&amp;#039;s [[Terraforming#WorldCraft Terraforming Firm|WorldCraft]] subsidiary made a proposal. FUS-944 had no suitable planets for terraforming, but it had, in the terraformers&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#039; &lt;/ins&gt;own words, &amp;quot;a bunch of other random crap floating around&amp;quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;===Formation of the Cobble System===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;===Formation of the Cobble System===&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;With &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s &lt;/del&gt;new terraforming fleet under construction in the [[Markhot System]], WorldCraft gathered eighteen ships at FUS-944. Their first act was to move a small, rocky planet from the inner solar system into the habitable zone. Then then moved a second, mostly icy planet from further out, and dragged various &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;astroids &lt;/del&gt;and other debris. All of these were set on the same orbital path and allowed to collide. The collision of the two small planets was a major event, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;being &lt;/del&gt;observed live by over ten thousand starships and around twelve million spectators.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;With &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;its &lt;/ins&gt;new terraforming fleet under construction in the [[Markhot System]], WorldCraft gathered eighteen ships at FUS-944. Their first act was to move a small, rocky planet from the inner solar system into the habitable zone. Then then moved a second, mostly icy planet from further out, and dragged &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;in &lt;/ins&gt;various &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;asteroids &lt;/ins&gt;and other debris. All of these were set on the same orbital path and allowed to collide. The collision of the two small planets was a major event, observed live by over ten thousand starships and around twelve million spectators.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;WorldCraft also dragged six moons from gas giants and hundreds of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;commetary &lt;/del&gt;fragments, piling them all together until the mass equaled a standard-sized planet. The mass, aided some by the terraformers, quickly formed a roughly spherical shape. Atmosphere(again taken from the gas giants) was added, orbit and rotation adjusted, and finally, in just twenty years, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;and planet &lt;/del&gt;planet had quite literally been &amp;quot;built&amp;quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;WorldCraft also dragged six moons from gas giants and hundreds of &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;cometary &lt;/ins&gt;fragments, piling them all together until the mass equaled a standard-sized planet. The mass, aided some by the terraformers, quickly formed a roughly spherical shape. Atmosphere (again taken from the gas giants) was added, orbit and rotation adjusted, and finally, in just twenty years, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;a &lt;/ins&gt;planet had quite literally been &amp;quot;built&amp;quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terraforming would require another two centuries to complete, but the new planet was quickly named &amp;quot;&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;cobblestone&lt;/del&gt;&amp;quot; for &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s &lt;/del&gt;lumpy shape.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terraforming would require another two centuries to complete, but the new planet was quickly named &amp;quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Cobblestone&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;quot; for &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;its &lt;/ins&gt;lumpy shape.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The Founders Society==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==The Founders Society==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Around ten thousand of the original colonists could trace their lineage directly to the spectators who had been in the system 220 years earlier to witness the original planetary collision. Together, they formed &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The &lt;/del&gt;Founders Society, a fraternal organization. Over the years they eventually began to accept anyone, but only those with direct blood ties to people who&amp;#039;d seen the formation could hold the title of &amp;quot;seeniter&amp;quot;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Around ten thousand of the original colonists could trace their lineage directly to the spectators who had been in the system 220 years earlier to witness the original planetary collision. Together, they formed &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;the &lt;/ins&gt;Founders Society, a fraternal organization. Over the years they eventually began to accept anyone, but only those with direct blood ties to people who&amp;#039;d seen the formation could hold the title of &amp;quot;seeniter&amp;quot;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. This is not a malapropism, but a title given to &amp;#039;those who had seen it&amp;#039;, with a further play on the title of &amp;#039;senator&amp;#039;&lt;/ins&gt;.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Characteristics of Cobblestone==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Characteristics of Cobblestone==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Planet Cobblestone is unusual for &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s &lt;/del&gt;especially rough surface. A typical planet will not have more than 12 to 20 miles difference between &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s &lt;/del&gt;highest point and lowest natural points. Cobble sees an average of &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;a bout &lt;/del&gt;forty, with some points &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;being &lt;/del&gt;up to 60.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Planet Cobblestone is unusual for &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;its &lt;/ins&gt;especially rough surface. A typical planet will not have more than 12 to 20 miles&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#039; &lt;/ins&gt;difference between &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;its &lt;/ins&gt;highest point and lowest natural points. Cobble sees an average of forty, with some points up to 60.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;This leaves the planet with deep oceans and incredibly high mountains. Large regions of the land area have atmosphere that is too thin to breath, while near the coast high pressures cause some problems. Cobble is known for &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it&amp;#039;s rather &lt;/del&gt;extreme weather conditions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;This leaves the planet with deep oceans and incredibly high mountains. Large regions of the land area have atmosphere that is too thin to breath, while near the coast high pressures cause some problems. Cobble is known for extreme weather conditions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also of note is the degree of change. Cobble&amp;#039;s surface is dominated by gentle slopes, sometimes uniform over huge distances. There are not many of the very traditional mountain ranges as most people know them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also of note is the degree of change. Cobble&amp;#039;s surface is dominated by gentle slopes, sometimes uniform over huge distances. There are not many of the very traditional mountain ranges as most people know them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terraforming would require another two centuries to complete, but the new planet was quickly named &amp;quot;cobblestone&amp;quot; for it&amp;#039;s lumpy shape.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terraforming would require another two centuries to complete, but the new planet was quickly named &amp;quot;cobblestone&amp;quot; for it&amp;#039;s lumpy shape.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;==The Founders Society==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Around ten thousand of the original colonists could trace their lineage directly to the spectators who had been in the system 220 years earlier to witness the original planetary collision. Together, they formed The Founders Society, a fraternal organization. Over the years they eventually began to accept anyone, but only those with direct blood ties to people who&#039;d seen the formation could hold the title of &quot;seeniter&quot;. &lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;==Characteristics of Cobblestone==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Planet Cobblestone is unusual for it&#039;s especially rough surface. A typical planet will not have more than 12 to 20 miles difference between it&#039;s highest point and lowest natural points. Cobble sees an average of a bout forty, with some points being up to 60.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;This leaves the planet with deep oceans and incredibly high mountains. Large regions of the land area have atmosphere that is too thin to breath, while near the coast high pressures cause some problems. Cobble is known for it&#039;s rather extreme weather conditions.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Also of note is the degree of change. Cobble&#039;s surface is dominated by gentle slopes, sometimes uniform over huge distances. There are not many of the very traditional mountain ranges as most people know them.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;==Space Ports==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;One advantage of the low-atmosphere regions is that they make ideal space ports. Less atmosphere, less drag, and large areas that aren&#039;t good for much else.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Cobble is also home to two orbital elevators.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;#039;Cobblestone is both the name of a planet and it&amp;#039;s solar system, and is an important trading hub along the &lt;a href=&quot;/Steel_Road&quot; title=&quot;Steel Road&quot;&gt;Steel Road&lt;/a&gt;  ==History== Cobblestone was originally called FUS-944, o…&amp;#039;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cobblestone is both the name of a planet and it&amp;#039;s solar system, and is an important trading hub along the [[Steel Road]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==History==&lt;br /&gt;
Cobblestone was originally called FUS-944, only solar systems with inhabited worlds are given formal names. The rest are givin labels.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Cobblestone System(often called just &amp;quot;cobble&amp;quot; for short) was a common stop-over along trade routes as far back as the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]], when it was a common FTL cool-down location. The system then contained no habitable worlds, and was a popular hunting ground for raiders and space pirates. The lack of any permanent habitation made it difficult to police. During the Golden Age, the [[Foundation]] frequently placed patrols in the area.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the late Golden Age, the [[Runarin]]s built a large space station orbiting one of the gas giants in the out solar system, and attempted to station a garrison of sublight-capable fighters there. However, the garrison had little impact on raiding. Most spacecraft using the region for cool-downs avoided the station, which taxed any traveler and charged very high fees for docking. The Runarin&amp;#039;s goal of building a trade hub failed.&lt;br /&gt;
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By the early [[Ages#The Second Age|Second Age]], the Runarin government had withdrawn it&amp;#039;s support. A few private groups attempted to maintain the station, but without access to parts, it quickly fell into disrepair and became uninhabitable, and by A.Y. 2100, was abandoned.&lt;br /&gt;
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In A.Y. 2904, a Foundation ship(which still made regular patrols) made a fly-by of the now abandoned station and notted that some intriguiging changes had happened. The huge station had been a long, narrow tube with very heavy armor, had collapsed into a rough, oblite spheroid, and over the eight hundred years it had sat abandoned, had even gathered dust and frozen gasses. While this process was certainly not unexpected(the station relied on active structural integrity to maintain it&amp;#039;s shape, and had a high mass), it was still interesting to observe none the less, and made the rounds on various &amp;quot;interesting news&amp;quot; sites.&lt;br /&gt;
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More importantly, it sparked an interesting idea. In A.Y. 8913, a terraformer working for the Foundation&amp;#039;s [[Terraforming#WorldCraft Terraforming Firm|WorldCraft]] subsidiary made a proposal. FUS-944 had no suitable planets for terraforming, but it had, in the terraformers own words, &amp;quot;a bunch of other random crap floating around&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Formation of the Cobble System===&lt;br /&gt;
With it&amp;#039;s new terraforming fleet under construction in the [[Markhot System]], WorldCraft gathered eighteen ships at FUS-944. Their first act was to move a small, rocky planet from the inner solar system into the habitable zone. Then then moved a second, mostly icy planet from further out, and dragged various astroids and other debris. All of these were set on the same orbital path and allowed to collide. The collision of the two small planets was a major event, being observed live by over ten thousand starships and around twelve million spectators. &lt;br /&gt;
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WorldCraft also dragged six moons from gas giants and hundreds of commetary fragments, piling them all together until the mass equaled a standard-sized planet. The mass, aided some by the terraformers, quickly formed a roughly spherical shape. Atmosphere(again taken from the gas giants) was added, orbit and rotation adjusted, and finally, in just twenty years, and planet planet had quite literally been &amp;quot;built&amp;quot;. &lt;br /&gt;
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Terraforming would require another two centuries to complete, but the new planet was quickly named &amp;quot;cobblestone&amp;quot; for it&amp;#039;s lumpy shape.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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