Colony Lun

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Colony Lun is Gudersnipe's boneyard. It's a graveyard of old ships located in orbit around a main-sequence star which has no planetary bodies, making the colony the only thing there.

The bulk of Colony Lun's mass is made up of several decomissioned Mercury Ships that, over the ages, were deemed too difficult to scrap. The remains of G.S.S. Mercury can be found there, and dozens of others.

Whenever possible, the school recycles ships, typically into new ships. Mercury ships pose a challenge, however, as their incredible mass and extremly thick armor are difficult to pull apart. Further, the armor is layers, making it neccessary to either reprocess the material or seperate the layers. All tolled, it is often easier to mine new material.

Before a ship can be added to Colony Lun, it must be deemed 0% combat-ready, meaning all weapon systems must be removed or ireperably crippled. Some non-weapon systems may be left functional, but most ships dumped at Colong Lun will never be useable again.

As of late in the Sixth Age, Colony Lun forms a circle 1/3rd of the way around the sun.