World Name: Vega
Star Type: AOV
Position in System: 7
Time to Jump Point: 27 days
Recharging Station: Zenith, Nadir
Planetary Chairman: Marianne Vron, Duke of Vega
ComStar Facility Class: B
ComStar Representative: Precentor Noren Glover
Population: 2,284,000,000.
Percentage and Level of Native Life: None
Vega is hot and dry. It is--or is was--a factory planet. Most of its factories have lain in ruins for decades. It's surface is rocky; it supports no native life forms. Some few life forms have established themselves on the planet, mostly plants. Much of the surface is bare rock or desert.
At the time of Col Kurita's landing, the only major holding in Combine hands was the capitol city of Neucason. He had two 'Mech regiments, forty tank and infantry regiments, no ships but his personal DropShip, and no supplies. There were no Combine supply caches onplanet. The commander of the Dieron Military District was not in a position-or a humor- to resupply the Legion of Vega.What supplies they received were few, grudgingly given, and too late.
There were two reasons for this. General Vasily Cherenkoff has a personal dislike for Col Kurita, and Cherenkoff is the sort of officer who lets personal animosity take precedence over duty. And the entirety of the Combine military considers the Legion of Vega to be a unit of guttersweepings. Despite the gallant service of the 11th Legion on Marfik, this opinion still prevails, and has hampered the efforts of the Second and Fourteenth Legions on Vega.
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