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=== The Vega Scrapfleet ===
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The battle over Vega IV between the EAA and those attempting to heed the warning of the White Sphere and flee was the largest space action seen by humanity to that point. While many of the fleeing ships successfully jumped out of the system, the battle left a vast field of debris and ships too damaged to make the jump either out of the system or back home with the remaining EAA. Promising to return with the help necessary to repair, the EAA fleet returned to Earth, but were destroyed days later by the Scourge invasion, leaving the ships and their crew over Vega IV to be forgotten.

Over time, they managed to learn to live off ship-based resources and infrastructure, supplied from scrounged supplies off the debris field and occasional daring runs to occupied planets. Their space-based life led them to become experts in engineering and piloting. Independent of the UCM, discussion of them is largely squashed by state censors, as the possibility of a life free from military obligations and service to the UCM could lead to problems of morale.