Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Goldlight (section)

===History===
Long before the Cloudburst Sector existed, Rogue Traders and Explorators rushed eagerly after the trail of markers and buoys left by the great Justin MacDonald.  These brave sorts had not yet come to the agreement that Fabique would later enforce about the use of precision clocks to establish the legitimacy of world claims.  The Goldlight system, so named for its brilliant yellow star, popped up in one such claim by noted Rogue Trader Explorer Cassie Fordham.  Fordham, egomaniacal and greedy in the extreme, wanted wealth, power, and most of all prestige from the finding of new worlds.  Immediately after finding the planet she instantly named after herself, she flew into its low orbit and began scanning the surface with her Cruiser’s sensors, looking for any sign of life.  When she detected no aliens, she soared back to Fabique, ready to begin the negotiations over colony rights.  When she arrived, however, two Explorator fleets were already present.  She waited impatiently for her chance in the queue, and when it arrived, she presented the maps and data of the world she had found with great delight.  To her confusion, the Explorator Prime she had shown these data findings to was surprised.  The Explorator Prime heaped praise and admiration on her, thanking her profusely for taking the time out of her busy schedule to work so hard for the Adeptus Mechanicus.  Fordham demanded an explanation, and the Explorator Prime, to Fordham’s horror, explained that the two fleets that had come just before hers had already mapped the world she had just told him about, but had been in-system for so little time that they had been unable to gather detailed maps of the surface.  Fordham, the Explorator magnanimously said, was to be commended for helping the Mechanicus so.

Fordham flew into a towering rage, and threatened bitter violence against the startled Explorator Prime if he did not change discovery and colonization rights to her name at once!  The Explorator scuttled from the room and returned with a full bodyguard of Tech Guard, who subdued the Rogue Trader by threatening to impound her ship forever if she did not adopt a more respectful tone.

The House Fordham and the Adeptus Mechanicus nearly came to open war – or, more accurately, the Adeptus Mechanicus was nearly inconvenienced by having to divert a few months to exterminating the upstart Rogue Trader House – before cooler heads prevailed.  Under the watchful eye of the Administratum Departmento Astrocartigraphicae and the Mechanicus Astra Explorator, the system of installing the precision Fabique Mapping Clocks began, and all Fabique and Oldlight Proximate Circuit Rogue Traders from there on out would be obligated to carry one.  Cassie Fordham was not mollified by this, and demanded to know what would become of her own claim.  The Astrocartigraphicae presented her with a choice: she could lay claim to the world as a discovery of her House and be granted the trade rights as usual, or she could name it after herself and respect the more accurate Mechanicus claim.  It is a testament to Fordham’s ego that she immediately agreed to the second.