"The human ships fell into Exedor for three weeks, and what they saw first was the ships."Ambassador Halima Rahal, report of the first mission to the Voor Confederacy, 2318
Exedor is the home system of the Voor and the capital system of the Voor Confederacy. Its second planet, Hiverion, is the Voor home world, the site of the Krakre and the world where the first hearth was grown nine centuries before contact. Human records sometimes use the system's name for the world, and the Siege of Hiverion is often called the Siege of Exedor.
Two battles of the same name were fought there. In the Battle of Exedor (2336) the Grand Armada took every orbit of the system except Hiverion's low orbit. In the Battle of Exedor (2451) the Retribution Fleet destroyed the Red Khanate's last garrison of six monoliths in Hiverion's gravity well.
The system
Exedor is an orange star, cooler and smaller than the Sun. Hiverion orbits close to it, and the outer system holds two gas giants that supplied the Legion's fuel.
| Body | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Exedor I | Hot rock | Mined by the Legion for its yards |
| Exedor II, Hiverion | Cold steppe world | The Voor home world; two moons, Tal Hesh and Tal Ourin, which carried Legion installations until 2337 |
| Exedor III | Gas giant | The Legion's fuel skimmers |
| Exedor IV | Ringed gas giant | |
| Exedor V | Ice dwarf | Site of the Legion's outer pickets |
In 2336 the system's defences were edge platforms and forward pickets, installations on the moons, the hearth yards in Hiverion's orbit, and 400 orbital platforms inside 200,000 kilometres of the planet. The fleet's bombardments of the winter of 2337 to 2338 destroyed everything beyond the planetary shield's edge.
History
Contact
The first human mission to the Confederacy, the Asimov and the Unity under Ambassador Halima Rahal, was escorted from Haedus to Exedor in April 2318 in one forty-minute Voor jump that took the human ships six hours to match. They fell into the system for three weeks and entered orbit around Hiverion on 30 April 2318.
The Voor War
The Grand Armada reached Exedor's edge on 10 March 2336. The Battle of Exedor (2336) ran to 16 March. Fifteen hearths led by the Hiverion fought from under the planet's shield and lost five. The fleet then held the system beyond the shield. In June 2337 it destroyed the Legion's relief force at Leesak. In February 2338 300 hulls sat in Exedor's orbit, and the Corps landed on Hiverion on 14 February. The Siege of Hiverion ended on 3 May 2338, when the First Hearth broke under the fire of the Republic's line. A Corps military government held the system until 2345 under the Treaty of Ximpok.
The Red Khanate
Hiverion held against the Red Khan from 2425 to 2427. Its shield failed on 2 August 2427. The Legion's last seven hearths held the Khan at Exedor's edge for eleven days while the Confederacy evacuated, and the last of them, the Vi Simni, broke on 16 August 2427. Exedor was the Khan's base for his campaign against the Republic. His fleet left Exedor's orbit for Haedius on 24 June 2428.
The Scouring
The Retribution Fleet reached Exedor on 20 September 2451. In the Battle of Exedor (2451), from 24 to 29 September, it destroyed all six monoliths of the garrison, with 11 million Fevarians, for 70 hulls, the Retributions Nomotar and Kastaba, and 30,000 dead. The Confederacy was restored at Hiverion on 1 January 2452.
BOOK SOURCES
- Solar Eternal, Part VII, §7.6 "Alone No Longer: The Voor Confederacy"
- Solar Eternal, Part IX, §9.4 and §9.5
- Solar Eternal, Part XI, §11.4 "The Voor Campaign"
- Solar Eternal, Part XIV, §14.3 "The Voor Worlds"