Vanguard Colony

Facts

One of six O'Neill-style asteroid colonies located in orbit of the Sol-Earth L5 point from 2031 to 2058 (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Carrot-like shape
- Long axis ~14km
Inhabitants: Human
- Later genetic transition to Neyel
Population
- 844 (2053)
- 592 (2058)
Later known as Vangar following decades of linguistic shift (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
Director
- - 2053 - 2058: Kuniko Mizuki
- 2058 - 2063 - : Avram Baruch
- - 2169 - : Sayyid al-Adnan
- - 2204 - 2217: Hanif Wafiyy

2031: Asteroid fragment migrated to L5 Lagrangian following deflection from Earth collision course; Vanguard Colony constructed within following drilling operations, installation of rotational thrusters (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
August 9, 2058: Lost in subspace field experiment (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Mistuned warp field resulted in formation of wormhole, sending colony 200 ly from Sol (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
September 2, 2058: Nausicaan raid results in deaths of Director Kuniko Mizuki and 251 other inhabitants of Vanguard Colony before they are repelled (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
August 9, 2155: Unidentified subspace anomaly transports colony to Small Magellanic Cloud (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
2169: Acquisiton of warp drive (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
2204: First contact with Oghen, establishing first planet-based foothold (TLE Novel: The Sundered)