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van Mook – <FS> A star system. Jessica Pheriss was born there. Later she moved with her family to Sankar.

Ventane – <CoS> A star system in SL, the capital of the Ventane Sector.

Vespasien – <AAC> The settled planet in the Chantilly System.

Verdant Vista – <CoS, SoSag, AAC, SftS, ToF, MoH, ART, HoS, CoG> The name MU used for the Congo System and its planet Torch before its liberation and renaming by the Torch Liberation Army.

Vine – <MoH> A star system in SL, its ruling families are Mesan Alignment members, which in turn makes the local SDF an adjunct of MAN. Poised by the Alignment to be a one of the founding members of the Renaissance Factor.

Visigoth – <SftS, ToF, MoH, ART, SoF, CoG> A star system in SL, where the Visigoth Wormhole junction was discovered in 1454 P.D. [See 1)]. The junction has two secondary termini, one of them leading to Mesa. Visigoth is "barely" 60 LY from Sigma Draconis. The system ruling families are Mesan Alignment members, which in turn makes the local SDF an adjunct of MAN. Poised by the Alignment to be a one of the founding members of the Renaissance Factor.

Vorva – <ToF> Smoking Frog's moon, it has a "low natural gravity". There is the Corterrael Coliseum on the surface, where an annual festival takes place.

HMSS Vulcan – <HotQ, HAE, EoH, AoV, So Sag, AAC, JRMN, SftS, MoH, IFF, HoS, CoG> A space station in orbit around Sphinx, the second biggest military space station in SKM / SEM. It was the place, where the merchant ships underwent refit before Operation Trojan in HAE. By the time of SftS is "almost as large, and just as busy" as Hephaestus. Vulcan was destroyed during operation Oyster Bay, its fragments falling to the surface causing immense destruction on the planet.

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1) The exact date of Visigoth Wormhole Junction's discovery isn't provided in the book, but we get to know that Mesa was settled in 1460 P.D. following the junction's discowery 6 T-Years earlier.

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