Editing Herschel

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==History==
The ECV '''''Herschel''''' was a [[JumpShip]] of unspecified type serving with the [[Explorer Corps]]. In [[3002]] it visited the [[Sador]] (Gamma Cygni) system, reportedly located 815 light-years from [[Terra]], on a scientific mission to study its F-class star for six weeks, before moving a short distance away to study the [[Cygnus X-1]] binary star system which is composed of a black hole and a supergiant primary.<ref>''Explorer Corps'', p. 6</ref>

==Notes==
* [[w:Gamma Cygni|Gamma Cygni]] (aka Sador, Sadir or Sadr, from Arabic ''Sadr al Dedjadjet'') and [[w:Cygnus X-1|Cygnus X-1]] are real stellar objects.<br />However, the real, nonfictional Sador is some 1,800 light-years from Earth; the stated distance of 815 light-years in BattleTech may be a clerical error and meant to read 1,815.<br />The real Cygnus X-1 system is located ca. 6,070 light years from the [[Sol]] system, several thousand light-years farther than even Sador. It could be assumed that the "safe distance" the ''Herschel'' had to keep from the Cygnus X-1 black hole/supergiant binary system was measured in astronomical terms, and that the vessel therefore traveled a short distance from Sador to observe Cygnus X-1 from a safe distance that was actually still several thousand light-years away.
* The actual positions of Sador or Cygnus X-1 on the BattleTech star map are unspecified, though like their real-world counterparts they apparently lie in almost the same direction as seen from [[Earth]].

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Explorer Corps (sourcebook)|Explorer Corps]]''

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