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Historic Air Receivo Telescope Collapses
Massive Dish "A Ruin"
Porto Rikart - The world's astronomical community is aghast in the wake of the collapse of the Air Receivo Observatory Telescope at the Royal Astronomy Center on Rikart's Isle, bringing an at least extended, if not permanent, halt to the 55 year joint Royal-Ecclesiastical scientific endeavor.
Completed in 1965, the Air Receivo Telescope was constructed within the extinct caldera of a primordial volcano, formed as part of the same extended geological event that raised Rikart's Isle so high above the waves in the first place. Being so many miles off the Tiwanaku coast while also sharing it's generally favorable latitude and at the time altogether lacking extensive human settlement - and thus light pollution - the island proved a perfect home for the astronomical research project first envisioned by the Reverend Dr. Wilhelmus Zaretta in 1948.
As association between Rev. Dr. Zaretta's Catholic University of the West in Ricimerus, Tiwanaku, as well as the Royal University for the Sciences at Vicovaro was formed to explore the feasibility of the plan, and funding was authorized from both institutions in fairly short order - with generous endowments from the Crown and a number of other private sources. Two contractors, von Sebt-Praeger of Bajorország and Kavanagh Industries of Eiffelland, in a construction project that lasted nearly twelve years and has since been hailed as one of the great engineering marvels of the modern world.
Representatives for the Royal Astronomy Center have indicated that a recent and unprecedented increase in seismic activity in the region is most likely to blame for the collapse of the 48 hectare semi-spherical telescope. Especially at blame, they believe, was the monstrous 7.8 quake that laid waste to much of the Tiwanaku coast in July. Both the scientists barracks and Array Control Center suffered damage at the time, and experts warned that the enormous suspension system for the telescope had been compromised by the upheaval as well.
No further comment was made available from the RAC, but some commitment to the construction of a replacement has already been voiced by His Most Catholic Majesty's Councilors.
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