Guiana Space Centre (1983: Doomsday)

Guiana Space Centre in Kouru is today the undisputed center and heart of worldwide spatial activities and rocket launches after having recovered from harsh disputes about possesion with the neighbour states in the 1983 Doomsday event.

Doomsday concsequence
Although believed a high-priority target for Soviet ICBM's the Space Centre in the French colony of French Guyana surprisingly suffered no direct attack from nuclear devices.

But Doomsday took it toll nonetheless:

Due to the fallout and the massive EMP burst all communications with satellites failed and were lost immediately. Later tries to initiate contact just succeded with 3 satellites. Also the main communications installatios failed and needed a long time to be repaired.

French Foreign Legion
The 3rd Regiment of the French Foreign Legion -guarding the facilities -managed to maintain order and fend off attackers,marauders and scavengers.

Race to Kourou, the Kourou Incident
Quickly,the neighbouring states got word of the valuabe installation surviving and rallied to gain their advantage in the supposed power vacuum.

A detachment of elite units of Brasilian Army arrived on November 2nd,1983. Stunned by the still-functioning defense of the FrenchForeign Legion, the Brasilians tried to take the installation by force. But after one night of shooting and several wounded on both sides, the commanding officer of the Legion Regiment demanded ultimate cease-fire or threatened to detonate the whole installation. He also demanded official negotiations with the Brasilian government.

3 days later, the Brazilians retreated and an official emissary arrived. After long negotiations an agreement was made:

As Brazil's only interest in French Guyana was the Space Center, they agreed to continued French sovereignty.In exchange, French Guyana would be  put under military protection of Brazil and access to the facilities to Brazil -not military!!! was granted.

Recontact
As soon as contact between the European Remainder Governments in Portugal and Scandinavia had been reestablished, the military forces were withdrawn and a European-Brazilian-French-legion security force was setup to guard the Space Center and the whole of French Guyana.

1/1/2001: The first start of a new-generation "Odyssey" rocket jointly built b SAC and the European states is greeted worldwide as the beginning of a new era of spatial science, defined by mutual scientifically cooperation rather than military interests.

12/01/2009:As planned, the Space Center's Control is transferred to the new LoN Spatial Operations Authority (SpOA)