Armitage is the third planet from the sun in the Orion system. It was a terraformed and settled planet which became the site of first contact between Humans and the Vanduul in 2681, when a Vanduul raiding party razed the settlement of Dell Township. Before the Orion system was lost to the Vanduul in 2712, Armitage was a fast-developing colony world of the United Empire of Earth (UEE).