Editing Finmark

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The '''Finmark''' system was home to at least one habitable world and (as of [[2750]]) was the provincial capital of the [[Finmark Province]] of the [[Rim Worlds Republic]].<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/> It was located approximately 525 light-years from [[Terra]] in the coreward/anti-spinward direction.{{e}}

== System Description ==
The Finmark system was located near the [[Dijonne]] and [[Lushun]] systems.<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/>

== System History ==
The Finmark system was colonized at some point prior to the end of the [[Age of War]], and served as a provincial capital within the Rim Worlds Republic.<ref name="HB:MPSp18"/><ref name="HB:HSp25"/> Following the collapse of the Rim Worlds Republic during the [[Amaris Civil War]], Finmark briefly served as the capital world of a minor [[Periphery]] nation, the [[Finmark Free Republic]], until the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] devastated the inhabited world in the system with a sustained nuclear and orbital bombardment.<ref name="FSWp68"/> Finmark vanished from maps during the [[Second Succession War]], indicating that the system had been abandoned, depopulated, or rendered too insignificant to merit being recorded on maps any longer.<ref name="HB:HSp36"/><ref name="H:LoTV2p122"/><ref name="HB:HSp40"/>

== Political Affiliation ==
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* [[2571]] - [[Rim Worlds Republic]]<ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18: "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War (2571)"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2596]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25: "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:LoTV1p10">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name="FR2765:Pp38">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 38: "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
* [[2767]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:LoTV1p104>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 104: "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"</ref>
* [[2779]] - [[Finmark Free Republic]]<ref name="FSWp100"/>
* [[2786]] - Finmark Free Republic<ref name="FSWp24">''First Succession War'', p. 24: "Inner Sphere - 2786"</ref>
* [[2792]] - Finmark Free Republic<ref name="FSWp68"/>
* [[2822]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36: "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="H:LoTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[2864]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40: "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[3025]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47: "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
* [[3030]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56: "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59: "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="H:Wo3039p132">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132: "Inner Sphere - [3040]"</ref>
* [[3050]] - No record<ref name="ER:3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10: Inner Sphere [3050] Map</ref>
* [[3052]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61: "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="ER:3062p22">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 22: Inner Sphere [3052] Map</ref>
* [[3057]] - No record<ref name="ER:3062p10">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 10: Inner Sphere - [3057] Map</ref>
* [[3063]] - No record<ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
* [[3067]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70: "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp42">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - No record<ref name="JS:TBDp64">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - No record<ref name="FR:LAAFp19">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 19: "Lyran Alliance Armed Forces Deployment Table - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - No record<ref name="J:FRp62">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - No record<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3135]] - No record<ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - No record<ref name=ER:3145p39>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref>
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== Planetary History ==
=== Reunification War ===
By the end of the [[Age of War]], Finmark was the provincial capital of the [[Finmark Province]] of the Rim Worlds Republic.<ref name="HB:MPSp18"/>

Civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic in [[2575]], with the factions polarized around those loyal to [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] and those loyal to the [[Rift Republican Army]] and the [[Rim Provisional Government]].<ref name="H:RWp130">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 130: "The Spark"</ref> Finmark was garrisoned by the [[5th Amaris Dragoons|Fifth Amaris Dragoons]] from at least [[2581]] onward, a regiment which had chosen to stay loyal to Amaris during the war.<ref name="H:RWp128"/> The [[Star League]] eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in [[2579]] assembled [[Task Force MAILED FIST]] to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic. A multinational force headed by the [[Star League Defense Force]], Task Force MAILED FIST was responsible for executing [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the name given to the military intervention. the first wave of attacks focused on securing significant worlds near [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]],<ref name="H:RWp132">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132: "Case Apollo"</ref> until a destructive raid on [[Alarion]] by the [[4th Amaris Fusiliers]] in retaliation prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, the focus shifted to reducing [[Rim Worlds Army]] concentrations throughout the Republic and the capture of key worlds.<ref name="H:RWp133">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 133: "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"</ref>

In late [[2584]] the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]] when they captured [[Nightwish]] in mid-2584. [[Archon]] [[Viola Steiner-Dinesen]] of Battle Group Finmark assigned [[VIII Corps (Star League)|VIII Corps]] - an SLDF Corps comprised of two [[division]]s, the [[31st Armor Division|Thirty-First Armor Division]] and the [[32nd Division (Star League)|Thirty-Second Division]] - to the conquest of Finmark in [[2586]];<ref name="H:RWp152"/> the resulting campaign was actually something of a relief for the beleaguered SLDF, as it was one of the few stand-up fights to occur during Operation MAILED FIST, unmarked by the more extreme defensive measures many other planetary campaigns were marked by.<ref name="H:RWp134+">''Historical: Reunification War'', pp. 134–135: "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"</ref>

The battle for Finmark saw one of the seven corvette-class [[WarShip]]s operated by the Rim Worlds Army crippled and then boarded by SLDF troops, and was the first time the SLDF had encountered any of the small RWA WarShips in combat.<ref name="H:RWp135">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 135: "Newtown Shoals: Sharks Among Minnows (January 2588)"</ref> On the surface of Finmark the Fifth Amaris Dragoons put up a valiant and determined resistance against the far more numerous SLDF forces, selling themselves dearly before being defeated by VIII Corps.<ref name="H:RWp134+"/>

=== First Succession War ===
In [[2779]] Finmark established an interstellar alliance with two other systems from the former Rim Worlds Republic, founding the [[Finmark Free Republic]]. Finmark was well-placed to become the capital of a new interstellar polity; despite the damage caused by the [[Amaris Civil War]], the [[Star League Defense Force]] invasion of the Rim Worlds Republic and the subsequent [[Republic-Commonwealth War]], Finmark was still home to an aerospace combat academy and one of the few surviving semi-operational Republic industries. In orbit above Finmark was the [[Roe Weapon Systems]] shipyards, which were damaged but still viable.<ref name="FSWp100">''First Succession War'', p. 100: "The Finmark Free Republic"</ref>

Between 2779 and 2782 Finmark created a government modeled on the early Rim Worlds system and managed to pull together a defense force comprised largely of fresh recruits and orphaned elements of the [[SLDF]] and the former [[Rim Worlds Army]]; these forces mustered a strength of almost two [[BattleMech]] [[regiment]]s, a similar number of [[aerospace fighter]]s, and enough armor and infantry units for each world in the Republic to have approximately two regiments of mixed armor and infantry each.<ref name="FSWp100"/>

Finmark's influence continued to grow, with systems as far away as [[Inner Surge]] and [[Port Vail]] receiving some form of defensive support from Finmark by the late 2780s as the government worked on rebuilding as much of the former Finmark Province as possible; the government also worked to restore the orbital shipyards above Finmark, with the shipyards nearing fully operational status by the late 2780s. Unfortunately for the nascent interstellar state - and particularly the inhabitants of Finmark - the increasing savagery of the [[First Succession War]] combined with Finmark's growing strength attracted predatory attention from the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name="FSWp100"/>

With the Lyran Commonwealth reeling from the death of [[Archon]] [[Jennifer Steiner]], the loss of huge amounts of industrial infrastructure to destructive raids and invasions and a significant shakeup of the [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] imposed by Archon [[Richard Steiner (29th c.)|Richard Steiner]], Richard Steiner chose to respond to [[LIC]] reports on the remnants of the former Rim Worlds Republic by redeploying the bulk of his [[WarShip]]s assigned to the [[Periphery]], shoring up defenses on the borders with the [[Draconis Combine]] and [[Free Worlds League]]. However, in addition to the general withdrawal of Lyran WarShips from the Periphery border, Richard also directed a squadron of corvettes to strike at Finmark, deemed the sole military threat remaining among the former unclaimed Republic worlds.<ref name="FSWp67">''First Succession War'', p. 67: "The Fist of Defiance: Steiner's Campaigns"</ref>

Whilst General [[Paul Steiner]] advocated conquering Finmark, Richard had other plans. [[Operation HAIFISCHFLOSSENSUPPE]] - "Shark Fin Soup" - was drawn up; HAIFISCHFLOSSENSUPPE called for the capture or crippling of Finmark's jump stations and the shipyards. Rather than conquer the planet, Richard had his forces equipped with strategic nuclear weapons and issued explicit instructions that any potential strategic threats to the Commonwealth were to be neutralized with extreme prejudice should the local defenders prove too challenging. Claiming more worlds in the Periphery using ground forces was neither practical nor expedient, according to Richard's thinking, whilst the other Successor States posed more of a threat.<ref name="FSWp67"/>

Under the command of [[Kommodore]] [[Gustav Sharae]], the Lyran task force, consisting of half a dozen ''[[Leopard CV]]''-class [[DropShip]]s, four ''[[Fury (DropShip class)|Fury]]''-class DropShips fully loaded with marines and a squadron of six corvettes, conducted Operation HAIFISCHFLOSSENSUPPE. Of the six corvettes, two were ''[[Vincent|Vincent-39s]]'', the [[Potsdam|LCS ''Potsdam'']] and [[Ulm (Individual Vincent-class WarShip)|LCS ''Ulm'']], while the remaining four were all ''[[Mako]]s'', including the [[Hadrian|LCS ''Hadrian'']] and Sharae's flagship, the [[Constantius|LCS ''Constantius'']].<ref name="FSWp68">''First Succession War'', pp. 68–69: "Shark Fin Soup"</ref>

The task force jumped into the Finmark system at the zenith jump point via the [[Dijonne]] system in [[2792]], facing only light resistance at the [[recharge station]] from a single pirate-rigged ''[[Achilles (DropShip class)|Achilles]]''-class DropShip stationed there. Sharae then delivered an ultimatum to the Finmark government, stating that the Commonwealth was going to seize the Roe Weapon Systems shipyards in the interests of "interstellar security", and that any resistance from Finmark would be met with maximum force.<ref name="FSWp68"/>

The Finmark government made contact with Share while the task force was burning towards the planet, stating that they wished to arrange a diplomatic agreement and desired to avoid trouble with the Lyran Commonwealth; whilst unhappy with losing their single largest source of income, the Finmark government appeared to accept that they didn't have the strength to take on the LCAF. The shipyards had only been restored to working order in [[2790]], and while some of those under Sharae's command were suspicious that they were being led into a trap, but the task force was confident that there would be no active WarShips to oppose their own WarShip squadrons, particularly given the intelligence reports indicating that the SLDF had already salvaged the bulk of any useful military resources from Finmark.<ref name="FSWp68"/>

After two days of negotiation with the Finmark government, Sharae was confident that he had negotiated the government's surrender; Sharae dictated that the shipyards be left with all bays open to confirm that there were no hidden threats, and when the task force approached the shipyards, that appeared to be the case. Sharae ordered two ''Furies'' to approach and secure the shipyards, escorted by a pair of the ''Leopard CVs'', the ''Potsdam'' and the ''Ulm''. While the rest of the task force maintained overwatch, intent on spotting any sign of hostile forces emerging from either the far side of the shipyards or from behind Finmark's moon, the marines boarded the shipyard without encountering any resistance - and then a nuclear weapon concealed within the shipyards was detonated.<ref name="FSWp68"/>

Located in the main docking bay, the nuke was viciously effective; the shipyards were nearly torn in half, bombarding the nearby ''Leopard CVs'' and WarShips with large chunks of debris. The two docked ''Furies'' and their two ''Leopard CV'' escorts were destroyed instantly, and the damage inflicted on the ''Potsdam'' caused it to spin to port, colliding with the shipyard solar array; the ''Ulm'' was left tumbling to starboard, and none of the other task force ships could contact the ''Ulm''.<ref name="FSWp68"/>

Sharae ordered an immediate withdrawal from the shipyard, whilst the surviving fighter carriers quickly disgorged their aerospace fighters. As the ''Ulm'' began maneuvering and the various ships attempted to work out what happened, the task force detected both fighters and strategic nuclear weapons being launched from Finmark, whilst communications from the ''Potsdam'' indicated that the ship was out of control and suffering damage from intense internal fires. The task force was hit with at least one if not two more nuclear weapons launched from Finmark, destroying the ''Potsdam'' and ''Ulm'' completely.<ref name="FSWp68"/>

Sharae had his surviving ships break orbit and recover their fighters, a maneuver that took an hour; with the recovery complete, he ordered his ships to launch a nuclear orbital bombardment of Finmark. Although pleas for mercy were received from the surface, those desperate pleas stopped ten hours into the bombardment; by the following day, so much damage had been inflicted on Finmark that the ash and smoke thrown into the atmosphere was dense enough to block visibility of the burning cities from the orbiting WarShips.<ref name="FSWp68"/>

With the loss of Finmark, the Finmark Free Republic collapsed over the next decade.<ref name="FSWp100"/>
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== Military Deployment ==
===2581-2586===
* [[Fifth Amaris Dragoons]] (Amaris loyalists)<ref name="H:RWp128">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 128: "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"</ref>

=== 2586 ===
* [[SLDF]] [[VII Corps (Star League)|VII Corps]]<ref name="H:RWp152">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 152: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"</ref>

=== 2765 ===
* [[Imperial Division Catherine Dormax]]<ref name=FR:2765Pp18>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 18: "Imperial Divisions - Divisional Status"</ref>
:* [[32nd Division (Star League)|Thirty-Second Division]]
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== Planetary Locations ==
* [[Finmark Air and Space Academy]]<ref name="FR2765:Pp8">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 8: "Academies and Command Centers"</ref>

== Industrial Centers ==
* [[Roe Weapon Systems]] (destroyed 2792)<ref name="FSWp68"/>
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== Nearby Systems ==
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Jibbet|Lushun]]
| class="lessthan30" | 9.4
| class="lessthan30" | [[Pain|Dijonne]]
| class="lessthan30" | 17.1
| class="over30" | [[Elume]]
| class="over30" | 32.9
| class="over30" | [[Elba]]
| class="over30" | 33.0
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| class="over30" | [[Main Street]]
| class="over30" | 33.1
| class="over30" | [[Ferreusvirgo|Lywick]]
| class="over30" | 34.1
| class="over30" | [[Viluisk]]
| class="over30" | 34.2
| class="over30" | [[Sweet Water]]
| class="over30" | 37.4
|-
| class="over30" | [[Canal]]
| class="over30" | 37.7
| class="over30" | [[Delagoa]]
| class="over30" | 38.0
| class="over30" | [[Scauld|Austerlitz]]
| class="over30" | 38.2
| class="over30" | [[The Rack|Port Vail]]
| class="over30" | 38.4
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| class="over30" | [[Swartklip]]
| class="over30" | 45.7
| class="over30" | [[Aboukir]]
| class="over30" | 47.6
| class="over30" | [[Veil|Oporto]]
| class="over30" | 51.3
| class="over30" | [[Kwangjong-ni]]
| class="over30" | 51.9
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| class="over30" | [[Luanda]]
| class="over30" | 53.1
| class="over30" | [[Torgvei]]
| class="over30" | 57.5
| class="over30" | [[Engadine]]
| class="over30" | 58.4
| class="over30" | [[Moriguchi]]
| class="over30" | 58.5
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
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* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report: LAAF]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: LCAF]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
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