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Alarion
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Alarion nearby systems
(Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-319.70:138.59[e]
Spectral classG0V[1][2]
Recharge time181 hours[2]
Recharge station(s)Zenith[1][2]

Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)

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Owner History

Planetary History

Age of War

Alarion was the site of one of the Lyran Commonwealth's earliest BattleMech factories in the years after Lyran commandos stole the technical and manufacturing information on manufacturing these large engines of war from the Terran Hegemony. Unfortunately for the Commonwealth, in 2462 - just three years after the Lyran armed forces first successfully deployed BattleMechs on the battlefield - a number of disaffected employees from the BattleMech factory on Alarion defected to the Free Worlds League, taking the technical detail needed for the League to begin its own manufacturing programme with them. Archon Alistair Steiner was furious at the loss and had the security staff responsible for guarding these industrial and technological secrets tried for treason through inaction, imprisoning many for life and even executing several.[3]

Reunification War

As the Star League Defense Force completed the first wave of attacks in Operation MAILED FIST - the name given to the Star League intervention into the civil war that had been raging across the Rim Worlds Republic since 2575 - reprisal attacks from Republican forces against worlds within the Lyran Commonwealth were anticipated. What wasn't anticipated was the Rim Worlds Army launching a successful deep raid against Alarion, a secure interior world within the Commonwealth and an important industrial world.[27]

The unit responsible for the raid was the Fourth Amaris Fusiliers, a unit which supported the Rim Provisional Government and which was assigned as the garrison unit for the worlds of New India and Urjala. A battalion from the Fourth managed to evade the various border patrols established by the SLDF and the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces and travelled to Alarion, which at the time was three jumps away from the border between the Republic and the Commonwealth.[27]

The raiding party from the Fourth grounded on Alarion on the 9th of December 2581, having been mistaken for an ore-carrying vessel from Carlisle that was expected to arrive at around the same time; the Fusiliers landed at the port facility attached the planetary capital of Craiova, achieving total surprise over the local forces when their BattleMechs emerged and began to wreak havoc. The Fusiliers managed to inflict substantial damage to the port before retreating back to their DropShip and fighting a running eight-day space battle with the local LCAF contingent all the way back to their waiting JumpShip.[27]

The repercussions of the raid on Alarion went beyond the substantial disruption to the local economy caused by the raid itself; Archon Viola Steiner-Dineson believed that the raid was evidence that the Rim Worlds Army was far more capable and aggressive than the planning assumptions made by the SLDF had indicated, and that the scope of Operation MAILED FIST should be broadened to include the entire of the Rim Worlds Republic rather than those worlds in close proximity to the Dark Nebula. This put the Archon at odds with General Nathan Isaacson, the SLDF officer commanding Task Force MAILED FIST, causing a rift that would last for the duration of the campaign, but the threat of the Archon removing the logistical and economic support provided by the Commonwealth was enough to convince the SLDF to broaden the scope of Operation MAILED FIST.[27]

The Jihad

The Word of Blake struck at Alarion on the 12th of April 3069, the same day they attacked the Federated Suns world of Galax, evidently targeting systems capable of manufacturing WarShips. The Blakist forces didn't only use WarShips to demolish the shipyards in the Alarion system and seize every vessel capable of jumping for their own purposes; they also poisoned Alarion's ecosphere with an intensely powerful bioweapon. The only vessel to avoid capture or destruction was the Mjolnir-class WarShip LAS Fylgia, which managed to escape from the Alarion system.[28][29]

The news agency Donegal Broadcasting Company sent a vessel packed with advanced sensor equipment to the Alarion system in early April 3078 to investigate Alarion from orbit, to see if they could identify any signs of life; the ship spent five days in orbit, looking for hope that someone had survived the combination of nuclear and biological weapons the Word of Blake had rained down the planet. The sensors confirmed that the satellites in orbit were still transmitting, but that no signals were being broadcast for them to carry; equally, while two broadcasting stations were found to be active in the northern hemisphere of Alarion, investigation confirmed that the two stations were running on emergency power and were simply bouncing static back and forth to each other.[30]

Planetary Garrison

3025

3050

3061

3067

  • First Alarion Jaegers[36]
  • Alarion APM[36]

Manufacturing Centers

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Vendrell 16.6 Nuneaton 19.1 Quilino 19.8 Noisiel 20.8
Kvistgard 26.1 Abejorral 31.6 Tiruppur 37.8 Logres 38.9
Ciampino 40.1 Albion 40.2 Stardawn 41.5 Vihtijarvi 42.7
Zaprudy 46.2 Calafell 55.2 Stellaris 52.3 Nuelson Minor 59.29
Reese Station 59.33

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 164, "Alarion Planet Profile"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 73, "Alarion"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 21, "Lyran Military Superiority"
  4. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"
  5. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  6. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"
  7. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  8. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  9. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"
  10. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2864]"
  11. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025] Map"
  12. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030] Map"
  13. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 [3040] Map"
  14. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 132, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  15. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3050"
  16. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 22, "Inner Sphere - 3052"
  17. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
  18. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
  19. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War [3067] Map"
  20. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - 3075"
  21. ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table [3079]"
  22. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  23. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 126, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  24. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  25. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
  26. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 Historical: Reunification War, p. 132-133, "Alarion (December 2581)"
  28. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 46, "The Jihad In Review"
  29. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 46, "The Jihad In Review"
  30. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 66, "Alarion: World In Recovery?"
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 118, "Unit Deployment Table"
  32. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p.44, "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"
  33. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p.45, "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"
  34. ↑ 20 Year Updage, p. 71, "Com Guards Deployment Tabel"
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Shattered Sphere, p. 51, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Field Manual: Updates, p. 179, "Lyran Alliance Deploment Table"

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