Babylon

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Babylon World Map

(References to Babylon)

Alternative coordinates, X and Y are (light years on XY plane) relative to Strana Mechty at (0, 0)

X: -158 Y: -182

Babylon
System Information
X:Y Coordinates	-123.41:1599.63
Spectral class	G7V "Tigris"
Recharge time	188 hours
Planet(s)	6

Notable Species

• Homeworld of the Goliath Scorpion (species)

Planetary Description

Babylon is one of the five Pentagon Worlds. It was the second established colony by the Star League in Exile. The planet has several large landmasses. It is a dry world, but has considerable mineral wealth, and five continents, Abyssinia, Callandra, Corsen, Solath and Valence. The planet was named for capital of Hammurabi an Akkadian city-state.

The planet’s system is rich with resources including a number of neighboring asteroids and planets. One such planet is Babylon VI (also known as Sinclair), which has several moons and a considerable amount of natural resources. The Boone-Shadow asteroid field periodically passes the orbit of the planet and causes meteor strikes on its surface.

Notable Planetary Locations

• Snaefell Mountains - Large mountain chain which shields a livable area from harsh elements of Babylon's dry and windy climate. These mountains’ shielded area were the first landing sites of SLDF colonists.

Planetary History

Colonization

Babylon is a dry world and was initially unpopular with League settlers when they first established their colony in 2786. Early settlers ended up being struck down by what was called the "Babylon Plague", which consisted of pathogens and germs in the atmosphere. Scientists on Babylon’s lone moon worked for months to come up with a vaccine for the plague, but thousands would perish before it was administered it to the colonists. When colonists moved to more of the arid lands, they discovered the arachnid Goliath Scorpion (species). The Goliath Scorpions had attacked many of the colonists with their deadly poisons when their nests were disturbed.

The League established a Large Naval cache for decommissioned SLDF WarShips, the largest in the Pentagon Worlds.

Operation Klondike

Recon and Initial Invasion of Babylon System

After years of exile and reformation, Khan Nicholas Kerensky assigned Clan Sea Fox, Clan Ice Hellion, Clan Coyote, and Clan Cloud Cobra to the task of liberating Babylon during Operation Klondike in 2821.

Several months before ground invasion of Babylon, the invading Clans dispatched a recon mission (Operation SABER SUN) to the Babylon system. The Clans needed to secure Babylon’s large decommissioned naval vessels in the system. They found that the people collectively known as the spacefarers were inhabiting both of the system’s jump points and operating a mining colony on the resource world of Babylon VI which also was known as Sheridan. The Clans were able to slip advance parties into the system and board some of the system’s decommissioned naval assets in the system without being detected. From this vantage point, they were free to observe the spacefarers’ activities. This gave the invasion force information they needed to swiftly secure Babylon’s valuable space assets and take the spacefarers by surprise.

Led by Clan Cloud Cobra SaKhan Rafe Kardaan, he led multi-Clan Naval Task force that would secure the system for the Clans in 2821. Their initial jump in-system caught the spacefarers by surprise and captured their jump point enclaves with only a few JumpShips able to make good their escape from them.

The Cloud Cobra WarShip the Inquisitor would be sent with a task force of JumpShips and DropShips to seize the mining world of Sheridan. Using their K-F Batteries on their arrival, the Inquisitor’s task force conducted a second hyperspace jump to the planet’s pirate point soon after their arrival in system. After arriving above Sheridan, the WarShip fired some warning shots at the planet to try and sway spacefarers on the surface to surrender. However, the warning shots from its naval grade weaponry struck too close to the mining colony, which triggered the collapse of its main underground facilities. This error by the WarShip’s gunners sent the survivors into a rage, launching their surviving DropShips into battle with the Clans. In a frenzied battle, the Inquisitor fought off the DropShip swarm until one vessel’s remains crashed into the ship forcing evacuation of its crew.

The main Clan Naval Task force went on to secure Babylon’s Naval Caches and hunted down the spacefarers. SaKhan Kardaan left technicians and security forces behind to tend to captured spacefarers and the cache while he and his warriors moved on to Babylon itself.

31st Century

By the 31st Century, Babylon had become a major industral world for the Clans. Clan Diamond Shark would come to dominate its economy from their massive industrial enclave in the city of Port Talbot. The cities of Hope and New Drineshane became the world's chief agricultural centers. The Sharks’ orbiting DropShip factories would be among the few in 3062 which were not under the control of Snow Raven Clan. The Ice Hellions’ cities of Marron and Yoma would be home of the number of Aerospace Fighter production sites.

Clan Coyote Capture of Babylon

In early 3072, Clan Coyote executed a planetary assault on the enclaves of Clan Ice Hellion, Cloud Cobra, and the Diamond Sharks. Using a mixed force of Battle Armor, ProtoMechs and some new OmniMechs they rolled over many of the Clans’ forces, seizing the planet after 24 hours. The battle left most of the opposing Clans’ warriors dead, while lower caste warriors were allow to depart if they so chose.

Era Specific Data

2800

• Major Cities: New Drineshane, Hope, Camlaan, Logan, Graten, Sumta, Luyden, Ponomia, Versailles.

2821

• Major Factions: Calandra - Mountain People

Corsen - City of Gralen, The Oppenreich
Solath - Camlaan, Eastern Solath Rebel Groups
Valence - Sumral Carta

• Orbital Facilities: None

3062

• Major Cities: Port Talbot, Hope, New Drineshane, Marron, and Yoma.
• Occupying Clans: Cloud Cobra, Coyote, Diamond Shark, Ice Hellion

3072

• Occupying Clans: Clan Coyote

Manufacturing Centers

• Auxiliary Production Site 5
• Babylon MechWorks V
• Coyote Industrial
• Manufacturing Plant DSF-94

Garrisoning Military Force

3059

• Second Assault Cavaliers
• Forty-third Hector Cavaliers

3061

• 45th Cobra Grenadiers (Clan Cloud Cobra)
• 97th Cobra Guards (Clan Cloud Cobra)
• 121st Cobra Fangs (Clan Cloud Cobra)
• 441st Cobra Guards (Clan Cloud Cobra)
• 5th Cobra Coil (Clan Cloud Cobra)
• Bronze Keshik
• Thirty-eighth Assault Cluster
• Seventy-second Reserve Battle Cluster
• Ninety-eighth Strike Cluster
• 990th Composite Battle Cluster
• 509th Solahma Battle Cluster
• Thirty-ninth Strike Cluster
• Twenty-first Combined Assault Cluster
• Fifty-seventh Combined Assault Cluster

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years) Closest systems first:
Dagda	9.2	Arcadia	11.1	Circe	14	Eden	16.3
Fasa	32.5

Bibliography

• Field Manual: Crusader Clans
• Field Manual: Warden Clans
• Historical: Operation Klondike
• The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky
• The Wars of Reaving