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− | '' | + | | image = Benfled_3151.svg |
+ | | caption = Benfled [[#Nearby_Systems|nearby systems]] | ||
+ | | name = Benfled | ||
+ | | coord = -72.905 : 260.773{{e}} | ||
+ | | stars = | ||
+ | | class = | ||
+ | | recharge = 185 hours<ref name=TRpm>''Tamar Rising'', poster map</ref> | ||
+ | | recharge stations = | ||
+ | | planets = 1<ref name="TRp72"/> | ||
+ | }} | ||
+ | The '''Benfled''' system was the location of at least one habitable world and as of June [[3152]] was located in the [[Clan Hell's Horses]] Occupation Zone.<ref name=TRp72/> | ||
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− | + | ==System Description== | |
− | + | The Benfled system is located close to the [[Ballynure]] and [[Montmarault]] systems.<ref name=ER:3145p39/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/> | |
− | ==History== | + | ==System History== |
− | + | The Benfled system was colonized at some point during or shortly before the [[Age of War]].<ref name="HB:HSp13"/><ref name="HB:HSp25"/> | |
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− | == | + | ==Political Affiliation== |
− | === | + | {{div col|colwidth=25em}} |
− | * [[ | + | * [[2341]] - No record <ref name="HB:HSp13">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13</ref> |
+ | * [[2571]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]] <ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25</ref> | ||
+ | * [[2596]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name=HRWp159>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159</ref> | ||
+ | * [[2750]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37</ref> | ||
+ | * [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p11>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11</ref> | ||
+ | * [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36</ref> | ||
+ | * [[2864]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47</ref><ref name="HKp132">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 132</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]] <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59</ref><ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3052]] - [[Clan Jade Falcon]]/[[Clan Steel Viper]] <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61</ref><ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3057]] - Clan Jade Falcon/Clan Steel Viper <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3063]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3067]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3075]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3079]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref>''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 19</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3081]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3085]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3135]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3145]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name=ER:3145p39>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI: "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3151]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name=SFp102-103>''Shattered Fortress'', pp. 102-103</ref> | ||
+ | * [[3152]] - Clan Hell's Horses <ref name=TRpm/><ref name=TRp72>''Tamar Rising'', p. 72, "The Hinterlands June 3152" (Map)</ref> | ||
+ | {{div col end}} | ||
− | === | + | ------------------------------------- |
− | + | ==Benfled== | |
+ | {{InfoBoxPlanet | ||
+ | | image = | ||
+ | | name = Benfled | ||
+ | | othernames = | ||
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+ | }} | ||
+ | ===Planetary History=== | ||
+ | {{ApocryphalContentStart}} | ||
+ | When distribution began of the newly designed ''[[Hatchetman]]'', the [[Federation_of_Skye#The_Succession_Wars|Independent People of Skye]], fighting off constant attacks from [[Draconis Combine]] raiders, took offense that the [[Social General]]-heavy [[Nineteenth Arcturan Guards]] were one of the first to receive shipments of the [['Mech]], rather than units that were in need. The IPS hired a [[mercenary]] company in early [[3025]] to reappropriate as many of them as possible for their cause, while at the same time send a message that the Nineteenth was undeserving of the preferential treatment.<ref name=MW5M>''MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries'', "Those in Need"</ref> | ||
+ | {{ApocryphalContentEnd}} | ||
− | == | + | ====Clan Invasion==== |
− | + | On 21 November [[3051]], [[Clan Steel Viper]]'s [[400th Assault (Clan Steel Viper)|400th Assault Cluster]] attacked the planet Benfled as part of the Fifth Wave of [[Operation REVIVAL]]. The seasoned mercenary unit [[Narhal's Raiders]] met the Steel Vipers at Monument Hill but found themselves unprepared for the swiftness and firepower of the invading [[Cluster]]. After just four hours of combat fully two-thirds of the Raiders' forces had been destroyed and the mercenaries abandoned the planet. Seeing no further opposition the Steel Vipers declared victory.<ref name=IC88>''Invading Clans'', p. 88</ref> | |
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− | + | It was at this point the Clan received a transmission from Rene Duchesne of the Benfled 10th Cadet Corps, informing the Steel Vipers his forces still stood in opposition to their rule, and that he wished to bid against them in Clan fashion in a [[Trial of Possession]] over the planet. The Steel Vipers agreed and for several hours bargained with Rene, eventually reducing their bids down to a single unarmed and unarmored warrior. For their champion Rene presented Tony Bernson, a massive cadet standing just over two meters in height weighing almost 114kg of solid muscle. The Steel Viper champion, [[Star Commander]] Janine, was unfazed by her opponent's build. In a short but brutal contest which earned a mention in the Steel Viper ''[[Remembrance]]'', Janine defeated Tony and took both him and Rene as [[bondsmen]].<ref name=IC88/> | |
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− | + | During the [[Hegira War]] Benfled evidently saw no fighting between the Vipers and the [[Clan Jade Falcon|Jade Falcons]], and like the rest of Steel Viper Occupation Zone was annexed by the Falcons in [[3061]].<ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 29, "Steel Viper Targets" - Benfled not listed as a world where fighting took place.</ref> | |
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− | + | ====IlClan Era==== | |
− | + | After nearly a century of Jade Falcon rule, Benfled was attacked by [[Clan Hell's Horses]] in late [[3151]] during [[Operation STAMPEDE]]. The [[1st Horde Cluster (Clan Hell's Horses)|First Horde Cluster]] easily smashed the Falcon paramilitary garrison defending the capital of Hadfield, though ''[[ristar]]'' Star Captain [[Peter Cobb]] privately questioned the value of this one-sided slaughter given Benfled's lack of military resources.<ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 58 & 60, "Vengeance upon the dezgra"</ref> <ref>''Tamar Rising'', p. 60, "Prophecy fulfilled - identities in question"</ref> | |
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− | + | ===Military Deployment=== | |
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− | + | ====3051==== | |
− | + | * [[Narhal's Raiders]]<ref name=IC88/> | |
− | + | * [[Benfled Cadet Corps]]<ref name=IC88/> | |
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− | + | ====3054==== | |
− | + | * [[3rd Fang (Clan Steel Viper)|Third Fang]]<ref name=OR58>''Objective Raids'', p. 58, "Unit Note"</ref> | |
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− | + | ====3054–3061==== | |
− | + | * [[4th Fang (Clan Steel Viper)|Fourth Fang]]<ref name=OR58/><ref name=FMWC166>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 166, "Warden Clans Deployment Table"</ref> | |
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− | + | ====3079==== | |
− | + | * [[8th Falcon Regulars (Clan Jade Falcon)|Eighth Falcon Regulars]]<ref>''Field Report: Clans'', p. 15, "Clan Jade Falcon Deployment Status"</ref> | |
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− | + | ====3085==== | |
− | + | * [[6th Provisional Garrison (Clan Jade Falcon)|Sixth Provisional Garrison Cluster]]<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 125, "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref> | |
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− | + | ====3145==== | |
− | + | * [[1st Falcon Swoop (Clan Jade Falcon)|First Falcon Swoop Cluster]]<ref name=FM:3145p169>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 169, "Clan Force Deployments - Clan Jade Falcon"</ref> | |
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− | + | ===Geography=== | |
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− | + | In the ''[[MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries]]'' [[MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries/High Reward Quests|High Reward Quest]] "Those in Need," Benfled features a number of environments including lush canyon and hoodoo desert biomes with good visibility, as well as tourmaline desert and scrapyard biomes with poor visibility.<ref name=MW5M/> | |
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− | | [[ | + | | class="lessthan30" | [[Montmarault]] |
− | | | + | | class="lessthan30" | 13.9 |
− | | | + | | class="lessthan30" | [[Ballynure]] |
− | | [[ | + | | class="lessthan30" | 17.2 |
− | | | + | | class="lessthan30" | [[Koniz]] |
− | | [[ | + | | class="lessthan30" | 19.7 |
− | | | + | | class="lessthan30" | [[La Grave]] |
− | | | + | | class="lessthan30" | 25.7 |
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− | | | + | | class="lessthan30" | 27.8 |
− | | | + | | class="lessthan30" | [[Pandora]] |
− | | [[ | + | | class="lessthan30" | 28.5 |
− | | | + | | class="over30" | [[Biota]] |
− | | [[ | + | | class="over30" | 30.2 |
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==References== | ==References== | ||
− | <references /> | + | <references/> |
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
− | *''[[Era Report: 3052]]'' | + | {{div col|colwidth=25em}} |
− | *''[[Era Report: 3062]]'' | + | * ''[[Era Report: 2750]]'' |
− | *''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]'' | + | * ''[[Era Report: 3052]]'' |
− | *''[[Field Report: LAAF]]'' | + | * ''[[Era Report: 3062]]'' |
− | *''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]'' | + | * ''[[Era Report: 3145]]'' |
− | *''[[Invading Clans (sourcebook)]]'' | + | * ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]'' |
− | *''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]'' | + | * ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]'' |
− | *''[ | + | * ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]'' |
− | *''[[Objective Raids]]'' | + | * ''[[Field Report: Clans]]'' |
+ | * ''[[Field Report: LAAF]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Invading Clans (sourcebook)|Invading Clans]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries]]'' (video game) | ||
+ | * ''[[Objective Raids]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Shattered Fortress]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[Tamar Rising]]'' | ||
+ | * ''[[The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky]]'' | ||
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+ | [[Category:Systems|Benfled]] | ||
[[Category:Planets|Benfled]] | [[Category:Planets|Benfled]] | ||
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− | [[Category: | + | [[Category: Clan Steel Viper Systems]] |
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category: Federated Commonwealth Systems]] |
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category: Lyran Commonwealth Systems]] |
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Benfled | |
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System Information | |
X:Y Coordinates | -72.905 : 260.773[e] |
Recharge time | 185 hours[1] |
Planet(s) | 1[2] |
The Benfled system was the location of at least one habitable world and as of June 3152 was located in the Clan Hell's Horses Occupation Zone.[2]
Contents
System Description
The Benfled system is located close to the Ballynure and Montmarault systems.[3][4]
System History
The Benfled system was colonized at some point during or shortly before the Age of War.[5][6]
Political Affiliation
- 2341 - No record [5]
- 2571 - Lyran Commonwealth [6]
- 2596 - Lyran Commonwealth [7]
- 2750 - Lyran Commonwealth [8]
- 2765 - Lyran Commonwealth [9]
- 2822 - Lyran Commonwealth [10]
- 2864 - Lyran Commonwealth [11]
- 3025 - Lyran Commonwealth [12][13]
- 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth [14]
- 3040 - Federated Commonwealth [15][16]
- 3050 - Federated Commonwealth [17]
- 3052 - Clan Jade Falcon/Clan Steel Viper [18][19]
- 3057 - Clan Jade Falcon/Clan Steel Viper [20]
- 3063 - Clan Jade Falcon [21]
- 3067 - Clan Jade Falcon [22]
- 3075 - Clan Jade Falcon [23]
- 3079 - Clan Jade Falcon [24]
- 3081 - Clan Jade Falcon [25]
- 3085 - Clan Jade Falcon [26]
- 3135 - Clan Jade Falcon [27]
- 3145 - Clan Jade Falcon [3][4]
- 3151 - Clan Jade Falcon [28]
- 3152 - Clan Hell's Horses [1][2]
Benfled
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Planetary History
When distribution began of the newly designed Hatchetman, the Independent People of Skye, fighting off constant attacks from Draconis Combine raiders, took offense that the Social General-heavy Nineteenth Arcturan Guards were one of the first to receive shipments of the 'Mech, rather than units that were in need. The IPS hired a mercenary company in early 3025 to reappropriate as many of them as possible for their cause, while at the same time send a message that the Nineteenth was undeserving of the preferential treatment.[29]
Clan Invasion
On 21 November 3051, Clan Steel Viper's 400th Assault Cluster attacked the planet Benfled as part of the Fifth Wave of Operation REVIVAL. The seasoned mercenary unit Narhal's Raiders met the Steel Vipers at Monument Hill but found themselves unprepared for the swiftness and firepower of the invading Cluster. After just four hours of combat fully two-thirds of the Raiders' forces had been destroyed and the mercenaries abandoned the planet. Seeing no further opposition the Steel Vipers declared victory.[30]
It was at this point the Clan received a transmission from Rene Duchesne of the Benfled 10th Cadet Corps, informing the Steel Vipers his forces still stood in opposition to their rule, and that he wished to bid against them in Clan fashion in a Trial of Possession over the planet. The Steel Vipers agreed and for several hours bargained with Rene, eventually reducing their bids down to a single unarmed and unarmored warrior. For their champion Rene presented Tony Bernson, a massive cadet standing just over two meters in height weighing almost 114kg of solid muscle. The Steel Viper champion, Star Commander Janine, was unfazed by her opponent's build. In a short but brutal contest which earned a mention in the Steel Viper Remembrance, Janine defeated Tony and took both him and Rene as bondsmen.[30]
During the Hegira War Benfled evidently saw no fighting between the Vipers and the Jade Falcons, and like the rest of Steel Viper Occupation Zone was annexed by the Falcons in 3061.[31]
IlClan Era
After nearly a century of Jade Falcon rule, Benfled was attacked by Clan Hell's Horses in late 3151 during Operation STAMPEDE. The First Horde Cluster easily smashed the Falcon paramilitary garrison defending the capital of Hadfield, though ristar Star Captain Peter Cobb privately questioned the value of this one-sided slaughter given Benfled's lack of military resources.[32] [33]
Military Deployment
Geography
In the MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries High Reward Quest "Those in Need," Benfled features a number of environments including lush canyon and hoodoo desert biomes with good visibility, as well as tourmaline desert and scrapyard biomes with poor visibility.[29]
Map Gallery
Nearby Systems
Closest 40 systems (38 within 60 light-years) Distance in light years, closest systems first: | |||||||
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Montmarault | 13.9 | Ballynure | 17.2 | Koniz | 19.7 | La Grave | 25.7 |
Blair Atholl | 27.8 | Pandora | 28.5 | Biota | 30.2 | Crimond | 30.5 |
Graceland | 31.4 | Dustball | 32.0 | Cusset | 32.9 | Sudeten | 33.0 |
Orkney | 35.5 | Colmar | 39.1 | Dompaire | 39.3 | Rastaban | 39.3 |
Deweidewd | 41.1 | Domain | 42.0 | Wheel | 42.6 | Perrot | 43.2 |
Suk | 43.9 | Tomans | 44.3 | Graus | 45.8 | Maestu | 46.9 |
Bessarabia | 49.9 | Borghese | 50.6 | Quarell | 50.9 | Laurent | 51.0 |
A Place | 52.1 | Thun | 55.1 | Stonarboi | 55.5 | Hyperion | 55.9 |
Rasalgethi | 57.7 | Volders | 57.9 | Matahari | 58.0 | Galuzzo | 58.2 |
Sevren | 59.7 | Hainfeld | 60.0 | Vulcan | 60.0 | Jabuka | 60.7 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tamar Rising, poster map
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Tamar Rising, p. 72, "The Hinterlands June 3152" (Map)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 39
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - 3145"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159
- ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47
- ↑ House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 132
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59
- ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23
- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11
- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65
- ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11
- ↑ Shattered Fortress, pp. 102-103
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, "Those in Need"
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 Invading Clans, p. 88
- ↑ The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky, p. 29, "Steel Viper Targets" - Benfled not listed as a world where fighting took place.
- ↑ Tamar Rising, p. 58 & 60, "Vengeance upon the dezgra"
- ↑ Tamar Rising, p. 60, "Prophecy fulfilled - identities in question"
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Objective Raids, p. 58, "Unit Note"
- ↑ Field Manual: Warden Clans, p. 166, "Warden Clans Deployment Table"
- ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 15, "Clan Jade Falcon Deployment Status"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 125, "Deployment Table - 3085"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 169, "Clan Force Deployments - Clan Jade Falcon"
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