Castor
Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)
Castor | |
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← 3135 3151 | |
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X:Y Coordinates | -40.43:-16.68[e] |
The Castor system is home to at least one habitable world and as at 3145 was located in the Wolf Empire.[1][2]
Contents
System Description
The Castor system is located near the Devil's Rock and Pollux systems.[1][2] Relatively little information is available on the Castor system, but it is known that the system has at least six planets, and that at least one of those planets is inhabited and is an eight-day transit from the system nadir jump point at an acceleration of 1g. It is also known that the sixth planet in the system, Castor VI, has several moons, and that just beyond the orbit of the most distant of those moons is a known pirate point.[3]
System History
The Castor system was colonised at some point during the First Exodus from Terra[4] and was a member of the Terran Hegemony by the time the Capellan Confederation was founded in the mid-twenty-fourth century.[5]
Amaris Civil War
The Castor system became the resting place of the SLS Nelson, a Black Lion-class battlecruiser and winner of the Star League Defense Force Martial Olympiad in 2732; the Nelson played an important part in the liberation of Oliver, but took heavy damage in the process. The crew of the Nelson managed to nurse her as far as the SLDF fleet station in the Castor system, only for the SLDF command to declare that the Nelson wasn't considered a viable candidate for repair. As a result of this decision the Nelson was scuttled and abandoned in a long elliptical orbit around Castor.[6]
Clan Invasion Era
With the assistance of the Word of Blake the Free Worlds League discovered the location of the SLS Nelson in the Castor system and retrieved her, transporting her to the Ionus system to be repaired in secret at the Illium Shipyards before returning her to active service under a new designation, that of the FWLS Xanthos.[6]
Political Affiliation
- 2271 - Independent world [4]
- 2366 - Terran Hegemony [5]
- 2571 - Terran Hegemony [7]
- 2571 - Terran Hegemony [8]
- 2596 - Terran Hegemony [9]
- 2750 - Terran Hegemony [10]
- 2765 - Terran Hegemony [11]
- 2822 - Free Worlds League [12][13]
- 2864 - Free Worlds League [14]
- 3025 - Free Worlds League [15]
- 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth [16]
- 3040 - Federated Commonwealth [17]
- 3050 - Federated Commonwealth [18]
- 3052 - Federated Commonwealth [19]
- 3057 - Free Worlds League [20]
- 3058 - Free Worlds League [21]
- 3063 - Free Worlds League [22]
- 3067 - Free Worlds League [23]
- 3075 - Word of Blake Protectorate [24]
- 3079 - Word of Blake Protectorate [25]
- 3081 - Republic of the Sphere [26]
- 3085 - Republic of the Sphere [27]
- 3130 - Republic of the Sphere [28]
- 3135 - Independent world [29]
- 3145 - Wolf Empire [1][2]
Planetary History
Reunification War
By the end of the Reunification War Castor was a world within the Tyrfing Province of the Terran Hegemony.[9]
Operation GUERRERO
Castor was invaded in the second wave of Operation GUERRERO by the Third Sirian Lancers. The few planetary militia units on planet were easily defeated.[30]
The Jihad
On the 23rd of September 3075 Castor was one of three worlds in the Protectorate to be raided simultaneously by unidentified forces. The raiders damaged the defending Protectorate and Militia forces, and were rumoured to actually be drawn from the Word of Blake's own Shadow Divisions.[31][32]
Military Deployment
3055
3079
3145
Nearby Systems
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
- ↑ The Kell Hounds, p. 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 13, "Free Worlds League after at their founding in [2271]"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Handbook: House Liao, p. 17, "Capellan Confederation Foundation [2366]]"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 119, "Renovation/Construction"
- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 25, "Capellan Confederation After Age of War [2571]]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571] Map"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
- ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succesion War [2822] Map"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - 2822"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succesion War [2864] Map"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succesion War [3025] Map"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succesion War [3030] Map"
- ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10, "Inner Sphere [3050] Map"
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 24, "Inner Sphere [3052] Map"
- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 10, "Inner Sphere [3057] Map"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero [3058] Map"
- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 28, "Inner Sphere [3063] Map"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]"
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"
- ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 17, "FWLM Deployment Map [3079]"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
- ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3135"
- ↑ Shattered Sphere, p. 75, "Operation Guerrero, Second Wave"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 18, "Timeline of the Jihad"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 54, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ ComStar (sourcebook), p. 85, "Com Guards Deployment Table"
- ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 14, "Regimental Status"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 170, "Clan Force Deployments - Wolf Empire"
Bibliography
- ComStar (sourcebook)
- Era Report: 2750
- Era Report: 3052
- Era Report: 3062
- Era Report: 3145
- Field Manual: 3085
- Field Manual: 3145
- Field Manual: Free Worlds League
- Field Report: FWLM
- Handbook: House Marik
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2
- Historical: Reunification War
- Historical: War of 3039
- Jihad: Final Reckoning
- Jihad Hot Spots: Terra
- Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
- Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- Shattered Sphere