Castor

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Castor
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Castor nearby systems
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System Information
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]

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

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.[33]

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.[34][35]

Military Deployment

3055

3057

3079

3145

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Devil's Rock 4.5 Pollux 9.0 Zosma 11.6 Oliver 13.0
Tyrfing 13.7 Denebola 15.3 New Dallas 17.0 Afleir 17.5
Graham IV 18.0 Zavijava 18.5 Marcus 18.5 Talitha 19.1
Alula Australis 20.1 Callison 22.2 Lipton 24.0 Hechnar 25.4
Chara 25.7 Van Diemen IV 26.1 Connaught 27.4 Wyatt 28.1
Bordon 28.1 Thorin 29.9 Dubhe 30.2 Haddings 30.8
Milton 30.9 Alchiba 33.0 New Earth 34.3 Chertan 34.3
Muphrid 34.4 Liberty 35.2 Wing 35.3 Alioth 35.8
Procyon 35.8 Dieudonné 36.0 Acubens 36.0 Phecda 37.2
Zollikofen 37.8 Hall 38.2 Cor Caroli 38.9 Sirius 38.9
Menkent 39.7 Remulac 39.8 Mizar 39.9 Irian 40.2
Outreach 41.4 Alhena 42.1 Nathan 42.1 Rigil Kentarus 42.2
Summer 42.9 Wasat 43.1 Alphard 43.3 Terra 43.7
Keid 44.0 Miaplacidus 45.9 Killbourn 46.2 Rocky 47.7
New Home 47.8 Brownsville 48.7 Shiloh 49.1 Savannah 49.3
Aquileia 49.3 Pliska 49.5 Yorii 49.8 Mandal 50.5
Blue Sava 50.6 Galatea 52.5 Gacrux 53.6 Bryant 53.7
Catroxx 54.1 Elgin 54.2 Capolla 54.4 Caph 55.7
Alcor 57.0 Altair 57.9 Lyons 58.1 Syrma 58.5
Epsilon Eridani 59.0 Elbing 59.5 Hsien 59.5

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  3. ↑ The Kell Hounds, p. 5
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 13, "Free Worlds League after at their founding in [2271]"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Handbook: House Liao, p. 17, "Capellan Confederation Foundation [2366]]"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 119, "Renovation/Construction"
  7. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 25, "Capellan Confederation After Age of War [2571]]"
  8. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571] Map"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  10. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  11. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  12. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 138, "Operation LIBERATION Wave 1 [July 2772 - December 2774]"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 118, "Digesting The Hegemony"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succesion War [2822] Map"
  16. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - 2822"
  17. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succesion War [2864] Map"
  18. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succesion War [3025] Map"
  19. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succesion War [3030] Map"
  20. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  21. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10, "Inner Sphere [3050] Map"
  22. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 24, "Inner Sphere [3052] Map"
  23. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 10, "Inner Sphere [3057] Map"
  24. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero [3058] Map"
  25. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 28, "Inner Sphere [3063] Map"
  26. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]"
  27. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"
  28. ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 17, "FWLM Deployment Map [3079]"
  29. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  30. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  31. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  32. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3135"
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Shattered Sphere, p. 75, "Operation Guerrero, Second Wave"
  34. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 18, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  35. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 54, "The Jihad In Review"
  36. ↑ ComStar (sourcebook), p. 85, "Com Guards Deployment Table"
  37. ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 14, "Regimental Status"
  38. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 170, "Clan Force Deployments - Wolf Empire"

Bibliography

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