Dieron

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Dieron

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System Information
X:Y Coordinates12.20 : 14.90 [e]
Spectral classG3V[1][2][3][4][5]
Recharge time184 hours[5]
Recharge station(s)Nadir, Zenith[1][2][3][5]
Planet(s)6[4]

The Dieron system was home to at least one habitable world, Dieron IV, and as at 3145 was both the Prefecture capital of the Dieron Prefecture and the administrative capital of the Dieron Military District within the Draconis Combine.[6][7]

System Description

The Dieron system is located near the Altair and Fomalhaut systems[6][7] and consists of a class G3V primary orbited by six worlds.[4] During the thirty-first century recharge stations were in place at both system jump points.[1][2][3][5]

System History

The Dieron system was settled during the First Exodus from Terra and was briefly the center of a small interstellar polity known as the Dieron Federation after the Demarcation Declaration was issued in the mid-twenty-third century.[8]

Dieron IV

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Dieron IV - more commonly known simply as Dieron - is a highly notable and industrialised world. The fourth[2][3][4] planet of six[4] in the system, Dieron has two moons - named Beemer and Nebulos[2][3][4] - and during the Star League era was orbited by a number of spaceyards and was the administrative capital of a Star League Defense Force military district as well as being home to an SLDF Army. Prior to the Star League era, Dieron was briefly the capital world of a small interstellar polity known as the Dieron Federation,[8] and following the fall of the Star League, Dieron served almost continuously for centuries as the capital of a military district within the Draconis Combine.[2][3]

Planetary History

Early History

Dieron was one of the worlds abandoned by the Terran Alliance following the Outer Reaches Rebellion and the Demarcation Declaration of 2242,[9] and survived as an independent world that went on to exercise control over several neighbouring worlds. When Director Shiro Kurita of the Alliance of Galedon conducted a year-long tour of worlds near the Alliance in 2309-2310, he included Dieron on his tour; he brought with him evidence purporting to show that one or more of the other small states nearby had designs on conquering Dieron, and offered to mediate between Dieron and its opponents. He also offered to protect Dieron by allowing Dieron to join the Alliance, thereby allying itself with a stronger power.[10]

Dieron accepted this proposal, not realising that Director Kurita had invented the evidence and deliberately played a number of small states based around the worlds of Benjamin, Junction, Luthien, Pesht and Worrell against each other, dramatically expanding the Alliance's size.[10]

Dieron was responsible for Director Kurita's subterfuge coming to light, when in June 2311 a dispute broke out between Dieron and the nearby world of Altair; each called on its great ally... Director Shiro Kurita. Each planetary ruler discovered that they had been promised the same things, and word soon spread to the other planets seduced by Director Kurita's diplomatic campaign.[11]

Dieron's membership in the Alliance of Galedon, willing or not, would not last long; the newly formed Terran Hegemony began expanding rapidly outwards, intent on returning all of the former colony worlds to Terran control, and Dieron was one of those worlds targeted. The Treaty of Terra signed between the Terran Hegemony and the Free Worlds League in 2314 ensured that League shipping and League sovereignty wouldn't be challenged by the Hegemony, with the Hegemony instead concentrating on "liberating" the nearby Dieron Federation instead.[8] By 2341, Dieron had been incorporated into the Terran Hegemony,[12] becoming one of the worlds within the Lone Star Province[13]

Star League Era

During the era of the Star League Dieron was a major administrative center; Dieron was also a major electronics producer, and the Dieron system was the site of various orbital shipyards.[4] During the Star League era Dieron had numerous factories and facilities dedicated to producing billions of tons of electronics for the Terran Hegemony. The Star League dug numerous exploratory mines in the Atacama Desert, the mighty desert that circled much of the equator of Dieron.[14]

Amaris Civil War

When Stefan Amaris launched Operation APOTHEOSIS, his coup to assume control of the Terran Hegemony, most of his plans worked well. This was not the case with Dieron, where the efforts of the Rim Worlds Army forces failed to go according to plan, and what should have been a swift takeover became a protracted conflict.[15]

The APOTHEOSIS plans called for several events to happen concurrently. After assuming control of the various Castles Brian on Dieron using acts of terrorism as cover, the Rim Worlds Republic forces on Dieron were supposed to isolate and secure the planetary HPG at 1700 hours Terran Standard Time on the 27th of December 2766 while Republican WarShip forces secured both jump points, isolating Dieron and leaving it unable to communicate with the rest of the Hegemony. Republican forces were then to aggressively target Star League Defense Force bases and facilities on Dieron, reducing any resistance before the SLDF had any idea what had happened.[15]

The officer commanding the Republican forces on the ground was General Tolstin Eukai, and it is unclear whether Eukai received incomplete orders or simply failed to understand them; while Captain Urgur Toch and Captain Yrorran Garcil used their WarShips to interdict the two major jump points according to the plan, Eukai hadn't ordered his troops to secure the HPG by the time the first distress calls from the jump points reached Dieron. Eukai and his forces scrambled to try and initiate their phase of the plan as soon as the distress calls arrived, seventy-five minutes later, but by then it was too late.[15]

Despite the bulk of the SLDF being present in the Periphery attempting to deal with the Periphery Uprising there were still a substantial number of SLDF personnel present on Dieron when APOTHEOSIS began. Dieron was the headquarters of both a complete Military Region within the Draconis Combine and the SLDF Fourteenth Army, leading to a substantial number of military personnel in place regardless of Fourteenth Army deployments; there were also large numbers of retired and reserve personnel on Dieron, as well as regular personnel on leave. As soon as the first distress calls reached Dieron the planetary Governor, Paolo Varellas, and the senior military officer, Major General Annika Tellman, declared a state of emergency. While the Governor called for the population to peacefully oppose the Republicans in any way possible, General Tellman opened the four Castles Brian present on Dieron to anyone that wanted to flee the occupation. Governor Varellas also fired off a distress call via the planetary HPG to every Hegemony transmitter within a fifty light year radius, although all of the transmitters that could have received the distress call were already in Republican hands.[15]

The swift action by Tellman and Varellas prevented the Republicans from seizing either the planetary capital or Fort Hallik, the Castle Brian that contained the Fourteenth Army HQ. There were relatively few SLDF combat forces present on Dieron, but those forces that were present marshalled under Tellman's orders and fought a holding action against the Republican forces, which Eukai led in a relatively straightforward campaign to try and gain control of the world. With tens of thousands of people sheltering within the Castles Brian, including much of the planetary leadership, Tellman sealed the four Castles before the Republicans could gain access and settled in for a siege.[15]

The Republican forces were able to sever the SLDF communications using a mixture of conventional and nuclear strikes against the various communications relays in place, which also prevented the SLDF from operating the local Space Defense System; in turn, the SLDF destroyed the auxiliary controls for the SDS network, preventing the Republicans from gaining control over it. Eukai easily assumed control of Dieron and the Republicans swiftly placed their own puppet rulers in place, but tens of thousands of former and serving SLDF personnel amongst the population took up arms against the Republicans, combining with the ever-present threat of the four intact Castles Brian to create perhaps the most threatening planetary resistance anywhere in the former Hegemony.[15]

Eukai had failed at almost every objective he was given; he had failed to secure the HPG transmitter, which had subsequently been destroyed by Republican forces to prevent the SLDF calling for assistance; he failed to gain control of the SDS, failed to reduce the four Castles Brian and failed to remove the SLDF presence from Dieron. Eukai's replacement arrived on Dieron on the 10th of January, passing orders to Eukai that ordered him to report personally to Emperor Stefan Amaris; Eukai made his appearance on the 28th of January where he was publicly executed for his incompetence.[15]

Having survived the initial coup relatively intact, Dieron was ravaged by the SLDF when they recaptured the world during the campaign to liberate the Hegemony. The various Castles Brian were destroyed by orbital bombardment, but the memory of the fortifications would continue to remain a symbol in the minds of the population, reminding them of Dieron's former glory.[4]

Succession Wars Era

The various cities of Dieron, nestled into the cramped valleys formed by the various mountain chains that criss-crossed Dieron became hotbeds of resistance against Combine rule once Dieron was occupied after the fall of the Star League. In an effort to deflect the attentions of rebellious elements within the population, the Combine government would often play on rumors of Star League caches hidden in the mountains, encouraging many of the population to venture into the mountains in the hopes of finding relics from their past despite the treacherous terrain, hostile elements and the risks associated with the chronic earthquakes that occured.[4]

Dieron had been a tempting target for the Combine following the fall of the Terran Hegemony, one that the Combine seized quickly; however, having captured the planet, the combine discovered that the Star League Defense Force had stripped the planet of lamost everything of worth. Undaunted, the Combine used the shells of the various deep mountain factories and forges still in place to develop major industries on Dieron again, turning the world into an industrial powerhouse.[14]

The citizens of Dieron remained proud of their homeworld during the Succession Wars, and efforts by the Combine to introduce new officially-sanctioned Kuritan names for locations and cities were often ignored by the locals, who continued to use the original colonial names for the various locations for centuries afterwards - much to the confusion of visiting dignitaries, and to the considerable amusement of the locals. The locals remained largely indifferent to who ruled the planet, so long as their rulers kept the population content, although there were occasional outbreaks of political dissent.[14]

Whilst Dieron served as the capital of the Dieron Military District the District's lavish headquarters and the governor's palace were established in Dragon's Roost on Tatsuyama Mountains, although the impressive name belied hte fact that the Roost was a glamorized Star League bunker complex. Dieron was also the site of one of the five failed "modular cities" created by Coordinator Hugai Kurita, Deber City, which was located close to Inznakki Interplanetary Spaceport in valleys along the Khoomei River; this region remained home to many of the cultural and administrative centers on Dieron.[14]

The Jihad

The Word of Blake captured Dieron after an assault on the 4th of February 3068, occupying the world and incorporating it into the Word of Blake Protectorate.[16] The initial Blakist assault saw Dragoon's Roost destroyed by orbital bombardment.[14] The Blakist assault that captured Dieron included the use of orbital bombardment and nuclear weapons, causing extensive damage; the city of Aldinga, a major industrial site, was destroyed when shelling from one Blakist WarShip struck a nearby faultline that carved in the entire valley that the city had been nestled in, deep in the heart of Mataeo. Voltenna was left effectively depopulated, the continent reduced to a scarred, radiation-scorched echo of its former self, dotted with the ruins of various cities and towns. The only continent to escape damage during the Blakist attack was Wenniska, despite the presence of both a major spaceport and a former DCMS military headquarters located at Fort Shiro.[4] the attack had initially focused on the Eridani Light Horse, as the Blakists had identified the remains of the Second Star League's SLDF as a threat, but the initial invading force - which consisted of two mercenary commands, Burr's Black Cobras and Hannibal's Hermits and the Eighth Militia Divisions - soon expanded their campaign to include destroying the Third Dieron Regulars. The opening assault saw multiple tactical nuclear strikes delivered against Fortress Dieron by Blakist DropShips saw tremendous damage done to the base and nearby city, but the Eridani Light Horse fought until the surviving Horsemen had been captured; the same DropShips that bombarded the Eridani Light Horse were later responsible for obliterating the bulk of the Third Dieron Regulars.[17]

While Coordinator Theodore Kurita remained comatose following his stroke in January, his son and heir Hohiro led a task force to Dieron to try and oust the Blakists on the 16th of April, but the campaign was marked by Hohiro's capture by Blakist forces on the 18th of June, leading to the DCMS reporting Hohiro as "missing, presumed dead."[16] Hohiro and his lance had been run to ground in the Valley of Blossoms near Tatsuyama Mountain by an Opacus Venatori hunter force led by Precentor Artur Nihjo in a chase that had taken a week and which had been initiated after the regular Blakist militia forces had spent two months fruitlessly pursuing Hohiro. Hohiro and his lancemates had attempted to obfuscate Hohiro's location in the climatic battle by having Hohiro pilot a Panther, while his Daishi was piloted by another pilot, but Nihjo saw through the subterfuge and successfully forced Hohiro to order his lance to surrender after his Panther was disabled by a Lightray piloted by Adept Bryn Rivenschild.[18]

In contrast to reports of Hohiro's apparent demise, a group apparently including surviving members of the Royal Black Watch rescued Hohiro alive from a Blakist prison camp on Dieron on the 4th of January 3069.[19] The bulk of the Eighth Militia Division had been recalled to serve in the Capellan theatre in mid-3069, reducing the garrison on Dieron to a single Level III, but Hohiro's escape led to a number of small mercenary groups being hired on short-term garrison contracts to bolster the defending forces until the Nineteenth Militia Division arrived to garrison the planet in 3071. A few members of the Eridani Light Horse's Pahtfinders and three MechWarriors who helped Hohiro escape were the only known survivors of the Eridani Light Horse brigade following the battle for Dieron.[17]

The Blakists reactivated the upper regions of Fortress Dieron, a former Star League base that had been left largely closed since the Exodus. Although the Eridani Light Horse had used part of the fortress during their time on Dieron - renaming a portion of the fortress Fortress winston, a name the locals largely ignored - the Blakists were able to activate and upgrade previously-unknown defenses.[14]

In June 3068, shortly after the Tenth Ghost sneaked onto Dieron the Blakist-employed mercenary unit Burr's Black Cobras arrived on Dieron and fell on the Tenth Ghost's base of operations at Deber City. Fuelled by their continuing hatred of the Combine, the Black Cobra's fought hard to push the Tenth Ghost out of the city and away from the main spaceport over the course of several days of intense combat, but lost a number of elements of Fang Battalion and Colonel Richard Burr during the fighting.[17]

Dieron would stay in Blakist hands for years, but during Operation SCOUR a massive allied coalition task force drawn from the DCMS and Clan Ghost Bear led the assault to recapture Dieron. The campaign began on the 8th of October 3077 and would last for several months before Dieron was free.[20] The Voice of the Dragon news service reported that there had been a brief friendly fire exchange between Ghost Bear second line forces and elements of the Dieron Regulars - for which it claimed the Ghost Bears had apologised to Gunji-no-Kanrei Kiyomori Minamoto - but dwelled more on two actions within the campaign that highlighted the superiority of the DCMS troops within the task force. The first was the Second Dieron Regulars assault that secured a breach into the Fortress Dieron complex; the second more significant action was that fought by the Eighth Dieron Regulars alongside the Ghost Bears' Omega Galaxy atop Mount Shanyu, where the two units fought against the Word of Blake's Second and Nineteenth Militia Divisions, a battle that saw the Eighth Dieron Regulars press on despite the death of Tai-sa Jerry Sims.[21] Although Simms had acted against the advice of his commanding officers and the Eighth were shattered by the Fortress Dieron defenses, the manner in which they held the main complex door open for Alpha Galaxy earned the Eighth the respect of Ghost Bear Khan Aletha Kabrinski and her warriors.[17]

The Fourteenth Militia Divison proved one of the Ghost Bear's biggest obstacles on Dieron; the Fourteenth had arrived in 3074 in anticipation of attacks on the planet, bringing several DropShips full of war materiel with them. The Fourteenth proceeded to upgrade the defenses in and around San Martin and constructed an additional outer wall around Fortress Dieron, defenses that proved difficult to breach.[17] The Fourteenth's defenses expanded on earlier fortifications constructed by Hannibal's Hermits; the Hermits had been reassigned to planning and building fortified defenses after the initial fighting for control of Dieron died down in early 3069, and had spent a year constructing defenses that would become infamous. A prime example was the construction of a number of mock suburbs outside San Martin, complexes that looked like conventional suburbs but which were actually nests containing infantry tunnels, bunkers for battle armour and entrentched tank pits.[17]

The Nineteenth Militia Division also had extensive experience of Dieron, having officially been based on the world since mid-3071, but the Nineteenth had actually used Dieron primarily as a command and supply base whilst they raided fifteen worlds over three years. As late as 3076 only two Level IIIs from the Nineteenth were stationed on Dieron, changing locations to prevent spies from determining the Nineteenth's true strength; that had changed after 3076 when the entire Division occupied Dieron, recruiting heavily to increase its size by half using new recruits gathered up from smaller settlements on Dieron and equipping them with equipment looted during the raiding campaign. The Ninettenth was responsible for coordinating the Blakist defense of Dieron during the invasion and were responsible for a number of actions including the destruction of the bulk of the Luthien Armor Works factory located in Khentii Towers via a series of subterranean nuclear detonations.[22]

The Blakist forces on Dieron represented one of the largest commitments by the Word of Blake during the Jihad; in terms of ground support the Blakists had deployed a task force consisting of Protectorate Militia Divisions from Acamar, Asta, Fletcher, Liberty and Milton, along with the Second, Third, Fourteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-third Militia Divisions.[23] Backing up the ground forces was a substantial naval force - substantial enough that no less than ten Blakist WarShips were destroyed or captured during the campaign, more capital ship losses for the Word of Blake than any other battle of the Jihad save the battle for Terra in 3078. From their core fleet, the Word of Blake lost three vessels, the Baron-class destroyer WoBS Light of Glory, the Essex-class destroyer WoBS Dawning Horizon and the Lola III-class destroyer WoBS End of Wisdom.[24] The Blakists also lost seven WarShips from their fleet of vessels suborned from the Free Worlds League navy: the Zechetinu-class corvettes FWLS Karelia and FWLS Tirana, the Zechetinu II-class corvette FWLS Araneida, the Agamemnon-class heavy cruiser FWLS Aineas, the Eagle-class frigates FWLS Mordred and FWLS Tristram and the Thera-class carrier FWLS Sardis - although the latter was captured rather than destroyed, and would be pressed into service by Clan Snow Raven[24] as the renamed SRS Raven's Nest.[25]

THe underground news agency known as Drake released what it claimed to be the combat logs kept by Star Admiral James Lankenau, the Clan Snow Raven Admiral commanding the Conqueror-class carrier CSR Ark Royal. If the logs are accurate - and it is noteworthy that the logs contain no mention of the FWLS Araneida or the WoBS Dawning Horizon - the major naval combat actions took place on the 20th of November, after the Blakist task force jumped in-system on the 19th. The logs record that the Clan forces in the system comprised the Ark Royal and two Clan Ghost Bear WarShips, the Nightlord-class CGB Ursa Major and the massive Leviathan-class CGB Leviathan. The Ark Royal reportedly suffered light damage and the Ursa Major moderate damage, but the Leviathan was evidently scuttled, as the Blakists had concentrated the fire from their WarShips and their considerable Pocket WarShip fleet on the Ghost Bear battleship.[25]

The Blakists had begun moving Protectorate Militia Divisions to Dieron in March 3077, beginnning with the Liberty and Fletcher PMs, but what the invading SCOUR forces didn't realise was that PM Divisions from Acamar, Asta and Milton had been waiting in a dead system one jump from Dieron when the SCOUR forces arrived. While the PM divisions lacked their infantry divisions, also waiting with them were the Second and Third Militia Divisions, and the Blakist reinforcements arrived in the Dieron system in November, dropping to pin the SCOUR forces down while hitting a number of key staging areas. The resulting combats were brutal, and the inexperienced Protectorate Militia regiments were largely shattered; the Fletcher PM managed to escape offworld, only to be destroyed during their outbound flight by the remaining Ghost Bear WarShips.[22]

In January 3078 the Draconis Combine and Ghost Bear commands deployed the newly-liberated Northwind Highlanders to Dieron to accelerate the mop-up operations against Blakist holdouts.[20]

During their retreat from Dieron the Blakists attacked the military industry on Dieron, damaging the Luthien Armor Works and Terada factories so badly that by mid-3081 the plants were considered a complete write-off that wouldn't be worth attempting to rebuild.[26] The capital, San Martin, suffered extensive damage during the liberation; the city had sprawled across the cliffs on both sides of the Kazakh River in the Sükhbaatar Valley, but the fighting saw several landslides occur that dropped nearly a quarter of the southern portion of the city to the valley floor, forcing the liberators to establish a small temporary capital in Tahlwynn.[14] The DCMS managed to reopen the Dieron District Gymnasium shortly after the liberation of Dieron and swiftly reintroduced the training of military recruits there.[27]

The first trained battle armour infantry had already graduated from an accelerated programme by late 3079; Devlin Stone and his partners were keen to acquire Dieron for their nascent nation at this point, despite the military industries present on the planet having largely been destroyed and despite the certain knowledge that the Combine would dismantle and remove any remaining viable military production elements if it agreed to cede the world to what would become the Republic of the Sphere. Due to the damage inflicted on the planet, the restored planetary government had taken up residence in Fortress Dieron, but work was underway to rebuild the new planetary capital city, Tahlwynn.[5] Although Fortress Dieron took massive damage during the liberation, the operation itself remained fully operational, and the Combine was still investigating the various secrets contained inside, with ISF and O5P controlling access to the facility.[14]

Political Affiliation

Planetary Rulers

2766

3025

3067

  • District Governor Edward Nakamura (3067)[2]

3078

3130

Military Deployment

2764

3025

3038

3040

  • Fifth Sword of Light[80]
  • Nineth Sun Zhang Academy Cadre[80]

3050

3054

3055

3062

3067

3068

3070

  • Hannibal's Hermits[90]

3069 to 3072

3072

  • Burr's Black Cobras[90]

3079

- At this point in time the Second was operating at 40% of full strength, with 100% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.

3085

- At this point in time, the I Principes was at 85% of full strength, with 75% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.

Geography

Dieron has three major continents; the continent of Wenniska, which is located in the northern polar regions of the planet, the continent of Mataeo, located in the northern hemisphere, and the continent of Voltenna, located in the southern hemisphere. Mataeo is larger than Voltenna, but all three continents are marked by mountain ranges that cross the surface of the world in various directions, forming deep valleys between the various peaks.[4]

Voltenna is surrounded by Mataeo on three sides; to the north of Voltenna lies the Rouran Ocean and to the east the Mapuche Ocean. The narrower Caldera Passage seperates the southern shore of Voltenna from Mataeo, while the western side of voltenna is bounded by the Gulf Straits; the Caldera Passage and Gulf Straits both connect with the Cauqui Ocean, which becomes the Tibet Ocean further west. The Kamakura Ocean seperates the bulk of Wennisaka from Mataeo. A number of inland sies lie within Mateo, including the Zanabazar, Izumo and Patagonia Seas as well as a number of smaller bodies of water. Notable mountain chains on Mataeo include the Khentii Mountain Towers, the Aomori Mountains, the Scales of the Dragonet, the Khüiten Mountains, the Chiloes, the Loretta Mountains and the Argus Mountains. The Atacama Desert covers much of the southern regions of Mataeo. The most notable major valleys on Mataeo are the Valley of Blossoms, nestled within the Tatsuyama Mountain region, the SüKhbaatar Valley, bounded by the Tatsuyama Mountain region, the Khüiten Mountains and the Scales of the Dragon, and the Yomuchi Valley, which lies between the Scales of the Dragonet and the Zanabazar Sea.[93]

Planetary Locations

  • Aldega: a minor city located on the northern shore of Mataeo close to Fort Cross.[93]
  • Aldinga: a major city and industrial hub located in a valley in the heart of Mateo; destroyed accidentally as a result of orbital bombardment by the Word of Blake in 3068.[4]
  • Castillo Arratias: a major city located at the junction of several major rivers in the Parsonage Region of western Mataeo.[93]
  • Chilán Viejo: a major city on the shores of the Mapuche Ocean on eastern Mataeo.[93]
  • CON 42Y: a military base or industrial facility located on western Mataeo, northwest of Wazakashi Plating and south of MM23E and LAW-KT2.[93]
  • Deber city: a major city in the Apallos Hills located on the Khoomei River close to the southern shore of Mataeo, north of Iznakki Interplanetary Spaceport.[93]
  • Dieron District Gymnasium: a military academy.[27]
  • Dragon's Roost: a major military base or industrial facility located in the Tatsuyama Mountain region close to Tatsuyama City.[93]
  • Fort Cross: a major military base located at th eeastern end of the Aomori Mountains on northern Mataeo.[93]
  • Fort Hallik: Castle Brian and headquarters of the Star League Defense Force Fourteenth Army during the Star League era.[15]
  • Fort Higgs: a major military base on Wennisaka, located on a peninsula east of Fort Shiro.[93]
  • Fort Shiro: a DCMS military headquarters located on Wenniska.[4][93]
  • Fortress Dieron: a major military base located at or close to Mount Shanyu on eastern Mataeo.[93]
  • Hughesville: a minor city located east of Tahlwynn on the other side of the Argus Mountains on a major river.[93]
  • Iznakki Interplanetary Spaceport: a Drop Port located close to Deber City on the southern shore of Mataeo.[93]
  • KO 8N: a military base or industrial facility on Voltenna, locaed to the east of KO 53R and southeast of San Clemente.[93]
  • KO 53R: a military base or industrial facility on Voltenna, located towards the western end of the main continental mountain chain.[93]
  • Kyoto DropPort: a DropPort located south of Newbury in central Mataeo.[93]
  • LAW 4R-Z: an industrial facility on western Mataeo, south of Mandalgovi.[93]
  • LAW-KT2: an industrial facility on western Mataeo, located between MM 59B and MM 23E.[93]
  • LAW Site B: an industrial facility located underwater or on an island close to the coast of Mataeo at the western edge of the Tibet Ocean.[93]
  • Mandalgovi: a minor city on western Mataeo.[93]
  • MM 23E: a military base or industrial facility located on western Mataeo, close to the western end of the Parsonage region.[93]
  • MM 59B: a military base or industrial facility on western Mataeo, located southeast of LAW 4R-Z.[93]
  • Mount Shanyu: The site of a notable battle during the Jihad.[21]
  • Newbury: a minor city located on a river running east from the Scales of the Dragonet to the zanabazar Sea in central Mataeo.[93]
  • Olivet: a minor city located east of Tahlwynn on the other side of hte Loretta Mountains on Mataeo.[93]
  • Quintero: a minor city located on the western shores of the Tibet Ocean on Mataeo.[93]
  • Rancagua: a minor city on the northeastern shore of Mataeo.[93]
  • Rock of Genghis: a military base or industrial facility located in the southern regions of the Scales of the Dragonet.[93]
  • San Clemente: a minor city located on Voltenna.[93]
  • San Martin: a major city located north of Aldinga and Fortress Dieron in central Mataeo.[93]
  • Tahlwynn: planetary capital during the Dark Age and primary planetary spaceport; located in the Loretta-Argus mountain basin on Mataeo.[4]
  • Tatsuyama City: a major city located in the Tatsuyama Mountain region close to Dragon's Roost.[93]
  • Ulaangom: a minor city located on a major river south of Hughesville.[93]
  • Vicuña: a major city located on hte northern peninsula of Voltenna.[93]
  • Wazakashi Plating: an industrial complex located close to the Gobi Straits on Mataeo.[93]

Industrial Centers

Image gallery

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    Planetary Flag of Dieron

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Altair 3.6 Fomalhaut 12.9 Asta 13.4 Saffel 13.7
Caph 15.5 Athenry 16.9 Styx 17.3 Killbourn 17.4
Terra 19.3 Rigil Kentarus 19.5 Yorii 21.2 Nirasaki 22.6
New Stevens 23.3 Imbros III 23.9 Pike IV 25.6 Keid 26.6
Dyev 26.7 Sirius 27.1 New Earth 27.3 New Home 28.1
Bryant 28.2 Northwind 28.2 Inglesmond 28.9 Rocky 30.5
Lockdale 30.7 Deneb Algedi 31.0 Procyon 31.2 Chaville 32.4
Quentin 33.9 Epsilon Indi 34.9 Thorin 36.4 Epsilon Eridani 36.7
Kervil 38.0 Lone Star 39.3 Muphrid 39.6 Carver V (Liberty) 39.8
Nashira 40.1 Telos IV 40.6 Zollikofen 41.4 Alula Australis 41.4
Errai 41.9 Ko 41.9 Pacifica (Chara) 42.3 Lyons 42.5
Lambrecht 42.7 Graham IV 43.8 Brownsville 45.1 Small World 45.2
Helen 45.5 Sheratan 46.3 Atria 46.3 Zavijava 46.6
Lipton 46.8 Sabik 49.0 Oliver 49.2 Moore 49.6
Terra Firma 49.6 Pokhara 50.2 Hechnar 50.2 Ingress 50.3
Al Na'ir 50.6 Menkent 51.1 Fletcher 51.7 Outreach 51.9
Denebola 52.7 Kuzuu 52.8 Pollux 53.3 Nusakan 54.9
Haddings 56.2 Capolla 56.5 Alkalurops 56.9 Devil's Rock 57.1
Towne 57.5 Summer 57.8 Miyazaki 57.9 Nai-Stohl 58.5
Ruchbah 58.8 Deneb Kaitos 59.4 Skondia 59.9

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 188, "Planet Guide"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Handbook: House Davion, p. 93, "Dieron"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Jihad Turning Points: Dieron, p. 5, "Dieron"
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130), p. 237, "Dieron"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 35, "Dieron"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 11, "Military Crisis on Terra"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 16, "Free Worlds League Founding - [2271] Map"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 23, "Political Manuvers"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 24, "Conquest of Resistance"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding - [2341]Map"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 Jihad Turning Points: Dieron, p. 5, "Dieron"
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 15.7 15.8 15.9 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 82-83, "Fortress Dieron"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 45, "The Jihad In Review"
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 Jihad Turning Points: Dieron, p. 6, "Combatants"
  18. ↑ Jihad Turning Points: Dieron, p. 1, "The New Dieron"
  19. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 46, "The Jihad In Review"
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 58, "The Jihad in Review"
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 34-35, "Official Update 4"
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Jihad Turning Points: Dieron, p. 7, "Combatants"
  23. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 127, "Word Of Blake Militia Divisions"
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 128, "Original Word Of Blake Fleet" Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "J:FRp128" defined multiple times with different content
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 68, "Flight of the Raven" Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "JHS:Tp68" defined multiple times with different content
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 107, "Draconis Combine"
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Objectives: Draconis Combine, p. 3, "Strategic Integrity"
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  29. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 31, "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  30. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  31. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  32. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  33. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  34. ↑ Field Report 2765: Draconis Combine, p. 25, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [2765]"
  35. ↑ Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
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  37. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
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  40. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 34, "Free Worlds after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
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  42. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
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  45. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 64, "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  46. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  47. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  48. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 42, "Free Worlds after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  49. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 66, "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  50. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 71, "Federated Suns after Fourth Succesion War - [3030] Map"
  51. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
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  56. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  57. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 3050"
  58. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - 3052"
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  60. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"
  61. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 24, "Map of the Draconis Combine"
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  69. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
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  71. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere Map [3075]"
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  74. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  75. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  76. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
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  83. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 25, "Draconis Combine Deployment Table"
  84. ↑ ComStar (sourcebook), p. 84, "Com Guards Deployment Table"
  85. ↑ Field Manual: ComStar, p. 127, "Star League Defense Force Deployment Table"
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