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Finmark
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-405.35 : 332.89[e]

Political Affilation

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Planetary History

Reunification War

By the end of the Age of War Finmark was the provincial capital of the Finmark Province of the Rim Worlds Republic.[1]

Civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic in 2575, with the factions polarised around those loyal to First Consul Gregory Amaris and those loyal to the Rift Republican Army and the Rim Provisional Government.[31] Finmark was garrisoned by the Fifth Amaris Dragoons from at least 2581 onwards, a regiment which had chosen to stay loyal to Amaris during the war.[32] The Star League eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in 2579 assembled Task Force MAILED FIST to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic. A multinational force headed by the Star League Defense Force, Task Force MAILED FIST was responsible for executing Operation MAILED FIST, the name given to the military intervention. the first wave of attacks focused on securing significant worlds near Apollo,[33] until a destructive raid on Alarion by the 4th Amaris Fusiliers in retaliation prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, the focus shifted to reducing Rim Worlds Army concentrations throughout the Republic and the capture of key worlds.[34]

In late 2584 the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the Draconis Auxiliary Corps when they captured Nightwish in mid-2584. Archon Viola Steiner-Dinesen of Battle Group Finmark assigned VIII Corps - an SLDF Corps comprised of two divisions, the Thirty-First Armor Division and the Thirty-Second Division - to the conquest of Finmark in 2586;[35] the resulting campaign was actually something of a relief for the beleaguered SLDF, as it was one of the few stand-up fights to occur during Operation MAILED FIST, unmarked by the more extreme defensive measures many other planetary campaigns were marked by.[36]

The battle for Finmark saw one of the seven corvette-class WarShips operated by the Rim Worlds Army crippled and then boarded by SLDF troops, and was the first time the SLDF had encountered any of the small RWA WarShips in combat.[37] On the surface of Finmark the Fifth Amaris Dragoons put up a valiant and determined resistance against the far more numerous SLDF forces, selling themselves dearly before being defeated by VIII Corps.[36]

Finmark remained the capital world of the Finmark Province throughout the Star League era and vanished from maps during the 2nd Succession War.[10][12]

Planetary Locations

Military Deployment

2581-2586

2586

2765

Nearby Systems


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map" Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "HB:MPSp18" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  3. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  4. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"
  5. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 36, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  6. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  7. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  8. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 38, "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"
  9. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  11. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2822] Map"
  13. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  14. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  16. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10, Inner Sphere [3050] Map
  17. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"
  18. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 22, Inner Sphere [3052] Map
  19. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 10, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  20. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Nao"
  22. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  23. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  24. ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Armed Forces Deployment Table - [August 3079]"
  25. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  26. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  27. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  28. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  29. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  30. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  31. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 130, "The Spark"
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Historical: Reunifcation War, p. 128, "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"
  33. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 132, "Case Apollo"
  34. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 152, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 134-135, "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"
  37. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 135, "Newtown Shoals: Sharks Among Minnows (January 2588)"
  38. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 8, "Academies and Command Centers"
  39. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 18, "Imperial Divisons - Divisional Status"

Bibliography

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