Editing Gatchina

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The '''Gatchina''' system was home to at least one habitable world and as of [[3152]] was located in the [[Free Worlds League]].<ref name=EAp78>''Empire Alone'', p. 78: "The Free Worlds League June 3152"</ref>

== System Description ==
The Gatchina system is located near the [[Negushevo]] and [[Bayindir]] systems and is [[Rimward]] and [[Anti-spinward]] from [[Terra]].<ref name=EAp78/>

== System History ==
The Gatchina system was colonized sometime before [[2571]] when it first appeared on star charts within the Free Worlds League.<ref name=H:HMp24>''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 24: "The Free Worlds League after Age of War (2571)"</ref>

== Political Affiliation ==
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* [[2271]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp16">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 13, "Free Worlds League founding - [2271] Map"</ref>
* [[2571]] - [[Free Worlds League]] <ref name="HB:HMp24">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2577]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="H:RWp94">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 94, "Reunification War: Magistracy of Canopus Front Deployments (2577)"</ref>
* [[2596]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="H:LoTV1p10">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref>
* [[2786]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War (sourcebook)'', pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="HB:HMp34">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="H:LoTV2p122+">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War (sourcebook)'', pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref> 
* [[2864]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="HB:HMp38">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
* [[3025]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="HM(TFWL)pvii">''House Marik (The Free Worlds League)'', p. vii, "Free Worlds League - [3025] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HMp42">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
* [[3030]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="HB:HMp51">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="H:Wo3039p132">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10, Inner Sphere - [3050] Map</ref>
* [[3052]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:3052p22">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 22, Inner Sphere - [3052] Map</ref>
* [[3057]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:3062p10">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 10, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map</ref>
* [[3058]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="HB:HMp54">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref>
* [[3063]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
* [[3067]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="HB:HMp56">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 56, "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp43">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="JS:TBDp64>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="FR:FWLMp19">''Field Report: FWLM'', p. 19, "Free Worlds League Military Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - Independent world <ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Independent world <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii , "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3135]] - Rim Commonality <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3139]] - Rim Commonality <ref>''Map of the Rim Commonality included with Free Worlds League map as of [3139]''</ref>
* [[3145]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:3145p38">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref>
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==Gatchina==
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===Planetary Info===
Gatchina is a near desert world with little moisture.  One first-time visitor would describe the feeling of having the air take all the moisture from his body when he first left his [[DropShip]].  The terrain was a fusion of desert heat and rocky tundra.  Rain falls were rare and short lived.  Yet the planet was populated by a hearty group of farmers dedicated to building a life on this world.  Their technological resources were limited though with reports of animal drawn carts being used to transport visitors from the DropPort.<ref name=RD/>

===Planetary History===
====Star League====
=====Reunification War=====
Gatchina served as a minor supply depot for the [[SLDF]] for missions into the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] during the [[Reunification War]].<ref name=RD/>

=====Reign of the Star League=====
After the end of the Reunification War, the SLDF base on world would continue to grow until it supported a large SLDF garrison.<ref name=RD/>

During the final years of the [[Star League]], Gatchina was located next to many star lanes used by pirates.  The resident [[SLDF]] garrison was kept busy hunting down these opponents until they were reassigned to the [[Periphery]] in [[2765]].<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 133, "146th Mechanized Infantry Division"</ref><ref name=RD/>

====Post Star League====
After the fall of the Star League, not much of galactic importance occurred on Gatchina.  Other than the occasional pirate raid, and there were few of those, Gatchina was largely left to its own devices for several hundred years.<ref name=RD/>

====Jihad====
With the dissolution of the Free Worlds League, the [[Word of Blake]] damaging the planet's [[HPG]] before they fled for parts unknown and a steep population decline due to people fleeing for the nearby [[Rim Commonality]] starting in the 3070s, Gatchina was becoming more lawless and abandoned by the end of the [[Jihad]].<ref name=RD/>

====Republic Age====
By [[3083]], a business magnate [[Harald Lars]] has seized every single water refinery, desalinization plant and power station on Gatchina.  He also drained every water reservoir and shipped all drinkable water away from the populace and their farms.  The locals called him the "Water Baron" as he controlled all the water on world, charged them extravagant amounts for drinking water and was effectively the planetary government as everyone else in power had fled the world.  The situation forced the local population to hire the mercenary unit, [[Linden's Liberators]], to help remove Lars from power.  There they found that Harald Lars was using the proceeds from the water to pay 
protection money to pirates threatening the planet's remaining assets.  As the pirates kept asking for more, Harald had to keep raising the prices and eventually offering slaves to keep the pirates from destroying everything.  This convinced the Liberators to stay on world to train and support the planetary militia so the world would not suffer again.<ref name=RD/>

===Military Deployment===
====2764====
* [[146th Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 254, "SLDF - Free Worlds League Military Command Map"</ref>

====3083====
* [[Linden's Liberators]]<ref name=RD/>

=== Planetary Locations ===
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* Gray Wastes: an expanse of wasteland a few kilometers from Respite.<ref name=RD>''Rain Dance''</ref>
* Hambry Memorial DropPort:<ref name=RD/>
* Respite: a village.<ref name=RD/>
**Troyer Farm: Troyer family farm in Respite.<ref name=RD/>
* SLDF Outpost XXXIX-146: former staging area for the 146th Mechanized Infantry Division and later a pirate base.<ref name=RD/>
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== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 24 systems (21 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Negushevo]]
| class="lessthan30" | 26.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Bayindir]]
| class="lessthan30" | 28.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Astrokaszy]]
| class="lessthan30" | 28.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Tematagi]]
| class="lessthan30" | 28.6
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Campoleone]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.1
| class="lessthan30" | [[Mankova]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.3
| class="over30" | [[Tellman's Mistake]]
| class="over30" | 31.5
| class="over30" | [[Tohelet]]
| class="over30" | 38.2
|-
| class="over30" | [[Ildlandet]]
| class="over30" | 39.2
| class="over30" | [[Bismarck (system)|Bismarck]]
| class="over30" | 39.6
| class="over30" | [[Hiratsuka]]
| class="over30" | 43.6
| class="over30" | [[Lengkong]]
| class="over30" | 48.2
|-
| class="over30" | [[Sharqah]]
| class="over30" | 50.2
| class="over30" | [[Isabela]]
| class="over30" | 52.7
| class="over30" | [[Lesnovo]]
| class="over30" | 52.8
| class="over30" | [[Howrah]]
| class="over30" | 53.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Karachi]]
| class="over30" | 56.2
| class="over30" | [[Ceará]]
| class="over30" | 56.8
| class="over30" | [[Cerignola]]
| class="over30" | 57.8
| class="over30" | [[Fadiffolu]]
| class="over30" | 59.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Jiddah]]
| class="over30" | 59.8
| class="over60" | [[Wilkes]]
| class="over60" | 62.6
| class="over60" | [[Glevakha]]
| class="over60" | 64.7
| class="over60" | [[Ghaziabad]]
| class="over60" | 68.3
|-
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
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* ''[[Empire Alone]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]'' 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report: FWLM]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Marik]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Marik (The Free Worlds League)]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[[Rain Dance]]'' (short story)
* ''[http://cf.sarna.net/data/planets/free_worlds_league_3139.pdf Map of the Rim Commonality included with Free Worlds League map as of 3139]''
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