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= Giausar =
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The '''Giausar''' system was home to at least one habitable world, '''Giausar III''', and as at [[3145]] was located in the [[Wolf Empire]].<ref name="ER:3145p38"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
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== System Description ==
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The Giausar system is located near the [[Megrez]] and [[Pressby]] systems<ref name="ER:3145p38"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/> and consists of a class M0III primary orbited by at least three planets.<ref name=FCCW198-199/>
  
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== System History ==
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The Giausar system was colonized at some point during the [[First Exodus]] from [[Terra]],<ref name=HBHM16/> and by the end of the [[Age of War]] had been incorporated into the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name="HB:HSp25"/>
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Giausar III - more commonly known simply as Giausar - is the third planet in the Giausar system, and has a two moons named Hoffnung and Neues Leben.<ref name=FCCW198-199/>
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== Planetary History ==
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=== Early History ===
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Giausar was charted early on but wasn't colonized immediately. It took explorers from the [[Terran Alliance]] discovering that the third planet could support life to bring interest to the small world. Most of the colonization efforts focused on the larger continent, which the colonists named Adelaide, and the colonists were soon exporting iron ore, timber and coal. Covered in rolling hills and wide plains broken up by a few old-growth forests, colonists began to export iron ore, timber, and coal. Later, the colonists began exploiting the significant reserves of oil and natural gas located underneath the surface of Deception, the second continent on Giausar.<ref name=FCCW198-199/>
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Ultimately, Giausar's strategic position on the Lyran Commonwealth/Free Worlds League border ensured that it became the hub for plenty of merchant traffic.<ref name=FCCW198-199/>
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=== Fourth Succession War ===
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In October [[3028]] the [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] repositioned a number of frontline units as the [[Free Worlds League Military]] launched [[Operation DAGGER]]. One of the units repositioned were the [[Stealthy Tigers]], who were relocated to Giausar; the LCAF strategic intent wasn't to prevent a League invasion, but rather to make invading forces pay more dearly for any gains and slow the progress of any breakthrough.<ref name="FSWMAv1p63">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 63, "Overview"</ref>
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=== FedCom Civil war ===
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By the beginning of the [[FedCom Civil War]] Giausar was one of the three main gateways for trade between the Lyran Alliance and the Free Worlds League. Initially, Giausar was kept largely free of conflict, as [[Leutnant-General]] [[Andrew Giggins]], the Commanding Officer of the [[Fourth Crucis Lancers]] [[RCT]], taking a neutral line, arguing that the defense of an important border world was more important than the argument between [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] and [[Victor Steiner-Davion]]. The Fourth was a multicultural unit, recruited from both Lyran and [[Federated Suns]] personnel, and had no desire to be drawn into the conflict.<ref name="FCCWp101">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 101-102, "Giausar"</ref>
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Maintaining the Fourth's neutrality required Giggins to balance demands from the planetary governor, [[Duke]] [[William Freiburg]], against those of [[Richard Steiner]], commander of the [[Cavanaugh Theater]]. Despite the challenges this entailed, Giggins kept the Fourth neutral until March [[3064]], at which point he surprised observers by declaring the Fourth's support for Victor. The reasons for Giggins' declaration were unclear; some believed that with Victor at large in the [[Bolan Province]], Higgins was attempting to curry favor, while others argued that Giggins was responding to the risk of the Fourth being attacked by Loyalist units following Katherine's order to remove the security threat posed by neutral units.<ref name="FCCWp101"/>
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A week after Giggins declared the Fourth's support for Victor, the Loyalist [[Second Donegal Guards]] arrived in-system, under the command of [[Delmar Voss]], and declared that under Richard Steiner's authority the Guards were going to dislodge the Fourth from Giausar, describing the Fourth as "mutineers". The Guards were a heavier command than the Fourth, and Giggins had seen the Guards in action around New Munich in [[3063]], fighting against the [[FWLM]]; as a result, he knew that his command couldn't defeat the Guards in open combat. Instead, Giggens withdrew his forces from New Munich and moved across Adelaide, relocating the Lancers to the foothills of the Cooper Range, with his headquarters based in Hunter's Folly, a mining town.<ref name="FCCWp101"/>
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When the Guards landed, the Lancers began a maneuver war, using the reconnaissance capabilities of the [[Fifth Baxley Aerial Recon]] [[wing (military unit)|wing]] to avoid attacks from the Guards and strike back where the Guards appeared weakest, with Lancer subunits emerging from the dense Adelaide forests to stage fake retreats in an effort to lure Guards subunits out of position. Voss and the Guards rarely fell for these ploys and launched numerous strikes and ambushes of their own, but the conflict was relatively low-intensity, and a lull in the fighting occured around the time of the planetary Oktoberfest several months after the Guards made planetfall. Both commands had effectively achieved what they wanted; Voss commanded a key trade hub and the associated merchant traffic, while Giggins' troops were keeping the Guards pinned down while maintaining a strong defensive presence, leading Giggins to hope that Giausar could be spared the horrific damage being inflicted on other worlds by the War.<ref name="FCCWp101"/>
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On the 11th of February [[3065]] the [[Seventh Donegal Guards]] landed on Giausar to reinforce the Second Donegal Guards. The Seventh's Commanding Officer, General Voss-Steiner, was a distant relative of Delmar Voss and the Steiner-Davion family, and the arrival of the Seventh caused a considerable degree of tension between the two commands. Delmar Voss considered the arrival of the Seventh as a sign that the largely-undamaged Second were judged to be not up to the job of defeating the Fourth, and resented the Seventh's arrival.  Voss-Steiner had been concentrating on defending the border between the Commonwealth and League, but news of the damage being inflicted on Alliance worlds convinced him of the need to take a more active stance on Allied units fighting against the Loyalists, and the deployment to Giausar gave the Seventh an opportunity to take a more active role without compromising Voss-Steiner's principles regarding the importance of defending the border. Rather than placing one of the Guards RCTs in overall command, Richard Steiner maintained control of operations from Cavanaugh, and this, combined with the antipathy between the two Loyalist Commanding Officers, complicated operations and hampered the effectiveness of both units.<ref name="FCCWp130">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 130, "Giausar"</ref>
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Giggins was left with no option other than to step up the Lancers' hit and run attacks, trading space for time as he tired to avoid the Lancers being crushed by one or other Loyalist command. Giggins raided the Loyalist supply caches, forcing them to devote resources to protecting their rear echelons, while the Lancers' outnumbered reconnaissance forces worked hard to help the Lancers dodge the heavy strikes launched by the Guards. Thanks in part to a number of lucky escapes, the Lancers managed to avoid taking heavy casualties, but a year of constant warfare was taking a toll on the Lancers, with much of their equipment damaged or prone to mechanical failure.<ref name="FCCWp130"/>
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In July the [[Com Guard]] [[167th Division (ComStar)|167th Division]] arrived on Giausar, having declared their support for Victor in June, prompted in large part by the Loyalist attacks on other neutral commands. The 167th - nicknamed the Green Mountain Boys - had trouble landing because of a combination of communications problems and the rapidly-moving combat zones, and ended up landing under fire from the Seventh Donegal Guards. The Guards inflicted a punishing amount of damage on the 167th, particularly on the Com Guards' command structure, with multiple casualties being taken including [[Prcentor]] Kuzi, the Divison's Commanding Officer, who fell buying time for his troops to escape the landing zone. When the Division managed to extract itself and link up with the Lancers, it was already down to half-strength. Giggins took the decision to merge the Lancers and the 167th, to simplify the chain of command.<ref name="FCCWp144">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 144-145, "Giausar"</ref>
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Giggins' combined forces continue to harass the Loyalist forces until mid-August, when Giggins decided to stand the unit down for a few days, as fatigue and damage were becoming serious problems. Unfortunately for the Allied forces, a [[Boomerang]] spotter plane identified both the Lancer's camp at the base of Monte Diablo and the position of the HQ company, and General Voss-Steiner launched a swift attack against the Allied camp. The attack surprised the Allied forces, and the senior Guards officer leading the attack, [[Hauptman]] [[Susan Reeves]], was able to focus her forces on downing Giggins' ''[[Sagittaire]]'' before attempting to kill him as he retreated on foot. The Guards' focus on Giggins allowed the Allied forces to launch a savage counter-attack, and [[Demi-Precentor]] [[Demetria Loris]] deliberately put her [['Mech]] between Reeves' massive ''[[Fafnir]]'' and Giggins, decapitating the larger 'Mech with a [[PPC]] strike and buying time for Giggins to be rescued and evacuated from the battlefield.<ref name="FCCWp144"/>
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Bouyed by the victory at Monte Diablo, the Allied forces went on the offensive, scoring a number of victories against the Loyalists, culminating on an attack on the HQ Company of the Second Donegal Guards, which a scout company stumbled across on the 9th of September. The scouts attacked the HQ forces, destroying various support trucks and the mobile HQ from which Delmar Voss was operating. Although Voss wasn't killed, he was badly injured, and had to be medivaced to New Munich, unable to continue to take a part in the campaign. As bitter as the loss of their CO was, the Guards were enraged further by the accidental destruction of a Donegal MASH unit, caused by a downed [[aerospace fighter]] crashing into the complex, prompting a bitter, furious campaign against the Allied forces.<ref name="FCCWp144"/>
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=== The Jihad ===
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Following the invasion of the Free Worlds League by the Skye and Bolan Provinces of the Lyran Alliance in what was termed [[Operation ÜBERSCHATTEN]], Marshall [[Jeremy Brett]] took command of the local [[FWLM]] and launched a counteroffensive, under the name [[Operation BROKEN FIST]]. BROKEN FIST went beyond simply attempting to recapture worlds that the Lyrans had seized, striking into Lyran space at numerous worlds. Giausar was one of the worlds hit and was attacked by the League forces on the 2nd of September [[3068]].<ref name="J:FRp45">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 45, "The Jihad In Review"</ref>
  
 
== Political Affiliation ==  
 
== Political Affiliation ==  
 
* [[2271]] - Inhabited world <ref name=HBHM16>''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 13, "Marik Commowwealth world within the Free Worlds League before [2270] and after at their founding in [2271]"</ref>
 
* [[2271]] - Inhabited world <ref name=HBHM16>''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 13, "Marik Commowwealth world within the Free Worlds League before [2270] and after at their founding in [2271]"</ref>
 
* [[2341]] - Inhabited world <ref name=HBHS13>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13, </ref>
 
* [[2341]] - Inhabited world <ref name=HBHS13>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13, </ref>
* [[2571]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]] <ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"</ref>
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* [[2571]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"</ref>
 
* [[2596]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name=HRWp158>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"</ref>
 
* [[2596]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name=HRWp158>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"</ref>
 
* [[2750]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"</ref>
 
* [[2750]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"</ref>
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* [[3081]] - Lyran Alliance <ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"</ref>
 
* [[3081]] - Lyran Alliance <ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"</ref>
 
* [[3085]] - Lyran Alliance <ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref>
 
* [[3085]] - Lyran Alliance <ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref>
* [[3130]] - No record <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
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* [[3130]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
 
* [[3135]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 9, "Inner Sphere - 3135"</ref>
 
* [[3135]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 9, "Inner Sphere - 3135"</ref>
* [[3145]] - [[Wolf Empire]] <ref name="ER:3145p38">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
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* [[3145]] - Wolf Empire <ref name="ER:3145p38">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
  
== Planetary History ==
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== Planetary Rulers ==
'''Giausar''' was charted early on but wasn't colonized immediately. It took explorers from the [[Terran Alliance]] discovering that the third planet could support life to bring interest to this small world. Most of the colonization efforts focused on the large continent, named Adelaide by the colonists. Covered in rolling hills and wide plains broken up by a few old-growth forests, colonists began to export iron ore, timber, and coal. The other continent was named Deception since its green color comes from sunlight reflected off of green soil. Environmentally, Deception is a vast desert. However there are large amounts of natural gas and petroleum located under Deception's green surface, so many refineries and drilling operations can be found. Finally, the world's strategic position on the Lyran Commonwealth/Free Worlds League border ensures that it gets plenty of merchant traffic.<ref>''FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)'', p. 199</ref>
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* [[Duke]] William Freiburg<ref name=FCCW198-199/>
=== Fourth Succession War ===
 
In October [[3028]] the [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] repositioned a number of frontline units as the [[Free Worlds League Military]] launched [[Operation DAGGER]]. One of the units repositioned were the [[Stealthy Tigers]], who were relocated to Giausar; the LCAF strategic intent wasn't to prevent a League invasion, but rather to make invading forces pay more dearly for any gains and slow the progress of any breakthrough.<ref name="FSWMAv1p63">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 63, "Overview"</ref>
 
 
 
=== The Jihad ===
 
Following the invasion of the Free Worlds League by the Skye and Bolan Provinces of the Lyran Alliance in what was termed [[Operation ÜBERSCHATTEN]], Marshall [[Jeremy Brett]] took command of the local [[FWLM]] and launched a counteroffensive, under the name [[Operation BROKEN FIST]]. BROKEN FIST went beyond simply attempting to recapture worlds that the Lyrans had seized, striking into Lyran space at numerous worlds. Giausar was one of the worlds hit and was attacked by the League forces on the 2nd of September [[3068]].<ref name="J:FRp45">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 45, "The Jihad In Review"</ref>
 
  
 
== Military Deployment ==
 
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===3061===
 
* Fourth Crucis Lancers RCT<ref name=SS51>''Shattered Sphere'', p. 51, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"</ref>
 
* Fourth Crucis Lancers RCT<ref name=SS51>''Shattered Sphere'', p. 51, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"</ref>
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=== 3064 ===
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* Fourth Crucis Lancers RCT
  
 
===3067===
 
===3067===
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:- In 3079 the Dar-es-Salaam CTM operating at 50% of full strength, with 50% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.
 
:- In 3079 the Dar-es-Salaam CTM operating at 50% of full strength, with 50% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.
  
==Nearby Planets==
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== Geography ==
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Giausar has two continents named Adelaide and Deception. Adelaide was a land of wide plains, rolling hills and thick forests. The other continent, Deception, appeared to be a green land as well, but it was discovered that Deception's green coloring was actually a mirage created by sunlight reflecting off of green soil. Environmentally, Deception is a vast desert. with large amounts of natural gas and petroleum located under the green surface.
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== Planetary Locations ==
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| [[Pressby]]
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| 13.7
 
| [[Megrez]]
 
| [[Megrez]]
| 16.01
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| 15.9
| 1
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Ford]]
 
| [[Ford]]
| 16.98
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| 16.8
| 1
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Togwotee]]
 
| [[Togwotee]]
| 25.42
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| 25.2
| 1
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Loric]]
 
| [[Loric]]
| 25.91
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| 25.7
| 1
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Cascade]]
 
| [[Cascade]]
| 26.35
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| 26.1
| 1
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| [[Aigle]]
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
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| 27.9
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Gienah]]
 
| [[Gienah]]
| 28.47
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| 28.2
| 1
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Arcadia (LC)|Arcadia]]
 
| [[Arcadia (LC)|Arcadia]]
| 28.48
+
| 28.3
| 1
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[McAffe]]
 
| [[McAffe]]
| 32.92
+
| 32.7
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Thermopolis]]
 
| [[Thermopolis]]
| 32.96
+
| 32.7
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Colfax]]
 
| [[Colfax]]
| 34.16
+
| 33.9
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Senftenberg]]
 
| [[Senftenberg]]
| 34.70
+
| 34.4
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Nestor]]
 
| [[Nestor]]
| 37.55
+
| 37.3
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Pingree]]
 
| [[Pingree]]
| 39.36
+
| 39.0
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Dar-es-Salaam]]
 
| [[Dar-es-Salaam]]
| 42.22
+
| 41.9
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
| [[Sheridan]]
 
| 42.43
 
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
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| [[Sheridan (FWL)|Sheridan]]
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| 42.1
 
| [[Launam]]
 
| [[Launam]]
| 43.29
+
| 43.0
| 2
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| [[Szepes]]
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
+
| 44.1
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Rexburg]]
 
| [[Rexburg]]
| 44.61
+
| 44.2
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Zwenkau]]
 
| [[Zwenkau]]
| 44.87
+
| 44.5
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Dixie]]
 
| [[Dixie]]
| 46.72
+
| 46.3
| 2
+
| [[Sterling]]
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
+
| 47.4
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Eilenburg]]
 
| [[Eilenburg]]
| 47.83
+
| 47.4
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Preston (FWL)|Preston]]
 
| [[Preston (FWL)|Preston]]
| 47.93
+
| 47.5
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Bondurant]]
 
| [[Bondurant]]
| 49.21
+
| 48.8
| 2
+
| [[Hornir's Keep]]
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
+
| 51.0
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Zortman]]
 
| [[Zortman]]
| 51.62
+
| 51.2
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Trellisane]]
 
| [[Trellisane]]
| 52.52
+
| 52.0
| 2
+
| [[Altoona (LC)|Altoona]]
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
+
| 52.8
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Hyde]]
 
| [[Hyde]]
| 54.41
+
| 53.9
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Gannett]]
 
| [[Gannett]]
| 54.91
+
| 54.4
| 2
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Bella I]]
 
| [[Bella I]]
| 54.93
+
| 54.4
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
|-
 
 
| [[Alula Borealis]]
 
| [[Alula Borealis]]
| 58.70
+
| 58.1
| 2
+
| [[Mariefred]]
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
+
| 58.9
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
+
| [[Hollabrunn]]
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
+
| 59.7
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
| [[Free Worlds League | FWL]]
 
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Mariefred]]
 
| 59.38
 
| 2
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Lyran Commonwealth | LC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Federated Commonwealth | FC]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
| [[Lyran Alliance | LA]]
 
 
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Giausar

Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)

Giausar
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-207.85 : -26.41[e]
Spectral classM0III[1]
Recharge time201 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)None[1]

The Giausar system was home to at least one habitable world, Giausar III, and as at 3145 was located in the Wolf Empire.[2][3]

System Description

The Giausar system is located near the Megrez and Pressby systems[2][3] and consists of a class M0III primary orbited by at least three planets.[1]

System History

The Giausar system was colonized at some point during the First Exodus from Terra,[4] and by the end of the Age of War had been incorporated into the Lyran Commonwealth.[5]

Giausar III

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Giausar III - more commonly known simply as Giausar - is the third planet in the Giausar system, and has a two moons named Hoffnung and Neues Leben.[1]

Planetary History

Early History

Giausar was charted early on but wasn't colonized immediately. It took explorers from the Terran Alliance discovering that the third planet could support life to bring interest to the small world. Most of the colonization efforts focused on the larger continent, which the colonists named Adelaide, and the colonists were soon exporting iron ore, timber and coal. Covered in rolling hills and wide plains broken up by a few old-growth forests, colonists began to export iron ore, timber, and coal. Later, the colonists began exploiting the significant reserves of oil and natural gas located underneath the surface of Deception, the second continent on Giausar.[1]

Ultimately, Giausar's strategic position on the Lyran Commonwealth/Free Worlds League border ensured that it became the hub for plenty of merchant traffic.[1]

Fourth Succession War

In October 3028 the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces repositioned a number of frontline units as the Free Worlds League Military launched Operation DAGGER. One of the units repositioned were the Stealthy Tigers, who were relocated to Giausar; the LCAF strategic intent wasn't to prevent a League invasion, but rather to make invading forces pay more dearly for any gains and slow the progress of any breakthrough.[6]

FedCom Civil war

By the beginning of the FedCom Civil War Giausar was one of the three main gateways for trade between the Lyran Alliance and the Free Worlds League. Initially, Giausar was kept largely free of conflict, as Leutnant-General Andrew Giggins, the Commanding Officer of the Fourth Crucis Lancers RCT, taking a neutral line, arguing that the defense of an important border world was more important than the argument between Katherine Steiner-Davion and Victor Steiner-Davion. The Fourth was a multicultural unit, recruited from both Lyran and Federated Suns personnel, and had no desire to be drawn into the conflict.[7]

Maintaining the Fourth's neutrality required Giggins to balance demands from the planetary governor, Duke William Freiburg, against those of Richard Steiner, commander of the Cavanaugh Theater. Despite the challenges this entailed, Giggins kept the Fourth neutral until March 3064, at which point he surprised observers by declaring the Fourth's support for Victor. The reasons for Giggins' declaration were unclear; some believed that with Victor at large in the Bolan Province, Higgins was attempting to curry favor, while others argued that Giggins was responding to the risk of the Fourth being attacked by Loyalist units following Katherine's order to remove the security threat posed by neutral units.[7]

A week after Giggins declared the Fourth's support for Victor, the Loyalist Second Donegal Guards arrived in-system, under the command of Delmar Voss, and declared that under Richard Steiner's authority the Guards were going to dislodge the Fourth from Giausar, describing the Fourth as "mutineers". The Guards were a heavier command than the Fourth, and Giggins had seen the Guards in action around New Munich in 3063, fighting against the FWLM; as a result, he knew that his command couldn't defeat the Guards in open combat. Instead, Giggens withdrew his forces from New Munich and moved across Adelaide, relocating the Lancers to the foothills of the Cooper Range, with his headquarters based in Hunter's Folly, a mining town.[7]

When the Guards landed, the Lancers began a maneuver war, using the reconnaissance capabilities of the Fifth Baxley Aerial Recon wing to avoid attacks from the Guards and strike back where the Guards appeared weakest, with Lancer subunits emerging from the dense Adelaide forests to stage fake retreats in an effort to lure Guards subunits out of position. Voss and the Guards rarely fell for these ploys and launched numerous strikes and ambushes of their own, but the conflict was relatively low-intensity, and a lull in the fighting occured around the time of the planetary Oktoberfest several months after the Guards made planetfall. Both commands had effectively achieved what they wanted; Voss commanded a key trade hub and the associated merchant traffic, while Giggins' troops were keeping the Guards pinned down while maintaining a strong defensive presence, leading Giggins to hope that Giausar could be spared the horrific damage being inflicted on other worlds by the War.[7]

On the 11th of February 3065 the Seventh Donegal Guards landed on Giausar to reinforce the Second Donegal Guards. The Seventh's Commanding Officer, General Voss-Steiner, was a distant relative of Delmar Voss and the Steiner-Davion family, and the arrival of the Seventh caused a considerable degree of tension between the two commands. Delmar Voss considered the arrival of the Seventh as a sign that the largely-undamaged Second were judged to be not up to the job of defeating the Fourth, and resented the Seventh's arrival. Voss-Steiner had been concentrating on defending the border between the Commonwealth and League, but news of the damage being inflicted on Alliance worlds convinced him of the need to take a more active stance on Allied units fighting against the Loyalists, and the deployment to Giausar gave the Seventh an opportunity to take a more active role without compromising Voss-Steiner's principles regarding the importance of defending the border. Rather than placing one of the Guards RCTs in overall command, Richard Steiner maintained control of operations from Cavanaugh, and this, combined with the antipathy between the two Loyalist Commanding Officers, complicated operations and hampered the effectiveness of both units.[8]

Giggins was left with no option other than to step up the Lancers' hit and run attacks, trading space for time as he tired to avoid the Lancers being crushed by one or other Loyalist command. Giggins raided the Loyalist supply caches, forcing them to devote resources to protecting their rear echelons, while the Lancers' outnumbered reconnaissance forces worked hard to help the Lancers dodge the heavy strikes launched by the Guards. Thanks in part to a number of lucky escapes, the Lancers managed to avoid taking heavy casualties, but a year of constant warfare was taking a toll on the Lancers, with much of their equipment damaged or prone to mechanical failure.[8]

In July the Com Guard 167th Division arrived on Giausar, having declared their support for Victor in June, prompted in large part by the Loyalist attacks on other neutral commands. The 167th - nicknamed the Green Mountain Boys - had trouble landing because of a combination of communications problems and the rapidly-moving combat zones, and ended up landing under fire from the Seventh Donegal Guards. The Guards inflicted a punishing amount of damage on the 167th, particularly on the Com Guards' command structure, with multiple casualties being taken including Prcentor Kuzi, the Divison's Commanding Officer, who fell buying time for his troops to escape the landing zone. When the Division managed to extract itself and link up with the Lancers, it was already down to half-strength. Giggins took the decision to merge the Lancers and the 167th, to simplify the chain of command.[9]

Giggins' combined forces continue to harass the Loyalist forces until mid-August, when Giggins decided to stand the unit down for a few days, as fatigue and damage were becoming serious problems. Unfortunately for the Allied forces, a Boomerang spotter plane identified both the Lancer's camp at the base of Monte Diablo and the position of the HQ company, and General Voss-Steiner launched a swift attack against the Allied camp. The attack surprised the Allied forces, and the senior Guards officer leading the attack, Hauptman Susan Reeves, was able to focus her forces on downing Giggins' Sagittaire before attempting to kill him as he retreated on foot. The Guards' focus on Giggins allowed the Allied forces to launch a savage counter-attack, and Demi-Precentor Demetria Loris deliberately put her 'Mech between Reeves' massive Fafnir and Giggins, decapitating the larger 'Mech with a PPC strike and buying time for Giggins to be rescued and evacuated from the battlefield.[9]

Bouyed by the victory at Monte Diablo, the Allied forces went on the offensive, scoring a number of victories against the Loyalists, culminating on an attack on the HQ Company of the Second Donegal Guards, which a scout company stumbled across on the 9th of September. The scouts attacked the HQ forces, destroying various support trucks and the mobile HQ from which Delmar Voss was operating. Although Voss wasn't killed, he was badly injured, and had to be medivaced to New Munich, unable to continue to take a part in the campaign. As bitter as the loss of their CO was, the Guards were enraged further by the accidental destruction of a Donegal MASH unit, caused by a downed aerospace fighter crashing into the complex, prompting a bitter, furious campaign against the Allied forces.[9]

The Jihad

Following the invasion of the Free Worlds League by the Skye and Bolan Provinces of the Lyran Alliance in what was termed Operation ÜBERSCHATTEN, Marshall Jeremy Brett took command of the local FWLM and launched a counteroffensive, under the name Operation BROKEN FIST. BROKEN FIST went beyond simply attempting to recapture worlds that the Lyrans had seized, striking into Lyran space at numerous worlds. Giausar was one of the worlds hit and was attacked by the League forces on the 2nd of September 3068.[10]

Political Affiliation

Planetary Rulers

3067

Military Deployment

2786

2821

  • Fifth Donegal Guards[38]

3028

3050

3054

  • Fourth Crucis Lancers RCT[40]

3061

  • Fourth Crucis Lancers RCT[41]

3064

  • Fourth Crucis Lancers RCT

3067

3079

- In 3079 the Dar-es-Salaam CTM operating at 50% of full strength, with 50% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.

Geography

Giausar has two continents named Adelaide and Deception. Adelaide was a land of wide plains, rolling hills and thick forests. The other continent, Deception, appeared to be a green land as well, but it was discovered that Deception's green coloring was actually a mirage created by sunlight reflecting off of green soil. Environmentally, Deception is a vast desert. with large amounts of natural gas and petroleum located under the green surface.

Planetary Locations

  • New Munich: the planetary capital city.[1]

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Pressby 13.7 Megrez 15.9 Ford 16.8 Togwotee 25.2
Loric 25.7 Cascade 26.1 Aigle 27.9 Gienah 28.2
Arcadia 28.3 McAffe 32.7 Thermopolis 32.7 Colfax 33.9
Senftenberg 34.4 Nestor 37.3 Pingree 39.0 Dar-es-Salaam 41.9
Sheridan 42.1 Launam 43.0 Szepes 44.1 Rexburg 44.2
Zwenkau 44.5 Dixie 46.3 Sterling 47.4 Eilenburg 47.4
Preston 47.5 Bondurant 48.8 Hornir's Keep 51.0 Zortman 51.2
Trellisane 52.0 Altoona 52.8 Hyde 53.9 Gannett 54.4
Bella I 54.4 Alula Borealis 58.1 Mariefred 58.9 Hollabrunn 59.7

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 FedCom Civil War (sourcebook), pp. 198-199, "Planet Profile"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 38, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 13, "Marik Commowwealth world within the Free Worlds League before [2270] and after at their founding in [2271]"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"
  6. 6.0 6.1 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p. 63, "Overview"
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 FedCom Civil War, p. 101-102, "Giausar"
  8. 8.0 8.1 FedCom Civil War, p. 130, "Giausar"
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 FedCom Civil War, p. 144-145, "Giausar"
  10. 10.0 10.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 45, "The Jihad In Review"
  11. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13,
  12. Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"
  13. Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"
  14. Era Report: 2750, p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  15. Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  16. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  17. First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  18. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"
  19. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  20. First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  21. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"
  22. House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 132, "District and Prefecture Boundaries of Kurita Space"
  23. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
  24. Historical: War of 3039, p. 132, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  25. Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 3050"
  26. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion [3052]"
  27. Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - 3052"
  28. Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
  29. Era Report: 3062, p. 30, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
  30. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  31. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]"
  32. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere [3075]"
  33. Field Report: LAAF, p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table [3079]"
  34. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  35. Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  36. Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  37. Era Report: 3145, p. 9, "Inner Sphere - 3135"
  38. 38.0 38.1 First Succession War (Source Book), p. 139, "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"
  39. 20 Year Update, p. 27, "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"
  40. Objective Raids, p. 19, "FedCom Deployment Table"
  41. Shattered Sphere, p. 51, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"
  42. Mercenaries Supplemental, p. 70, "Mercenary Employment Table"
  43. Field Report: LAAF, p. 17, "Regional Militas Regimental Status"

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