Hamlin


Hamlin
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The Hamlin system was located in Federated Suns space as of 3025, and named alongside Dragon's Field and Ral as a possible place to draw 'Mech units from for the counterattack to retake Stein's Folly in that year.[1]

Later, when moving from Stein's Folly to Argyle, Ardan Sortek and his associates traveled via Dragon's Field (one jump from Stein's Folly), Hamlin (one jump from Dragon's Field), Ral (implicitly one jump from Hamlin) and then other (unspecified) jump points, in that order, with the last being Vincent and then Argyle.[2] (The overall distance between Stein's Folly and Argyle is around 130 light years, and could conceivably be covered in five jumps.)

At Hamlin, a port is mentioned where Sortek's companion Jarlik strolled about and learned of a JumpShip that was currently idle and could be hired to carry their DropShip.[2] This indicates Hamlin had a port facility of some sort (possibly a recharge station) that was busy enough to allow for the hiring of a random JumpShip.

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Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
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Notes[edit]

  • Dragon's Field, Hamlin and Ral (as well as Vincent and New Cleveland), as far as can be determined, were never mentioned except in this one novel nor shown on any published map. As such, their existence is canon but their exact location and even nature is unclear.
    • The Federated Suns–and indeed all Successor States–have been known to make use of secret transit systems in their space, uninhabited (or sparsely inhabited) systems used as recharging stopovers for their militaries. Dragon's Field, Hamlin and Ral (and possibly Vincent) might be such transit systems.
    • There is an official ruling on the BattleTech Forum (in the "Ask the Writers" section, which is reserved for official rulings) by Øystein Tvedten, Catalyst Game Labs' designated map expert, to the effect that the 3025 era maps are deemed "complete" and there are no inhabited systems that don't show up on the maps (except for Hidden Systems). Any unmapped worlds could thus be assumed to be secondary settled planets in star systems that go by different names on the map, or otherwise be codenames or secondary names.
  • In the novel's German edition, Dragon's Field, Hamlin and Ral were exchanged for Novaya Zemlya, Kluane, and Salem, respectively, but available data for Novaya Zemlya is incompatible with the known data for Dragon's Field and the systems do not line up for jumps as described in the novel.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 The Sword and the Dagger, p. 44
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Sword and the Dagger, pp. 217-218

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