Editing Megarez


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== Political Affiliation ==
* [[2571]] - [[Magistracy of Canopus]] <ref name="HB:MPSp93">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 93, "Magistracy of Canopus after Age of War [2571] and fall of the Star League [2750]"</ref><ref name="HB:HMp24">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2577]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="H:RWp94">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 94, "Reunification War: Magistracy of Canopus Front Deployments (2577)"</ref>
* [[2583]] - Magistracy of Canopus (occupied by SLDF troops from March)<ref name="H:RWp102">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 102, "Afarsin, Adherlwin, Megarez and Nobel (March-April 2583)"</ref>
* [[2596]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="HB:MPSp93"/><ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name="FR2765:Pp35">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 35, "Magistracy Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
* [[2767]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="H:LOTV1p96">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 96, "Magistracy of Canopus - [2767] Map"</ref>
* [[2786]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="FSWp24">''First Succession War'', p. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786]"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name=HB:HLp31">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 31, "Capellan Confederation after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><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'', p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSWp112">''First Succession War'', p. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - 2822"</ref>
* [[2830]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="SSWp18">''Second Succession War'', p. 18-19, "Inner Sphere - 2830"</ref>
* [[2864]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name=HB:HLp39">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 39, "Capellan Confederation after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HMp38">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref><ref name="SSWp78">''Second Succession War'', p. 78-79, "Inner Sphere - 2864"</ref>
* [[3025]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="TP1Ep152">''The Periphery (sourcebook)'', p. 152, "Map of the Periphery"</ref><ref name=HB:HLp40">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 40, "Capellan Confederation after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HMp42">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:MPSp96">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 96, ''Magistracy of Canopus after Age of War'', p. 96, "Magistracy of Canopus after Third Succession War [3025] and after FedCom Civil War [3067]"</ref>
* [[3030]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name=HB:HLp49">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 49, "Capellan Confederation after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HMp51">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="ER:3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3050]" Map</ref>
* [[3052]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="ER:3052p22">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 22, "Inner Sphere - [3052]" Map</ref>
* [[3054]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="ORp46">''Objective Raids'', p. 46, "Map of Periphery States"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
* [[3058]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name=HB:HLp60">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 60, "Capellan Confederation after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HMp54">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref>
* [[3059]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="TP2Ep112">''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', p. 112, "Magistracy of Canopus & Tortuga Dominions"</ref>
* [[3063]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref><ref name="ISp97">''Inner Sphere (sourcebook)'', p. 97, "Near Periphery Kingdoms"</ref>
* [[3067]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="HB:MPSp96"/><ref name="HB:HLp68">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 68, "Capellan Confederation after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><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]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="JS:TBDp64">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075]"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="FR:Pp20">''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 20, "Magistracy of Canopus Region Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="J:FRp62">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085]"</ref>
* [[3135]] - Magistracy of Canopus <ref name=ER:3145p10>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Magistracy of Canopus <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>

== Planetary History ==
===Reunification War===
Settled at some point in the handful of years between the end of the [[Age of War]] and the start of the [[Reunification War]],<ref name="HB:MPSp93"/><ref name="H:RWp94"/> '''Megarez''' was unknown to the [[Star League]] when a [[Star League Defense Force]] task force under the command of [[Captain-General]] [[Marion Marik]] was assigned to conquer the Magistracy of Canopus in [[2577]]. By [[2583]], the task force had learned of the existence of Megarez, and in March of 2583 the [[59th Brigade]] from [[VII Corps (Star League)|VII Corps]] and the [[401st Independent Regiment]] were assigned to the conquest of Megarez.<ref name="H:RWp102"/><ref name="H:RWp149">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 149, "Magistracy Of Canopus Front (2583-2588)"</ref>

Megarez was an agrarian world of little strategic importance, but it had been used by the [[Magistracy Armed Forces]] to billet units between raids on SLDF garrisons on occupied Magistracy worlds or supply worlds within the [[Free Worlds League]]. While no major units were stationed on Megarez when the SLDF troops arrived, it took the SLDF weeks to locate all of the various hidden camps established around Megarez and winkle out the handful of defenders still on the world. Megarez was one of four worlds to fall to the SLDF in March and April 2583, completing the encirclement of [[Canopus]], and would be occupied by the SLDF for the remainder of the war; once the Reunification War ended, a number of Magistracy worlds were annexed by the Free Worlds League, but Megarez remained a part of the Magistracy.<ref name="H:RWp102"/><ref name="H:RWp158"/>

===Star League===
During the final years of the [[Star League]], Megarez was the host to a [[Star League Defense Force]] garrison in the form of the [[279th Royal Mechanized Infantry Division]].  The commander of the 279th, Major General Vladimir Jeong, helped set up his unit as its own little pirate kingdom through criminal enterprises.  The world's remote location and Jeong's care to keep his troops from doing any wrongdoing directly, prevented the authorities from making any arrests.<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 203, "279th Royal Mechanized Infantry Division"</ref>

===The Jihad===
Following the firebombing of the city of Crimson on [[Canopus IV]] the [[Word of Blake|Blakist]] [[41st Shadow Division|Forty-first Shadow Division]] launched a series of attacks on other worlds within the Magistracy of Canopus between [[3071]]<ref name="JHS3076p30">''Jihad Hot Spots: 3076'', p. 30, "Canopus United"</ref> and [[3073]].<ref name="JS:TBD">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 104, "41st Division unit profile".</ref> The Forty-first's rampage hit [[Bass]] before moving on to hit [[Lindenmarle]], Megarez, [[Adherlwin]] and [[Borgan's Rift]];<ref name="JHS3076p30"/> the Forty-first was then caught and hammered by a joint Canopian-[[Capellan Confederation|Capellan]] task force in the [[Aspropirgos]] system in [[Free Worlds League]] space, ending their rampage.<ref name="JHS3076p30"/><ref name="JS:TBD"/>

== Military Deployment ==
===2581===
* [[1st Canopian Light Horse|First Canopian Light Horse]]<ref name="H:RWp150">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 150, "Magistracy Of Canopus Front(Jump-Off - 2582)"</ref>
* [[Samuelson's Slaughterers]]<ref name="H:RWp150"/>
* [[Mieselsen's Marauders]]<ref name="H:RWp150"/>

===2582===
* [[4th Canopian Light Horse|Fourth Canopian Light Horse]]<ref name="H:RWp150"/>
* [[MAF]] [[1st Fleet (MAF)|1st Fleet]]<ref name="H:RWp150"/>

===2764===
* [[279th Royal Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 257, "SLDF - Magistracy of Canopus Military Command Map"</ref>

===3085===
* [[Ramilie's Raiders]]<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 161, "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>


== Map Gallery ==
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== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 20 systems (18 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Nobel]]
| class="lessthan30" | 16.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[Royal Foxx]]
| class="lessthan30" | 28.7
| class="lessthan30" | [[Krimari]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.9
| class="lessthan30" | [[Canopus]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.9
|-
| class="over30" | [[Gallis]]
| class="over30" | 30.8
| class="over30" | [[Candiear]]
| class="over30" | 32.5
| class="over30" | [[Harminous]]
| class="over30" | 35.9
| class="over30" | [[Adherlwin]]
| class="over30" | 38.8
|-
| class="over30" | [[Lindenmarle]]
| class="over30" | 43.2
| class="over30" | [[Lockton]]
| class="over30" | 44.0
| class="over30" | [[Mangor]]
| class="over30" | 44.8
| class="over30" | [[Trznadel Cluster]]
| class="over30" | 49.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Joyz]]
| class="over30" | 52.4
| class="over30" | [[Wildwood]]
| class="over30" | 53.7
| class="over30" | [[Manaus]]
| class="over30" | 53.7
| class="over30" | [[Bethonolog]]
| class="over30" | 55.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Fanardir]]
| class="over30" | 55.7
| class="over30" | [[Tarol]]
| class="over30" | 58.4
| class="over60" | [[Afarsin]]
| class="over60" | 60.4
| class="over60" | [[Techne's Revenge]]
| class="over60" | 60.8
|-
|}

== Referencs ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Marik]]''
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[Inner Sphere (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery, First Edition]]''
* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition|The Periphery, Second Edition]]''
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''

[[Category:Systems|Megarez]]
[[Category:Planets|Megarez]]
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