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The [[Mica Majority]] consists of three mineral-rich worlds located near the [[Delos IV]] star system between the [[Federated Suns]] and the [[Outworlds Alliance]].
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; '''World Names:''' Mica ll, V, Vll
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The '''Mica Majority''' (also known as '''Micanos''') is an independent star system located in the [[Periphery]] between the [[Federated Suns]] and the [[Outworlds Alliance]]. It consists of three colonized planets ('''Mica II''', '''Mica V''', and '''Mica VII'''), which survive off of their relatively rich mineral fields. The system also serves as a substantial trade hub, thanks to the large station built at its jump point when the system served as a [[Draconis Combine]] prison colony.<ref name="ThePeriphery">''The Periphery, First Edition'', p. 136</ref>
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; '''Star Type:''' K3V
 
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; '''Positions in System:''' 2, 5, 7
 
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; '''Times to Jump Point:''' 4.3 days, 4.6 days, 5.1 days
 
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; '''Recharging Station:''' Zenith
 
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; '''Political Ruler:''' Various Dome Directors
 
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; '''ComStar Facility Class:''' B
 
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; '''ComStar Representative:''' Precentor Hurlock Jamis
 
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; '''Population:''' Mica ll, 45,000; [[Mica V]], 255,000; [[Mica V]]ll, 38,000
 
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; '''Percentage and Level of Native Life:''' 10%, Mammal
 
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: The worlds of the Micanos star system are drab and barren wastelands perpetually covered with ice and snow and ravaged by fierce solar winds and occasional meteor showers. In such conditions, life is possible only under pressurized domes, which dot the mineral-rich Micanite worlds. These domes, varying from eight to twenty per planet, are a legacy of the [[Star League]] at its technological finest. The first Micanite settlers were involuntary laborers forcibly transferred there for their political opposition to the [[Kurita]] regime. Many did not even have the most elementary knowledge of geology or mining techniques, and most died within the first decade.
 
  
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Located near the system's zenith jump point is a huge orbital complex constructed in the late [[2600]]s when the vast resources of the system became known. With only brief interruptions during the [[Succession Wars]], large-scale barter and trade between the descendants of the original Micanite laborers and the [[Inner Sphere]] have remained intact.
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== System History ==
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===Founding===
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The Micanos system was originally colonized by the [[Draconis Combine]] in the second half of the twenty-sixth century to take advantage of the rich mineral deposits on three of the worlds within the system. The Combine established expensive environmental domes on the worlds to support the worker population, and the revenues from the mining quickly exceeded the cost of setting up the operation in the first place, even with the cost of fabricating and installing the domes.<ref name="FM:Pp108+">''Field Manual: Periphery'', pp. 108–109: "Mica Majority"</ref>
  
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The Draconis Combine used various enemies of the state as workers in the mine, most commonly protestors and political prisoners. Even with the domes, conditions in the mines were harsh, and within the first decade of operation more than half the workforce was rumored to have died.<ref name="FM:Pp108+"/>
  
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Known for their extensive deposits of gold, uranium, and other precious minerals, [[Mica II]], [[Mica V | V]], and [[Mica VII | VII]] each have a harsh Arctic climate that makes mining operations costly. With only the thinnest of atmospheres, the Micanites must live in pressurized dome-towns, similar to the raucous Yukon-Klondike towns of Terran North America. Miners, drifters, bartenders, and assorted ne'er-do-wells vie with one another to cash in on newfound wealth (or at least live long enough to spend some of it).
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===Succession Wars===
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The cost of running entire worlds as prisons mounted during the chaos of the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]], and the Draconis Combine began pulling out of their various forced mining concerns; this included the Micanos system, which found itself suddenly independent. The remoteness of the Micanos system and the harsh environment actually served as viable forms of defense and protection for the inhabitants, and the population continued to survive where many of their contemporaries across the [[Inner Sphere]] died.<ref name="FM:Pp108+"/>
  
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Ore from the mining fields is collected at central distribution points and shipped out to the system's Jump Point every summer when scores of merchants from the [[Federated Suns]] and the [[Outworlds Alliance]] arrive to trade with the Micanites. For several weeks and even months, thousands of miners compete against, barter with, steal from, drink with, lie to, wench with, gamble with, win from, and lose to merchants and other miners aboard the [[Micanite Space Center]] (built in the waning days of the [[Star League]]). Thus do the neighbouring systems of the Federated Suns and the Outworlds Alliance gain badly needed resources at one tenth the price asked by [[Inner Sphere]] mining concerns. For their part, the miners receive machinery and modern conveniences, clothing and chemicals, brandies and brides, all of which they need to continue their precarious existence. Given time, a more stabilized form of economic exchange may develop. For the time being, however, both sides are satisfied with the present arrangement.
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With so many political prisoners and protestors among the workforce, the various planets found themselves possessed of a largely well-educated workforce who had established a functioning social order, and the newly formed Mica Majority returned to operating the mines, with the huge station located at the system zenith jump point continuing to serve as a hub for the trade convoys that continued to move in and out of the system. The mining operations would become steadily more difficult and dangerous over time, as the more easily worked lodes and veins had already been exhausted during the Combine administration; while the mining operations were still viable, the inhabitants were paying an ever-increasing cost in terms of both resources and lives to keep up their trading operations.<ref name="FM:Pp108+"/>
  
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In the 3030s the Majority was briefly conquered by bandits from the [[Tortuga Dominions]], but [[Lady Death]] and her forces stayed for less than a month; there was simply nothing of worth in the system to make a continued occupation worthwhile.<ref name="FM:Pp108+"/>
  
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By the 3060s the majority of the original domes had been converted for agriculture, growing just enough food to support the local population, and the mining operations had all moved to the system's asteroid belt, with output being a fraction of that maintained during the early years of operation. The economy of the Majority had shifted; the huge station floating at the zenith point had become a waystation for those traveling in the Periphery, with bazaars, taverns, brothels, shops and all the other establishments needed to encourage travelers to stop a while.<ref name="FM:Pp108+"/>
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The Mica Majority had also experienced an increasing tourism trade, of a nature that rather baffled the original inhabitants; rich inhabitants of the Inner Sphere had begun paying to come and work in the mines as a kind of thrill-seeking experience or adventure holiday. Although somewhat bemused, the locals were only too happy to take the Spheroid's money and subject them to a few weeks of the same treatment miners had experienced under the Combine occupation.<ref name="FM:Pp108+"/>  The [[FedCom Civil War]] had a negative effect on the tourism trade in the 3060s, but the Mica Majority began exploiting a nearby system in [[3064]] with a resulting boost in trade of five hundred percent by [[3067]].<ref name="FM:Up198">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 198: "Lesser Periphery States"</ref>
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With the rise of [[Clan Snow Raven]] in and around the [[Outworlds Alliance]], the Mica Majority was keeping a low profile in the closing years of the [[Jihad]]. With inexplicable numbers of tourists continuing to visit the Majority, tourism and the export of mineral ores remained the main contributors to the local economy by the beginning of the 3080s. While the veteran [[Larsen's Loners]] remained employed by the Mica Majority for defensive purposes, the five lances of [['Mechs]] owned by the Loners would offer little resistance against a determined attack from the Ravens.
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In addition to more traditional ores, the Mica jump station has become a hub for small scale traders, lostech prospectors, and drifters of all kinds. Among this varied band, [[Clan Diamond Shark]] representatives have been spotted. It is speculated that they may want to add the Mica station to their Periphery trade network in order to take advantage of the recent mineral finds in a nearby system, which have quintupled the Majority's trading profits since [[3064]].<ref name="MajorPeripheryStates">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 10</ref>
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The population of the Mica Majority became more isolationist and libertarian in the decades after the Jihad. Bandit raids damaged the sun shield around Mica II and hundreds died in [[3096]]. Mica V and Mica VII suffered similar attacks and equipment failures in [[3097]]. Eventually the government couldn't collect taxes, and collapsed completely in [[3111]].<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 186</ref> In time a new government was created by mining concerns, and taxes were paid by taking a percentage of raw materials mined. These taxes were then sold and the funds used to prop up the Mica Military and keep a few emergency engineering teams ready.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 187</ref> When the government collapsed, the citizens brigades also disbanded. The Majority Military in [[3145]] is entirely handled by mercenary forces.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 190</ref> [[Larson's Loners]] stationed an overstrength battalion on each of the Majority's worlds in 3145, primarily based around the mining and terraforming equipment.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 199</ref>
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==Political Affiliation==
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* [[2596]] - No record<ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
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* [[2750]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
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* [[2764]] - Independent world<ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
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* [[2765]] - Independent world<ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name=FR:2765Pp36>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 36: "Outworlds Alliance Militia Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
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* [[2822]] - Independent world<ref name="H:LOTv2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
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* [[3025]] - Independent world<ref>''The Periphery, First Edition'', pp. 156–157: "Maps of the Periphery - [3025]"</ref>
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* [[3040]] - Independent world<ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
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* [[3050]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
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* [[3052]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref>
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* [[3057]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
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* [[3059]] - Independent world<ref name="TP2Ep112">''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', p. 112: "Outworlds Alliance Region Map - [3025]"</ref>
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* [[3063]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
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* [[3067]] - Independent world<ref name="J:FRp43">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
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* [[3075]] - Independent world<ref name="JS:TBDp64">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
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* [[3079]] - Independent world<ref name="FR:Pp22">''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 22: "Filtvelt Coalition Region Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
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* [[3081]] - Independent world<ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
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* [[3085]] - Independent world<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
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* [[3105]] - Independent world<ref name=AFoT>''…And Full of Terrors''</ref>
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* [[3135]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
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* [[3145]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3145p39">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref>
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== Mica II ==
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* [[Larson's Loners]]<ref name=FM3145p203>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 203: "Mica Majority"</ref>
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File:Mica_Majority_3079.png|Mica Majority as of 3079
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== Nearby Systems ==
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| class="over30" | [[Novo Franklin]]
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| class="over30" | 46.0
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| class="over30" | [[Hivrannee]]
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| class="over30" | 58.6
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| class="over60" | [[Kentwood]]
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| class="over60" | 64.5
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| class="over60" | [[Cohay]]
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| class="over60" | 70.1
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| class="over60" | [[Millray]]
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| class="over60" | 70.8
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| class="over60" | [[Delos]]
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| class="over60" | 79.0
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| class="over60" | [[Boondock]]
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| class="over60" | 89.1
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| class="over60" | [[Bassfield]]
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| class="over60" | 91.9
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| class="over60" | [[Abbeville]]
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| class="over60" | 93.4
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| class="over60" | [[Cephei]]
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| class="over60" | 97.9
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| class="over60" | [[Arnaudville]]
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| class="over60" | 98.2
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| class="over60" | [[Tangipahoa]]
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| class="over60" | 98.4
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| class="over60" | [[Beaumont]]
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| class="over60" | 98.5
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| class="over60" | [[Pattison]]
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| class="over60" | 99.5
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| class="over60" | [[Vonja]]
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| class="over60" | 103.3
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| class="over60" | [[Rosepine]]
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| class="over60" | 103.7
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| class="over60" | [[Thibodaux]]
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| class="over60" | 106.6
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| class="over60" | [[Sornath]]
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| class="over60" | 107.9
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| class="over60" | [[Waitur]]
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| class="over60" | 109.1
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| class="over60" | [[Inner End]]
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| class="over60" | 109.2
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
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* ''[[…And Full of Terrors]]'' (short story)
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* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
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* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
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* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
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* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: Periphery]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
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* ''[[Field Report: Periphery]]''
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* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
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* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
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* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
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* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
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* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
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* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
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* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
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* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
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* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
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* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery, First Edition]]''
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* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition]]''
  
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Mica Majority (Micanos)
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates679.862 : 17.150[e]
Spectral classK3V
Recharge station(s)Zenith
Planet(s)7[citation needed]

The Mica Majority (also known as Micanos) is an independent star system located in the Periphery between the Federated Suns and the Outworlds Alliance. It consists of three colonized planets (Mica II, Mica V, and Mica VII), which survive off of their relatively rich mineral fields. The system also serves as a substantial trade hub, thanks to the large station built at its jump point when the system served as a Draconis Combine prison colony.[1]

System History[edit]

Founding[edit]

The Micanos system was originally colonized by the Draconis Combine in the second half of the twenty-sixth century to take advantage of the rich mineral deposits on three of the worlds within the system. The Combine established expensive environmental domes on the worlds to support the worker population, and the revenues from the mining quickly exceeded the cost of setting up the operation in the first place, even with the cost of fabricating and installing the domes.[2]

The Draconis Combine used various enemies of the state as workers in the mine, most commonly protestors and political prisoners. Even with the domes, conditions in the mines were harsh, and within the first decade of operation more than half the workforce was rumored to have died.[2]

Succession Wars[edit]

The cost of running entire worlds as prisons mounted during the chaos of the Succession Wars, and the Draconis Combine began pulling out of their various forced mining concerns; this included the Micanos system, which found itself suddenly independent. The remoteness of the Micanos system and the harsh environment actually served as viable forms of defense and protection for the inhabitants, and the population continued to survive where many of their contemporaries across the Inner Sphere died.[2]

With so many political prisoners and protestors among the workforce, the various planets found themselves possessed of a largely well-educated workforce who had established a functioning social order, and the newly formed Mica Majority returned to operating the mines, with the huge station located at the system zenith jump point continuing to serve as a hub for the trade convoys that continued to move in and out of the system. The mining operations would become steadily more difficult and dangerous over time, as the more easily worked lodes and veins had already been exhausted during the Combine administration; while the mining operations were still viable, the inhabitants were paying an ever-increasing cost in terms of both resources and lives to keep up their trading operations.[2]

In the 3030s the Majority was briefly conquered by bandits from the Tortuga Dominions, but Lady Death and her forces stayed for less than a month; there was simply nothing of worth in the system to make a continued occupation worthwhile.[2]

By the 3060s the majority of the original domes had been converted for agriculture, growing just enough food to support the local population, and the mining operations had all moved to the system's asteroid belt, with output being a fraction of that maintained during the early years of operation. The economy of the Majority had shifted; the huge station floating at the zenith point had become a waystation for those traveling in the Periphery, with bazaars, taverns, brothels, shops and all the other establishments needed to encourage travelers to stop a while.[2]

The Mica Majority had also experienced an increasing tourism trade, of a nature that rather baffled the original inhabitants; rich inhabitants of the Inner Sphere had begun paying to come and work in the mines as a kind of thrill-seeking experience or adventure holiday. Although somewhat bemused, the locals were only too happy to take the Spheroid's money and subject them to a few weeks of the same treatment miners had experienced under the Combine occupation.[2] The FedCom Civil War had a negative effect on the tourism trade in the 3060s, but the Mica Majority began exploiting a nearby system in 3064 with a resulting boost in trade of five hundred percent by 3067.[3]

The Jihad[edit]

With the rise of Clan Snow Raven in and around the Outworlds Alliance, the Mica Majority was keeping a low profile in the closing years of the Jihad. With inexplicable numbers of tourists continuing to visit the Majority, tourism and the export of mineral ores remained the main contributors to the local economy by the beginning of the 3080s. While the veteran Larsen's Loners remained employed by the Mica Majority for defensive purposes, the five lances of 'Mechs owned by the Loners would offer little resistance against a determined attack from the Ravens.

In addition to more traditional ores, the Mica jump station has become a hub for small scale traders, lostech prospectors, and drifters of all kinds. Among this varied band, Clan Diamond Shark representatives have been spotted. It is speculated that they may want to add the Mica station to their Periphery trade network in order to take advantage of the recent mineral finds in a nearby system, which have quintupled the Majority's trading profits since 3064.[4]

Dark Age[edit]

The population of the Mica Majority became more isolationist and libertarian in the decades after the Jihad. Bandit raids damaged the sun shield around Mica II and hundreds died in 3096. Mica V and Mica VII suffered similar attacks and equipment failures in 3097. Eventually the government couldn't collect taxes, and collapsed completely in 3111.[5] In time a new government was created by mining concerns, and taxes were paid by taking a percentage of raw materials mined. These taxes were then sold and the funds used to prop up the Mica Military and keep a few emergency engineering teams ready.[6] When the government collapsed, the citizens brigades also disbanded. The Majority Military in 3145 is entirely handled by mercenary forces.[7] Larson's Loners stationed an overstrength battalion on each of the Majority's worlds in 3145, primarily based around the mining and terraforming equipment.[8]

Political Affiliation[edit]

Mica II[edit]


Military Deployment[edit]

3145[edit]

Mica V[edit]

Military Deployment[edit]

3085[edit]

3145[edit]


Mica VII[edit]

Military Deployment[edit]

3085[edit]

3145[edit]


Image gallery[edit]

  • Mica Majority as of 3079

  • Mica Majority as of 3130

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 20 systems (2 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Novo Franklin 46.0 Hivrannee 58.6 Kentwood 64.5 Cohay 70.1
Millray 70.8 Delos 79.0 Boondock 89.1 Bassfield 91.9
Abbeville 93.4 Cephei 97.9 Arnaudville 98.2 Tangipahoa 98.4
Beaumont 98.5 Pattison 99.5 Vonja 103.3 Rosepine 103.7
Thibodaux 106.6 Sornath 107.9 Waitur 109.1 Inner End 109.2

References[edit]

  1. ↑ The Periphery, First Edition, p. 136
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Field Manual: Periphery, pp. 108–109: "Mica Majority"
  3. ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 198: "Lesser Periphery States"
  4. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 10
  5. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 186
  6. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 187
  7. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 190
  8. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 199
  9. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  10. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  11. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  12. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  13. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 36: "Outworlds Alliance Militia Deployment Map - [2765]"
  14. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  15. ↑ The Periphery, First Edition, pp. 156–157: "Maps of the Periphery - [3025]"
  16. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  17. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  18. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  19. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  20. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 112: "Outworlds Alliance Region Map - [3025]"
  21. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  22. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  23. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  24. ↑ Field Report: Periphery, p. 22: "Filtvelt Coalition Region Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  25. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  26. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  27. ↑ …And Full of Terrors
  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. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. 203: "Mica Majority"
  32. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 152: "Deployment Table - 3085"
  33. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 152: "Deployment Table - 3085"

Bibliography[edit]

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