Editing Norn


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==Political Affiliation==
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* [[2319]] - No record<ref name="HB:HKp18">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 18: "Draconis Combine Founding" - [2319] Map</ref>
* [[2571]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp31">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 31: "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2596]] - No record<ref name=HRWp159>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]]<ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="H:LoTV1p11>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref>
* [[2786]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War'', pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36: "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp43">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 43: "Draconis Combine after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="H:LOTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 122: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War'', pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[2864]] - [[Draconis Combine]]<ref name="HB:HKp53">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 53: "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40: "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
* [[3015]] - Draconis Combine<ref name=MSc2>''Mercenary's Star'', ch. 2</ref>
* [[3023]] - Draconis Combine<ref name=WW>''Without Warning''</ref>
* [[3025]] - Draconis Combine<ref name="HK(TDC)pvii">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. vii: "Draconis Combine Map - [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp64">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 64: "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref><ref name="HS(TLC)pvii">''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. vii: "Lyran Commonwealth Map - [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47: "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
* [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56: "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp66">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 66: "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - [[Free Rasalhague Republic]]<ref name="HB:HKp68">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 68: "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59: "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Free Rasalhague Republic<ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
* [[3052]] - [[Clan Wolf]]<ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61: "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp71">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 71: "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Clan Wolf<ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
* [[3063]] - Clan Wolf<ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
* [[3067]] - Clan Wolf<ref name="HB:HKp74">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 74: "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70: "Lyran Alliance after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name=J:FRp42>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3071]] - [[Clan Hell's Horses]] (from April)<ref name="JHS3076p15"/>
* [[3072]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 31: "Clan Occupation Zones - [3072] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="JS:TBDp65>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="FR:LAAFp19">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 19: "Lyran Alliance Armed Forces Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref><ref name=FR:DCMSp21>''Field Report: DCMS'', p. 21: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref><ref name="FR:Cp27">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 27: "Clan Wolf/Clan Hell's Horses Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="J:FRp62">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3135]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Clan Hell's Horses<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>
* [[3151]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name=SFp103>''Shattered Fortress'', p. 103: "Inner Sphere - 3151" (Map)</ref>
* [[3152]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name=TRpm/>
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== Description ==
===Norn System===
Norn is a K2 class star, cooler, smaller, and redder than Sol. It is located in the border reaches of the Tamar Pact region of the Lyran Commonwealth close to the Draconis Combine border. Three worlds circle the primary, along with the usual collection of asteroidal debris and cometary junk.

Norn I, named Skuld, is a cloud-shrouded terrestrial planet with a hot and poisonous atmosphere. Urth, Norn III, is a glacial terrestrial world of frozen ammonia seas and methane gales.

==Norn II (Verthandi)==
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'''Verthandi''' also known as '''Norn II''', is the second of three worlds that orbit a K2 class sun in the ''Norn'' system. Between these extremes of fire and ice, arid Verthandi is a terrestrial nearly the size of Terra. It has an orbit close to the inner boundary of Norn's habitable zone. Here, water remained liquid, but its sun's long days and high percentage of infrared made a desert of most of Verthandi's surface.

Verthandi's presettlement history features an impact by an asteroid that struck near Verthandi's north pole forming a large impact crater basin named the Silvan Basin. The impact hurled molten chunks of dense matter for thousands of kilometers into secondary impacts in the southern desert.

The Silvan Basin is now filled with jungle and is the site of the Azure Sea. Within the Silvan Basin the land slopes down sharply from the encircling high ground plateaus and rugged mountains. At the northern base of the slope, in a narrow circle clear around the world's pole at roughly 60° north, is a fertile zone where erosion from the southern slopes combined with runoff from the spring floods on the high plateaus. The land here was wet, laced with swamps and stretches of tropical undergrowth far more impenetrable than any true jungle. The southern hemisphere is largely desert.

Verthandi's largest body of water is the Azure Sea. The sea is surrounded by jungles and swamp.

Mineral surveys on Verthandi in the early 3020's found significant rich economic mineral deposits resulting from the asteroid strike.

Verthandi's atmosphere is a breathable nitrogen-oxygen mixture.

In 3020 Verthandi was considered a Lostech world with its people dependent on others for transport and commerce. Primary industries are agriculture and manufacturing which supports agriculture and local commerce. The main agricultural products from the fertile Silvan Basin are lumber and coffee. Verthandi also produces kevla, blueleaf, and garlbean as well as bananas, sugarcane, cotton, and grovacas. Further into the swamps are clearings for rice, rubber, and jute. High along the basin slopes, the steep-sided jungle ridge called Basin Rim, plantations also grow coffee and cacao.

Quiet resort communities exist along the tropical coast of the Azure Sea. Verthandi has also been well known throughout much of the Commonwealth for its university at the capital city of Regis.

Large mining operations are found in the deserts in the southern hemisphere and at local secondary impact points from the asteroid strike which deposited the minerals on Verthandi's surface.

===Capital and Government - Regis===
Verthandi's capital, Regis, is the site of government, the University of Regis, the spaceport, and most of the heavy industry on the planet.
The capital city of Regis was governed by Verthandi's ruling Council of Academicians, a democratic body elected from among the senior professors of government at Regis University.

The Norn system was originally settled by colonists of Scandanavian descent who named those planets for the three fates of Norse mythology.

'Verthandi'' itself has one large moon designated ''Verthandi Alpha'' that has a naval base on it.

===Planetary History===
====Star League era====
The Norn system was originally settled by colonists of Scandanavian descent who named those planets for the three fates of Norse mythology. At some point in the early 2600s there was a civil war.

====Third Succession War====
In [[3025]], Verthandi held a widespread independence movement. Although Lyran, the world had been conquered and held by the Draconis Combine since [[3015]]. Guerrilla movements, supported by several wealthy individuals, harassed the Combine forces occupying the world. In 3025 the Verthandi rebel movement hired the [[Gray Death Legion]] to provide training for the rebel movement and transport military supplies needed for the guerrillas. Although the Legion was unable to land unopposed and faced difficulties within the movement as well as Combine opposition, they eventually rallied the guerrilla forces and liberated the planetary capital, defeating the Combine's main occupation force. After the successful popular uprising, surviving Kuritan forces fell back to Regisport in disarray.<ref>''Mercenary's Star'', pp. 360–361: "Regisport becomes a refugee center for Kuritan soldiers following defeat by Verthandian rebels"</ref>
Regisport's repair yards were sufficient to make the Gray Death's DropShip, the ''[[Phobos]]'', flightworthy enough to leave Verthandi at the conclusion of the [[mercenary]] command's contract.<ref>''Mercenary's Star'', p. 367: "Regisport facilities used to make good the damage to the ''Phobos''"</ref>

As part of the popular uprising, one [[Frances Marrion]], a former art student at the University of Regis, led a group of rebels in capturing the [[Vengeance (Monitor)|Vengeance]], a [[Monitor]] class surface vessel in Port Gaspin.  Renaming the ship Swamp Fox, Marrison went on to raid and disrupt Combine control of the Silvan Basin for several months.  Because of this, Combine reinforcements specifically target the Swamp Fox for destruction.  They used a supply depot stationed near the river as bait and when the Swamp Fox closed to shell the facility, four BattleMechs emerged and attacked Marrion's ship.  Despite destroying two Combine [[Marauder]]s and crippling a [[Shadow Hawk]], the Swamp Fox and her crew were sent to the bottom.<ref name=TR3026REp72>''Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition'', p. 72: "Deployment"</ref>

====Operation REVIVAL====
Verthandi was conquered by [[Clan Wolf]] during [[Operation REVIVAL]] in May [[3050]].  At the time the planet was defended by the Second Battalion of the [[Second Kell Hounds]] and the Third Battalion of the [[2nd Drakøns]], along with the 4th Verthandi Armored Infantry Brigade.  It was decided that an attempt would be made to gather as much information about these mysterious invaders as possible, and so a number of recording devices were planted all across Prince William Island.  When [[Star Colonel]] [[Athen Kederk]] of the [[328th Assault (Clan Wolf)|328th Assault]] made his ''[[batchall]]'' to the defenders, the Kell Hounds and Drakøns requested that the small forested island be designated as the battlefield.  The Star Colonel agreed, impressed by their ability to honor the ''batchall'', and attacked with the 328th's [[Supernova (unit)|Supernova Battle]].  Five hours of fierce fighting took place across the island, on Onegin Shore, the Divers Plain and at Aaron Woods, with both sides giving as good as they got.  Eventually the Kell Hounds and Drakøns were forced to retreat, but not before a [[Star]] of [[Elementals]] broke through their defensive lines and destroyed most of their recording equipment.  Defeated, the Kell Hounds fled to the [[Federated Commonwealth]] while the Drakøns made their way to [[Rasalhague]].<ref name=WCS059>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 59</ref>

====The Jihad====
Verthandi was conquered again during the Jihad; [[Clan Hell's Horses]] launched an invasion of Clan Wolf holdings in the [[Inner Sphere]] in early [[3071]], acquiring holdings for their own relocation to Spheroid space. Verthandi was seized by the Hell's Horses between the 7th and 14th of April 3071.<ref name="JHS3076p15">''Jihad Hot Spots: 3076'', p. 15: "Timeline of the Jihad"</ref>

===Military Deployment===
====2821====
* [[Twenty-second Lyran Regulars]]<ref name="FSWp139">''First Succession War'', p. 139: "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"</ref>

====2864====
* [[26th Rasalhague Regulars|Twenty-sixth Rasalhague Regulars]]<ref>Second Succession War, p. 97: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery: Deployment Table"</ref>

====3026====
* [[3rd Strike Regiment (Draconis Combine)|Third Strike Regiment]]<ref name=GDLp30>''Gray Death Legion'', p. 30: Company A unit list.</ref>
* [[Verthandi Militia|Loyal "Blues" Militia]]
* [[Free Verthandi Rangers]]<ref name=GDLp30 />

====3050====
* [[2nd Kell Hounds|Second Battalion of the 2nd Kell Hounds]]<ref name=WCS059 />
* [[2nd Drakøns|Third Battalion of the 2nd Drakøns]]<ref name=WCS059 />
* [[Verthandi Militia|Fourth Verthandi Armored Infantry Brigade]]<ref name=WCS059 />

====3085====
* [[91st Mechanized Assault (Clan Hell's Horses)|Ninety-first Mechanized Assault]]<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 125: "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>

====3145====
* [[30th Mechanized Strike (Clan Hell's Horses)|Thirtieth Mechanized Strike]]<ref name=FM:3145p167>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 167: "Clan Force Deployments - Clan Hell's Horses"</ref>

===Planetary Locations===
* Regis, The capital city of ''Verthandi''.<ref name=MSp230>''Mercenary's Star'', p. 230: "Location of the spaceport"</ref>
** University of Regis, a large walled campus just south of Regis city.
** Regisport, the planetary [[DropShip]] landing facility, is located ten kilometers north of the city.<ref name=MSp230/>
* The [[Silvan Basin]], an enormous area within an asteroid crater, lies to the north of Regis.<ref name=MSpVI>''Mercenary's Star'', p. vi: "Verthandi surface map details"</ref><ref name=WW/>
** Azure Sea<ref name=MSp114>''Mercenary's Star'', p. 114: "Gunnar Ericksson describes local geography to Grayson Carlyle"</ref>
** Fox Island<ref name=MSp114/>
** The Basin Rim cliffs<ref name=MSp114/>
** Port Gaspin<ref name=TR3026REp72>''Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition'', p. 72: "Deployment"</ref>
** Vannas: a village.<ref name=WW/>
* Bluesward Plateau
* [[Mountain Vista]]<ref name=MSpVI/>
* Onegin Shore: The site of a major battle during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name=WCS059 />
* Divers Plain: The site of a major battle during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name=WCS059 />
* Aaron Woods: The site of a major battle during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name=WCS059 />

===Industrial Centers===
* [[Ericksson-Agro]]<ref name=MSp114/>

== Map Gallery ==
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== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 32 systems (32 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[New Caledonia]]
| class="lessthan30" | 10.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[Csesztreg]]
| class="lessthan30" | 15.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Kirchbach]]
| class="lessthan30" | 20.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Chateau]]
| class="lessthan30" | 20.9
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Harvest]]
| class="lessthan30" | 21.9
| class="lessthan30" | [[The Edge]]
| class="lessthan30" | 23.9
| class="lessthan30" | [[Lovinac]]
| class="lessthan30" | 26.2
| class="over30" | [[Planting]]
| class="over30" | 31.3
|-
| class="over30" | [[Icar]]
| class="over30" | 33.8
| class="over30" | [[Liezen]]
| class="over30" | 37.4
| class="over30" | [[Mozirje]]
| class="over30" | 37.5
| class="over30" | [[Rodigo|Alsace]]
| class="over30" | 37.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Romulus]]
| class="over30" | 38.6
| class="over30" | [[St. John]]
| class="over30" | 41.7
| class="over30" | [[Maxie's Planet]]
| class="over30" | 42.1
| class="over30" | [[Kreller]]
| class="over30" | 43.4
|-
| class="over30" | [[Seiduts]]
| class="over30" | 43.8
| class="over30" | [[Ridderkerk]]
| class="over30" | 45.5
| class="over30" | [[Star's End]]
| class="over30" | 46.0
| class="over30" | [[Alleghe]]
| class="over30" | 46.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Vantaa]]
| class="over30" | 47.9
| class="over30" | [[Feltre]]
| class="over30" | 48.4
| class="over30" | [[Bruben]]
| class="over30" | 49.7
| class="over30" | [[Persistence]]
| class="over30" | 52.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Evciler]]
| class="over30" | 56.3
| class="over30" | [[Steelton]]
| class="over30" | 57.4
| class="over30" | [[Basiliano]]
| class="over30" | 57.4
| class="over30" | [[Winfield (LC)|Treeline]]
| class="over30" | 57.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Svarstaad]]
| class="over30" | 57.8
| class="over30" | [[Iron Land]]
| class="over30" | 59.8
| class="over30" | [[Trell]]
| class="over30" | 59.8
| class="over30" | [[Hohenems]]
| class="over30" | 59.9
|-
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
<div class="desktop-3-col">
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report: Clans]]''
* ''[[Field Report: DCMS]]''
* ''[[Field Report: LAAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Kurita]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)]]''
* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Hot Spots: 3076]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[[Mercenary's Star (novel)|Mercenary's Star]]'' (novel)
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Shattered Fortress]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition]]''
* ''[[Without Warning]]'' (short story)
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[[Category:Systems|Norn]]
[[Category: Clan Wolf Systems]]
[[Category: Clan Hell's Horses Systems]]
[[Category: Draconis Combine Systems]]
[[Category: Free Rasalhague Republic Systems]]
[[Category: Lyran Commonwealth Systems]]