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The '''Pirate's Haven''' stellar cluster is home to at least one habitable world and as at [[3145]] was located in the [[Periphery]] between the borders of the [[Calderon Protectorate]] and the [[Periphery March (Federated Suns)|Periphery March]] of the [[Federated Suns]].<ref name="ER:3145p39"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
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== System Description ==
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The Pirate's Haven stellar cluster is located near the [[Dumassas]] and [[Hawktor]] systems<ref name=ER:3145p39/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/> and consists of a dense cluster of stars, within which are located some fifty assorted planets. The nature of existence within a stellar cluster means that some of these fifty planets have wild, erratic orbits, while some others are held awkwardly in the gravitational fields of multiple stars. At the heart of the cluster lies a protostar, torn apart before it could form and kept from forming by intense gravitational forces; those same gravitational forces make it hazardous in the extreme for [[JumpShip]]s to attempt to approach the cluster.<ref name="FM:Pp126"/>
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== System History ==
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=== Reunification War ===
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A single planet within the cluster, '''[[Badlands]]''', had been colonised by the [[Taurian Concordat]] prior to the [[Reunification War]]; at that point, the Pirate's Haven star cluster was known as the '''Badlands Cluster'''.<ref name="H:MPSp121"/> The [[Star League Defense Force]] largely ignored the Badlands Cluster during the Reunification War; Badlands was a minor world, and for a decade, [[SLDF]] monitoring ships watched the cluster closely, without being able to determine much of anything about Badlands itself or whatever was on the planet. None of the Taurian ships captured by the SLDF during the course of the Reunification War had ever travelled to badlands, and the most that the intelligence agencies of both the SLDF and the Federated Suns could determine about Badlands was that it was a hot, desolate planet - and one that was almost never visited. Faced with the prospect of having to spend years surveying and mapping the cluster before they had any chance of finding Badlands - or any safe jump points to use within the cluster - the SLDF ignored it. The Calderons largely ignored the Cluster as well, and as a result Badlands became a haven for refugees, dissidents and outlaws throughout the war, and the first SLDF garrison wouldn't be placed on Badlands until after the war ended.<ref name="H:LOTv1p86">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 86, "Ignoring the Badlands"</ref>
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=== Star League Era ===
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A second planet within the Cluster, '''[[Lorkdal]]''', was colonised by the Concordat during the [[Star League era]].<ref name="H:MPSp121"/><ref name="ER:2750p37"/>
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=== Succession Wars ===
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The Concordat ceded control over the Badlands Cluster during the [[Third Succession War]]<ref name="HB:HDp60"/><ref name="H:MPSp121"/><ref name="TPp151"/><ref name="HB:HDp70"/> and the cluster, which had already been home to outlaws for centuries,<ref name="H:LOTv1p86"/> became known as Pirate's Haven.<ref name="H:MPSp121"/><ref name="TPp151"/><ref name="HB:HDp70"/><ref name="H:MPSp127"/>
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=== FedCom Civil War ===
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By [[3064]] a single planet inside the cluster was known to be habitable, and that planet was ruled over by the bandit king Bloody James Kaiten. Kaiten maintained control of the planet - albeit barely - until the arrival of [[Paula Trevaline]], the infamous Lady Death, and her reformed [[Death's Consorts]]. Trevaline battled Kaiten for control of Haven, and Kaiten fought hard - finally dying "kicking, thrashing and finally choking on his own tongue" and Trevaline became Dame of Haven, with the rest of the cluster accepting her control by acclamation.<ref name="FM:Pp126">''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 126, "Death's Consorts"</ref> A small 'Mech factory was created in the Cluster, which allowed the pirates to produce a light [[BattleMech|'Mech]] for the first time, the ''[[Brigand]]''.<ref name="TRO:3067p46">''Technical Readout: 3067'', p. 46, "Brigand"</ref>
  
 
== Political Affiliation ==
 
== Political Affiliation ==
 
* [[2317]] - No record <ref name="HB:HDp18">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 18, "Federated Suns at their Founding - [2317] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2317]] - No record <ref name="HB:HDp18">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 18, "Federated Suns at their Founding - [2317] Map"</ref>
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* [[2571]] - [[Taurian Concordat]] <ref name="H:MPSp121">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p, 121, "Taurian Concordat after Age of War [2571], Fall of the Star League [2750] and End of the 3rd Succession War [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp48">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 48, "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
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* [[2571]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:MPSp121">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p, 121, "Taurian Concordat after Age of War [2571], Fall of the Star League [2750] and End of the 3rd Succession War [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp48">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 48, "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2596]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2596]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
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* [[2750]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:MPSp121"/><ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2764]] - Taurian Concordat <ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2764]] - Taurian Concordat <ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
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* [[2750]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:MPSp121"/><ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
 
 
* [[2765]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name=FR:2765Pp37>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 37, "Taurian Defense Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref><ref name=FR:2765FSp29>''Field Report 2765: Federated Suns'', p. 29, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>  
 
* [[2765]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name=FR:2765Pp37>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 37, "Taurian Defense Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref><ref name=FR:2765FSp29>''Field Report 2765: Federated Suns'', p. 29, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>  
 
* [[2767]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:LoTv1p96">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 96, "Taurian Concordat - [2767] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2767]] - Taurian Concordat <ref name="H:LoTv1p96">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 96, "Taurian Concordat - [2767] Map"</ref>
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* [[3135]] - Independent world <ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
 
* [[3135]] - Independent world <ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
 
* [[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>
 
* [[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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The Pirate's Haven is a Star Cluster of 50 standard stars packed closely together.
 
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Not publicly known, is a inhabitable world which pirate bands by the [[thirty-first century]] have settled.<ref>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 126, "Death's Consorts"</ref>
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This Cluster was originally settled by the Taurian Concordat just prior to the [[Reunification War]]. It was known then as the Badlands Cluster, which originally had one settled planet named [[Badlands]]. Prior to the outbreak of the [[First Succession War]] a second world, [[Lorkdal]], had been settled.<ref name="H:MPSp121"/>
 
  
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During the Succession Wars, settlements in the Star Cluster were "lost" with the cluster eventually being considered to no longer be a part of the Concordat.  However, Pirate bands begun operating from the Cluster due to the difficulty involved in pursuing forces following them into it.  The Badlands Cluster became known as the Pirates Haven Star Cluster by the end of the [[Third Succession War]].<ref name="H:MPSp127"/>
 
  
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During the early 3060s the Cluster was ruled by the Pirate King "Bloody James Kaiten". He and his Pirates had secured an inhabitable planet in the star cluster unknown to the entire [[Inner Sphere]], although it is not known if this planet is one of the two planets originally settled by the [[Taurian Concordat]]. In [[3064]] the Cluster was "visited" by [[Death's Consorts]], led by [[Paula Trevaline|''Lady Death'' Paula Trevaline]].  She and her pirates invaded the system's inhabited planet and took over.  When Trevaline killed Bloody James, she was acknowledged as ruler of the entire Cluster.  In the years to follow, the Pirate's Haven would become the Consorts' principal base of operations. A small 'Mech factory was created in the Cluster, which allowed the pirates to produce a light [[BattleMech|'Mech]] for the first time, the ''[[Brigand]]''.<ref name="TRO:3067p46">''Technical Readout: 3067'', p. 46, "Brigand"</ref>
 
  
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Pirate's Haven

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Pirates Haven Cluster
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The Pirate's Haven stellar cluster is home to at least one habitable world and as at 3145 was located in the Periphery between the borders of the Calderon Protectorate and the Periphery March of the Federated Suns.[1][2]

System Description

The Pirate's Haven stellar cluster is located near the Dumassas and Hawktor systems[1][2] and consists of a dense cluster of stars, within which are located some fifty assorted planets. The nature of existence within a stellar cluster means that some of these fifty planets have wild, erratic orbits, while some others are held awkwardly in the gravitational fields of multiple stars. At the heart of the cluster lies a protostar, torn apart before it could form and kept from forming by intense gravitational forces; those same gravitational forces make it hazardous in the extreme for JumpShips to attempt to approach the cluster.[3]

System History

Reunification War

A single planet within the cluster, Badlands, had been colonised by the Taurian Concordat prior to the Reunification War; at that point, the Pirate's Haven star cluster was known as the Badlands Cluster.[4] The Star League Defense Force largely ignored the Badlands Cluster during the Reunification War; Badlands was a minor world, and for a decade, SLDF monitoring ships watched the cluster closely, without being able to determine much of anything about Badlands itself or whatever was on the planet. None of the Taurian ships captured by the SLDF during the course of the Reunification War had ever travelled to badlands, and the most that the intelligence agencies of both the SLDF and the Federated Suns could determine about Badlands was that it was a hot, desolate planet - and one that was almost never visited. Faced with the prospect of having to spend years surveying and mapping the cluster before they had any chance of finding Badlands - or any safe jump points to use within the cluster - the SLDF ignored it. The Calderons largely ignored the Cluster as well, and as a result Badlands became a haven for refugees, dissidents and outlaws throughout the war, and the first SLDF garrison wouldn't be placed on Badlands until after the war ended.[5]

Star League Era

A second planet within the Cluster, Lorkdal, was colonised by the Concordat during the Star League era.[4][6]

Succession Wars

The Concordat ceded control over the Badlands Cluster during the Third Succession War[7][4][8][9] and the cluster, which had already been home to outlaws for centuries,[5] became known as Pirate's Haven.[4][8][9][10]

FedCom Civil War

By 3064 a single planet inside the cluster was known to be habitable, and that planet was ruled over by the bandit king Bloody James Kaiten. Kaiten maintained control of the planet - albeit barely - until the arrival of Paula Trevaline, the infamous Lady Death, and her reformed Death's Consorts. Trevaline battled Kaiten for control of Haven, and Kaiten fought hard - finally dying "kicking, thrashing and finally choking on his own tongue" and Trevaline became Dame of Haven, with the rest of the cluster accepting her control by acclamation.[3] A small 'Mech factory was created in the Cluster, which allowed the pirates to produce a light 'Mech for the first time, the Brigand.[11]

Political Affiliation

Nearby Systems

Note that Badlands and Lorkdal are contained within the cluster.

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Badlands 5.5 Lorkdal 7.2 Dumassas 28.4 Hawktor 30.7
Leh 31 Klenkar 31.6 Angra 36.2 Cadela 41.1
Charleston 42.5 Althea's Choice 45.8 Armington 46.3 Simone 46.8
Famdo 48.7 Estuan 51.6 San Carlos 53.5 Verdigreis 55.6
Csomad 57.7 Serenity 58.0

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Field Manual: Periphery, p. 126, "Death's Consorts"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 121, "Taurian Concordat after Age of War [2571], Fall of the Star League [2750] and End of the 3rd Succession War [3025]"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 86, "Ignoring the Badlands"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns After Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 The Periphery (Sourcebook), p. 151, "Maps of the Periphery"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns After Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 127, "Taurian Concordat after modern colonization drive [3040] and after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  11. ↑ Technical Readout: 3067, p. 46, "Brigand"
  12. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 18, "Federated Suns at their Founding - [2317] Map"
  13. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 48, "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  14. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  15. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  16. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  17. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 37, "Taurian Defense Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  18. ↑ Field Report 2765: Federated Suns, p. 29, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  19. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 96, "Taurian Concordat - [2767] Map"
  20. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 54, "Federated Suns after First Succesion War - [2822] Map"
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns After Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  23. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 76, "Federated Suns after War of 3039 - [3040]"
  24. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  25. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  26. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  27. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  28. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 78, "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"
  29. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 111, "Taurian Concordat and Tortuga Dominions"
  30. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, Inner Sphere - [3063] Map
  31. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  32. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  33. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  34. ↑ Field Report: Periphery, p. 23, "Taurian Concordat Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  35. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  36. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. Vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  37. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  38. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"

Bibliography

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