Portland

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Portland
System Information
X:Y Coordinates91.27 : -508.60[e]

The Portland system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as at 3145 was located in the Fronc Reaches.[1][2]

System Description

The Portland system is located near the Independence and Rockwellawan systems.[3]

System History

The Portland system was colonized by the Taurian Concordat during the Star League era,[4] becoming a part of the Brinton Union.[5] The Concordat was forced to abandon the system[4] during the Second Succession War[6][7][8][9] but the system was subsequently recolonised.[4]

Political Affiliation

Planetary History

Portland was originally an agricultural world settled during the Star League era, and exported food to support a number of nearby Taurian Concordat worlds. As the Taurian economy suffered during the Succession Wars the Concordat was forced to abandon the world, but Portland was resettled by the Taurian Concordat and the Magistracy of Canopus as a part of the Treaty of Taurus and was incorporated into the New Colony Region. When the New Colony Region declared itself independent in 3066 Portland joined the newly-formed Fronc Reaches. As with the populations of the other Fronc Reaches worlds, the inhabitants of Portland were hopeful that trade agreements would lead to prosperity; in the case of Portland, the locals were keen to begin exporting food once more to those same Taurian worlds Portland had supported centuries before.[4]

As with many other worlds within the Reaches, Portland found itself suffering from pirate attacks in the early years of the new realm, with shipping between Fronc and Portland being targeted by bandits in the late 3060s, leading to speculation that at least one pirate band was based on a nearby world or asteroid.[39]

Military Deployment

3085

3145

  • First Fronc Armor

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Independence 32.8 Rockwellawan 35.1 Heliat 40.2 Coromodir 42.4
McEvans' Sacrifice 50.1 Guldra 53.1 Gangtok 57.1

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  2. 2.0 2.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  3. 3.0 3.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 100, "Irons in the Fire"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 96, "Taurian Concordat - [2767] Map"
  6. 6.0 6.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  7. 7.0 7.1 Handbook: House Davion, p. 54, "Federated Suns after First Succesion War - [2822] Map"
  8. 8.0 8.1 Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns After Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  9. 9.0 9.1 Handbook: House Liao, p. 39, "Capellan Confederation After Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  10. Handbook: House Liao, p. 17, "Capellan Confederation Foundation - [2366] Map"
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 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]"
  12. Handbook: House Davion, p. 48, "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  13. Handbook: House Liao, p. 25, "Capellan Confederation after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  14. Historical: Reunification War, p. 64
  15. Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  16. Field Manual: SLDF, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  17. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  18. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 37, "Taurian Defense Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  19. The Periphery (Sourcebook), p. 151, "Maps of the Periphery"
  20. Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns After Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  21. Handbook: House Liao, p. 40, "Capellan Confederation After Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  22. Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns After Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  23. Handbook: House Liao, p. 49, "Capellan Confederation After Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  24. 24.0 24.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 127, "Taurian Concordat after modern colonization drive [3040] and after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  25. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  26. Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  27. Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  28. Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  29. The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 112, "Magistracy of Canopus & New Colony Region"
  30. Inner Sphere, p. 98, "Near Periphery Kingdoms Map""
  31. Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere [3063] Map"
  32. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  33. Field Report: Periphery, p. 20, "Magistracy of Canopus Region Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  34. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  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"
  39. Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 100, "Marshals and Mercs: The Fronc Reaches Military"
  40. Field Manual: 3085, p. 152, "Fronc Reaches Sentinels"
  41. Field Manual: 3145, p. 203, "Fronc Reaches"

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