Editing Sigurd

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The '''Sigurd''' system was home to at least one habitable moon and as of [[3145]] was located in the [[Periphery]] region known as [[The Barrens]].<ref name=ER:3145p39/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>

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== System Description ==
The Sigurd system was located near the [[Butte Hold]] and [[Oberon VI]] systems<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/> and consists of a class F4 primary orbited by at least one planet, a gas giant named Odin. Odin has at least one habitable moon.<ref name=GB>''Godt Bytte''</ref>

== System History ==
Sigurd was either settled during the [[Star League era]] at some point after the end of the [[Reunification War]] by the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] or was an already-settled system that became significant enough during this era for [[Inner Sphere]] nations to record its location on maps.<ref name="H:RWp158"/><ref name="HB:HSp25"/><ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/>

== Political Affiliation ==
* [[2571]] - No record <ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2596]] - No record <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - [[Rim Worlds Republic]] <ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name="H:LoTV1p10">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name="FR2765:Pp38">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 38, "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref><ref name="FR2765:LCAFp25">''Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
* [[2767]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name="H:LoTV1p104>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"</ref>
* [[2775]] - [[Oberon Confederation]] <ref name="HB:MPSp37"/>
* [[2786]] - Independent world <ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Independent world <ref name="H:LoTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[2864]] - Independent world <ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
* [[3025]] - Oberon Confederation <ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref><ref name="TP1Epvii">''The Periphery (sourcebook)'', p. vii, "Map of the Periphery"</ref>
* [[3030]] - Oberon Confederation <ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - Oberon Confederation <ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Oberon Confederation <ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
* [[3052]] - [[Clan Wolf]] <ref name="ER:3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Clan Wolf <ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
* [[3059]] - Clan Wolf <ref name="TP2Ep115">''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', p. 115, "Greater Valkyrate, Oberon Confederation & Elysian Fields"</ref>
* [[3063]] - Clan Wolf <ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
* [[3067]] - Clan Wolf <ref name="J:FRp43">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3072]] - [[Clan Hell's Horses]] <ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 31, "Clan Occupation Zones [3072]"</ref>
* [[3075]] - Clan Hell's Horses <ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65, "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Clan Hell's Horses <ref name="FR:p27">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 27, "Clan Wolf/Clan Hell's Horses Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - Clan Hell's Horses <ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Clan Hell's Horses <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3086]] - [[New Oberon Confederation]]<ref>''Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions'', p. 43</ref>
* [[3095]] - [[Republic of the Barrens]] <ref name="ISP3p43"/>
* [[3135]] - The Barrens <ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - The Barrens <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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== Planetary History ==
=== Star League ===
Sigurd was originally part of the Rim Worlds Republic until the nation's downfall that accompanied the end of the [[Star League]]. Unlike many of the former Republic systems the world was not absorbed by the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] but instead founded the Oberon Confederation with the neighboring worlds of [[Oberon VI]] and [[Crellacor]]. Together this little alliance hold on to the Republic cause for at least two decades, but finally succumbed to the numerous pirate attacks.<ref name="HB:MPSp37">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 37, "The Republic-Commonwealth War"</ref> 

=== Succession Wars ===
In the late 29th or early 30th century (in the days of his great-grandfather, in the words of a Sigurd native as of 2972) Sigurd used to trade with the [[JàrnFòlk]], specifically [[Lars Heyerdahl]] and his son [[Liam Heyerdahl|Liam]], but for reasons unknown the contact was lost.<ref name=GB/>

By 2972 Sigurd was still part of the Oberon Confederation in name, but in reality the Sigurders paid hardly any attention to their supposed vassal status, meeting their supposed rulers only twice per year for trading exchanges. Sigurd had to import fertilizer, soil and almost all raw materials for their limited manufacturing, exporting valuable heavy metals. The local population - perhaps two thousand souls, incuding a number of African descend - lived in caves in the ice, and used to extract valuable ores from meteor impact sites by tunneling through the ice instead of digging out the ores which would have required moving substantially more ice, and would not have been economically feasible. Other methods such as lasers were not feasible because raising temperature was to be avoided, and because of the dangers of cracks in the ice mantle.<ref name=GB/>

In 2972 JàrnFòlk trader [[Bjørn Jespersen]] and his son [[Olaf Jespersen|Olaf]] found that one Alma had recently invented a simple ore extractor that separated the ore from the dross with little energy. The keen traders determined this device was at the same time a water purification system - purified water being considered dross on Sigurd - and they established a lucrative trade between Sigurd and [[Botany Bay]] in which the latter would receive much sought-after water purification devices in exchange for their obsidian sand which was, as it turned out, a curse on Botany Bay but a valuable industrial asset for ice mining on Sigurd.<ref name=GB/>

In ca. [[3013]] the government used military force against dissidents on Sigurd to reassert Oberon Confederation control of the moon; future [[Gray Death Legion]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] [[Lori Kalmar]] was orphaned when her parents were killed in that government action.<ref name=DaTR/>

=== Clan Invasion ===
Sigured was invaded on September [[3049]] by [[Clan Wolf]]'s [[37th Striker (Clan Wolf)|Thirty-seventh Striker Cluster]]. The Clan forces made short work of the defending [[Sigurd Guards]] at the Ewell Graveyard, most of whom surrendered at the first sight of their [[OmniMechs]] and [[Elementals]].<ref name="CWSB">''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'',  p. 57, "Periphery Actions"</ref> 

=== Jihad ===
While quickly swallowed up by Clan Wolf in the opening moments of their campaign, the world was conquered by the [[Clan Hell's Horses|Hell's Horses]] during the [[Jihad]].<ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 14</ref>

=== Dark Age ===
In [[3083]] the Ferris Rebellion caused the Clans to withdraw from most of their Periphery holdings. The Hell's Horses had used Oberon IV as an administrative world, and when the Clan left the area in [[3086]], the administrators of that world formed the [[New Oberon Confederation]]. Sigurd was one of five systems to join the new polity.<ref name="ISP3p43">''Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions'', pp. 42-43</ref>
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== Military Deployment ==
=== 3025 ===
* [[Sigurd Light Independent Assault Group]]{{cn}}

=== 3049 ===
* [[Sigurd Guards]]<ref name=WCS057>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 57</ref>

=== 3054 ===
* [[Nega Garrison (Clan Wolf)|Nega Garrison Cluster]], Infantry Trinary <ref name=ORp32>''Objective Raids'', p.32 </ref>

== Geography == 
Sigurd is the cold moon of a glowing gas giant, described as a striped sphere that fills a third of the sky.<ref name=GB/> Only a small crescent is lit by the far, bright sun which was described as an arclight in the deep blue sky while the rest of the gas giant glowed in a sullen red,<ref name=GB/> suggesting it is in fact a [[w:Brown dwarf|Brown Dwarf]].

The surface of Sigurd is completely made up of an ice mantle several hundred meters thick, with liquid water below; it is unknown if there is anything but water in the core, or if there is perhaps a core of rock a hundred kilometers below the surface.<ref name=GB/> A year on Sigurd is the equivalent of 1.7 [[Terra]]n years.<ref name=DaTR>''Decision at Thunder Rift'', p. 208</ref>

== Planetary Locations ==
* Ewell Graveyard: the site of the only major battle on Sigurd during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name="CWSB"/>
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== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 28 systems (25 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Oberon]]
| class="lessthan30" | 9.9
| class="lessthan30" | [[Butte Hold]]
| class="lessthan30" | 17.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Placida]]
| class="lessthan30" | 17.7
| class="lessthan30" | [[Drask's Den]]
| class="lessthan30" | 19.8
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Blackstone]]
| class="lessthan30" | 20.9
| class="lessthan30" | [[Crellacor]]
| class="lessthan30" | 23.2
| class="over30" | [[The Rock]]
| class="over30" | 30.0
| class="over30" | [[Paulus Prime]]
| class="over30" | 30.9
|-
| class="over30" | [[New Ålborg]]
| class="over30" | 33.2
| class="over30" | [[Beowulf (system)|Beowulf]]
| class="over30" | 34.2
| class="over30" | [[Zertarum]]
| class="over30" | 37.2
| class="over30" | [[Iron Land]]
| class="over30" | 37.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Gustrell]]
| class="over30" | 39.5
| class="over30" | [[Bensinger]]
| class="over30" | 43.1
| class="over30" | [[Dirkel]]
| class="over30" | 43.2
| class="over30" | [[Toland]]
| class="over30" | 49.8
|-
| class="over30" | [[Ichmandu]]
| class="over30" | 50.1
| class="over30" | [[Taran's World]]
| class="over30" | 51.0
| class="over30" | [[Cryfder]]
| class="over30" | 51.4
| class="over30" | [[Star's End]]
| class="over30" | 51.8
|-
| class="over30" | [[Apollo (system)|Apollo]]
| class="over30" | 53.8
| class="over30" | [[Ferris (OC)|Ferris]]
| class="over30" | 55.3
| class="over30" | [[Last Chance]]
| class="over30" | 56.0
| class="over30" | [[Steelton]]
| class="over30" | 57.4
|-
| class="over30" | [[Here]]
| class="over30" | 58.0
| class="over60" | [[Elissa]]
| class="over60" | 64.9
| class="over60" | [[Caillinius]]
| class="over60" | 66.5
| class="over60" | [[Von Strang's_World|Erin]]
| class="over60" | 66.8
|-
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]'' 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Field Report: Clans]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (Source Book)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Godt Bytte]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery, First Edition]]''
* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition|The Periphery, Second Edition]]''
* ''[[Wolf Clan Sourcebook]]''

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