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The '''Slewis''' system was home to at least one habitable world and as at [[3145]] was located in the [[Rim Collection]].<ref name=ER:3145p38/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
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== System Description ==
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The Slewis system is located near the [[Kerman]] and [[Rosetta]] systems.<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/>
  
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== Political Affilation ==
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== System History ==
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* [[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>
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The Slewis system had either been colonised by the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] by the end of the [[Age of War]], or was an already-inhabited system that was incorporated into the [[Timbuktu Province]] of the Republic during this era.<ref name="HB:MPSp18"/><ref name="HB:HSp25"/>
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* [[2596]] - No record <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map - [2596] Map"</ref>
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* [[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>
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== Political Affiliation ==
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* [[2571]] - Rim Worlds Republic <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>
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* [[2596]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map - [2596] Map"</ref>
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* [[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>
 
* [[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>
 
* [[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>
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* [[3135]] - Rim Collection <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
 
* [[3135]] - Rim Collection <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
 
* [[3145]] - Rim Collection <ref name=ER:3145p38>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref>
 
* [[3145]] - Rim Collection <ref name=ER:3145p38>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "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 ==
 
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===Reunification War===
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=== Reunification War ===
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By the end of the [[Age of War]] '''Slewis''' was a member of the [[Timbuktu Province]] of the Rim Worlds Republic.<ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War (2571)"</ref> In [[2575]], one of the closing years of the Age of War, civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic, with the factions polarised around those loyal to [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] and those loyal to the [[Rift Republican Army]] and the [[Rim Provisional Government]].<ref name="H:RWp130">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 130, "The Spark"</ref>
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In [[2575]], one of the closing years of the Age of War, civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic, with the factions polarised around those loyal to [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] and those loyal to the [[Rift Republican Army]] and the [[Rim Provisional Government]].<ref name="H:RWp130">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 130, "The Spark"</ref>
  
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The [[Star League]] eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in [[2579]] assembled [[Task Force MAILED FIST]] to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic. A multinational force headed by the [[Star League Defense Force]], Task Force MAILED FIST was responsible for executing [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the name given to the military intervention. The first wave of attacks focused on securing significant worlds near [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]],<ref name="H:RWp132">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132, "Case Apollo"</ref> until a destructive raid on [[Alarion]] by the [[4th Amaris Fusiliers]] in retaliation prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, the focus shifted to reducing [[Rim Worlds Army]] concentrations throughout the Republic and the capture of key worlds.<ref name="H:RWp133">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"</ref>
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The [[Star League]] eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in [[2579]] assembled [[Task Force MAILED FIST]] to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic. A multinational force headed by the [[Star League Defense Force]], Task Force MAILED FIST was responsible for executing [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the name given to the military intervention. The first wave of attacks focused on securing significant worlds near [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]],<ref name="H:RWp132">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132, "Case Apollo"</ref> until a destructive raid on [[Alarion]] by the [[Fourth Amaris Fusiliers]] in retaliation prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, the focus shifted to reducing [[Rim Worlds Army]] concentrations throughout the Republic and the capture of key worlds.<ref name="H:RWp133">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"</ref>
  
 
In late [[2584]] the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]] when they captured [[Nightwish]] in mid-2584.<ref name="H:RWp134">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 134, "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"</ref>
 
In late [[2584]] the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]] when they captured [[Nightwish]] in mid-2584.<ref name="H:RWp134">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 134, "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"</ref>
  
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[[Duke]] [[Narinder Selaj]] of Battle Group Timbuktu assigned three regiments from the [[2nd Marik Auxiliary Corps]] - the [[2nd Defenders of Andurien|Second Defenders of Andurien]], the [[2nd Regulan Hussars|Second Regulan Hussars]] and the [[2nd Fusiliers of Oriente|Second Brigade]] of the [[Fusiliers of Oriente]] - to the conquest of of Slewis in [[2590]].<ref name="H:RWp153"/> Despite the active and hostile resistance faced on many worlds, the conquest of Slewis was remarkably easy for the [[FWLM]] forces; a largely agrarian world with an economy based around agriculture and logging, the leadership on Slewis had little interest in the civil war, and when the Marik forces landed in May the local leadership simply acknowledged the presence of the new garrisons and calmly continued their farming and logging operations.<ref name="H:RWp136">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 136, "Illium to Barcelona (March 2589 - August 2591)"</ref>
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[[Duke]] [[Narinder Selaj]] of Battle Group Timbuktu assigned three regiments from the [[Second Marik Auxiliary Corps]] - the [[Second Defenders of Andurien]], the [[Second Regulan Hussars]] and the [[2nd Fusiliers of Oriente|Second Brigade]] of the [[Fusiliers of Oriente]] - to the conquest of of Slewis in [[2590]].<ref name="H:RWp153"/> Despite the active and hostile resistance faced on many worlds, the conquest of Slewis was remarkably easy for the [[FWLM]] forces; a largely agrarian world with an economy based around agriculture and logging, the leadership on Slewis had little interest in the civil war, and when the Marik forces landed in May the local leadership simply acknowledged the presence of the new garrisons and calmly continued their farming and logging operations.<ref name="H:RWp136">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 136, "Illium to Barcelona (March 2589 - August 2591)"</ref>
  
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Slewis was the last world in the Timbuktu Province to be conquered by the SLDF, by the time the FWLM forces came to leave Slewis in [[2593]] the only casualties they had taken were as a result of hunting accidents.<ref name="H:RWp136"/>
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Slewis was the last world in the Timbuktu Province to be conquered by the SLDF; by the time the FWLM forces came to leave Slewis in [[2593]] the only casualties they had taken were as a result of hunting accidents.<ref name="H:RWp136"/>
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* [[2nd Amaris Regulars|Second Amaris Regulars]] (shared with [[Farcry]], [[Sidon]] and [[Stirling]])<ref name=FR:2765Pp20>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 20, "Amaris Regulars - Divisional Status"</ref>
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* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
* ''[http://home.ifi.uio.no/~oysteint/btech/maps/IS_3130.pdf Map of the Inner Sphere 3130]''
 
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The Slewis system was home to at least one habitable world and as at 3145 was located in the Rim Collection.[1][2]

System Description

The Slewis system is located near the Kerman and Rosetta systems.[3][4]

System History

The Slewis system had either been colonised by the Rim Worlds Republic by the end of the Age of War, or was an already-inhabited system that was incorporated into the Timbuktu Province of the Republic during this era.[5][6]

Political Affiliation

invalid names, e.g. too many

Military Deployment

2590-2593

2765

Local Fauna

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Rosetta 22.2 Kerman 24.9 Cilvituk 27.2 Bougie 31.6
Sialkot 33.4 Zefri 36.8 Beauvais 37.4 Farcry 42.2
Sidon 42.9 Waypoint 47.3 Caldarium 48.5 Marisura 49.1
Langhorne 58.2 Mahrah 59.1 Melilla 59.2 Ormstown 59.5

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 38, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic at the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 36, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  7. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map - [2596] Map"
  8. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  9. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  10. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 38, "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"
  11. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
  12. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  13. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  14. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  16. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  17. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  18. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 132, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  19. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  20. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"
  21. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 22, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  22. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  23. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 110, "Rim Collection & Circinus Federation"
  24. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 28, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  25. ↑ Inner Sphere, p. 97, "Near Periphery Kingdoms Map"
  26. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 174, "Rim Collection - [3067] Map"
  27. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  28. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  29. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  30. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  31. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  32. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  33. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  34. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 153, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"
  35. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 20, "Amaris Regulars - Divisional Status"
  36. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 183, "Creatures"

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