Star's End

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(References to Star's End)

Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)

X: -83.98 Y: 436.06

Planetary Data[1]

  • Star Type (Recharge Time): M5V (206 hours)
  • Position in System: 2
  • Time to Jump Point: 2.45 days
  • Number of Satellites: 0 (Asteroid Ring)
  • Surface Gravity: 0.03 or less (Asteroid Ring)/0.75 (Novo Cressidas)
  • Atmosphere Pressure: Vacuum
  • Equatorial Temperature: −270.15 °C
  • Surface Water Coverage: 0 percent (Asteroid Ring)/15 percent (Novo Cressidas)
  • Highest Native Life: None
  • Recharging Station: None
  • HPG Class: A (Clan)

Era Specific Data

3076[1]

  • Population: 55,000
  • Tech Level USIIR: A-B-D-C-F

Owner History

Planetary Info

Star's End was originally settled by miners looking to exploit huge veins of germanium and other precious metals. Star's End is also known as the site of First Lord Simon Cameron's death. The Lyran Commonwealth and Rim Worlds Republic spent many years arguing over who had the rights to the system. During this same time, the miners simply did their jobs and exported huge amounts of the metals they found in the system.

At the fall of the Star League, the mineral veins played out. With nothing to keep them there, most of the residents fled to the Inner Sphere or Deep Periphery. The system became a haven for pirates who hit worlds in the Lyran Commonwealth and Draconis Combine without regard to borders. These pirates rapidly discovered that their livelihood depended on their ability to maintain their fleets. Though the pirate kings of the system rarely agreed to anything, they all agreed that a prosperous technical facility that worked on their JumpShips and DropShips was vital if they were going to stay alive. As a result, Star's End became one of the few places that could actually assemble and repair these vital components of interstellar trade. In fact both the Commonwealth and Combine used these facilities during the Succession Wars.[1] Efforts to capture the system or drive out the pirates failed, mostly because the vast asteroid belts in the system were converted into a primitive Space Defense System by the pirates who lived there.

During the Clan Invasion the Wolves bypassed Star's End to hit richer Inner Sphere targets. The New Belt Pirates took advantage of this by hitting multiple worlds in the Clan Wolf invasion zone. The Wolves responded by sending several Clusters of solahma troops to purge the system. These troops were able to deter the pirates briefly, but the pirates eventually became bolder. Vlad Ward later sent a Galaxy of troops to eradicate the pirates, but this unit was also unsuccessful. They did, however, manage to break the alliance between the pirate leadership. The pirates took advantage of the fighting between Clan Ice Hellion and Clan Hell's Horses during the early part of the Jihad. After dealing with the Hellions, the Horses sent their Beta Galaxy to end the pirate presence once and for all. The pseudo-SDS system created by the pirates worked very well against DropShips and AeroSpace Fighters, but it was very vulnerable to attacks by Battle Armor and ProtoMechs. The previous alliance between the pirate leadership had been destroyed by the Wolf attack, and when Susie Morgaine-Ryan chose to abandon the system and her pirate comrades, the Horses quickly overpowered the defenders, killing most of them.[1]

The repair facilities the Horses found were primitive and had limited capacity. Despite these limitations, these facilities are the only ones available to the Horses in the Inner Sphere, and so are critical to their ongoing colonization efforts.[1]

Nearby Planets

Planets within 2 jumps (60 light-years)
Closest planets first:
Planet Distance (LY) Jumps 2750 3025 3030 3040 3052 3057 3062
Icar 18.52 1 RWR LC LC FC CW CW CW
Steelton 24.76 1 RWR LC LC FC CJF CJF CJF
Toland 32.87 2 RWR LC LC FC CJF CJF CJF
Persistence 34.91 2 RWR LC LC FC CJF CSV CJF
Butte Hold 35.29 2 N P P P CW CW CW
New Caledonia 36.19 2 LC DC LC FRR CW CW CW
Chateau 37.81 2 LC LC LC FC CW CW CW
Winfield 39.49 2 RWR LC LC FC CJF CJF CJF
Csesztreg 43.55 2 LC DC LC FRR CW CW CW
Maxie's Planet 45.04 2 LC LC LC FC CJF CJF CJF
Verthandi 46.43 2 LC DC DC FRR CW CW CW
Apollo 46.68 2 RWR LC LC FC CJF CJF CJF
Bensinger 47.58 2 RWR LC LC FC CJF CSV CJF
Oberon VI 50.27 2 RWR P P P CW CW CW
Sigurd 52.32 2 RWR P P P CW CW CW
Romulus 53.61 2 LC LC LC FC CJF CJF CJF
Trell I 55.19 2 LC LC LC FC CJF CSV CJF
The Edge 56.11 2 LC DC LC FRR CW CW CW

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 144, "Clan Hell's Horses Key Worlds"
  2. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War [2571]"
  3. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"
  4. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"
  5. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"
  6. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"
  7. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"
  8. ↑ The Periphery (sourcebook), p. 157, "Map of the Periphery"
  9. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
  10. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 39 [3040]"
  11. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 115, "Greater Valkyrate, Oberon Confederation & Elysian Fields"
  12. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130

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