The Rack

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

The Rack (Port Vail)
The Rack (Port Vail) nearby systems
(Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-400.86 : 370.98[e]

The system named The Rack was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as at 3145 was located in the bandit kingdom known as the Rim Territories.[1][2]

System Description

The system named The Rack is located near the Luanda and Pain systems.[3][4]

System History

Originally named Port Vail, The Rack was either colonised by the Rim Worlds Republic during or shortly before the Age of War, or was an already-inhabited system that was incorported into the Republic's Finmark Province during this period and which was considered significant enough to have its location recorded by Inner Sphere nations.[5][6][7]

Port Vail was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the Republic-Commonwealth War and vanished from maps during the Second Succession War, indicating that the system had been abandoned, depopulated, or simply rendered too insignificant to merit further recording.[8][9] Port Vail reappeared on maps as an independent system during the Clan Invasion era, with a new name - The Rack.[10][11][12]

Political Affiliation

invalid names, e.g. too many[23]

invalid names, e.g. too many

Military Deployment

2765

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Pain 29.1 Luanda 33.4 Nyasa 36.2 Delagoa 40.4
Finmark 41.8 Main Street 42.4 Torgvei 46.6 Mogabouti 48.9
Lushun 55.5 Ubangi 58.8

Notes

It was confirmed that Port Vail and The Rack were one and the same by the Catalyst Game Labs writing staff. A transcript of the details is available on this article's Talk page.

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: House Steiner, p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth at their Founding - [2341] Map"
  6. 6.0 6.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  7. 7.0 7.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  8. 8.0 8.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  9. 9.0 9.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"
  10. 10.0 10.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  11. 11.0 11.1 Historical: War of 3039, p. 132, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  12. 12.0 12.1 Era Report: 3052, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  13. Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map - [2596] Map"
  14. Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  15. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  16. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 38, "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"
  17. Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  18. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
  19. Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 37, "The Republic-Commonwealth War"
  20. First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  21. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  22. First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  23. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  24. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  25. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"
  26. Era Report: 3052, p. 22, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  27. Era Report: 3062, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  28. The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 110, "Rim Collection & Circinus Federation"
  29. Era Report: 3062, p. 28, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  30. Inner Sphere (sourcebook), p. 75, "Lyran Alliance Map"
  31. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  32. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  33. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  34. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  35. Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  36. Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  37. Era Report: 3145, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  38. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 19, "Republican Guards - Divisional Status"

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