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As a part of the Republic of the Sphere Tikonov recovered somewhat from the damage inflicted during the Succession Wars and the Jihad; during this era the Earthwerks factories on Tikonov retooled to produce industrial 'Mechs, rather than BattleMechs.<ref name=DARW92/>
 
As a part of the Republic of the Sphere Tikonov recovered somewhat from the damage inflicted during the Succession Wars and the Jihad; during this era the Earthwerks factories on Tikonov retooled to produce industrial 'Mechs, rather than BattleMechs.<ref name=DARW92/>
  
Tikonov fell back to Federated Suns control by was soon invaded by the Cappellan Confederation driving out the AFFS forces out of Tiknonov and brought it in their control.
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== Military Deployment ==
 
== Military Deployment ==

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Tikonov
System Information
X:Y Coordinates102.83 : -42.21[e]
Spectral classG2IV[1]
Recharge time183 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)Nadir, Zenith (3067)[1]

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

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard

Political Affiliation

Planetary Geography

The planet Tikonov has four major continents: Kazan, Krasnodar, Pskov and Ufa. Of the four continents Kazan is located in the northwest, Krasnodar in the southeast, Pskov in the southwest and Ufa in the northeast.[42]

Planet History

Early History

Settlers from Terra established a colony on Tikonov in 2177.[2] Mainly of Asian descent, they named the planet in honor of Oleg Tikonov, the assassinated Soviet Premier.[42][2] By 2220 Tikonov was already acknowledged as being a political leader in the region, and when the fourth Grand Alliance Survey of Populated Worlds was conducted in 2235 it was noted that Tikonov didn't consider itself to be even nominally under the authority of the Terran Alliance.[2] The combination of aggressive political leaders and massive industrialization combined to make Tikonov the most important world in the region by the late twenty-third century, a position that allowed Tikonov to become the leading world of a proto-interstellar nation.[42]

Tikonov quickly became the seat of the Tikonov Grand Union mainly because of its central location in the surrounding systems.

Although the Tikonov Grand Union was subsumed into the Capellan Confederation, the industry present on Tikonov - particularly Earthwerks Limited - continued to remain an important strategic asset.[42] During the time of the Star League Tikonov was a joint holding of the Capellan Confederation and the Terran Hegemony[43] but the Confederation regained full control over Tikonov and its industries during the closing years of the Star League era.[42]

Star League

After a terrorist attack by the Chesterton Liberation Battalion in the later days of the Star League, the Star League Defense Force redeployed the 16th Fleet (SLDF) to Tikonov. It was hoped that the presence of military might from the SLDF would keep the Federated Suns and Capellan Confederation from coming to blows. During their stay, the commanding officer of the fleet prevented his troops from using accommodations on Tikonov. Instead, he set up alternate living spaces on one of the system's moons to help his sailors and soldiers remain objective during the situation.[44]

First Succession War

In 2784 Capellan "civic relief forces" arrived on Tikonov and the nearby world of Yangtze, effectively annexing both planets.[45]

Succession Wars

Tikonov resisted numerous offensives launched by the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns during the centuries of warfare that marked the Succession Wars until the Fourth Succession War finally saw the Federated Suns gain control of the planet.[42]

FedCom Civil War

During the FedCom Civil War Tikonov was a major battleground between the various factions, but the final victor wasn't the Federated Suns or the Lyran Alliance but rather the Capellan Confederation, which successfully recaptured the world.[42]

The Jihad

Following the attack on Wolf's Dragoons and their facilities on Outreach in October 3067, General Maeve Wolf ordered Gamma Regiment to exercise the escape clause in their contract and leave Tikonov in November.[46] Two years later, the Word of Blake launched an offensive against Tikonov through September 3069 in an attempt to conquer the planet; the attackers met fierce resistance from the defending forces, who went so far as to destroy the local HPG facilities during their defense of the planet.[47]

In October 3074 rebels within the Blakist Protectorate hired mercenary units on generous terms to strike at an Earthwerks Incorporated facility on Tikonov. The combined mercenary and rebel force successfully seized the facility, which was defended by security forces from the Tikonov Protectorate Militia, at which point at least some of the mercenaries were able to depart with their acquired salvage while the rebels ransacked the facility. Additional Blakist forces intent on recapturing the facility arrived soon after the departure of the mercenaries only to be hit with nuclear weapons by the rebels - weapons which may also have engulfed the facility.[48]

On the 20th of July 3075 the hold the Word of Blake had established over Tikonov was broken by an insurrection amongst the planet's population. Despite having their control over the planet shattered, the retreating Blakist forces took the opportunity to level more than half of the planet's factory complexes.[49][50] Having lacked the forces to adequately control Tikonov, the Blakists had subjected the planet to years of destructive warfare.[42]

Following Operation SCOUR and the resulting liberation of Terra, public support for the Capellan Confederation on Tikinov was greatly diminished when pro-Capellan agents detonated a series of thirteen car bombs at a pro-Devlin Stone rally being held in Tikograd on the 22nd of September 3079. The target for the attack may have been Melissa Allard-Liao, daughter of Kai Allard-Liao and a public supporter of Stone, but nearly 200 people at the rally were killed. Melissa Allard-Liao escaped the blast unharmed, as did the other most noteworthy speaker at the event, the actress Dasha Trubetskaya. Around six thousand people were attending the rally in the Vyacheslav Kozar Square, of whom 139 were killed immediately in the blast. Melissa Allard-Liao later reacted angrily to attempts by the press to politicize the bombing, and condemned those who attacked the rally and pledged to work hand in hand with the authorities on Tikonov to see the perpetrators caught.[51][52]

Dark Age

As a part of the Republic of the Sphere Tikonov recovered somewhat from the damage inflicted during the Succession Wars and the Jihad; during this era the Earthwerks factories on Tikonov retooled to produce industrial 'Mechs, rather than BattleMechs.[42]

Tikonov fell back to Federated Suns control[when?], but was soon invaded and conquered by the Cappellan Confederation.[citation needed]

Military Deployment

2765

2786

  • Marshals of Tikonov[55]
  • First Tikonov Lancers[56]

2821

3025

3038

3050

  • Second Crucis Lancers RCT[62]

3050-3061

  • Tikonov Martial Academy Training Group[62][63]

3067

Industrial Centers

Image Gallery

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Mira 10.4 Mesartim 12.5 Angol 18.3 Rio 20.9
Sonnia 20.9 Mirach 21.2 Almach 21.5 Caselton 22.1
Alrescha 25.6 New Rhodes III 26.8 Yangtze 28.7 New Hessen 33.4
Tybalt 34.6 Achernar 35.4 Schedar 35.9 Demeter 38.8
Edwards 39.0 Hamal 39.3 Tigress 40.8 Chesterton 41.6
New Florence 42.7 Bharat 44.4 Tianamon 45.8 Logandale 46.5
Tawas 46.6 Ronel 46.8 Goderich 48.9 Basalt 49.9
Kansu 52.7 Jonathan 53.3 Marlette 54.1 Nopah 54.3
Conwy 54.4 Slocum 54.8 Valexa 55.6 Hean 55.8
Ulan Batar 55.9 Mallory's World 56.6 Waycross 57.6 Algot 57.7
Elbar 57.9 Azha 58.4 Buchlau 59.5

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  42. 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 42.4 42.5 42.6 42.7 42.8 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named DARW92
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