Viborg


Viborg
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3151
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Viborg nearby systems
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates-465.254 : 80.087[e]

The Viborg system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as of 3151 was located in the Timbuktu Collective.[1]

System Description[edit]

The Viborg system is located near the Merlynpede and Vortalcoy systems.[2] The Viborg system has an asteroid field in the place of the fourth planet. Because it is spread across only 40° of its orbit the asteroid belt is thought to be relatively young, around 20,000 years old, and to have been formed when an interloper planetoid overtook the fourth planet from behind and tore it apart. The rocks are dense enough for one centralized mining operation to monopolize the whole system. In or near the Viborg Belt: "above" its plane, is the Periphery Engineering and Northcross Asteroid Mining (PEn-NAM) mining habitat colloquially called "Penance" by its inhabitants, a very large space habitat including at least two unspecified factories, two large, multistory grav decks and six or possibly twelve large hangars plus several docking collars.[3]

System History[edit]

The Viborg system was settled at some point prior to the end of the Age of War, and was a part of the Timbuktu Province of the Rim Worlds Republic during the Star League era.[4][2]

Political Affiliation[edit]

Planetary History[edit]

Viborg itself is described as a "garden world", and the population preferred to import ores and steel from the abundant asteroid belts via the Penance mining habitat over mining the planet itself.[3] Since the asteroid field (in place of the former fourth planet) was described as "already well beyond the sun's temperate zone", the inhabited planet would be one of the sun's inner three planets.[3]

Reunification War[edit]

By the end of the Age of War Viborg was a member of the Timbuktu Province of the Rim Worlds Republic.[4]

Civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic in 2575, with the factions polarized around those loyal to First Consul Gregory Amaris and those loyal to the Rift Republican Army and the Rim Provisional Government.[42] Viborg was garrisoned by the Third Amaris Fusiliers, one of the Rim Worlds Army units to side with the RRA and the RPG, and the Fusiliers spent the next decade in place.[43][44][45]

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,[46] 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.[47]

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.[48]

Duke Narinder Selaj of Battle Group Timbuktu assigned three regiments from the Second Marik Auxiliary Corps - the Second and Sixth Marik Militias and the First Brigade of the Fusiliers of Oriente - to the conquest of Viborg in 2588. The Star League forces successfully took control of Viborg, defeating the outnumbered Third Fusiliers, and all three FWLM units remained in place on the planet until they were redeployed for the invasion of Marisura in 2589.[49]

Star League Era[edit]

Viborg was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the 2773-2775 Republic-Commonwealth War.[14]

Military Deployment[edit]

2581[edit]

2588[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 28 systems (26 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Merlynpede 19.5 Vortalcoy 19.9 Enders Cluster 21.0 Hinckley 22.6
Haggard 23.8 Karkkila 33.2 New India 33.3 Gillfillan's Gold 34.6
Apinzel 37.8 Lande 38.1 Florida 38.9 Aberystwyth 40.4
Kitopler 42.4 Fallen Stars 43.6 Heathville 46.1 Monthey 47.7
Urjala 48.6 Otisberg 49.7 Hiberius 50.1 Wingzar 50.2
Rapla 53.8 Halifax 54.6 Huesta 56.8 Zinal 58.5
Milvano 59.7 Stanley 59.9 Parvan 62.8 Coldbrook 63.4

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shattered Fortress, p. 102: "Inner Sphere - 3151"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25: "Rim Worlds Republic at the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Pirates of Penance
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18: "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  5. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13: "Lyran Commonwealth Founding - [2341] Map"
  6. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  7. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  8. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 36: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  9. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  10. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  11. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 38: "Rim Worlds Army Deployment - [2765] Map"
  12. ↑ Field Report 2765: LCAF, p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment - [2765] Map"
  13. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104: "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 37: "The Republic-Commonwealth War"
  15. ↑ First Succession War, pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  16. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36: "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  17. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  18. ↑ First Succession War, pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  19. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40: "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  20. ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. vii: "Lyran Commonwealth Map - [3025]"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47: "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56: "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  23. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59: "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  24. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 132: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  25. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  26. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61: "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"
  27. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 22: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  28. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 10: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  29. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 28: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  30. ↑ Inner Sphere, 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. ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19: "Lyran Alliance Armed Forces Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  35. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  36. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  37. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  38. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  39. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  40. ↑ Shattered Fortress, p. 91
  41. ↑ Tamar Rising, p. 16: "Silence in the Darkness"
  42. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 130: "The Spark"
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 128: "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"
  44. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 154: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"
  45. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 155: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"
  46. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 132: "Case Apollo"
  47. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 133: "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"
  48. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 134: "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"
  49. ↑ 49.0 49.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 153: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"

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