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Wynn's Roost II - more commonly referred to simply as Wynn's Roost - is the second planet in the system, and has a single moon named Santa Monica.<ref name=TtSWRp4/>
 
Wynn's Roost II - more commonly referred to simply as Wynn's Roost - is the second planet in the system, and has a single moon named Santa Monica.<ref name=TtSWRp4/>
  
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==== Star League Era ====
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=== Star League Era ===
 
The colony owed its existence to mining operations for rare materials and the production of consumer goods, built with low-cost colonial labor. The planet would become the administrative capital of the Trader Domain region of the Alliance. The region in which Wynn's Roost was located was well-developed in comparison to many other areas of the [[Periphery]];<ref name=TtSWRp4>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 4</ref> after huge quantities of rare earth metals were discovered in the Wynn's Roost system, a land rush led to the [[61st Royal Jump Infantry Division|Sixty-first Royal Jump Infantry Division]] being deployed to monitor events. By [[2730]], large quantities of the same rare earth metals found in the Wynn's Roost system had also been discovered in the nearby systems of [[Nerum]], [[Renorsal]], [[Vangburg]] and [[Zebuluraskai]], and the Sixty-first would spend decades garrisoning the local region. Nicknamed "The Cluster Rats", the Sixty-first practised rapid deployments from one system to another throughout the cluster, and also managed to identify many of the transient [[pirate point]]s located in each of the inhabited systems. This, combined with their presence, helped to prevent all but the most determined bandit groups from targeting these worlds.<ref name="FM:SLDFp215">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 215, "61st Royal Jump Infantry Division"</ref>
 
The colony owed its existence to mining operations for rare materials and the production of consumer goods, built with low-cost colonial labor. The planet would become the administrative capital of the Trader Domain region of the Alliance. The region in which Wynn's Roost was located was well-developed in comparison to many other areas of the [[Periphery]];<ref name=TtSWRp4>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 4</ref> after huge quantities of rare earth metals were discovered in the Wynn's Roost system, a land rush led to the [[61st Royal Jump Infantry Division|Sixty-first Royal Jump Infantry Division]] being deployed to monitor events. By [[2730]], large quantities of the same rare earth metals found in the Wynn's Roost system had also been discovered in the nearby systems of [[Nerum]], [[Renorsal]], [[Vangburg]] and [[Zebuluraskai]], and the Sixty-first would spend decades garrisoning the local region. Nicknamed "The Cluster Rats", the Sixty-first practised rapid deployments from one system to another throughout the cluster, and also managed to identify many of the transient [[pirate point]]s located in each of the inhabited systems. This, combined with their presence, helped to prevent all but the most determined bandit groups from targeting these worlds.<ref name="FM:SLDFp215">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 215, "61st Royal Jump Infantry Division"</ref>
  
 
Located just a four-day transit time to the main jump points, and being the private domain of Turner Wynn, Wynn's Roost became the administrative center for several dozen worlds. This also brought the world a combination of superior infrastructure to most of the other worlds in the region and extensive development, which would prove to be a significant factor in helping the population survive the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]].<ref name=TtSWRp4/>
 
Located just a four-day transit time to the main jump points, and being the private domain of Turner Wynn, Wynn's Roost became the administrative center for several dozen worlds. This also brought the world a combination of superior infrastructure to most of the other worlds in the region and extensive development, which would prove to be a significant factor in helping the population survive the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]].<ref name=TtSWRp4/>
  
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==== The Periphery Uprising ====
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=== The Periphery Uprising ===
 
During the Periphery rebellion the planets' population would stay loyal to the Star League, as it was mostly settled by Inner Sphere colonists who felt little loyalty towards the Outworlds Alliance. This was true for most of the worlds in the Traders Domain, as well as the nearby [[Onverwacht Province|Onverwacht]] and [[Blommestein Province]]s.<ref name=TtSWRp4/>
 
During the Periphery rebellion the planets' population would stay loyal to the Star League, as it was mostly settled by Inner Sphere colonists who felt little loyalty towards the Outworlds Alliance. This was true for most of the worlds in the Traders Domain, as well as the nearby [[Onverwacht Province|Onverwacht]] and [[Blommestein Province]]s.<ref name=TtSWRp4/>
  
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==== Succession Wars ====
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=== Succession Wars ===
 
As the Succession Wars began to engulf the Inner Sphere, the worlds in the Alliance's outer provinces all began to suffer. Some had small or even temporary populations, having been established as mining worlds, and were dependent on trade with the Inner Sphere for everything from mechanical parts to food. Others were reliant on advanced technology to keep them habitable. Many were effectively company worlds, controlled by Inner Sphere-based corporations, who began pulling JumpShips out of the Periphery to respond to wartime demands. With pirate raids mounting, many worlds hired mercenaries to protect themselves, ignoring the wishes of the Alliance government, and pirate raids quickly mounted; numerous worlds began to secede from the Alliance, either individually or in small groups. Wynn's Roost led a secession in [[2385]] that took the majority of the surviving Traders Domain worlds with it, forming a state of the same name.<ref name=TtSWRp4a>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 4</ref>  
 
As the Succession Wars began to engulf the Inner Sphere, the worlds in the Alliance's outer provinces all began to suffer. Some had small or even temporary populations, having been established as mining worlds, and were dependent on trade with the Inner Sphere for everything from mechanical parts to food. Others were reliant on advanced technology to keep them habitable. Many were effectively company worlds, controlled by Inner Sphere-based corporations, who began pulling JumpShips out of the Periphery to respond to wartime demands. With pirate raids mounting, many worlds hired mercenaries to protect themselves, ignoring the wishes of the Alliance government, and pirate raids quickly mounted; numerous worlds began to secede from the Alliance, either individually or in small groups. Wynn's Roost led a secession in [[2385]] that took the majority of the surviving Traders Domain worlds with it, forming a state of the same name.<ref name=TtSWRp4a>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 4</ref>  
  
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Wynn's Roost lacked a presence from the [[Omniss]] movement associated with much of the Alliance, and as a result there was no internal dissent when the planetary government began building a militia and hiring mercenaries, paid for using rich ore deposits. Both would be needed, as those same rich ores and the surviving industry on Wynn's Roost attracted pirates even after those pirates native to the Outlands Wastes died off. Fortunately for Wynn's Roost, the decades of anti-pirate activity conducted by the Outworlds Alliance government and both the Draconis Combine and Federated Suns was enough to prevent Bandit Kingdoms from forming in the region. It would take until the [[31st century|thirty-first century]] for Wynn's Roost to reach an adequate standard of living for the population, propped up by indigenous technology broadly equivalent to that of [[20th Century|twentieth century]] [[Terra]].<ref name=TtSWRp5"/>
 
Wynn's Roost lacked a presence from the [[Omniss]] movement associated with much of the Alliance, and as a result there was no internal dissent when the planetary government began building a militia and hiring mercenaries, paid for using rich ore deposits. Both would be needed, as those same rich ores and the surviving industry on Wynn's Roost attracted pirates even after those pirates native to the Outlands Wastes died off. Fortunately for Wynn's Roost, the decades of anti-pirate activity conducted by the Outworlds Alliance government and both the Draconis Combine and Federated Suns was enough to prevent Bandit Kingdoms from forming in the region. It would take until the [[31st century|thirty-first century]] for Wynn's Roost to reach an adequate standard of living for the population, propped up by indigenous technology broadly equivalent to that of [[20th Century|twentieth century]] [[Terra]].<ref name=TtSWRp5"/>
  
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Life on Wynn's Roost continued to improve during the Dark Age; by the [[32nd Century|thirty-second century]] the population had recovered elements of [[21st Century|twenty-first]] and [[22nd Century|twenty-second century]] technology, and the population had ample access to power generated by archaic fission reactors. By [[3130]] crude deuterium-fuelled fusion reactors were being introduced, although at a somewhat slow pace because of the government's determination to recover the protium-fusing technology to produce modern fusion reactors, although five decades of research hadn't managed to achieve that yet. The same fission technology that gave Wynn's Roost fission reactors helped fuel the deliberately-spread rumor that the planet could draw on nuclear fission weapons to use against attackers; while those rumors hadn't been tested, there were several test sites around the planet that certainly appeared to be convincing. The planetary infrastructure had rebuilt to the point that every citizen had ample access to electricity, fresh air and fresh water, and well-developed transportation and communication networks spanned the world.<ref name=TtSWRp5"/>
 
Life on Wynn's Roost continued to improve during the Dark Age; by the [[32nd Century|thirty-second century]] the population had recovered elements of [[21st Century|twenty-first]] and [[22nd Century|twenty-second century]] technology, and the population had ample access to power generated by archaic fission reactors. By [[3130]] crude deuterium-fuelled fusion reactors were being introduced, although at a somewhat slow pace because of the government's determination to recover the protium-fusing technology to produce modern fusion reactors, although five decades of research hadn't managed to achieve that yet. The same fission technology that gave Wynn's Roost fission reactors helped fuel the deliberately-spread rumor that the planet could draw on nuclear fission weapons to use against attackers; while those rumors hadn't been tested, there were several test sites around the planet that certainly appeared to be convincing. The planetary infrastructure had rebuilt to the point that every citizen had ample access to electricity, fresh air and fresh water, and well-developed transportation and communication networks spanned the world.<ref name=TtSWRp5"/>
  
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With several decades of relative prosperity to draw on, more modern buildings on the Roost had led to glass-faced skyscrapers common to other worlds being built on the Roost, but the slightly acidic rain meant that the older structures were typically faced with acid-resistant tile and brick. The Roosters had embraced a culture of decorating public buildings with beautiful tile mosaics, and the presences of more modern skyscrapers hadn't diminished the striking, colourful appearance of most Rooster settlements.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/> Interstellar trade was limited to a handful of traders a year visiting the system, all of whom were from mineral companies located in the Federated Suns. The traders generally purchased rare earth elements along with platinum, rhenium and germanium, although the Roost also had ample supplies of Uranium-235 even without enrichment processes - a consequence of the world only being some two billion years old. In return, the Roost imported small quantities of advanced goods, particularly military supplies. The lack of a functional HPG made further trade a difficult prospect, but the government established a trade mission on New Avalon in the thirty-second century in the hope of generating further trade.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/>
 
With several decades of relative prosperity to draw on, more modern buildings on the Roost had led to glass-faced skyscrapers common to other worlds being built on the Roost, but the slightly acidic rain meant that the older structures were typically faced with acid-resistant tile and brick. The Roosters had embraced a culture of decorating public buildings with beautiful tile mosaics, and the presences of more modern skyscrapers hadn't diminished the striking, colourful appearance of most Rooster settlements.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/> Interstellar trade was limited to a handful of traders a year visiting the system, all of whom were from mineral companies located in the Federated Suns. The traders generally purchased rare earth elements along with platinum, rhenium and germanium, although the Roost also had ample supplies of Uranium-235 even without enrichment processes - a consequence of the world only being some two billion years old. In return, the Roost imported small quantities of advanced goods, particularly military supplies. The lack of a functional HPG made further trade a difficult prospect, but the government established a trade mission on New Avalon in the thirty-second century in the hope of generating further trade.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/>
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With the formation of the [[Raven Alliance]], the government of Wynn's Roost put considerable thought into how to respond in the event of conflict with [[Clan]] opponents. In the main, the government's preferred option was to avoid both conflict and contact by not engaging in trade with the Raven Alliance, or any other activity that could attract attention. Representatives from any of the Clans who encountered Wynn's Roost were treated with great politeness, a state of affairs known as the "Dyson Doctrine" after President [[Tanala Dyson]], who was responsible for authoring the principle. If it should come to conflict, the Rooster government had developed plans to either try and draw on their strengths, such as they were - duels that would take advantage of hostile terrain, or duels conducted via sea battles with Rooster battleships. A variety of trials that didn't involve direct combat were also developed, under a contingency plan given the code name "Dance Off".<ref name="TtSWRp6"/>
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During the Dark Age the Rooster government continued to operate a Hegemony-pattern government, where planetary Presidents were elected for a maximum of two seven-year terms, with the population electing the President based upon the results of their civil service exam results, which meant that each President was usually a faceless civil servant prior to election. The legislature largely acted as a rubber stamp however, endorsing the decisions made by the professional executive branch. During the thirty-first and thirty-second centuries a number of Presidents stood out for their unusual popularity and effectiveness, which played a significant role in improving life for the population. President [[Annald Russolillo]] served from [[3031]] to [[3044]], and was responsible for bringing in a swathe of educational reforms. Russolillo recognised that Wynn's Roost had very little interstellar currency to use in trade, but plenty of domestic wealth that it could potentially use to attract skilled immigrants. Russolillo leveraged this in attracting foreign educators to shore up the school system, and foreign technical specialists to assist Rooster industry, rewarding them with high wages in local currency, providing large homes and personal servants.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/>
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President Tanala Dyson served two terms as President from [[3059]] to [[3072]], and faced the challenge of navigating the diplomatic and military problems caused by [[Clan Snow Raven]], leading to the Dyson Doctrine. [[Christopher Gowens]] was an outstanding economist who engineered an economic boom on Wynn's Roost in the 3120s, and this, combined with him being a charismatic public speaker led to him being elected President for two terms from [[3122]] to [[3135]]; it was under Gowens' tenure that the embassy on New Avalon was founded, and record numbers of skilled immigrants from the Golden Worlds of the Federated Suns were recruited to Wynn's Roost.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/>
  
 
The planets government is nominally an representative democracy, however dominated by the bureaucracy and the executive. The government is styled after the example of the Terran Hegemony. Presidents can serve at maximum two terms. The long term stable government has proved an important factor in dealing with the isolation of the colony.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/> President Younger Wynn V led the planet and the Traders Domain Region 2822 into secession.
 
The planets government is nominally an representative democracy, however dominated by the bureaucracy and the executive. The government is styled after the example of the Terran Hegemony. Presidents can serve at maximum two terms. The long term stable government has proved an important factor in dealing with the isolation of the colony.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/> President Younger Wynn V led the planet and the Traders Domain Region 2822 into secession.
 
Most president that served are just faceless bureaucrats to the population.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/>
 
Most president that served are just faceless bureaucrats to the population.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/>
  
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Annald Russolillo (3031-3044) was the first of a series of unusual charismatic presidents. His main goal was attracting foreign educators.
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Between 3059-3072 President Tanala Dyson ruled the planet and had to deal with the reality of [[Clan Snow Raven]] operating in the area and established the standing "Dyson Doctrine”<ref name="TtSWRp6">''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>.
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As of 3120 President Christopher Gowens ruled the Planet. Under his reign the "New Russolillo Skills Program" was implemented and Wynn's Roost established a trade mission on New Avalon and is starting to attract skilled immigrants from the 'Golden Five Worlds' in the Federated Suns<ref name=TtSWRp6a>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>.
 
  
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* President Christopher Gowens<ref name="TtSWRp6">''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>
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== Military Deployment ==
 
The planet might have nuclear weapons, as several test sites seem to indicate, but if so, has ruled against using them to fight Clan Snow Raven. Instead alternative non-combat trials are planned as contingency plans, like a "Dance off Trial"<ref name=TtSWRp5>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 5</ref>.
 
The planet might have nuclear weapons, as several test sites seem to indicate, but if so, has ruled against using them to fight Clan Snow Raven. Instead alternative non-combat trials are planned as contingency plans, like a "Dance off Trial"<ref name=TtSWRp5>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 5</ref>.
 
The planet has a well paid and sizeable milita for a planet in the Outworlds wastes. Equipment consists primarily of locally-built primitive tanks, mechanized infantry, and some large oceanic gunboats. It is barely able to support a wing of aerospace fighters and
 
The planet has a well paid and sizeable milita for a planet in the Outworlds wastes. Equipment consists primarily of locally-built primitive tanks, mechanized infantry, and some large oceanic gunboats. It is barely able to support a wing of aerospace fighters and
 
rarely affords more than a company of mercenary BattleMechs.<ref name=TtSWRp6e>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>.
 
rarely affords more than a company of mercenary BattleMechs.<ref name=TtSWRp6e>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>.
  
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Wynn's Roost has a number of unusually acidic bodies of water and tainted air, but is otherwise relatively typical as planets go. Vast forests, arctic wastes and tropical islands can all be found on Wynn's Roost, and a large part of the native ecosystem was ignored by the human population. This left native ecosystems in a state of flux, as the native lifeforms are cruder forms of insect, amphibian and plants that are unable to compete against imported species such as rats, dogs and pigs, although while many imported species were adapted to endure the higher levels of ultraviolet light and the sulphuric air of Wynn's Roost during the Star League era, newer imports don't fare well in the unwelcoming environment.<ref name="TtSWRp6"/> The continents on Wynn's Roost were named by Turner Wynn, with Turnerland being the major continent and Wynnland a cold, northern continent located to the northwest of Turnerland. Two large continents, Oneland and Twoland, stretch across the equator to north and south, while the arctic continent of Threeland lies to the south of Turnerland. Originally, Oneland, Twoland and Threeland were named for Turner Wynn's three wives, but when his polyamorous marriage dissolved costing him billions in divorce payments, he refused to speak his ex-wives names again, simply referring to them by number, and the convention applies to the continents as well. The names proved surprisingly resilient among the local population, who considered them easy to remember.<ref name="TtS:WRp11">''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 11, Map of Wynn's Roost</ref>
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There are a number of major islands dotted around Wynn's Roost; between the western end of Wynnland and the northeastern shore of Twoland are a pair of large islands known as The Guardians, while Thorpett's Haunts and the Isle of Mysts lie in the constant to the west of Turnerland. Where Oneland and Twoland curve together around the Archanan Sea and smaller Richess Sea a region of archipelagos and islands forms the region known as Hamilton Harbour, and a small group of islands known as Edge Reef mark the divide between the Koha Sea to the east of Turnerland, and the much larger Deepening Sea that stretches east to the western coast of Oneland.<ref name="TtS:WRp11"/>
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Wynne's Roost has five continents, Oneland, Twoland, Threeland, Turnerland and Wynnland. Oneland, Twoland and Threeland have been named originally after the Wives of the founder of the Colony, Turner Wynn. After an ugly divorce he ordered the continents renamed<ref name=TtSWRp6b>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>. The planet and its moon are tidally locked, producing 77 hour long days.
 
Wynne's Roost has five continents, Oneland, Twoland, Threeland, Turnerland and Wynnland. Oneland, Twoland and Threeland have been named originally after the Wives of the founder of the Colony, Turner Wynn. After an ugly divorce he ordered the continents renamed<ref name=TtSWRp6b>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>. The planet and its moon are tidally locked, producing 77 hour long days.
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Human life has to handle with high UV contents. High sulfur content in the atmosphere is released by geological and biological actions. Crude native animals are in competition with imported lifeforms. The ecosystem therefore tends to be unstable.
 
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The planet looks pleasant from orbit and has lots of water, however this water is strongly corrosive, due to high acidity. Structures and vehicles (especially ships) need to be hardened and specially built to resist.
 
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The planet exports mostly minerals such as germanium, platinum, rhenium, and rare earth elements<ref name=TtSWRp6c>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>. High U-235 deposits are also abundant.
 
The planet exports mostly minerals such as germanium, platinum, rhenium, and rare earth elements<ref name=TtSWRp6c>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>. High U-235 deposits are also abundant.
 
Wynn’s Roost has little hard currency for interstellar trade but actively attracts skilled immigrant by promising them large homes, high wages in planetary scrip, and personal servants<ref name=TtSWRp6d>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>.  
 
Wynn’s Roost has little hard currency for interstellar trade but actively attracts skilled immigrant by promising them large homes, high wages in planetary scrip, and personal servants<ref name=TtSWRp6d>''Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost'', p. 6</ref>.  
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The planet struggles to keep up an aerospace industry and only produces some large aircraft. Earthmovers produced on Wynn's Roost were the reason for a raid in 2822 by its neighbour planet [[Ammon (OA)]].
 
The planet struggles to keep up an aerospace industry and only produces some large aircraft. Earthmovers produced on Wynn's Roost were the reason for a raid in 2822 by its neighbour planet [[Ammon (OA)]].
  
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Image:Wynns_Roost-Flag_TtSWR.png|Planetary flag of Wynn's Roost
 
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* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery, First Edition]]''
 
* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery, First Edition]]''
 
* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition|The Periphery, Second Edition]]''
 
* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition|The Periphery, Second Edition]]''
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[[Category:Systems|Wynn's Roost]]
 
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates610.609 : 269.932[e]
Spectral classK7V[1]
Recharge time198 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)none[1]
Planet(s)8[1]

The Wynn's Roost system is the location of at least one habitable world and as at 2750 was the regional capital of the Traders Domain region of the Outworlds Alliance.[2]

System Description

Wynn's Roost is located near the Vangburg and Nerum systems.[3]

System History

The Wynn's Roost system was colonized by Turner Wynn of the Wynn Conglomerate as part of the Outworlds Alliance during the Golden Years of the Star League era.[1] Wynn's Roost vanished from maps during the Third Succession War,[4][5] indicating that the system had been rendered too insignificant to merit further recording.

Political Affiliation

Wynn's Roost II

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Wynn's Roost II - more commonly referred to simply as Wynn's Roost - is the second planet in the system, and has a single moon named Santa Monica.[1]

Planetary History

Star League Era

The colony owed its existence to mining operations for rare materials and the production of consumer goods, built with low-cost colonial labor. The planet would become the administrative capital of the Trader Domain region of the Alliance. The region in which Wynn's Roost was located was well-developed in comparison to many other areas of the Periphery;[1] after huge quantities of rare earth metals were discovered in the Wynn's Roost system, a land rush led to the Sixty-first Royal Jump Infantry Division being deployed to monitor events. By 2730, large quantities of the same rare earth metals found in the Wynn's Roost system had also been discovered in the nearby systems of Nerum, Renorsal, Vangburg and Zebuluraskai, and the Sixty-first would spend decades garrisoning the local region. Nicknamed "The Cluster Rats", the Sixty-first practised rapid deployments from one system to another throughout the cluster, and also managed to identify many of the transient pirate points located in each of the inhabited systems. This, combined with their presence, helped to prevent all but the most determined bandit groups from targeting these worlds.[35]

Located just a four-day transit time to the main jump points, and being the private domain of Turner Wynn, Wynn's Roost became the administrative center for several dozen worlds. This also brought the world a combination of superior infrastructure to most of the other worlds in the region and extensive development, which would prove to be a significant factor in helping the population survive the Succession Wars.[1]

The Periphery Uprising

During the Periphery rebellion the planets' population would stay loyal to the Star League, as it was mostly settled by Inner Sphere colonists who felt little loyalty towards the Outworlds Alliance. This was true for most of the worlds in the Traders Domain, as well as the nearby Onverwacht and Blommestein Provinces.[1]

Succession Wars

As the Succession Wars began to engulf the Inner Sphere, the worlds in the Alliance's outer provinces all began to suffer. Some had small or even temporary populations, having been established as mining worlds, and were dependent on trade with the Inner Sphere for everything from mechanical parts to food. Others were reliant on advanced technology to keep them habitable. Many were effectively company worlds, controlled by Inner Sphere-based corporations, who began pulling JumpShips out of the Periphery to respond to wartime demands. With pirate raids mounting, many worlds hired mercenaries to protect themselves, ignoring the wishes of the Alliance government, and pirate raids quickly mounted; numerous worlds began to secede from the Alliance, either individually or in small groups. Wynn's Roost led a secession in 2385 that took the majority of the surviving Traders Domain worlds with it, forming a state of the same name.[36]

The Traders Domain would be troubled from the beginning due to it's member worlds being unable to cooperate and ultimately break up the Domain. With populations drawn predominantly from the Terran Hegemony, Federated Suns and Draconis Combine, those loyal to the Hegemony hated those from the Great Houses, blaming them for the collapse of the Hegemony; equally, those loyal to the Federated Suns wouldn't cooperate with those from the Draconis Combine, and many of the planetary governors attempted to seize power for themselves.[1] Wynn's Roost would become a independent and isolated world by 2900, while pirates roamed the Outworlds Wastes. Also the neighbour planets would stage raid for resources of the planet. These pirates raids would over the years destroy several cities and over time killed millions of the world's citizenry by the Thirty Century.[37]

Many of the pirate raids on Wynn's Roost during this era were actually launched by neighbouring former Alliance worlds, desperate for resources. As other worlds in the region dwindled, Wynn's Roost survived, in part because of its bountiful quantities of arable land and water, while the planetary government kept the planet politically stable and established recovery policies intended to fill the gaps in the planetary infrastructure and industry, having been modelled on some of the finest managerial techniques the Terran Hegemony had developed.[1]

Wynn's Roost lacked a presence from the Omniss movement associated with much of the Alliance, and as a result there was no internal dissent when the planetary government began building a militia and hiring mercenaries, paid for using rich ore deposits. Both would be needed, as those same rich ores and the surviving industry on Wynn's Roost attracted pirates even after those pirates native to the Outlands Wastes died off. Fortunately for Wynn's Roost, the decades of anti-pirate activity conducted by the Outworlds Alliance government and both the Draconis Combine and Federated Suns was enough to prevent Bandit Kingdoms from forming in the region. It would take until the thirty-first century for Wynn's Roost to reach an adequate standard of living for the population, propped up by indigenous technology broadly equivalent to that of twentieth century Terra.[38]

The Dark Age

Life on Wynn's Roost continued to improve during the Dark Age; by the thirty-second century the population had recovered elements of twenty-first and twenty-second century technology, and the population had ample access to power generated by archaic fission reactors. By 3130 crude deuterium-fuelled fusion reactors were being introduced, although at a somewhat slow pace because of the government's determination to recover the protium-fusing technology to produce modern fusion reactors, although five decades of research hadn't managed to achieve that yet. The same fission technology that gave Wynn's Roost fission reactors helped fuel the deliberately-spread rumor that the planet could draw on nuclear fission weapons to use against attackers; while those rumors hadn't been tested, there were several test sites around the planet that certainly appeared to be convincing. The planetary infrastructure had rebuilt to the point that every citizen had ample access to electricity, fresh air and fresh water, and well-developed transportation and communication networks spanned the world.[38]

The combination of a thriving industrial base and ample supplies of petroleum meant that long-distance travel was conducted by car, although within the cities cleaner mass transit was more common.[38] Many of the cities on the Roost had been intentionally built around industrial sites deliberately located by rivers, seas and oceans to allow for ready access to inexpensive water transport.[39] The relatively high levels of sulphur-based compounds in the air and water that were responsible for the atmosphere being dangerous to breathe the atmosphere made the water somewhat acidic, and this led to not just tented cities but water craft constructed to have high corrosion resistance.[38][39] In common with other worlds with breathable but tainted atmospheres, cities and towns had design features such as blocks of condominiums and row houses for much of the population, designed to take advantage of scales of efficiency with air filtration systems. While having a stand-alone house was considered a mark of modest wealth, buildings are generally close together and business districts commonly roofed over streets to create filtered, sealed environments. The abundance of combustion-fuelled vehicles meant that in many areas, much of the tenting served as elevated roads, while cleaner public transport vehicles travelled at ground-level, along with bicyclists and pedestrians. Not only did this generate the impression in some cases that cities were actually underground structures, but in some areas public spaces were actually excavated tunnels rather than tented buildings. Nevertheless, it was a mark of pride for a town or city to have large, Terran-normal public spaces such as parks, although the limitations on the Roost's technological base meant that rather than being the domed structures found on more advanced worlds, these spaces more closely resembled large greenhouses.[39]

With several decades of relative prosperity to draw on, more modern buildings on the Roost had led to glass-faced skyscrapers common to other worlds being built on the Roost, but the slightly acidic rain meant that the older structures were typically faced with acid-resistant tile and brick. The Roosters had embraced a culture of decorating public buildings with beautiful tile mosaics, and the presences of more modern skyscrapers hadn't diminished the striking, colourful appearance of most Rooster settlements.[39] Interstellar trade was limited to a handful of traders a year visiting the system, all of whom were from mineral companies located in the Federated Suns. The traders generally purchased rare earth elements along with platinum, rhenium and germanium, although the Roost also had ample supplies of Uranium-235 even without enrichment processes - a consequence of the world only being some two billion years old. In return, the Roost imported small quantities of advanced goods, particularly military supplies. The lack of a functional HPG made further trade a difficult prospect, but the government established a trade mission on New Avalon in the thirty-second century in the hope of generating further trade.[39]

With the formation of the Raven Alliance, the government of Wynn's Roost put considerable thought into how to respond in the event of conflict with Clan opponents. In the main, the government's preferred option was to avoid both conflict and contact by not engaging in trade with the Raven Alliance, or any other activity that could attract attention. Representatives from any of the Clans who encountered Wynn's Roost were treated with great politeness, a state of affairs known as the "Dyson Doctrine" after President Tanala Dyson, who was responsible for authoring the principle. If it should come to conflict, the Rooster government had developed plans to either try and draw on their strengths, such as they were - duels that would take advantage of hostile terrain, or duels conducted via sea battles with Rooster battleships. A variety of trials that didn't involve direct combat were also developed, under a contingency plan given the code name "Dance Off".[39]

During the Dark Age the Rooster government continued to operate a Hegemony-pattern government, where planetary Presidents were elected for a maximum of two seven-year terms, with the population electing the President based upon the results of their civil service exam results, which meant that each President was usually a faceless civil servant prior to election. The legislature largely acted as a rubber stamp however, endorsing the decisions made by the professional executive branch. During the thirty-first and thirty-second centuries a number of Presidents stood out for their unusual popularity and effectiveness, which played a significant role in improving life for the population. President Annald Russolillo served from 3031 to 3044, and was responsible for bringing in a swathe of educational reforms. Russolillo recognised that Wynn's Roost had very little interstellar currency to use in trade, but plenty of domestic wealth that it could potentially use to attract skilled immigrants. Russolillo leveraged this in attracting foreign educators to shore up the school system, and foreign technical specialists to assist Rooster industry, rewarding them with high wages in local currency, providing large homes and personal servants.[39]

President Tanala Dyson served two terms as President from 3059 to 3072, and faced the challenge of navigating the diplomatic and military problems caused by Clan Snow Raven, leading to the Dyson Doctrine. Christopher Gowens was an outstanding economist who engineered an economic boom on Wynn's Roost in the 3120s, and this, combined with him being a charismatic public speaker led to him being elected President for two terms from 3122 to 3135; it was under Gowens' tenure that the embassy on New Avalon was founded, and record numbers of skilled immigrants from the Golden Worlds of the Federated Suns were recruited to Wynn's Roost.[39]

The planets government is nominally an representative democracy, however dominated by the bureaucracy and the executive. The government is styled after the example of the Terran Hegemony. Presidents can serve at maximum two terms. The long term stable government has proved an important factor in dealing with the isolation of the colony.[39] President Younger Wynn V led the planet and the Traders Domain Region 2822 into secession. Most president that served are just faceless bureaucrats to the population.[39]

Planetary Rulers

2835

3031-3044

  • President Annald Russolillo[39]

3059 - 3072

  • President Tanala Dyson[39]

3122 - 3135

  • President Christopher Gowens[39]

Military Deployment

The planet might have nuclear weapons, as several test sites seem to indicate, but if so, has ruled against using them to fight Clan Snow Raven. Instead alternative non-combat trials are planned as contingency plans, like a "Dance off Trial"[40]. The planet has a well paid and sizeable milita for a planet in the Outworlds wastes. Equipment consists primarily of locally-built primitive tanks, mechanized infantry, and some large oceanic gunboats. It is barely able to support a wing of aerospace fighters and rarely affords more than a company of mercenary BattleMechs.[41].

Geography

Wynn's Roost has a number of unusually acidic bodies of water and tainted air, but is otherwise relatively typical as planets go. Vast forests, arctic wastes and tropical islands can all be found on Wynn's Roost, and a large part of the native ecosystem was ignored by the human population. This left native ecosystems in a state of flux, as the native lifeforms are cruder forms of insect, amphibian and plants that are unable to compete against imported species such as rats, dogs and pigs, although while many imported species were adapted to endure the higher levels of ultraviolet light and the sulphuric air of Wynn's Roost during the Star League era, newer imports don't fare well in the unwelcoming environment.[39] The continents on Wynn's Roost were named by Turner Wynn, with Turnerland being the major continent and Wynnland a cold, northern continent located to the northwest of Turnerland. Two large continents, Oneland and Twoland, stretch across the equator to north and south, while the arctic continent of Threeland lies to the south of Turnerland. Originally, Oneland, Twoland and Threeland were named for Turner Wynn's three wives, but when his polyamorous marriage dissolved costing him billions in divorce payments, he refused to speak his ex-wives names again, simply referring to them by number, and the convention applies to the continents as well. The names proved surprisingly resilient among the local population, who considered them easy to remember.[42]

There are a number of major islands dotted around Wynn's Roost; between the western end of Wynnland and the northeastern shore of Twoland are a pair of large islands known as The Guardians, while Thorpett's Haunts and the Isle of Mysts lie in the constant to the west of Turnerland. Where Oneland and Twoland curve together around the Archanan Sea and smaller Richess Sea a region of archipelagos and islands forms the region known as Hamilton Harbour, and a small group of islands known as Edge Reef mark the divide between the Koha Sea to the east of Turnerland, and the much larger Deepening Sea that stretches east to the western coast of Oneland.[42]

Wynne's Roost has five continents, Oneland, Twoland, Threeland, Turnerland and Wynnland. Oneland, Twoland and Threeland have been named originally after the Wives of the founder of the Colony, Turner Wynn. After an ugly divorce he ordered the continents renamed[43]. The planet and its moon are tidally locked, producing 77 hour long days.

Planetary Locations

Industrial Centers

The planet exports mostly minerals such as germanium, platinum, rhenium, and rare earth elements[44]. High U-235 deposits are also abundant. Wynn’s Roost has little hard currency for interstellar trade but actively attracts skilled immigrant by promising them large homes, high wages in planetary scrip, and personal servants[45]. Most industrial centres are located near water to ease transportation. As of 3130 crude deuterium-burning and fission reactors provide energy, with modern protium-reactors only decades away[38]. Due the abundance of petroleum a car culture for long distance travel has developed. The planet struggles to keep up an aerospace industry and only produces some large aircraft. Earthmovers produced on Wynn's Roost were the reason for a raid in 2822 by its neighbour planet Ammon (OA).

Image Gallery

  • Wynns Roost-Flag TtSWR.png

    Planetary flag of Wynn's Roost

Nearby Systems

Closest 24 systems (23 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Vangburg 4.0 Nerum 5.7 Zebuluraskai 7.1 Renorsal 9.3
Koury 24.6 Blueys 27.9 False Dawn 28.7 Mizt 29.0
Aalzorg 29.7 Fallry 30.4 Salvende 30.8 Grankum 31.6
Glitnir 35.9 Hrafn 38.2 Azur 42.5 Raetia 43.0
Crichton 48.2 Michtal 49.3 Ourem 53.7 Zalt 55.6
Danli 56.9 Tanz 57.5 Ammon 58.4 Bannerhoft 62.0

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost, p. 4
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 147, "Outworlds Alliance after Age of War (2571) and at the Fall of the Star League (2750)"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Second Succession War, p. 78-79, "Inner Sphere - 2864"
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  9. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
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  12. ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
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  14. ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  15. ↑ Second Succession War, p. 18-19, "Inner Sphere - 2830"
  16. ↑ Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions, p. 65 - The Outworlds Wastes - Wynn's Roost is capital of it's own Nation starting in 2835.
  17. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  18. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  19. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  20. ↑ Objective Raids, p.46, "Map of Periphery States: The Outworlds Alliance Sector"
  21. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3057] Map"
  22. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 110, "Outworlds Alliance"
  23. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  24. ↑ Inner Sphere, p. 97, "Near Periphery Kingdoms Map""
  25. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 150, "Outworlds Alliance (3067)"
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  27. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere - [3075]"
  28. ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 28, "Clan Snow Raven & Outworlds Alliance Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  29. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  30. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  31. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  32. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  33. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  34. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  35. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. 215, "61st Royal Jump Infantry Division"
  36. ↑ Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost, p. 4
  37. ↑ Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3,p.65 - Trader Domain history, with Wynn's Roost as capital world of a microstate that briefly existed during the Succession War era and it's suffering it suffered under the Pirates of the 29th-30th Centuries.
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 38.4 Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost, p. 5
  39. ↑ 39.00 39.01 39.02 39.03 39.04 39.05 39.06 39.07 39.08 39.09 39.10 39.11 39.12 39.13 Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost, p. 6
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  41. ↑ Touring the Stars: Wynn's Roost, p. 6
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