Yangtze

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Yangtze
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Yangtze nearby systems
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates75.41:-43.78[e]
Spectral classG6V[1]
Planet(s)10[1]

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

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Owner History

Planetary Garrison

3061

Planetary History

Early History

The original settlers to colonise Yangtze were from the region of ancient Terra known as China; finding that Yangtze's two small continents - which they named Han and Sung - were flat, covered in a thick layer of fertile soil and fed by seasonal flooding from the many slow-moving rivers on each continent they named the planet Yangtze after the flood plain of the same name on Terra. It wasn't until the era of the Star League that Yangtze truly prospered, however; fear of the wide-scale inland flooding caused the settlers to build small villages and towns huddled on the rocky coasts of the two continents, rather than building inland.[1]

Star League Era

Looking to unlock the potential agricultural wealth on Yangtze, the Capellan Confederation invited the Terran Hegemony to jointly administer Yangtze during the Star League era. Hegemony engineers constructed thousands of dams and dikes on the two continents, looking to control the massive floods; this successfully converted both continents into prime agricultural land and encouraged a massive expansion in the planetary population, which rose in number by an order of magnitude compared to its pre-Star League levels.[1]

Succession Wars

During the Second Succession War the flood controls on the Sung continent were sabotaged by a group of rogue mercenaries. The result was mass devastation and the deaths of a large percentage of the population. The Han continent continued to be productive despite the loss of output from Sung, and Yangtze remained a major agricultural world for the Confederation until the planet was captured by the Federated Suns during the Fourth Succession War. The Armed Forces of the Federated Suns conquered Yangtze in a relatively bloodless campaign and held the planet for several decades until it was finally recaptured by the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces during the FedCom Civil War.[1]

Jihad

Yangtze was attacked and conquered by the Word of Blake in September 3069, which resulted in it being incorporated into the Word of Blake Protectorate.[26] In an attempt to control the population the Blakists disabled the flood controls on Han.[1] Yangtze was subsequently liberated in early 3077 by forces from the Federated Suns front of Operation SCOUR. Field Marshal Katheryn Sandoval-Ito lead the campaign personally, at the head of Group I, and brought all three Fox-class WarShips assigned to the task force to ensure the prosecution of the campaign against the dug-in defenders.[28] The decision to deploy all three WarShips was doubtless driven by the information obtained at great cost by the Battle Corps Legion in February 3077 about the defenses on Yangtze; the Legion was a part of the mobile command tasked directly by the allied coalition command group under General Belle Lee, and had been ordered to perform reconnaissance on Yangtze ahead of the Federated Suns task force attack. The Battle Corps Legion was evidently under heavy attack within minutes of landing, losing a company of troops in the first half an hour of the mission before the remaining elements of the Legion's Alpha Battalion went to ground, ordering the surviving DropShips to lift off immediately.[36] The intelligence obtained by those surviving transport vessels was used by Sandoval-Ito to plan her campaign against Yangtze.[28] Group I used the information gathered by the Battle Corps survivors recovered from Yangtze to outflank the Blakist defenders on the ground, while targeting the most strongly defended areas with orbital strikes to eliminate the greatest pockets of resistance.[28]

Dark Age

The Republic of the Sphere attempted to repair the damage done to the flood control systems on both continents, beginning with repairing the least-damaged dikes and dams. By 3130 the Republic had managed to correct enough damage to restore agricultural production on the planet to approximately a quarter of its peak levels.[1]

Nearby Planets

Planets within 2 jumps (60 light-years). Closest planets first:

Planet Distance (LY) Jumps 2750 3025 3030 3040 3052 3057 3062
Hamal 10.69 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Alrescha 10.93 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Achernar 11.36 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Angol 13.37 1 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Tigress 14.10 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
New Hessen 15.85 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Bharat 16.79 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Basalt 17.36 1 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Kansu 18.20 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Slocum 19.59 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Nopah 21.00 1 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Azha 23.35 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Rio 24.99 1 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Kawich 26.04 1 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Buchlau 26.14 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Algol 26.75 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Tybalt 27.43 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Tikonov 27.68 1 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Ruchbah 27.72 1 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Hean 29.22 1 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Mira 29.46 1 CC FS FS FC FC FC FC
Mesartim 29.84 1 CC FS FS FC FC FC FC
Demeter 30.92 2 FS FS FS FC FC FC FC
Almach 31.41 2 CC FS FS FC FC FC FC
Ningpo 31.76 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Woodstock 32.27 2 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Deneb Kaitos 32.66 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Halloran V 33.49 2 CC FS FS FC FC FC FC
Arboris 33.59 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMD CMD
Ankaa 34.43 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Fletcher (FWL) 35.23 2 TH FWL FWL FWL FWL FWL FWL
Ingress 36.15 2 TH CC TFR FC FC DS DS
Acamar 36.59 2 TH CC TFR FC FC CMD CMD
Mirach 37.56 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
New Rhodes III 38.92 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Poznan 40.25 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Genoa 40.27 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMD CMD
Algot 41.00 2 CC FS FS FC FC FC FC
Sheratan 41.37 2 TH CC TFR FC FC CMD CMD
Caselton 41.95 2 FS FS FS FC FC FC FC
Pleione 43.84 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Small World 43.90 2 TH CC TFR FC FC DS DS
Addicks 44.24 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
New Aragon 45.52 2 CC FS FS FC FC FC FC
Ronel 45.95 2 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC
Ozawa 47.62 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Liao 48.26 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Schedar 48.29 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Chesterton 48.36 2 FS FS FS FC FC FC FC
Sonnia 48.54 2 FS FS FS FC FC FC FC
Gan Singh 50.01 2 TH CC FS FC FC SC SC
Menkar 51.39 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Towne 52.27 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Errai 53.65 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Shensi 53.70 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Nanking 53.85 2 TH CC TFR FC FC FC FC
Terra Firma 54.37 2 TH CC TFR FC FC TCC TCC
Epsilon Indi 54.52 2 TH CC TFR FC FC CMD CMD
Helen 54.54 2 TH FS FS FC FC FC FC
Aldebaran 55.31 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Jonathan 56.11 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Foochow 56.17 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Valexa 57.44 2 FS FS FS FC FC FC FC
Edwards 58.21 2 FS FS FS FC FC FC FC
Northwind 58.45 2 TH FS FS FC FC CMD CMD
St. Andre 58.49 2 TH CC FS FC FC CMC CC
Zurich 59.23 2 TH CC FS FC FC FC FC

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130), p. 91, "Yangtze World Profile"
  2. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 17, "Capellan Confederation Founding, 2366"
  3. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 13, "Timeline: Capellan Zone 2367"
  4. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 25, "Capellan Confederation after Age of War [2571]"
  5. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  6. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  7. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  8. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 31, "Capellan Confederation after First Succession War [2822]"
  9. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 54, "Federated Suns after First Succesion War [2822]"
  10. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 39, "Capellan Confederation after Second Succession War [2864]"
  11. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns after Third Succesion War [2864]"
  12. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 40, "Capellan Confederation after Third Succession War [3025]"
  13. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns after Third Succesion War [3025]"
  14. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 49, "Capellan Confederation after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns after Fourth Succesion War [3030]"
  16. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 76, "Federated Suns after War of [3039]"
  17. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  18. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 3050"
  19. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - 3052"
  20. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 60, "Capellan Confederation after Operation Guerrero [3058]"
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 78, "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero [3058]"
  23. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
  24. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 68, "Capellan Confederation after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  25. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 47, "The Jihad In Review"
  27. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - 3075"
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 36, "First Wave Complete"
  29. ↑ Field Report: CCAF, p. 21, "Capellan Confederation Armed Forces Deployment Map - August 3079"
  30. ↑ Field Report: AFFS, p. 21, "Federated Suns Region Deployment Map [3079]"
  31. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  32. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  33. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
  34. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
  35. ↑ Shattered Sphere, p. 30, "FedCom Deployment Table"
  36. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 36, "S.O.S."

Bibliography

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