Delacruz

Delacruz
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3151
Delacruz 3151.svg
Delacruz nearby systems
(Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates372.478 : 113.17[e]
Recharge station(s)Nadir (Admiral Horusho Kensai recharge and trade station)[1]

The Delacruz system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as of 3151 was located in the Kaznejoy Prefecture of the New Samarkand Military District within the Draconis Combine.[2][3][4]

System Description[edit]

Delacruz is located near the Groveld III and Kesai IV systems.[2][3]

System History[edit]

The Delacruz system was settled at some point prior to the end of the Reunification War.[5]

Political Affiliation[edit]

Delacruz[edit]

Delacruz
Astrophysical
System position9 days[35]
Government and Infrastructure
Noble RulerDuke of Delacruz
CapitalDelilah[1]

Planetary History[edit]

Reunification War[edit]

In the lead-up to Operation UNION HOLD, the Star League invasion of the Outworlds Alliance, Delacruz was a border world between the Draconis Combine and the Outworlds Alliance. The Star League Defense Force marshalled the Forty-third and Forty-fifth Brigades, part of the Fifteenth Division, V Corps on Delacruz prior to the invasion; the SLDF forces left Delacruz to invade Weisau in July 2581, landing on the Alliance world in August.[5][36][37]

Star League Era[edit]

Delacruz had long been a contested world, fought over by the Federated Suns and Draconis Combine, and was one of dozens of worlds that the Terran Hegemony targeted as a part of their foreign policy after the various campaigns of persuasion that expanded the Hegemony by conquest. Delacruz, like many other worlds, became a world jointly administered under the overall authority of the Hegemony.[38]

First Succession War[edit]

During the collapse of the Star League in the brief period between the end of the Amaris Civil War and the Exodus led by General Aleksandr Kerensky Delacruz evidently either lapsed into Federated Suns control or was annexed by the Federated Suns, but this wouldn't last long; in May 2787,[See Notes] the Draconis Combine launched an invasion of the Federated Suns, and Delacruz was one of the first worlds to be invaded. The Twenty-second Avalon Hussars were able to cover the retreat of the last Federated Suns defenders on the planet, with the Twenty-second's command lance covering the retreat of the last DropShip to launch.[13][39]

Third Succession War[edit]

In early 3025, the Federated Suns attacked Delacruz.[40]

War of 3039[edit]

The Wave One invasion of Delacruz went poorly, including the failed capture of the nadir recharge station, leading to outcries from major human rights watchdogs. Marshal Edward Valos commanded the Forty-second Avalon Hussars and Third Lyran Regulars against the portion of the Eighth Sword of Light that remained on world, quickly seizing whatever stores from the Combine units he could. Marshal Valos became worried when the expected counterattack of recovered Star League-era machines he had been warned about did not take place, and planned the pull out of his forces if needed.

Together with the Fourth An Ting Legion and the Eighth Sword of Light, the Second An Ting Legion finally arrived to face the FedCom forces. Arriving on 3 August, the Combine force under the command of the Fourth An Ting's Sho-sho Jophet Pati attempted to also take the nadir recharge station but failed. The land battle went more smoothly, with nine battalions of BattleMechs and two regiments of support machines at her disposal. Four of the 'Mech battalions embarked in the force's DropShips while two battalions conducted an underwater trek to the island of Goi-pa and the major military installation there. While two companies of the Third Lyran initially held the water-borne forces (a company of Second An Ting, and two lances each of the Fourth An Ting and the Eighth Sword),[41] the surprise airdrop broke the lines of Hauptmann-Kommandant Fey Nicols, who quickly retreated. Island hopping attacks continued for the next month. By 3 September, the Federated Commonwealth left the world in the hands of the Draconis Combine.[1]

Military Deployment[edit]

2786[edit]

2787[edit]

3025[edit]

3038[edit]

  • Eighth Sword of Light[44]

3040[edit]

  • Eighth Sword of Light[44]

3050[edit]

  • Eighth Sword of Light[45]

Geography[edit]

Apocryphal Content Starts

The information after this notice comes from apocryphal sources; the canonicity of such information is uncertain.
Please view the reference page for information regarding their canonicity.

The database of the (apocryphal) 1989 video game MechWarrior, set around the year 3025, gives a population of 879 million and describes the environment as "desert" (out of only three impressions of planetary environments given in the game, these being "desert," "ice," and "tropical").

Apocryphal Content Ends

Planetary Locations[edit]

  • Delilah: island capital[1]
  • Goi-pa: island military installation and site of major War of 3039 battle[1][41]
  • Ischariot[46]
  • Rhodesia[46]
  • Zuiba: smaller of two major island cities[1]

Notes[edit]

^ Technical Readout: 3025 originally listed the Twenty-second Avalon Hussars retreat as happening in 2796, but Technical Readout: 3025 Revised superseded it.

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 32 systems (29 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Kesai 7.8 Groveld 14.5 Weisau 21.5 Conroe 22.2
Niles 27.0 Cimeron 30.8 Waldheim 31.4 Capra 32.9
Bryceland 37.4 Valentina 38.1 Latexo 38.7 Altdorf 39.8
Périgueux 42.8 Schirmeck 43.8 Saumur 44.4 Senorbi 45.5
Kaznejoy 47.2 Colia 48.6 Avranches 49.0 Budingen 49.8
Medron 51.7 Anguilla 51.9 Wittington 52.3 Damevang 55.8
Goubellat 56.1 Bremond 56.8 McGehee 56.9 Delitzsch 57.0
Beta Mensae 57.6 Tancredi 60.4 Sturgis 62.9 Cassias 64.1

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Historical: War of 3039, pp. 105–106: "Delacruz"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39: "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Shattered Fortress, p. 103
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Historical: Reunification War, p. 106: "Reunification War: Outworlds Alliance Front Deployments (2581)"
  6. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 18: "Draconis Combine Founding" - 2319
  7. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 31: "Draconis Combine after Age of War - 2571"
  8. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159: "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  9. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37: "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  10. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. xi: Inner Sphere - [2764]
  11. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  12. ↑ First Succession War, p. 25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Technical Readout: 3025 Revised, p. 112: "Deployment"
  14. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 43: "Draconis Combine after First Succession War - 2822"
  15. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122: "Inner Sphere - 2822"
  16. ↑ First Succession War, p. 113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  17. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 53: "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - 2864"
  18. ↑ House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), foldout: "Draconis Combine Map - [3025]"
  19. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 64: "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - 3025"
  20. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 66: "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - 3030"
  21. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 68: "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - 3040"
  23. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map [3050]"
  24. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23: "Inner Sphere Map [3052]"
  25. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 71: "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - 3052"
  26. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
  27. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29: "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
  28. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 74: "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - 3067"
  29. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42: "Inner Sphere Map [October 3067]"
  30. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65: "Inner Sphere Map [3075]"
  31. ↑ Field Report: DCMS, p. 23: "Draconis Combine Deployment Map [3079]"
  32. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  33. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 127: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  34. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
  35. ↑ Hot Spots Contracts, p. 26: "Galedon Military District - Contract DC 56601-002-2"
  36. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 113: "Weisau"
  37. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 141: "Reunification War: Outworlds Alliance Front Deployments (2581)"
  38. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume Two, p. 118: "Jointly Administered Worlds"
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Technical Readout 3025, p. 118: Cyclops write-up, Notable MechWarriors section
  40. ↑ Wolf's Dragoons, p. 32: "Enemies in High Places"
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Combat Manual: Kurita, p. 53: "Island Invasion" (scenario)
  42. ↑ First Succession War, p. 137: "First Succession War Deployment Table - DCMS"
  43. ↑ House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 133: "Unit Deployment Table"
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 Historical: War of 3039, p. 139: "Deployment Table"
  45. ↑ 20 Year Update, p. 41: "Draconis Combine Deployment Table"
  46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 My Father's Sword

Bibliography[edit]

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