Marcus

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Marcus
← 3135
3151
Marcus 3151.svg
Marcus nearby systems
(Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-58.94 : -15.558[e]
Spectral classG1IV[1]
Planet(s)10[1]

System Description[edit]

Marcus is located near the Callison and Zosma systems.

Political Affiliation[edit]

Marcus IV[edit]

Marcus IV
Astrophysical
System positionFourth[1]
Jump Point distance10 days[1]
Moons4 (Bandi, Cele, Palila, Washi)[1]
Geophysical
Surface gravity1.12[1]
Atmospheric pressureHigh (Breathable)[1]
Equatorial temperature48°C[1]
Surface water65%[1]
Highest native lifeMammals[1]
LandmassesAt least 1 (Montezumia)[1]
History and Culture
Population1,078,000,000 (3130)[1][28]
Government and Infrastructure
Political LeaderPlanetary Governor
Military CommanderLegate Diego Corridan III (3130)[1][28]
CapitalZotikos[1]

Marcus is a hostile world with an oppressive atmosphere. Settled in the early years of the Terran Hegemony to exploit the abundant radioactive materials, Marcus eventually hosted Orguss Industries.[1]

Planetary History[edit]

Amaris Civil War[edit]

During the Amaris Civil War, the Rim Worlds troops garrisoning the world forced the population to work triple shifts at the BattleMech plant and in the uranium mines. After five years of occupation nearly three million people of the planet's population was killed in mines and factories.[1]

Succession Wars[edit]

The fall of the Star League found the Free Worlds League in possession of Marcus. Though the industrial complexes were valuable to the Free Worlds, they also made Marcus a tempting target for raids from the Commonwealth. After centuries of raids and damage, the planet's economy was in decline and Marcus' future looked bleak. This led to a cult, the Way of Arme, that encouraged suicide as a way of reaching "Culmination." The cult was short-lived as its members eventually killed themselves.[1]

Fourth Succession War[edit]

Following the sudden invasions of several League worlds by the Tikonov Free Republic and a daringly successful invasion of Callison by mercenaries employed by the Lyran Commonwealth in mid-3029, Captain-General Janos Marik found himself in the midst of an unanticipated crisis. In addition to the conquest of Callison, LCAF communications traffic and movements had spiked sharply, creating the impression of an impending offensive against the League. Faced with what he believed to be the plausible threat of a large-scale attack aimed at the region of the League near Terra, Janos was more concerned with saving the six or seven assorted BattleMech regiments present within the region than he was with retaining the worlds, as he believed that the offensive would most likely be aimed at snipping off the corner of the League closest to Terra—and to both the Federated Suns and the Tikonov Free Republic. Marcus was one of the systems abandoned by Janos, who would learn later that he had been deceived by an effective campaign of smoke and mirrors arranged by the Commonwealth General of the Armies, Edward Regis, to deter the League from launching an invasion of the Commonwealth while the LCAF was heavily committed to its invasion of the Draconis Combine.[29][15][30]

Operation GUERRERO[edit]

Marcus was invaded in the Free Worlds League's first wave of Operation GUERRERO by the Seventh Free Worlds Legionnaires, the Fifth Marik Militia, and the Twelfth Atrean Dragoons. The defending FedCom troops sacrificed a 'Mech regiment in order to escape.[31]

The Jihad[edit]

The Word of Blake incorporated Marcus into the Protectorate during the Jihad. Marcus was liberated by allied coalition forces in July 3077 as a part of Operation SCOUR. In June 3077, the First Kell Hounds Regiment led by Akira Brahe raided Marcus as part of Operation SCOUR and engaged the Marcus Protectorate Militia in several cities. The unit was also able to take and destroy a Word of Blake arsenal hidden under stored grain in three of the buildings of a hidden firebase. Less than a month later, a Coalition assault force formed by the Third Lyran Guards, Clan Wolf-in-Exile's Beta Galaxy, and the Marlette Crucis March Militia landed as part of the real invasion they shattered the rest of the militia.[32][33] During the assault by the Coalition troops, several million tons of foodstuffs ready for shipment were destroyed. This led to extreme economic effects as the shipment was critical to their economy.[34]

The Word of Blake responded by dispatching a combination of hired mercenary (in the form of the Canned Heat, Clifton's Rangers, The Furies, and the Stealthy Tigers[33] to retake Marcus on the 11th of August; the coalition forces[18] including the Twentieth Marik Militia[35] had no choice but to retreat to the nearby world of Dieudonné.[18] Two teams of ComStar affiliated Blake's Wrath units destroyed the uranium mines to deny them to the Word of Blake. The mercenaries the Blakists had sent were not concerned with limiting collateral damage, and when word of the Coalition's conquest of Terra reached them, the natives (aided by ComStar) overthrew their mercenary overseers, though some of them had already escaped when the fall of Terra news had arrived.[36][33]

After the planet's ejection of the Word of Blake Baron Norman Gibson and several other people marked as Word of Blake collaborators were detained. By 3080, the Baron was put on trial, accused of war crimes, abuse of power, murder and false imprisonment after evidence indicated that he had allowed over four thousand Marcus citizens to be held without charges, in Word of Blake reeducation camps, and had tied the Baron to the deaths of over three hundred people, either in those camps, or elsewhere on the planet.[37]

Military Deployment[edit]

2786[edit]

2821[edit]

3038[edit]

3040[edit]

3050[edit]

3054[edit]

  • Twelfth FedCom RCT[41]

3059[edit]

3067[edit]

  • Twelfth Atrean Dragoons[17]

3145[edit]

Planetary Locations[edit]

  • Zotikos: capital city[44]

Companies and Industries[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 72 systems (71 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Callison 3.7 Zosma 10.2 New Dallas 10.7 Wyatt 11.0
Dubhe 11.6 Afleir 14.7 Chertan 15.8 Wing 16.9
Bordon 18.3 Castor 18.5 Milton 19.1 Dieudonné 19.3
Alchiba 19.4 Phecda 20.9 Devil's Rock 22.7 Alhena 23.6
Connaught 25.2 Denebola 25.3 Pollux 27.4 Remulac 27.7
Oliver 28.4 Tabit 28.8 Alioth 29.5 Shiloh 31.1
Zavijava 31.1 Cor Caroli 31.2 Talitha 31.3 Aquileia 32.0
Haddings 33.0 Lipton 33.3 Nathan 34.6 Graham 35.8
Acubens 35.8 Xi Ursae Majoris 36.3 Mizar 36.5 Van Diemen 36.9
Chara 37.0 Alphard 37.0 Savannah 37.3 Gacrux 38.1
Catroxx 38.1 Miaplacidus 41.5 Thorin 42.5 Irian 42.7
Hechnar 43.4 Menkent 43.7 Muphrid 44.1 Summer 44.1
Zollikofen 46.0 Alcor 47.2 Kalidasa 47.4 Zaniah 49.5
Galatea 49.9 Tau Ceti 50.1 Pliska 51.2 Hall 53.4
Carver 53.8 Procyon 54.1 Syrma 54.7 Rochelle 54.9
Wasat 55.2 Elbing 55.5 Sirius 56.9 New Hope 57.0
Blue Sava 57.3 Alkes 57.9 Rocky 58.4 Adhafera 58.5
Rigil Kentarus 58.9 Vindemiatrix 59.0 Outreach 59.0 Tania Borealis 60.4

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130), p. 189: "Marcus"
  2. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 16: "Free Worlds League Founding [2271]"
  3. ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 17: "Capellan Confederation Foundation [2366]]"
  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. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104: "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 138: "Operation LIBERATION Wave 1 [July 2772 - December 2774]"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 118: "Digesting the Hegemony"
  11. ↑ First Succession War, p. 25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  12. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 34: "Free Worlds League after First Succession War [2822]"
  13. ↑ First Succession War, p. 113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  14. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 38: "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War [2864]"
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 42: "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War [3025]"
  16. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Field Manual: Updates, p. 159: "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 57: "The Jihad in Review"
  19. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere - March 3081" (Map)
  20. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - October 3085" (Map
  21. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - 3135" (Map)
  22. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 38: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  23. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  24. ↑ Shattered Fortress, p. 71
  25. ↑ Shattered Fortress, p. 85: "Collapse of the Remnant"
  26. ↑ Shattered Fortress, p. 103: "Inner Sphere - 3151" (Map)
  27. ↑ Empire Alone, p. 78: "The Free Worlds League - June 3152 (Map)"
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Dark Age: Republic of the Sphere, p. 18: "Prefecture VIII"
  29. ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2, p. 87: "Conclusion"
  30. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 51: "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
  31. ↑ Shattered Sphere, p. 74: "Operation Guerrero, First Wave"
  32. ↑ Total Chaos, pp. 169–170: "Hounds of War"
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Total Chaos, pp. 164–165: "Marcus"
  34. ↑ Total Chaos, p. 164
  35. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, pp. 59–60: "Chaos Eternal: Blood and Fury"
  36. ↑ Total Chaos, p. 165
  37. ↑ Baron Indicted on Collaboration and War Crimes
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 First Succession War, p. 138: "First Succession War Deployment Table - FWLM"
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Historical: War of 3039, p. 141: "Deployment Table"
  40. ↑ 20 Year Update, p. 27: "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"
  41. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 19: "FedCom Deployment Table"
  42. ↑ Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 112: "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  43. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 145: "Republic Armed Forces - Republic Remnant"
  44. ↑ Shattered Fortress, p. 85

Bibliography[edit]

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