Megrez

Megrez
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3151
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Megrez nearby systems
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates-211.22 : -41.924[e]
Recharge time196 hours[1]

The Megrez system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as of June 3152 was located in the Wolf Empire.[2]

System Description[edit]

Megrez is located near the Cascade and Giausar systems.

Political Affiliation[edit]

Megrez[edit]

Megrez

Planetary History[edit]

First Succession War[edit]

As some point during the First Succession War between 2976[9] and 2818 the planet had been conquered by the LCAF, and the FWML decided to prepare the conquest of the planet by first wiping out the Steiner air support that consisted of nearly twenty Seydlitz class fighters and several older types. The Marik attack was a disaster with the slower Marik bombers were swarmed by the Steiner defenders. Because of this the battle of Megrez slowed up by nearly three years.[27]

The planet was back on Marik hands by 2822.[10][11]

Second Succession War[edit]

Having been conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the Second Succession War, the Eridani Light Horse mercenary unit recaptured Megrez for the Free Worlds League in 2854.[12]

Third Succession War[edit]

At some point in the Third Succession War, the Lyran Commonwealth seized Megrez from the Free Worlds League. When Janos Marik ordered an assault which took back Megrez in 3015, the Lyrans reciprocated by taking Ford the same year.[13]

In 3018, Megrez was the site of a notable battle involving the First Marik Militia. The First were on Megrez in a routine garrison posting when the planet became the site of a large assault by forces from the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces. The region known as the Skada Ravine became the site of a deadly close-quarters battle between LCAF forces and the Third Battalion of the First Marik Militia, which was also known as the Perth River Strike Battalion; it was this battle that saw the Commanding Officer of the Third, Marcus Radatz, awarded membership of the Order of the Silver Hand, as well as making the future Commanding Officer of the First Marik Militia, Shanna del Rey, a hero and overnight vidtape legend after her single-handed defeat of three LCAF 'Mechs.[14] One unnamed MechWarrior from the Perth River Strike Battalion, a minor noble piloting a Thunderbolt, was considered a sadistic sociopath by his own superiors. He was demoted after the fighting on Megrez for an unspecified incident that killed the family of Lyran Commonwealth citizen Simon Kincaid, but promoted back to lance commander only one year later in what was described as a recurring scenario.[28]

The Jihad[edit]

Megrez was one of the initial targets of the Skye and Bolan Province invasion of the Free Worlds League in March 3068. Named Operation ÜBERSCHATTEN, the invasion began on the 10th of March with attacks on Cascade, Megrez, and Togwotee.[17] As a part of the peace terms agreed between Marshall Jeremy Brett of the FWLM and Duke Alder Umayr of Bolan—and as a result of battlefield attrition—the Lyran Alliance withdrew its forces from Megrez by the end of 3069.[18]

Following the dissolution of the Free Worlds League in January 3079, elements within the Lyran Alliance moved to annex a number of former League worlds between August and September that year. Megrez was one of seven worlds conquered during this period, and the invasion only stopped when Archon Adam Steiner declared that any other bouts of what he termed "unauthorized adventurism" would be considered an act of treason.[19]

Dark Age[edit]

Megrez was attacked and conquered by Clan Wolf in mid-3140 after the Wolves turned upon the Lyran Commonwealth following Operation HAMMERFALL.[23][24]

Military Deployment[edit]

2765[edit]

2786[edit]

  • Twenty-fifth Marik Militia[30]

2821[edit]

  • Twenty-fifth Marik Militia[30]

3018[edit]

3025[edit]

3050[edit]

3054[edit]

  • Crater Cobras[33]
    • 789th Striker

3059[edit]

  • Crater Cobras[34]
    • 789th Striker

3059[edit]

3067[edit]

  • Sixth Marik Militia[16]

3085[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 40 systems (37 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Cascade 13.2 Giausar 15.9 Togwotee 16.3 Thermopolis 16.8
Loric 19.4 Colfax 22.9 Ford 23.5 Pingree 24.9
Pressby 27.4 Szepes 29.9 McAffe 30.2 Rexburg 30.3
Preston 31.8 Aigle 32.8 Sterling 35.0 Zortman 35.4
Sheridan 35.6 Gienah 40.4 Arcadia 42.0 Trellisane 42.2
Nestor 43.7 Niihau 46.3 Dixie 47.4 Hornir's Keep 47.9
Bella 48.1 Bondurant 48.5 Alula Borealis 49.3 Gannett 49.4
Senftenberg 49.9 Jardine 50.3 Szombathely 51.1 Launam 53.0
Labouchere 53.2 Zwenkau 56.4 Ideyld 56.4 Dar-es-Salaam 57.7
Altoona 57.7 Gallatin 60.0 Esztergom 60.9 Shasta 61.2

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Empire Alone, poster map
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Empire Alone, p. 78: "The Free Worlds League June 3152" (Map)
  3. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 16: "Free Worlds League Founding [2271]"
  4. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 29
  6. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158: "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  7. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 36: "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  8. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10: "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 First Succession War, p. 25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 34: "Free Worlds League after First Succession War [2822]"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 First Succession War, p. 113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 35: "Recovery and Stalemate"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Wolf's Dragoons, p. 21: "In Service to Marik"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 91: "1st Marik Militia"
  15. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Field Manual: Updates, p. 160: "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 45: "The Jihad In Review"
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 48: "The Jihad In Review"
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 60: "The Jihad In Review"
  20. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  21. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  22. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 9: "Inner Sphere - 3135"
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 A Bonfire of Worlds, ch. 10 (PDF version)
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 69: "Wolf Empire birth and growth [3140-3145]" (Map)
  25. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 38: "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  26. ↑ Shattered Fortress, pp. 102–103: "Inner Sphere - 3151" (Map)
  27. ↑ Technical Readout: 3025, p. 158 "Seydlitz"
  28. ↑ Proprietary, pp. 9f
  29. ↑ Field Report 2765: FWLM, p. 10: "Regimental Status"
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 First Succession War, p. 138: "First Succession War Deployment Table - FWLM"
  31. ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 108: "Unit Deployment Table"
  32. ↑ 20 Year Update, p. 57
  33. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 39: "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  34. ↑ Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 115: "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  35. ↑ Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 112: "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  36. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 107: "Deployment Table - 3085"

Bibliography[edit]

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