Milton

Milton
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3151
Milton 3151.svg
Milton nearby systems
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates-64.371 : 2.798[e]
Spectral classG3V[1][2]
Recharge time184 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)Nadir[1]
Planet(s)5[1]

The Milton system was home to at least one habitable world, Milton II, and as of June 3152 was located in the Wolf Empire.[3]

System Description[edit]

Milton is located near the Alchiba and Phecda systems.

Political Affiliation[edit]

Milton II[edit]

Milton II
Milton.jpg
Astrophysical
System positionSecond[1][2]
Jump Point distance8.54 days[1]
Moons2 (Faxon, Paramesh)[1][2]
Geophysical
Surface gravity1.04[1][2]
Atmospheric pressureStandard (Breathable)[1][2]
Equatorial temperature41°C (Tropical)[1][2]
Surface water66%[1][2]
Highest native lifeBirds[1][2]
Landmasses4 (Selajia, Olquia, Phronx, Etienne)[1]
History and Culture
Population5,091,000,000 (2774),[1]
4,010,000,000 (3130)[2][46]
Government and Infrastructure
Political LeaderPlanetary Governor
Military CommanderLegate Annan Briton (3130)[2][46]
CapitalParadise Foundation[2]
HPG ClassA[1]

Planetary History[edit]

Star League Era[edit]

Milton was an early colonization target that was considered to be a paradise world. Despite a rapidly growing population and industry scattered across the world, its resources were barely taped by 2242 when the Terran Alliance issued the Demarcation Declaration. Because there was limited trade with planets other than Terra, the forced isolation of the Demarcation had catastrophic effects on the economy. This stagnation continued until the Terran Hegemony, no longer burdened with the isolation of the Alliance, retook Milton in the 2333 "campaign of persuasion" when it easily brushed aside the meager defense forces.[5] Under the Hegemony, Milton once again prospered and began extracting industrial metals and radioactive ores with aerospace and fusion plant industries developing alongside them.[1][2]

The Amaris Civil War reversed much of this progress, with its industrial base ransacked by retreating Amaris Empire forces in order to deny them to the Star League Defense Force. The SLDF returned to Milton in the middle of 2772 in the first wave of Operation LIBERATION, though fighting would continue through 2774.[13][14] In the final months of the Star League era, the Lyran Commonwealth annexed Milton in 2785.[15][47]

First Succession War[edit]

Milton was one of a number of Lyran Commonwealth border worlds to be struck by a devastating cross-border raids by the Free Worlds League between 2786 and 2790, as the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces began to crack under the pressure of continuing efforts to annex the Bolan Thumb while also attempting to maintain a defensive posture against both the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery and the Free Worlds League Military. These and subsequent raids destroyed all industry on the continents of Phronx and Selajia, shrouding them in a pall of biological and chemical contamination.[48][1][2]

Third Succession War[edit]

After the failure of Operation DOPPELGANGER in 3025, the duplicate of Hanse Davion was sent to a facility on Milton with the hopes of repairing the psychological trauma inflicted upon him. On 1 June 3028, the treating psychiatrist inadvertently triggered latent conditioning in the patient, causing him to kill the doctor and an aide and escape the planet for Terra.[49]

Fourth Succession War[edit]

In October 3028, Milton was targeted by the Free Worlds League as a part of Operation DAGGER, the offensive planned by Captain-General Janos Marik to seize valuable industrial worlds in the Federation of Skye. Smithson's Chinese Bandits arrived in-system on 1 October as League invasion forces were jumping into other systems nearby as part of an offensive intended to isolate and then destroy two Lyran line regiments, the Eleventh Lyran Guards and the Seventeenth Arcturan Guards, both stationed on Wyatt.[24] Although the plan to destroy the two Lyran regiments was unsuccessful, the League did capture Milton.[25] This gain was swiftly reversed when the League pulled troops off Milton and other worlds in the wake of the invasion by the Tikonov Free Republic, fearing their units would be isolated and destroyed. The Commonwealth swiftly reoccupied Milton.[50]

Postbellum[edit]

During the Andurien Secession, the Free Worlds League assaulted Milton in November 3035, where the Fifth Regulan Hussars captured a significant amount of war material that was sent back to the League to assist with the Andurien campaign.[51][52]

Civil War Era[edit]

In early 3063, Archer's Avengers attacked Milton in response to the Duke cracking down on Davion dissidents. After smashing the two companies of BattleMechs garrisoning the world, they released several hundred political prisoners several of which swelled their ranks with volunteers.[53][54]

Jihad Era[edit]

Following the invasion of the Free Worlds League by the Skye and Bolan Provinces of the Lyran Alliance in what was termed Operation ÜBERSCHATTEN, Marshall Jeremy Brett took command of the local FWLM and launched a counteroffensive, under the name Operation BROKEN FIST. BROKEN FIST went beyond simply attempting to recapture worlds that the Lyrans had seized, as it struck into Lyran space at numerous worlds. Milton was one of the worlds hit and was captured by the League on 1 September 3068 by the First Free Worlds Guards in less than forty-eight hours.[55][36] The planet was subsequently incorporated into the Word of Blake Protectorate, and later liberated by troops fighting on the Lyran front of Operation SCOUR in January 3078.[38]

Republic Era[edit]

Under Republic of the Sphere control, Milton's economy boomed. By 3130, it was once again a major materials exporter, and its spacecraft components industry had returned to its Terran Hegemony heights.[2] Sometime after 3100 a youth gang sporting Word of Blake symbols was apprehended by Martin Vjedull after sabotaging excavation of a Blakist site for a month.[56]

Dark Age Era[edit]

As the Republic collapsed, there were regional fears that Milton would try to annex neighbor worlds like Alchiba, and Milton provided some military aide to Phecda in 3135.[57][58] Later that same year forces of the Republic Remnant used Milton as a staging world.[59] In 3137 during the Clan Wolf invasion of the Republic, Anastasia Kerensky and the Wolf Hunters raided Milton for supplies, overcoming both the Standing Guard and Paladin Otto Mandela; though Mandela did succeed in stalling the Hunters long enough to evacuate most supplied offworld for the Republic coffers.[60] Shortly after that—though records are spotty as to the actual dates—Milton did join forces with Alchiba and other worlds to form the Milton Combine[61][62] This small nation would be unable to stand before the Wolf Empire however, and by 3144 it had been occupied by Clan Wolf, with enough occasional raids by Republic forces to necessitate four Clusters to garrison the planet.[63][64][65][66][67]

Military Deployment[edit]

3145[edit]

Geography[edit]

Milton has four continents named Selajia (southern hemisphere), Olquia, Phronx, and Etienne (in the northern hemisphere). It was settled for the large amount of industrial metals and radioactive materials present in its crust.[1]

During the early succession wars large portions of Milton became uninhabitable due to contamination by chemical and nuclear weapons.[49]

Planetary Locations[edit]

  • Hell's Gate: the location of a Federated Suns black site medical facility[49]
  • Paradise Foundation: capital city[2]
  • Satan's Garden[14]

Companies and Industries[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 68 systems (68 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Alchiba 3.5 Phecda 11.0 Wyatt 11.5 Alioth 12.4
Cor Caroli 12.8 Afleir 14.3 Wing 17.5 Callison 17.9
Marcus 19.1 Zosma 19.4 Dubhe 19.9 Mizar 20.4
Chertan 21.1 Haddings 23.2 Gacrux 23.5 Shiloh 25.0
Alhena 25.0 Denebola 26.9 Alcor 28.1 New Dallas 29.8
Summer 30.6 Dieudonné 30.7 Lipton 30.7 Castor 30.9
Zavijava 32.7 Menkent 33.0 Galatea 33.0 Devil's Rock 33.5
Oliver 34.0 Chara 35.3 Bordon 36.2 Syrma 36.9
Pollux 37.6 Zaniah 38.5 Muphrid 39.0 Aquileia 39.0
Zollikofen 39.1 Xi Ursae Majoris 40.8 Thorin 41.2 Graham 42.9
Remulac 43.0 Vindemiatrix 43.1 Tabit 44.1 Connaught 44.3
Zebebelgenubi 46.3 Catroxx 47.3 Talitha 48.2 Carsphairn 48.2
Kalidasa 48.8 Skye 49.1 Nusakan 50.2 Alkalurops 51.0
Algorab 51.6 Savannah 51.7 Tau Ceti 52.0 Nathan 52.0
Rocky 52.5 Rochelle 52.8 Alkaid 53.3 Van Diemen 54.5
Lyons 54.8 Alphard 54.8 Acubens 54.9 Hechnar 55.6
Solaris 58.8 Yorii 59.3 Miaplacidus 59.7 Kochab 59.8

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 1.18 1.19 BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction, p. 109: "Milton"
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130), p. 191: "Milton"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Empire Alone, p. 78: "The Free Worlds League June 3152" (Map)
  4. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 16: "Free Worlds League Founding - [2271] Map"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Star League, p. 18: "The Syrma Ambush"
  6. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13: "Federation of Skye world after at their founding [2341] - Map"
  7. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  8. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  9. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  10. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
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  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 138: "Operation LIBERATION Wave 1 [July 2772 - December 2774]"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Tactics of Betrayal
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