Scauld

Scauld (Austerlitz)
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates-432.673 : 306.258[e]

The Scauld system is the location of at least one habitable world and as of 3145 was located in the bandit kingdom known as the Rim Territories.[1][2]

System Description[edit]

Scauld is located near the Elba and Veil systems in the Periphery.[3][4]

System History[edit]

The Scauld system was originally known as the Austerlitz system; located in the rimward Periphery, the Austerlitz system was either colonized by the Star League Territorial State known as the Rim Worlds Republic during the Star League era, or it was a system that had already been colonized and which became significant enough to be recorded by Inner Sphere nations on maps during this period.[3][5] It was named for the battle in 1805 where Napoleon smashed the combined Austrian and Russian forces.[6]

The Austerlitz system was a member of the Finmark Province of the Rim Worlds Republic, and became an independent system with the collapse of the Republic after the fall of the Star League. Austerlitz remained on maps until some point during the Third Succession War, at which point the system had either been depopulated, abandoned, or had become too insignificant for Inner Sphere nations to continue recording.[7][8]

The Austerlitz system reappeared on maps during the Dark Age, but with a new name: Scauld.[9]

Political Affiliation[edit]

Scauld[edit]

Scauld
Astrophysical
Also known asAusterlitz

Planetary History[edit]

Reunification War[edit]

Civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic in 2575, with the factions polarized around those loyal to First Consul Gregory Amaris and those loyal to the Rift Republican Army and the Rim Provisional Government.[38] Austerlitz was garrisoned by the Sixth Amaris Fusiliers from at least 2581 onward, a regiment which had chosen to side with the RRA and the RPG.[39] The Star League eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in 2579 assembled a multinational force headed by the Star League Defense Force to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic.[40] Archon Viola Steiner-Dinesen assigned the Thirty-first Armor Division—one of two divisions within the SLDF VIII Corps—to the conquest of Austerlitz and the neutralization of the Sixth Fusiliers in 2587.[41]

The heavily outnumbered Sixth Fusiliers fought to great effect on Austerlitz, turning the battle for control of the planet into a brutal slugging match; the Sixth Fusiliers used their heavy units to lock the Thirty-first in place and then used their light armor to launch fast, slashing attacks on the Thirty-first's infantry regiments. The Thirty-first drew on the available aerospace fighter support and fast BattleMech companies to try and counter the Sixth Fusiliers' tactics, and while these efforts were partially successful the Sixth Fusiliers had still inflicted enough damage on the Thirty-first Division before being defeated at the end of the three-week battle to force the Thirty-first to have to be temporarily withdrawn from the Task Force MAILED FIST order of battle for refitting.[42]

Independence[edit]

After the disbandment of the RWR, Austerlitz became a desolate, forsaken, planet. By the mid-thirtieth century it was a planet of a mere 65,000 people, where every person became a jack-of-all-hands.[43] In 3065 forces of the Marian Hegemony used Austerlitz as a staging ground for piratical raids on the Lyran Commonwealth's Periphery border, but were routed by Ace Darwin's WhipIts.[44]

Military Deployment[edit]

2581–2587[edit]

2587–2588[edit]

Planetary Locations[edit]

Notes[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 24 systems (23 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Elba 14.9 Oporto 17.3 Aboukir 22.5 Lushun 28.8
Lywick 29.5 Anatolia 29.8 Edirne 33.5 Finmark 38.2
Viluisk 39.1 Inner Surge 42.2 Kwangjong-ni 42.2 Issaba 48.6
Dijonne 49.6 Seven Lands 50.6 Bremen 50.9 Delagoa 54.1
Canal 55.0 Ma'anshan 55.1 Lost 56.6 Synsstad 56.7
Malaga 57.0 Chita 58.6 Sweet Water 59.2 Derby 63.8

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 38
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 36
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18
  6. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 135
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 10
  10. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13
  11. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25
  12. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158
  13. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  14. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10
  15. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 38
  16. ↑ Field Report 2765: LCAF, p. 25
  17. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104
  18. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36
  19. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122–123
  20. ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), foldout: "Lyran Commonwealth Map - [3025]"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59
  23. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 132
  24. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10
  25. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61
  26. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 22
  27. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 10
  28. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 110
  29. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 28
  30. ↑ Inner Sphere, p. 97
  31. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70
  32. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42
  33. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64
  34. ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19
  35. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62
  36. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  37. ↑ Era Digest: Dark Age, p. 12: "Map of the Inner Sphere 3130"
  38. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 130: "The Spark"
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 128: "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"
  40. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 129
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 152: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"
  42. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, pp. 134–135: "Arlina to Viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Dig, Defend, or Die, p. 3: "Notable Personalities"
  44. ↑ Mercenaries Supplemental II, p. 20: "Force Briefs Supplemental - Ace Darwin's WhipIts: Burnt by the Stars"
  45. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 154: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"
  46. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 155: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"

Bibliography[edit]

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