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The '''Altoona''' system was home to a barely-habitable world, '''Altoona III''',<ref name=FR:2765LCAFpp18-19/> and as at [[2750]] was located in the [[Furillo Province]] of the [[Protectorate of Donegal]] within the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].
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The '''Altoona''' system was home to a barely habitable world, '''Altoona III''',<ref name=FR:2765LCAFpp18-19/> and as of [[2750]] was located in the [[Furillo Province]] of the [[Protectorate of Donegal]] within the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].
  
 
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== System Description ==
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==System Description==
The Altoona system is located close to the [[Dixie]] and [[Rochers]] systems.<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/>
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Altoona is located close to the [[Dixie]] and [[Rochers]] systems.<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/>
  
== System History ==
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==System History==
Altoona was colonised during the [[Star League era]] at some point after the end of the [[Reunification War]]<ref name="H:RWp159"/><ref name="HB:MPSp25"/> but was removed from maps during the [[Second Succession War]]<ref name="HB:HMp34"/><ref name="HB:HMp38"/> indicating that the system had been abandoned or depopulated.
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Altoona was colonized during the [[Star League era]] at some point after the end of the [[Reunification War]]<ref name="H:RWp159"/><ref name="HB:MPSp25"/> but was removed from maps during the [[Second Succession War]]<ref name="HB:HMp34"/><ref name="HB:HMp38"/> indicating that the system had been abandoned or depopulated.
  
== Political Affiliation ==
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==Political Affiliation==
* [[2271]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp16">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 16, "Free Worlds League Founding [2271]"</ref>
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* [[2571]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp24">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571]"</ref>
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* [[2271]] - No record<ref name="HB:HMp16">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 16: "Free Worlds League Founding [2271]"</ref>
* [[2596]] - No record <ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"</ref>
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* [[2571]] - No record<ref name="HB:HMp24">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 24: "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571]"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"</ref>
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* [[2596]] - No record<ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159: "Inner Sphere - 2596"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', Inner Sphere - [2764]</ref>
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* [[2750]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]]<ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25: "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p10>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 2765"</ref>
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* [[2764]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. xi: Inner Sphere - [2764]</ref>
* [[2786]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
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* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="H:LoTV1p10>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10: "Inner Sphere - 2765"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="HB:HMp34">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succession War [2822]"</ref><ref name="H:LOTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - 2822"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
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* [[2786]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War'', pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2864]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp38">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War [2822]"</ref>
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* [[2822]] - [[Free Worlds League]]<ref name="HB:HMp34">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 34: "Free Worlds League after First Succession War [2822]"</ref><ref name="H:LOTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - 2822"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War'', pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[3025]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp42">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref>
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* [[2864]] - No record<ref name="HB:HMp38">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 38: "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War [2822]"</ref>
* [[3030]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp51">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War [3030]"</ref>
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* [[3025]] - No record<ref name="HB:HMp42">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 42: "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref>
* [[3040]] - No record <ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"</ref>
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* [[3030]] - No record<ref name="HB:HMp51">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 51: "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War [3030]"</ref>
* [[3050]] - No record <ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3050]"</ref>
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* [[3040]] - No record<ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133: "Inner Sphere - 3040"</ref>
* [[3052]] - No record <ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23, "Inner Sphere Map [3052]"</ref>
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* [[3050]] - No record<ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map [3050]"</ref>
* [[3057]] - No record <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"</ref>
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* [[3052]] - No record<ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23: "Inner Sphere Map [3052]"</ref>
* [[3058]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp54">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero [3058]"</ref>
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* [[3057]] - No record<ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"</ref>
* [[3063]] - No record <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"</ref>
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* [[3058]] - No record<ref name="HB:HMp54">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 54: "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero [3058]"</ref>
* [[3067]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp56">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 56, "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War [3067]"</ref><ref name=JFRp42>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]</ref>
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* [[3063]] - No record<ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29: "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"</ref>
* [[3075]] - No record <ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65, "Inner Sphere Map [3075]"</ref>
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* [[3067]] - No record<ref name="HB:HMp56">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 56: "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War [3067]"</ref><ref name=JFRp42>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]</ref>
* [[3079]] - No record <ref>''Field Report: FWLM'', p. 17, "Free Worlds League Deployment Map"</ref>
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* [[3075]] - No record<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65: "Inner Sphere Map [3075]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - No record <ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"</ref>
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* [[3079]] - No record<ref>''Field Report: FWLM'', p. 17: "Free Worlds League Deployment Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - No record <ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 126, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref>
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* [[3081]] - No record<ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63: "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"</ref>
* [[3130]] - No record <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
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* [[3085]] - No record<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 126: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref>
* [[3135]] - No record <ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"</ref>
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* [[3135]] - No record<ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"</ref>
* [[3145]] - No record <ref name=ER:3145p39>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Report: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
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* [[3145]] - No record<ref name=ER:3145p39>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39: "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Report: 3145'', p. VI: "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
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= Altoona III =
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==Altoona==
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===Planetary History===
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====Star League Era====
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== Planetary History ==
 
=== Star League Era ===
 
 
During the [[Star League era]] Altoona III was home to a mining colony, despite the planet being barely habitable. With a population of just a few hundred thousand living in domed communities, Altoona III was a demanding place to live; humans could only breathe the atmosphere via filter masks, and all food raised outside the domes had to be intensely irradiated before it could be consumed. Despite this, the mining colony was significant enough to merit a [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] garrison, but the posting was unpopular enough that when the [[Tenth Skye Rangers]] replaced the [[Fifteenth Skye Rangers]] in the mid-[[twenty-eighth century]], the Fifteenth were happy to head to a posting on the [[Draconis Combine]] border.<ref name=FR:2765LCAFpp18-19/>
 
During the [[Star League era]] Altoona III was home to a mining colony, despite the planet being barely habitable. With a population of just a few hundred thousand living in domed communities, Altoona III was a demanding place to live; humans could only breathe the atmosphere via filter masks, and all food raised outside the domes had to be intensely irradiated before it could be consumed. Despite this, the mining colony was significant enough to merit a [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] garrison, but the posting was unpopular enough that when the [[Tenth Skye Rangers]] replaced the [[Fifteenth Skye Rangers]] in the mid-[[twenty-eighth century]], the Fifteenth were happy to head to a posting on the [[Draconis Combine]] border.<ref name=FR:2765LCAFpp18-19/>
  
=== First Succession War ===
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====First Succession War====
Following the bloody Lyran Commonwealth invasion of [[Bolan]] in March [[2785]] - and a thorough and devastating scorched earth defense of Bolan by the [[Sixth Bolan Defenders]] - Altoona was struck by a retaliatory attack launched by the [[Bolan Defenders]]<ref name="IOp300"/> in [[2786]], an attack that used nuclear and chemical weapons to bombard both environmental support facilities and industrial sites on the planet.<ref name="FSWp61">''First Succession War'', p. 61, "The War of Raids: House Steiner's Succession War"</ref> The Bolan Defenders' attack on Altoona wasn't the only retaliatory attack by the Bolan Defenders; also struck<ref name="IOp300"/> in a similar fashion were the worlds of [[Duantia]] in [[2788]]<ref name="FSWp61"/> and [[Myrrdin]]<ref name="IOp300"/><ref name="FSWp61"/> in [[2789]],<ref name="FSWp61"/> and these campaigns - as well as the Bolan Defenders' defense of [[Rochers]] in the same timeframe - were all heavily damaging scorched earth campaigns that led to billions of casualties across the four worlds.<ref name="IOp300">''Interstellar Operations'', p. 300-303, "Pressure Play"</ref>
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Following the bloody Lyran Commonwealth invasion of [[Bolan]] in March [[2785]]—and a thorough and devastating scorched earth defense of Bolan by the [[Sixth Bolan Defenders]]—Altoona was struck by a retaliatory attack launched by the [[Bolan Defenders]]<ref name="IOp300"/> in [[2786]], an attack that used nuclear and chemical weapons to bombard both environmental support facilities and industrial sites on the planet.<ref name="FSWp61">''First Succession War'', p. 61: "The War of Raids: House Steiner's Succession War"</ref> The Bolan Defenders' attack on Altoona wasn't the only retaliatory attack by the Bolan Defenders; also struck<ref name="IOp300"/> in a similar fashion were the worlds of [[Duantia]] in [[2788]]<ref name="FSWp61"/> and [[Myrrdin]]<ref name="IOp300"/><ref name="FSWp61"/> in [[2789]],<ref name="FSWp61"/> and these campaigns—as well as the Bolan Defenders' defense of [[Rochers]] in the same timeframe - were all heavily damaging scorched earth campaigns that led to billions of casualties across the four worlds.<ref name="IOp300">''Interstellar Operations'', pp. 300–303: "Pressure Play"</ref>
  
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===Military Deployment===
== Political Affiliation ==  
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====2765====
 
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* [[Tenth Skye Rangers]]<ref name=FR:2765LCAFpp18-19>''Field Report 2765: LCAF'', pp. 18–19: "Skye Rangers" - Regimental Status</ref>
== Planetary Rulers ==
 
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== Military Deployment ==
 
=== 2765 ===
 
* [[Tenth Skye Rangers]]<ref name=FR:2765LCAFpp18-19>''Field Report 2765: LCAF'', pp. 18-19, "Skye Rangers" - Regimental Status</ref>
 
  
=== 2786 ===
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====2786====
* Tenth Skye Rangers<ref name="FSWp139">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 139, "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"</ref>
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* Tenth Skye Rangers<ref name="FSWp139">''First Succession War'', p. 139: "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"</ref>
  
=== 2821 ===
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====2821 ===
* [[Fourteenth Atrean Dragoons]]<ref name="FSWp138">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 138, "First Succession War Deployment Table - FWLM"</ref>
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* [[Fourteenth Atrean Dragoons]]<ref name="FSWp138">''First Succession War'', p. 138: "First Succession War Deployment Table - FWLM"</ref>
  
 
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== Geography ==  
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===Geography===
  
== Planetary Locations ==
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===Planetary Locations===
  
== Industrial Centers ==
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===Companies and Industries===
  
== Image gallery ==
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==Map Gallery==
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== Nearby Systems ==
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==Nearby Systems==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 32 systems (29 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
 
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|-
| [[Dixie]]
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Dixie]]
| 15.2
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| class="lessthan30" | 15.2
| [[Rochers]]
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Rochers]]
| 23.9
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| class="lessthan30" | 23.9
| [[Bolan]]
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Bolan]]
| 24.2
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| class="lessthan30" | 24.2
| [[Aigle]]
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Aigle]]
| 25.3
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| class="lessthan30" | 25.3
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Hornir's Keep]]
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Hornir's Keep]]
| 27.4
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| class="lessthan30" | 27.4
| [[Zwenkau]]
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Zwenkau]]
| 28.0
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| class="lessthan30" | 28.0
| [[Ilion]]
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| class="over30" | [[Ilion]]
| 36.5
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| class="over30" | 36.5
| [[Bella I]]
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| class="over30" | [[Bella]]
| 38.1
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| class="over30" | 38.1
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Tylarzka]]
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| class="over30" | [[Tylarzka]]
| 39.2
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| class="over30" | 39.2
| [[Gypsum]]
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| class="over30" | [[Gypsum]]
| 40.8
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| class="over30" | 40.8
| [[Finsterwalde]]
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| class="over30" | [[Finsterwalde]]
| 41.0
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| class="over30" | 41.0
| [[Loric]]
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| class="over30" | [[Loric]]
| 41.8
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| class="over30" | 41.8
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Pressby]]
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| class="over30" | [[Pressby]]
| 42.2
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| class="over30" | 42.2
| [[Eilenburg]]
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| class="over30" | [[Eilenburg]]
| 44.5
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| class="over30" | 44.5
| [[Malazan]]
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| class="over30" | [[Malazan]]
| 45.8
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| class="over30" | 45.8
| [[Drosendorf]]
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| class="over30" | [[Drosendorf]]
| 47.6
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| class="over30" | 47.6
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Alula Borealis]]
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| class="over30" | [[Alula Borealis]]
| 47.9
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| class="over30" | 47.9
| [[Colfax]]
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| class="over30" | [[Colfax]]
| 49.0
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| class="over30" | 49.0
| [[Trellisane]]
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| class="over30" | [[Trellisane]]
| 49.1
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| class="over30" | 49.1
| [[Senftenberg]]
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| class="over30" | [[Senftenberg]]
| 49.8
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| class="over30" | 49.8
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Giausar]]
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| class="over30" | [[Giausar]]
| 52.8
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| class="over30" | 52.8
| [[Medzev]]
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| class="over30" | [[Medzev]]
| 53.0
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| class="over30" | 53.0
| [[Cascade]]
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| class="over30" | [[Cascade]]
| 53.2
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| class="over30" | 53.2
| [[Kamenz]]
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| class="over30" | [[Kamenz]]
| 54.6
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| class="over30" | 54.6
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Zvolen]]
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| class="over30" | [[Zvolen]]
| 56.9
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| class="over30" | 56.9
| [[Megrez]]
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| class="over30" | [[Megrez]]
| 57.7
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| class="over30" | 57.7
| [[Nockatunga]]
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| class="over30" | [[Nockatunga]]
| 57.8
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| class="over30" | 57.8
| [[Zdice]]
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| class="over30" | [[Zdice]]
| 58.2
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| class="over30" | 58.2
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Sierpc]]
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| class="over30" | [[Sierpc]]
| 59.4
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| class="over30" | 59.4
|
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| class="over60" | [[Herzberg]]
|
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| class="over60" | 60.1
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| class="over60" | [[Szepes]]
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| class="over60" | 61.8
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| class="over60" | [[Hollabrunn]]
|
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| class="over60" | 62.4
 
|-
 
|-
 
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== References ==
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==References==
 
<references/>
 
<references/>
  
== Bibliography ==
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==Bibliography==
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* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
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* ''[[Field Report: FWLM]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: FWLM]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report 2765: LCAF]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report 2765: LCAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (Source Book)|First Succession War]]''
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* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: House Marik]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: House Marik]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
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* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[http://home.ifi.uio.no/~oysteint/btech/maps/IS_3130.pdf Map of the Inner Sphere 3130]''
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[[Category: Planets|Altoona]]
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[[Category:Systems|Altoona]]
[[Category: Free Worlds League Planets]]
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[[Category: Lyran Commonwealth Systems]]

Latest revision as of 08:23, 23 April 2024

This article is about the Lyran Commonwealth planetary system. For other uses, see Altoona.


Altoona
Altoona (LC) 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-256.607 : -6.274[e]

The Altoona system was home to a barely habitable world, Altoona III,[1] and as of 2750 was located in the Furillo Province of the Protectorate of Donegal within the Lyran Commonwealth.

System Description[edit]

Altoona is located close to the Dixie and Rochers systems.[2]

System History[edit]

Altoona was colonized during the Star League era at some point after the end of the Reunification War[3][2] but was removed from maps during the Second Succession War[4][5] indicating that the system had been abandoned or depopulated.

Political Affiliation[edit]


Altoona[edit]

Altoona III
Astrophysical
System positionThird[1]

Planetary History[edit]

Star League Era[edit]

During the Star League era Altoona III was home to a mining colony, despite the planet being barely habitable. With a population of just a few hundred thousand living in domed communities, Altoona III was a demanding place to live; humans could only breathe the atmosphere via filter masks, and all food raised outside the domes had to be intensely irradiated before it could be consumed. Despite this, the mining colony was significant enough to merit a Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces garrison, but the posting was unpopular enough that when the Tenth Skye Rangers replaced the Fifteenth Skye Rangers in the mid-twenty-eighth century, the Fifteenth were happy to head to a posting on the Draconis Combine border.[1]

First Succession War[edit]

Following the bloody Lyran Commonwealth invasion of Bolan in March 2785—and a thorough and devastating scorched earth defense of Bolan by the Sixth Bolan Defenders—Altoona was struck by a retaliatory attack launched by the Bolan Defenders[30] in 2786, an attack that used nuclear and chemical weapons to bombard both environmental support facilities and industrial sites on the planet.[31] The Bolan Defenders' attack on Altoona wasn't the only retaliatory attack by the Bolan Defenders; also struck[30] in a similar fashion were the worlds of Duantia in 2788[31] and Myrrdin[30][31] in 2789,[31] and these campaigns—as well as the Bolan Defenders' defense of Rochers in the same timeframe - were all heavily damaging scorched earth campaigns that led to billions of casualties across the four worlds.[30]

Military Deployment[edit]

2765[edit]

2786[edit]

  • Tenth Skye Rangers[32]

=2821[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 32 systems (29 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Dixie 15.2 Rochers 23.9 Bolan 24.2 Aigle 25.3
Hornir's Keep 27.4 Zwenkau 28.0 Ilion 36.5 Bella 38.1
Tylarzka 39.2 Gypsum 40.8 Finsterwalde 41.0 Loric 41.8
Pressby 42.2 Eilenburg 44.5 Malazan 45.8 Drosendorf 47.6
Alula Borealis 47.9 Colfax 49.0 Trellisane 49.1 Senftenberg 49.8
Giausar 52.8 Medzev 53.0 Cascade 53.2 Kamenz 54.6
Zvolen 56.9 Megrez 57.7 Nockatunga 57.8 Zdice 58.2
Sierpc 59.4 Herzberg 60.1 Szepes 61.8 Hollabrunn 62.4

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Field Report 2765: LCAF, pp. 18–19: "Skye Rangers" - Regimental Status
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25: "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"
  3. 3.0 3.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159: "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 34: "Free Worlds League after First Succession War [2822]"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 38: "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War [2822]"
  6. Handbook: House Marik, p. 16: "Free Worlds League Founding [2271]"
  7. Handbook: House Marik, p. 24: "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571]"
  8. Field Manual: SLDF, p. xi: Inner Sphere - [2764]
  9. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10: "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  10. First Succession War, pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  11. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - 2822"
  12. First Succession War, pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  13. Handbook: House Marik, p. 42: "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War [3025]"
  14. Handbook: House Marik, p. 51: "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
  15. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  16. Era Report: 3052, p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map [3050]"
  17. Era Report: 3052, p. 23: "Inner Sphere Map [3052]"
  18. Era Report: 3062, p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
  19. Handbook: House Marik, p. 54: "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero [3058]"
  20. Era Report: 3062, p. 29: "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
  21. Handbook: House Marik, p. 56: "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  22. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]
  23. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65: "Inner Sphere Map [3075]"
  24. Field Report: FWLM, p. 17: "Free Worlds League Deployment Map"
  25. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  26. Field Manual: 3085, p. 126: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  27. Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
  28. Era Report: 3145, p. 39: "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
  29. Field Report: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  30. 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 Interstellar Operations, pp. 300–303: "Pressure Play"
  31. 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 First Succession War, p. 61: "The War of Raids: House Steiner's Succession War"
  32. First Succession War, p. 139: "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"
  33. First Succession War, p. 138: "First Succession War Deployment Table - FWLM"

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