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Booker

Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)

Booker
Booker 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-237.65 : -357.776[e]
Spectral classG8V[1]
Recharge time189 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)None[1]

The Booker system was home to at least one habitable world, Booker III, and as at 3145 was located in the Magistracy of Canopus.[2][3]

System Description

The Booker system is located near the Bass and Marantha systems.[2][3]

System History

The Booker system was either settled by the Magistracy of Canopus during the Star League era at some point after the end of the Reunification War, or was an already-settled system that became significant enough for Inner Sphere nations to begin recording its location on maps.[4][5]

Booker III

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Booker III - more commonly known simply as Booker - is the third planet in the Booker system and during the thirty-first century was the location of the Bermuda Combat Systems industrial manufacturer.[1]

Political Affiliation

Military Deployment

2765

2786

  • Second Canopian Fusiliers[42]

2821

  • Second Canopian Fusiliers[42]

3145

Geography

Booker has three continents named Hatteras, Somers and Strachey.[1]

Planetary Locations

  • Bermuda: location of the Bermuda Combat Systems manufacturing facilities on Somers.[1]
  • Hamilton: the planetary capital city, located on Strachey.[1]
  • TeeJay: base of operations for the planetary militia; located on Strachey.[1]

Industrial Centers

  • Bermuda Combat Systems[44]

Nearby Systems

Closest 20 systems (17 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Marantha 15.5 Bass 19.6 Afarsin 24.5 Cranston 33.6
Restitution 35.1 Gambilon 36.1 Ildlandet 37.3 Ceará 38.5
Lindenmarle 41.2 Tarol 42.3 Tellman's Mistake 47.4 Bethonolog 49.7
Palladix 51.6 Zelmag 52.4 Payvand 53.7 Obrenovac 54.9
Royal Foxx 55.9 Bayindir 61.7 Glevakha 62.2 Vixen 63.8

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Objectives: Periphery, p. 15-16, "Booker"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 38, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 93, Magistracy of Canopus after Age of War, p. 93, "Magistracy of Canopus after Age of War [2571] and fall of the Star League [2750]"
  6. Handbook: House Marik, p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  7. Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  8. Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  9. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  10. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 35, "Magistracy Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  11. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 96, "Magistracy of Canopus - [2767] Map"
  12. First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  13. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  14. Handbook: House Marik, p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  15. First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  16. Second Succession War, p. 18-19, "Inner Sphere - 2830"
  17. Handbook: House Marik, p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  18. Second Succession War, p. 78-79, "Inner Sphere - 2864"
  19. 19.0 19.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 96, Magistracy of Canopus after Age of War, p. 96, "Magistracy of Canopus after Third Succession War [3025] and after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  20. The Periphery (sourcebook), p. 152, "Map of the Periphery"
  21. Handbook: House Marik, p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War - [3025]"
  22. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  23. Handbook: House Marik, p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War - [3030]"
  24. Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  25. Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  26. Objective Raids, p. 46, "Map of Periphery States"
  27. Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  28. Handbook: House Marik, p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"
  29. The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 112, "Magistracy of Canopus & Tortuga Dominions"
  30. Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  31. Inner Sphere (sourcebook), p. 97, "Near Periphery Kingdoms"
  32. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  33. Handbook: House Marik, p. 56, "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  34. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075]"
  35. Field Report: Periphery, p. 20, "Magistracy of Canopus Region Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  36. Field Report: FWLM, p. 17, "Free Worlds League Military Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  37. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  38. Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085]"
  39. Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  40. Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  41. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 15, "Canopian Fusiliers - Regimental Status"
  42. 42.0 42.1 First Succession War (Source Book), p. 140, "Major Periphery States - Magistracy of Canopus"
  43. Field Manual: 3145, p. 200
  44. Objectives: Periphery, p. 16, "Bermuda Combat Systems"

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