Holmsbu

Holmsbu
Holmsbu 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates57.674 : 441.912[e]
Spectral classA8V[1]
Recharge time169 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)None[1]
Planet(s)16[1]

Political Affiliation[edit]



Holmsbu V[edit]

Holmsbu V
Astrophysical
System positionFifth[1]
Jump Point distance25.77 days[1]
Moons1 (Svelvik)[1]
Geophysical
Surface gravity0.9[1]
Atmospheric pressureThin (Tainted)[1]
Equatorial temperature23°C (Cool-Temperate)[1]
Surface water92%[1]
Highest native lifeMicrobes[1]
History and Culture
Colonized2239[1]
Population25,535,000 (3151)[1]
Government and Infrastructure
HPG ClassB[1]

Planetary History[edit]

Founding[edit]

Colonists from the Federal Democratic Republics of Finland, Norway and Sweden emigrated in significant numbers after the end of the War Damage Tax payments levied on them as a part of the international rebuilding effort following the Second Soviet Civil War. Choosing a world far from Terra and the oppressive bureaucracy that went with it, the first colonists left in the mid-twenty-third century and within sixty years had settled Rasalhague and eight other nearby worlds[2] including Holmsbu.[3] In the late twenty-third century these worlds created a joint government to oversee the development of the worlds, creating the Rasalhague Consortium. Contact with other interstellar nations led to the Consortium evolving into the short-lived Principality of Rasalhague, prior to the Principality being conquered by the Draconis Combine in the early to mid-twenty-fourth century.[2]

Clan Invasion[edit]

Holmsbu was conquered in March 3050 by Clan Ghost Bear as part of the First Wave of Operation REVIVAL. The Forty-third Elemental Support Trinary of the 12th Bear Chevaliers was tasked with taking the planet, defended at the time by the Seventh and Eighth Corrugated Lancers, a pair of armored regiments supported by infantry. The defending Lancers confronted the Clanners at Redwood and Linden's Bluff, but were ill-prepared to face the battle armored Elementals. They were quickly defeated by the Ghost Bear warriors and surrendered.[44]

First Combine-Dominion War[edit]

Operating out of Wolcott during the First Combine-Dominion War (3062 to 3063), the Black Omen mercenary unit secretly penetrated the Ghost Bear Dominion to raid Pinnacle, Holmsbu, and Thule where they disabled each planet's HPG and destroyed several supply depots.[45]

The Jihad[edit]

In March 3076 Holmsbu was the first of four Ghost Bear Dominion worlds to be raided by Clan Ice Hellion stragglers after the failed Ice Hellion invasion of the Clan Jade Falcon Occupation Zone several years before.[34][35]

Military Deployment[edit]

3050[edit]

  • Seventh Corrugated Lancers[44]
  • Eight Corrugated Lancers[44]

3061[edit]

3085[edit]

3145[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 20 systems (19 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Pinnacle 18.0 Skallevoll 21.2 Susquehanna 22.1 Damian 23.1
Tovetin 25.9 Thule 37.8 Trondheim 39.6 Leoben 40.1
Balsta 40.9 Santander 44.1 Constance 44.3 Outpost 45.2
Porthos 47.1 Svelvik 50.6 Glabach 51.2 Jarett 51.9
New Bergen 54.6 Rasalhague 55.3 Last Frontier 58.4 Hermagor 62.9

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 Dominions Divided, p. 118: Holmsbu profile
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 20 Year Update, p. 44: "Origins"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Handbook: House Kurita, p. 18: "Draconis Combine Founding - [2319] Map"
  4. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 31: "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  5. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  6. Historical: Reunification War, p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  7. Era Report: 2750, p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  8. Field Manual: SLDF, p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  9. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  10. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 43: "Draconis Combine after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  11. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36: "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  12. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  13. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 53: "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  14. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40: "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  15. House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), foldout: "Draconis Combine Map - [3025]"
  16. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 64: "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  17. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47: "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  18. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 66: "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  19. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56: "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  20. Historical: Brush Wars, p. 103: "Free Rasalhague Republic map 3034"
  21. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56: "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  22. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 68: "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  23. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  24. Era Report: 3052, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  25. Era Report: 3052, p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  26. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61: "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"
  27. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 71: "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"
  28. Era Report: 3062, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  29. Era Report: 3062, p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  30. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  31. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70: "Lyran Alliance after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  32. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 74: "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  33. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  34. 34.0 34.1 Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 21: "Timeline of the Jihad"
  35. 35.0 35.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 55: "The Jihad In Review"
  36. Field Report: Clans, p. 27: "Clan Wolf & Clan Hell's Horses Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  37. Field Report: DCMS, p. 21: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  38. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [March 3081] Map"
  39. Field Manual: 3085, p. 127: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  40. Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  41. Era Report: 3145, p. 39: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  42. Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  43. Shattered Fortress, pp. 102–103: "Inner Sphere - [3151] Map"
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 Invading Clans, p. 30
  45. Mercenaries Supplemental II, p. 24: "Black Omen: Warriors of Prophesy"
  46. Field Manual: Warden Clans, p. 164: "Warden Clans Deployment Table"
  47. Field Manual: 3085, p. 128: "Deployment Table - 3085"
  48. Field Manual: 3145, p. 172: "Clan Force Deployments - Rasalhague Dominion"

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