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| + | == System Description == | ||
| + | The '''Lone Star''' system is the location of at least one habitable world and as at [[2765]] was the regional capital of the [[Lone Star Province]] of the [[Terran Hegemony]].<ref name="TtS:LSp4A">''Touring the Stars: Lone Star'', p. 4-7, "Atlas"</ref> | ||
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| + | ==System Description== | ||
| + | Lone Star is located near the [[Atria]] and [[Sabik]] systems.<ref name="H:RWp159"/> | ||
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| + | ==System History== | ||
| + | The Terran Hegemony began terraforming efforts in the Lone Star system in the 2410s, focussing on the fifth planet in the system. These efforts included fitting giant station-keeping drives to an asteroid named Vespa and moving it into orbit above the planet to host mining operations and a skyhook. After Lone Star V was opened for colonisation in 2533, it would remain an inhabited world until roughly 2825, when survival on the planet was rendered impossible after Vespa fell out of orbit.<ref name="TtS:LSp4A"/> | ||
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| + | == Political Affiliation == | ||
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| + | = Lone Star V = | ||
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| + | Lone Star V - more commonly known simply as Lone Star - is the fifth planet in the system and during its history of human habitation was a major agricultural and industrial world with a wide manufacturing base. The close proximity to the nearby system zenith and nadir jump points fostered a high level of development on the world because of the ease and profitability of exporting goods produced there.<ref name="TtS:LSp4A"/> | ||
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| + | ==Planetary History== | ||
| + | ===Early History=== | ||
| + | Lone Star represented a difficult terraforming challenge, because the planet was outside the goldilocks zone for the system primary, making it desperately cold, and this was further complicated by the thin, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Those water reserves available on the planet when terraforming began were locked up in the polar regions, and making the world habitable for humans involved the extensive use of algae and planet life deliberately engineered to create a viable atmosphere and environment.<ref name="TtS:LSp4A"/> Although the asteroid Vespa was steered into orbit in [[2450]],<ref name="TtS:LSp4"/> the planet wasn't declared open for colonization until 2533.<ref name="TtS:LSp4A"/> | ||
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| + | The development corporations responsible for Lone Star drove the unusual way in which settlements on the world developed; driven by profitability, the corporations used land-price analyses that showed that dense urban areas saw faster price growth than the sprawling settlements common to most colony worlds, and as a consequence the first planetary government implemented zoning laws that bottled the settlers up into what would become known as Pond Cities. Eight of these cities developed over time, giving inhabitants spacious accommodations in soaring skyscrapers and arcologies, and were structured in such a fashion that there was no suburban fringe to any of the cities; instead, there was a sharp transition between the cities themselves and the agricultural lands or nature preserves that surrounded each. Lone Star's unusual geography meant that four of each of these cities developed along the coasts of the two large oceans referred to as "Ponds" - Big Pond and Other Pond - and took advantage of the slow but enormous tidal cycle of the planet to generate electricity without the need for large-scale fusion reactors. Half of the cities were located on highlands - either natural or manmade - while others used massive pilings or amphibious infrastructure, dykes and sealed buildings, and all of the cities were linked via cheap water-based transport through the extensive canal network constructed in and around the capital city, Volgadon, which was located on a continental divide between the two major rivers that drained into the oceans. The colonists developed extensive and abundant range of crops and supported free-ranging herds of farm animals, giving the population a diet much richer in meat and dairy products than would be the case on other worlds, helped by the fact that with no native life on the planet, the entire ecology was based on a mix of plants and animals imported from worlds across the Hegemony.<ref name="TtS:LSp4A"/> | ||
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| + | ===Amaris Civil War=== | ||
| + | During the height of the [[Star League]] Lone Star had developed into a thriving world with a large population with a significant industrial output and was a fairly major world within the [[Terran Hegemony]]. In common with other such worlds across the Hegemony, the [[Star League Defense Force]] had built several [[Castle Brian|Castles Brian]] across Lone Star and there was still an SLDF garrison in place when [[Stefan Amaris]] launched his coup that began the [[Amaris Civil War]] on the 27th of December [[2766]].<ref name="H:LoTV1p84+"/> | ||
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| + | Amaris had detailed a substantial force of [[Rim Worlds Republic]] assets to subdue Lone Star, but the initial attacks on the 27th of December failed, leaving the SLDF forces still in control of the bulk of the Castles Brian and determined to resist. The Republican forces resorted to the extensive use of weapons of mass destruction to prepare the way for their ground assaults, and as a result the civilian population of Lone Star suffered greatly, as did the local infrastructure. The exact death toll incurred in the Republican campaign isn't known, but estimates place it anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.<ref name="H:LoTV1p84+"/> | ||
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Contents
Lone Star
| Lone Star | |
|---|---|
← 3135 3151 | |
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| System Information | |
| X:Y Coordinates | -4.656 : 50.416[e] |
| Spectral class | M1V[1] |
| Recharge time | 202 hours[1] |
| Recharge station(s) | Zenith, Nadir (before 2780)[1] None (after 2780)[1] |
| Planet(s) | 12[1] |
Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)
System Description
The Lone Star system is the location of at least one habitable world and as at 2765 was the regional capital of the Lone Star Province of the Terran Hegemony.[2]
System Description
Lone Star is located near the Atria and Sabik systems.[3]
System History
The Terran Hegemony began terraforming efforts in the Lone Star system in the 2410s, focussing on the fifth planet in the system. These efforts included fitting giant station-keeping drives to an asteroid named Vespa and moving it into orbit above the planet to host mining operations and a skyhook. After Lone Star V was opened for colonisation in 2533, it would remain an inhabited world until roughly 2825, when survival on the planet was rendered impossible after Vespa fell out of orbit.[2]
Lone Star V
Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Lone Star V - more commonly known simply as Lone Star - is the fifth planet in the system and during its history of human habitation was a major agricultural and industrial world with a wide manufacturing base. The close proximity to the nearby system zenith and nadir jump points fostered a high level of development on the world because of the ease and profitability of exporting goods produced there.[2]
Planetary History
Early History
Lone Star represented a difficult terraforming challenge, because the planet was outside the goldilocks zone for the system primary, making it desperately cold, and this was further complicated by the thin, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. Those water reserves available on the planet when terraforming began were locked up in the polar regions, and making the world habitable for humans involved the extensive use of algae and planet life deliberately engineered to create a viable atmosphere and environment.[2] Although the asteroid Vespa was steered into orbit in 2450,[1] the planet wasn't declared open for colonization until 2533.[2]
The development corporations responsible for Lone Star drove the unusual way in which settlements on the world developed; driven by profitability, the corporations used land-price analyses that showed that dense urban areas saw faster price growth than the sprawling settlements common to most colony worlds, and as a consequence the first planetary government implemented zoning laws that bottled the settlers up into what would become known as Pond Cities. Eight of these cities developed over time, giving inhabitants spacious accommodations in soaring skyscrapers and arcologies, and were structured in such a fashion that there was no suburban fringe to any of the cities; instead, there was a sharp transition between the cities themselves and the agricultural lands or nature preserves that surrounded each. Lone Star's unusual geography meant that four of each of these cities developed along the coasts of the two large oceans referred to as "Ponds" - Big Pond and Other Pond - and took advantage of the slow but enormous tidal cycle of the planet to generate electricity without the need for large-scale fusion reactors. Half of the cities were located on highlands - either natural or manmade - while others used massive pilings or amphibious infrastructure, dykes and sealed buildings, and all of the cities were linked via cheap water-based transport through the extensive canal network constructed in and around the capital city, Volgadon, which was located on a continental divide between the two major rivers that drained into the oceans. The colonists developed extensive and abundant range of crops and supported free-ranging herds of farm animals, giving the population a diet much richer in meat and dairy products than would be the case on other worlds, helped by the fact that with no native life on the planet, the entire ecology was based on a mix of plants and animals imported from worlds across the Hegemony.[2]
Amaris Civil War
During the height of the Star League Lone Star had developed into a thriving world with a large population with a significant industrial output and was a fairly major world within the Terran Hegemony. In common with other such worlds across the Hegemony, the Star League Defense Force had built several Castles Brian across Lone Star and there was still an SLDF garrison in place when Stefan Amaris launched his coup that began the Amaris Civil War on the 27th of December 2766.[4]
Amaris had detailed a substantial force of Rim Worlds Republic assets to subdue Lone Star, but the initial attacks on the 27th of December failed, leaving the SLDF forces still in control of the bulk of the Castles Brian and determined to resist. The Republican forces resorted to the extensive use of weapons of mass destruction to prepare the way for their ground assaults, and as a result the civilian population of Lone Star suffered greatly, as did the local infrastructure. The exact death toll incurred in the Republican campaign isn't known, but estimates place it anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.[4]
Political Affiliation
- 2271 - No record [5]
- 2341 - No record [6]
- 2571 - Terran Hegemony [7][8]
- 2596 - Terran Hegemony [3]
- 2750 - Terran Hegemony [9]
- 2765 - Terran Hegemony [10]
- 2767 - Amaris Empire [4][11]
- 2771 - Amaris Empire [12]
- 2772 - Terran Hegemony (from September)[12]
- 2786 - Terran Hegemony [13]
- 2822 - No record [14][15]
- 2864 - No record [16]
- 3025 - No record [17]
- 3030 - No record [18]
- 3040 - No record [19]
- 3050 - No record [20]
- 3052 - No record [21][22]
- 3057 - No record [23]
- 3063 - No record [24]
- 3067 - No record [25]
- 3130 - No record [26]
- 3135 - No record [27]
- 3145 - No record [28]
Military Deployment
2821
Gallery
- Lone Star flag.jpg
Lone Star flag
Nearby Systems
| Closest 76 systems (73 within 60 light-years) Distance in light years, closest systems first: | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sabik | 10.4 | Atria | 11.4 | Dyev | 14.1 | Ko | 14.9 |
| Imbros | 16.5 | Moore | 17.1 | Lambrecht | 19.5 | Lyons | 21.8 |
| Chaville | 22.3 | Dromini | 22.6 | Nai-Stohl | 22.8 | Asta | 26.4 |
| Pike | 27.2 | Skondia | 27.6 | Rocky | 28.4 | Yorii | 29.5 |
| Athenry | 29.5 | Nusakan | 30.9 | Alkalurops | 31.7 | Kuzuu | 32.1 |
| Kaus Media | 32.2 | Kessel | 34.4 | Kaus Australis | 34.6 | Alrakis | 35.0 |
| Ascella | 35.1 | La Blon | 35.2 | Killbourn | 37.3 | Kervil | 39.0 |
| Altair | 39.1 | Dieron | 39.3 | Styx | 39.4 | Zollikofen | 39.5 |
| Muphrid | 41.9 | New Britain | 41.9 | Menkent | 43.4 | Alphecca | 43.7 |
| Balkan | 44.6 | Unukalhai | 45.9 | Thorin | 46.5 | Summer | 46.7 |
| Zebebelgenubi | 47.7 | Rigil Kentarus | 47.9 | Tau Ceti | 48.0 | Konstance | 48.5 |
| Kaus Borealis | 48.7 | Eltanin | 49.0 | Saffel | 49.0 | Telos | 49.6 |
| Nirasaki | 49.9 | Chara | 50.4 | Sol | 50.6 | Komephoros | 50.9 |
| Galatea | 51.8 | Fomalhaut | 51.8 | Deneb Algedi | 51.8 | Skye | 52.4 |
| Lipton | 52.8 | Haddings | 53.7 | Caph | 53.9 | Elix | 54.4 |
| Syrma | 54.4 | Nashira | 55.0 | Alya | 55.7 | Vega | 56.2 |
| Miyazaki | 56.5 | Zavijava | 57.5 | Ryde | 58.0 | Mizar | 58.1 |
| Kimball | 58.3 | Sirius | 58.3 | Xi Ursae Majoris | 58.5 | Shitara | 59.1 |
| Marfik | 59.4 | Keid | 61.0 | Procyon | 61.5 | Denebola | 61.7 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Touring the Stars: Lone Star, p. 4, "Atlas - Lone Star"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Touring the Stars: Lone Star, p. 4-7, "Atlas"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 84-85, "Atrocities And Excesses"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 16, "Free Worlds League Founding [2271]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding [2341]"
- ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War [2571]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"
- ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic at the Fall of the Star League [2750]"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 138, "Operation LIBERATION Wave 1 [July 2772 - December 2774]"
- ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), p. 25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"
- ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), p. 112, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 39 [3040]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 3050"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion [3052]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - 3052"
- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
- ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
- ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), p. 137, "First Succession War Deployment Table - DCMS"