Editing Rockwellawan

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'''Rockwellawan''' is a system approximately 488 light-years rimward of [[Terra]], with a mixed history of political affiliation since its founding during the [[Star League]] era.

==System Description==
Rockwellawan is located near the [[Highwater]] and [[Independence]] systems.

==Political Affiliation==
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* [[2366]] - No record<ref name="HB:HLp17">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 17: "Capellan Confederation Foundation - [2366] Map"</ref>
* [[2571]] - No record<ref name="H:MPSp121">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 121: "Taurian Concordat after Age of War [2571], Fall of the Star League [2750] and End of the Third Succession War [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp48">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 48: "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HLp25">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 25: "Capellan Confederation after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2578]] - No record<ref name="H:RWp64">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 64</ref>
* [[2596]] - No record<ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - [[Taurian Concordat]]<ref name="H:MPSp121"/><ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Taurian Concordat<ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'': "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Taurian Concordat<ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name=FR:2765Pp37>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 37: "Taurian Defense Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
* [[2767]] - Taurian Concordat<ref name="H:LoTv1p96">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 96: "Taurian Concordat - [2767] Map"</ref>
* [[2786]] - Taurian Concordat<ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War'', pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Taurian Concordat<ref name="H:LOTv2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp54">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 54: "Federated Suns after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HLp31">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 31: "Capellan Confederation After First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War'', pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[2830]] - Taurian Concordat<ref name="SSWp18">''Second Succession War'', pp. 18–19: "Inner Sphere - 2830"</ref>
* [[2864]] - Taurian Concordat<ref name="HB:HDp60">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 60: "Federated Suns After Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HLp39">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 39: "Capellan Confederation After Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref><ref name="SSWp78">''Second Succession War'', pp. 78–79: "Inner Sphere - 2864"</ref>
* [[2890]] - Independent world<ref name=HAtACp12>''House Arano (The Aurigan Coalition)'', p. 12: "The Rimward Periphery - Map Placed on File 21-07-2890"</ref>
* [[3022]] - Independent world<ref name=HAtACp1s4-15>''House Arano (The Aurigan Coalition)'', pp. 14–15: "The Aurigan Coalition and Its Environs"</ref>
* [[3025]] - Independent world<ref name="H:MPSp121"/><ref name="HB:HDp70">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 70: "Federated Suns After Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HLp40">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 40: "Capellan Confederation After Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
* [[3030]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HDp72">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 72: "Federated Suns After Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HLp49">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 49: "Capellan Confederation After Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - Independent world<ref name="H:MPSp127">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 127: "Taurian Concordat after modern colonization drive [3040] and after FedCom Civil War [3067]"</ref><ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Independent world<ref name="ER3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
* [[3052]] - Independent world<ref name="ER3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11: Inner Sphere - [3057] Map</ref>
* [[3058]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HDp78">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 78: "Federated Suns After Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HLp59">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 59: "Capellan Confederation After Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref>
* [[3059]] - [[New Colony Region]]<ref name="TPE2p110">''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', p. 112: "Magistracy of Canopus & New Colony Region"</ref>
* [[3063]] - New Colony Region<ref name="ISp97">''Inner Sphere'', p. 98: "Near Periphery Kingdoms Map""</ref><ref name="ER:3062p30">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 30: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
* [[3066]] - [[Fronc Reaches]]<ref name="H:MPSp100">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 100: "Irons in the Fire"</ref>
* [[3067]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name="H:MPSp127"/><ref name="HB:HDp82">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 82: "Federated Suns After FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HLp68">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 68: "Capellan Confederation After FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name="JS:TBDp65">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name="FR:Pp20">''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 20: "Magistracy of Canopus Region Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3088]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name=OTP:FRp4/>
* [[3135]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Fronc Reaches<ref name="ER:3145p39">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref>
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==Rockwellawan II==
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===Planetary History===
{{ApocryphalContentStart}}
A former [[Magistracy of Canopus]] world, it had become an independent mining colony.

During the [[Taurian-Canopian War]], the Taurians landed on the planet but were unable to decisively engage the Magistracy.<ref name=BT>''BattleTech'' (video game)</ref>
{{ApocryphalContentEnd}}

====New Colony Region Era====
After the death of [[Taurian Concordat|Taurian]] [[Protector of the Realm|Protector]] [[Jeffrey Calderon]] on [[Detroit]] in early [[3061]], the [[Taurian Defense Force]] presence in the New Colony Region was boosted by Protector [[Grover Shraplen]]. The focus for the TDF shifted under the direction of the anti-[[House Davion|Davion]] elements within the TDF and government, with the TDF units spending increasing amounts of time interfering with the [[Colonial Marshals]] as an attempt to identify rogue elements as well as harassing Taurian citizens of the New Colony Region in their quest to find Davion agents and spies.<ref name="HB:MPSp74+">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', pp. 74–75: "I Regret That I Must Declare Martial Law"</ref>

Rockwellawan was one of the worlds affected by this hunt for Davion agitators. Notes published by [[Magestrix]] [[Emma Centrella]] in [[3066]] highlighted some of the actions on Rockwellawan that contributed to the rising calls for independence for the region in the early 3060s, and ultimately to the Fronc Reaches Rebellion. The TDF troops in 3061 were under pressure to find Davion agitators to justify Shraplen's accusations of Davion involvement in the New Colony rebellion and the death of Jeffrey Calderon. When no evidence was found, increasing pressure to deliver results resulted in the treatment of citizens in the New Colony region became progressively worse, with rough questioning escalating into outright breaches of Taurian law. These abuses soon spread to those Canopian citizens living outside Canopian enclaves on jointly held worlds; these Canopians objected to the actions taken by the TDF against their Taurian neighbors, friends and business partners in various ways. On Rockwellawan, local newspapers ran outraged editorials decrying the actions of the [[Red Chasseurs]], while town mayors took to denouncing the TDF actions in public and protests were held by the local civilian populations.<ref name="HB:MPSp74+"/>

[[Subaltern]] [[Geoffrey Millar]] agreed to meet with Deputy Mayor [[Laurens Ranier]] and the contingent, but when Ranier told him that "There's no one here but hardworking folks, but if you keep this up, that won't be true for long" Millar responded by taking the comment as a threat, threw Ranier in jail alongside his colleagues and told the rest of the delegation to leave and not tell anyone what had happened, on pain of being arrested themselves. The delegation promptly returned to Peshtigo and sent word straight back to the Canopian government, which immediately lodged vocal protests that saw the charges dropped and all three prisoners released. The Magestrix later claimed that it was incidents such as this one on Rockwellawan that prompted her to rethink the decision not to deploy [[MAF]] units into the New Colony Region.<ref name="HB:MPSp74+"/>

As the TDF became increasingly confrontational towards the old-guard members of the Colonial Marshals, conflict between the Marshals and the TDF began to spill over into the civilian population. In early [[3064]], as an off-duty Canopian Marshal attempted to break up a tavern fight, he was attacked and roughed up by a TDF trooper. In response, a group of drunken Canopian locals decided to travel to the nearest Taurian enclave and retaliate by breaking some windows and posting up anti-Taurian slogans. Soon, a group of Taurian locals responded in kind, and the incidents escalated rapidly until the atmosphere in the settlements along the Silverlode River was positively poisonous. The various communities began treating each other as enemy camps, and while there were no fatalities, incidents of hate crimes and nationalistic bigotry increased on Rockwellawan. This phenomenon was not unique to Rockwellawan—similar incidents were occurring in every world within the Region.<ref name="HB:MPSp76">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 76: "Bad To Worse: 3064-3064"</ref>

====Fronc Reaches====
Rockwellawan was incorporated into the [[Fronc Reaches]] when the reaches became independent in [[3066]]. Like the other colony worlds, Rockwellawan suffered from the actions of the local pirate bands active in the region. Rockwellawan continued to ship supplies to [[Detroit]] while the world was under Magistracy occupation, and a number of these shipments were hit by pirates.<ref name="HB:MPSp100A">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 100: "Marshals and Mercs: The Fronc Reaches Military"</ref> Despite this, the citizens of Rockwellawan remained hopeful that the world could regain the status it held during the [[Star League era]] as a major shipping hub.<ref name="H:MPSp100"/>

Rockwellawan was chosen by the Fronc Reaches government as the site for its first military academy, and in [[3081]] ground was broken for the [[Sentinelry Academy]]. However, the facility still wasn't complete by [[3085]], leading the Fronc Reaches to join a military exchange program with the [[Filtvelt Coalition]]. This allowed the Reaches to gain small numbers of trained military graduates, but further slowed construction of the Academy.<ref name="FM:3085p135"/> The Sentinelry Academy was finally finished in [[3088]], thanks to investment from Interstellar Agricultural Concerns.<ref name="OTP:FRp4"/>

When the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] and then the [[Capellan Confederation]] annexed the world of [[Detroit]], the Fronc Reaches lost its only [[BattleMech]] manufacturing facility. This led directly to [[President of the Fronc Reaches|President]] [[Elaine Hadley]] implementing a number of changes after she came to power in [[3092]].<ref name="FM:3145p186">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 186: "Fronc Reaches"</ref> One of the major changes was her instruction that the remaining two arms producers in Reaches space—[[Colonial Tractors]] of Fronc and Interstellar Agricultural Concerns—increase production to compensate for the loss of Detroit.<ref name="FM:3145p189">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 189: "Fronc Reaches"</ref>

Interstellar Agriculture Concerns (IAC), keen to maintain its reputation as a primarily civilian manufacturer, responded by spinning off a subsidiary company to deal with the demands for increased military production. That company, [[Interstellar Arms]], went on to begin manufacturing a number of [[BattleMech#Light|light]] [[BattleMech]] designs by [[3105]] from factories that sprang up across the Corundum continent, and also took over the manufacture of the [[Vedette]]s originally produced by IAC.<ref name="FM:3145p189"/> This made Rockwellawan the second world in the Fronc Reaches to begin domestic production of BattleMechs.<ref name="FM:3145p186"/>

In the years immediately following the [[Jihad]] pirate raids against Rockwellawan spiked, as the Magistracy and the Concordat focused on dealing with the pirates that had preyed on their worlds during the conflict, and those pirates went in search of easier prey. The pirates who raided Rockwellawan during this period were mainly interested in the resources being extracted across Rockwellawan, but at least three major pirate raids struck directly at the planetary capital city, Carat.<ref name="OTP:FRp4"/> Rockwellawan, [[Spencer]], and [[Cygnus (system)|Cygnus]] all had the misfortune of suffering pirate raids during this period that cost the lives of thousands of civilians.<ref name="OTP:FRp8">''Operational Turning Points: Fronc Reaches'', p. 8: "Periphery Pirate Plague"</ref> These pirate raids played a part in the decision by IAC to invest heavily in the construction of the Sentinelry Academy—and in having the Academy located near the IAC facilities on Corundum, boosting both IAC's reputation and its defenses.<ref name="OTP:FRp4"/>

Shortly after the Sentinelry Academy had been completed, Rockwellawan was attacked by the pirate band known as [[Calderon's Commando]]. Thanks to information obtained from captured pirates elsewhere, the [[Colonial Marshals]] had anticipated the attack, and a large contingent from the [[First Fronc Cuirassiers]] was in place to defend the IAC factory, along with the bulk of the cadets from the Academy<ref name="OTP:FRp8"/> when the pirates arrived on 9 July [[3088]].<ref name="OTP:FRp23">''Operational Turning Points: Fronc Reaches'', p. 23: "Touchpoint: Eliminating Future Opposition"</ref> Unfortunately for the Fronc Reaches forces, the raid was conducted by the entire of Calderon's Commando, rather than just the anticipated smaller number of troops, and the pirates had planned to not just loot the IAC facilities, but also to make future attacks easier by destroying the Sentinelry Academy and the Cuirassiers' base. While the forces attacking the IAC facilities were repelled, the pirate attack on the Academy was successful in the extreme; rebuilding the destroyed Academy after the attack took years. The pirates also captured numerous Colonial Marshals 'Mechs, which they would use in the future to trick defending forces into lowering their guard.<ref name="OTP:FRp8"/>

===Military Deployment===
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====2765====
* [[First Brinton Defenders]]<ref name=FR:2765Pp23>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 23: "I Corps - Regimental Status"</ref>

====2821====
* [[Red Chasseurs]]<ref name="FSWp140">''First Succession War'', p. 140: "Major Periphery States - Taurian Concordat"</ref>

====3079====
* [[First Fronc Cuirassiers]]<ref name="FRPp11">''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 11: "Regimental Status"</ref>
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====3085====
* First Fronc Cuirassiers (shared with [[Portland]])<ref name="FM:3085p152">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 152: "Fronc Reaches Sentinels"</ref>

====3145====
* [[Second Fronc Cuirassiers]] (shared with [[Herotitus]])<ref name="FM:3145p203">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 203: "Fronc Reaches"</ref>
:* Second Fronc Infantry
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===Geography===
Rockwellawan was largely settled by citizens of the Taurian Concordat. They named the three continents Diamond, Corundum, and Facet. The planet has extensive mineral resources. In [[3079]] news stories reported a new strike found on the landmasses daily.<ref name=OB:Pp22/>

===Planetary Locations===
* Carat: the capital city of Rockwellawan, located on the east coast of Diamond<ref name="OTP:FRp4"/>
* Kite: an industrial city located on the edge of the glacial arctic region of Corundum<ref name="OTP:FRp4"/>
* [[Sentinelry Academy]]: located near the city of Kite<ref name="OTP:FRp4"/><ref name="FM:3085p135">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 135: "Fronc Reaches"</ref>

===Companies and Industries===
* [[Interstellar Agriculture Concerns]]: located near the city of Kite<ref name="OTP:FRp4"/><ref>''Objectives: Periphery'', p. 22: "Interstellar Agriculture Concerns"</ref>
* [[Interstellar Arms]]<ref name="FM:3145p189"/>

==Notes==
* The system is spelled "Rokwellawan" in older sources, notably ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery]]''.

==Map Gallery==
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==Nearby Systems==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 24 systems (23 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Highwater]]
| class="lessthan30" | 13.7
| class="lessthan30" | [[Independence]]
| class="lessthan30" | 23.3
| class="lessthan30" | [[Tiverton|Tiburon]]
| class="lessthan30" | 24.4
| class="lessthan30" | [[Sacromonte]]
| class="lessthan30" | 26.4
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Contrilla]]
| class="lessthan30" | 26.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Appian]]
| class="lessthan30" | 28.3
| class="over30" | [[Coromodir]]
| class="over30" | 30.2
| class="over30" | [[Mantharaka|Don't]]
| class="over30" | 30.3
|-
| class="over30" | [[Polybius]]
| class="over30" | 30.8
| class="over30" | [[Portland]]
| class="over30" | 35.0
| class="over30" | [[Mandalas]]
| class="over30" | 39.5
| class="over30" | [[Nuncavoy]]
| class="over30" | 43.8
|-
| class="over30" | [[McEvans' Sacrifice]]
| class="over30" | 44.4
| class="over30" | [[Itrom]]
| class="over30" | 47.9
| class="over30" | [[Guldra]]
| class="over30" | 52.3
| class="over30" | [[Herotitus]]
| class="over30" | 53.9
|-
| class="over30" | [[Chandan]]
| class="over30" | 55.5
| class="over30" | [[Tincalunas|Huanghuadian]]
| class="over30" | 56.8
| class="over30" | [[Detroit]]
| class="over30" | 57.0
| class="over30" | [[Panzyr]]
| class="over30" | 57.2
|-
| class="over30" | [[Heliat]]
| class="over30" | 57.2
| class="over30" | [[Bellerophon (system)|Bellerophon]]
| class="over30" | 57.6
| class="over30" | [[Tarragona]]
| class="over30" | 57.8
| class="over60" | [[Tyrlon]]
| class="over60" | 61.0
|-
|}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
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* ''[[BattleTech (Video Game)|BattleTech]]'' (video game)
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Davion]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]''
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Arano (The Aurigan Coalition)]]''
* ''[[Inner Sphere (sourcebook)|Inner Sphere]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[[Objectives: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Operational Turning Points: Fronc Reaches]]''
* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition]]''
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''
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[[Category: Fronc Reaches Systems]]
[[Category: Independent Systems]]
[[Category: New Colony Region Systems]]
[[Category: Taurian Concordat Systems]]