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The '''Sigurd''' system was home to at least one habitable moon and as of [[3145]] was located in the [[Periphery]] region known as [[The Barrens]].<ref name=ER:3145p39/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
  
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''Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to [[Terra]] at (0, 0)
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'''X''': -103.88
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==System Description==
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'''Y''': 479.69{{e}}
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Sigurd is located near the [[Butte Hold]] and [[Oberon VI]] systems.<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/>
  
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The frigid world of '''Sigurd''' is the moon of a gas giant orbiting a brilliant but distant F4-class sun in the [[coreward]] [[Periphery]].
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==System History==
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Sigurd was either settled during the [[Star League era]] at some point after the end of the [[Reunification War]] by the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] or was an already-settled system that became significant enough during this era for [[Inner Sphere]] nations to record its location on maps.<ref name="H:RWp158"/><ref name="HB:HSp25"/><ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/>
  
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==Geography==
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==Political Affiliation==
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Sigurd is the cold moon of a glowing gas giant, that orbits a far, bright F4 sun.<ref name=DaTR>''Decision at Thunder Rift'', p. 208</ref>
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* [[2571]] - No record<ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18: "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
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* [[2596]] - No record<ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
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* [[2750]] - [[Rim Worlds Republic]]<ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25: "Rim Worlds Republic at the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
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* [[2764]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
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* [[2765]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:LoTV1p10">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name="FR2765:Pp38">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 38: "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref><ref name="FR2765:LCAFp25">''Field Report 2765: LCAF'', p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
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* [[2767]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:LoTV1p104>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 104: "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"</ref>
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* [[2775]] - [[Oberon Confederation]]<ref name="HB:MPSp37"/>
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* [[2786]] - Independent world<ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War'', pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
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* [[2822]] - Independent world<ref name="H:LoTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36: "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War'', pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
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* [[2864]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40: "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
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* [[3025]] - Oberon Confederation<ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47: "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref><ref name="TP1Epvii">''The Periphery, First Edition'', pp. 156–157: "Maps of the Periphery"</ref>
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* [[3030]] - Oberon Confederation<ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56: "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
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* [[3040]] - Oberon Confederation<ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
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* [[3050]] - Oberon Confederation<ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
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* [[3052]] - [[Clan Wolf]]<ref name="ER:3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref>
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* [[3057]] - Clan Wolf<ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
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* [[3059]] - Clan Wolf<ref name="TP2Ep115">''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', p. 115: "Greater Valkyrate, Oberon Confederation & Elysian Fields"</ref>
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* [[3063]] - Clan Wolf<ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
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* [[3067]] - Clan Wolf<ref name="J:FRp43">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
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* [[3072]] - [[Clan Hell's Horses]]<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 31: "Clan Occupation Zones [3072]"</ref>
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* [[3075]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65: "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"</ref>
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* [[3079]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="FR:p27">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 27: "Clan Wolf/Clan Hell's Horses Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
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* [[3081]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
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* [[3085]] - Clan Hell's Horses<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
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* [[3086]] - [[New Oberon Confederation]]<ref>''Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3'', p. 43</ref>
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* [[3095]] - [[Republic of the Barrens]]<ref name="ISP3p43"/>
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* [[3135]] - The Barrens<ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
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* [[3145]] - The Barrens<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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==History==
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Sigurd was originally part of the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] until the nations downfall that accompanied the end of the [[Star League]]. Unlike many of the former Republic systems the world was not absorbed by the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] but instead founded the [[Oberon Confederation]] with the neighboring worlds of [[Oberon VI]] and [[Crellacor]]. Together this little alliance hold on to the Republic cause for at least two decades, but finally succumbed to the numerous pirate attacks.<ref name="HB:MPSp37">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 37, "The Republic-Commonwealth War"</ref> From this time on Sigurd fought alone against falling into oblivion until [[3012]] when the moon joined [[Hendrik Grimm III]]'s mockery of the former Oberon Confederation, with the government forcibly breaking down any opposition amongst its own population in the process.<ref name=DaTR></ref> When the [[Clans]] arrived in the [[Periphery]] in [[3049]] Sigurd was, along with the rest of the bandit kingdom, quickly swallowed by [[Clan Wolf]] only to be conquered by the [[Clan Hell's Horses|Hell's Horses]] during the [[Jihad]].<ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 14</ref>
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==Odin==
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'''Odin''' is a gas giant orbiting a class F4 primary. Odin has at least one habitable moon, Sigurd.<ref name=GB/>
  
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==Sigurd==
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In [[3083]] the Ferris Rebellion caused the Clans to withdraw from most of their Periphery holdings. The Hell's Horses had used Oberon IV as an administrative world, and when the Clan left the area in [[3086]], the administrators of that world formed the [[New Oberon Confederation]]. Sigurd was one of five systems to join the new polity.<ref>''Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions'', pp. 42-43</ref>
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===Planetary History===
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====Star League====
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Sigurd was originally part of the Rim Worlds Republic until the nation's downfall that accompanied the end of the [[Star League]]. Unlike many of the former Republic systems the world was not absorbed by the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] but instead founded the Oberon Confederation with the neighboring worlds of [[Oberon VI]] and [[Crellacor]]. Together this little alliance hold on to the Republic cause for at least two decades, but finally succumbed to the numerous pirate attacks.<ref name="HB:MPSp37">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 37: "The Republic-Commonwealth War"</ref>
  
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==Owner History==
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====Succession Wars====
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* [[2571]] - No record <ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War [2571]"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"</ref>
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In the late [[twenty-ninth century|twenty-ninth]] or early [[thirtieth century|thirtieth]] centuries (in the days of his great-grandfather, in the words of a Sigurd native as of [[2972]]), Sigurd used to trade with the [[JàrnFòlk]], specifically [[Lars Heyerdahl]] and his son [[Liam Heyerdahl|Liam]], but for reasons unknown the contact was lost.<ref name=GB/>
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* [[2750]] - Rim Worlds Republic <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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* [[2775]] - Oberon Confederation <ref name="HB:MPSp37"/>
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By 2972, Sigurd was still part of the Oberon Confederation in name, but in reality the Sigurders paid hardly any attention to their supposed vassal status, meeting their supposed rulers only twice per year for trading exchanges. Sigurd had to import fertilizer, soil and almost all raw materials for their limited manufacturing, exporting valuable heavy metals. The local population - perhaps two thousand souls, including a number of African descent - lived in caves in the ice, and used to extract valuable ores from meteor impact sites by tunneling through the ice instead of digging out the ores which would have required moving substantially more ice, and would not have been economically feasible. Other methods such as lasers were not feasible because raising temperature was to be avoided, and because of the dangers of cracks in the ice mantle.<ref name=GB/>
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* [[2822]] - Periphery <ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"</ref>
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* [[2864]] - Periphery <ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"</ref>
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In 2972, JàrnFòlk trader [[Bjørn Jespersen]] and his son [[Olaf Jespersen|Olaf]] found that one Alma had recently invented a simple ore extractor that separated the ore from the dross with little energy. The keen traders determined this device was at the same time a water purification system - purified water being considered dross on Sigurd - and they established a lucrative trade between Sigurd and [[Botany Bay]] in which the latter would receive much sought-after water purification devices in exchange for their obsidian sand which was, as it turned out, a curse on Botany Bay but a valuable industrial asset for ice mining on Sigurd.<ref name=GB/>
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* [[3025]] - Oberon Confederation <ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref><ref name="TP1E">''The Periphery (sourcebook)'', p. 157, "Map of the Periphery"</ref>
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* [[3030]] - Oberon Confederation <ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"</ref>
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In ca. [[3013]], the government used military force against dissidents on Sigurd to reassert Oberon Confederation control of the moon; future [[Gray Death Legion]] [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] [[Lori Kalmar]] was orphaned when her parents were killed in that government action.<ref name=DaTR/>
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* [[3040]] - Oberon Confederation {{cn}}
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* [[3052]] - Clan Wolf <ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23, Inner Sphere [3052] Map</ref>
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====Clan Invasion====
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* [[3057]] - Clan Wolf {{cn}}
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Sigurd was invaded on September [[3049]] by [[Clan Wolf]]'s [[Thirty-seventh Striker (Clan Wolf)|Thirty-seventh Striker Cluster]]. The Clan forces made short work of the defending [[Sigurd Guards]] at the Ewell Graveyard, most of whom surrendered at the first sight of their [[OmniMechs]] and [[Elementals]].<ref name="CWSB">''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 57: "Periphery Actions"</ref>
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* [[3062]] - Clan Wolf {{cn}}
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* [[3072]] - Clan Hell's Horses <ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 31, "Clan Occupation Zones [3072]"</ref>
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====Jihad====
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* [[3086]] - [[New Oberon Confederation]]<ref>''Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions'', p. 43</ref>
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While quickly swallowed up by Clan Wolf in the opening moments of their campaign, the world was conquered by the [[Clan Hell's Horses|Hell's Horses]] during the [[Jihad]].<ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 14</ref>
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* [[3130]] - No record <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
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====Dark Age====
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In [[3083]], the Ferris Rebellion caused the Clans to withdraw from most of their Periphery holdings. The Hell's Horses had used Oberon IV as an administrative world, and when the Clan left the area in [[3086]], the administrators of that world formed the [[New Oberon Confederation]]. Sigurd was one of five systems to join the new polity.<ref name="ISP3p43">''Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3'', pp. 42–43</ref>
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===Military Deployment===
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====3025====
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* [[Sigurd Light Independent Assault Group]]{{cn}}
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====3049====
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* [[Sigurd Guards]]<ref name=WCS057>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 57</ref>
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====3054====
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* [[Nega Garrison (Clan Wolf)|Nega Garrison Cluster]], Infantry Trinary<ref name=ORp32>''Objective Raids'', p. 32</ref>
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===Geography===
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Sigurd is the cold moon of a glowing gas giant, described as a striped sphere that fills a third of the sky.<ref name=GB/> Only a small crescent is lit by the far, bright sun which was described as an arclight in the deep blue sky while the rest of the gas giant glowed in a sullen red,<ref name=GB/> suggesting it is in fact a [[w:Brown dwarf|Brown Dwarf]].
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The surface of Sigurd is completely made up of an ice mantle several hundred meters thick, with liquid water below; it is unknown if there is anything but water in the core, or if there is perhaps a core of rock 100 km below the surface.<ref name=GB/> A year on Sigurd is the equivalent of 1.7 [[Terra]]n years.<ref name=DaTR>''Decision at Thunder Rift'', p. 208</ref>
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===Planetary Locations===
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* Ewell Graveyard: the site of the only major battle on Sigurd during [[Operation REVIVAL]]<ref name="CWSB"/>
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==Nearby Systems==
 
==Nearby Systems==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 28 systems (25 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Oberon]]
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| class="lessthan30" | 9.9
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Butte Hold]]
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| class="lessthan30" | 17.6
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Placida]]
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| class="lessthan30" | 17.7
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Drask's Den]]
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| class="lessthan30" | 19.8
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Blackstone]]
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| class="lessthan30" | 20.9
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Crellacor]]
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| class="lessthan30" | 23.2
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| class="over30" | [[The Rock]]
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| class="over30" | 30.0
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| class="over30" | [[Paulus Prime]]
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| class="over30" | 30.9
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| class="over30" | [[New Ålborg]]
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| class="over30" | 33.2
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| class="over30" | [[Beowulf (system)|Beowulf]]
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| class="over30" | 34.2
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| class="over30" | [[Zertarum]]
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| class="over30" | 37.2
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| class="over30" | [[Iron Land]]
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| class="over30" | 37.5
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| class="over30" | [[Gustrell]]
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| class="over30" | 39.5
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| class="over30" | [[Bensinger]]
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| class="over30" | 43.1
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| class="over30" | [[Dirkel]]
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| class="over30" | 43.2
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| class="over30" | [[Toland]]
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| class="over30" | 49.8
 
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| [[Oberon VI]]
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| class="over30" | [[Ichmandu]]
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| class="over30" | 50.1
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| [[Butte Hold]]
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| class="over30" | [[Taran's World]]
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| 20.38
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| class="over30" | 51.0
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| [[Placida]]
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| class="over30" | [[Cryfder]]
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| 24.80
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| class="over30" | 51.4
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| [[Blackstone]]
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| class="over30" | [[Star's End]]
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| 26.17
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| class="over30" | 51.8
 
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| [[Drask's Den]]
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| class="over30" | [[Apollo (system)|Apollo]]
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| 26.74
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| class="over30" | 53.8
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| [[Crellacor]]
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| class="over30" | [[Ferris (OC)|Ferris]]
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| 30.85
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| class="over30" | 55.3
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| [[Paulus Prime]]
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| class="over30" | [[Last Chance]]
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| 31.32
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| class="over30" | 56.0
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| [[New Ålborg]]
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| class="over30" | [[Steelton]]
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| 40.47
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| class="over30" | 57.4
 
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| [[The Rock]]
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| class="over30" | [[Here]]
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| 42.38
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| class="over30" | 58.0
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| [[Beowulf (planet)|Beowulf]]
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| class="over60" | [[Elissa]]
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| 47.72
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| class="over60" | 64.9
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| [[Dirkel]]
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| class="over60" | [[Caillinius]]
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| 48.96
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| class="over60" | 66.5
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| [[Iron Land]]
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| class="over60" | [[Von Strang's_World|Erin]]
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| 49.80
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| class="over60" | 66.8
 
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| [[Zertarum]]
 
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| 50.02
 
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| [[Gustrell]]
 
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| 50.32
 
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| [[Last Chance]]
 
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| 58.46
 
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| [[Steelton]]
 
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| 59.24
 
 
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==References==
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
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* ''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]''
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* ''[[Decision at Thunder Rift]]'' (novel)
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* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
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* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
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* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
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* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
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* ''[[Field Report: Clans]]''
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* ''[[Field Report 2765: LCAF]]''
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* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
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* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
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* ''[[Godt Bytte]]'' (short story)
 
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
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* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
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* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
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* ''[[Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3]]''
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* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
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* ''[http://home.ifi.uio.no/~oysteint/btech/maps/IS_3130.pdf Map of the Inner Sphere 3130]''
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* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery]]''
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* ''[[Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions]]''
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* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition (sourcebook)|The Periphery, Second Edition]]''
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* ''[[Wolf Clan Sourcebook]]''
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Latest revision as of 08:32, 23 April 2024

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X:Y Coordinates−103.889 : 479.713[e]
Spectral classF4[1][2]

The Sigurd system was home to at least one habitable moon and as of 3145 was located in the Periphery region known as The Barrens.[3][4]

System Description[edit]

Sigurd is located near the Butte Hold and Oberon VI systems.[5][6]

System History[edit]

Sigurd was either settled during the Star League era at some point after the end of the Reunification War by the Rim Worlds Republic or was an already-settled system that became significant enough during this era for Inner Sphere nations to record its location on maps.[7][8][5][6]

Political Affiliation[edit]

Odin[edit]

Odin is a gas giant orbiting a class F4 primary. Odin has at least one habitable moon, Sigurd.[2]

Sigurd[edit]

Sigurd
Astrophysical
Moons(moon)

Planetary History[edit]

Star League[edit]

Sigurd was originally part of the Rim Worlds Republic until the nation's downfall that accompanied the end of the Star League. Unlike many of the former Republic systems the world was not absorbed by the Lyran Commonwealth but instead founded the Oberon Confederation with the neighboring worlds of Oberon VI and Crellacor. Together this little alliance hold on to the Republic cause for at least two decades, but finally succumbed to the numerous pirate attacks.[15]

Succession Wars[edit]

In the late twenty-ninth or early thirtieth centuries (in the days of his great-grandfather, in the words of a Sigurd native as of 2972), Sigurd used to trade with the JàrnFòlk, specifically Lars Heyerdahl and his son Liam, but for reasons unknown the contact was lost.[2]

By 2972, Sigurd was still part of the Oberon Confederation in name, but in reality the Sigurders paid hardly any attention to their supposed vassal status, meeting their supposed rulers only twice per year for trading exchanges. Sigurd had to import fertilizer, soil and almost all raw materials for their limited manufacturing, exporting valuable heavy metals. The local population - perhaps two thousand souls, including a number of African descent - lived in caves in the ice, and used to extract valuable ores from meteor impact sites by tunneling through the ice instead of digging out the ores which would have required moving substantially more ice, and would not have been economically feasible. Other methods such as lasers were not feasible because raising temperature was to be avoided, and because of the dangers of cracks in the ice mantle.[2]

In 2972, JàrnFòlk trader Bjørn Jespersen and his son Olaf found that one Alma had recently invented a simple ore extractor that separated the ore from the dross with little energy. The keen traders determined this device was at the same time a water purification system - purified water being considered dross on Sigurd - and they established a lucrative trade between Sigurd and Botany Bay in which the latter would receive much sought-after water purification devices in exchange for their obsidian sand which was, as it turned out, a curse on Botany Bay but a valuable industrial asset for ice mining on Sigurd.[2]

In ca. 3013, the government used military force against dissidents on Sigurd to reassert Oberon Confederation control of the moon; future Gray Death Legion MechWarrior Lori Kalmar was orphaned when her parents were killed in that government action.[39]

Clan Invasion[edit]

Sigurd was invaded on September 3049 by Clan Wolf's Thirty-seventh Striker Cluster. The Clan forces made short work of the defending Sigurd Guards at the Ewell Graveyard, most of whom surrendered at the first sight of their OmniMechs and Elementals.[40]

Jihad[edit]

While quickly swallowed up by Clan Wolf in the opening moments of their campaign, the world was conquered by the Hell's Horses during the Jihad.[41]

Dark Age[edit]

In 3083, the Ferris Rebellion caused the Clans to withdraw from most of their Periphery holdings. The Hell's Horses had used Oberon IV as an administrative world, and when the Clan left the area in 3086, the administrators of that world formed the New Oberon Confederation. Sigurd was one of five systems to join the new polity.[37]

Military Deployment[edit]

3025[edit]

3049[edit]

3054[edit]

Geography[edit]

Sigurd is the cold moon of a glowing gas giant, described as a striped sphere that fills a third of the sky.[2] Only a small crescent is lit by the far, bright sun which was described as an arclight in the deep blue sky while the rest of the gas giant glowed in a sullen red,[2] suggesting it is in fact a Brown Dwarf.

The surface of Sigurd is completely made up of an ice mantle several hundred meters thick, with liquid water below; it is unknown if there is anything but water in the core, or if there is perhaps a core of rock 100 km below the surface.[2] A year on Sigurd is the equivalent of 1.7 Terran years.[39]

Planetary Locations[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 28 systems (25 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Oberon 9.9 Butte Hold 17.6 Placida 17.7 Drask's Den 19.8
Blackstone 20.9 Crellacor 23.2 The Rock 30.0 Paulus Prime 30.9
New Ålborg 33.2 Beowulf 34.2 Zertarum 37.2 Iron Land 37.5
Gustrell 39.5 Bensinger 43.1 Dirkel 43.2 Toland 49.8
Ichmandu 50.1 Taran's World 51.0 Cryfder 51.4 Star's End 51.8
Apollo 53.8 Ferris 55.3 Last Chance 56.0 Steelton 57.4
Here 58.0 Elissa 64.9 Caillinius 66.5 Erin 66.8

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Decision at Thunder Rift, ch. 23
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Godt Bytte
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 39: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25: "Rim Worlds Republic at the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Era Report: 2750, p. 36: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 158: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  9. ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18: "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  10. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  11. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  12. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 38: "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"
  13. ↑ Field Report 2765: LCAF, p. 25: "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  14. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 104: "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 37: "The Republic-Commonwealth War"
  16. ↑ First Succession War, pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  17. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122–123: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  18. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36: "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  19. ↑ First Succession War, pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  20. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40: "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47: "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"
  22. ↑ The Periphery, First Edition, pp. 156–157: "Maps of the Periphery"
  23. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56: "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  24. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  25. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  26. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  27. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  28. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 115: "Greater Valkyrate, Oberon Confederation & Elysian Fields"
  29. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  30. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  31. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 31: "Clan Occupation Zones [3072]"
  32. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65: "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"
  33. ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 27: "Clan Wolf/Clan Hell's Horses Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  34. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  35. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  36. ↑ Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3, p. 43
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 Interstellar Expeditions: Interstellar Players 3, pp. 42–43
  38. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Decision at Thunder Rift, p. 208
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 57: "Periphery Actions"
  41. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 14
  42. ↑ Wolf Clan Sourcebook, p. 57
  43. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 32

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