Editing Stanzach

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== Political Affiliation ==
* [[2319]] - No record <ref name=HB:HKp18>''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 18, "Draconis Combine - [2319] Map"</ref>
* [[2341]] - No record <ref name="HB:HSp13">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding - [2341] Map"</ref>
* [[2571]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]] <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp31">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 31, "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2596]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159, "Inner Sphere Map - [2596]"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p11>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref>
* [[2784]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="FSWp29"/>
* [[2786]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="FSW(SB)p25">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2790]] - [[Draconis Combine]] <ref name="FSWp61">''First Succession War'', p. 61, "The War of Raids: House Steiner's Succession War"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="HB:HKp43">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 43, "Draconis Combine after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="H:LOTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p113">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref> 
* [[2864]] - Draconis Combine <ref name="HB:HKp53">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 53, "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
* [[3025]] - Draconis Combine <ref>''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 193, "Draconis Combine - Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp64">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 64, "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref><ref>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', "Lyran Commonwealth Map - [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
* [[3028]] - Contested (Draconis Combine/Lyran Commonwealth) from October<ref name="FSWMAv2p65"/>
* [[3029]] - Lyran Commonwealth (from September)<ref name="FSWMAv2p65"/>
* [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp66">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 66, "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - [[Free Rasalhague Republic]] <ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp68">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 68, "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Free Rasalhague Republic <ref name="ER3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
* [[3052]] - [[Clan Wolf]] <ref name="ER3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp71">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 71, "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Clan Wolf <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
* [[3063]] - [[Clan Hell's Horses]] <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
* [[3067]] - [[Clan Ghost Bear]] <ref name="HB:HKp74">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 74, "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70, "Lyran Alliance after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - [[Ghost Bear Dominion]] <ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Ghost Bear Dominion <ref name="J:FRp60"/><ref name="FR:Cp25">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 25, "Ghost Bear Dominion & Kungsarmé/Clan Nova Cat Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref><ref name="FR:DCMSp21">''Field Report: DCMS'', p. 21, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - Clan Wolf <ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Ghost Bear Dominion <ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 127, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3130]] - [[Rasalhague Dominion]] <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
* [[3135]] - Rasalhague Dominion <ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Rasalhague Dominion <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>

== Planetary History ==
===Star League Era===
By [[2765]] the planet '''Stanzach''' had been suffering a local insurrection and associated terrorism for several years, despite the efforts of the Eighth Arcturan Guards to end the conflict. The insurrection intensified when a series of strikes by employees and lock-outs by employers brought the population into an active class war, simultaneously sending the planetary economy spiralling downhill.<ref name="FM2765:LCp8">''Field Report: Lyran Commonwealth 2765'', p. 8-9, "Arcturan Guards"</ref>

In [[2784]] the Lyran Commonwealth reclaimed the military outposts and administrative centers on Stanzach that had been operated by the [[Star League]]. Stanzach wasn't the only world where this happened; using a similar process on all three worlds, the Lyrans also reclaimed similar facilities on both [[Gram]] and [[Lovinac]]. In all three cases the non-Lyran personnel working within these facilities were offered jobs within the local government bureaucracy, a reflection of [[Archon]] [[Jennifer Steiner]] actively attempting to retaining the expertise possessed by those personnel left within the dwindling, isolated [[Terran Hegemony]] agencies that still existed through treating them with respect.<ref name="FSWp29">''First Succession War'', p. 29, "Lyran Commonwealth Gains"</ref>

=== First Succession War ===
Stanzach was conquered by the Draconis Combine between [[2786]] and [[2790]], one of seven worlds to be captured in attacks that had frequently begun as raids, as the [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] began to crack under the pressure of continuing efforts to annex the [[Bolan Thumb]] while also attempting to maintain a defensive posture against both the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]] and the [[Free Worlds League Military]].<ref name="FSWp61"/>

=== Fourth Succession War ===
Stanzach was attacked as part of the wave of attacks launched during [[Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG]] in October [[3028]] to exploit the successes of the first ave of attacks,<ref name="NAIS4SWp44"/> with the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces deploying the [[Twelfth Donegal Guards]] to capture the planet.<ref name="NAIS4SWp44">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 44-45, "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"</ref> The Twelfth were still battling for control of the planet when the [[DCMS]] counterattacked in December, dropping the [[Ninth Pesht Regulars]] and the [[Thirteenth Rasalhague Regulars]] on the planet and nearly forcing the Twelfth to retreat offworld; only the arrival of the [[Eighth Donegal Guards]] to reinforce the Twelfth allowed the battle for Stanzach to continue.<ref name="NAIS4SWp61">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 61, "End of the Offensive"</ref> The battle for control of Stanzach bogged down, and the planet was still contested when the lull between operations began in early [[3029]].<ref name="FSWMAv2p61">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', p. 61, "Trellshire and Tamar Theaters"</ref> 

When the LCAF went on the offensive again in [[3029]] Stanzach became the site of the most spectacular events to be seen in either the Tamar or Trellshire sections of the front. With the deployment of the Ninth Pesht Regulars and Thirteenth Rasalhague Regulars the LCAF task force found itself fighting both [[BattleMech]] regiments and twenty regiments of conventional forces. The Lyran task force mustered thirty conventional regiments in total, plus the Eighth and Twelfth Donegal Guards augmented by the [[Tyr Regiment|Tyr]] regiment, an assault regiment formed in secret using personnel recruited from the Tyr resistance movement or those with strong links to the ancient [[Principality of Rasalhague]]. The DCMS forces had used the lull in offensive operations to fortify positions along the Lule river with their forces located to the south and east of the river, but the DCMS front still stretched for some 200 kilometers.<ref name="FSWMAv2p65">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', p. 65-66, "Stanzach"</ref>

The Tyr regiment launched an offensive across the Lule on the 1st of June 3029, striking across the river at a point known as Cosognome Crossing, directly into a defending force consisting of two 'Mech [[companies]] from the Ninth, an infantry regiment and a battalion of armor. The Ninth fought bravely, but their poor equipment let them down, with the lead company of the Tyr pushing the Ninth's forces back while Lyran combat engineers frantically constructed a pontoon bridge behind them. Reinforcements for the DCMS forces were slow to move in response, with a battalion of the Pesht regulars leading a relief force to the bridgehead only to discover that the entire Tyr regiment had crossed along with a battalion of armor and two battalions of infantry, leaving the Ninth with little choice but to pull back.<ref name="FSWMAv2p65"/>

With the Tyr establishing it's position on the other side of the Lule the Eighth and Twelfth Donegal Guards wenton the offensive, attempting to seize other crossings; the Eighth attempted to capture the Fosol Bridge, but were rebufed by the Thirteenth Rasalhague Regulars. The Tewlfth was more successful, storming through the DCMS armor and infantry forces defending the Cadeska Bridge, losing half a company of 'Mechs but seizing the crossing. The senior DCMS officers on Stanzach met on the 30th of July to evaluate their position and decided that they should continue fighting, as the loss of their defensive positions on the Lule represented the loss of their strongest position, but still left the Lyran forces a long way from being able to capture the capital city, Kirund, or the valuable diamond mines located around Mount Adamant. Their determination to resist was thwarted by the DCMS High Command; even as the DCMS forces were fortifying new positions on the 31st of July [[Brigadier General]] [[Sven Johannsen]], the second in command of the [[Rasalhague Military District]], ordered both 'Mech regiments to withdraw. After requesting confirmation of the order the Ninth and Thirteenth abandoned Stanzach on the 9th of August; wary of a trap, the Lyran task force pressed forward cautiously, capturing Kirund on the 12th of August and the remainder of the planet on the 13th.<ref name="FSWMAv2p65"/>

General [[Nondi Steiner]] ordered the Lyran forces on Stanzach to consolidate their positions and await further orders, but by the 20th of August tensions within the Tyr regiment had reached a boiling point; eager to liberate the entire of the Rasalhague worlds the Tyr rebelled and lifted off for [[Radstadt]], the Prefecture capital, in pursuit of the Ninth and Thirteenth.<ref name="FSWMAv2p65"/>

===Clan Invasion===
In October [[3050]] Stanzach, an important economic center of the [[Free Rasalhague Republic]], was conquered by [[Clan Wolf]] as one of the final legs of [[Operation Revival]]'s Fourth Wave.  Major battles took place at Cosognome, Lule Valley, Mount Adament and Kirund between the [[11th Battle (Clan Wolf)|11th Battle Cluster]] and the 1st Stanzach Armored Division.  While the Wolf invaders should have had a difficult time subduing the planet, the local populace's fear of the Clans had reawakened old racial prejudices between those of Scandinavian and Asian descent.  While the tanks of the 1st Division were able to give good showings, the occasional "miscommunication" or outright mutiny between the two factions ultimately doomed their efforts.<ref>''Clan Wolf Sourcebook'', p. 63</ref>

===Jihad===
On the 2nd of January [[3079]] one of the leaders of the [[Motstånd]] terrorist group, [[Albert Gronvold-Minami]], was killed by [[Clan Ghost Bear]] paramilitary police on [[Stanzach]] following a terrorist bombing on [[Alshain]] on the 31st of December [[3078]] that killed hundreds of Ghost Bear and Rasalhagian civilians as well as several Unity Council members and former First Prince [[Christian Månsdottir]].<ref name="J:FRp60">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 60, "The Jihad in Review"</ref><ref name="J:FRp11+">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 11-12, "Terrorists Die In Firefight"</ref>

The press coverage of the death of Gonvold-Minami reported that he and a number of other Motstånd members had holed up in a flat in the Hayden Arms estate block of Janetown, and that when the surrounding area had been cordonned off by the Ghost Bear paramilitary police the terrorists decided to try and fight their way out rather than surrender. The resulting combat devastated the block itself and damaged two other nearby blocks, with a total of 14 terrorists and 6 paramilitary police killed. Gronvold-Minami was evidently apprehended while trying to escape in a car, and he and eight other terrorists who had attempted to surrender were summarily executed at the scene by the police. It was noted that while the summary execution of the terrorists attracted some criticism from legal activists, polls conducted across the Ghost Bear Dominion supported the action taken, something possibly influenced by Motstånd using explosives identified as being of [[Word of Blake]] origin.<ref name="J:FRp60">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 60, "The Jihad in Review"</ref>

== Military Deployment ==
=== 2765 ===
* [[Eighth Arcturan Guards]]<ref name="FM2765:LCp9">''Field Report: Lyran Commonwealth 2765'', p. 9, "Regimental Status"</ref>

=== 2786 ===
* Eighth Arcturan Guards<ref name="FSWp139">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 139, "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"</ref>

=== 2821 ===
* [[Eighth Sword of Light]]<ref name="FSWp137">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 137, "First Succession War Deployment Table - DCMS"</ref>

=== 3029 ===
* [[Ninth Pesht Regulars]] (until August)<ref name="FSWMAv2p65"/>
* [[Thirteenth Rasalhague Regulars]] (until August)<ref name="FSWMAv2p65"/>

=== 3050 ===
* [[Stanzach Militia|First Stanzach Armored Division]]<ref name=WCS063>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 63</ref>

== Planetary Locations ==
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* Cosognome: The site of a major battle during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name=WCS063>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 63</ref>
* Lule Valley: The site of a major battle during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name=WCS063>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 63</ref>
* Mount Adament: The site of a major battle during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name=WCS063>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 63</ref>
* Kirund: The site of a major battle during [[Operation REVIVAL]].<ref name=WCS063>''Wolf Clan Sourcebook'', p. 63</ref>
}}

== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 40 systems (40 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Memmingen]]
| class="lessthan30" | 10.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Vorarlberg]]
| class="lessthan30" | 15.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Bushmill]]
| class="lessthan30" | 17.7
| class="lessthan30" | [[Engadin]]
| class="lessthan30" | 21.4
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Kandis]]
| class="lessthan30" | 21.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Gunzburg]]
| class="lessthan30" | 25.7
| class="lessthan30" | [[Radstadt]]
| class="lessthan30" | 26.9
| class="lessthan30" | [[Tamar]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.9
|-
| class="over30" | [[Kempten]]
| class="over30" | 31.7
| class="over30" | [[Thannhausen]]
| class="over30" | 33.1
| class="over30" | [[Muswell]]
| class="over30" | 33.4
| class="over30" | [[Goito]]
| class="over30" | 34.7
|-
| class="over30" | [[Kufstein]]
| class="over30" | 36.2
| class="over30" | [[Weingarten]]
| class="over30" | 37.2
| class="over30" | [[Ferleiten]]
| class="over30" | 39.5
| class="over30" | [[Heiligendreuz]]
| class="over30" | 39.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Kobe]]
| class="over30" | 45.3
| class="over30" | [[Volders]]
| class="over30" | 45.4
| class="over30" | [[Karston]]
| class="over30" | 46.0
| class="over30" | [[Hohenems]]
| class="over30" | 46.2
|-
| class="over30" | [[Moritz]]
| class="over30" | 46.9
| class="over30" | [[Predlitz]]
| class="over30" | 48.6
| class="over30" | [[Kaesong]]
| class="over30" | 49.1
| class="over30" | [[Lamar]]
| class="over30" | 49.2
|-
| class="over30" | [[Corfu]]
| class="over30" | 49.5
| class="over30" | [[Christiania]]
| class="over30" | 50.3
| class="over30" | [[Unzmarkt]]
| class="over30" | 51.2
| class="over30" | [[Hyperion]]
| class="over30" | 51.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Spittal]]
| class="over30" | 53.1
| class="over30" | [[Hainfeld]]
| class="over30" | 54.9
| class="over30" | [[Satalice]]
| class="over30" | 55.7
| class="over30" | [[Bessarabia]]
| class="over30" | 55.9
|-
| class="over30" | [[Sheliak]]
| class="over30" | 56.2
| class="over30" | [[Skokie]]
| class="over30" | 56.5
| class="over30" | [[Maestu]]
| class="over30" | 56.6
| class="over30" | [[Oyevaina]]
| class="over30" | 56.7
|-
| class="over30" | [[Alshain]]
| class="over30" | 57.4
| class="over30" | [[Basiliano]]
| class="over30" | 57.4
| class="over30" | [[Feltre]]
| class="over30" | 57.8
| class="over30" | [[Sevren]]
| class="over30" | 59.0
|-
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth]]''
* ''[[Field Report: DCMS]]''
* ''[[Field Report: Clans]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (Source Book)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Kurita]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)]]''
* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[http://home.ifi.uio.no/~oysteint/btech/maps/IS_3130.pdf Map of the Inner Sphere 3130]''
* ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1]]''
* ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2]]''

[[Category:Systems|Stanzach]]
[[Category:Planets|Stanzach]]
[[Category: Clan Hell's Horses Planets]]
[[Category: Clan Wolf Planets]]
[[Category: Draconis Combine Planets]]
[[Category: Free Rasalhague Republic Planets]]
[[Category: Ghost Bear Dominion Planets]]
[[Category: Lyran Commonwealth Planets]]
[[Category: Rasalhague Dominion Planets]]