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- This article is about the planet. For the McKenna-class WarShip, see New Earth (Vessel).
(References to New Earth)
New Earth | |
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System Information | |
X:Y Coordinates | -12.40:3.08[e] |
Spectral class | G8V[1] |
Planet(s) | 6[1] |
Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)
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Contents
Owner History
- 2108 - Terran Alliance[citation needed]
- 2271 - Terran Alliance [2]
- 2341 - Terran Hegemony [3]
- 2571 - Terran Hegemony [4]
- 2596 - Terran Hegemony [5]
- 2750 - Terran Hegemony [6]
- 2765 - Terran Hegemony [7]
- 3025 - Lyran Commonwealth [8]
- 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth[citation needed]
- 3040 - Federated Commonwealth[citation needed]
- 3052 - Federated Commonwealth[citation needed]
- 3057 - Lyran Alliance[citation needed]
- 3062 - Lyran Alliance[citation needed]
- 3067 - Lyran Alliance [9]
- 3068 - Word of Blake Protectorate (from October)[10]
- 3072 - Word of Blake Protectorate[citation needed]
- 3130 - Republic of the Sphere [1][11]
Era Specific Data
2590
- Leadership: Director-General Elizabeth Cameron
- Planetary Leader: Alexander Rimes, Duke of New Earth.[12]
Planetary Garrison
2764
3025
- 12th Star Guards (12st Regiment)[8]
3050
3054
3061
3055 to 3062 to 3067
3067 to 3068
3073
3130
Planetary History
Early History
New Earth has the distinction of being the first colonized planet outside of Terra's solar system. Colonization was inaugurated on March 18, 2116 with Martin Cabot appointed as first governor of the colony. New Earth contains at least one continent, called Conseco.
On the 15th of December 2108 New Earth - then called Tau Ceti - was the first world outside the Sol system to be walked on by human feet, when Engineer Michelle Land walked on the surface of the world. The TAS Pathfinder had entered the Tau Ceti system on the 5th of December, the beginning of a series of voyages of exploration to many worlds around the Sol system.[23] Tau Ceti IV would prove to be the first garden colony world.[24]
The TAS Pathfinder wasn't the first vessel from Terra to make it to the Tau Ceti system, however; the Magellan programme had launched missions to systems around Terra in 2029, with probes known to have successfully reached Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridani and Epsilon Indi.[25]
New Earth was one of the worlds that remained a part of the Terran Alliance following the Outer Reaches Rebellion and the Demarcation Declaration of 2242,[2] and became one of the worlds within the Alliance Core region of the Terran Hegemony.[5]
Amaris Civil War
When Stefan Amaris launched Operation APOTHESIS, his usurpation of the Terran Hegemony, one of the initial stages of his campaign was to secure naval doination of the systems within the Hegemony. Rim Worlds Republic naval forces consisting of WarShips, DropShips and AeroSpace Fighters attempted to secure the two major jump points in every inhabited system, including New Earth.[26]
There were eighteen assorted SLDF WarShips in the New Earth system when a task force of twenty Rim Worlds Republic WarShips jumped into the system, intending to interdict New Earth and destroy any SLDF ships present. New Earth was a vital supply world for the SLDF, and Commodore Altran Serdamba was responsible for the security of a major SLDF supply convoy assembling in the system at the time, intended to transport supplies and reinforcements to the war effort in the Periphery. Commodore Serdamba commanded a convoy protection flotilla of four destroyers and nine corvettes from his command ship, the Luxor-class cruiser SLS Van der Bergh; also in the system at the time was Vice Admiral Dmitrios Rummolo andd his flagship, the Texas-class battleship SLS Wales, along with a squadron consisting of a Congress-class frigate and two Essex-class destroyers. Vice Admiral Rummolo was due to take command of the Ninth Fleet on promotion, and had only been in the system a few days when the Rim Worlds vessels arrived.[26]
The Rim Worlds vessels targeted the two SLDF command vessels, striking at the SLS Wales and the SLS Van der Bergh. The SLS Wales was caught by surprise, but the SLS Van der Bergh and her flotilla had been engaged in combat drills in preparation for their return to the Periphery, and had remained at combat stations as the Rim Worlds vessels approached. When the Rim Worlds ships fired, they scored several significant hits against the SLS Wales, but found the convoy protection group immediately returning fire and launching Fighters. Commodore Serdamba's group screened Vice Admiral Rummolo's squadron for several vital minutes as the crew of the SLS Wales and the other vessels raced to battle stations.[26]
When the heavyweight SLS Wales and the other ships of Rummolo's squadron joined the fight, the greater combat experience of the SLDF troops began to tell; the battle lasted more than half an hour before the Rim Worlds fleet retreated, having lost fourteen vessels. The combined SLDF forces had lost eight of their own ships in the battle, and still didn't know anything more beyond the fact that they had been attacked by a Rim Worlds Republic fleet.[26]
Vice Admiral Rummolo ordered Commodore Serdamba to take the remains of the convoy escort group and jump to the Lagrange point near Tau Ceti V to defend the Apollo-Four shipyards there. With Serdamba's ships defending the Nicholas Spacecraft's facilities, the SLS Wales and the two destroyers from his squadron which had survived the attack fought a holding action at the jump point for the next twenty four hours, while quick charging their drives. Rummolo then had the two destroyers jump to the Apollo-Four shipyards; Rummolo and the SLS Wales then led thirteen assorted government and military JumpShips to a secret SLDF naval base designated Freedom Station.[26]
The Jihad
New Earth was incorporated into the Word of Blake Protectorate by conquest on the 7th of October 3068; the Word of Blake forces responsible for conquering New Earth allegedly used tactical nuclear weapons to secure their hold on the planet.[10] Subsequently, one of the garrison units on New Earth, Pinky's Irregulars, attempted to break contract with the Word of Blake in 3073; the Blakists responded by destroying the Irregulars. The remains of the Irregulars would remain trapped under the north polar ice cap of New Earth until Skibinski's Salvage recovered ten of the eleven 'Mechs belonging to Pinky's Irregulars in the mid 3080s, along with the bodies of eight of the Irregulars.[21]
Later in the Jihad as resistance to the Blakists became more organised under the auspices of Devlin Stone's allied coalition New Earth was subject to a heavy raid, intended to test the interior defences of the Protectorate. The raiding party was spearheaded by Com Guard troops and hit New Earth in late July 3076.[27] It would be almost two years before New Earth was targeted for liberation by the allied coalition as a part of Operation SCOUR; a contingent of roughly four Galaxies of mixed Clan forces drawn from the Lyran front of the Operation struck at New Earth on the 8th of February 3078, meeting heavy resistance.[28]
The initial attack was rebuffed, with the Clan forces having retreated by mid February; while the media reported that the SDS in the New Earth system had been destroyed or at least heavily damaged, it also reported that up to four Clan WarShips had been destroyed, and that the Clan forces had been forced to retreat due to the presence of not just the anticipated Protectorate Militia Divisions and Militia Division, but also at least one Shadow Division. There were also unsubstantiated rumours that the forces from Clan Ghost Bear, Clan Jade Falcon and Clan Wolf had arrived at different times, with the Ghost Bears arriving early, and then failed to work together.[29] One of the destroyed WarShips was subsequently identified as the Aegis-class heavy cruiser CJF Frost Falcon;[30] another was the Volga-class transport CGB Ursine Boatman,[31] and the third the Vincent-class corvette CSR Huninn, a vessel from the Clan Snow Raven Ice Storm Naval Star assigned to support the Ghost Bear Dominion during the Jihad.[32]
The campaign for New Earth wouldn't end until the beginning of June 3078 and marked the beginning of a period of rest and rebuilding for the forces on the Lyran front, some of which were down to just a quarter of their initial strength.[33] During the campaign for New Earth the allied forces destroyed a WarShip the Blakists had suborned in the opening stages of the Jihad, the Eagle-class FWLS Percival.[34]
In the wake of the Jihad the planetary government on New Earth was one of many to pass a law stating that any war materiel manufactured or used by the Word of Blake had to be destroyed; the law was more liberal than that passed on many worlds, in that it allowed components from Blakist machines to be sold, but items such as chasses were retired to bone yards for later scrapping.[35] As it was, the liberation of New Earth saw the industries on the planet take heavy levels of damage, both as a result of combat on the surface of the planet and as a result of orbital bombardment by the defending Word of Blake ships and SDS network.[36]
Manufacturing Centers
- Bergan Industries (destroyed 3078)[36]
- Blow/Hookson Technologies (destroyed 2775)
- Cyclops Incorporated (destroyed 3078)[36]
- Daussault-Shimmon Enterprises
- Hegemony Research and Development Department, Weapons Division (destroyed 2767)
- J.B. BattleMechs Incorporated (destroyed 3078)[36]
- New Earth Trading Company (destroyed 3078)[36]
- Newhart Industries (destroyed 2776)
- Nicholas Spacecraft[26]
- Terex-Schaeff
- Yankee Weapons Systems (destroyed 3078)[36]
Nearby Planets
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130), p. 245, "New Earth"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 16, "Free Worlds League Founding [2271]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding [2341]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571]"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
- ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 117, "Unit Deployment Table"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mercenaries Supplemental, p. 68, "Mercenary Employment Table"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 46, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- ↑ Star League sourcebook, p. 182, "Family Tree": Rimes named as Duke of New Earth and married to Hegemony ruler Elizabeth Cameron until his death in 2499.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 251, "SLDF - Terran Hegemony Military Command Map"
- ↑ 20 Year Updage, p. 71, "Com Guards Deployment Tabel"
- ↑ Objective Raids, p. 19, "FedCom Deployment Table"
- ↑ Shattered Sphere, p. 47, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"
- ↑ ComStar (sourcebook), p. 85, "Com Guards Deployment Table"
- ↑ Field Manual: ComStar, p. 126, "ComGuard Deployment Table"
- ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 98, "Com Guards Deployment Table"
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 110, "Word of Blake Mercenary Deployment"
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Technical Readout: 3085 Supplemental, p. 36, "Deployment"
- ↑ Era Report: 3145,p. 12-17
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 137, "Touring Terra"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 137, "Science"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 142, "Science!"
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 72, "Command of the Stars"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 56, "The Jihad in Review"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 58, "The Jihad in Review"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 66, "Failed Gambit?"
- ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 15, "Fleet Assets"
- ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 11, "Fleet Assets"
- ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 18, "Fleet Assets"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 66-67, "Rest And Refit"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 128, "Captured Ships"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 36, "Swords To Slag: Anti-Salvage Trend Gains Ground"
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 107, "Blake/Terran Protectorate"
Bibliography
- 20 Year Update
- ComStar (sourcebook)
- Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)
- DropShips and JumpShips
- Era Report: 2750
- Era Report: 3145
- Field Manual: ComStar
- Field Manual: SLDF
- Field Manual: Updates
- Field Report: Clans
- Handbook: House Marik
- Handbook: House Steiner
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1
- Historical: Reunification War
- House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)
- House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)
- Jihad: Final Reckoning
- Jihad Hot Spots: Terra
- Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
- Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- Mercenaries Supplemental
- Objective Raids
- Shattered Sphere
- The Star League
- Technical Readout: 3085 Supplemental