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== Overview ==  
 
== Overview ==  
Featuring one inhabited planet (the fifth), '''Wayside''' is a [[deep periphery]] system along the [[Exodus Road]] between the [[Inner Sphere]] and the [[Clan homeworlds]], in striking distance (implicitly, 2 jumps away) of [[EC-EY-4170]] aka Cat's Eye 009, [[EC-EY-4189]] aka Boltin, and [[Tarnby]].
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Featuring one inhabited planet (the fifth), '''Wayside''' is a [[deep periphery]] system along the [[Exodus Road]] between the [[Inner Sphere]] and the [[Clan homeworlds]], in striking distance (implicitly, 2 jumps away) of [[EC-EY-4170]] aka Cat's Eye 009, [[EC-EY-4189]] aka [[Boltin]], and [[Tarnby]].
  
 
==Wayside V (Wildcat)==
 
==Wayside V (Wildcat)==

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Wayside
System Information
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Overview

Featuring one inhabited planet (the fifth), Wayside is a deep periphery system along the Exodus Road between the Inner Sphere and the Clan homeworlds, in striking distance (implicitly, 2 jumps away) of EC-EY-4170 aka Cat's Eye 009, EC-EY-4189 aka Boltin, and Tarnby.

Wayside V (Wildcat)

The planet Wayside V was struck by an immense meteor at some point, which cost the world its atmosphere and most of its water. Only a few habitable zones remain the deepest (former) sea beds on the mostly airless planet, while the heights continents rise above the "stratosphere" with airless moonscapes.[1] Santin West recalled the old continents to be devoid of life and air, and what seas remained to be shallow; he also remembered storms when he was there.[2] He also mentioned atmospheric processors.

As of 3058, Clan Smoke Jaguar maintained a major resupply depot on Wayside V and had named the planet "Wildcat". In that year, the Northwind Highlanders attempted to capture the world but found the defenders far stronger than anticipated. The Highlanders then attacked nearby Clan Nova Cat installations at Cat's Eye 009, Boltin, and Tarnby posing as Smoke Jaguars, to draw them to Wildcat where the two Clan forces proceeded to decimate each other, allowing the Highlanders to salvage vast amounts on Clan technology before returning to the Inner Sphere.

Because of the defeat, Clan Smoke Jaguar Khan Lincoln Osis had stripped the world of the name "Wildcat" by 3060.[3]

The Fidelis set up a colony on Wayside V in 3061 after fleeing from Huntress and assimilating the local Smoke Jaguar garrison. They improved the world's habitability considerably. The colonists started oil drilling for plastic manufacture and lubricants, iron and limestone mining, and bringing in ice asteroids and rare ores from within the system by means of their spacecraft.[4]

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:

References

  1. Northwind Highlanders scenario pack, p. 44
  2. Forever Faithful, p. 199
  3. Forever Faithful, p. 177
  4. Forever Faithful, pp. 244-245

Bibliography