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The establishment of competing gambling concerns on the planet didn't have any effect on the Malthus family. The arrival of the [[Clans]] however, put a permanent end to the gambling industry on Dustball. Finding itself on the front lines of the Clan front, Dustball was frequently raided by Clan Jade Falcon and [[Clan Steel Viper]].<ref name=HB:HSp85-86/>
 
The establishment of competing gambling concerns on the planet didn't have any effect on the Malthus family. The arrival of the [[Clans]] however, put a permanent end to the gambling industry on Dustball. Finding itself on the front lines of the Clan front, Dustball was frequently raided by Clan Jade Falcon and [[Clan Steel Viper]].<ref name=HB:HSp85-86/>
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== Political Affiliation ==
 
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* [[2341]] - No record <ref name="HB:HSp13">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding - [2341] Map"</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:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2750]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]] <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:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2764]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p11>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name="FR2765:LCAFp25">''Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref><ref name="FR2765:Pp38">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 38, "Rim Worlds Republic Army Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref> 
 
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* [[2767]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p104">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="H:LoTV2p122-123">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2864]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HS(TLC)pvii">''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. vii, "Lyran Commonwealth Map - [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]] <ref name="H:Wo3039p133">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3052]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="ER:3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3057]] - [[Arc Royal Defense Cordon]] <ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3063]] - Arc Royal Defense Cordon <ref name="ER:3062p28">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 28, Inner Sphere - [3063] Map</ref><ref name="ISp75">''Inner Sphere (sourcebook)'', p. 75, "Lyran Alliance Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3067]] - [[Lyran Alliance]] <ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp42">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map</ref>
 
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* [[3075]] - Lyran Alliance <ref name="JS:TBDp63">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 65, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3079]] - Lyran Alliance <ref name="FR:LAAFp19">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Armed Forces Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref><ref name="FR:Cp26">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 26, "Clan Jade Falcon/Clan Wolf in Exile Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
 
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* [[3081]] - [[Clan Jade Falcon]] <ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3085]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3130]] - Disputed world ([[Clan Jade Falcon]] / Lyran Commonwealth) <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
 
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* [[3135]] - Disputed world <ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3145]] - Clan Jade Falcon <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>
 
  
 
== Military Deployment ==
 
== Military Deployment ==

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Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)

Dustball

Dustball
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Dustball nearby systems
(Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-104.483 : 266.199[e]
Spectral classA9V[1][2]
Recharge time170 hours[2]
Recharge station(s)None[1][2]

The Dustball system was home to at least one habitable world, Dustball VI, and as at 3145 was located in the Clan Jade Falcon.[3][4]

System Description

The Dustball system is located near the Blair Atholl and Koniz systems.[5] The Dustball system consists of a class A9V primary orbited by at least six planets.[1][2]

System History

The Dustball system was colonized by the Lyran Commonwealth during the Star League era at some point after the end of the Reunification War.[6][7][5]

Dustball VI

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Dustball VI - more commonly known simply as Dustball - is the sixth planet in the system and is orbitedby a single moon named Mirage.[2]

Planetary History

Dustball was originally colonized because geographic surveys indicated the presence of large deposits of gemstones. When the surveys ended up being incorrect, many of the miners left, but a large, wealthy, and cunning family - the Malthus family - remained on the planet. Willing to work outside of legal bounds, the Malthus family started a series of casinos, nightclubs and hotels around the spaceport. As a result, the planet has the slogan "Where the elite meet, greet, and satisfy their most wicked desires".

There are five domed cities on the planet. Each one specializes in a separate variety of pleasure. The Malthus family has made a great deal of illicit money through their establishments on Dustball, and has been able to protect their investment due to a pervasive and complex campaign of blackmail against many high Lyran Commonwealth officials who have visited Dustball to sample the planet's manifold pleasures. Such abuses had become so pervasive that in 3005, Archon Alessandro Steiner established legalized and heavily-regulated "pleasure industries" on the model of Dustball on Kooken's Pleasure Pit in an attempt to break the Malthus family's stranglehold through direct competition. As of 3025, it was unclear if it had had any appreciable effect.[1]

The establishment of competing gambling concerns on the planet didn't have any effect on the Malthus family. The arrival of the Clans however, put a permanent end to the gambling industry on Dustball. Finding itself on the front lines of the Clan front, Dustball was frequently raided by Clan Jade Falcon and Clan Steel Viper.[2]

Military Deployment

3054

3079

3085

3145

Geography

Planetary Locations

  • New Monaco: Domed city[14]

Industrial Centers

Nearby Systems

Closest 28 systems (28 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Blair Atholl 7.5 Koniz 13.6 Deweidewd 17.3 A Place 20.2
Graceland 20.5 Ballynure 29.9 Graus 31.3 Benfled 32.0
Bountiful Harvest 33.2 Sudeten 33.3 Pandora 37.2 Antares 37.6
New Exford 40.1 Morges 40.7 Kandersteg 41.6 Stonarboi 43.9
Dompaire 45.1 Montmarault 45.4 Crimond 50.6 Colmar 50.6
Babaeski 53.2 Esteros 53.2 La Grave 56.6 Cusset 57.8
Baker 3 57.9 Summit 57.9 Yeguas 58.3 Biota 60.0

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 172, "Dustball Planet Profile"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Handbook: House Steiner, pp. 85-86, "Dustball"
  3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ER:3145p39
  4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named FM:3145pVI
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ER:2750p37
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named H:RWp159
  7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named HB:MPSp25
  8. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 54, "Note of Unit"
  9. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 22, "FedCom Deployment Table"
  10. ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 22, "Clan Wolf-in-Exile Deployment Status"
  11. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 160, "Deployment Table - 3085"
  12. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 129, "Deployment Table - 3085"
  13. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 169, "Clan Force Deployments - Clan Jade Falcon"
  14. ↑ 1st Sommerset Strikers, p. 14 "Episode 2: Well Bargained and Done"
  15. ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 144, "Other Major Commonwealth Industries"

Bibliography

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