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The '''Andiron''' system - also known at various points in time as the '''Helbrent''' system - is the location of at least one habitable world and as at [[3145]] was an independent system in the [[Periphery]] near the border between the [[Free Worlds League]], [[Lyran Commonwealth]] and [[Marian Hegemony]].<ref name=ER:3145p38>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
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== System Description ==
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The Andiron system is located near the [[Dierdre's Den]] and [[Son Hoa]] systems.<ref name=ER:3145p38/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
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== System History ==
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Originally appearing on maps as the Helbrent system, the system was colonised at some point prior to the end of the [[Age of War]] and formed a part of the [[Timbuktu Province]] of the [[Rim Worlds Republic]].<ref name="HB:MPSp18"/><ref name="HB:HSp25"/> At the height of the [[Star League era]] the Helbrent system was a part of the new [[Erdvynn Province]] of the Republic,<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/> but was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the 2773-2775 [[Republic-Commonwealth War]].<ref name="HB:MPSp37"/>
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The Helbrent system vanished from maps during the [[Second Succession War]],<ref name="HB:HSp36"/><ref name="HB:HSp40"/> indicating that the system had been depopulated, abandoned, or rendered too insignificant for [[Inner Sphere]] nations to continue reporting its location. The system subsequently reappeared on maps during the [[Third Succession War]], but had been renamed the Andiron system, and appeared as a part of the [[Bandit Kingdom]] known as the [[Circinus Federation]].<ref name="HB:HSp40"/><ref name="HB:HSp47"/>
  
== Political Affilation ==
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== Political Affiliation ==
* [[2571]] - [[Rim Worlds Republic]] <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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* [[2571]] - Rim Worlds Republic <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>
 
* [[2596]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"</ref>
 
* [[2596]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"</ref>
 
* [[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><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"</ref>
 
* [[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><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"</ref>
 
* [[2764]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', Inner Sphere - 2764 Map</ref>
 
* [[2764]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', Inner Sphere - 2764 Map</ref>
 
* [[2765]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name=HBHS13>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', Map: Inner Sphere 2765  </ref>
 
* [[2765]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name=HBHS13>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', Map: Inner Sphere 2765  </ref>
* [[2775]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]] <ref name="HB:MPSp37">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 37, "The Republic-Commonwealth War"</ref>
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* [[2775]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:MPSp37">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 37, "The Republic-Commonwealth War"</ref>
 
* [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"</ref>
 
* [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"</ref>
 
* [[2864]] - No record <ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"</ref>
 
* [[2864]] - No record <ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"</ref>
* [[3025]] - [[Circinus Federation]] <ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref>
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* [[3025]] - Circinus Federation <ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref>
 
* [[3030]] - Circinus Federation <ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"</ref>
 
* [[3030]] - Circinus Federation <ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"</ref>
 
* [[3040]] - Circinus Federation <ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 39 [3040]"</ref><ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132, "Inner Sphere - 3040"</ref>
 
* [[3040]] - Circinus Federation <ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 39 [3040]"</ref><ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132, "Inner Sphere - 3040"</ref>
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* [[3130]] - Independent World <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
 
* [[3130]] - Independent World <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
 
* [[3135]] - Independent World <ref name=ER:3145p10>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"</ref>
 
* [[3135]] - Independent World <ref name=ER:3145p10>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Independent World <ref name=ER:3145p38>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"</ref>
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== Planetary History ==
 
===The Reunification War===
 
===The Reunification War===
 
By [[2582]] the Rim Worlds Republic had been in a state of civil war for six years. Located on Helbrent were the [[6th Amaris Legionnaires|Sixth Amaris Legionnaires]], a formation that had remained loyal to [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]]. The [[Star League Defense Force]] had initiated [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the [[Star League]] intervention to restore Amaris to power, in mid-[[2581]], but the [[SLDF]] plans had been forced to change after a deep raid by the [[4th Amaris Fusiliers|Fourth Amaris Fusiliers]] had managed to strike the Lyran Commonwealth interior world of [[Alarion]].<ref name="H:RWp132+">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132-133, "Alarion (December 2581)"</ref>
 
By [[2582]] the Rim Worlds Republic had been in a state of civil war for six years. Located on Helbrent were the [[6th Amaris Legionnaires|Sixth Amaris Legionnaires]], a formation that had remained loyal to [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]]. The [[Star League Defense Force]] had initiated [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the [[Star League]] intervention to restore Amaris to power, in mid-[[2581]], but the [[SLDF]] plans had been forced to change after a deep raid by the [[4th Amaris Fusiliers|Fourth Amaris Fusiliers]] had managed to strike the Lyran Commonwealth interior world of [[Alarion]].<ref name="H:RWp132+">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132-133, "Alarion (December 2581)"</ref>
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The [[49th Shadow Division|Forty-ninth Shadow Division]] bombarded Andiron from orbit on the 30th of November [[3080]]. The attack - for which no reason has yet been uncovered, despite the [[Circinus Federation]] evidently being a Blakist ally during the [[Jihad]] - destroyed Andiron's capital city, spaceport and planetary water purifiers.<ref name="J:FRp61">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 61, "The Jihad In Review"</ref>
 
The [[49th Shadow Division|Forty-ninth Shadow Division]] bombarded Andiron from orbit on the 30th of November [[3080]]. The attack - for which no reason has yet been uncovered, despite the [[Circinus Federation]] evidently being a Blakist ally during the [[Jihad]] - destroyed Andiron's capital city, spaceport and planetary water purifiers.<ref name="J:FRp61">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 61, "The Jihad In Review"</ref>
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== Military Deployment ==
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* [[6th Amaris Legionnaires|Sixth Amaris Legionnaires]] (Amaris loyalists)<ref name="H:RWp128">''Historical: Reunifcation War'', p. 128, "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"</ref>
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===2765===
 
===2765===
 
* [[6th Republican Guards|Sixth Republican Guards]] (shared with [[Green Stone]], [[Choex]] and [[Althastan]])<ref name=FR:2765Pp19>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 19, "Republican Guards - Divisional Status"</ref>
 
* [[6th Republican Guards|Sixth Republican Guards]] (shared with [[Green Stone]], [[Choex]] and [[Althastan]])<ref name=FR:2765Pp19>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 19, "Republican Guards - Divisional Status"</ref>
  
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* [[6th Amaris Legionnaires|Sixth Amaris Legionnaires]] (Amaris loyalists)<ref name="H:RWp128">''Historical: Reunifcation War'', p. 128, "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"</ref>
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* [[Khog]]<ref>''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 180, "Creatures"</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
It was confirmed that Helbrent and Andiron were one and the same by the [http://www.classicbattletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,9040.0.html Catalyst Game Labs writing staff.]
 
It was confirmed that Helbrent and Andiron were one and the same by the [http://www.classicbattletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,9040.0.html Catalyst Game Labs writing staff.]
 
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==Bibliography==
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== Bibliography ==
 
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''  
 
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''  
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
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* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
 
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''

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Andiron
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-424.48:-47.39[e]

The Andiron system - also known at various points in time as the Helbrent system - is the location of at least one habitable world and as at 3145 was an independent system in the Periphery near the border between the Free Worlds League, Lyran Commonwealth and Marian Hegemony.[1][2]

System Description

The Andiron system is located near the Dierdre's Den and Son Hoa systems.[1][2]

System History

Originally appearing on maps as the Helbrent system, the system was colonised at some point prior to the end of the Age of War and formed a part of the Timbuktu Province of the Rim Worlds Republic.[3][4] At the height of the Star League era the Helbrent system was a part of the new Erdvynn Province of the Republic,[5][6] but was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the 2773-2775 Republic-Commonwealth War.[7]

The Helbrent system vanished from maps during the Second Succession War,[8][9] indicating that the system had been depopulated, abandoned, or rendered too insignificant for Inner Sphere nations to continue reporting its location. The system subsequently reappeared on maps during the Third Succession War, but had been renamed the Andiron system, and appeared as a part of the Bandit Kingdom known as the Circinus Federation.[9][10]

Political Affiliation

Planetary History

The Reunification War

By 2582 the Rim Worlds Republic had been in a state of civil war for six years. Located on Helbrent were the Sixth Amaris Legionnaires, a formation that had remained loyal to First Consul Gregory Amaris. The Star League Defense Force had initiated Operation MAILED FIST, the Star League intervention to restore Amaris to power, in mid-2581, but the SLDF plans had been forced to change after a deep raid by the Fourth Amaris Fusiliers had managed to strike the Lyran Commonwealth interior world of Alarion.[31]

The result was the reorganization of the SLDF forces and their auxiliaries into three battlegroups, each responsible for the pacification of one of the three provinces that made up the Rim Worlds Republic.[32] Helbrent and the Sixth Legionnaires were the first targets of the battlegroup assigned to pacifying the Timbuktu Province, and the SLDF deployed IV Corps - which actually consisted of little more than the Eleventh Royal Division at the time - to the battle for Helbrent.[33]

Combat operations began in July 2582, and proceeded far more quickly than the Eleventh had planned for, thanks to the Sixth Legionnaires choosing to deploy their heavy armor to contest the Eleventh's landing, a poor decision that led to the Eleventh quickly defeating the bulk of the Sixth. By the end of the third day after landing the Eleventh had notionally secured Helbrent, but the Royal Division found itself faced with another problem; the Eleventh's infantry forces were six weeks away from deploying, making keeping control of Helbrent difficult until there were enough boots on the ground to exercise effectively control of the captured territory.[32]

The Jihad

While the last major strongholds of the Word of Blake were being scoured by the Principality of Regulus the Lyran Commonwealth took the opportunity to launch a raid against the Blakists on Andiron, hoping to secure as many samples of advanced technology as possible. The Fourteenth Lyran Guards were assigned to the mission and began by dropping two companies of troops into a hilly region north of the main planetary spaceport. The Blakist forces attacked the Fourteenth, but could find only conventional units and infantry in the area; nevertheless, battles between the Fourteenth and the local garrison continued for two weeks before the BattleMech and fast vehicle elements of the Fourteenth struck directly at the Blakist main repair depot, which was also serving as their main staging area. The Fourteenth managed to enough equipment to equip almost two companies as well as tons of assorted supplies and parts before leaving Andiron.[34]

The Forty-ninth Shadow Division bombarded Andiron from orbit on the 30th of November 3080. The attack - for which no reason has yet been uncovered, despite the Circinus Federation evidently being a Blakist ally during the Jihad - destroyed Andiron's capital city, spaceport and planetary water purifiers.[35]

Military Deployment

2581

2765

3067

Local Fauna

Notes

It was confirmed that Helbrent and Andiron were one and the same by the Catalyst Game Labs writing staff.

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Son Hoa 11.4 Diedre's Den 16.6 Baltazar III 19.8 Althastan 22.7
Madiun 26.3 Choex 30.0 Teyvareb 35.1 Shahr Kord 36.8
Clayborne II 37.5 Erdvynn 39.0 Stantsiya 40.0 Khon Kaen 40.1
Circinus 40.8 Hardisey's Haven 45.4 Thadora's Land 47.3 Poulsbo 51.7
Starshine 51.8 Calvados 53.5 Sarikavak 55.7 Nightwish 56.3
Rajkot 56.4 Ilzra 56.4 Yidtall 59.2

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 38, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  3. 3.0 3.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War [2571]"
  4. 4.0 4.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"
  6. 6.0 6.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  7. 7.0 7.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 37, "The Republic-Commonwealth War"
  8. 8.0 8.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"
  10. 10.0 10.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"
  11. Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"
  12. Field Manual: SLDF, Inner Sphere - 2764 Map
  13. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, Map: Inner Sphere 2765
  14. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
  15. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 39 [3040]"
  16. Historical: War of 3039, p. 132, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  17. Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3050]"
  18. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion [3052]"
  19. Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere Map [3052]"
  20. Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
  21. Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
  22. 22.0 22.1 Mercenaries Supplemental II, p. 65, "Mercenary Deployment Table"
  23. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  24. ' Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]
  25. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"
  26. Field Report: LAAF, p. 19, "Lyran Commonwealth Deployment Map [3079]"
  27. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 62, "Inner Sphere - 3081"
  28. Field Manual: 3085, p. 127, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  29. Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  30. Era Report: 3145, p. 10, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
  31. Historical: Reunification War, p. 132-133, "Alarion (December 2581)"
  32. 32.0 32.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582-2590)" Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "H:RWp133" defined multiple times with different content
  33. Historical: Reunification War, p. 132-133, "Alarion (December 2581)"
  34. Field Manual: 3085, p. 101, "Fourteenth Lyran Guards"
  35. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 61, "The Jihad In Review"
  36. Historical: Reunifcation War, p. 128, "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"
  37. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 19, "Republican Guards - Divisional Status"
  38. Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 180, "Creatures"

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