Timbuktu
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(References to Timbuktu)
Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)
X: -446.31 Y: 155.87[e]
Contents
Planetary Data[1][2]
- Number of Satellites: None
- Surface Gravity: 0.94
- Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable)
- Equatorial Temperature: 52° C (Warm-Temperate)
- Surface Water: 63 percent
- Recharging Station: None
- Landmasses (Capital City): Hades, Saharius (Greene)
Era Specific Data
3025[3]
- Noble Ruler: Russel Sherris, Duke of Timbuktu
- Political Leader: Prime Minister Dorthea Dluchy
- ComStar Representative: Precentor Michael Milalo
3067[1]
- Noble Ruler: Duchess Cantrelle Sherris
- Population: 479,000,000
- Socio-Industrial Levels/USIIR: C-C-B-C-D
3079[2]
- Population: 431,000,000
- Socio-Industrial Levels: C-C-B-C-D
Garrisoning Military Force
2581-2588
- 7th Amaris Dragoons (Amaris Loyalists)[4][5][6]
2588-2591
- Second Sword of Light (until 2590)
- Seventh Sword of Light (until 2590)
- Fourth Prosperina Hussars (until 2589)
- First Arkab Legion (until 2589)
3025 to 3050 to 3054 to 3061
3067
3079
Owner History
- 2571 - Rim Worlds Republic [14][15]
- 2596 - Rim Worlds Republic[16]
- 2750 - Rim Worlds Republic [17]
- 2775 - Lyran Commonwealth [18]
- 2822 - Lyran Commonwealth [19]
- 2864 - Lyran Commonwealth [20]
- 3025 - Lyran Commonwealth [8][21]
- 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth [22]
- 3040 - Federated Commonwealth [23]
- 3050 - Federated Commonwealth [9]
- 3052 - Federated Commonwealth [24]
- 3054 - Federated Commonwealth [10]
- 3061 - Lyran Alliance [11]
- 3067 - Lyran Alliance [12][25]
- 3079 - Lyran Alliance [13]
- 3130 - Lyran Commonwealth [26]
Planetary History
Reunification War
By the end of the Age of War Timbuktu was the provincial capital of the Timbuktu Province of the Rim Worlds Republic.[14]
Civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic in 2575, with the factions polarised around those loyal to First Consul Gregory Amaris and those loyal to the Rift Republican Army and the Rim Provisional Government.[27] Timbuktu was garrisoned by a the Seventhth Amaris Dragoons from at least 2581 onwards, a regiment which had chosen to remain loyal to Amaris.[4] The Star League eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in 2579 assembled Task Force MAILED FIST to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic. A multinational force headed by the Star League Defense Force, Task Force MAILED FIST was responsible for executing Operation MAILED FIST, the name given to the military intervention. the first wave of attacks focused on securing significant worlds near Apollo,[28] until a destructive raid on Alarion by forces from the Fourth Amaris Fusiliers in retaliation prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, and the focus shifted to reducing Rim Worlds Army concentrations throughout the Republic and the capture of key worlds.[29]
In late 2584 the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the Draconis Auxiliary Corps when they captured Nightwish in mid-2584. Duke Narinder Selaj of Battle Group Timbuktu assigned the Eleventh Royal Division - the greater part of the SLDF IV Corps - to the conquest of of Timbuktu in 2588, along with all four regiments of the Draconis Auxiliary Corps.[7]
The main defensive force on Timbuktu was the Seventh Dragoons, led by Colonel Samuel Macao. The first week of the campaign saw the elite Eleventh Royal and the brutal DCMS regiments smash their way through the bulk of the defenses prepared by Macao's forces, leading Macao to pull his troops back to the continent known as Hades, which was a lightly populated continent with a number of mining complexes that the Seventh could use as pre-built defenses.[30]
While the Seventh could have drawn the campaign out substantially by switching to guerilla warfare, the harsh treatment the civilian population of Timbuktu were undergoing at the hands of the Draconis Combine troops enraged Macao who launched a number of precipitous raids in retaliation that sorely weakened the Seventh. With the civilian population of Hades being small enough that it was effectively negligeable for the SLDF, the Task Force Timbuktu forces resorted to wholesale bombardment of the Seventh's positions; after nineteen days of sustained bombardment Macao surrendered the few surviving elements of the Dragoons, ending major combat actions on the planet on the 29th of July.[30]
Star League Era
Timbuktu was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the 2773-2775 Republic-Commonwealth war.[18]
Nearby Planets
Planets within 2 jumps (60 light-years). Closest planets first: | ||||||||||
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Planet | Distance (LY) | Jumps | 2750 | 3025 | 3030 | 3040 | 3052 | 3057 | 3062 | 3067 |
All Dawn | 12.75 | 1 | RWR | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Algenib | 12.79 | 1 | N | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Wiltshire | 13.75 | 1 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Halifax | 26.45 | 1 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Pocologan | 27.41 | 1 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Sapienza | 29.93 | 1 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Coldbrook | 37.88 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Ormstown | 40.15 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Kladnitsa | 41.95 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Firenze | 49.73 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Otisberg | 49.95 | 2 | N | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Baccalieu | 49.98 | 2 | N | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Gillfillan's Gold | 50.78 | 2 | RWR | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Islington | 50.79 | 2 | N | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Waypoint | 51.63 | 2 | N | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Alekseyevka | 52.58 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Stanley | 55.14 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Hinckley | 56.62 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Ferihegy | 57.54 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
Amminadav | 57.76 | 2 | LC | LC | LC | FC | FC | LA | LA | LA |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 75, "Planet Profile"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Objectives: Lyran Alliance, p. 10, "Timbuktu"
- ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 167, "Planet Guide"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Historical: Reunifcation War, p. 128, "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 154, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 155, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Historical: Reunification War, p. 153, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 118, "Unit Deployment Table"
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 20 Year Update, p. 28, "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Objective Raids, p. 20, "FedCom Deployment Table"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Shattered Sphere, p. 50, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Mercenaries Supplemental II, p. 65, "Mercenary Deployment Table"
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Field Report: LAAF, p. 8, "Regimental Status"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War [2571]" Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"
- ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 37, "The Republic-Commonwealth War"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 39 [3040]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion [3052]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
- ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 130, "The Spark"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 132, "Case Apollo"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 135, "Timbuktu (July 2588)"