Taurus
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System Information | |
X:Y Coordinates | 191.24:-393.78[e] |
Spectral class | G3V[1] |
Recharge time | 184 hours[1] |
Recharge station(s) | Zenith (3076)[1] |
Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)
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Contents
Political Affilation
- 2253 - Independent world [2]
- 2268 - Taurian Homeworlds [3]
- 2335 - Taurian Concordat [3]
- 2366 - Taurian Concordat [4]
- 2571 - Taurian Concordat [5][6][7]
- 2596 - Taurian Concordat [8]
- 2750 - Taurian Concordat [5]
- 2764 - Taurian Concordat [9]
- 2765 - Taurian Concorda [10]
- 2822 - Taurian Concordat [11][12]
- 2864 - Taurian Concordat [13][14]
- 3025 - Taurian Concordat [5][15][16][17]
- 3030 - Taurian Concordat [18][19]
- 3039 - Taurian Concordat [20][21]
- 3040 - Taurian Concordat [22][23]
- 3050 - Taurian Concordat [24]
- 3052 - Taurian Concordat [25]
- 3057 - Taurian Concordat [26]
- 3058 - Taurian Concordat [27][21]
- 3059 - Taurian Concordat [28]
- 3063 - Taurian Concordat [29]
- 3067 - Taurian Concordat [22][27][30][31]
- 3075 - Taurian Concordat [32]
- 3079 - Taurian Concordat [33][34]
- 3081 - Taurian Concordat [35]
- 3085 - Taurian Concordat [36]
- 3130 - Taurian Concordat [37]
- 3135 - Taurian Concordat [38]
- 3145 - Taurian Concordat [39]
Overview
Taurus is the political and cultural capital of the Taurian Concordat. The planet is named for the second husband of Samantha Calderon, Victor Taurens, who died while attempting to navigate the system's asteroid field. Taurus is also one of the industrial centers of the Concord; thus, units stationed on Taurus tend to be elite and well-equipped. Taurus is also home to one of the largest periphery populations, estimated at greater than two billion inhabitants as of the early 31st century.
Transit in system is difficult. The Taurus system is cluttered with a natural barrier of asteroids, which have been mined and laced with Taurian Special Asteroid Support Force laser and missile batteries.
History
The first colony on Taurus was established on the 23rd of January 2253 by an expedition of colonists led by Samantha Calderon. A native of the world of Aix-la-Chapelle, Samantha had lost a husband and two daughters in the Outer Reaches Rebellion; this left her initially with access to considerable wealth from her husband's business ventures, only to then see half that wealth drained away in the aftermath of the Rebellion or at the hands of privateers from the Republic of Marik.[40] Believing that a radical solution was needed, Samantha converted her wealth into ships and supplies and lead an expedition of more than 2,300 people aboard 25 FTL capable ships to find a new, safe home. It took the expedition 22 months to travel from Aix-la-Chapelle to the unexplored Hyades Cluster; despite losing two Aquilla-class transports in the attempt, the expedition became the first explorers to successfully navigate through the dust, gas and asteroid fields that surrounded the cluster to discover the eight linked star systems within the cluster and the 37 assorted planetary bodies orbiting or being pulled between the various stars.[2]
Samantha named the first world settled Taurus in memory of her second husband, Victor Taurens, who had died during the attempts to penetrate the Hyades asteroid field. Taurus proved to be a world rich in resources, and for the next 15 years the colony grew inside the safety and obscurity offered by the cluster, until the death of Samantha in a freak accident on the 14th of March 2268.[2] Samantha's son Timothy was selected as Samantha's successor and Protector of the Taurian Homeworlds. Avoiding the democratic processes that were the signature of the despised Terran Alliance responsible for the colonists leaving the Inner Sphere, Timothy established a hereditary form of leadership on Taurus and armed with the sweeping powers granted to him proceeded to establish an orderly culture based on the simple and egalitarian principle that those who didn't contribute to the general welfare would in turn be denied access to that general welfare. Summed up as "no work, no food", this simple but effective system gave the Taurians the impetus needed to survive and prosper, with groups of geologists, scientists and settlers from Taurus colonising five additional worlds within the Hyades Cluster between 2310 and 2320.[3]
The nation born on Taurus was known variously as the Taurian Homeworlds[3] and the Calderon Protectorate.[41]
The Jihad
On the 1st of May 3074 several asteroids struck Taurus, killing Protector Grover Shraplen and destroying the capital city, Samantha. Evidence recovered from the Taurian asteroid field and the remains of the asteroids that struck Taurus implicate espionage on the part of the Federated Suns, a charge vehemently denied by House Davion.[42][43]
Emissaries from the Calderon Protectorate arrived on both Taurus and New Avalon on the 15th of March 3080, appealing to both states for an end to the conflict between the Concordat and the Suns. The Protectorate successfully brokered a treaty between the two states on the 2nd of July, a week after Baron Cham Kithrong stepped down as Regent-Protector so that Erik Martens-Calderon could assume the Protectorship. The treaty called for the Federated Suns to cede the Pleiades worlds to the Concordat, while the Concordat effectively surrendered the Quixote-class TCS Vendetta to the Calderon Protectorate, where it would be crewed by a crew of personnel from all three realms. While the treaty ended the war, the Vendetta wouldn't be formally ceded to the Protectorate until the 19th of April 3081.[44]
Military Deployment
2578
2765
3025
- Taurian Guard [47]
- Taurian Velites[47]
- Concordat Commandos[47]
3054
3085
- Taurian Guard[49]
3145
- Taurian Guard[50]
Industrial Centers
- Concordat Aerospace Limited - Reunification War/Star League era[51]
- Taurus Territorial Industries - destroyed in 3074[52]
- Taurus WarWorks - discontinued in 2598[53]
- Magna
Nearby Systems
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 190, "Taurian Concordat Key Worlds"
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- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 17, "Capellan Confederation Foundation [2366]"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 121, "Taurian Concordat after Age of War [2571], Fall of the Star League [2750] and End of the 3rd Succession War [3025]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 48, "Federated Suns After Age of War [2571]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 25, "Capellan Confederation After Age of War [2571]"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
- ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, Inner Sphere - [2764]
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, Inner Sphere - [2765]
- ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 54, "Federated Suns After First Succession War [2822]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 31, "Capellan Confederation After First Succession War [2822]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns After Second Succession War [2864]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 39, "Capellan Confederation After Second Succession War [2864]"
- ↑ The Periphery (Sourcebook), p. 151, "Maps of the Periphery"
- ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns After Third Succession War [3025]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 40, "Capellan Confederation After Third Succession War [3025]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns After Fourth Succession War [3030]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 49, "Capellan Confederation After Fourth Succession War [3030]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 74, "Federated Suns After War of 3039"
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Handbook: House Liao, p. 59, "Capellan Confederation After Fourth Succession War [3030]" Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3050]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere Map [3052]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Handbook: House Davion, p. 78, "Federated Suns After Operation Guerrero [3058]" Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
- ↑ Handbook: House Liao, p. 68, "Capellan Confederation After FedCom Civil War [3067]"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]"
- ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere Map [3075]"
- ↑ Field Report: CCAF, p. 23, "Capellan Confederation Deployment Map [3079]"
- ↑ Field Report: Periphery, p. 23, "Taurian Concordat Deployment Map [3079]"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [3081]"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 127, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
- ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
- ↑ The Periphery (1st Edition), p. 14, "Calderon Expedition"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 12, "Taurian Concordat"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 52, "Timeline of the Jihad"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 52, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 61, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 Historical: Reunification War, p.64
- ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 22, "Taurian Guard - Regimental Status"
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 The Periphery, p.81
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 Objective Raids, p. 161, "Defending Units (On Planet)"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 150, "Deployment Table - 3085"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 201, "Taurian Guard"
- ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 11, "Infrastructural Integrity"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 116, "Fronc Reaches"
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3075, p. 296, "Toro Profile"
Bibliography
- Era Report: 3052
- Era Report: 3062
- Era Report: 3145
- Field Manual: 3085
- Field Manual: 3145
- Field Manual: SLDF
- Field Report 2765: Periphery
- Field Report: CCAF
- Field Report: Periphery
- Handbook: House Davion
- Handbook: House Liao
- Handbook: Major Periphery States
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1
- Historical: Reunification War
- Historical: War of 3039
- Jihad: Final Reckoning
- Jihad Hot Spots: 3076
- Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
- Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers
- Objective Raids
- The Periphery, 2nd Edition
- The Periphery