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Arc-Royal

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Planetary Flag from Arc-Royal
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(References to Arc-Royal)

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

X: -170.26 Y: 228.20[e]


Overview

Arc-Royal is a pleasant, beautiful, pastoral world with mild weather. It is also home to the Kell Hounds, one of the most legendary mercenary forces in existence, and Clan Wolf Clan-in-exile, renegade warriors of the clans. Arc-Royal is also the capital of the Lyran Alliance’s Arc-Royal Theater.

Old Connaught

The capital of Arc-Royal is Old Connaught, a homey small town appearing city that reminds one of nineteenth-century Germany. Most of the city’s inhabitants are proud of their Lyran heritage and their link to the Kell Hounds, who are stewards for the planet. Kell Hound troops, often backed by Lyran military or local police, are a common sight on the streets, but few find their presence intimidating.

Mercenaries arriving on Arc-Royal must register with the Old Connaught’s Visitors Center at the nearby spaceport, where they can also stow their machines and leave all but one sidearm before venturing into the city. This keeps the atmosphere in the capital peaceful, even with local clansmen visiting the city.

Red Corsair Campaign

In September of 3055, the Kell Hounds lured the pirate band Red Corsairs their homeworld of Arc-Royal. While the Red Corsair expected only light resistance, a combination of both traps and a hidden force of Kell Hounds and Clan Wolf warriors two regiments strong shattered the attackers and ended the raiding days of the Red Corsair. In the end, only a few 'Mechs along with the Red Corsair managed to escape. [1] Template:Red Corsair Timeline

Clan Wolf (In-Exile)

In addition to the Kell Hounds, Clan Wolf (In-Exile) claims the world as their home. The Warden Wolf enclave is called Wolf City and is an expansive mix of short-term and semi-permanent structures surrounded by military bases and factories. Traffic between Wolf City and the rest of Arc-Royal is tightly controlled, with Clan and Kell Hound units at checkpoints, and constant ‘Mech and battle armor patrols adding to the defense.

The lower castes of the clan often conduct trade and maintain their contacts in the capital city, in the interest of maintaining lines of communication and coordinating defenses of the planet. Relations between the Clans and Inner Sphere natives remain tense despite this trade. The Wolf and Kell Hound warriors do not show this type of mistrust as they often train together. It is not uncommon for Wolf Clan (In-Exile) representatives and instructors to be in the old city in the Warrior’s Hall.

Arc-Royal Combat Training Program (ARCTP)

Those mercenaries who come to Arc-Royal may choose to participate in the Arc-Royal Combat Training Program at the Warrior’s Hall. Warriors and administrators can take classes through this program, with the best being drawn into the Kell Hounds. This type of training also ensures a higher quality of standards for mercenaries.

Study consists of formal classroom studies with simulators and field exercises that may include live-fire or harness action. Instructors include off-duty personnel from the Kell Hounds as well as occasional guest instructors. The classes are a well-balanced mix of tactical theory and mercenary economics, most of it assuming a previous education in a state academy or university.

Jihad Update

Because almost all other hiring halls have been taken over or destroyed, Arc-Royal remains one of the largest mercenary hiring areas in the Inner Sphere. Because the Kell Hounds and the Lyran Alliance Armed Forces (LAAF) High Command are located here, most of the contracts will be for House Steiner.

In January 3071 Arc-Royal was host to Precentor Martial Victor Steiner-Davion as he met with General Adam Steiner and Khan Phelan Kell. This meeting was a part of growing efforts to coordinate a mutual defense strategy and to try and contain the various border conflicts that had erupted in the early stages of the Jihad.[2] This was followed on the 12th of April by the dispatch of a small Clan Jade Falcon force to Arc-Royal under a flag of truce.[3]

Arc-Royal attracted the attentions of the Word of Blake in March 3072; the attack force sent to assault Arc-Royal was defeated in battles on the surface of the planet and in space by the system's defenders.[4][5] In November of the same year, Victor Steiner-Davion used the liberation of a number of political prisoners from a reeducation camp on New Home by the Free Worlds Resistance and ComStar-backed insurgents, combined with a number of other victories against the Word of Blake, to call for a summit of those resisting the Blakists to be held on Arc-Royal.[6][7]

The summit called by Victor Steiner-Davion took place in January 3073 and was attended by leaders from the Lyran Alliance, Draconis Combine, Federated Suns, ComStar and the Clans. Fritz Donner, the former commander of the Black Warriors unit from the Circinus Federation attended as a key witness testifying on Word of Blake operations and activities within the Word of Blake Protectorate; unknown to the other attendees, Donner had been implanted with a sophisticated suicide bomb. The bomb was detonated on the 22nd of January, killing or injuring many of the delegates and paralyzing or disrupting attempts by the various allies to coordinate efforts against the Blakists.[7][8]

Planetary Data[9]

  • Star Type (Recharge Time): G3V (184 hours)
  • Position in System: 4th
  • Time to Jump Point: 8.53 days
  • Number of Satellites: 2 (Deven and Thorwald)
  • Surface Gravity: 1.01
  • Atm. Pressure: Standard (Breathable)
  • Equatorial Temperature: 32°C (Mild-Temperate)
  • Surface Water: 74%
  • Recharging Station: Zenith, Nadir
  • HPG Class Type: A
  • Highest Native Life: Mammals

Era Specific Data

3055[10]

3067[9]

  • Noble Ruler: Grand Duke Morgan Kell
  • Population: 2,098,000,000
  • Socio-Industrial Levels/USIIR: A-A-A-A-A

Planetary Garrison

3061

3067

3079

- At this point in time the Fighting Intellecutals operating at 25% of full strength, with 30% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.

Manufacturing Centers

Owner History

Nearby Systems

Planets within 2 jumps (60 light-years)
Closest planets first:
Planet Distance (LY) Jumps 2750 3025 3030 3040 3052 3057 3062
Dukambia 17.37 1 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Atocongo 18.78 1 LC LC LC FC FC AR AR
Hamilton 20.62 1 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Cumbres 30.09 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Gotterdammerung 33.15 2 P P P P CJF CJF CJF
Incukalns 33.73 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Timkovichi 34.07 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
New Exford 37.56 2 LC LC LC FC FC AR AR
Zanderij 39.84 2 LC LC LC FC FC AR AR
Santana 42.86 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Alma Alta 42.97 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Wroclaw 43.29 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Esteros 44.32 2 LC LC LC FC FC AR AR
Bountiful Harvest 48.33 2 LC LC LC FC FC AR AR
Kandersteg 50.36 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Lyndon 53.33 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Krievci 55.29 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Biuque 56.09 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA
Yeguas 56.64 2 LC LC LC FC FC AR AR
Summit 56.91 2 LC LC LC FC FC LA LA

References

  1. ↑ Operational Turning Points:The Red Corsair, p. 8
  2. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 12, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  3. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 15, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  4. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 22, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  5. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 50, "The Jihad In Review"
  6. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 23, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 51, "The Jihad In Review"
  8. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 26, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 84, "Planet Profile"
  10. ↑ Operational Turning Points: Red Corsair, p. 5, "Planet Atlas"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Field Manual: Warden Clans, p. 166 - "Warden Clans Deployment Table"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Mercenaries Supplemental, p. 68, " Mercenary Deploxment Table"
  13. ↑ Mercenaries Supplemental II, p. 66, "Mercenary Deployment Table"
  14. ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 18, "Irregular Forces Regimental Status"
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Field Report: Clans, p. 22, "Clan Wolf-in-Exile Deployment Status"
  16. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"
  17. ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table [3079]"

Bibliography

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