Editing Babylon

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The '''Babylon''' system is the location of a habitable world, '''Babylon II''', and as of [[3085]] was located in the [[Deep Periphery]] region known as the [[Clan Homeworlds]].

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== System Description ==
The Babylon system is located near the [[Arcadia (Clan System)|Arcadia]] and [[Dagda (Clan System)|Dagda]] systems. In relation to the capital of the Clan Homeworlds, [[Strana Mechty]], Babylon is located at the coordinates -158:-182.<ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 112: Clan-Space Worlds Table</ref> The Babylon system consists of a G7V class primary star named Tigris, orbited by six worlds<ref name=H:OKp135/> The Babylon system is rich with resources; in addition to the substantial resources available on the sixth planet in the system, the Babylon system has a number of exploitable asteroids including an asteroid field named the Boone-Shadow field through which the second planet in the system periodically orbits.<ref name="HOKR">''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 62, 135: Babylon background and description</ref>

== System History ==

The Babylon system is one of five systems known as the [[Pentagon Worlds]] and was the second system to be settled by the [[Star League-in-Exile]].<ref name="HOKR"/> The Star League-in-Exile established a naval cache for decommissioned [[WarShip]]s in the Babylon system; this cache became the largest single cache of WarShips anywhere in the Pentagon Worlds.<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 42: "Naval Cache objective of inbound Clans, noted for being the largest established by the SLDF"</ref>

=== Early History ===
Babylon is a dry world and was initially unpopular with League settlers when they first established their colony in [[2786]].<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 18: Hidden Hope - Date and year Exodus Fleet arrived at Babylon established</ref> Early settlers ended up being struck down by what was called the ''"Babylon Plague"'', which consisted of pathogens and germs in the atmosphere. Scientists on Babylon's lone moon worked for months to come up with a vaccine for the plague, but thousands would perish before it was administered to the colonists.<ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 103: Planetary plague cured by SLDF scientists on Babylon's moon</ref>  When colonists moved to more of the arid lands, they discovered the arachnid [[Goliath Scorpion (species)|Goliath Scorpion]]. The Goliath Scorpions had attacked many of the colonists with their deadly poisons when their nests were disturbed.<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 135: "Babylon" - Planet profile includes early colonization efforts</ref>

=== Operation SABLE SUN ===

During the years before the ground invasion of Babylon, the invading Clans dispatched recon missions, part of [[Operation SABLE SUN]], to the Babylon system.<ref name=HOKp40>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 40</ref> The Clans needed to secure Babylon's large cache of decommissioned Star League naval vessels in the system.  They found that the people collectively known as the [[Spacefarers|spacefarers]] were inhabiting both of the system's jump points and operating a mining colony on the resource world of Babylon VI, also known as Sinclair.  The Clans were able to slip advance parties into the system several months before the invasion and board some of the decommissioned naval assets without being detected. From this vantage point, they were free to observe the spacefarers' activities. This gave the invasion force information they needed to swiftly secure Babylon's valuable space assets and take the spacefarers by surprise.<ref name=HOKp42-44>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 42–44</ref>

=== Operation KLONDIKE ===

Led by Clan Cloud Cobra saKhan Rafe Kardaan, a multi-Clan Naval Task force secured the system for the Clans in 2821. Their initial jump in-system caught the spacefarers by surprise and captured their jump point enclaves with only a few JumpShips able to make good their escape.

The Cloud Cobra WarShip the ''[[Aegis#Named_Vessels|Inquisitor]]'', commanded by [[Star Captain]] [[Brucalter Sheridan]], would be sent with a task force of JumpShips and DropShips to seize the mining world of Sinclair.  Using their K-F Batteries on arrival, the ''Inquisitor''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s task force conducted a second hyperspace jump to the planet's pirate point soon after their arrival in-system. After arriving above Sinclair, the WarShip fired some warning shots at the planet to try and sway spacefarers on the surface to surrender. However, the warning shots from its naval grade weaponry struck too close to the mining colony, which triggered the collapse of its main underground facilities. This error by the WarShip's gunners sent the survivors into a rage, launching their surviving DropShips into battle with the Clans.  In a frenzied battle, the ''Inquisitor'' fought off the DropShip swarm until one vessel's remains crashed into the ship, forcing evacuation of its crew.

The main Clan Naval Task Force went on to secure Babylon's Naval Caches and hunted down the spacefarers.  SaKhan Kardaan left technicians and security forces behind to tend to captured spacefarers and the cache while he and his warriors moved on to Babylon itself.<ref name="H:OKp42-44">''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 42–44: The Recon Mission into Babylon and Clan's initial jump in to capture Babylon's space population</ref>

== Political Affiliation ==
* [[2750]] - Unknown Planet
* [[2800]] - [[Star League in Exile]]{{cn}}
* [[2821]] - Fragmented Ownership{{cn}}
* [[3052]] - Clan Cloud Cobra - 26%, Clan Coyote - 27%, Clan Diamond Shark - 24%, Clan Goliath Scorpion - 1%, Clan Ice Hellion - 22%<ref>''Clan Homeworlds 3052 Poster (Kickstarter)''</ref>
* [[3062]] - [[Clan Cloud Cobra]] / [[Clan Coyote]] / [[Clan Diamond Shark]] / [[Clan Ice Hellion]]<ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 103: Babylon - Info on Babylon as of 3062</ref>
* [[3067]] - Clan Cloud Cobra - 26%, Clan Coyote - 27%, Clan Diamond Shark - 24%, Clan Ice Hellion - 23%<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 39: "Political Balance Table"</ref><ref>''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 228: "Political Balance Table, 3067"</ref>
* [[3072]] - Clan Coyote<ref name="TRO:3075p138">''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 138: "Pariah" - 'Mech article notes that Clan Coyote seizes complete control of Babylon</ref>
* [[3075]] - Clan Coyote - 100%<ref>''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 248: "Political Balance Table, 3075"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Clan Coyote - 100%<ref>''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 249: "Political Balance Table, 3085"</ref>

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==Babylon II==
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Babylon II - more commonly known simply as Babylon - is a habitable but dry and windy world which, in common with many other [[Clan]] worlds, has been held by - and contested by - several Clans at the same time for the majority of its history as a settled world. Babylon has a single moon named Ur.<ref name=H:OKp135/><ref name=TWoRp232/>

== Planetary History ==

====Ground Invasion of Babylon====

After years of exile and reorganization, Khan [[Nicholas Kerensky]] assigned [[Clan Sea Fox]], [[Clan Ice Hellion]], [[Clan Coyote]], and [[Clan Cloud Cobra]] to the task of liberating Babylon during [[Operation KLONDIKE]] in [[2821]].<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 62–63: units assigned to captured Babylon</ref>  When [[Nicholas Kerensky]] led his Clans to recapture the Pentagon Worlds they found numerous factions on Babylon, all still grimly determined to fight. The largest factions were spread across four continents: Callandra was dominated by the [[Mountain People]], whilst Corsen was home to the [[City of Gralen]] and the [[Oppenreich]]. Solath was home to [[Camlaan]] and the Eastern Solath Rebel Groups while Valance was home to the [[Sumral Carta]].

The four Clans jointly assaulted Camlaan first, but as they engaged the city directly, reinforcements began to arrive for the defenders.  The Ice Hellions and Cloud Cobras peeled off to protect their DropShips while the Sea Foxes and Coyotes continued to engage the city.  Then the Sea Fox aerospace commander spotted more reinforcements coming, and began to bomb them, relaying orders for the ground forces to hit weak areas in the enemy line.  Offended by the orders and what they perceived as dishonorable tactics, the Coyotes withdrew to defensive positions, leaving the Sea Foxes to battle alone.  This created deep and enduring rifts among the Clans.<ref name=HOKp63-64>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 63–64</ref>

The Sea Foxes set out alone across Solath in the direction of Valence, where they set about conquering the Sumral Carta.  Clan Coyote likewise went alone, now shunned by the other three Clans, heading north from Camlaan.  The Ice Hellions and Cloud Cobras chose to act as partners, heading east to the coast where they met strong resistance from the rebels, and then conquering the Shoshi'i Islands before moving on the continent of Corsen.  A combination of volcanic activity and a massive earthquake that spawned a tsunami caused widespread devastation around the Shoshi'i Seas, however, and the Cloud Cobras sent their ground forces back to aid with disaster relief, with help from Ice Hellion in matters of logistics.  The Hellions, under Cloud Cobra air cover, continued with the invasion of Corsen.<ref name=HOKp65-67>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 65–67</ref>

The Coyotes tackled Abyssinia by splitting into three groups, spreading out to take smaller settlements and coordinating against the cities of Luyden and Ponomia.  The City of Versailles was taken by a lone warrior: [[Star Captain]] [[Gerek Tchernovkov]] found his brother [[Richard Tchernovkov]] to be one of the leaders of Versailles, and together they convinced the city to join the Coyotes peacefully.<ref name=HOKp67-68>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 67–68</ref>

The Sea Foxes found the continent of Callandra to be a challenge, meanwhile, as the Mountain People were aided by well-armed guerrillas from the nomads.  Out of this time grew the legend of the [[Callandra Witch]], reflecting the many difficulties faced by the Sea Fox warriors.  The Clan scientists noticed that the nomads followed the herds, and so the Sea Foxes used that to force the nomads to withdraw and protect their own civilians, leaving the Foxes free to finish taking the mountain settlements.  Once a nomad weapons cache was captured and a map found to the others, the nomads fell quickly.<ref name=HOKp68-69>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 68–69</ref>

===First OmniMech Deployment===
On the 13th June [[2854]], [[Clan Coyote]] forces issued a [[Trial of Possession]] against [[Clan Cloud Cobra]] over the mining town of Roenich, on [[Babylon]]. [[Star Captain]] [[Anja Halstead]] won the bidding of the defense deploying a [[Trinary]] of [['Mech]]s that include a [[Star]] made of ''[[solahma]]'' that she intended to use to contest Clan Coyote's landing and scout on the new 'Mech, named ''[[Coyotl]]'', they deployed for the first time.

Her ''solahma'' Star engaged the Coyote [[Binary]] and confirmed that they had downed a ''[[Hussar]]'' and describe the ''Coyotl'' as having an arm-mounted [[Extended-Range Particle Projector Cannon|PPC]], [[LRM-10|ten LRMs]], a [[Streak SRM-4|quad Streak]] and a [[medium pulse laser]], a speed of 120 km/h and no [[jump jet]]s.

Based on that, she prepared the tactic for her remaining Binary and they deployed in the wadis north of the city. After two hours, Coyote forces appeared and Anja ordered her force to stick to ''[[zellbrigen]]''. At this moment they discovered that this ''Coyotl'' 'Mech was able to jump and she guessed the Coyotes had been able to change configurations in a few hours, and while she expected a discussion in the [[Grand Council]], she continued with the engagement, but though her forces fought well, they ended up losing the match.<ref name=EDGCp1/>

===Thirty-first Century===
By the [[thirty-first century]], Babylon had become a major industrial world for the Clans. Clan Diamond Shark would come to dominate its economy from their massive industrial enclave in the city of Port Talbot. The cities of Hope and New Drineshane became the world's chief agricultural centers.  The Sharks' orbiting DropShip factories would be among the few in 3062 which were not under the control of [[Clan Snow Raven|Snow Raven Clan]].  The Ice Hellions' cities of Marron and Yoma would be home of the number of aerospace fighter production sites.<ref name="TCp103">''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 103: Samplings of Babylon's history as of 3062</ref>

===Babylon Diets===
The leadership of Clan Cloud Cobra presented the first Babylon Diet on Babylon in September [[3062]]. The first Diet was a month-long conference that brought together thousands of religious delegates from across Clan space and the Inner Sphere. The [[ecKhan]]s announced that the Babylon Diet was intended to the first in a series of Diets, and that the Diets were intended to be a series of meetings in which they could share their views and the teachings of the Way with the rest of humanity, in the hopes of building a "spiritual bridge" between the Clans and the people of the Inner Sphere.<ref name="WoRp24">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 24–25: "Coyote Diet"</ref>

The Diet was far from popular with everyone in the [[Kerensky Cluster]]. Elements of the warrior caste saw the Diets as yet another means of bringing "dirty Spheroids" into Clan space, and a number declared that the Diets went against everything the Clans stood for. While the Diets were supported by Clan Cloud Cobra, [[Clan Blood Spirit]], Clan Ice Hellion, [[Clan Hell's Horses]] and [[Clan Snow Raven]], Clan Coyote were vocal in their opposition and were supported in turn by Clan Diamond Shark, [[Clan Ghost Bear]], [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] and [[Clan Star Adder]]. The remaining Clans were also generally in opposition to the Diets but preferred to see how the conflict between the supporters and opponents of the Diets would resolve before committing themselves.<ref name="WoRp24"/>

The issue of the Diets quickly became deadlocked, but [[Loremaster]] [[Clarissa Jericho]] of Clan Coyote was unwilling to allow the issue to fade away and assembled a force drawn from various allied Clans; she then led the multi-Clan force to Babylon and launched a brutal assault against the Cloud Cobras, intent on destroying the [[Honorarium]] of the [[Josian Cloister]] and those gathered to attend the Diet. Jericho underestimated that strength of the defenders on Babylon, who held back twice their number of attacking forces while the Cloud Cobra [[Khan]] [[Din Steiner]] assembled the rest of the Cloud Cobra garrison and then used his forces to blunt the assault.<ref name="WoRp24"/>

With the successful Cobra defense of the gathered delegates none came to harm, and Khan Steiner brought a motion of censure against the Coyotes via the [[Grand Council]] for their actions. The motion was subject to the usual Council politicking, with the other Clans who had supported the Diet arguing that they supported the Cloud Cobra ability to hold such a gathering, rather than supporting the gatherings themselves, but the various Khans were in general agreement that the Coyote attack on the Diet couldn't be condoned, in part because of the fact that the attack had been conducted without the usual Trialing protocols. The Coyotes responded to these allegations by claiming that the delegates were barbarians from the Inner Sphere and therefore unworthy of taking part in ''[[zellbrigen]]'', a claim recognized by a number of the Clans as being nebulous at best. The Clans who had initially supported the idea of the Diets voted in favor of the censure, but the censure itself was little more than a verbal slap that cost the Coyotes some political points and a few political allies.<ref name="WoRp24"/>

The first Babylon Diet achieved relatively little, despite claims by various ecKhans that they were successful in spreading the truth of the Way. The Diet was largely notable for the efforts made by Inner Sphere nations to place intelligence operatives within the various Clan lower castes; religious leaders in the Inner Sphere generally failed to use any of the newfound religious knowledge gathered via the Diet, and no movement of understanding arose. The Diets continued, with diminished attendance; by the 3067 Diet, only a score of representatives from the Inner Sphere traveled to Babylon to attend, a sixtieth of the number who had attended the 3061 Diet.<ref name="WoRp24"/>

=== Wars of Reaving ===
In [[3070]] Clan Snow Raven was under heavy pressure from Clan Cloud Cobra, Clan Star Adder and [[Clan Steel Viper]], with the Snow Ravens being subject to ferocious and destructive Trials at the hands of the three allied Clans. The Snow Ravens were in desperate need of something to distract their antagonists, and that distraction came in the form of intelligence reports that the Diamond Sharks were trading on an equal basis with the [[Federated Suns]] with a view to exchanging Clan technology for trade and mineral rights. The Snow Ravens called a virtual Grand Council to present the information, which was supported by intelligence from [[Clan Jade Falcon]] and which focused the ire of the three allied Clans on the Diamond Sharks.<ref name="WoRp51">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 51: "The Raven Absorption"</ref>

The Cobras, Adders and Vipers responded by launching a wave of Trials against the Diamond Sharks. Careful not to interfere with each other's offensives, the three Clans operated in relative isolation; the Steel Vipers deployed their [[Gamma Galaxy (Clan Steel Viper)|Gamma Galaxy]] against a number of Diamond Shark enclaves on Babylon, part of a wave of attacks against Diamond Shark holdings on Babylon, [[Paxon]] and [[Strato Domingo]] intended to both bleed the Diamond Shark combat forces and seize new territory. The Steel Vipers were initially successful, but the Diamond Sharks were stronger than the Jade Falcon and Snow Raven forces in the Homeworlds that the Vipers had been fighting prior to their attacks on the Diamond Sharks; the Sharks quickly struck back, hard. On Babylon, three Diamond Shark [[Cluster]]s defeated Gamma Galaxy completely, in part through a combination of refusing to grant ''[[safcon]]'', making every landing an assault that cost the Vipers numerous [[DropShip]]s, bleeding the aggressors of transport assets. The Diamond Sharks also used questionable tactics on the ground, with a number of Diamond Shark warriors deliberately using physical attacks against their opponents, acting with dubious honor in the cause of inflicting as much damage as possible. Gamma's losses on Babylon were so heavy that [[Galaxy Commander]] [[James Andrews]] committed permanent ''[[surkairede]]'' after his forces retreated to [[New Kent]].<ref name="WoRp51"/>

==== Clan Coyote Capture of Babylon ====
In early [[3072]], Clan Coyote executed a planetary assault on the enclaves of Clan Ice Hellion, Cloud Cobra, and the Diamond Sharks. Using a mixed force of Battle Armor, ProtoMechs and some [[Pariah|new OmniMechs]] they rolled over many of the Clans' forces, seizing the planet after 24 hours. The battle left most of the opposing Clans' warriors dead, while lower caste warriors were allowed to depart if they so chose.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 138: "Pariah" - 'Mech profile include Babylon assault leaving planet in Clan Coyote's control</ref> The capture of Babylon was the most violent of the attacks launched by Clan Coyote simultaneously across several worlds. The battles were fought by the Coyotes' [[Epsilon Galaxy (Clan Coyote)|Epsilon]] and [[Gamma Galaxy (Clan Coyote)|Gamma Galaxies]]. The two [[Star]]s of warriors defending the Ice Hellion enclave was swarmed, with all of the Ice Hellion warriors being killed despite requesting ''[[hegira]]''; the Cobra forces were also quickly overwhelmed. The Diamond Sharks' elite [[Alpha Galaxy (Clan Diamond Shark)|Deathstrike Galaxy]] mounted the strongest defense against the Coyote forces, having been stationed on Babylon to undergo a range of refits and upgrades; Deathstrike Galaxy finally withdrew after taking heavy losses, with the [[Thirty-ninth Strike (Clan Diamond Shark)|Thirty-ninth Strike Cluster]] being completely wiped out.<ref name="WoRp93">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 93</ref>

The assault on Babylon was the first major campaign by the organization known as the [[Society]], and enabled them to seize enough equipment from the Brian Caches on Babylon to completely equip their own forces and to allow them to bargain with the [[Bandit Caste]] using the surplus equipment.<ref name="WoRp92">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 92: "Equipping the Invisible"</ref> The small number of civilian caste personnel allowed to leave Babylon were discovered much later to have all either been [[Trueborn|trueborns]] or high-mixed genetic stock and to have been deliberately infected with some form of genetic virus by the Society as an act of biological warfare. Merchant vessels in the Babylon system managed to escape with some footage from the battles - including the death of [[Star Colonel]] [[Josiah Hawker]] - but communications from Babylon subsequently stopped as the Society extended a communications blackout across the various worlds they had captured.<ref name="WoRp93"/>

Babylon had already become a Society stronghold in secret prior to the Coyote assault; like the worlds of [[Circe]], Dagda and [[Huntress]], the Society had numerous enclaves based around research and production sites on Babylon that the Clans had either forgotten or had assumed had been closed down when the original research programs were directed by the warrior caste to be closed down. Many of these enclaves were in wilderness regions, whilst others had been constructed within the supposedly sealed Brian Caches dotted around the planet.<ref name="WoRp93"/>

As communications across the Clan Homeworlds collapsed in 3072 a number of Clans found themselves in a state of steadily increasing difficulty, particularly as the different Clans began actively preying on each other to obtain the resources they needed for survival. In late 3072 Clan Ice Hellion had been forced to withdraw to [[Hector (system)|Hector]], in part because of the dispatch of so much of [[Clan Ice Hellion Touman|their ''touman'']] on the abortive invasion of the Clan Jade Falcon Occupation Zone in the Inner Sphere, and the Hellions were desperately trying to eke out their resources through a mixture of strict rationing and prioritization along with whatever negotiations their merchant caste could manage. Word began to spread of collusion between the Ice Hellions and the [[Dark Caste]], tainting negotiations and causing them to fail; a merchant convoy from the Ice Hellions arrived in the Babylon system late in the year, only to be destroyed by a Clan Coyote WarShip already present in the system.<ref name="WoRp111">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 111: "The Hellion Fades"</ref>

In [[3075]] the destruction of much of the Society and the resulting Cleansing of Clan Coyote left the Coyotes vulnerable to the other Clans, particularly because of the extent of the holdings the Coyotes had seized during the early years of the Wars of Reaving. The principal Coyote homeworld, [[Tamaron]], was considered irrevocably tainted because of the battles there and the lingering Society presence, and the remainder of Clan Coyote chose to relocate their seat of power from Tamaron to Babylon as a part of drawing down their holdings to those systems and worlds considered to be key strategic or resource assets.<ref name="WoRp148">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 148: "Feeding Frenzy"</ref>

Society cells continued to cause a problem within the Homeworlds, with secret enclaves being uncovered and destroyed in [[3077]] on Babylon, [[Barcella]] and [[Ironhold]]. Although the Coyote forces were zealous in their destruction of the Society enclave, they held back from destroying the nearby [[OmniMech]] plant - the only such plant on the planet - and later constructed an enclave nearby, placed deliberately in sight of the ruins of the Society facility as a reminder of the consequences of internal dissent.<ref name="WoRp164">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 164: "Clan Coyote"</ref>

Unbeknownst to the other Clans in the Homeworlds, the Diamond Sharks returned to the Babylon system in [[3075]], after the Clan had been believed to have been evicted from the various Clan worlds. The Diamond Sharks infiltrated a small [[Watch]]-led group transported on two [[JumpShips]] into the outskirts of the Babylon system, at the location of a small naval cache. The only cache the Diamond Sharks had in the system, the naval cache consisted of two mothballed WarShips and a handful of older JumpShips; the Diamond Sharks hoped to return these vessels to active service, and then to infiltrate agents into the [[Home Clans]]. Only one of the two WarShips proved salvageable within the resources available, but the Diamond Sharks successfully reactivated the ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyer [[Marseilles|SLS ''Marseilles'']]. A number of lower castemen and ''[[solahma]]'' volunteered to infiltrate the enclaves on Babylon while the ''Marseilles'' and the bulk of the party returned to the Inner Sphere. The ''Marseilles'' successfully completed the journey and a number of the infiltrators were able to feed information back to the Diamond Sharks; the last report from any member of this infiltration group was transmitted in early [[3086]].<ref name="WoRp172">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 172: "Clan Diamond Shark"</ref>

== Political Affiliation ==
=== 3062 ===
* Clan Cloud Cobra<ref name="TCp103"/>
* Clan Coyote<ref name="TCp103"/>
* Clan Diamond Shark<ref name="TCp103"/>
* Clan Ice Hellion<ref name="TCp103"/>

=== 3067 ===
* Clan Cloud Cobra (26%)<ref name="WoRp228">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 228: "Political balance Table, 3067"</ref>
* Clan Coyote (27%)<ref name="WoRp228"/>
* Clan Diamond Shark (24%)<ref name="WoRp228"/>
* Clan Ice Hellion (23%)<ref name="WoRp228"/>

=== 3072 ===
* Clan Coyote (100%)<ref name="TRO:3075p138"/>

=== 3075 ===
* Clan Coyote (100%)<ref name="WoRp248">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 248: "Political balance Table, 3075"</ref>

=== 3085 ===
* Clan Coyote (100%)<ref name="WoRp249">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 249: "Political Balance Table, 3085"</ref>
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== Military Deployment ==
===3059===
* [[Second Assault Cavaliers (Clan Ice Hellion)|Second Assault Cavaliers]]<ref name=FMCRC152>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 152: "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref>
* [[Forty-third Hector Cavaliers (Clan Ice Hellion)|Forty-third Hector Cavaliers]]<ref name=FMCRC153>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 153: "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref>

===3061===
:<u>Clan Cloud Cobra</u>
:* [[45th Cobra Grenadiers (Clan Cloud Cobra)|Forty-fifth Cobra Grenadiers]]<ref name=FMWC161>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 161</ref>
:* [[97th Cobra Guards (Clan Cloud Cobra)|Ninety-seventh Cobra Guards]]<ref name=FMWC161/>
:* [[121st Cobra Fang (Clan Cloud Cobra)|121st Cobra Fangs]]<ref name=FMWC161/>
:* [[441st Cobra Guards (Clan Cloud Cobra)|441st Cobra Guards]]<ref name=FMWC161/>
:* [[Fifth Cobra Coil (Clan Cloud Cobra)|Fifth Cobra Coil]]<ref name=FMWC161/>

:<u>Clan Coyote</u>
:* [[Bronze Keshik (Clan Coyote)|Bronze Keshik]]<ref name=FMWC161/>
:* [[Thirty-eighth Assault (Clan Coyote)|Thirty-eighth Assault Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC161/>
:* [[Seventy-second Reserve Battle (Clan Coyote)|Seventy-second Reserve Battle Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC161/>
:* [[Ninety-eighth Strike (Clan Coyote)|Ninety-eighth Strike Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC162>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 162: "Warden Clans Deployment Table"</ref>
:* [[990th Composite Battle (Clan Coyote)|990th Composite Battle Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC162/>
:* [[509th Solahma Battle (Clan Coyote)|509th ''Solahma'' Battle Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC162/>

:<u>Clan Diamond Shark</u>
:* [[Thirty-ninth Strike (Clan Diamond Shark)|Thirty-ninth Strike Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC162/>
:* [[Twenty-first Combined Assault (Clan Diamond Shark)|Twenty-first Combined Assault Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC162/>
:* [[Fifty-seventh Combined Assault (Clan Diamond Shark)|Fifty-seventh Combined Assault Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC163>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 163: "Warden Clans Deployment Table"</ref>

:<u>Clan Goliath Scorpion</u>
:* [[Eighth Scorpion Dragoons (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|8th Scorpion Dragoons]]<ref name=FMWC164>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 164</ref>

== Geography ==
Babylon has five continents named Abyssinia, Callandra, Corsen, Solath and Valence and was named for the [[w:Babylon|capital of Hammurabi]], an Akkadian city-state. One notable feature of Babylon is the large mountain chain known as the Snaefell Mountains, whose shielding effect allowed the formation of an area suitable for human habitation and protected from the dry and windy climate that predominates on the world.<ref name="HOKR"/>

== Planetary Locations ==
* Camlaan: city.
* Graten: city.
* Hope: city.
* Logan: city.
* Luyden: city.
* Marron: city.
* New Drineshane: city.
* Ponomia: city.
* Port Talbot: city
* Roenich: a mining town<ref name=EDGCp1>''Era Digest: Golden Century'', p. 1: "Changes, They Are the Times"</ref>
* Sumta: city.
* Versailles: city.
* Yoma: city.

===Companies and Industries===
* [[Auxiliary Production Site 5]]
* [[Babylon MechWorks V]]
* [[Coyote Industrial]]
* [[Manufacturing Plant DSF-94]]
* [[L-5 Yards]]<ref name=TRO3057R>''Technical Readout: 3057 Revised'', pp. 76–77: "DropShip Sassanid Profile"</ref>

== Local Fauna ==
* [[Goliath Scorpion (species)|Goliath Scorpion]]

==Babylon VI (Sinclair)==
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Babylon VI, also known as '''Sinclair''' to inhabitants of the Clan Homeworlds, is a world rich in ice and mineral resources, and is orbited by seven moons.<ref name="H:OKp42-44"/>
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== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 20 systems (5 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Dagda (Clan_System)|Dagda]]
| class="lessthan30" | 9.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Arcadia (Clan_System)|Arcadia]]
| class="lessthan30" | 11.1
| class="lessthan30" | [[Circe]]
| class="lessthan30" | 14.0
| class="lessthan30" | [[Eden]]
| class="lessthan30" | 16.3
|-
| class="over30" | [[Fasa (system)|Fasa]]
| class="over30" | 32.2
| class="over60" | [[Tanis|Radulov]]
| class="over60" | 66.2
| class="over60" | [[EC821-387D]]
| class="over60" | 155.0
| class="over60" | [[Shadow]]
| class="over60" | 192.3
|-
| class="over60" | [[Brim]]
| class="over60" | 194.7
| class="over60" | [[Homer|Zara]]
| class="over60" | 203.2
| class="over60" | [[Lum]]
| class="over60" | 203.4
| class="over60" | [[Albion (Clan_System)|Albion]]
| class="over60" | 204.8
|-
| class="over60" | [[Gatekeeper]]
| class="over60" | 205.0
| class="over60" | [[York (Clan_System)|York]]
| class="over60" | 212.7
| class="over60" | [[Foster]]
| class="over60" | 213.6
| class="over60" | [[Ironhold]]
| class="over60" | 222.6
|-
| class="over60" | [[Strana Mechty]]
| class="over60" | 228.3
| class="over60" | [[Delios]]
| class="over60" | 230.3
| class="over60" | [[Huntress]]
| class="over60" | 233.4
| class="over60" | [[Atreus (Clan_System)|Atreus]]
| class="over60" | 236.5
|-
|}

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky]]''
* ''[[Era Digest: Golden Century]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
* ''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''


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