Calloway

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Calloway

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

Calloway
← 3135
3151
Calloway 3151.svg
Calloway nearby systems
(Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-58.168 : -199.567[e]
Spectral classF5V[1][2]
Recharge time176 hours[2]
Recharge station(s)Nadir[1][2]

The Calloway system was home to at least one habitable world, Calloway VI, and as at 3145 was located in the Oriente Protectorate region of the Free Worlds League.[3][4]

System Description

The Calloway system is located near the Fletcher and Loeches systems.[5] The system consists of at least four worlds orbiting a class F5V primary; during the thirty-first century a recharge station was in place at the system nadir jump point.[1][2]

System History

The Calloway system was settled during or shortly before the Age of War; by the end of the era, Calloway was a part of the Free Worlds League.[6][7]

Calloway VI

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Calloway VI is the sixth planet in the Calloway system. Calloway has three moons named Graves, Trigg and Marshall; he three moons that orbit the world reflect so much sunlight that no city on the world has had to install street lamps. Even at midnight, citizens had enough light to find their way.[1]

Planetary History

Early History

Calloway VI was a world with no real natural resources when first settled; the only particularly exportable resource available to the colonists was the Calloway wildebeest, which was subsequently hunted to extinction so that the hide, meat and tusks could be exported. This lack of resources, particularly after the extinction of the wildebeest, led the merchants of Calloway VI to become particularly sharp traders. With so many essential resources having to be imported to Calloway VI by necessity, the sharp trading abilities of the local merchants came to form the bedrock of the planetary economy, which was built on trading concerns and mercantile associations.[1]

Star League Era

In the mid-twenty-eighth century the Free Worlds League established a new military training school on Calloway VI, the Calloway Martial College, in response to levels of recruiting unprecedented since the Third Andurien War two centuries earlier.[8]

First Succession War

By 2789 the Free Worlds League invasion of the Capellan Confederation was in its third year, having begun with the successful invasion of Corey and Wazan in late 2787. The Capellan Confederation Armed Forces had been deploying reinforcements to both worlds since the invasion, and at the orders of Chancellor Barbara Liao had launched a damaging strike against New Delos, a major Free Worlds League Military staging ground, in retaliation for which Captain-General Kenyon Marik had ordered several Capellan worlds bombed. The Capellans continued to resist the Free Worlds League invasion, and in 2789 Barbara Liao ordered an attack on Calloway VI.In late 2787 Captain-General Kenyon Marik launched an invasion of the Confederation, intent on capturing a corridor of worlds leading to Sarna.[9]

What the CCAF didn't know was that Kenyon Marik was ready for an attack on Calloway VI; the Capellan forces arrived in-system to find several regiments from the Stewart Dragoons and the Fusiliers of Oriente on patrol in the system, having been specifically assigned on patrol in the system to disrupt any Capellan attack. The FWLM forces attacked the CCAF task force, holding the CCAF units in place and wreaking havoc on their JumpShips while they waited for the other patrol forces to arrive. The CCAF attempted to retreat, only to find itself moving into the bulk of the FWLM forces; by the end of the battle the CCAF losses in terms of aerospace fighters, DropShips and JumpShips were nothing less than staggering. The losses forced the CCAF onto the defensive, breaking the blockades over Corey and Wazan and letting the FWLM rampage through Capellan space for several years afterwards.[9]

Suffering increasing damage from Capellan Confederation raiders during the First Succession War, wealthy merchant princes on Calloway VI formed their own private army in an attempt to defend against them, however, as the Succession Wars continued without end, the merchant cartels found their often-greedy and headstrong troops increasingly difficult to deal with. By the Third Succession War with disagreements mounting, the cartels offered their forces to the LCCC just to get rid of them. With his requests for troops increasingly stymied by the League's Parliament refusal to support his grand "Operation Killing Stroke", Captain-General Thaddeus Marik eagerly accepted the new mercenaries. Formally renaming themselves the Langendorf Lancers, after General Mortimer Langendorf the retired officer hired by Calloway VI’s merchants to form the force, the force became a conventional mercenary command, suffering heavy losses during the truncated and ultimately unsuccessful Killing Stroke in 2950. [10] [11]

Political Affiliation

Planetary Rulers


Military Deployment

2765

2786

2821

3054

3059

  • Eleventh Atrean Dragoons (3rd Battalion)[38]

3079

3085

3145

Planetary Locations

Industrial Centers

Nearby Systems

Closest 52 systems (50 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Fletcher 14.1 Loeches 16.4 Aodh 18.5 Anegasaki 19.3
Oriente 21.6 Salur 22.3 Les Halles 22.4 Daneshmand 23.2
Carbonis 26.2 Lukla 26.4 Jasmine 27.3 Shuen Wan 28.8
Matheran 30.1 Fujidera 31.9 Ipswich 34.8 Vanra 37.7
Pella 39.0 Maritgues 40.2 Chengdu 40.9 Eom 40.9
Kiyev 40.9 Calpaca 41.0 Sappho 41.1 Semenyih 41.3
Ragusa 41.7 Milnerton 42.7 Shenwan 44.1 Boardwalk 44.5
Bithinia 44.6 Exedor 45.7 Kievanur 47.2 Hassad 48.1
Propus 48.4 Iknogoro 49.5 Goodna 50.3 New Praha 52.1
Nam Dinh 52.6 Haerhbin 53.6 Jouques 53.8 Krin 54.9
Ramen 55.5 Dayr Khuna 55.7 Gorki 56.0 Fuentes 56.2
Kashilla 56.6 Elektrougli 57.2 Cronulla 57.2 Emris 58.8
Ingersoll 59.6 Tintavel 59.8 New Troy 60.8 Bentley 61.6

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 157, "Planet Guide"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Objectives: Free Worlds League, p. 16, "Calloway VI"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 38, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 13, "Free Worlds League befor after at their founding in [2271]"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571]"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Field Report 2765: FWLM, p. 5-6, "Academies and Command Centers"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 28-29, "The Collapse of Terra"
  10. ↑ House Marik, p. 43 "Operation Killing Stroke"
  11. ↑ House Marik, p. 106 "Mercenary Units - Langendorf Lancers"
  12. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  13. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  14. ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), p. 25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succession War [2822]"
  16. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - 2822"
  17. ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), p. 113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  18. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War [2864]"
  19. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War [3025]"
  20. ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 169, "Free Worlds League - Map"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War [3030]"
  22. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 132, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  23. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 3050"
  24. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - 3052"
  25. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 3057"
  26. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero [3058]"
  27. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere - 3063"
  28. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 56, "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  29. ↑ ' Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 41, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]
  30. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, Inner Sphere [3075] Map
  31. ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 17, "FWLM Deployment Map [3079]"
  32. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - March 3081"
  33. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  34. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  35. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3135"
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 36.6 First Succession War (Source Book), p. 138, "First Succession War Deployment Table - FWLM"
  37. ↑ Objective Raids, p. 37, "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  38. ↑ Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 112, "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  39. ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 10, "Duchy of Oriente"
  40. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 91, "Deployment Table - 3085"
  41. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. 115, "Free Worlds League Military"
  42. ↑ Inner Sphere, p. 71
  43. ↑ Rolling Thunder (scenario pack), p. 33, "Guerrilla Warfare"

Bibliography

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