Colleen
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Colleen
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| Colleen | |
|---|---|
| System Information | |
| Planet(s) | 2[citation needed] |
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System Description
Colleen was a system approximately 70 light years anti-spinward of Grant's Station in the Kerensky Cluster.
It consisted of two worlds, called Honor, which became the primary colony and production site, and Haven, which housed the genetic repository.
System History
Colleen was discovered by Clan Blood Spirit in 3067, when the situation in the Clan Homeworlds was rapidly degenerating and ultimately set off in the Wars of Reaving. The Spirits was under increasing pressure from other Clans, in particular from Clan Star Adder, and they needed to start a new colony unbeknownst to the other Clans.[citation needed]
The two planets grew rapidly in the years after their discovery, the Spirit leadership well aware of their importance especially after the destruction of their capital world York. After Clan Steel Viper was annihilated in 3075 the Spirits were in shambles, having suffered greatly from the invasion of Circe and New Kent which much of their touman and industry on Albion destroyed.[citation needed]
When Bryce Schmitt was elected as saKhan, the Clan leadership made the hard decision to withdraw from all their enclaves in Clan Space to Colleen, except from Strana Mechty, their main genetic repository having already being relocated to Haven in 3070. Progress was slow but steady and the Clan began to rebuilt in complete isolation, the system still being secret to other Clans even if they known the Spirits had withdrawn somewhere but where too busy with more pressing concerns.[citation needed]
End of isolation and Disaster
Finally in 3082 a Clan Stone Lion vessel arrived in the system, and Khan Boques immediately prepared his Clan for the inevitable conflict over these worlds.[citation needed]
The first to arrive was Clan Cloud Cobra, which respectful of previous dealings trialed for and won the right to establish two enclaves on Honor's southern continent, centered around strip-mining the nearby mountains of ore. They were in process of building an Omnifighter factory when a cataclysm nearly split the planet in two in March 3083.[citation needed]
A series of terrible earthquakes rippled through the main continent, Baruna. All the volcanoes in the main mountain range, the largest in Clan Space, erupted at once. Massive tidal waves rolled miles inland. This catastrophic event wiped out both Cobra enclaves, and the main Spirit city of Osterling.[citation needed]
Response was swift but ultimately ineffectual. The two planets were nearly opposite in their orbits and the scarcity of DropShips allowed only 15,000 people to be saved.[citation needed]
Lion and Coyote invasion
Soon after Clan Stone Lion and Clan Coyote arrived on Honor and trialed for almost every colony on the planet.
By the end of June Blood Spirit Khan Boques was dead, their last factorie lost and their touman now consisted only of the remains of Alpha Galaxy (Clan Blood Spirit). The Stone Lions with their Psi Galaxy (Clan Stone Lion) captured several agricultural enclaves and two ProtoMech factories near Lovell, as well as the Spirit ProtoMech warrior phenotype. The Coyotes with their Nu Galaxy (Clan Coyote) captured three newly built BattleMech factories, and prepared for the inevitable counterattack.
New Khan Bryce Schmitt unleashed the traditional Blood Spirit response to assaults on their homeworlds, hoards of armed civilians who stormed the Coyote-occupied city of Glasgow, nearly a Cluster in number. Khan Leo Koga of the Coyotes conferred with the leader of Stone Lion forces in the Colleen system, Loremaster Jackie Ravenwater, both agreeing that the Blood Spirits were now to be considered dezgra. Also the Lions were having problems with their isorla, although not at the level faced by the Coyotes. Civilians refused assimilation and kept on attacking the Clan forces.
Star Adder intervention
In a subsequent Grand Council called by Khan Koga, the Coyote Khan called for the Aburation of Clan Blood Spirit. But Clan Star Adder, long time enemies of the Blood Spirits, called for their Annihilation over the reports of such flagrant unClanlike activity. In lieu of this position, a Trial of Absorption was passed by the Grand Council, granted to the Star Adders, who immediately set about landing their forces as soon as the Stone Lions and Coyotes withdrew in deference to the Adders, taking all the isorla they could with them.
They immediately attacked and quickly overrun the enclave on Strana Mechty, killing saKhan Lucas Campbell.
On the 5th of October, 3084, CSA Sovereign Right and Absolute Truth crippled the last remaining Blood Spirit naval assets, the CBS Karianna Schmitt and the Stooping Kite, landing their Gamma, Epsilon and Xi Galaxies on Haven, while the Blood Spirit response to the landings was ineffectual. Khan Schmitt unleashed four more Clusters of armed civilians in an ambush of the Star Adder forces as they crossed the Sidhe River, sending two Broadsword Dropships on strafing runs over the assembled Adders. Khan Schmitt would lead a desperate stand through the most vicious fighting since the fall of York, but to no avail. He would eventually fall to the Star Adder saKhan Wyatt Talasko, with his few remaining Blood Spirits following soon after, fighting until the end in the city of Glasgow.
With their leadership and touman destroyed, the remaining armed civilians ambushed the Star Adders in the city of Lovell, taking down Loremaster Fletcher Daniels. The Adder response was brutal, gunning down anyone in sight and systematically burning and destroying buildings. They then loaded as much isorla as they could onto their DropShips and retreated to their landing zones.
Annihilation
Political Affiliation
- 3067 - Clan Blood Spirit[citation needed]
- 3082 - Clan Blood Spirit/Clan Cloud Cobra[citation needed]
- 3085 - No Record - System Destroyed[citation needed]
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