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= Coventry =
 
 
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| caption            = Coventry [[#Nearby_Systems|nearby systems]]
 
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The '''Coventry''' system was home to at least one habitable world, '''Coventry III''', and as at [[3145]] was the administrative capital of the [[Coventry Province]] of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name="ER:3145p39"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
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The '''Coventry''' system was home to at least one habitable world, '''Coventry III''', and as of [[3151]], it was the administrative capital of the [[Coventry Province]] of the [[Lyran Commonwealth]].<ref name=SFp102/>
  
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==System Description==
 
 
== System Description ==
 
 
The Coventry system is located near the [[Sabhal Mòr Ostaig]] and [[Tsinan]] systems<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/> and consists of a class F4V primary orbited by at least three worlds. During the [[thirty-first century]] a recharge station was in place at the both the nadir and zenith [[jump point]]s.<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
The Coventry system is located near the [[Sabhal Mòr Ostaig]] and [[Tsinan]] systems<ref name="HB:MPSp25"/><ref name="ER:2750p36"/> and consists of a class F4V primary orbited by at least three worlds. During the [[thirty-first century]] a recharge station was in place at the both the nadir and zenith [[jump point]]s.<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
  
== System History ==
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==System History==
 
The Coventry system was colonized at some point in the late [[twenty-fourth century]], after the founding of the Lyran Commonwealth.<ref name="HB:HSp13"/><ref name="HS(TLC)p14"/>
 
The Coventry system was colonized at some point in the late [[twenty-fourth century]], after the founding of the Lyran Commonwealth.<ref name="HB:HSp13"/><ref name="HS(TLC)p14"/>
  
== Political Affiliation ==  
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==Political Affiliation==
* [[2341]] - No record <ref name="HB:HSp13">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding [2341]"</ref>
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* ca. [[2380]]-[[2395]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]] <ref name="HS(TLC)p14">''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 14, "Marsden in Power"</ref>
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* [[2341]] - No record<ref name="HB:HSp13">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13</ref>
* [[2461]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HKp35">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 35, "Battles in the Age of War"</ref>
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* ca. [[2380]][[2395]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]]<ref name="HS(TLC)p14">''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 14</ref>
* [[2571]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp25>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"</ref>
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* [[2461]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HKp35">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 35</ref>
* [[2596]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"</ref>
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* [[2571]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp25>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25</ref>
* [[2750]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League [2750]"</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - 2750"</ref>
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* [[2596]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158</ref>
* [[2764]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
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* [[2750]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36</ref>
* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p10>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 2765"</ref>
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* [[2764]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2786]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
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* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="H:LoTV1p10>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10</ref>
* [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822]"</ref><ref name="H:LOTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - 2822"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
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* [[2786]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War'', pp. 24–25</ref>
* [[2864]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2822]"</ref>
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* [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36</ref><ref name="H:LOTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122–123</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War'', pp. 112–113</ref>
* [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025]"</ref>
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* [[2864]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40</ref>
* [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030]"</ref>
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* [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47</ref>
* [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]] <ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 39 [3040]"</ref><ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132, "Inner Sphere - 3040"</ref>
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* [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56</ref>
* [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="ER3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3050"</ref>
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* [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]]<ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59</ref><ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132</ref>
* [[3052]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion [3052]"</ref><ref name="ER3052p22">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 22, "Inner Sphere - 3052"</ref>
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* [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10</ref>
* [[3054]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref>''Objective Raids'', p. 21</ref>
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* [[3052]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61</ref><ref name="ER3052p22">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 22</ref>
* [[3057]] - [[Lyran Alliance]] <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"</ref>
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* [[3054]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref>''Objective Raids'', p. 21</ref>
* [[3063]] - Lyran Alliance <ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 28, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"</ref>
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* [[3057]] - [[Lyran Alliance]]<ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 10</ref>
* [[3067]] - Lyran Alliance <ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War [3067]"</ref><ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067]"</ref>
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* [[3063]] - Lyran Alliance<ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 28</ref>
* [[3075]] - Lyran Alliance <ref name="JS:TBDp64>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64, "Inner Sphere [3075]"</ref>
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* [[3067]] - Lyran Alliance<ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70</ref><ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43</ref>
* [[3079]] - Lyran Alliance <ref name="FR:LAAFp19">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 21, "Lyran Alliance Armed Forces Deployment Map - August 3079"</ref>
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* [[3075]] - Lyran Alliance<ref name="JS:TBDp64>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64</ref>
* [[3081]] - Lyran Alliance <ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"</ref>
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* [[3079]] - Lyran Alliance<ref name="FR:LAAFp19">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 21</ref>
* [[3085]] - Lyran Alliance <ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref>
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* [[3081]] - Lyran Alliance<ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63</ref>
* [[3130]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
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* [[3085]] - Lyran Alliance<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"</ref>
* [[3135]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3135"</ref>
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* [[3135]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10</ref>
* [[3145]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3145p39">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref><ref name="ER:3145p57">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 57, "Lyran Commonwealth losses 3139-3145"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
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* [[3145]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3145p39">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39</ref><ref name="ER:3145p57">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 57</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI: "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
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* [[3151]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name=SFp102>''Shattered Fortress'', p. 102</ref>
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* [[3152]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name=TRpm>''Tamar Rising'', poster map</ref>
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= Coventry III =
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==Coventry III==
| image              = Coventry.jpg
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{{InfoBoxPlanet
| caption            = Orbital view
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| image              = Coventry Orbital View.jpg
| imagewidth         =  
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| name                = Coventry III
| name                = Coventry
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| othernames         =  
| position            = 3rd<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
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| position            = Third<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| distance            = 16.10 days<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| distance            = 16.10 days<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| moons              = 1 (Wellston)<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| moons              = 1 (Wellston)<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
| day                =
 
 
| gravity            = 1.01<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| gravity            = 1.01<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| pressure            = Standard (Breathable)<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| pressure            = Standard (Breathable)<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
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| water              = 80%<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| water              = 80%<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| life                = Mammals<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| life                = Mammals<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
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| continents          = 4 (Auckland, Dunnigan, Sydnallia, Veracruz)<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
| year                = 3067<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
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| language            =
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| population          = 1,549,000,000 (3025),<ref name=HS164>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 164 (PDF p. 166): "A Brief Atlas" – Coventry entry</ref><br>3,721,000,000 (3058),<ref name=BT25Y63/><br>3,785,000,000 (3067),<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><br>3,623,000,000 (3079)<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
| ruler              = [[Duke of Coventry]]
 
| ruler              = [[Duke of Coventry]]
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| political          = [[Planetary Chairman of Coventry|Planetary Chairman]]
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| commander          =
 
| capital            = Port St. William<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
 
| capital            = Port St. William<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
| population          = 1,549,000,000 (3025)<ref name= HS166>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 166, "Planet Guide"</ref><br>3,721,000,000 (3058)<ref name=BT25Y63/><br>3,785,000,000 (3067)<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>3,623,000,000 (3079)<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
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| hpg                = A<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
| USIIR              = A-A-A-A-A (3058)<ref name=BT25Y63/><br>A-A-A-A-A (3067)<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><br>A-A-A-A-A (3079)<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
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| hpgrep              = [[Precentor]] [[Nora Baken]] (3025)<ref name=HS164/>
| hpg                = A<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/><br>[[Precentor]] [[Nora Baken]] (3025)<ref name= HS166/>
 
 
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Coventry III - more commonly referred to simply as Coventry - is the third planet in the system and has a single moon named Wellston. Coventry is a major industrial world and has served as the administrative capital of a province within the Lyran Commonwealth.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
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Coventry III, more commonly referred to simply as Coventry, is the third planet in the system and has a single moon named Wellston. Coventry is a major industrial world and has served as the administrative capital of a province within the Lyran Commonwealth.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
  
== Planetary History ==
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===Planetary History===
===Age of War===
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====Age of War====
During the last fifteen years of [[Archon]] [[Robert Marsden|Robert Marsden's]] rule the new wealth generated by the resurgent economy of the Lyran Commonwealth gave the military the resources to engage in new experiments, and those experiments in turn generated the inspiration for a large military sciences center on Coventry.<ref name="HS(TLC)p14"/>
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During the last fifteen years of [[Archon of the Lyran Commonwealth|Archon]] [[Robert Marsden]]'s rule the new wealth generated by the resurgent economy of the Lyran Commonwealth gave the military the resources to engage in new experiments, and those experiments in turn generated the inspiration for a large military sciences center on Coventry.<ref name="HS(TLC)p14"/>
  
In 2461 Coventry was the site of a Draconis Combine raid that secured the designs for BattleMechs, giving House Kurita the technology that for a brief period of time was giving House Steiner a great advantage in combat.<ref name="HKp35">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 35, "Battles in the Age of War"</ref><ref name=HSLC>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 19 "Lyran Military Superiority"</ref>
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In [[2461]], Coventry was the site of a Draconis Combine raid that secured the designs for BattleMechs, giving the Combine the technology that{{m}}for a brief period of time{{m}}was giving the Lyran Commonwealth the superior advantage in combat.<ref name="HKp35"/><ref name=HSLC>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 19: "Lyran Military Superiority"</ref>
  
Coventry grew to become a major trade center within the Lyran Commonwealth and both an industrial and agricultural powerhouse. At various points a number of major military manufacturers had facilities on Coventry but the planet managed to retain the look of a paradise and even had a moderate tourism business based around various islands.<ref name=BT25Y63>''BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction'', p. 63, "World Profile"</ref>
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Coventry grew to become a major trade center within the Lyran Commonwealth and both an industrial and agricultural powerhouse. At various points a number of major military manufacturers had facilities on Coventry but the planet managed to retain the look of a paradise and even had a moderate tourism business based around various islands.<ref name=BT25Y63>''BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction'', p. 63: "World Profile"</ref>
  
===Star League===
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====Star League====
During the final years of the [[Star League]], Coventry was the host to a [[Star League Defense Force]] garrison.  In attempt to bond with the local populace and keep their skills up, the resident [[SLDF]] commander arranged a series of training missions with the local [[Coventry Military Academy]].  At first things went well, but as both sides grew more competitive, a brawl between both the students and the SLDF soldiers broke out.  This helped to create a divisive atmosphere.<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 159, "133rd Mechanized Infantry Division"</ref><ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 255, "SLDF - Lyran Commonwealth Military Command Map"</ref>
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During the final years of the [[Star League]], Coventry was the host to a [[Star League Defense Force]] garrison.  In an attempt to bond with the local populace and keep their skills up, the resident SLDF commander arranged a series of training missions with the local [[Coventry Military Academy]].  At first things went well, but as both sides grew more competitive, a brawl between the students and the SLDF soldiers broke out.  This helped to create a divisive atmosphere.<ref>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 159: "133rd Mechanized Infantry Division"</ref><ref name=FMSLDFp255>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 255: "SLDF - Lyran Commonwealth Military Command Map"</ref>
  
===Succession Wars and Later===
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====Succession Wars and Later====
Coventry was target of many assaults; notable conflicts included: a deep raid by the [[Free Worlds League]] in [[3006]], highlighting the weakness of [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner|Alessandro Steiner's]] [[Operation CONCENTRATED WEAKNESS]],<ref name=HHS-53>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 53 "Katrina's Coup"</ref> the [[Clan Jade Falcon|Clan Jade Falcon's]] [[Jade Falcon Incursion (3058)|Incursion]] from March 15th to May 10th [[3058]], [[FedCom Civil War]] revolts in 3062, the [[Word of Blake]]'s occupation of Coventry during the [[Jihad]] and the subsequent liberation of Coventry in [[3074]].
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Coventry was target of many assaults; notable conflicts included: a deep raid by the [[Free Worlds League]] in [[3006]], highlighting the weakness of Archon [[Alessandro Steiner]]'s [[Operation CONCENTRATED WEAKNESS]],<ref name=HHS-53>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 53: "Katrina's Coup"</ref> [[Clan Jade Falcon]]'s [[Jade Falcon Incursion (3058)|Incursion]] from 15 March to 10 May [[3058]], [[FedCom Civil War]] revolts in 3062, the [[Word of Blake]]'s occupation of Coventry during the [[Jihad]] and the subsequent liberation of Coventry in [[3074]].
  
===Clan Invasion===
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====The Jade Falcon Incursion====
==== The Jade Falcon Incursion ====
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: ''Main Article: [[Battle of Coventry (3058)]]''
The campaign that came to known as the Jade Falcon Incursion was a direct result of the Jade Falcon need to prove the strength of their ''[[touman]]'' in the aftermath of the bitter [[Refusal War]] fought against [[Clan Wolf]] and thereby fend off attacks from the other Clans. The Incursion quickly became a battle of vital consequence to both the Falcons and the [[Inner Sphere]], as the nations of the Inner Sphere needed to quickly quash the incursion or risk the other Clans seeing Jade Falcon successes as a sign of weakness on the part of the Inner Sphere and a direct encouragement to launch a further wave of attacks or even another full-scale invasion.<ref name="TBOCp3">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 3, "Introduction"</ref>
 
  
The Jade Falcon Incursion began on the 30th of January 3058, with a wave of attacks that hit the [[Bucklands]], [[Engadine]], [[Neerabup]] and [[Willunga]] systems, swiftly defeating most of the defending forces in bloody battles that typically saw technologically advanced Jade Falcon BattleMechs facing outdated garrison 'Mechs or even, as was the case with the Bucklands Militia, [[AgroMech]]s retrofitted with armor plate and heavy machine guns.<ref name="TBOCp6">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 6, "Proving grounds"</ref>
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Coventry was the final battle of the [[Clan Jade Falcon#Rebuilding and Coventry|Jade Falcon Incursion of 3058]]. The [[Tenth Skye Rangers]], [[Coventry Donegal March Militia]], and Coventry Military Academy Training Battalion fought the Falcons for nearly a month, until being relieved by an [[Battle of Coventry (3058)#The Coventry Expeditionary_Force|Expeditionary Force]] of mostly mercenaries. The CEF was likewise battled to a standstill and faced a guerilla-style war, hoping to eventually wear the Falcons down, until a multinational relief force led by ComStar Precentor Martial [[Anastasius Focht]] arrived from [[Tukayyid]]. Prince [[Victor Davion]] extended ''[[Glossary of Clan Terms#Hegira|hegira]]'' to Khan [[Marthe Pryde]], who returned to the Occupation Zone with no territory changing hands, ending three months of fighting.
  
The Lyran half of the [[Federated Commonwealth]] had only recently split away and declared itself the [[Lyran Alliance]], under the rule of Archon [[Katherine Steiner]] (who preferred to be referred to as Katrina Steiner). Rather than launching a wide-scale broadcast and response to the Jade Falcon invasion, Katherine Steiner embarked on a different plan, traveling to the [[Kiamba]] system in the [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] Occupation Zone with the intention of proposing an alliance against the Jade Falcons to representatives from the Smoke Jaguars, an alliance that would also help defend the Alliance against both Federated Commonwealth and [[Clan Wolf]] forces. Arriving at Kiamba on the 12th of February 3058, Katherine instead found that she had arrived while a force from Clan Wolf was returning to its [[JumpShips]] after an assault on Kiamba. Katherine's JumpShip, the ''[[Boadicea]]'', was captured by Clan Wolf, who declared her a [[bondsman]]. Katherine promptly changed plans and instead suggested a mutual alliance to [[Khan]] [[Vlad Ward]] of the Wolves.<ref name="TBOCp6"/>
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====The Jihad====
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The Word of Blake launched a raid on Coventry between 14 and 17 March [[3068]], while also launching raids on [[Donegal]] and [[Hesperus II]]; the three raids all featured support from Blakist [[WarShip]]s or [[Pocket WarShip]]s.<ref name="J:FRp45">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 45: "The Jihad In Review"</ref> The Word of Blake later occupied Coventry, an occupation which would last until March 3074; the liberation began on the 16th of March, when a combined Clan Jade Falcon and [[Lyran Alliance Armed Forces]] task force<ref name="JHS3076p48"/> including the ''[[Aegis (WarShip class)|Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Red Talon|CJF ''Red Talon'']]<ref name="FR:Cp15">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 15: "Fleet Assets"</ref> attacked the Word of Blake blockade of the world. Five days later, the task force had freed Coventry,<ref name="JHS3076p48">''Jihad Hot Spots: 3076'', p. 48: "Timeline of the Jihad"</ref><ref name="J:FRp52">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 52: "The Jihad In Review"</ref> destroying the ''Aegis''-class [[Immortal Spirit|WoBS ''Immortal Spirit'']] in the process.<ref name="J:FRp128">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 128: "Original Word of Blake Fleet"</ref>
  
While Katherine negotiated with the Wolves [[General]] [[Nondi Steiner]] and [[Mandrinn]] [[Tormano Liao]] acted on behalf of the Archon and imposed a communications blackout in an effort to slow the spread of news from the invaded systems and prevent outside factions from learning of any real or imagined weakness on the part of the [[Lyran Alliance Armed Forces]]. [[LAAF]] units in the region were put on high alert, particularly those on the predicted invasion path, and negotiations were conducted to hire mercenary units to augment the LAAF; General Steiner and Mandrinn Liao accurately extrapolated that the intended Jade Falcon target was Coventry.<ref name="TBOCp6"/>
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In the post-[[Jihad]] era the [[Coventry Metal Works]] factories began the daunting task of rebuilding; of all of the facilities across the Lyran Alliance that had been damaged but which could potentially be repaired, Coventry Metal Works was the most heavily damaged.<ref name="J:FRp85">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 85: "Coventry Province"</ref> While Coventry Metal Works had escaped the sheer level of damage inflicted on some other industrial complexes, the Blakists had conducted so many different acts of sabotage on the facilities that the facilities were undergoing constant repair from their liberation onward, a cycle that lasted for years.<ref name="O:LAp3">''Objectives: Lyran Alliance'', p. 3: "Industrial Update"</ref> During this period Coventry continued to operate a refit facility at Trumbley Station based around a Coventry Metal Works warehousing location that developed into a refit facility during the struggle to liberate Coventry. While the site was only performing small-scale assembly work, the refit facility was still producing ''[[Scarabus]]'' and ''[[Stinger]]'' [[BattleMech]]s in 3079 as well as ensuring that the local garrison equipment was being maintained in peak condition.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
  
==== Port St. William Spaceport/Coventry Military Academy ====
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Coventry Military Academy was rebuilt following the liberation of Coventry, with an expanded program that included a technician track, launched in cooperation with Coventry Metal Works because of the company's need for trained, experienced workers. As of 3079, it was common to find senior classmen interning at either the main Coventry Metal Works plant or the Refit Facility at Trumbley Station for periods of a month at a time as a part of the final stages of their education.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
The initial two targets attacked on Coventry by the Jade Falcons were the Port St. William Spaceport and the nearby [[Coventry Military Academy]]. The spaceport was attacked first, although the attack on the Academy began whilst the fighting still raged at the spaceport. The [[2nd Falcon Jaegers (Clan Jade Falcon)|Second Falcon Jaegers]] attacked the spaceport via a high-speed combat drop, battling the Third Battalion of the [[Tenth Skye Rangers]]. [[Kommandant]] [[Heinrich Oheler]] commanded the Third Battalion and was unable to call on air support, but attempted to battle the Jaegers with a combination of a rolling defensive artillery barrage and direct attacks. Due to an error on the part of either Oheler or the fire director the initial artillery bombardment fell short, inflicting damage on local buildings including a large petrochemical storage facility that promptly exploded, inflicting a number of civilian casualties. Although infantry spotters from the Third managed to redirect the artillery and inflict casualties on the Jaegers, the Jaegers successfully pushed the Tenth Skye Rangers forces out of the spaceport, and the Third Battalion withdrew to a location northeast of the city to regroup.<ref name="TBOCp7">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 7, "Learning to Fly"</ref>
 
  
The attack on the Coventry Military Academy was assigned to the [[Jade Falcon Eyrie (Clan Jade Falcon)|Jade Falcon Eyrie Cluster]] and swiftly descended into a conflict split between two distinct styles of warfare. The unit leaders and instructors from the Academy staff and the Jade Falcon Eyrie engaged in a deadly precise long-range battles and ambushes, but the Academy cadets and the unblooded Jade Falcon [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] engaged in close-quarter melees with each other. The Lyran cadets continued to pound defeated Jade Falcon 'Mechs into scrap, rather than tackling fresh targets, while the Jade Falcon warriors continued to brawl with the Academy cadets rather than fight at longer ranges. The defense of the Academy was brutal, but eventually the superior Clan technology proved too much of an advantage, and the surviving Academy cadets and instructors attempted to retreat a predesignated rally point east of the Academy, leaving the Academy in ruins behind them - with the administration and science buildings being destroyed by the retreating Academy forces specifically to keep vital records out of the hands of the Falcons. One small group of trainees failed to understand the orders given by Kommandant [[Luther Rohorson]], the Academy commander, and instead attempted to retreat into Port St. William, where they ran directly into the Second Falcon Jaegers. The shocked cadets fought a desperate battle, refusing to break, but were defeated by the Jaegers with the few survivors being taken as bondsmen.<ref name="TBOCp7A">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 7, "Growing Up Fast"</ref>
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====Dark Age====
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: ''Main Article: [[Battle of Coventry (3148)]]''
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In [[3148]], Clan Jade Falcon invaded Coventry and engaged the defending [[Seventeenth Arcturan Guards]] with seven Clusters. The [[Fifteenth Arcturan Guards]] and [[Second Royal Guards]] arrived as reinforcements. Though [[Hauptmann-General]] [[Jasek Kelswa-Steiner]] was killed in the fighting, the Falcons were once more forced to accept ''[[hegira]]'' to defend their holdings against Clan Wolf.
  
==== Coventry Metal Works ====
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===Military Deployment===
Possibly the most valuable prize on the planet, the Jade Falcon attempt to capture the Coventry Metal Works main processing plant was assigned to the [[Gyrfalcon Eyrie (Clan Jade Falcon)|Gyrfalcon Eyrie Cluster]] under the command of [[Star Colonel]] [[Devin Buhallin]]. The Gyrfalcon Eyrie Cluster also contained a number of unblooded warriors, and due to concerns over likely casualties from any combat drop into the difficult terrain around the factory the Gyrfalcon Eyrie grounded at the nearby factory. The Falcons intended for the attack on the factory to serve as a [[Trial of Position]] for many of the new [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]], but faced a furious defense even before making planetfall. The Coventry Aerospace Defense Force had mustered in the defense of the factory and launched a heavy attack on the Jade Falcon DropShips as they descended, claiming a ''[[Broadsword]]'' and its cargo in the first pass alone. The Gyrfalcon [[aerospace fighter]]s and DropShips engaged in response, but the intensity of the aerial battle was such that Buhallin redirected the DropShips to an alternative landing zone two kilometers further away from the plant, rather than risk trying to land and disembark while in the teeth of a heavy air attack.<ref name="TBOCp8">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 7-8, "A Valuable Prize"</ref>
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* [[133rd Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref name=FMSLDFp255>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 255: "SLDF - Lyran Commonwealth Military Command Map"</ref>
  
The main defending force at the plant was the [[Second Coventry Donegal March Militia]], commanded by Kommandant Claudia Peyman, a veteran of the Clan Invasion. Peyman's troops were reservists and retirees in Succession Wars-era equipment, and she knew that she couldn't win in a direct engagement against Clan [[OmniMech]]s; Peyman had her forces reposition to a point between the grounded Jade Falcon DropShips and then hunker down in prepared positions, not realizing that many of the Jade Falcon 'Mechs were actually second-line 'Mechs, with only the [[Star Commander]]s piloting OmniMechs. The Gyrfalcons closed swiftly on the Coventry Militia's position, only to run into the teeth of a series of strafing runs and attacks from Gamma Flight of the Coventry Aerospace Defense Force. Jade Falcon fighters managed to drive off the CADF fighters, but the Gyrfalcons were then engaged at close range by the Militia 'Mechs. The Gyrfalcons broke up into small groups, with each group attacking an individual Militia position, with the battle swiftly becoming a savage brawl. Star Colonel Buhallin engaged Peyman directly, but was killed by a Militia ''[[Firestarter]]'' that attacked his ''[[Man O' War]]'' from behind, overheating the OmniMech and causing Buhallin to eject before the vengeful ''Firestarter'' pilot turned his machine guns on Buhallin. Even as Buhallin was killed, a Clan fighter strafed the Militia lines, destroying the ''Firestarter'' and its pilot and breaching the cockpit of Peyman's ''[[Banshee (BattleMech)|Banshee]]'', leaving her unconscious. Peyman bled to death while the battle continued; the Militia was ultimately forced to retreat, but the brutal engagement claimed two-thirds of the Gyrfalcons as casualties.<ref name="TBOCp8"/>
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The surviving Lyran forces from the battles at the Academy, Coventry Metal Works and Port St. William attempted to make a strategic retreat into the hinterlands while a number of Jade Falcon commanders attempted to run down the retreating forces; while some of the Jade Falcon pursuits were successful, many failed. The Lyran survivors and those Lyran forces not engaged in the initial attacks promptly launched a guerrilla campaign against the Falcons, as they were unable to bring together enough strength for a full counterattack; meanwhile, the Jade Falcons brought in new troops, frantically trying to replace the losses taken.<ref name="TBOCp8"/>
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* Fourth Royal Guards<ref name="FSWp139"/>
Among the more successful guerrilla actions was that conducted by the First Battalion of the Tenth Skye Rangers. The commanding officer of the First Battalion was Kommandant [[Jorst Sarz]], an incompetent but politically-connected officer. Sarz's response to the news of the approaching Jade Falcon forces was to get roaring drunk; the commanding officer of the First's Second Company, [[Hauptmann]] [[Caradoc Trevena]], promptly assumed command of the First and led them away from their garrison at the Mckenzy molecular Smelter, a hundred kilometers north of Port St. William, and into the canyons, mine tunnels and cave complexes that riddled the Cross-Divide Mountains. From there, Trevena led the First in a series of daring raids and hit and run attacks that forced the Falcons to assign an increasing number of units to trying to pin down the First.<ref name="TBOCp8A">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 8, "Guerrilla Warfare"</ref>
 
 
 
Trevana's raiding campaign culminated in a strike against a Falcon supply base near Collivette guarded by front-line and second line elements of the [[5th Battle (Clan Jade Falcon)|Fifth Battle Cluster]]. A lance from the Second Company of the Tenth Rangers commanded by [[Leftenant]] [[Isobel Murdoch]] struck directly at the depot, destroying the second-line 'Mechs and the [[Elemental]] forces guarding the depot and seizing supplies before fading back into the nearby tunnels; as Murdoch's lance was attacking the depot, Trevana led the other two lances from the Second Company on an attack against the Falcon forces lured away from the depot and into a narrow pass in pursuit of falsified sensor readings. The forces from the First Battalion then regrouped in the subterranean tunnel system, where analysis of the observations made by Murdoch over the apparent regrouping of Jade Falcon forces indicated that either the Jade Falcons were readying to abandon Coventry or were preparing to face a larger, more capable opponent than the First Battalion. The arrival of reinforcements visible in the skies above Coventry confirmed that a relief force had arrived.<ref name="TBOCp8A"/>
 
 
 
==== The Coventry Expeditionary Force ====
 
While the opening battles raged on Coventry, Mandrinn Liao had assembled a mercenary force on [[Tharkad]] intended to act as either a relief force for Coventry or a defensive force for Tharkad, depending on whether the Jade Falcons attempted to push towards Tharkad or not. Hired in Katherine Steiner's name, the core of this Coventry Expeditionary Force (CEF) were [[Delta Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons)|Delta]] and [[Gamma Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons)|Gamma Regiments]] of [[Wolf's Dragoons]], augmented by a regiment from the [[Eridani Light Horse]] (described as the First Light Horse Regiment<ref name="TBOCp9"/> but actually the [[71st Light Horse Regiment|Seventy-first Light Horse Regiment]]<ref name="TBOCp39">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 39, "Scenario 11: Falcon's Nest"</ref>). Tormana also hired [[Waco's Rangers]], despite the antagonism between the Rangers and the Dragoons; Tormana's intention was for the Rangers to either augment the defense of Tharkad or to assist Tormana in escaping from Tharkad if Katherine blamed him personally for the failure of any resulting military operations. Katherine returned to Tharkad ahead of the launch of operations, and insisted that Waco's Rangers deploy alongside the rest of the CEF to liberate Coventry.<ref name="TBOCp9">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 9, "Relief At Last"</ref>
 
 
 
The CEF relief operation began on the 10th of April, with the Eridani Light Horse JumpShips ''[[Bosworth]]'' and ''[[Falkirk]]'' arriving in the Coventry system at the same [[pirate point]] used by the Jade Falcons and deploying the Light Horse in a wave of ''[[Overlord]]'' and ''[[Leopard]]''-class DropShips before jumping out-system. The Light Horse DropShips completed a classic fast-insertion pass, opposed only by Falcon defensive fighter groups as they slowed to deploy the Light Horse forces via high-altitude combat drops. The fighters were unable to prevent the Light Horse forces from making groundfall, and while elements of the [[1st Falcon Striker (Clan Jade Falcon)|First Falcon Striker Cluster]] engaged the Light Horse forces on the ground, the First retreated late in the day when the last of the Light Horse forces landed in the city of Lietnerton.<ref name="TBOCp9"/>
 
 
 
While the Eridani Light Horse battle drew to a close, Delta Regiment of Wolf's Dragoons began their landings; [[Colonel]] [[Shelly Brubaker]] issued a ''[[batchall]]'' to the Jade Falcons in a remarkably brazen fashion, announcing that she intended to attack and destroy the Port St. William spaceport using just one of Delta's three battalions. Star Colonel [[Creed Mattlov]] accepted Brubaker's ''batchall'', declaring that two [[Trinaries]] of the [[12th Falcon Regulars (Clan Jade Falcon)|Twelfth Falcon Regulars]] would meet the Dragoons on the flatlands east of Port St. William. In compliance with the tenets of ''[[zellbrigen]]'' Mattlov allowed the Dragoon DropShip ''[[Bayard]]'' to land uncontested, and Brubaker led the First Battalion of Delta Regiment in an attack on the spaceport. The Dragoon 'Mechs swiftly powered through the initial defenders in their light and medium OmniMechs and went on a fifteen-minute rampage, wreaking havoc as they destroyed facilities, supplies and equipment, before the remaining elements of the two Falcon Trinaries arrived and engaged the Dragoons in a ferocious close-quarter battle. The battle at the Spaceport was more brutal than any yet fought on Coventry, with 'Mechs on both sides not only attacking each other with weapons but also using broken girders as clubs. The savage melee went on for less than twenty minutes before Brubaker called for reinforcements, leaving Mattlov free to bring in additional forces as well; the battle escalated sharply in response, peaking with more than one hundred and fifty 'Mechs and large quantities of armored and unarmored infantry battling in the burning spaceport. The battle finally ended when the Dragoons withdrew, each claiming some form of victory; the Falcons had forced the Dragoons to withdraw, but the Dragoons had inflicted enough damage on the spaceport to make it unusable for the Falcons.<ref name="TBOCp9A">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 9, "Runaway"</ref>
 
 
 
The last of the CEF forces to land on Coventry were the Waco Rangers and a small attached mercenary unit named the [[Crazy Eights]]. Ordered to conduct a DropShip landing rather than a combat drop, the Rangers conducted a landing in the face of stiff opposition, destroying two [[Star]]s of [[OmniFighter]]s and a number of OmniMechs and Elementals in the process, with General [[Ariana Winston]] of the Eridani Light Horse working hard to calm down the tensions between [[Wayne Rogers]] and Brubaker<ref name="TBOCp9A"/> as the Waco Rangers battled the [[3rd Falcon Talon (Clan Jade Falcon)|Third Falcon Talon Cluster]].<ref name="TBOCp33">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 33, "Scenario 9: Ground Zero"</ref>
 
 
 
==== Positioning ====
 
Following the CEF's landing, the Jade Falcon and CEF forces began a series of probing raids, each intended to test the strength of their opponents, while the CEF and the remaining forces from the Coventry garrison attempted to join up. On the 15th of April Hauptmann Trevena successfully managed to link the First Battalion of the Tenth Skye Rangers up with Waco's Rangers - narrowly avoiding a blue-on-blue engagement at first sighting - while the CEF dispatched a task force to help the remains of the Tenth Skye Rangers, the Academy cadets and the remaining Coventry Militia forces out of an enclosed pocket around the town of Whitting.<ref name="TBOCp9B">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 9-10, "Probing the Defenses"</ref>
 
 
 
When the various Lyran and mercenary forces had managed to successfully meet up and regroup around Lietnerton, the CEF command staff initiated a battle plan that revolved a three-pronged attack against the Jade Falcon forces at Port St. William. The first prong was a direct attack on the Jade Falcon forces by Wolf's Dragoons and the Eridani Light Horse; the second prong was the remaining Coventry Militia, Academy and Skye Rangers forces, who were to act as a screening force, preventing more mobile Jade Falcon formations reinforcing the forces at Port St. William, while the third prong was a deep raid on the Jade Falcon rear elements, to be conducted by Waco's Rangers and the Crazy Eights. To get in position, the Waco Rangers would have had to be led through a local region known as the Dales by Trevena and the Second Company of the Tenth Skye Rangers, avoiding contact with the Jade Falcons until after the main attack on Port St. William was underway.<ref name="TBOCp9B"/>
 
 
 
The Jade Falcons had been laying plans of their own; Star Colonel [[Arimas Malthus]] didn't believe the intelligence reports that indicated that Waco's Rangers had been left in Lietnerton to guard the CEF base, based on the known hatred between the Rangers and the Dragoons, and Malthus accurately predicted that the Rangers were actually being deployed elsewhere, and identified the Dales as the most likely location. Malthus formed two ad-hoc Clusters, designated Harrier group and Red Tail group, by skimming elements from the three [[Galaxy|Galaxies]] of Jade Falcon forces gathered at Port St. William. Harrier consisted of light OmniMechs, while Red Tail was formed from heavy and assault elements, and the two Clusters were tasked with putting an ambush in place in the Dales. Malthus' plan stretched the boundaries of the Clan honor system, but Khan [[Marthe Pryde]] endorsed it based upon its tactical soundness, albeit while banning the Falcons from engaging in any similarly deceptive tactics in future engagements.<ref name="TBOCp9B"/>
 
 
 
Malthus' ambush proved  highly successful; Harrier group engaged the Waco Rangers and Crazy Eights, leading them into a large field between the Dales and Port St. William, and the Red Tail group launched a heavy assault on the mercenaries once all the mercenary 'Mechs were in the field. The ambush destroyed more than four-fifths of the Waco Rangers and Crazy Eights, and losses would've been higher if Trevena's company hadn't fought a delaying action to assist them; it was only the arrival of Delta Regiment of Wolf's Dragoons, deployed to relieve Waco's forces, that the Waco Rangers and Crazy Eights escaped annihilation.<ref name="TBOCp9B"/>
 
 
 
==== Siege of Lietnerton ====
 
With the attack on Port St. William disrupted by the need to rescue the Waco Rangers and Crazy Eights, the CEF was forced to withdraw back to Lietnerton and wait for relief. The Jade Falcons lay siege to the city, keeping the pressure up on the CEF and the remaining Coventry garrison forces, while the CEF supply of parts, ammunition, armor and uninjured personnel steadily dwindled. On the 8th of May, having kept the siege up for weeks, the Jade Falcons launched a major attack on Lietnerton. The Eyrie Cluster led the attack, launching a spearhead against the surviving Tenth Skye Rangers and Coventry Militia forces, but despite being exhausted, the defenders refused to break or abandon their position. Kommandant [[Jasper Greer]] of the Skye Rangers used artillery support from the one remaining Rangers Thumper battery to slow the Falcon attack, while General Ariana Winston deployed aerospace forces in support; the battle raged for four hours before the Jade Falcons withdrew, unable to breach the defenses in the face of the combined artillery and air strikes, with both sides having taken heavy casualties.<ref name="TBOCp10">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 10-11, "Siege and Relief"</ref>
 
 
 
The Jade Falcons launched another attack on the 9th of May, this time attempting to support their attack with artillery by deploying mobile Long Tom artillery pieces captured from the Tenth Skye Rangers main base. The Clan warriors were inexperienced in the use of artillery, and as a result their efforts were largely unsuccessful, with the majority of the artillery shells overflying the fortifications and landing in the deserted civilian regions of Lietnerton. Unfazed by the poor artillery barrage, [[Colonel]] [[Sandra Barclay]] of the Eridani Light Horse used the defenders artillery pieces to launch a barrage against the attacking Trinary Alpha of the [[305th Assault (Clan Jade Falcon)|305th Assault Cluster]] before destroying the Falcon's captured artillery pieces in a furious counter-battery bombardment.<ref name="TBOCp10"/>
 
 
 
Star Colonel Arimas Malthus attempted to respond to the loss of his artillery by deploying aerospace fighters under the command of [[Star Captain]] [[Janice Folkner]] with some initial success at providing close-air support, but Barclay responded by deploying the Eridani Light Horse's own fighters to interdict the Clan fighters, and after a hard-fought battle on the ground and in the air, the Jade Falcons retreated again.<ref name="TBOCp10"/>
 
 
 
The Lyran forces attempted to launch a counterstrike on May the 10th, intending to attack the marshaling areas used by the Jade Falcons and thereby disrupt any planned attacks; the plan composed by [[General]] [[Judith Niemyer]] of the Coventry Militia and General Winston called for an initial aerial bombardment followed by a ground assault led by Wolf's Dragoons, but a storm front closed in just as the Lyran aerospace fighters had finished launching. The Lyran aerospace forces attempted to complete their mission despite the weather, only to be discovered by chance by Jade Falcon fighters. As the two groups began engaging each other additional Lyran fighters scrambled, many only partially-fueled and armed, and a sprawling dogfight ensued. The Jade Falcon fighters fought doggedly, forcing many of the Lyran fighters assigned to the initial attack to ditch their air-to-ground ordnance, and as a consequence the Lyran attack had to be called off.<ref name="TBOCp11">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 11, "Foiled by Fate"</ref>
 
 
 
==== Relief ====
 
The ground campaign on Coventry had effectively bogged down the Jade Falcon advance, but Katherine Steiner had finally issued requests for assistance to the other Inner Sphere nations. [[Captain-General]] [[Thomas Marik]] of the Free Worlds League had dispatched the [[Knights of the Inner Sphere]] to assist in the defense of Tharkad, whilst [[Chancellor]] [[Sun-Tzu Liao]] dispatched the [[Harloc Raiders]] with similar orders. Katherine dispatched both regiments along with the remaining three regiments of Wolf's Dragoons and the [[Eleventh Lyran Guards]] to relieve the CEF.<ref name="TBOCp12A">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 12, "A Strange Alliance"</ref>
 
 
 
Katherine had also contacted [[Victor Steiner-Davion]] for assistance, but deliberately underestimated the strength of the Jade Falcon forces on Coventry, possibly in an effort to engineer his injury or death in any relief effort. Victor was on [[Tukayyid]] participating in a [[ComStar]]-led series of wargames when the Jade Falcon incursion began, along with a number of other senior leaders from various factions, all of whom had been following the available reports of the fighting closely. Despite many of the forces on Tukayyid having been bitter rivals only a few years before the incursion, Victor was able to assemble a force consisting of two regiments of the [[Kell Hounds]] drawn from their base on [[Arc-Royal]], along with the [[Davion Heavy Guards]], the [[First Genyosha]], the [[First St. Ives Lancers]] and the [[Com Guard]] [[Invader Galaxy]], and led them on a separate relief mission to Coventry.<ref name="TBOCp12A"/>
 
 
 
==== Whitting ====
 
While the two relief forces traveled to Coventry, the remains of the CEF launched an attack based on a plan devised by Trevena. Bolstered by a quantity of ammunition, spare parts, field rations and medical supplies recovered from the caves under the Cross-Divide Mountains after the former quartermaster of the Tenth Skye Rangers was rescued amidst a group of refugees and informed them of the equipment cache's location, a mixed group led by Colonel Brubaker and drawn from Delta Regiment, Trevena's Scond company and a unit of dismounted MechWarriors and infantry formed into a tactical-response unit crossed the Cross-Divide Mountains using tunnel complexes the Jade Falcons hadn't discovered and launched an attack on the Falcons at Whitting on the 30th of May.<ref name="TBOCp12B">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 12-13, "A Whitting"</ref>
 
 
 
As planned, Brubakers troops lured out the bulk of the Jade Falcon defenders and led them to the north; while a mobile battle between Delta Regiment and the Falcons raged back and forth, Trevena led his company into Whitting from the south and attacked the Jade Falcon headquarters there. Trevena's forces easily captured the town hall and the headquarters inside it, and spent forty minutes ransacking the location, gathering a raft of useful intelligence and capturing Star Colonel Arimas Malthus, before retreating from Whitting.<ref name="TBOCp12B"/>
 
 
 
==== Hegira ====
 
Following the success of the Whitting raid, the CEF remained determined to continue fighting against the Jade Falcons, and put in place plans to disperse its forces into small groups and wage a guerrilla campaign from the mountains. Work was underway to implement this plan when Victor Steiner-Davion arrived with the relief force on the 5th of June, all under the nominal command of [[Precentor Martial]] [[Anastasius Focht]]. The allied forces had correctly assumed that Focht's status following the victory on Tukayyid in 3052 would give him some influence over the Jade Falcons, and acting on advice from the former Prince of the [[Free Rasalhague Republic]] (and current [[Clan Wolf-in-Exile]] bondsman) Victor used his position as second-in-command to Focht to request ''[[safcon]]'' from the Jade Falcons. Marthe Pryde granted the allied forces ''safcon'', announcing her intention ahead of any ''batchall'' to defend Coventry with all of her forces.<ref name="TBOCp13">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 13, "Endgame"</ref>
 
 
 
Grounding at Lietnerton with permission from the Jade Falcons, the two groups exchanged force reports in accordance with Clan tradition before the leaders from each assembled at Whitting for the formal ''batchall'' four days later. Victor was faced with the knowledge that the two forces were approximately equal in strength, and that any resulting combat would inevitably be a long, drawn-out, damaging battle. He also knew that he couldn't afford to simply rescue the remaining elements of the CEF and the Coventry garrison, because that would be perceived as a devastating defeat for the Federated Commonwealth, the Inner Sphere, and him personally - a defeat that would likely escalate diplomatically and militarily, threatening the dissolution of the tenuously friendly bonds between the Federated Commonwealth and the [[Draconis Combine]], as well as military gambits by the Free Worlds League and Capellan Confederation and efforts by the [[Word of Blake]] to displace Focht and Victor and further disrupt ComStar. Marthe Pryde was faced with a similar dilemma, as a message from Khan Ward of Clan Wolf had been received shortly before the arrival of the relief force, informing her that the Wolves were positioning forces with every intention of launching an invasion into the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone. Removing her forces from Coventry to defend the Occupation Zone would be perceived as an act of desperate weakness by the other Clans, inevitably resulting in her Clan being attacked en masse because of that perceived weakness, while leaving so much of the Jade Falcon ''touman'' locked in a destructive battle on Coventry would cede an unknown number of worlds to Clan Wolf, weakening the Jade Falcons - possibly fatally.<ref name="TBOCp13"/>
 
 
 
When it came to the official negotiations, Victor surprised both Marthe Pryde and the other Jade Falcons in attendance by offering them ''[[hegira]]''. No Inner Sphere commander had ever attempted to invoke the rite of ''hegira'', which would allow the Jade Falcons to leave as a defeated opponent, but one with their forces and honor intact. Marthe Pryde accepted the offer and the Jade Falcon forces withdrew from Coventry. All prisoners were exchanged in accordance with Clan traditions, with those freed including Colonel Wayne Rogers. Hauptmann Trevena was offered a position within Wolf's Dragoons, but instead accepted a promotion from Victor to the rank of [[Leftenant General]] within the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth]], and was assigned to reviewing all future force operations of the Inner Sphere's anti-Clan coalition. The Jade Falcon withdrawal from Coventry left Victor in a position of additional influence in the Inner Sphere, while frustrating Katherine's efforts to become a noted peacemaker, laying the foundations for future operations against the Clans.<ref name="TBOCp13"/>
 
  
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The [[Word of Blake]] launched a raid on Coventry between the 14th and 17th of March [[3068]], while also launching raids on [[Donegal]] and [[Hesperus II]]; the three raids all featured support from Blakist [[WarShip]]s or [[Pocket WarShip]]s.<ref name="J:FRp45">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 45, "The Jihad In Review"</ref> The Word of Blake later occupied Coventry, an occupation which would last until March 3074; the liberation began on the 16th of March, when a combined Clan Jade Falcon and [[Lyran Alliance Armed Forces]] task force<ref name="JHS3076p48"/> including the ''[[Aegis]]''-class heavy cruiser [[Red Talon|CJF ''Red Talon'']]<ref name="FR:Cp15">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 15, "Fleet Assets"</ref> attacked the Word of Blake blockade of the world. Five days later, the task force had freed Coventry,<ref name="JHS3076p48">''Jihad Hot Spots: 3076'', p. 48, "Timeline of the Jihad"</ref><ref name="J:FRp52">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 52, "The Jihad In Review"</ref> destroying the ''Aegis''-class [[Immortal Spirit|WoBS ''Immortal Spirit'']] in the process.<ref name="J:FRp128">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 128, "Original Word Of Blake Fleet"</ref>
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* [[First Coventry Citizens Regiment]]<ref name=HB:HSp52>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 52: "Unwelcome, Unexpected, Unprepared"</ref>
  
In the post-[[Jihad]] era the [[Coventry Metal Works]] factories began the daunting task of rebuilding; of all of the facilities across the Lyran Alliance that had been damaged but which could potentially be repaired, Coventry Metal Works was the most heavily damaged.<ref name="J:FRp85">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 85, "Coventry Province"</ref> While Coventry Metal Works had escaped the sheer level of damage inflicted on some other industrial complexes, the Blakists had conducted so many different acts of sabotage on the facilities that the facilities were undergoing constant repair from their liberation onward, a cycle that lasted for years.<ref name="O:LAp3">''Objectives: Lyran Alliance'', p. 3, "Industrial Update"</ref> During this period Coventry continued to operate a refit facility at Trumbley Station based around a Coventry Metal Works warehousing location that developed into a refit facility during the struggle to liberate Coventry. While the site was only performing small-scale assembly work, the refit facility was still producing ''[[Scarabus]]'' and ''[[Stinger]]'' [[BattleMech]]s in 3079 as well as ensuring that the local garrison equipment was being maintained in peak condition.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
====3025====
 +
* [[Third Royal Guards]]<ref name=HS119>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 119: "Unit Deployment Table"</ref><ref name="NAIS4SWp45">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 45: "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"</ref>
  
[[Coventry Military Academy]] was rebuilt following the liberation of Coventry, with an expanded program that included a technician track, launched in cooperation with Coventry Metal Works because of the company's need for trained, experienced workers. As of 3079 it was common to find senior classmen interning at either the main Coventry Metal Works plant or the Refit Facility at Trumbley Station for periods of a month at a time as a part of the final stages of their education.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
====3038====
 
+
* [[Coventry Donegal March Militia]]<ref name=H:Wo3039>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 138: "Deployment Table"</ref>
== Military Deployment ==
 
===2764===
 
* [[133rd Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref>Field Manual: SLDF, p. 255, "SLDF - Lyran Commonwealth Military Command Map"</ref>
 
 
 
===2786===
 
* [[Fourth Royal Guards]]<ref name="FSWp139">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 139, "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"</ref>
 
 
 
===2821===
 
* Fourth Royal Guards<ref name="FSWp139"/>
 
 
 
===3025===
 
* [[Third Royal Guards]]<ref name=HS119>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 119, "Unit Deployment Table"</ref><ref name="NAIS4SWp45">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p.45, "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"</ref>
 
 
 
===3038===
 
* [[Coventry Donegal March Militia]]<ref name=H:Wo3039>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 138, "Deployment Table"</ref>
 
 
* Third Royal Guards [[RCT]]<ref name=H:Wo3039/>
 
* Third Royal Guards [[RCT]]<ref name=H:Wo3039/>
 +
{{column}}
 +
====3050====
 +
* [[166th Division (ComStar)|166th Division]]<ref name=20YU71>''20 Year Update'', p. 71: "Com Guards Deployment Table"</ref>
  
===3050===
+
====3058====
* [[166th Division (ComStar)|166th Division]]<ref name=20YU71>''20 Year Update'', p. 71, "Com Guards Deployment Table"</ref>
+
* [[Tenth Skye Rangers]]
 +
* Coventry Donegal March Militia
 +
* [[Coventry Military Academy|Coventry Military Academy Training Battalion]]
 +
<ref name=OTPFI>''Operational Turning Points: Falcon Incursion'' </ref><ref name=TBOC>''The Battle of Coventry''</ref>
  
===3059===
+
====3059====
* [[Kristen's Krushers]]<ref name=FMM109>''Field Manual: Mercenaries'', p. 109, "Mercenary Deployment Table"</ref>
+
* [[Kristen's Krushers]]<ref name=FMM109>''Field Manual: Mercenaries'', p. 109: "Mercenary Deployment Table"</ref>
  
===3061===
+
====3061====
* [[First Coventry Jaegers]]<ref name=SS50>''Shattered Sphere'', p. 50, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"</ref>
+
* [[First Coventry Jaegers]]<ref name=SS50>''Shattered Sphere'', p. 50: "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"</ref>
 
 
===3061===
 
 
* Coventry CPM<ref name=SS50/>
 
* Coventry CPM<ref name=SS50/>
 +
{{column}}
 +
====3067====
 +
* Coventry CPM<ref name=FMU178>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 178: "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"</ref>
  
===3067===
+
====3079====
* Coventry CPM<ref name=FMU178>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 178, "Lyran Alliance Deploment Table"</ref>
+
* Third Royal Guards<ref name="FR:LAAFp14">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 14: "Royal Guards Regimental Status"</ref><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
:- At this point in time the Third was operating at 50% of full strength, with 100% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.
  
===3079===
+
====3085====
* Third Royal Guards<ref name="FR:LAAFp14">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 14, "Royal Guards Regimental Status"</ref><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
* Coventry CPM<ref name=FM:3085p108>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 108: "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
:- At this point in time the Third operating at 50% of full strength, with 100% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.
 
 
 
===3085===
 
* Coventry CPM<ref name=FM:3085p108>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 108, "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
 
 
* [[Coventry Training Battalion]]<ref name=FM:3085p108/>
 
* [[Coventry Training Battalion]]<ref name=FM:3085p108/>
  
===3145===
+
====3145====
* [[Seventeenth Arcturan Guards]] [[RCT]]<ref name=FM:3145p132>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 132, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces - Coventry Province"</ref>
+
* [[Seventeenth Arcturan Guards]] [[RCT]]<ref name=FM:3145p132>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 132: "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces - Coventry Province"</ref>
 
* Coventry CPM<ref name=FM:3145p132/>
 
* Coventry CPM<ref name=FM:3145p132/>
 +
{{columns-end}}
  
== Geography ==  
+
===Geography===
Coventry has four major continents named Auckland, Dunnigan, Sydnallia and Veracruz.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
Coventry has four major continents named Auckland, Dunnigan, Sydnallia, and Veracruz.<ref name="O:LAp16"/> Dunnigan and Veracruz form a single landmass separated by the Cross-Divide Mountains. The world has several large seas and mild seasons making for ideal agricultural production.<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
  
== Planetary Locations ==
+
===Planetary Locations===
* Castle Arianrod: Birth place of [[Harrison Bradford]].<ref name=HS:TLCp154>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'' - "Harrison Bradford profile", p. 154</ref>
+
* Amman: small island subcontinent, a popular tourist destination<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
* Coeville: site of a notable battle between the Thirty-first Battalion of the Coventry Militia and the [[7th Falcon Regulars (Clan Jade Falcon)|Seventh Falcon Regulars]] during the Jade Falcon Incursion.<ref name="TBOCp30">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 30, "Scenario 8: Horror Show"</ref>
+
* Auckland: a cool southern continent<ref name="O:LAp16"/><ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
* Cross-Divide Mountains: a mountain chain near Port St. William riddled with cave complexes and mine workings large enough for BattleMechs to negotiate.<ref name="TBOCp8A"/>
+
** New Toronto: metropolis located near [[New Cambridge University of Wessex]]<ref name="HB:HSp117">''Handbook: House Steiner'': "New Cambridge University of Wessex", p. 117</ref>
* Fort Lawrence: the location of the Coventry Military Academy on Dunnigan.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
* Dunnigan: a continent<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
* Lietnerton: a city on Coventry.<ref name="TBOCp9"/>
+
** Cross-Divide Mountains: a north-south mountain chain near Port St. William riddled with cave complexes and mine workings large enough for BattleMechs to negotiate. It separates the continents of Veracruz and Dunnigan.<ref name="TBOCp8A"/><ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name=TAc3>''The Anvil'', ch. 3</ref>
* McKenzy Molecular Smelter: industrial site located roughly one hundred kilometers north of Fort Lawrence.<ref name="TBOCp8A"/>
+
** Port Lawrence<!--Objectives: Lyran Alliance uses Fort Lawrence, all others use Port Lawrence-->: located on the edge of the Cascade Heights of the Cascade Valley, with a Windy Climate<ref name="O:LAp16"/><ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
* New Toronto: metropolis located near [[New Cambridge University of Wessex]].<ref name = "HB:HSp117">''Handbook: House Steiner'', "New Cambridge University of Wessex", p. 117</ref>
+
*** [[Coventry Military Academy]]<ref name="O:LAp16"/><ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
* Nuevo Giza: the location on Sydnallia of the main planetary militia base.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
** McKenzy Molecular Smelter: industrial site located roughly 100 km north of Port Lawrence<ref name="TBOCp8A">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 8: "Guerrilla Warfare"</ref>
* Port St. William: the planetary capital city, located on Veracruz. Also the location of the main Coventry Metal Works facility.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
* Sydnallia: a large island continent southeast of Dunnigan<ref name="O:LAp16"/><ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
* Trumbley Station: the location of the Coventry Metal Works Refit Facility on Veracruz.<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
** [[Greenbill Aerospace]]<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
* Whitting: town on Veracruz; site of several battles during the Jade Falcon Incursion.<ref name="TBOCp13"/>
+
** Nuevo Giza: located in wetlands with a Rainy climate<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
*** Coventry Planetary Militia<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
* Veracruz: a continent<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
** Bradford Uplands: an area of rough terrain within 2 km west of Coventry Metal Works<ref name=TBOCp18>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 18: "Scenario 3: First Fire"</ref>
 +
** Colivette: a small town near the Cross-Divide Mountains<ref name=TBOCp25>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 25: "Scenario 6: Supply and Demand"</ref>
 +
** Cross-Divide Mountains: a mountain chain near Port St. William riddled with cave complexes and mine workings large enough for BattleMechs to negotiate. It separates the continents of Veracruz and Dunnigan.<ref name="TBOCp8A"/><ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
 +
** The Dales: a wild hilly region between Lietnerton to the east and Port St. William to the west/northwest with many [[Coventry Fir|Coventry fir]] trees<ref name=TiSS>''Thus It Shall Stand''</ref><ref name="TBOCp10">''The Battle of Coventry'', pp. 10–11: "Siege and Relief"</ref>
 +
*** Parish Highway: a highway that runs along the south edge of The Dales and runs east into Lietnerton<ref name=TAc6>''The Anvil'', ch. 6</ref>
 +
** Guite: a town twenty kilometers southwest of Port St William, just south of the Ochoa River<ref name=TAc8>''The Anvil'', ch. 8</ref>
 +
** Lietnerton: a city north of Port St Willaim. 150km southwest of here are the woods Waco's Rangers used as an LZ in 3058<ref name="TBOCp9">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 9: "Relief at Last"</ref><ref name=RGIV2p13>''Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 3'', p. 13: "Zeus"</ref><ref name=TBOCp33>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 33: "Scenario 9: Ground Zero"</ref>
 +
** Ochoar River: a river south of Port St William and just north of Guite. A single highway bridge connects the two.<ref name=TAc8/>
 +
** Port St. William: the planetary capital city with a Mild climate<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
*** Bradford District: southern area of the city<ref name=TBOCp21>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 21: "Scenario 4: Night Strike"</ref>
 +
*** [[Coventry Metal Works]]<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
*** Coventry Training Academy
 +
** Ridesein River Valley: North of Port St. William<ref name=TBOCp27>''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 27: "Scenario 7: Inelegant Brawl"</ref>
 +
*** Ridesein River: a river
 +
** Trumbley Station: Located in woodlands with a mild climate<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
*** [[Coventry Metal Works Refit Facility]]<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
** Whitting: a city with a small river running through it from the east. Site of several battles during the Jade Falcon Incursion, destroyed in 3148.<ref name="TBOCp13">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 13: "Endgame"</ref><ref name=TAc4>''The Anvil'', ch. 4</ref>
 +
* Vestal: small island subcontinent, a popular tourist destination<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
  
== Industrial Centers ==
+
Unspecified locations:
* [[Coventry Metal Works]]<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
+
* Castle Arianrod: Birth place of [[Harrison Bradford (Duke)|Harrison Bradford]].<ref name=HS:TLCp154>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 154: "Harrison Bradford profile"</ref>
 +
* Coeville: a city. Site of a notable battle between the Thirty-first Battalion of the Coventry Militia and the [[7th Falcon Regulars (Clan Jade Falcon)|Seventh Falcon Regulars]] during the Jade Falcon Incursion.<ref name="TBOCp30">''The Battle of Coventry'', p. 30: "Scenario 8: Horror Show"</ref><ref>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 103: "Rho Galaxy - 7th Falcon Regulars (Hazen's Hussars)"</ref>
 +
* Port Nichols: a city near Hannah's Ridge<ref>''Patriots and Tyrants'', p. 246</ref>
 +
* Staffordville<ref name=H:HSp135>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 135: "Bountiful Delicacies (BoDel)"</ref>
 +
 
 +
===Industrial Centers===
 +
* [[Bountiful Delicacies]]<ref name=H:HSp135/>
 +
* [[Coventry Metal Works]]<ref name="HB:HSp80"/><ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
* [[Coventry Metal Works Refit Facility]]<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 
* [[Coventry Metal Works Refit Facility]]<ref name="O:LAp16"/>
 +
* [[Greenbill Aerospace]] - civilian air and aerospace craft<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
 +
* [[McKenzy Molecular Smelters]], a division of [[Ceres Metals]]<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
 +
* [[Nashan Computers]], a division of [[Nashan Diversified]] - Corporate headquarters and at least five primary factories<ref name="HB:HSp80"/>
  
== Image gallery ==
+
===Local Flora and Fauna===
 +
* [[Coventry Fir]]<ref name=TiSS/>
 +
 
 +
===Image gallery===
 
<gallery>
 
<gallery>
 
File:Coventry Flag.jpg|Planetary Flag of Coventry
 
File:Coventry Flag.jpg|Planetary Flag of Coventry
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
  
== Notes ==
+
==Notes==
The electronic version of ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]'' gives the recharge time of ships in the Coventry system as 210 hours.<ref name="HB:HSp80"/> This differs from the recharge time given in other publications for class F4V stars and from the entry on Coventry in ''[[Objectives: Lyran Alliance]]'', which instead state a recharge time of 175 hours.<ref name="O:LAp16"/> The time quoted in ''Objectives: Lyran Alliance'' has been used in this article.
+
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]'' gives the recharge time of ships in the Coventry system as 210 hours.<ref name="HB:HSp80"/> This differs from the recharge time given in other publications for class F4V stars and from the entry on Coventry in ''[[Objectives: Lyran Alliance]]'', which instead state a recharge time of 175 hours.<ref name="O:LAp16"/> The time quoted in ''Objectives: Lyran Alliance'' has been used in this article.
 +
 
 +
==Map Gallery==
 +
<div class="system-map-gallery"></div>
  
 
== Nearby Systems ==
 
== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)<br> Closest systems first:
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{|class="wikitable nearby-systems" style="background: #gray; text-align:center; border: 1px solid black;"
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! colspan="8" | Closest 28 systems (25 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Sabhal Mòr Ostaig]]
+
| class="lessthan30" | [[Sabhal Mòr_Ostaig|Sabhal Mòr Ostaig]]
| 16.6
+
| class="lessthan30" | 16.6
| [[Tsinan]]
+
| class="lessthan30" | [[Tsinan]]
| 20.8
+
| class="lessthan30" | 20.8
| [[Caledea]]
+
| class="lessthan30" | [[Caledea]]
| 26.1
+
| class="lessthan30" | 26.1
| [[Prydain]]
+
| class="lessthan30" | [[Prydain]]
| 28.4
+
| class="lessthan30" | 28.4
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Krievci]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Krievci]]
| 33.0
+
| class="over30" | 33.0
| [[Guatavita]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Guatavita]]
| 33.1
+
| class="over30" | 33.1
| [[Pobeda]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Pobeda]]
| 34.6
+
| class="over30" | 34.6
| [[Saravan]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Saravan]]
| 38.8
+
| class="over30" | 38.8
 
|-
 
|-
| [[New Capetown]]
+
| class="over30" | [[New Capetown]]
| 39.9
+
| class="over30" | 39.9
| [[Conley's Patch]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Conley's Patch]]
| 40.7
+
| class="over30" | 40.7
| [[Biuque]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Biuque]]
| 42.1
+
| class="over30" | 42.1
| [[Goetville]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Goetville]]
| 42.8
+
| class="over30" | 42.8
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Vorzel]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Vorzel]]
| 47.1
+
| class="over30" | 47.1
| [[Upano]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Upano]]
| 48.1
+
| class="over30" | 48.1
| [[Richvale]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Richvale]]
| 49.4
+
| class="over30" | 49.4
| [[Gulf Breeze]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Gulf Breeze|Commonwealth Mining Outpost 26]]
| 49.8
+
| class="over30" | 49.7
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Tapihue]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Tapihue]]
| 50.0
+
| class="over30" | 50.0
| [[Wrociaw]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Wrociaw]]
| 50.5
+
| class="over30" | 50.5
| [[Jatznik]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Jatznik]]
| 53.4
+
| class="over30" | 53.4
| [[Loxley]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Loxley]]
| 54.5
+
| class="over30" | 54.5
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Bayis II]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Bayis]]
| 54.9
+
| class="over30" | 54.9
| [[Ellengurg]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Ellengurg]]
| 55.1
+
| class="over30" | 55.1
| [[Windsor]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Windsor]]
| 57.1
+
| class="over30" | 57.1
| [[Incukalns]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Incukalns]]
| 57.4
+
| class="over30" | 57.4
 
|-
 
|-
| [[Storfors]]
+
| class="over30" | [[Storfors]]
| 58.1
+
| class="over30" | 58.1
|
+
| class="over60" | [[Recife]]
|
+
| class="over60" | 60.3
|
+
| class="over60" | [[Reese Station]]
|
+
| class="over60" | 61.2
|
+
| class="over60" | [[Sargasso]]
|
+
| class="over60" | 62.4
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
== References ==
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==References==
 
<references/>
 
<references/>
  
== Bibliography ==
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==Bibliography==
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{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
 
* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
 
* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
 
* ''[[The Battle of Coventry (scenario pack)|The Battle of Coventry]]''
 
* ''[[The Battle of Coventry (scenario pack)|The Battle of Coventry]]''
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* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''  
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
 +
* ''[[Field Manual: Mercenaries]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Mercenaries]]''
 
 
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: Clans]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: Clans]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: LAAF]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: LAAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (Source Book)|First Succession War]]''
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* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
 
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
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* ''[[Jihad Hot Spots: 3076]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Hot Spots: 3076]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[http://home.ifi.uio.no/~oysteint/btech/maps/IS_3130.pdf Map of the Inner Sphere 3130]''
 
 
* ''[[MechWarrior (1989 Video Game)]]''
 
* ''[[MechWarrior (1989 Video Game)]]''
 
* ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1]]''
 
* ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1]]''
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* ''[[Operational Turning Points: Falcon Incursion]]
 
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
 
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
 
* ''[[Shattered Sphere]]''
 
* ''[[Shattered Sphere]]''
 +
* ''[[Thus It Shall Stand]]'' (in: ''[[BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction]]'')
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{{div col end}}
  
[[Category:Planets|Coventry]]
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[[Category:Systems|Coventry]]
[[Category: Lyran Alliance Planets]]
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[[Category: Lyran Alliance Systems]]
[[Category: Lyran Commonwealth Planets]]
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[[Category: Lyran Commonwealth Systems]]

Latest revision as of 02:54, 14 March 2024

This article is about the planetary system. For the battlecruiser, see Coventry (Individual Tharkad-class WarShip).


Coventry
Coventry 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-257.862 : 221.263[e]
Star names1
Spectral classF4V[1][2]
Recharge time175 hours[2]
Recharge station(s)Nadir, Zenith[1][2]

The Coventry system was home to at least one habitable world, Coventry III, and as of 3151, it was the administrative capital of the Coventry Province of the Lyran Commonwealth.[3]

System Description[edit]

The Coventry system is located near the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and Tsinan systems[4][5] and consists of a class F4V primary orbited by at least three worlds. During the thirty-first century a recharge station was in place at the both the nadir and zenith jump points.[1][2]

System History[edit]

The Coventry system was colonized at some point in the late twenty-fourth century, after the founding of the Lyran Commonwealth.[6][7]

Political Affiliation[edit]


Coventry III[edit]

Coventry III
Coventry Orbital View.jpg
Astrophysical
System positionThird[1][2]
Jump Point distance16.10 days[1][2]
Moons1 (Wellston)[1][2]
Geophysical
Surface gravity1.01[1][2]
Atmospheric pressureStandard (Breathable)[1][2]
Equatorial temperature35°C (Mild-Temperate)[1][2]
Surface water80%[1][2]
Highest native lifeMammals[1][2]
Landmasses4 (Auckland, Dunnigan, Sydnallia, Veracruz)[2]
History and Culture
Population1,549,000,000 (3025),[39]
3,721,000,000 (3058),[40]
3,785,000,000 (3067),[1]
3,623,000,000 (3079)[2]
Government and Infrastructure
Noble RulerDuke of Coventry
Political LeaderPlanetary Chairman
CapitalPort St. William[1]
HPG ClassA[1][2]
HPG RepresentativePrecentor Nora Baken (3025)[39]

Coventry III, more commonly referred to simply as Coventry, is the third planet in the system and has a single moon named Wellston. Coventry is a major industrial world and has served as the administrative capital of a province within the Lyran Commonwealth.[2]

Planetary History[edit]

Age of War[edit]

During the last fifteen years of Archon Robert Marsden's rule the new wealth generated by the resurgent economy of the Lyran Commonwealth gave the military the resources to engage in new experiments, and those experiments in turn generated the inspiration for a large military sciences center on Coventry.[7]

In 2461, Coventry was the site of a Draconis Combine raid that secured the designs for BattleMechs, giving the Combine the technology that—for a brief period of time—was giving the Lyran Commonwealth the superior advantage in combat.[8][41]

Coventry grew to become a major trade center within the Lyran Commonwealth and both an industrial and agricultural powerhouse. At various points a number of major military manufacturers had facilities on Coventry but the planet managed to retain the look of a paradise and even had a moderate tourism business based around various islands.[40]

Star League[edit]

During the final years of the Star League, Coventry was the host to a Star League Defense Force garrison. In an attempt to bond with the local populace and keep their skills up, the resident SLDF commander arranged a series of training missions with the local Coventry Military Academy. At first things went well, but as both sides grew more competitive, a brawl between the students and the SLDF soldiers broke out. This helped to create a divisive atmosphere.[42][43]

Succession Wars and Later[edit]

Coventry was target of many assaults; notable conflicts included: a deep raid by the Free Worlds League in 3006, highlighting the weakness of Archon Alessandro Steiner's Operation CONCENTRATED WEAKNESS,[44] Clan Jade Falcon's Incursion from 15 March to 10 May 3058, FedCom Civil War revolts in 3062, the Word of Blake's occupation of Coventry during the Jihad and the subsequent liberation of Coventry in 3074.

The Jade Falcon Incursion[edit]

Main Article: Battle of Coventry (3058)

Coventry was the final battle of the Jade Falcon Incursion of 3058. The Tenth Skye Rangers, Coventry Donegal March Militia, and Coventry Military Academy Training Battalion fought the Falcons for nearly a month, until being relieved by an Expeditionary Force of mostly mercenaries. The CEF was likewise battled to a standstill and faced a guerilla-style war, hoping to eventually wear the Falcons down, until a multinational relief force led by ComStar Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht arrived from Tukayyid. Prince Victor Davion extended hegira to Khan Marthe Pryde, who returned to the Occupation Zone with no territory changing hands, ending three months of fighting.

The Jihad[edit]

The Word of Blake launched a raid on Coventry between 14 and 17 March 3068, while also launching raids on Donegal and Hesperus II; the three raids all featured support from Blakist WarShips or Pocket WarShips.[45] The Word of Blake later occupied Coventry, an occupation which would last until March 3074; the liberation began on the 16th of March, when a combined Clan Jade Falcon and Lyran Alliance Armed Forces task force[46] including the Aegis-class heavy cruiser CJF Red Talon[47] attacked the Word of Blake blockade of the world. Five days later, the task force had freed Coventry,[46][48] destroying the Aegis-class WoBS Immortal Spirit in the process.[49]

In the post-Jihad era the Coventry Metal Works factories began the daunting task of rebuilding; of all of the facilities across the Lyran Alliance that had been damaged but which could potentially be repaired, Coventry Metal Works was the most heavily damaged.[50] While Coventry Metal Works had escaped the sheer level of damage inflicted on some other industrial complexes, the Blakists had conducted so many different acts of sabotage on the facilities that the facilities were undergoing constant repair from their liberation onward, a cycle that lasted for years.[51] During this period Coventry continued to operate a refit facility at Trumbley Station based around a Coventry Metal Works warehousing location that developed into a refit facility during the struggle to liberate Coventry. While the site was only performing small-scale assembly work, the refit facility was still producing Scarabus and Stinger BattleMechs in 3079 as well as ensuring that the local garrison equipment was being maintained in peak condition.[2]

Coventry Military Academy was rebuilt following the liberation of Coventry, with an expanded program that included a technician track, launched in cooperation with Coventry Metal Works because of the company's need for trained, experienced workers. As of 3079, it was common to find senior classmen interning at either the main Coventry Metal Works plant or the Refit Facility at Trumbley Station for periods of a month at a time as a part of the final stages of their education.[2]

Dark Age[edit]

Main Article: Battle of Coventry (3148)

In 3148, Clan Jade Falcon invaded Coventry and engaged the defending Seventeenth Arcturan Guards with seven Clusters. The Fifteenth Arcturan Guards and Second Royal Guards arrived as reinforcements. Though Hauptmann-General Jasek Kelswa-Steiner was killed in the fighting, the Falcons were once more forced to accept hegira to defend their holdings against Clan Wolf.

Military Deployment[edit]

3067[edit]

3079[edit]

- At this point in time the Third was operating at 50% of full strength, with 100% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.

3085[edit]

3145[edit]

Geography[edit]

Coventry has four major continents named Auckland, Dunnigan, Sydnallia, and Veracruz.[2] Dunnigan and Veracruz form a single landmass separated by the Cross-Divide Mountains. The world has several large seas and mild seasons making for ideal agricultural production.[1]

Planetary Locations[edit]

  • Amman: small island subcontinent, a popular tourist destination[1]
  • Auckland: a cool southern continent[2][1]
  • Dunnigan: a continent[2]
    • Cross-Divide Mountains: a north-south mountain chain near Port St. William riddled with cave complexes and mine workings large enough for BattleMechs to negotiate. It separates the continents of Veracruz and Dunnigan.[67][1][68]
    • Port Lawrence: located on the edge of the Cascade Heights of the Cascade Valley, with a Windy Climate[2][1]
    • McKenzy Molecular Smelter: industrial site located roughly 100 km north of Port Lawrence[67]
  • Sydnallia: a large island continent southeast of Dunnigan[2][1]
  • Veracruz: a continent[2]
    • Bradford Uplands: an area of rough terrain within 2 km west of Coventry Metal Works[69]
    • Colivette: a small town near the Cross-Divide Mountains[70]
    • Cross-Divide Mountains: a mountain chain near Port St. William riddled with cave complexes and mine workings large enough for BattleMechs to negotiate. It separates the continents of Veracruz and Dunnigan.[67][1]
    • The Dales: a wild hilly region between Lietnerton to the east and Port St. William to the west/northwest with many Coventry fir trees[71][72]
      • Parish Highway: a highway that runs along the south edge of The Dales and runs east into Lietnerton[73]
    • Guite: a town twenty kilometers southwest of Port St William, just south of the Ochoa River[74]
    • Lietnerton: a city north of Port St Willaim. 150km southwest of here are the woods Waco's Rangers used as an LZ in 3058[75][76][77]
    • Ochoar River: a river south of Port St William and just north of Guite. A single highway bridge connects the two.[74]
    • Port St. William: the planetary capital city with a Mild climate[2]
    • Ridesein River Valley: North of Port St. William[79]
      • Ridesein River: a river
    • Trumbley Station: Located in woodlands with a mild climate[2]
    • Whitting: a city with a small river running through it from the east. Site of several battles during the Jade Falcon Incursion, destroyed in 3148.[80][81]
  • Vestal: small island subcontinent, a popular tourist destination[1]

Unspecified locations:

Industrial Centers[edit]

Local Flora and Fauna[edit]

Image gallery[edit]

Notes[edit]

  • Handbook: House Steiner gives the recharge time of ships in the Coventry system as 210 hours.[1] This differs from the recharge time given in other publications for class F4V stars and from the entry on Coventry in Objectives: Lyran Alliance, which instead state a recharge time of 175 hours.[2] The time quoted in Objectives: Lyran Alliance has been used in this article.

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 28 systems (25 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig 16.6 Tsinan 20.8 Caledea 26.1 Prydain 28.4
Krievci 33.0 Guatavita 33.1 Pobeda 34.6 Saravan 38.8
New Capetown 39.9 Conley's Patch 40.7 Biuque 42.1 Goetville 42.8
Vorzel 47.1 Upano 48.1 Richvale 49.4 Commonwealth Mining Outpost 26 49.7
Tapihue 50.0 Wrociaw 50.5 Jatznik 53.4 Loxley 54.5
Bayis 54.9 Ellengurg 55.1 Windsor 57.1 Incukalns 57.4
Storfors 58.1 Recife 60.3 Reese Station 61.2 Sargasso 62.4

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