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''(References to [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Dagda | Dagda]])'' | ''(References to [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Dagda | Dagda]])'' | ||
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| + | | name = Dagda | ||
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| + | | class = K4V<ref name=TWoRp232>''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 232, "Dagda"</ref><ref name=HOK137>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 137, "Dagda", - Planetary Data from before and after Operation Klondike.</ref> | ||
| + | | recharge = 195 hours<ref name=TWoRp232/><ref name=HOK137/> | ||
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| + | | planets = 8<ref name=TWoRp232/><ref name=HOK137/> | ||
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| + | The '''Dagda''' system is the location of a habitable world, '''Dagda III''', and as at [[3085]] was located in the [[Deep Periphery]] region known as the [[Clan Homeworlds]]. | ||
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| + | == System Description == | ||
| + | In relation to the capital of the Clan Homeworlds, [[Strana Mechty]], Dagda is located at the coordinates -164:-181.<ref>''The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky'', p. 112, Clan-Space Worlds Table</ref> The Dagda system consists of an F9V class primary named "Tuath" orbited by eight worlds.<ref name=TWoRp232/><ref name=TCWOKp112/> | ||
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| + | == System History == | ||
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| + | == Political Affiliation == | ||
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| + | = Dagda III = | ||
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| + | | name = Dagda | ||
| + | | position = 3rd<ref name=TWoRp232/><ref name=TCWOKp112/><ref name=HOK137/> | ||
| + | | distance = 4.31 days<ref name=TWoRp232/><ref name=HOK137/> | ||
| + | | moons = 2<ref name=TWoRp232/><ref name=HOK137/> (Aine and Mebd)<ref name=HOK137/> | ||
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| + | | gravity = 2.0<ref name=TCWOKp112/><ref name=TWoRp232/> | ||
| + | | pressure = Low (Breathable)<ref name=TCWOKp112/><ref name=TWoRp232/><ref name=HOK137/> | ||
| + | | temperature = 25°C<ref name=TCWOKp112/><ref name=TWoRp232/> (Cool-Temperate)<ref name=HOK137/> | ||
| + | | water = 60%<ref name=TCWOKp112/><ref name=TWoRp232/> | ||
| + | | life = Mammals<ref name=TCWOKp112/><ref name=HOK137/> | ||
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| + | | population = 1,250,000 (2801)<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 137, "Dagda" - population during Star League-In-Exile era.</ref><br>440,000 (2821)<ref name=HOK137>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 137, "Dagda" - Clan invasion of Dadga.</ref> | ||
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| + | Dagda III - more commonly known simply as Dagda - has been held by, and contested by, several Clans at the same time for the majority of its history as a settled world.<ref name=TWoRp232/> | ||
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| + | == Political History == | ||
| + | ===Discovery and Settlement=== | ||
| + | In August 24th, [[2786]] the Exodus Fleet of the [[SLDF]] led by [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] discovered Dagda and the rest of the star systems that makes up what they would call the [[Pentagon Worlds]]. Dagda was first settled on the 17th of September by the first of the weary passengers and soldiers of the SLDF.<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 18, "Dagda and rest of the Worlds of Pentagon are discovered and settled by the SLDF".</ref> Dagda was the fourth world of the Pentagon to be settled, it was named by settlers for the Irish pantheon of luck. The planet, due to rich mineral resources, became the principal mining world for what became the [[Star League-In-Exile]]. The Exile settlers used high-tech life support equipment to exploit the uplands where the atmosphere of the planet was very thin. | ||
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| + | ===Pentagon/Exodus Civil War and Devastation=== | ||
| + | The [[Exodus Civil War]] in [[2801]], the war devastated the population, especially those who depended on the sophisticated life support systems.<ref>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 137, "Dagda" - Info on the planet, and its early settlement.</ref> By 2821 there were nine significant political factions or groupings active on the planet: the [[Hailes Commonwealth]], [[Oriente Dominion]], [[Imbros Collectives]], [[McMillan Collective]], [[The Chosen]], [[Brotherhood of Donegal]], [[The Drakkars]], [[Mimosa Atoll]] and [[Penn Atoll]].<ref name=HOK137/> | ||
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| + | === Operation KLONDIKE === | ||
| + | The 4 Clans assigned to liberate Dagda during [[Operation KLONDIKE]] were [[Clan Burrock]], [[Clan Fire Mandrill]], [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]], and [[Clan Widowmaker]]. | ||
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| + | === Wars of Reaving === | ||
| + | In early 3067 [[Kindraa Kline]] found itself in a perilous position; two of [[Kindraa Mick-Kreese]]'s Clusters, the [[11th Battle Force (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Eleventh Battle Force]] and the [[32nd Vanguard Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Thirty-second Vanguard Battle Cluster]] joined [[Iota Galaxy (Clan Blood Spirit)|Iota Galaxy]] of [[Clan Blood Spirit]] in a joint attack against a Clan Star Adder holding on [[Tathis]]. Envious of the growing prosperity that Kindra Mick-Kreese was undergoing as a result of their increasing association with the Blood Spirits, two ad-hoc Clusters of troops from [[Kindraa]] Kline, formed from elements of the [[27th Vanguard Assault (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Twenty-seventh]], [[31st Vanguard Striker (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Thirty-first]] and [[42nd Vanguard Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Forty-second Vanguard Clusters]] journeyed from [[Foster]] and [[Shadow]] and dropped into the battle raging between the Star Adders and the Blood Spirit/Mick-Kreese force. This caused all of those involved to suffer some friendly fire, and ultimately left the two ad-hoc Kline Clusters at less than a quarter of their pre-battle strength when they finally departed. This represented a serious reduction in military capability for Kindraa Kline and left them obviously open to predation from other Clans, particularly the Star Adders, who shared enclaves with Kindra Kline on Dagda. Faced with the prospect of annihilation, either at the hands of the Star Adders or others, and manipulated by [[Jas Keller]], Kindra Kline accepted the inevitable and were absorbed by Kindra Mick-Kreese, forming [[Kindraa Mick-Kreese-Kline]].<ref name="WoRp17">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 17, "Monkey In The Middle"</ref> | ||
| − | '' | + | In May [[3071]], following the formal [[Trial of Abjuration|Abjurement]] of Clan Wolf by the [[Grand Council]] in April, Clans Coyote, Goliath Scorpion and Steel Viper jockeyed amongst themselves for position in performing the Abjuration. Clan Coyote was successful in defeating both the Goliath Scorpion and Steel Viper bids, intent on proceeding with a prior agreement struk between [[Khan]] [[Dana Kufahl]] of the Coyotes and Khan [[Vlad Ward]] of the Wolves that would allow the wolves to extract much of their resources from the Homeworlds within minimal violence. These plans went awry when Clans Blood Spiirt, Cloud Cobra and Steel Viper decided that the Coyotes were being too slow in the execution of the Abjurement and forced the issue by attacking the remaining Wolf enclaves across the various Homeworld planets.<ref name="WoRp17">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 17, "Monkey In The Middle"</ref> |
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| − | + | The Clan Wolf forces on Dagda consisted of a [[Star]] of [[solahma]] warriors defending the [[W-9 Facilities|W-9 industrial complex]]. Clan Cloud Cobra attempted to seize the complex using the [[99th Battle (Clan Cloud Cobra)|Ninety-ninth Battle Cluster]] from [[Omicron Galaxy (Clan Cloud Cobra)|Omicron Galaxy]], but discovered that the labyrinthine structure strongly favoured the Wolf warriors, who were intimately familiar with it; under the command of [[Star Captain]] Nobel, the solahma warriors spent two days stalking the Cloud Cobra warriors and dropping them one at a time. The battle escalated after the second day with Clan Blood Spirit deployed the [[42nd Crimson Vanguard (Clan Blood Spirit)|Forty-second Crimson Vanguard Cluster]] to try and seize the factory, clashing with the Ninety-ninth Battle Cluster as they both tried to kill the last two solahma warriors. The two Wolf warriors retreated to the heart of the complex before being captured, and fought to the death when cornered; the resulting explosion shattered the industrial complex and gutted both attacking Clusters, reducing the Ninety-ninth to less than a [[Binary]] of survivors.<ref name="WoRp67">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 67, "Merges and Moves"</ref> | |
| − | ''' | + | In [[3072]] the Society moved to take power within the Clan Homeworlds, and Dagda was one of the first worlds targeted by them; unbeknownst to the warrior caste, Dagda was a Society bastion, a world containing various sites were production and research were conducted out of sight of the warriors, utilising nests that had been forgotten.<ref name="WoRp92">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 92, "The First Strikes"</ref> By the end of January Dagda had gone dark, with all communications with other worlds stopped.<ref name="WoRp94">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 94, "Death Rides Forth"</ref> This was a pattern being repeated on other worlds; some HPG stations lost their connection to the main grid, while others were sabotaged via internal explosions. On Dagda the HPG went offline for some four days as a result of technical glitches.<ref name="WoRp95">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 95, "Sandbagging the Breach"</ref> |
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| − | + | At some point after Dagda went dark a volcano known as Mount Hades erupted on Dagda, inflicting substantial damage on the Goliath Scorpion mining operations there. In late November [[3073]] Khan [[Ariel Suvorov]] of the Goliath Scorpions followed up on negotiations with Khan [[Connor Rood]] of [[Clan Ice Hellion]] over the [[Trial of Absorption|Absorption]] of the weaker Clan by leading a small task force consisting of the [[24th Scorpion Cuirassiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Twenty-fourth Scorpion Cuirassiers]] and the ''[[Cameron (WarShip)|Cameron]]''-class battlecruiser [[Hephaestus|CGS ''Hephaestus'']] to attempt to negotiate a similar Absorption of Clan Fire Mandrill. Suvorov's forces encountered a Coyote naval Star in the Shadow system, along with no sign of any of Clan Fire Mandrill on what had been their homeworld; unwilling to face down a larger military force that refused to respond to attempts to communicate, Suvorov continued on to Dagda. Suvorov already knew that the eruption of Mount Hades in the Satan's Table region of Dagda had badly affected her Clan's mining operations, but had received no word from the two major undersea manufacturing complexes her Clan operated on the planet.<ref name="WoRp124">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 124-129, "Scorpion Gambit"</ref> | |
| − | [[ | + | What Suvorov discovered on arrival was that not only had almost two thirds of the mineral production been lost, but many undersea enclaves had been shattered and the planet had apparently been subjected to prolific orbital bombardment, leaving the ecosystem unstable and in decline. Some of Clan Fire Mandrill had managed to survive on the planet, but the highest-ranking individual Suvorov could make contact with was Star Colonel [[Hampton Shcroeder]], along with a small group of scientists, technicians and warriors at Folke. Suvorov rescued the survivors, packing them in aboard the ''Haphaestus'' and her attendant [[DropShip]]s. Star Colonel Schroeder and the Scorpion Khan then fought a [[Trial of Possession]] to decide the result of an offer of an Absorption into the Goliath Scorpions for the surviving Fire Mandrill personnel; conducted as a boxing match, the Trial was a victory for Suvorov, who downed Schroeder several rounds into the match.<ref name="WoRp124"/> |
| − | + | Suvorov subsequently dispatched three more convoys of vessels to Dagda to remove as many of the Absorbed Fire Mandrill civilians as possible; the last of these convoys, a four-JumpShip fleet, was ambushed in the Dagda system by a force from the [[Bandit Caste]] as the convoy readied for departure in late January 3074. As a result of the ambush more than ten thousand civilians were killed. The revelation of just how catastrophic the damage was at Dagda accelerated the Absorption of the Ice Hellions by the Scorpions, as it was obvious to the Scorpion Clan Council that the remaining Ice Hellion assets - bother personnel and material - had more value than originally estimated.<ref name="WoRp124"/> | |
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| − | + | The Scorpions continued to maintain a presence on Dagda, including a genetic repository or research site. Bedevilled by Society tampering that left the percentage of their uncontaminated Bloodname legacies at less than ten percent, Clan Cloud Cobra began systematically targeting other Clans in small Trials to obtain new genetic legacies while researching possible alternatives. By early 3078, the Cloud Cobra scientists had identified that genetic material from a large number of Ice Hellion genetic legacies, now held by the Scorpions, would help rebuild the Cloud Cobra stock. The Cloud Cobras began targeting the Scorpions in earnest, and soon discovered that the Scorpions were experimenting with blending genetic material from the [[Eridani Light Horse]] mercenary unit in with their own legacies. Khan [[Hollyann Kaardaan]] denounced the Scorpions to the Grand Council, successfully calling for the Abjurement of the Scorpions; as the other Clans targeted Scorpion material resources, the Cloud Cobras targeted Scorpion [[Blood Chapel]]s and genetic legacies. This included seizing material from the genetic repository on Dagda in early [[3078]].<ref name="WoRp161">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 161-162, "Clan Cloud Cobra"</ref> | |
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| − | == | + | == Political Affiliation == |
| − | === | + | === 3067 === |
| − | * | + | * Clan Fire Mandrill (27%)<ref name="FM:Up39">''Field Manual Update'' p. 39 </ref><ref name="WoRp228">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 228, "Political balance Table, 3067"</ref> |
| + | * Clan Goliath Scorpion (33%)<ref name="FM:Up39"/><ref name="WoRp228"/> | ||
| + | * Clan Jade Falcon (8%)<ref name="FM:Up39"/><ref name="WoRp228"/> | ||
| + | * Clan Star Adder (22%)<ref name="FM:Up39"/><ref name="WoRp228"/> | ||
| + | * Clan Wolf (10%)<ref name="FM:Up39"/><ref name="WoRp228"/> | ||
| − | === | + | === 3075 === |
| − | * | + | * Clan Goliath Scorpion (75%)<ref name="WoRp248">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 248, "Political balance Table, 3075"</ref> |
| − | * | + | * Clan Star Adder (25%)<ref name="WoRp248"/> |
| − | === | + | === 3085 === |
| − | * | + | * Clan Star Adder<ref name="WoRp249">''Wars of Reaving'', p. 249, "Political balance Table, 3085"</ref> |
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| − | + | == Planetary Rulers == | |
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| − | == | + | == Military Deployment == |
===3059=== | ===3059=== | ||
| − | * [[7th Sainze Honor Guard Striker (Clan Fire Mandrill)]]<ref name=FMCRC149>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 149, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> | + | * [[7th Sainze Honor Guard Striker (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Seventh Sainze Honor Guard Striker]]<ref name=FMCRC149>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 149, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> |
| − | * [[19th Sainze Rear Guard Striker (Clan Fire Mandrill)]]<ref name=FMCRC149/> | + | * [[19th Sainze Rear Guard Striker (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Nineteenth Sainze Rear Guard Striker]]<ref name=FMCRC149/> |
| − | * [[3rd Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)]]<ref name=FMCRC149/> | + | * [[3rd Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Third Battle Cluster]]<ref name=FMCRC149/> |
| − | * [[21st Vanguard Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)]]<ref name=FMCRC150>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 150, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> | + | * [[21st Vanguard Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Twenty-first Vanguard Battle Cluster]]<ref name=FMCRC150>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 150, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> |
| − | * [[42nd Vanguard Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)]]<ref name=FMCRC150/> | + | * [[42nd Vanguard Battle (Clan Fire Mandrill)|Forty-second Vanguard Battle Cluster]]<ref name=FMCRC150/> |
| − | * [[42nd Adder Cavaliers (Clan Star Adder)]]<ref name=FMCRC156>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 156, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> | + | * [[42nd Adder Cavaliers (Clan Star Adder)|Forty-second Adder Cavaliers]]<ref name=FMCRC156>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 156, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> |
| − | * [[212th Battle (Clan Star Adder)]]<ref name=FMCRC156/> | + | * [[212th Battle (Clan Star Adder)|212th Battle Cluster]]<ref name=FMCRC156/> |
| − | * [[471st Adder Guards (Clan Star Adder)]]<ref name=FMCRC156/> | + | * [[471st Adder Guards (Clan Star Adder)|471st Adder Guards]]<ref name=FMCRC156/> |
| − | * [[504th Adder Sentinels (Clan Star Adder)]]<ref name=FMCRC157>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 157, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> | + | * [[504th Adder Sentinels (Clan Star Adder)|504th Adder Sentinels]]<ref name=FMCRC157>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 157, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"</ref> |
| − | * [[822nd Gatekeeper (Clan Star Adder)]]<ref name=FMCRC157/> | + | * [[822nd Gatekeeper (Clan Star Adder)|822nd Gatekeeper Cluster]]<ref name=FMCRC157/> |
===3061=== | ===3061=== | ||
| − | * [[6th Scorpion Hussars (Clan Goliath Scorpion)]]<ref name=FMWC164>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 164, "Warden Clans Deployment Table"</ref> | + | * [[6th Scorpion Hussars (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Sixth Scorpion Hussars]]<ref name=FMWC164>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 164, "Warden Clans Deployment Table"</ref> |
| − | * [[1st Cateran Cluster (Clan Goliath Scorpion)]]<ref name=FMWC164/> | + | * [[1st Cateran Cluster (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|First Cateran Cluster]]<ref name=FMWC164/> |
| − | * [[17th Scorpion Cuirassiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)]]<ref name=FMWC164/> | + | * [[17th Scorpion Cuirassiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Seventeenth Scorpion Cuirassiers]]<ref name=FMWC164/> |
| − | * [[20th Scorpion Cuirassiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)]]<ref name=FMWC164/> | + | * [[20th Scorpion Cuirassiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Twentieth Scorpion Cuirassiers]]<ref name=FMWC164/> |
| − | * [[7th Scorpion Grenadiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)]]<ref name=FMWC164/> | + | * [[7th Scorpion Grenadiers (Clan Goliath Scorpion)|Seventh Scorpion Grenadiers]]<ref name=FMWC164/> |
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| − | == | + | == Geography == |
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| − | === | + | == Planetary Locations == |
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| + | == Industrial Centers == | ||
| + | * [[Dagda Battle Armor Production Facility Alpha]] | ||
| + | * [[Dagda Industrialplex Zeta]] | ||
| + | * [[Manzikert Fabrication & Assembly Plant Gamma]] | ||
| + | * [[W-9 Facilities]] (until May 3071)<ref name="WoRp67"/> | ||
| − | == | + | ==Notable Species== |
| − | + | * Homeworld of the [[Dagada]] | |
| − | + | * Homeworld of the [[Nova Cat (species)]] | |
| + | * Homeworld of the [[Sphinx Raptor]] | ||
| + | * Known population of [[Jade Falcon (species)]] | ||
| − | == | + | == Image Gallery == |
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| + | Dagda World Map.jpg|Dagda World Map | ||
| + | </gallery> | ||
== Nearby Systems == | == Nearby Systems == | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
| − | *''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]'' | + | * ''[[The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky]]'' |
| − | *''[[Field Manual: | + | * ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]'' |
| − | *''[[ | + | * ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]'' |
| − | *''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]'' | + | * ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]'' |
| − | + | * ''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]'' | |
| + | * ''[[Wars of Reaving]]'' | ||
[[Category: Planets|Dagda]] | [[Category: Planets|Dagda]] | ||
[[Category: Clan Planets]] | [[Category: Clan Planets]] | ||
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[[Category: Clan Fire Mandrill Planets]] | [[Category: Clan Fire Mandrill Planets]] | ||
[[Category: Clan Goliath Scorpion Planets]] | [[Category: Clan Goliath Scorpion Planets]] | ||
[[Category: Clan Jade Falcon Planets]] | [[Category: Clan Jade Falcon Planets]] | ||
[[Category: Clan Star Adder Planets]] | [[Category: Clan Star Adder Planets]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Clan Wolf Planets]] | ||
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| Dagda | |
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| System Information | |
| X:Y Coordinates | -132.17:1,602.6[e] |
| Spectral class | K4V[1][2] |
| Recharge time | 195 hours[1][2] |
| Planet(s) | 8[1][2] |
The Dagda system is the location of a habitable world, Dagda III, and as at 3085 was located in the Deep Periphery region known as the Clan Homeworlds.
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System Description
In relation to the capital of the Clan Homeworlds, Strana Mechty, Dagda is located at the coordinates -164:-181.[3] The Dagda system consists of an F9V class primary named "Tuath" orbited by eight worlds.[1][4]
Dagda III
Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Dagda III - more commonly known simply as Dagda - has been held by, and contested by, several Clans at the same time for the majority of its history as a settled world.[1]
Political History
Discovery and Settlement
In August 24th, 2786 the Exodus Fleet of the SLDF led by General Aleksandr Kerensky discovered Dagda and the rest of the star systems that makes up what they would call the Pentagon Worlds. Dagda was first settled on the 17th of September by the first of the weary passengers and soldiers of the SLDF.[5] Dagda was the fourth world of the Pentagon to be settled, it was named by settlers for the Irish pantheon of luck. The planet, due to rich mineral resources, became the principal mining world for what became the Star League-In-Exile. The Exile settlers used high-tech life support equipment to exploit the uplands where the atmosphere of the planet was very thin.
Pentagon/Exodus Civil War and Devastation
The Exodus Civil War in 2801, the war devastated the population, especially those who depended on the sophisticated life support systems.[6] By 2821 there were nine significant political factions or groupings active on the planet: the Hailes Commonwealth, Oriente Dominion, Imbros Collectives, McMillan Collective, The Chosen, Brotherhood of Donegal, The Drakkars, Mimosa Atoll and Penn Atoll.[2]
Operation KLONDIKE
The 4 Clans assigned to liberate Dagda during Operation KLONDIKE were Clan Burrock, Clan Fire Mandrill, Clan Goliath Scorpion, and Clan Widowmaker.
Wars of Reaving
In early 3067 Kindraa Kline found itself in a perilous position; two of Kindraa Mick-Kreese's Clusters, the Eleventh Battle Force and the Thirty-second Vanguard Battle Cluster joined Iota Galaxy of Clan Blood Spirit in a joint attack against a Clan Star Adder holding on Tathis. Envious of the growing prosperity that Kindra Mick-Kreese was undergoing as a result of their increasing association with the Blood Spirits, two ad-hoc Clusters of troops from Kindraa Kline, formed from elements of the Twenty-seventh, Thirty-first and Forty-second Vanguard Clusters journeyed from Foster and Shadow and dropped into the battle raging between the Star Adders and the Blood Spirit/Mick-Kreese force. This caused all of those involved to suffer some friendly fire, and ultimately left the two ad-hoc Kline Clusters at less than a quarter of their pre-battle strength when they finally departed. This represented a serious reduction in military capability for Kindraa Kline and left them obviously open to predation from other Clans, particularly the Star Adders, who shared enclaves with Kindra Kline on Dagda. Faced with the prospect of annihilation, either at the hands of the Star Adders or others, and manipulated by Jas Keller, Kindra Kline accepted the inevitable and were absorbed by Kindra Mick-Kreese, forming Kindraa Mick-Kreese-Kline.[7]
In May 3071, following the formal Abjurement of Clan Wolf by the Grand Council in April, Clans Coyote, Goliath Scorpion and Steel Viper jockeyed amongst themselves for position in performing the Abjuration. Clan Coyote was successful in defeating both the Goliath Scorpion and Steel Viper bids, intent on proceeding with a prior agreement struk between Khan Dana Kufahl of the Coyotes and Khan Vlad Ward of the Wolves that would allow the wolves to extract much of their resources from the Homeworlds within minimal violence. These plans went awry when Clans Blood Spiirt, Cloud Cobra and Steel Viper decided that the Coyotes were being too slow in the execution of the Abjurement and forced the issue by attacking the remaining Wolf enclaves across the various Homeworld planets.[7]
The Clan Wolf forces on Dagda consisted of a Star of solahma warriors defending the W-9 industrial complex. Clan Cloud Cobra attempted to seize the complex using the Ninety-ninth Battle Cluster from Omicron Galaxy, but discovered that the labyrinthine structure strongly favoured the Wolf warriors, who were intimately familiar with it; under the command of Star Captain Nobel, the solahma warriors spent two days stalking the Cloud Cobra warriors and dropping them one at a time. The battle escalated after the second day with Clan Blood Spirit deployed the Forty-second Crimson Vanguard Cluster to try and seize the factory, clashing with the Ninety-ninth Battle Cluster as they both tried to kill the last two solahma warriors. The two Wolf warriors retreated to the heart of the complex before being captured, and fought to the death when cornered; the resulting explosion shattered the industrial complex and gutted both attacking Clusters, reducing the Ninety-ninth to less than a Binary of survivors.[8]
In 3072 the Society moved to take power within the Clan Homeworlds, and Dagda was one of the first worlds targeted by them; unbeknownst to the warrior caste, Dagda was a Society bastion, a world containing various sites were production and research were conducted out of sight of the warriors, utilising nests that had been forgotten.[9] By the end of January Dagda had gone dark, with all communications with other worlds stopped.[10] This was a pattern being repeated on other worlds; some HPG stations lost their connection to the main grid, while others were sabotaged via internal explosions. On Dagda the HPG went offline for some four days as a result of technical glitches.[11]
At some point after Dagda went dark a volcano known as Mount Hades erupted on Dagda, inflicting substantial damage on the Goliath Scorpion mining operations there. In late November 3073 Khan Ariel Suvorov of the Goliath Scorpions followed up on negotiations with Khan Connor Rood of Clan Ice Hellion over the Absorption of the weaker Clan by leading a small task force consisting of the Twenty-fourth Scorpion Cuirassiers and the Cameron-class battlecruiser CGS Hephaestus to attempt to negotiate a similar Absorption of Clan Fire Mandrill. Suvorov's forces encountered a Coyote naval Star in the Shadow system, along with no sign of any of Clan Fire Mandrill on what had been their homeworld; unwilling to face down a larger military force that refused to respond to attempts to communicate, Suvorov continued on to Dagda. Suvorov already knew that the eruption of Mount Hades in the Satan's Table region of Dagda had badly affected her Clan's mining operations, but had received no word from the two major undersea manufacturing complexes her Clan operated on the planet.[12]
What Suvorov discovered on arrival was that not only had almost two thirds of the mineral production been lost, but many undersea enclaves had been shattered and the planet had apparently been subjected to prolific orbital bombardment, leaving the ecosystem unstable and in decline. Some of Clan Fire Mandrill had managed to survive on the planet, but the highest-ranking individual Suvorov could make contact with was Star Colonel Hampton Shcroeder, along with a small group of scientists, technicians and warriors at Folke. Suvorov rescued the survivors, packing them in aboard the Haphaestus and her attendant DropShips. Star Colonel Schroeder and the Scorpion Khan then fought a Trial of Possession to decide the result of an offer of an Absorption into the Goliath Scorpions for the surviving Fire Mandrill personnel; conducted as a boxing match, the Trial was a victory for Suvorov, who downed Schroeder several rounds into the match.[12]
Suvorov subsequently dispatched three more convoys of vessels to Dagda to remove as many of the Absorbed Fire Mandrill civilians as possible; the last of these convoys, a four-JumpShip fleet, was ambushed in the Dagda system by a force from the Bandit Caste as the convoy readied for departure in late January 3074. As a result of the ambush more than ten thousand civilians were killed. The revelation of just how catastrophic the damage was at Dagda accelerated the Absorption of the Ice Hellions by the Scorpions, as it was obvious to the Scorpion Clan Council that the remaining Ice Hellion assets - bother personnel and material - had more value than originally estimated.[12]
The Scorpions continued to maintain a presence on Dagda, including a genetic repository or research site. Bedevilled by Society tampering that left the percentage of their uncontaminated Bloodname legacies at less than ten percent, Clan Cloud Cobra began systematically targeting other Clans in small Trials to obtain new genetic legacies while researching possible alternatives. By early 3078, the Cloud Cobra scientists had identified that genetic material from a large number of Ice Hellion genetic legacies, now held by the Scorpions, would help rebuild the Cloud Cobra stock. The Cloud Cobras began targeting the Scorpions in earnest, and soon discovered that the Scorpions were experimenting with blending genetic material from the Eridani Light Horse mercenary unit in with their own legacies. Khan Hollyann Kaardaan denounced the Scorpions to the Grand Council, successfully calling for the Abjurement of the Scorpions; as the other Clans targeted Scorpion material resources, the Cloud Cobras targeted Scorpion Blood Chapels and genetic legacies. This included seizing material from the genetic repository on Dagda in early 3078.[13]
Political Affiliation
3067
- Clan Fire Mandrill (27%)[14][15]
- Clan Goliath Scorpion (33%)[14][15]
- Clan Jade Falcon (8%)[14][15]
- Clan Star Adder (22%)[14][15]
- Clan Wolf (10%)[14][15]
3075
3085
- Clan Star Adder[17]
Military Deployment
3059
- Seventh Sainze Honor Guard Striker[18]
- Nineteenth Sainze Rear Guard Striker[18]
- Third Battle Cluster[18]
- Twenty-first Vanguard Battle Cluster[19]
- Forty-second Vanguard Battle Cluster[19]
- Forty-second Adder Cavaliers[20]
- 212th Battle Cluster[20]
- 471st Adder Guards[20]
- 504th Adder Sentinels[21]
- 822nd Gatekeeper Cluster[21]
3061
- Sixth Scorpion Hussars[22]
- First Cateran Cluster[22]
- Seventeenth Scorpion Cuirassiers[22]
- Twentieth Scorpion Cuirassiers[22]
- Seventh Scorpion Grenadiers[22]
Industrial Centers
- Dagda Battle Armor Production Facility Alpha
- Dagda Industrialplex Zeta
- Manzikert Fabrication & Assembly Plant Gamma
- W-9 Facilities (until May 3071)[8]
Notable Species
- Homeworld of the Dagada
- Homeworld of the Nova Cat (species)
- Homeworld of the Sphinx Raptor
- Known population of Jade Falcon (species)
Image Gallery
- Dagda World Map.jpg
Dagda World Map
Nearby Systems
| Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years) Closest systems first: | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babylon | 9.2 | Eden | 10 | Circe | 14.6 | Arcadia | 17.3 |
| Fasa | 25.0 | ||||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Wars of Reaving, p. 232, "Dagda"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Historical: Operation Klondike, p. 137, "Dagda", - Planetary Data from before and after Operation Klondike.
- ↑ The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky, p. 112, Clan-Space Worlds Table
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedTCWOKp112 - ↑ Historical: Operation Klondike, p. 18, "Dagda and rest of the Worlds of Pentagon are discovered and settled by the SLDF".
- ↑ Historical: Operation Klondike, p. 137, "Dagda" - Info on the planet, and its early settlement.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Wars of Reaving, p. 17, "Monkey In The Middle"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wars of Reaving, p. 67, "Merges and Moves"
- ↑ Wars of Reaving, p. 92, "The First Strikes"
- ↑ Wars of Reaving, p. 94, "Death Rides Forth"
- ↑ Wars of Reaving, p. 95, "Sandbagging the Breach"
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Wars of Reaving, p. 124-129, "Scorpion Gambit"
- ↑ Wars of Reaving, p. 161-162, "Clan Cloud Cobra"
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Field Manual Update p. 39
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Wars of Reaving, p. 228, "Political balance Table, 3067"
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Wars of Reaving, p. 248, "Political balance Table, 3075"
- ↑ Wars of Reaving, p. 249, "Political balance Table, 3085"
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 149, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 150, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 156, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 157, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 Field Manual: Warden Clans, p. 164, "Warden Clans Deployment Table"