El Dorado

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El Dorado
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates266.49 : -145.05[e]
Spectral classG0V[1][2]
Recharge time193 hours[1][2]
Recharge station(s)Zenith, Nadir[1][2]

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

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Political Affiliation

Planetary Info

First surveyed in 2236, El Dorado is a Terran planet roughly 15% larger than Earth itself with slightly higher gravity. It has 6 major continents (largest to smallest) of San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Monterrey, and Durango are mostly outside the arctic circles. El Dorado has a large amount of arable land due to “The Super Lakes”, large fresh water lakes found on the largest continents of San Diego and Los Angeles.

El Dorado has one moon, known as Boulder, which appears silver and sapphire due to a dense nitrogen-carbon dioxide atmosphere and a global ocean.[citation needed]

Due to life cycle of the planet, El Dorado’s core temperature is slightly hotter than that of Earth’s which causes increased tectonic action. Over the many centuries of colonization, the populace has steered clear of the worst volcano and quake zones.[1]

Planetary History

Early Years

During the late 23rd and early 24th centuries El Dorado was an important enough trading partner to nearby New Avalon that Jerome Davion, son of Adam Davion, served as the New Avalon ambassador to El Dorado from 2297 to 2306. El Dorado was vital to the commercial empire being built by Adam Davion and Nathan DuVall and which laid much of the groundwork for the future Federated Suns.[3]

Succession Wars

During the First Succession War a raid by the Draconis Combine left El Dorado's JumpShip yards in ruin. Similar actions against merchant fleets stifled interstellar trade across the Inner Sphere, harming El Dorado's export-oriented economy. Businesses immediately began cropping up to supply these vital components which had been imported previously, giving El Dorado the ability to be nearly self-sufficient. However, the trauma of the Kuritan raid led El Dorado to minimize its involvement in industries targeted by the early Succession Wars, like JumpShip and BattleMech production, in order to make the world less of a target. That policy continued until the mid-31st century, when El Dorado began manufacturing the Warlord.[citation needed]

El Dorado was largely untouched and unaffected by the Second Succession War and became a key technological player for the Federated Suns throughout the Third Succession War by supplying key components of 25th-century technology to factories throughout the realm.

El Dorado also has some of the Federated Suns' renowned universities known as the "Gilded Halls", which have allowed El Dorado to maintain its role as a front-runner in technology and manufacturing.[1]

Industrial Centers

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Remagen 14.4 Vecchio 20.4 Belladonna 20.7 Ferrara 24.9
Steeles 25.2 Galax 26.7 Torrence 27.0 Montcoal 29.8
Bastian 34.2 New Avalon 34.2 Waxell 37.2 Dol 37.3
Dirk's Gulf 37.5 Ipava 39.9 Freisland 41.1 Numenor 41.2
Quimper 42.4 Nis 46.0 Gravensteen 48.1 Augusta 48.6
Chakachamna 49.2 Reisterstown 49.2 Delavan 50.0 Odell 50.1
Meglan (Victoria) 51.7 Dunkerque 52.1 Manassas 53.8 Susulatna 55.9
Notwina 56.5 Nahoni 57.3 Arcadia 57.8 Leipsic 58.3
Paulding 58.4 Chebanse 59.0 Fincastle 59.4 Saginaw 59.4

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Time of War, pp. 374-375, "El DoradoPlanet Profile"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Objectives: Federated Suns, p. 14, "El Dorado"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 House Davion (The Federated Suns), p. 20, "Hidden Counselor"
  4. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 18, "Federated Suns at their Founding - [2317] Map"
  5. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 48, "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  6. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  7. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  8. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  9. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  10. ↑ Field Report 2765: Federated Suns, p. 29, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  11. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 54, "Federated Suns after First Succesion War - [2822] Map"
  12. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  13. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns after Second Succesion War - [2864] Map"
  14. ↑ House Davion (The Federated Suns), p. vii, "Federated Suns Map - [3025]"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns after Third Succesion War - [3025] Map"
  16. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns after Fourth Succesion War - [3030] Map"
  17. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 76, "Federated Suns after War of [3039] - [3040] Map"
  18. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  19. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3050] Map
  20. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, Inner Sphere - [3052] Map
  21. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 78, "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero [3058]"
  23. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 111, "Taurian Concordat and Tortuga Dominions"
  24. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, Inner Sphere - [3063] Map
  25. ↑ Inner Sphere (sourcebook), p. 33, "Federated Suns Map"
  26. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  27. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  28. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  29. ↑ Field Report: AFFS, p. 21, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  30. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  31. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  32. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  33. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  34. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  35. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  36. ↑ Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles, p. 11, "MUSE Ironhorse"
  37. ↑ Technical Readout: 3075, p. 88

Bibliography

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