Freedom

This article is about the planetary system. For other uses, see Freedom (disambiguation).

Freedom
← 3135 3151
Freedom nearby systems (Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates	-64.275 : 107.739
Spectral class	M5V
Recharge time	206 hours
Recharge station(s)	Nadir

The Freedom system was the location of at least one inhabited world, Freedom VI, and as of 3145 was located in the Clan Jade Falcon Occupation Zone.

System Description

Freedom is located near the Alexandria and Izar systems and consists of a class M5V primary orbited by at least six planets.

System History

The Freedom system was colonized by the Terran Alliance at some point during or before the First Exodus from Terra.

Political Affiliation

• 2234 - Terran Alliance
• 2235 - Independent world (From May 27th)
• 2236 - Terran Alliance (from August)
• 2237 - Independent world (from autumn)
• 2242 - Independent world
• 2319 - Independent world
• 2341 - Federation of Skye
• 2571 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2596 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2750 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2764 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2765 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2786 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2822 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2864 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 2912 - Draconis Combine
• 2913 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 3025 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 3040 - Federated Commonwealth
• 3050 - Federated Commonwealth
• 3052 - Federated Commonwealth
• 3057 - Lyran Alliance
• 3063 - Lyran Alliance
• 3067 - Lyran Alliance
• 3075 - Lyran Alliance
• 3079 - Lyran Alliance
• 3081 - Lyran Alliance
• 3085 - Lyran Alliance
• 3135 - Lyran Commonwealth
• 3145 - Clan Jade Falcon
• 3151 - Clan Jade Falcon

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Freedom VI

Freedom VI
Astrophysical
System position	Sixth
Jump Point distance	2.45 days
Moons	1 (Vigil's Light)
Geophysical
Surface gravity	1.00
Atmospheric pressure	Standard (Breathable)
Equatorial temperature	40°C (Mild-Temperate)
Surface water	70%
Highest native life	Mammals
Landmasses	2 (Independence, Republic)
History and Culture
Population	1,235,000,000 (3067), 1,280,000,000 (3079)
Government and Infrastructure
Noble Ruler	Duke of Freedom
Political Leader	President
Capital	Jefferson City
HPG Class	B

Freedom VI, more commonly known simply as Freedom, is a hospitable world with a single moon named Vigil's Light. Freedom is famous for its part in the Outer Reaches Rebellion.

Planetary History

Outer Reaches Rebellion

Freedom was directly involved in the events that led to the eventual collapse of the Terran Alliance in the twenty-third century. Originally a Terran Alliance colony, in January 2236 Freedom declared itself independent from Terran authority. The rebellion was originally peaceful, and was driven by opposition to both high taxes and the social constraints imposed on the planetary population by various high-handed Terran planetary governors and other administrative officials.

Freedom's declaration of independence was swiftly followed by similar declarations from the worlds of Sevren, Morningside, and Summit, and the news of the rebellion provoked an immediate military response from the Alliance Parliament. The Alliance Parliament dispatched a military force—the Second Interstellar Strategic Combined Assault Force under the command of Major General Gunther Stein—to quell the rebellion and bring the worlds back into line.

Stein believed that the resulting military campaign would take a little over four months at most to complete; computer projections, double-checked against every available contingency, agreed with Stein, citing a maximum campaign length of just eighteen weeks. The calculations were wrong, and the resulting military campaign escalated, lasting eighteen months and involve more than a million soldiers.

Composed of several squadrons of strike cruisers, assault carriers and transports, the Second Interstellar Combined Assault Force was planned to be reinforced by troops from other Alliance worlds, and the military campaign was to be partly funded by loans from various financial concerns. Almost immediately the Alliance faced problems on both fronts; the Alliance militia battalions on some worlds, such as Lipton, refused to participate in the campaign, while major financial firms on planets like Kaus Australis refused to float the Alliance government loans to pay for the campaign. Without realizing it, Stein's military campaign was already cut off from many of its anticipated sources of supply before the Second Interstellar Combined Assault Force arrived in the Freedom system.

When the Second arrived in the Freedom system, he discovered that the rebel forces had placed armed merchant ships at the main jump points in the system. None of those involved in planning the campaign had anticipated that the rebels would contest control of the jump points, and while the merchant ships were more lightly armed than the alliance's armed cruisers, they were also more maneuverable. The rebel ships avoided a slugging match with the more powerful Alliance ships, but many of rebel ships launched ramming attacks against the various Alliance transports and supply ships, hoping that their suicide tactics would take as many of the Terran marines with them as possible. More than ten percent of Stein's ground forces had been lost before his troops managed to make groundfall on Freedom.

The Second was attempting to launch campaigns in more than one system at the same time; troops first landed on Izar, only to discover that capital city was deserted, with the population having decamped into the thickly forested hills around the capital, terrain they knew well but which hampered the efforts of the Alliance troopers to deploy their high-tech but cumbersome weaponry. The rebels on Freedom took a different course; anticipating the worst, the city fathers of Jefferson City had spent months preparing a vast array of fortifications before the first Alliance landings in June 2236. Having constructed fortifications capable of withstanding anything short of orbital bombardment, President Tudella Dupont was determined to resist the Terran Alliance, despite having just fifteen hundred men available to defend the entire planet. Vowing to burn the city down before letting it be captured, Dupont responded to the first attack from Stein's forces—an assault against the weak southern gate of the fortifications conducted by the six-thousand-strong Fourth Para-Cavalry Division, led by General Desmond—by leading a sortie out against the attackers. Dupont had predicted the attack against the southern gate and planned accordingly, and his sortie captured several mobile artillery batteries that he quickly pressed into service against the Alliance, forcing Desmond to put a siege in place and call for reinforcements.

According to accounts from individuals on Freedom after the end of the conflict, during the siege the Alliance forces killed anyone found outside the city walls after dark, regardless of age or gender, and Desmond ordered the bodies of the dead - many of which had been horribly mutilated - dropped over the city. In retaliation, insurgents frequently slipped into the Alliance camps after dark to kill Terran soldiers and steal weapons. Alliance reinforcements finally arrived on the 25th of August, in the form of General Seth Van Dome and the Twenty-third Alliance Striker Regiment. Van Dome and the Twenty-third had spent four months engaged in a battle to recapture Summit that was described as a holocaust that killed more than ten thousand civilians, and his freshly blooded forces—equipped with heavy laser cannon—were enough to turn the battle for Freedom in favor of the Alliance.

The Twenty-third bombarded Jefferson City for hours; when three-quarters of the city was on fire, Desmond ordered his assault. The result was a twelve-hour marathon that saw Dupont and the people of Jefferson City fight a brutal, desperate defensive action; men, women and children all fought against the Alliance forces, making Desmond's troops fight for every meter they took; Dupont finally fled the city with just seventy surviving supporters, taking shelter in the hills to the north of the city. Desmond was left with a city in ashes and combat losses totaling more than two thousand Alliance personnel.

In the autumn of 2237, short on supplies and manpower and subject to growing criticism on Terra, the Terran Alliance withdrew the bulk of its forces from Freedom and the other worlds involved in the Outer Reaches Rebellion; while the Alliance never officially declared the conflict over, the Alliance military effectively gave up and went home, effectively ending the Outer Reaches Rebellion. A sea-change in Alliance politics saw the Expansionist Party ousted from power in the Alliance Parliament in 2242, ending more than a century of rule by the Expansionists; that same year, the Liberal Party issued the Demarcation Declaration, removing Alliance control and authority from worlds more than thirty light years from Terra, and leaving worlds like Freedom truly independent.

Succession Wars

Freedom spent some time under the control of the Draconis Combine, but the arrival of the Third Royal Guards in 2913 changed that. After fighting across both continents, the Sixth Sword of Light regiment was destroyed and the world fell into the Lyran Commonwealth's hands. The victory cost Archon Eric Steiner his life, however; during the final attack on the Sixth Sword of Light, his Zeus fell victim to multiple Vibrabombs.

FedCom Civil War

While he was First Lord of the Second Star League, Theodore Kurita visited Freedom to dedicate a memorial to the fallen warriors of both realms. At that time he promised that no Kuritans would attack the world again.

The world was a breadbasket for the Freedom Theater of the Lyran Alliance, growing crops that were exported to many of the worlds in the Theater. Industry on Freedom at the time focused on producing parts and filters for the Water Pure Industries plants on Corridan IV.

The Jihad

In the wake of the Jihad, the planetary government on Freedom passed a law stating that any war matériel manufactured or used by the Word of Blake had to be destroyed by disposal in a stellar body, one of the strictest examples of the anti-salvage laws becoming common within the worlds of the former Word of Blake Protectorate and, to a lesser extent, other worlds. By destroying any such items in this manner, there was no chance that items could reenter the manufacturing chain even as smelted metal and thereby become even the most mundane of items.

A large part of the population of Freedom felt, that despite the efforts made by the leadership of Freedom to coordinate a defense against the Word of Blake as the Blakists encroached into the Lyran Alliance, the world had somehow failed the Alliance. The Lyran government lacked the resources needed to stop the Blakists capturing world after world, and for some reason much of the population of Freedom felt somehow responsible for this, a possible legacy of Freedom's long-term role as a command hub for the outer edges of the Skye Province.

Military Deployment

2913

• Sixth Sword of Light

3038

• Twentieth Avalon Hussars RCT

3061

• Fifth Lyran Regulars (2 Battalions)

3067

• Alexandria FTM

3079

• Alexandria FTM

- The unit was operating at 40% strength, with 50% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.

• Planetary Militia

- The planetary militia's training programs focused on vehicles and unarmored infantry.

Geography

Freedom has two continents named Independence and Republic.

Planetary Locations

• Horseshoe Valley: site of a major battle during Operation FREEDOM
• Jefferson City: the planetary capital city, located east of Horseshoe Valley on Republic

Companies and Industries

• Water Pure Industries

Nearby Systems

Closest 48 systems (46 within 60 light-years) Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Alexandria	10.6	Izar	11.2	Yed Prior	16.4	Eaton	17.4
Zebeneschamali	22.2	Yed Posterior	23.1	Ryde	24.8	Carnwath	25.4
Marfik	25.7	Corridan	29.6	Kimball	29.7	Nekkar	31.4
Glengarry	33.2	Baxter	33.4	Komephoros	34.0	Carstairs	34.0
Auldhouse	34.1	Edasich	34.6	Kirkcaldy	37.5	Balkan	38.8
Chaffee	40.1	Eaglesham	41.0	Breukelen	41.2	Whittington	42.0
Unukalhai	42.0	Laurieston	44.6	Kochab	45.4	Konstance	45.6
Symington	47.6	La Blon	47.7	Apostica	47.8	Gladius	47.9
Seginus	48.5	Alphecca	49.0	Alrakis	51.3	Phalan	51.7
New Wessex	52.2	Leganes	54.2	Veckholm	54.3	Ganshoren	54.6
Kannon	54.9	Kessel	56.5	Skye	56.8	Cebalrai	57.2
Porrima	58.9	Sakhalin	59.6	Dromini	60.1	Vega	60.7

Bibliography

• Era Report: 2750
• Era Report: 3052
• Era Report: 3062
• Era Report: 3145
• FedCom Civil War
• Field Manual: 3085
• Field Manual: 3145
• Field Manual: SLDF
• Field Manual: Updates
• Field Report: DCMS
• Field Report: LAAF
• First Succession War
• Handbook: House Kurita
• Handbook: House Steiner
• Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1
• Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2
• Historical: Reunification War
• Historical: War of 3039
• House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)
• House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)
• Jihad: Final Reckoning
• Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
• Objectives: Lyran Alliance
• The Periphery
• Shattered Fortress
• Shattered Sphere