Grossbach

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Grossbach
System Information
X:Y Coordinates310.035 : -366.791[e]

The Grossbach system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as at 3145 was an independent system in the Periphery in the border region between the Calderon Protectorate, Federated Suns and Taurian Concordat.[1][2]

System Description

The Grossbach system is located near the Logan's Land and Perdition systems.[3][4]

System History

The Grossbach system was either colonized by the Taurian Concordat at some point during the Star League era at some point after the end of the Reunification War, or was an already-inhabited world that became significant enough during this era to merit being recorded on maps.[5][3][4]

Political Affiliation

Planetary History

Star League

Like most Periphery planets with a Star League Defense Force garrison, the SLDF troops were the target of protests and minor physical attacks to personnel. Most of them left no one seriously injured or caused negligible damage. However, in 2764, truck-borne IEDs blasted a whole in the perimeter fence of the local garrison after a local rabble-rouser was taken into custody. Taurian rioters then entered through the gap. They opened fire on SLDF personnel and lobbed satchel charges at nearby combat vehicles and BattleMechs. More than a company of war machines and several platoons of infantry were lost in the attack before it was put down. The 33rd Infantry Division placed the area under martial law to prevent any additional attacks.[38]

The Jihad

Grossbach was the target of a destructive raid by the mercenary unit Hansen's Roughriders on the 7th of September 3075; the Roughriders attacked numerous Taurian Concordat worlds as part of a Federated Suns counter-offensive in response to the recent Taurian invasion of the Federated Suns.[39][40]

The Dark Age

In the aftermath of the Jihad Grossbach was one of the Taurian worlds suffering badly from a lack of funding to assist in rebuilding after the damage inflicted by the Roughriders. As with Macleod's Land, Sterope and Taurus itself, rebuilding was going woefully slowly in the decade after the Jihad ended, as a consequence of the Taurian government diverting so much effort and resources to the war effort.[41] During Operation MATADOR the First MacLeod's Regiment retreated to Grossbach from Perdition, having held out against the First Davion Guards until the arrival of the Twenty-second Avalon Hussars LCT made their position indefensible.[42]

The Concordat Commandos were relocated to Grossbach after MATADOR, having requested a border posting so that they could launch attacks into the Federated Suns. In the first half of the 3080s the Commandos launched numerous raids against Logan's Land, Norman's World and Perdition from the Grossbach, with their efforts to insert cover operatives onto the three worlds to undermine the Federated Suns governments in place proving a dismal failure because of the experience and training the local garrisons had in ferreting out insurgents.[43]

Military Deployment

2764

3025

3085

  • Concordat Commandos [46]

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Perdition 10.6 Logan's Land 17.0 Masterton 17.7 Norman's World 24.3
Hanseta 26.6 Sartu 27.2 Amber 30.2 Dicallus 32.7
Mavegh 33.1 Celentaro 34.8 Euschelus 37.0 Tirabad 37.1
Amber Grove 37.4 Victralla 38.7 Warren 40.3 Hyalite 43.1
Caldwell 47.3 Organo 49.8 Centavido 52.3 Lothair 52.9
Flatspin 53.5 Montour 54.3 Anaheim 56.1 Sterope 57.3
Zalzangor 58.9 Cyrton 59.0 Cadiz 59.9

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  2. 2.0 2.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 121, "Taurian Concordat after Age of War [2571], Fall of the Star League [2750] and End of the 3rd Succession War [3025]"
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  5. 5.0 5.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  6. Field Manual: SLDF, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  7. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  8. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 37, "Taurian Defense Forces Deployment Map - [2765] Map"
  9. Field Report 2765: Federated Suns, p. 29, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  10. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 96, "Taurian Concordat - [2767] Map"
  11. First Succession War, p. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786]"
  12. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  13. Handbook: House Davion, p. 54, "Federated Suns after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  14. First Succession War, p. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - 2822"
  15. Second Succession War, p. 18-19, "Inner Sphere - 2830"
  16. Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  17. Second Succession War, p. 78-79, "Inner Sphere - 2864"
  18. The Periphery (Sourcebook), p. 151, "Maps of the Periphery"
  19. Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns After Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  20. Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  21. 21.0 21.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 127, "Taurian Concordat after modern colonization drive [3040] and after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  22. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  23. Handbook: House Davion, p. 76, "Federated Suns after War of 3039 - [3040]"
  24. Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  25. Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  26. Era Report: 3062, p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  27. Handbook: House Davion, p. 78, "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"
  28. The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 111, "Taurian Concordat and Tortuga Dominions"
  29. Era Report: 3062, p. 29, Inner Sphere - [3063] Map
  30. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  31. Handbook: House Davion, p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  32. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  33. Field Report: Periphery, p. 23, "Taurian Concordat Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  34. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  35. Field Manual: 3085, p. Vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  36. Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  37. Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  38. Field Manual: SLDF, pg 227, "33rd Infantry Division"
  39. Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 18, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  40. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 54, "The Jihad In Review"
  41. Field Manual: 3085, p. 132, "Taurian Concordat"
  42. Field Manual: 3085, p. 142, "III Corps"
  43. Field Manual: 3085, p. 141, "Taurian Guard Brigade"
  44. Field Manual: SLDF, pg 258, "SLDF - Taurian Concordat Military Region Command map
  45. 45.0 45.1 45.2 The Periphery, First Edition, p. 81, "BattleMech Regiment Deployment Table (as of 3025)"
  46. Field Manual: 3085, p. 150, "Taurian Guard"

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