Holmsbu

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

Holmsbu
Holmsbu 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates57.674 : 441.912[e]

Political Affiliation

Holmsbu

Planetary History

Founding

Colonists from the Federal Democratic Republics of Finland, Norway and Sweden emigrated in significant numbers after the end of the War Damage Tax payments levied on them as a part of the international rebuilding effort following the Second Soviet Civil War. Choosing a world far from Terra and the oppressive bureaucracy that went with it, the first colonists left in the mid-Twenty-third century and within sixty years had settled Rasalhague and eight other nearby worlds[1] including Holmsbu.[2] In the late Twenty-third century these worlds created a joint government to oversee the development of the worlds, creating the Rasalhague Consortium. Contact with other interstellar nations led to the Consortium evolving into the short-lived Principality of Rasalhague, prior to the Principality being conquered by the Draconis Combine in the early to mid Twenty-fourth century.[1]

Clan Invasion

Holmsbu was conquered in March 3050 by Clan Ghost Bear as part of the First Wave of Operation REVIVAL. The 43rd Elemental Support Trinary of the 12th Bear Chevaliers was tasked with taking the planet, defended at the time by the 7th and 8th Corrugated Lancers, a pair of armored regiments supported by infantry. The defending Lancers confronted the Clanners at Redwood and Linden's Bluff, but were ill-prepared to face the Battle Armored Elementals. They were quickly defeated by the Ghost Bear warriors and surrendered.[42]

First Combine-Dominion War

Operating out of Wolcott during the First Combine-Dominion War (3062 to 3063), the Black Omen mercenary unit secretly penetrated the Ghost Bear Dominion to raid Pinnacle, Holmsbu, and Thule where they disabled each planet's HPG and destroyed several supply depots.[43]

The Jihad

In March 3076 Holmsbu was the first of four Ghost Bear Dominion worlds to be raided by Clan Ice Hellion stragglers after the failed Ice Hellion invasion of the Clan Jade Falcon Occupation Zone several years before.[32][33]

Military Deployment

3050

3061

3085

3145

Nearby Systems

Closest 20 systems (19 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Pinnacle 18.0 Skallevoll 21.2 Susquehanna 22.1 Damian 23.1
Tovetin 25.9 Thule 37.8 Trondheim 39.6 Leoben 40.1
Balsta 40.9 Santander 44.0 Constance 44.3 Outpost 45.2
Porthos 47.0 Svelvik 50.6 Glabach 51.2 Jarett 51.9
New Bergen 54.6 Rasalhague 55.3 Last Frontier 58.4 Hermagor 62.9

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 20 Year Update, p. 44, "Origins"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Handbook: House Kurita, p. 18, "Draconis Combine Founding - [2319] Map"
  3. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 31, "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  4. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  5. Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  6. Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  7. Field Manual: SLDF, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  8. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  9. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 43, "Draconis Combine after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  10. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  11. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  12. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 53, "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  13. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  14. House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), "Draconis Combine Map - [3025]"
  15. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 64, "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  16. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  17. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 66, "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  18. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  19. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  20. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 68, "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  21. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  22. Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  23. Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  24. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"
  25. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 71, "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"
  26. Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  27. Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  28. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  29. Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Alliance after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  30. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 74, "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  31. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  32. 32.0 32.1 Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 21, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  33. 33.0 33.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 55, "The Jihad In Review"
  34. Field Report: Clans, p. 27, "Clan Wolf & Clan Hell's Horses Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  35. Field Report: DCMS, p. 21, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  36. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [March 3081] Map"
  37. Field Manual: 3085, p. 127, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  38. Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  39. Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  40. Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  41. Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  42. Invading Clans, p. 30
  43. Mercenaries Supplemental II, p. 24, "Black Omen: Warriors of Prophesy"
  44. 44.0 44.1 Invading Clans (sourcebook), p. 30
  45. Field Manual: Warden Clans, p. 164, "Warden Clans Deployment Table"
  46. Field Manual: 3085, p. 128, "Deployment Table - 3085"
  47. Field Manual: 3145, p. 172, "Clan Force Deployments - Rasalhague Dominion"

Bibliography