Hyades Cluster

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Hyades Cluster
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates191.317 : -389.55[e]

The Hyades Cluster based on the position of Flannagan's Nebulea is a cluster of stars located to the rimward of Terra near the borders of the Federated Suns and Capellan Confederation. It contains multiple habitable systems including Taurus, Samantha, Jamestown and Ishtar. The planet Taurus is the capital of the Taurian Concordat.[1]

Planetary Info

The Hyades Cluster is a roughly spherical open cluster of three to four hundred separate stars that share a similar age and origin. From the perspective of Terra the Cluster lies in the constellation Taurus, where its brightest stars form a "V" within the constellation. This traditionally forms the Head of the bull that gives the constellation and nation that was spawned within its nebulea their names.[2]

Planetary History

The Cluster was explored and settled by the Calderon Expedition in the early years of the 2250's. This expedition was funded and led by Samantha Calderon who spent her vast fortune buying ships and supplies in an attempt to flee the horrors of war that had engulfed the Inner Sphere. She led her 2300 followers into the unexplored reaches of the Hyades Cluster in an attempt to go so far from the Inner Sphere and its conflicts that a civilization without war or conflict could be developed in peace.[3]

When they reached and explored the Cluster they found a plethora of rich worlds, hidden and protected by a dense gas and dust cloud. While penetrating this cloud an immense asteroid field was discovered, and the expedition lost some of their ships in this dangerous passage. This cloud of danger, named Flannegan's Nebulea, became the first and greatest line of defense for the colonists.[4]

In 2253 the colonists made planetfall on Taurus, a resource rich fertile world that would one day become the capital of the Taurian Concordat. In the following years more worlds within the protective embrace of the nebulae were explored and colonized until today more than 3 additional worlds have been settled and are productive and valuable members of the Concordat to this day.[4]

The Hyades Cluster is the fortress bastion of the Taurian Concordat and, with the exception of the Reunification War has never been conquered.[1] The Reunification War campaign took four years[5] and required troops from the Star League's I, II, III, IV, XI and Star Guard Corps. The VI Corps and Star Guard Corps provided the bulk of the forces used.[6] This fighting was the last combat of the Reunification War.[7]

During the Reunification War and Star League era the Hyades Cluster was home to a number of drydocks and shipyards scattered throughout the various systems and operated by Concordat Aerospace Limited; one of these facilities, located in the Taurus system, was capable of manufacturing WarShips.[8] At this point in time the population of the Hyades Cluster was estimated by the SLDF to be more than eight billion people, seven billion of which lived on the eight major inhabited worlds within the Cluster, which were spread across just five systems. The remaining population lived on the innumerable moons and asteroids scattered around the cluster, intermixed with the hundreds of uninhabited planets and immense number of asteroids, comments and assorted trapped stellar objects.[9] The Concordat also maintained at least one active battle station, named Outland Gamma, and attempts by the SLDF to construct their own stations and facilities within the cluster to support their invading forces were blocked by the Taurians, who used a combination of nuclear weapons and asteroids flung by mass drivers to destroy each before it could be completed.[10]

Stationed Military

Besides the resident militia and noble house forces the Taurian Concordat keeps regiments of front line units stationed to protect the planets of the Cluster. Traditionally these are the Taurian Guards Corps as well as other front line units that are brought in to rest and refit in the relative safety of the Cluster worlds. [11]

In addition to the line Regiments there are the TDF Special Asteroid Support Force or SASF. The SASF is a specialized all-volunteer body of soldiers and naval personnel trained in zero-g tactics that man the defensive platforms located throughout the Flannagan's Nebulea asteroid belt.[12]

Political Affiliation

Military Deployment

3025

Manufacturing Centers

Nearby Systems

Closest 48 systems (47 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Taurus 1.5 Ishtar 3.6 Jamestown 4.0 Samantha 4.4
Menion 6.5 Megaris 7.8 Ina 7.9 Parian 8.0
Jansen's Hold 13.4 New Ganymede 13.6 New Vallis 14.0 Landmark 16.4
Pinard 17.4 MacLeod's Land 22.0 Illiushin 22.1 Midale 27.4
Flaum 27.4 Camadeierre 29.0 Burton 31.7 Renfield 31.8
Desolate Plains 32.3 Merlin 32.7 Bromhead 33.8 Brisbane 37.5
New Vandenburg 38.9 Laconis 39.4 Atreus Prime 39.8 Rollis 41.3
Carmichael 41.3 Woogi 42.1 Mithron 42.1 Lindsay 42.4
Brockway 43.0 Paf 46.6 Diefenbaker 48.5 Non Diz 48.8
Spitz 49.3 Horsham 49.9 Girondas 50.1 Aea 50.9
Mas 50.9 Robsart 53.4 Qalzi 55.7 Flintoft 56.3
Corodiz 57.5 Pyrrhus 58.8 Maldive 58.8 Brinton 60.8

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Periphery, p. 71
  2. ↑ wikipedia.org, Hyades Cluster
  3. ↑ Inner Sphere (sourcebook), p. 103
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Periphery 2nd Edition, p. 10
  5. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 14
  6. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 22
  7. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 23
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 11, "Infrastructural Integrity"
  9. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 92, "Piercing the Hyades"
  10. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 92-93, "Breaching the Perimeter"
  11. ↑ The Periphery, p. 77
  12. ↑ The Periphery, p. 80
  13. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 18, "Federated Suns at their Founding - [2317] Map"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 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]"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 48, "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  16. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  17. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  18. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  19. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  20. ↑ Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 37, "Taurian Defense Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  21. ↑ Field Report 2765: Capellan Confederation, p. 23, "Capellan Confederation Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  22. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 96, "Taurian Concordat - [2767] Map"
  23. ↑ First Succession War, p. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786]"
  24. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  25. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 54, "Federated Suns after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  26. ↑ First Succession War, p. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - 2822"
  27. ↑ Second Succession War, p. 18-19, "Inner Sphere - 2830"
  28. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns After Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  29. ↑ Second Succession War, p. 78-79, "Inner Sphere - 2864"
  30. ↑ The Periphery (Sourcebook), p. 151, "Maps of the Periphery"
  31. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns After Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  32. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns After Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p, 127, "Taurian Concordat after modern colonization drive [3040] and after FedCom Civil War [3067]"
  34. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 76, "Federated Suns after War of 3039 - [3040]"
  35. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  36. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  37. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  38. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  39. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 78, "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"
  40. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 111, "Taurian Concordat and Tortuga Dominions"
  41. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, Inner Sphere - [3063] Map
  42. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  43. ↑ Handbook: House Davion, p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  44. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  45. ↑ Field Report: Periphery, p. 23, "Taurian Concordat Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  46. ↑ Field Report: AFFS, p. 21, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map [3079]"
  47. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  48. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. Vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  49. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  50. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  51. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 38, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  52. ↑ Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 The Periphery, p.81

Bibliography

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