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The '''Kikuyu''' system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as of June [[3152]] was located in the [[Vesper Marches]].<ref name=TRp72/> | The '''Kikuyu''' system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as of June [[3152]] was located in the [[Vesper Marches]].<ref name=TRp72/> | ||
==Political Affiliation== | ==Political Affiliation== | ||
<div class="desktop-3-col"> | <div class="desktop-3-col"> | ||
− | * [[2571]] - [[Rim Worlds Republic]]<ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18 | + | * [[2571]] - [[Rim Worlds Republic]]<ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18</ref><ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25</ref> |
− | * [[2596]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158 | + | * [[2596]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158</ref> |
− | * [[2750]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25 | + | * [[2750]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36</ref> |
* [[2764]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref> | * [[2764]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref> | ||
− | * [[2765]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:LoTV1p10">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10 | + | * [[2765]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name="H:LoTV1p10">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 10</ref><ref name="FR2765:Pp38">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 38</ref><ref name="FR2765:LCAFp25">''Field Report 2765: LCAF'', p. 25</ref> |
− | * [[2767]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name= | + | * [[2767]] - Rim Worlds Republic<ref name=H:LoTV1p104>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 104</ref> |
* [[2775]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]]<ref name="HB:MPSp37"/> | * [[2775]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]]<ref name="HB:MPSp37"/> | ||
− | * [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36 | + | * [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36</ref><ref name="H:LoTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122–123</ref> |
− | * [[2864]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40 | + | * [[2864]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40</ref> |
− | * [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HS(TLC)pvii">''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. vii: "Lyran Commonwealth Map - [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47 | + | * [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HS(TLC)pvii">''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. vii: "Lyran Commonwealth Map - [3025]"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp47">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 47</ref> |
− | * [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56 | + | * [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56</ref> |
− | * [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]]<ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59 | + | * [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]]<ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59</ref><ref name="H:Wo3039p132">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132</ref> |
− | * [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10 | + | * [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10</ref> |
− | * [[3052]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61 | + | * [[3052]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61</ref><ref name="ER3052p21">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 22</ref> |
− | * [[3057]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3062p10">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 10 | + | * [[3057]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3062p10">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 10</ref> |
− | * [[3063]] - [[Lyran Alliance]]<ref name="ER:3062p28">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 28 | + | * [[3063]] - [[Lyran Alliance]]<ref name="ER:3062p28">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 28</ref><ref name="ISp75">''Inner Sphere'', p. 75</ref> |
* [[3064]] - [[Clan Jade Falcon]] (from July)<ref name=RoM>''Rain of Metal''</ref><ref name=D18MT>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (Solaris Broadcasting Co. section), news item published [29/10/3070]: "Day Eighteen of Meissner Trial"''</ref><ref name=FMRp60/><ref name=FCWp115/><ref name=OpAuC4/> | * [[3064]] - [[Clan Jade Falcon]] (from July)<ref name=RoM>''Rain of Metal''</ref><ref name=D18MT>''BattleCorps: INN Newscast (Solaris Broadcasting Co. section), news item published [29/10/3070]: "Day Eighteen of Meissner Trial"''</ref><ref name=FMRp60/><ref name=FCWp115/><ref name=OpAuC4/> | ||
− | * [[3067]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70 | + | * [[3067]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70</ref><ref name="J:FRp42">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42</ref> |
− | * [[3075]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="JS:TBDp63>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 63 | + | * [[3075]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="JS:TBDp63>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 63</ref> |
− | * [[3079]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="FR:Cp26">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 26 | + | * [[3079]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="FR:Cp26">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 26</ref><ref name="FR:LAAFp19">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 19</ref> |
− | * [[3081]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="J:FRp62">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62 | + | * [[3081]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="J:FRp62">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62</ref> |
* [[3085]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref> | * [[3085]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref> | ||
− | * [[3135]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11 | + | * [[3135]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11</ref> |
− | * [[3145]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name=ER:3145p39>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39 | + | * [[3145]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name=ER:3145p39>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. vi: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref> |
− | * [[3151]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name=SFp102>''Shattered Fortress'', p. 102 | + | * [[3151]] - Clan Jade Falcon<ref name=SFp102>''Shattered Fortress'', p. 102</ref> |
− | * [[3152]] - [[Vesper Marches]]<ref name=TRpm>''Tamar Rising'', poster map</ref><ref name=TRp72>''Tamar Rising'', p. 72 | + | * [[3152]] - [[Vesper Marches]]<ref name=TRpm>''Tamar Rising'', poster map</ref><ref name=TRp72>''Tamar Rising'', p. 72</ref> |
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==Kikuyu III== | ==Kikuyu III== | ||
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====Reunification War==== | ====Reunification War==== | ||
− | By the end of the [[Age of War]] Kikuyu was a part of the [[Apollo Province]] of the Rim Worlds Republic.<ref name="HB:MPSp18"/> In [[2584]] civil war had been raging within the Rim Worlds Republic for nine years, fought between supporters of [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] and supporters of the [[Rim Provisional Government]], and Kikuyu was the garrison posting of the [[1st Amaris Dragoons|First Amaris Dragoons]]. The First Dragoons had lapsed into sectarian violence against each other, an internecine conflict sparked by the divided loyalties expressed within the Dragoons; when the [[Star League Defense Force]] launched the second wave of planetary campaigns as a part of [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the [[Star League]] intervention in the civil war to restore Gregory Amaris to power, the internal conflict within the First Dragoons led the [[SLDF]] to believe that the conquest of Kikuyu would be a relatively short and easy affair.<ref name="H:RWp154"/> | + | By the end of the [[Age of War]], Kikuyu was a part of the [[Apollo Province]] of the Rim Worlds Republic.<ref name="HB:MPSp18"/> In [[2584]] civil war had been raging within the Rim Worlds Republic for nine years, fought between supporters of [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] and supporters of the [[Rim Provisional Government]], and Kikuyu was the garrison posting of the [[1st Amaris Dragoons|First Amaris Dragoons]]. The First Dragoons had lapsed into sectarian violence against each other, an internecine conflict sparked by the divided loyalties expressed within the Dragoons; when the [[Star League Defense Force]] launched the second wave of planetary campaigns as a part of [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the [[Star League]] intervention in the civil war to restore Gregory Amaris to power, the internal conflict within the First Dragoons led the [[SLDF]] to believe that the conquest of Kikuyu would be a relatively short and easy affair.<ref name="H:RWp154"/> |
The SLDF assigned the [[16th Mechanized Infantry Division|Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division]] from [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]] to the attack on Kikuyu; the Sixteenth landed on Kikuyu in March 2584 to begin combat operations, only to discover that their presence united the disparate elements of the First Dragoons by providing them with a common cause. Aided by irregulars raised from the civilian population, the heavily outnumbered First Dragoons turned the battle for Kikuyu into an extended campaign that didn't end until January [[2585]], almost a year after the initial landings. Casualties were high on both sides; the Rim Worlds losses amounted to thirty thousand people in total, two-thirds of whom were people who had joined the irregular formations that rose up after the SLDF landing. The Sixteenth had suffered two and a half thousand fatalities and another five and a half thousand injuries before the weary division finally secured the planet.<ref name="H:RWp134">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 134: "Helbrent to Nightwish (July 2582 - November 2584)"</ref> | The SLDF assigned the [[16th Mechanized Infantry Division|Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division]] from [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]] to the attack on Kikuyu; the Sixteenth landed on Kikuyu in March 2584 to begin combat operations, only to discover that their presence united the disparate elements of the First Dragoons by providing them with a common cause. Aided by irregulars raised from the civilian population, the heavily outnumbered First Dragoons turned the battle for Kikuyu into an extended campaign that didn't end until January [[2585]], almost a year after the initial landings. Casualties were high on both sides; the Rim Worlds losses amounted to thirty thousand people in total, two-thirds of whom were people who had joined the irregular formations that rose up after the SLDF landing. The Sixteenth had suffered two and a half thousand fatalities and another five and a half thousand injuries before the weary division finally secured the planet.<ref name="H:RWp134">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 134: "Helbrent to Nightwish (July 2582 - November 2584)"</ref> | ||
====Star League Era==== | ====Star League Era==== | ||
− | Kikuyu was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the [[2773]] | + | Kikuyu was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the [[2773]]–[[2775]] [[Republic-Commonwealth War]].<ref name="HB:MPSp37">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 37: "The Republic-Commonwealth War"</ref> At the start of the war, officials from Kikuyu sent a report to the Republican government on [[Apollo (system)|Apollo]] with the first confirmation that the invaders bore the fist insignia of [[House Steiner]].<ref name=H:LoTV1p111>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 111</ref> |
====FedCom Civil War==== | ====FedCom Civil War==== | ||
− | The [[Sixth Donegal Guards]] | + | The [[Sixth Donegal Guards]] were expelled by [[Clan Jade Falcon]] forces in [[3064]]<ref name=D18MT/> along with the supporting mercenary unit [[The Dioscuri]]. There they faced [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Jade Falcon)|Delta Galaxy]] during the [[Jade Falcon Incursion (3064)|Jade Falcon Incursion]] and managed to hold their ground for two weeks despite the unit being badly mauled before most of the Sixth was ordered to redeploy elsewhere.<ref name=FMRp60>''Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised'', p. 60</ref><ref name=FCWp115>''FedCom Civil War'', p. 115: "Kikuyu"</ref><ref name=OpAuC4>''Operation Audacity'' (PDF version), ch. 4</ref> |
====Jihad==== | ====Jihad==== | ||
− | In [[3076]] the Lyran Alliance raided Kikuyu. | + | In [[3076]], the Lyran Alliance raided Kikuyu. Of note was a ''[[Snow Fox|Snow Fox 3]]'' operating with a Star of light [[OmniMech|OmniMechs]], presumably captured in the [[Harvest Trials]].<ref>''MILSpec - Snow Fox''</ref> |
====The Dark Age==== | ====The Dark Age==== | ||
− | In the early years after the [[Jihad]] the Lyran Alliance invaded both Kikuyu and the nearby world of [[Newtown Square]], provoking an aggressive response from Clan Jade Falcon and the counterinvasion of [[Mogyorod]], [[Clermont]] and [[Machida]] by the Jade Falcon [[Epsilon Galaxy (Clan Jade Falcon)|Epsilon Galaxy]]<ref name="FM:3085p117">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 117: "Epsilon Galaxy"</ref> in [[3080]].<ref name="FM:3085p123">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 123: "Beta Galaxy"</ref> | + | In the early years after the [[Jihad]], the Lyran Alliance invaded both Kikuyu and the nearby world of [[Newtown Square]], provoking an aggressive response from Clan Jade Falcon and the counterinvasion of [[Mogyorod]], [[Clermont]] and [[Machida]] by the Jade Falcon [[Epsilon Galaxy (Clan Jade Falcon)|Epsilon Galaxy]]<ref name="FM:3085p117">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 117: "Epsilon Galaxy"</ref> in [[3080]].<ref name="FM:3085p123">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 123: "Beta Galaxy"</ref> |
===Military Deployment=== | ===Military Deployment=== | ||
− | ==== | + | {{columns-start|num=2}} |
+ | ====2581–2584==== | ||
* [[1st Amaris Dragoons|First Amaris Dragoons]] (Divided in loyalty between Republican rebels and Amaris loyalists)<ref name="H:RWp128">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 128: "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp154">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 154: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"</ref> | * [[1st Amaris Dragoons|First Amaris Dragoons]] (Divided in loyalty between Republican rebels and Amaris loyalists)<ref name="H:RWp128">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 128: "Reunification War: Rim Worlds Republic Front Deployments (2581)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp154">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 154: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"</ref> | ||
− | ==== | + | ====2585–2587==== |
* [[SLDF]] [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]]<ref name="H:RWp152">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 152: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"</ref> | * [[SLDF]] [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]]<ref name="H:RWp152">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 152: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-off - 2587)"</ref> | ||
:* [[16th Mechanized Infantry Division|Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division]] | :* [[16th Mechanized Infantry Division|Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division]] | ||
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====3054==== | ====3054==== | ||
* [[Eridani Light Horse]] | * [[Eridani Light Horse]] | ||
− | ** [[ | + | ** [[Twenty-first Striker Regiment]] (2 [[Battalion]]s)<ref name=OR55>''Objective Raids'', p. 55: "Note of Unit"</ref> |
* [[2nd Crucis Lancers|Second Crucis Lancers]] (1 Battalion)<ref name=OR55/> | * [[2nd Crucis Lancers|Second Crucis Lancers]] (1 Battalion)<ref name=OR55/> | ||
* [[8th Deneb Light Cavalry|Eighth Deneb Light Cavalry]]<ref name=OR55/> | * [[8th Deneb Light Cavalry|Eighth Deneb Light Cavalry]]<ref name=OR55/> | ||
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====3059==== | ====3059==== | ||
* [[Sixth Donegal Guards]]<ref name=THp46>''The Hunters'', pp. 46–47</ref> | * [[Sixth Donegal Guards]]<ref name=THp46>''The Hunters'', pp. 46–47</ref> | ||
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====3085==== | ====3085==== | ||
* [[24th Provisional Garrison Cluster (Clan Jade Falcon)|Twenty-fourth Provisional Garrison Cluster]]<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 126: "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref> | * [[24th Provisional Garrison Cluster (Clan Jade Falcon)|Twenty-fourth Provisional Garrison Cluster]]<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 126: "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref> | ||
+ | {{columns-end}} | ||
===Planetary Locations=== | ===Planetary Locations=== | ||
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* Fort Telemar: Base used by the [[Eridani Light Horse]] in 3058.<ref name=THch3>''The Hunters'', ch. 3</ref> | * Fort Telemar: Base used by the [[Eridani Light Horse]] in 3058.<ref name=THch3>''The Hunters'', ch. 3</ref> | ||
− | == Map Gallery == | + | ==Map Gallery== |
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− | == Nearby Systems == | + | ==Nearby Systems== |
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* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]'' | * ''[[Era Report: 3062]]'' | ||
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]'' | * ''[[Era Report: 3145]]'' | ||
− | * ''[[FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)]]'' | + | * ''[[FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)|FedCom Civil War]]'' |
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]'' | * ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]'' | ||
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]'' | * ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]'' | ||
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* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]'' | * ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]'' | ||
* ''[[The Hunters]]'' (novel) | * ''[[The Hunters]]'' (novel) | ||
− | * ''[[Inner Sphere (sourcebook)]]'' | + | * ''[[Inner Sphere (sourcebook)|Inner Sphere]]'' |
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]'' | * ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]'' | ||
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]'' | * ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]'' | ||
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[[Category:Systems|Kikuyu]] | [[Category:Systems|Kikuyu]] |
Revision as of 10:27, 22 May 2023
Kikuyu | |
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← 3135 3151 | |
System Information | |
X:Y Coordinates | -203.689 : 366.491[e] |
Spectral class | G7V[1] |
Recharge time | 188 hours[1] |
Recharge station(s) | None[1] |
The Kikuyu system was home to at least one habitable world or construct and as of June 3152 was located in the Vesper Marches.[2]
Contents
Political Affiliation
- 2571 - Rim Worlds Republic[3][4]
- 2596 - Rim Worlds Republic[5]
- 2750 - Rim Worlds Republic[6][7]
- 2764 - Rim Worlds Republic[8]
- 2765 - Rim Worlds Republic[9][10][11]
- 2767 - Rim Worlds Republic[12]
- 2775 - Lyran Commonwealth[13]
- 2822 - Lyran Commonwealth[14][15]
- 2864 - Lyran Commonwealth[16]
- 3025 - Lyran Commonwealth[17][18]
- 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth[19]
- 3040 - Federated Commonwealth[20][21]
- 3050 - Federated Commonwealth[22]
- 3052 - Federated Commonwealth[23][24]
- 3057 - Federated Commonwealth[25]
- 3063 - Lyran Alliance[26][27]
- 3064 - Clan Jade Falcon (from July)[28][29][30][31][32]
- 3067 - Clan Jade Falcon[33][34]
- 3075 - Clan Jade Falcon[35]
- 3079 - Clan Jade Falcon[36][37]
- 3081 - Clan Jade Falcon[38]
- 3085 - Clan Jade Falcon[39]
- 3135 - Clan Jade Falcon[40]
- 3145 - Clan Jade Falcon[41][42]
- 3151 - Clan Jade Falcon[43]
- 3152 - Vesper Marches[44][2]
Kikuyu III
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Planetary History
Founding
Originally discovered shortly after the fall of the Terran Alliance, Kikuyu was first colonized by New Zealanders, Australians, and Tasmanians. They found a world with a large continent (named Queensland) which was home to the Great Victorian Desert. Around this large desert continent were two large archipelagos. The Great Victorian Desert was the reason the planet was settled, or rather, what was under the desert was the reason: Large amounts of radioactive ores and rare metals.[1]
The two archipelagos were set up as independent nation states, one settled by New Zealanders and one by Tasmanians. One is named Auckland Archipelago while the other is named New Tasmania.[1]
Reunification War
By the end of the Age of War, Kikuyu was a part of the Apollo Province of the Rim Worlds Republic.[3] In 2584 civil war had been raging within the Rim Worlds Republic for nine years, fought between supporters of First Consul Gregory Amaris and supporters of the Rim Provisional Government, and Kikuyu was the garrison posting of the First Amaris Dragoons. The First Dragoons had lapsed into sectarian violence against each other, an internecine conflict sparked by the divided loyalties expressed within the Dragoons; when the Star League Defense Force launched the second wave of planetary campaigns as a part of Operation MAILED FIST, the Star League intervention in the civil war to restore Gregory Amaris to power, the internal conflict within the First Dragoons led the SLDF to believe that the conquest of Kikuyu would be a relatively short and easy affair.[45]
The SLDF assigned the Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division from VI Corps to the attack on Kikuyu; the Sixteenth landed on Kikuyu in March 2584 to begin combat operations, only to discover that their presence united the disparate elements of the First Dragoons by providing them with a common cause. Aided by irregulars raised from the civilian population, the heavily outnumbered First Dragoons turned the battle for Kikuyu into an extended campaign that didn't end until January 2585, almost a year after the initial landings. Casualties were high on both sides; the Rim Worlds losses amounted to thirty thousand people in total, two-thirds of whom were people who had joined the irregular formations that rose up after the SLDF landing. The Sixteenth had suffered two and a half thousand fatalities and another five and a half thousand injuries before the weary division finally secured the planet.[46]
Star League Era
Kikuyu was conquered by the Lyran Commonwealth during the 2773–2775 Republic-Commonwealth War.[13] At the start of the war, officials from Kikuyu sent a report to the Republican government on Apollo with the first confirmation that the invaders bore the fist insignia of House Steiner.[47]
FedCom Civil War
The Sixth Donegal Guards were expelled by Clan Jade Falcon forces in 3064[29] along with the supporting mercenary unit The Dioscuri. There they faced Delta Galaxy during the Jade Falcon Incursion and managed to hold their ground for two weeks despite the unit being badly mauled before most of the Sixth was ordered to redeploy elsewhere.[30][31][32]
Jihad
In 3076, the Lyran Alliance raided Kikuyu. Of note was a Snow Fox 3 operating with a Star of light OmniMechs, presumably captured in the Harvest Trials.[48]
The Dark Age
In the early years after the Jihad, the Lyran Alliance invaded both Kikuyu and the nearby world of Newtown Square, provoking an aggressive response from Clan Jade Falcon and the counterinvasion of Mogyorod, Clermont and Machida by the Jade Falcon Epsilon Galaxy[49] in 3080.[50]
Military Deployment
2581–2584
- First Amaris Dragoons (Divided in loyalty between Republican rebels and Amaris loyalists)[51][45]
2585–2587
3054
3059
3061
3085
Planetary Locations
- Brandtford Heights: a city near Fort Telemar that has a starport.[58]
- Fort Telemar: Base used by the Eridani Light Horse in 3058.[59]
Map Gallery
Nearby Systems
Closest 32 systems (30 within 60 light-years) Distance in light years, closest systems first: | |||||||
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Mogyorod | 14.8 | Clermont | 15.3 | Roadside | 18.8 | Biegga | 21.1 |
Blue Hole | 24.7 | Chahar | 26.4 | Melissia | 27.3 | Machida | 32.1 |
Hot Springs | 33.1 | Black Earth | 35.8 | Newtown Square | 36.2 | Annunziata | 37.3 |
Kolovraty | 37.9 | Zhongshan | 43.3 | Chapultepec | 43.3 | Kookens Pleasure Pit | 43.7 |
Barcelona | 45.0 | Pangkalan | 45.6 | Blackjack | 46.8 | Renren | 48.4 |
Goat Path | 51.0 | Pasig | 51.2 | Beta | 52.0 | Montsegur | 52.1 |
Manx | 54.0 | Medellin | 55.7 | Golandrinas | 55.7 | Jorvikland | 59.2 |
Malibu | 59.5 | Kwangchowwang | 59.7 | Bone-Norman | 61.2 | Vulture's Nest | 63.2 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 FedCom Civil War, p. 200: "Planet Profile"
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