Kirin

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Kirin
Kirin 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-23.601 : 1837.315[e]


Planetary Data

  • System Name: Kirin
  • Star Type: M9IV
  • Position in System: 3 of 3
  • Time to Jump Point: ???? days
  • Water Surface: 30%
  • Atmosphere: Low (Tainted)
  • Surface Gravity: 0.9
  • Equator Temperature: 20c
  • Percentage and Level of Native Life: Amphibians

Era Specific Data

3062

  • Population: 37,000,000
  • Occupying Clan: Clan Hell's Horses (100%)

Garrisoning Military Force

3059

Owner History

Planetary Brief

Kirin is a Kerensky Cluster world, found in "Clan Space." The world is located coreword of Delios.

The planet was a originally Clan Hell's Horses, however, in the early 31st Century, Clan Smoke Jaguar seized some control of the world, until the Inner Sphere Task force ultimately drove the Jaguars into extinction. Clan Hell's Horses forces landed on planet, stripped of its minimum defenders and took the planet exclusively for themselves.[8]

Manufacturing Center

Nearby Systems

Closest 20 systems (10 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Tamaron 29.2 Delios 33.1 Londerholm 40.0 Priori 40.2
Grant's Station 43.3 Albion 52.4 Strato Domingo 55.3 York 56.1
Gatekeeper 57.9 Barcella 59.1 Paxon 63.4 Hellgate 64.2
Zara 67.1 Brim 68.8 Hoard 75.9 Vinton 81.1
Lum 84.7 Strana Mechty 89.2 Shadow 90.0 Marshall 94.9

Notes

Planetary distances determined with the 2821 Pentagon & Kerensky Cluster Map, which has a lightyear scale included. Some distances have not been included due to some worlds not having been discovered.[12]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 151, "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Manual: Crusader Clans, p. 152 - "Crusader Clans Deployment Table"
  3. Era Digest: Golden Century, p. 7-8
  4. Clan Homeworlds 3052 Poster (Kickstarter)
  5. The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky p. 114
  6. Field Manual Update p. 39
  7. Wars of Reaving p. 248
  8. The Clans: Warriors of Kerensky, p. 85 - Clan Hell's Horses/Possessions - Kirin seized and its status as a purely Hell's Horses world restored.
  9. Technical Readout: 3060, p. 180 - Thunder Stallion - Produced as of 3060 on Kirik.
  10. Technical Readout: 3060, pp. 52, 56, 62 - Ares, Enyo, Hachiman, Ishtar Combat Vehicles & Components produced on world as of 3060.
  11. Technical Readout: 3067, p. 168 - Xerxes Aerospace Fighter.
  12. Historical: Operation Klondike, p. 135 - Map shows distances between worlds.

Bibliography