Lopez
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(References to Lopez)
Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)
X: -37.72 Y: -332.75[e]
Contents
Planetary Data[1]
- Star Type (Recharge Time): M0V/M5V (203 hours)
- Position in System: 1
- Time to Jump Point: 3 days
- Number of Satellites: None
- Surface Gravity: 0.85
- Atm. Pressure: Standard (Tainted)
- Equatorial Temperature: 50° C (Arid)
- Surface Water: 25 percent
- Recharging Station: Both
- HPG Class Type: B
- Highest Native Life: 30% Reptile
Notable Species
Homeworld of the branth species
Notable Organizations
The BranthKeepers
Era Specific Data
3025[2]
- Form of Government: Democracy
- Noble Ruler: Secretary General Abraham Q. Wiesenthal
- ComStar Representative: Precentor Debbie Loo-Yee
- Population: 2,260,000,000
3067[1]
- Noble Ruler: Secretary General Charles Cunin
- Population: 2,600,500,000
- Socio-Industrial Levels/USIIR: C-C-B-D-B
Garrisoning Military Force
3054 to 3059 to 3067
Manufacturing Centers
Owner History
- 2596 - No record [6]
- 2750 - Capellan Confederation [7]
- 2765 - Capellan Confederation [8]
- 3025 - Free Worlds League
- 3030 - Free Worlds League
- 3040 - Free Worlds League
- 3052 - Free Worlds League
- 3057 - Free Worlds League
- 3062 - Free Worlds League
- 3067 - Free Worlds League [5]
- 3079 - Duchy of Andurien [9]
- 3081 - Duchy of Andurien (dead or dying world)[10]
- 3130 - No record [11]
Planetary History
Lopez was rendered uninhabitable in October 3080, following orbital bombardment by 14 high-speed meteors on the 12th of October 3080. The meteors were delivered by manmade means, and the attack was widely considered to be the work of the Word of Blake vessel WoBS Erinyes, a ship believed to be responsible for a number of asteroid strikes on various worlds during the course of the Jihad.[12]
Six weeks before the first of the asteroids struck Lopez, the nadir point jump monitoring station received a radio report from a prospector DropShip, the Ice Princess, reporting that a large K-F signature had been detected by the DropShip; the signature fell outside the elliptical plane of the Lopez system.[13]
The first asteroid struck Lopez at 1.32am, Terran Standard Time, on the 12th of October 3080. Thirteen more asteroids followed the first in quick succession, and by midnight the entire planet had been laid waste; of the 2.6 billion people who lived on Lopez, the only survivors were a scattering of people left in what had been wilderness areas and those who managed to escape from Lopez on spacecraft.[12][13]
A number of the spacecraft which managed to escape from Lopez during the bombardment conducted orbital scans, and those scans showed no trace of drive plumes pushing the asteroids, indicating that the method of bombardment wasn't the same as that which had struck Taurus several years before. In November 3080 the path taken by the asteroids as they approached Lopez was being backtracked by investigators; these investigators discovered remains of the Ice Princess DropShip lying along the same course as that taken by the asteroids. The Ice Princess had been destroyed by capital ship weapons, but the various sensor logs aboard the ship were intact and were recovered by the investigators. When examined, the logs showed that the KF signal detected jumping into the system was a WarShip with a mass of at least one million tonnes, and also showed that the Ice Princess had been destroyed thirty seconds after the WarShip jumped in.[13]
The destruction of Lopez, combined with the various logs from the Ice Princess, are major contributing factors in the increasingly widespread acceptance of the rumour that the Word of Blake possessed a WarShip capable of killing a planet - believed to be the WoBS Erinyes.[12][13]
Nearby Planets
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Handbook: House Marik, p. 67, "Planet Profile"
- ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 155, "Planet Guide"
- ↑ Objective Raids, p. 37, "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
- ↑ Field Manual: Free Worlds League, p. 110, "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Field Manual: Updates, p. 159, "Fre Worlds League Deployment Table"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
- ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
- ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 17, "Free Worlds League Deployment Map"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - March 3081"
- ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 61, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 22, "What Of Lopez?"