Marlette

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Marlette

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

Marlette
System Information
X:Y Coordinates154.576 : -44.511[e]
Spectral classK2V[1][2]
Recharge time193 hours[1][2]
Recharge station(s)Nadir[1][2]

The Marlette system was the location of at least one habitable world, Marlette III, and the former capital system of a minor nation; as at 3145 was the located in the Markesan Operational Area of the Crucis March within the Federated Suns.[3][4]

System Description

The Marlette system is located close to the Barstow and Goderich systems[3][4] and consists of a class K2V primary orbited by at least three planets. During the thirty-first century a recharge station was in place at the system nadir jump point.[1][2]

System History

The Marlette system was colonised during the First Exodus from Terra.[5]

Marlette III

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Marlette III - more commonly known simply as Marlette - was once the capital of the Marlette Association, a small post-Terran Alliance interstellar polity.[5]

Planetary History

Originally a member of the Marlette Association, Marlette is a Davion frontier world on their border with the Capellan Confederation. It is habitable, with a breathable atmosphere, water and vegetation. It served the Federated Suns as a logistical and training center, and during the thirty-first century was the capital of both the local administrative region and the local Armed Forces of the Federated Suns Combat Region.[2]

First Succession War

Marlette was invaded during the first half of the major invasion into the Federated Suns launched by the Draconis Combine in May 2787.[6] By 2797 the Goderich system, which had been conquered in the second wave of the massive invasion of the Federated Suns by the Draconis Combine, was back under Federated Suns control and was home to the remains of three regiments who had withdrawn from Kentares or systems nearby: the Third Deneb Light Cavalry, the Seventh Crucis Lancers and the Twentieth Syrtis Fusiliers. When word reached Goderich of the massacre being conducted on Kentares IV by Coordinator Jinjiro Kurita, the three regiments became the first Armed Forces of the Federated Suns units to break ranks and launch furious, vengeance-driven attacks against nearby Combine forces, beginning in October 2797. Other units were soon doing the same, and by November the vengeful AFFS units had broken through the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery defenses on both Logandale and Marlette, returning both systems to Federated Suns control. This was the beginning of a resurgence across the AFFS that would eventually lead to the Combine invasion being turned back, and the majority of the conquered Federation worlds being liberated.[7]

Third Succession War

The defenses of Marlette included the ostensibly impregnable Fort Bourgogne. Fort Bourgogne was successfully raided by forces from McCarron's Armored Cavalry twice, first in 3022 and again in 3044, after being rebuilt and despite having its defenses improved. To advance on the fortress, the attackers had to cross the Bern river at the narrow Stannic Bridge, a lostech artifact spanning three miles. Archibald McCarron expressly forbade his men from destroying the bridge.[citation needed]

Political Affiliation

Military Deployment

2764

2786

3025

3028

3038

3050

3054

3067

3079

3085

3145

Geography

Marlette has three continents named Flint, Saginaw and Sanilac.[2]

Planetary Locations

  • Achemar: The planetary capital city, located on Sanilac.[2] The local combat region was named the Achemar Combat Region after the city of Achemar.[1]
  • Fort Bourgogne:[51]
  • Jericho City: [52]
  • Staval: a city and major spaceport.[1]

Industrial Centers

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Goderich 15.0 Barstow 19.7 Logandale 19.9 Sanilac 21.7
Avawatz 25.3 Wroxeter 26.4 Listowel 27.4 Johnsondale 27.7
Tawas 30.2 Sonnia 33.6 Edwards 34.6 Beecher 34.9
Rosamond 34.9 Waycross 35.2 Kentares IV 38.9 Bristol 46.0
Farwell 49.1 Cartago 49.1 Amiga 50.7 Olancha 50.7
Caselton 51.0 Everett 51.7 Tikonov 54.1 Batavia 57.4
Ulan Batar 57.9 Mira 58.7 Schedar 60.0

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Handbook: House Davion, p. 95, "Planet Profile"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Objectives: Federated Suns, p. 21, "Marlette"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 House Liao (The Capellan Confederation), p. 21
  6. 6.0 6.1 First Succession War, p. 44, "Draconis Combine-Federated Suns Front 2786-2796"
  7. 7.0 7.1 First Succession War, p. 88, "United In Rage"
  8. Handbook: House Davion, p. 18, "Federated Suns at their Founding - [2317] Map"
  9. Handbook: House Davion, p. 48, "Federated Suns after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  10. Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  11. Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  12. Field Manual: SLDF, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  13. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  14. Field Report 2765: Federated Suns, p. 29, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"
  15. First Succession War (Source Book), p. 25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  16. Handbook: House Davion, p. 54, "Federated Suns after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  17. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  18. First Succession War (Source Book), p. 113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  19. Handbook: House Davion, p. 60, "Federated Suns after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  20. House Davion (The Federated Suns), "Federated Suns Map - [3025]"
  21. Handbook: House Davion, p. 70, "Federated Suns after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  22. Handbook: House Davion, p. 72, "Federated Suns after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  23. Handbook: House Davion, p. 76, "Federated Suns after War of [3039] - [3040] Map"
  24. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  25. Era Report: 3052, p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3050] Map
  26. Era Report: 3052, p. 23, Inner Sphere - [3052] Map
  27. Era Report: 3062, p. 11, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  28. Handbook: House Davion, p. 78, "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"
  29. Era Report: 3062, p. 29, Inner Sphere - [3063] Map
  30. Handbook: House Davion, p. 82, "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  31. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  32. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  33. Field Report: AFFS, p. 21, "Federated Suns Armed Forces Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  34. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  35. Field Manual: 3085, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  36. Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  37. Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  38. Field Manual: SLDF, p. 252, "SLDF - Federated Suns Military Command Map"
  39. First Succession War (Source Book), p. 134, "First Succession War Deployment Table - AFFS"
  40. House Davion (The Federated Suns), p. 135, "Unit Deployment Table"
  41. 41.0 41.1 NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p. 12, "Operation RAT"
  42. Historical: War of 3039, p. 136, "Deployment Table"
  43. 20-Year Update, p. 22
  44. Objective Raids, p. 15, "FedCom Deployment Table"
  45. Field Manual: Updates, p. 179, "Lyran Alliance Deploment Table"
  46. Field Manual: Updates, p. 139, "Federated Suns Deployment Table"
  47. Field Report: AFFS, p. 14, "Regimental Status"
  48. 48.0 48.1 Objectives: Federated Suns, p. 21, "Marlette"
  49. Field Manual: 3085, p. 71, "Deployment Table - 3085"
  50. Field Manual: 3145, p. 90, "Armed Forces of the Federated Suns"
  51. McCarron's Armored Cavalry (scenario pack), p. 6
  52. Storms of Fate, Ch. 1

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