Editing New Horizons

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== System Description ==
The '''New Horizons''' system is the location of at least one inhabited world and is located in the [[Periphery]] beyond the border of the [[Qandahar Prefecture]] of the [[Pesht Military District]] of the [[Draconis Combine]].<ref name="QCp20">''Close Quarters'', p. 20-27, "Chapter 4" (prerelease electronic edition)</ref>

== System Affiliation == 
* [[3056]] - Independent world<ref name="QCp20"/>

== System History ==
The New Horizons system was colonized several centuries before the [[thirty-first century]], at some point during or prior to the [[Star League era]].<ref name="QCp20"/>

== Planetary History ==
=== Early History ===
When first colonized, the planet later known as New Horizons was given the name '''Crotch'''. The original colonists were a mix of outcasts, misfits and bandits who had reasons to leave the [[Inner Sphere]], either because life under the [[Great House]]s was too restrictive, or because they were in trouble with the law. The original frontier culture that established itself on the world eased somewhat, and the planet was both relatively isolated and wealthy in terms of water and metals; this allowed the economy to shift from one maintained by piracy to one more or less trade-based.<ref name="QCp20"/>

The change in Crotch's economy resulted in other neighbors who were still dominated by bandit kings periodically raiding New Horizons. New Horizon escaped being overwhelmed by its neighbors because whenever one of the local bandit kingdoms became too aggressive, [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]] forces from [[Qandahar]] would sally out from the Prefecture to hammer the pirates in an effort to gain glory and prestige. The Combine was generally unimpressed by the formation of bandit powers such as the [[Oberon Confederation]], and such bandit-hunting expeditions served to keep the numbers of such kingdoms down. In exchange for this basic level of protection, the government of New Horizons, known as the Planetary Syndicate, sent regular shipments of tribute to the military commander of the Qandahar Prefecture, a sensible arrangement for both parties.<ref name="QCp20"/>

=== Clan Invasion ===
[[Operation REVIVAL]] caused ructions for the inhabitants of New Horizons. The larger, more organized bandit kingdoms such as the Oberon Confederation and [[Greater Valkyrate]] that lay in the path of the returning [[Clans]] were quickly wiped out by the invading forces; the smaller bandit kingdoms were effectively forcibly evicted by the sheer force of the invasion, and a fragment from one such entity landed on New Horizons in or around [[3056]]. Despite opposition from New Horizon's military forces, the [[New Horizons Defense Force]] (NHDF), the pirate refugees managed to establish strongholds that the local defenders wore themselves out trying to squash; the pirates were able to trap and destroy a number of the NHDF's 'Mechs in the process.<ref name="QCp20"/>

In mid-3056 the government of New Horizons was able to get assistance from a much larger military force - the [[17th Recon Regiment|Seventeenth Recon Regiment]], a mercenary unit also known as [[Camacho's Caballeros]], who were in need of time and resources to recover from a mauling at the hands of the Clans, including battles on [[Jeronimo]] against [[Clan Smoke Jaguar]] that had seen the daughter of the Caballeros' commanding officer, [[Colonel]] [[Carlos Camacho]], killed in action.<ref name="QCp20"/>

In June 3056, elements of the Caballeros infiltrated into the region known as the Great Murchsion Swamp, located on New Horizon's largest continent. One band of pirates had gone to ground in the swamp, taking advantage of the iron deposits located under the lake bed and the murky water to hamper efforts to locate them, after raiding Fiasco and Medwick, the two largest cities on New Horizons, for supplies. Since then, the pirates had been launching raids against the local inhabitants - a group known as Swampers - to steal food, rape, torture, and generally do everything they could to confirm their identity as pirate scum. With the aid of the local Swampers, the Caballeros were able to locate the pirate base.<ref name="QCp20"/>

Acting on intelligence provided by [[Cassie Suthorn]], who would become the most famous of the Caballero's scouts, the Caballeros were able to attack the pirate base directly, under the cover of artillery fire. The pirate band had a number of [[BattleMech]]s, including a ''[[Locust]]'', a ''[[Marauder]]'', a ''[[Quickdraw]]'' and a ''[[Wasp]]'', but the enemy 'Mechs were overwhelmed by the Caballeros, aided by pyrotechnics seeded into the nearby terrain by Cassie during her two weeks scouting the area, as well as her efforts in moving the beacons the pirates used to mark safe routes through the swamp, causing at least one 'Mech to be bogged in and trapped intact.<ref name="QCp20"/>

== Military Deployment ==
=== 3056 ===
* New Horizons Defense Force<ref name="QCp20"/>

== Planetary Locations ==
* Fiasco: one of the two largest cities on New Horizons.<ref name="QCp20"/>
* Medwick: one of the two largest cities on New Horizons.<ref name="QCp20"/>

== Nearby Systems ==
Unknown.

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Close Quarters]]'' (novel)

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