Editing Newtown Square

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== Political Affiliation ==
* [[2341]] - No record <ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding - [2341] Map"</ref>
* [[2571]] - [[Rim Worlds Republic]] <ref name="HB:MPSp18">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HSp25">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2596]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name="HB:MPSp25">''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 25, "Rim Worlds Republic At the Fall of the Star League - [2750] Map"</ref><ref name="ER:2750p36">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 36, "Inner Sphere - [2750] 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, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name="FR2765:Pp38">''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 38, "Rim Worlds Army Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref><ref name="FR2765:LCAFp25">''Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth'', p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
* [[2767]] - Rim Worlds Republic <ref name="H:LoTV1p104>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 104, "Rim Worlds Republic - [2767] Map"</ref>
* [[2775]] - [[Lyran Commonwealth]] <ref name="HB:MPSp37"/>
* [[2786]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp36">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="H:LoTV2p122">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', pp. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref><ref name="FSW(SB)p112-113">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[2864]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp40">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War - [2864]"</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, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
* [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp56">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]] <ref name="HB:HSp59">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref><ref name="H:Wo3039p132">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 132, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3052p10">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
* [[3052]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="HB:HSp61">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="ER3052p21">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 22, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3062p10">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
* [[3063]] - Federated Commonwealth <ref name="ER:3062p28">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 28, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref><ref name="ISp75">''Inner Sphere (sourcebook)'', p. 75, "Lyran Alliance Map"</ref>
* [[3067]] - [[Clan Jade Falcon]] <ref name="HB:HSp70">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp42">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name="JS:TBDp64">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64, "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name="FR:LAAFp19">''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Armed Forces Deployment Table - [August 3079]"</ref> <ref name="FR:Cp26">''Field Report: Clans'', p. 26, "Clan Jade Falcon/Clan Wolf in Exile Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name="J:FRp62">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 62, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3130]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
* [[3135]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Clan Jade Falcon <ref name=ER:3145p39>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 39, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref><ref name="FM:3145pVI">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. VI, "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"</ref>

== Planetary History ==
=== Reunification War ===
By the end of the [[Age of War]] '''Newtown Square''' was a world within the [[Apollo Province]] of the Rim Worlds Republic.<ref name="HB:MPSp18"/>

Civil war erupted in the Rim Worlds Republic in [[2575]], with the factions polarized around those loyal to [[First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] and those loyal to the [[Rift Republican Army]] and the [[Rim Provisional Government]].<ref name="H:RWp130">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 130, "The Spark"</ref> The [[Star League]] eventually decided to intervene in the civil war in support of Gregory Amaris, and in [[2579]] assembled [[Task Force MAILED FIST]] to help secure Amaris' control over the Rim Worlds Republic. A multinational force headed by the [[Star League Defense Force]], Task Force MAILED FIST was responsible for executing [[Operation MAILED FIST]], the name given to the military intervention. the first wave of attacks focused on securing significant worlds near [[Apollo (planet)|Apollo]],<ref name="H:RWp132">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132, "Case Apollo"</ref> until a destructive raid on [[Alarion]] by forces from the [[4th Amaris Fusiliers|Fourth Amaris Fusiliers]] in retaliation prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, the focus shifted to reducing [[Rim Worlds Army]] concentrations throughout the Republic and the capture of key worlds.<ref name="H:RWp133">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 133, "Island Hopping (2582-2590)"</ref>

In late [[2584]] the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]] when they captured [[Nightwish]] in mid-2584.<ref name="H:RWp134">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 134, "Helbrent to Nightwish (July 2582 - November 2584)"</ref>

The Commanding Officer of Battle Group APOLLO, [[General]] [[Nathan Isaacson]], assigned the conquest of Newtown Square to the [[16th Mechanized Infantry Division|Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division]] in January [[2588]]. No major Rim Worlds Army units were known to be in place on Newtown Square, which meant that the planetary conquest was anticipated to involve only subjugating the local militias. The battle for Newtown Square actually became the most costly campaign of any of the "undefended" Rim Worlds Republic worlds targeted to date by Task Force APOLLO, and for reasons the SLDF hadn't anticipated.<ref name="H:RWp135">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 135, "Newtown Shoals: Sharks Among Minnows (January 2588)</ref>

The Sixteenth arrived in the Newtown Square system without anticipating any major surprises or setbacks, and within two weeks of making planetfall the Sixteenth was well on its way to neutering the local militias. As was standard operating doctrine for SLDF invasion forces during the campaign the Sixteenth had been escorted to Newtown Square by a [[WarShip]] contingent, in this case the cruiser-class [[Rapacious (Vessel)|SLS ''Rapacious'']] and the frigate-class [[Alacrity (Vessel)|SLS ''Alacrity'']]. While this doctrine was a security measure intended to protect the vulnerable transport ships from attacks by enemy naval forces, the RWA black water navy of the time consisted of just two destroyer-class and seven corvette-class WarShips, only one of which - a corvette crippled and boarded during the invasion of [[Finmark]] in [[2586]] - had been seen, and as a result the Republic navy had been largely dismissed as a threat. The primary roadblock to the successful conquest of Newtown Square was discovered to be a complex of reinforced bunkers within the Ard Ri Mountains, a complex which was well protected by anti-air defenses and which was proving very difficult to attack by ground. With a determined defense in place proving difficult for the forces from the Sixteenth on the ground to defeat, the decision was made to have the ''Alacrity'' and the ''Rapacious'' subject the bunker complex to orbital bombardment, with the two WarShips promptly leaving the transport fleet behind and assuming an assault orbit to be able to conduct their bombardment.<ref name="H:RWp135"/>

What the SLDF hadn't realized was that the [[Admiral]] in charge of the Republic's black water navy, Admiral [[Hakim Wbika]], knew full well that his small naval fleet would be easy prey for the SLDF WarShip fleet active within the Republic and had deliberately gathered the bulk of his ships together and kept them operating in secret, waiting for an opportunity to strike back against Task Force MAILED FIST. When Wbika was made aware of the situation on Newtown Square by agents on the planet, he decided that Newtown Square represented that opportunity he'd been looking for; mustering the Republic fleet in secret, Wbika used the redeployment of the ''Alacrity'' and the ''Rapacious'' to launch a devastating attack on the SLDF transport [[JumpShip]]s and [[DropShip]]s gathered at the system's zenith [[jump point]]. The resulting battle lasted sixty minutes and saw nineteen JumpShips and twenty-two DropShips destroyed, along with two complete regiments of infantry from the Sixteenth who had been embarked on various DropShips. None of the Republican WarShips were destroyed, and Wbika broke off the engagement to give his ships a chance to recharge their jump engines and try and escape the system.<ref name="H:RWp135"/>

Alerted to what had happened, the ''Alacrity'' and the ''Rapacious'' conducted their orbital bombardment as quickly as possible and made for the zenith jump point as fast as they could, keeping up punishing levels of acceleration in a determined effort to exact vengeance on the Republican fleet. It soon became obvious that the heavier SLDF WarShips would catch up with the lighter RWA fleet before the Republican ships would've been able to jump, leading Wbika to take his ships into the Newtown Shoals, a cometary debris field located in the outer reaches of the Newtown Square system. Wbika couldn't plan for the greater skill of the SLDF WarShips or the determination of their crews to destroy the Republican ships, and as a result the majority of the Republican fleet was caught and engaged within the debris field; one corvette managed to escape, and two more corvettes were disabled and captured. The remaining two destroyers and three corvettes were destroyed in battle, with one of the survivors being Wbika himself. When Wbika was recovered in an escape pod by the ''Rapacious'' he only narrowly escaped being lynched by the vengeful crew, and elements within the SLDF subsequently petitioned for Wbika to be put on trial for war crimes; fortunately for Wbika, General Isaacson knew that to charge Wbika with war crimes would expose others within Task Force MAILED FIST to similar charges due to their actions on various Republic worlds.<ref name="H:RWp135"/>

=== Star League Era ===
Newtown Square 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>

=== The Dark Age ===
In the early years after the [[Jihad]] the Lyran Alliance invaded both Newtown Square and the nearby world of [[Kikuyu]], provoking an aggressive response from Clan Jade Falcon and the counter-invasion 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 ==
=== 2588 ===
* [[SLDF]] [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]]<ref name="H:RWp155">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 155, "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"</ref>
:* [[16th Mechanized Infantry Division|Sixteenth Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref name="H:RWp155"/>

=== 2821 ===
* [[Seventh Lyran Guards]]<ref name="FSWp139">''First Succession War (Source Book)'', p. 139, "First Succession War Deployment Table - LCAF"</ref>

=== 3025 ===
* [[Bad Dream]]<ref name=HS118>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 118, "Unit Deployment Table"</ref><ref name="NAIS4SWp45">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p.45, "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"</ref>

=== 3038-3040 ===
* Bad Dream<ref name="H:Wo3039p140">''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 140, "Deployment Table"</ref>

=== 3050 ===
* [[39th Avalon Hussars|Thirty-ninth Avalon Hussars]] [[RCT]]<ref name=20YU24>''20 Year Update'', p. 24, "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"</ref>

=== 3061 ===
* Thirty-ninth Avalon Hussars<ref name=SS50>''Shattered Sphere'', p. 50, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"</ref>

=== 3085 ===
* [[22nd Provisional Garrison Cluster (Clan Jade Falcon)|Twenty-second Provisional Garrison Cluster]]<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 126, "Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>

== Planetary Geography ==
Newtown Square is a temperate planet with long growing seasons. The primary continent is dominated by the Plains of Culd which extent to cover over some two-thirds of its area. The plains are mostly savanna with a pale sword grass and good soil with minimal low brush or hills.

== Planetary Locations ==
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* Market - Planetary Capital of Newtown Square.
* Plains of Culd - Battle site during the [[FedCom Civil War]].
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== Nearby Systems ==
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| class="lessthan30" | [[Mogyorod]]
| class="lessthan30" | 21.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[Kolovraty]]
| class="lessthan30" | 24.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Montsegur]]
| class="lessthan30" | 26.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Vulture's Nest]]
| class="lessthan30" | 27.3
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Barcelona]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.8
| class="over30" | [[Ambrose]]
| class="over30" | 34.5
| class="over30" | [[Pangkalan]]
| class="over30" | 35.1
| class="over30" | [[Kikuyu]]
| class="over30" | 36.2
|-
| class="over30" | [[Annunziata]]
| class="over30" | 36.4
| class="over30" | [[Biegga]]
| class="over30" | 40.0
| class="over30" | [[Awyron]]
| class="over30" | 41.3
| class="over30" | [[Clermont]]
| class="over30" | 44.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Melissia]]
| class="over30" | 46.5
| class="over30" | [[Hood IV|Hood]]
| class="over30" | 47.3
| class="over30" | [[Black Earth]]
| class="over30" | 47.9
| class="over30" | [[Herbania]]
| class="over30" | 48.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Roadside]]
| class="over30" | 49.6
| class="over30" | [[Illium]]
| class="over30" | 50.6
| class="over30" | [[Chapultepec]]
| class="over30" | 51.1
| class="over30" | [[Renren]]
| class="over30" | 52.8
|-
| class="over30" | [[Bone-Norman]]
| class="over30" | 53.4
| class="over30" | [[Machida]]
| class="over30" | 56.2
| class="over30" | [[Ylemelke]]
| class="over30" | 58.9
| class="over30" | [[Kola]]
| class="over30" | 59.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Jesenice]]
| class="over30" | 59.8
| class="over60" | [[Chahar]]
| class="over60" | 60.3
| class="over60" | [[Blue Hole]]
| class="over60" | 60.9
| class="over60" | [[Hot Springs]]
| class="over60" | 63.0
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== References ==
<references />

== Bibliography ==
* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Lyran Commonwealth]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Field Report: Clans]]''
* ''[[Field Report: LAAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (Source Book)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[http://home.ifi.uio.no/~oysteint/btech/maps/IS_3130.pdf Map of the Inner Sphere 3130]''
* ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Shattered Sphere]]''

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