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The '''Rezak's Hole''' system was the location of at least one barely habitable world or construct and as of [[3145]] was located in the [[Periphery]] close to the border of the [[Ningxia Prefecture|Ningxia]] and [[Qandahar Prefecture]]s of the [[Pesht Military District]] of the [[Draconis Combine]].<ref name="ER:3145p39"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
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==System Description==
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Rezak's Hole is located near the [[Kokpekty]] and [[Land's End]] systems.<ref name="ER:2750p37"/><ref name="ER:3145p39"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>
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==System History==
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The Rezak's Hole system became an active pirate base during the mid-[[thirty-first century]] for several decades.<ref name="HB:HKp64"/><ref name="HB:HKp66"/><ref name="HB:HKp65"/><ref name="ER:3052p11"/>
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==Political Affiliation==
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* [[2319]] - No record<ref name="HB:HKp20">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 16: "Draconis Combine Founding - [2319] Map"</ref>
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* [[2571]] - No record<ref name="HB:HKp33">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 16: "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
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* [[2596]] - No record<ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159: "Inner Sphere - 2596"</ref>
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* [[2750]] - No record<ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
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* [[2764]] - No record<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
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* [[2765]] - No record<ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name=FR2765:DCMSp25>''Field Report 2765: DCMS'', p. 25: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
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* [[2822]] - No record<ref name="HB:HKp43">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 43: "Draconis Combine after First Succession War - [2822] Map"</ref>
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* [[2864]] - No record<ref name="HB:HKp53">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 53: "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
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* [[3025]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HKp64">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 64: "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
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* [[3030]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HKp66">''Handbook: Draconis Combine'', p. 66: "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
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* [[3040]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HKp65">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 65: "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref>
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* [[3050]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
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* [[3052]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp71">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 71: "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"</ref>
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* [[3057]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
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* [[3059]] - Independent world<ref name="TP2Ep110">''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', p. 110: "Outworlds Alliance Map - [3059]"</ref>
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* [[3063]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
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* [[3064]] - [[Clan Snow Raven]]<ref name="FM:Up199"/>
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* [[3067]] - Independent world<ref name="HB:HKp74">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 74: "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp42">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 42: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map</ref>
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* [[3075]] - Independent world<ref name="JS:TBDp64">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
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* [[3079]] - Independent world<ref name="FR:DCMSp21">''Field Report: DCMS'', p. 21: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
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* [[3081]] - Independent world<ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
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* [[3085]] - Independent world<ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
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* [[3135]] - Independent world<ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
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* [[3145]] - Independent world<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>
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===Planetary History===
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The history of Rezak's Hole is intertwined with that of the pirate group known as the [[Band of the Damned]]. The Band first appeared in [[3042]], and made a reputation for itself by raiding worlds in the Draconis Combine and [[Outworlds Alliance]]. Covertly assisted by the corrupt commanding officer of the [[Seventh Pesht Regulars]], the Band of the Damned found rich pickings until the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]] dispatched a [[battalion]] of the Seventh to track the pirates down. The commanding officer of the Seventh ensured that the Band's pursuers were poorly-equipped and under trained; commanded by ''[[Sho-sa]]'' [[Vance Rezak]], the detachment from the Seventh pursued the Band of the Damned throughout the [[Draconis Rift]] for months before finally cornering them.<ref name=TP2Ep83>''The Periphery, Second Edition'', p. 83: "Vance Rezak's Band of the Damned"</ref> With his [[JumpShip]] damaged in the resulting month-long battle with the Band of the Damned, Rezak realized he had been abandoned, and led his command in a desperate all-out assault on the pirates, a battle from which he emerged victorious—and promptly declared himself the new leader of the Band of the Damned, integrating his surviving personnel from the Seventh into the Band, and setting out on a campaign of revenge against the Combine.<ref name="FM:Pp127">''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 127: "Vance Rezak: Band of the Damned"</ref>
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Rezak led the Band of the Damned successfully against the Combine, plundering extensively and building up a fortune, expanding into a small pirate empire as Rezak involved himself in a wide range of criminal activity, including slave trading, illegal arms and active piracy. Rezak used some of his wealth to maintain large estates on [[Antallos]] and to develop the marginal Periphery world that became known as Rezak's Hole into a covert base of operations, while also establishing a spy network stretching throughout the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref name="FM:Pp127"/>
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In [[3063]]–[[3064]], [[Clan Snow Raven]] discovered Rezak's Hole while exploring the Periphery; by this point, Vance Rezak was actively working with the [[Word of Blake]] and had a Blakist liaison named Operations Agent Smith. The Snow Ravens attacked and seized Rezak's Hole, destroying a [[lance]] of [[aerospace fighter]]s, an [[combat vehicle|armor]] battalion and three [[companies]] of BattleMechs—the location of two of which had been a carefully-maintained Blakist secret.<ref name="FM:Up64">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 64: "Clan Snow Raven"</ref><ref name="FM:Up199">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 199: "Band of the Damned"</ref>
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The Snow Ravens used Rezak's Hole as a part of their base of operations in the Periphery, with detachments from [[Alpha Galaxy (Clan Snow Raven)|Alpha Galaxy]] in place as garrison.<ref name="FM:Up65">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 65: "Alpha Galaxy (Swift Wing Galaxy)"</ref><ref name="FM:Up105">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 105: "Recent Events and Current Affairs"</ref>
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====The Jihad====
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In [[3071]], ''[[Tai-sa]]'' [[Gretchen Noda]] of the [[Tenth Ghost]] led her unit into defecting from the DCMS. Having taken heavy damage in fighting on [[Dieron]] in [[3068]] when the Word of Blake assaulted the planet—with casualties that included Noda's husband, the former ''Tai-sa'' of the regiment—the Tenth had managed to retreat to [[Ashio]], only to be ordered to strike Dieron again in the summer of [[3070]], despite having received little or nothing by way of supplies and repairs. Noda killed the three [[Internal Security Force]] agents known to be operating within the remains of the Tenth before leading the Tenth on a strike at Rezak's Hole.<ref name="M&Mp23">''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 23: "Gretchen Noda"</ref>
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Noda's troops found relatively few surviving pirates on Rezak's Hole and swiftly mopped the remaining pirates up, recruiting those pirates judged to be sanest into the Tenth as reinforcements. Short on equipment, Noda led the Tenth in a raid on an [[Interstellar Expeditions]] (IE) dig on the planet; IE had uncovered a [[Star League Defense Force]] cache, and that cache included two lances of Star League era 'Mechs. Renaming the Tenth as the [[Ronin (Mercenary Command)|Ronin]] mercenary company, Noda and her troops took the equipment and managed to leave Rezak's Hole ahead of the arrival of a DCMS patrol, which was responding to the distress call sent by IE.<ref name="M&Mp23"/>
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===Military Deployment===
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====3060====
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* Band of the Damned (Elite/Reliable)<ref name="FMPp144">''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 144: "Pirates of the Periphery"</ref>
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:- The unit was split between Rezak's Hole and [[Antallos]].<ref name="FMPp144"/>
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====3067====
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* [[4th Raven Wing (Clan Snow Raven)|Fourth Raven Wing Cluster]]<ref name="FM:Up79">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 79: "Alpha Galaxy (Swift Wing Galaxy)"</ref>
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* [[5th Raven Wing (Clan Snow Raven)|Fifth Raven Wing Cluster]]<ref name="FM:Up79"/>
  
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* [[2319]] - No record <ref name="HB:HKp20"> ''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 16, "Draconis Combine Founding - [2319] Map"</ref>
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* [[2596]] - No record <ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"</ref>
 
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* [[2750]] - No record <ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2764]] - No record <ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2765]] - No record <ref name="H:LoTv1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref><ref name=FR2765:DCMSp25>''Field Report 2765: Draconis Combine'', p. 25, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [2765]"</ref>
 
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* [[2822]] - No record <ref name="HB:HKp43">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 43, "Draconis Combine after First Succesion War - [2822] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[2864]] - No record <ref name="HB:HKp53">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 53, "Draconis Combine after Second Succesion War - [2864] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3025]] - Independent world <ref name="HB:HKp64">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 64, "Draconis Combine after Third Succesion War - [3025] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3030]] - Independent world <ref name="HB:HKp66">''Handbook: Draconis Combine'', p. 66, "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succesion War - [3030] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3040]] - Independent world <ref name="HB:HKp65">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 65, "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3050]] - Independent world <ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3052]] - Independent world <ref name="ER:3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23, "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HKp71">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 71, "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3059]] - Independent world <ref name="TP2Ep110">''The Periphery, 2nd Edition'', p. 110, "Outworlds Alliance Map - [3059]"</ref>
 
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* [[3063]] - Independent world <ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3067]] - Independent world  <ref name="HB:HKp74">''Handbook: House Kurita'', p. 74, "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp42">' Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map</ref>
 
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* [[3075]] - Independent world <ref name="JS:TBDp64">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3079]] - Independent world <ref name="FR:DCMSp21">''Field Report: DCMS'', p. 21, "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"</ref>
 
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* [[3081]] - Independent world <ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3085]] - Independent world <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3130]] - Independent world <ref name="MotIS3130">''Map of the Inner Sphere 3130''</ref>
 
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* [[3135]] - Independent world <ref name="ER:3145p11">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
 
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* [[3145]] - Independent world <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>
 
  
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During the 3040's Pirate King [[Vance Rezak]] and his Pirate band, [[Band of the Damned]], "discovers" the planet.  He has construction a secret base on the planet and names the world [[Rezak's Hole]].<ref>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 127 - Officers - Rezak has a base of operation setup on a bare habitable planet which become Rezak's Hole.</ref>
 
  
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The Damned's staging base expanded with extensive repair facilities, and [[Word of Blake]] garrison force is secretly stationed on the planet in deal with Damned's leader.
 
  
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In [[3064]], the elements of [[Clan Snow Raven]] arrived at the planet and wipe out Pirate base and its blake forces on the planet.<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'' p. 199 - Pirates / Band of the Damned - Snow Ravens attack in 3064, destroy Damned & secret WoB assets on Rezak's Hole.</ref>
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==Notes==
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* The original ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|Periphery]]'' (1988) sourcebook's map section does not show Rezak's Hole. The Pirate King didn't become a pirate until [[3049]] and wasn't successful enough until the 3050s, when he discovered and settled his advanced staging base. Later maps and sourcebooks for the era mistakenly show this planet being named as early as of [[3025]].
  
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Few pirates remain on the planet, however a Interstellar Expeditions team has arrived on planet seeking leads to a possible Star League cache. In [[3071]], former [[DCMS]] [[10th Ghost|10th Ghost Regiment]] arrives on planet and wipes out last of the pirates resistence on the planet. They then discover the Expedition's discovery of a League cache and raid the expedition's base camp.  Now [[Ronin (Mercenary Unit)|Ronin]] mercenary company, scores two lances of Star League era BattleMechs.  Intergeting saner Pirates into the Ronins, they depart the planet before Combine patrol responding to the attack arrives.<ref>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 23, "Former 10th Ghost raids research camp on scorched world which allowed to rebuild from SLDF cache".</ref>
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| class="over30" | [[Enif]]
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| class="over30" | 51.6
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| class="over30" | [[Korramabad]]
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| class="over30" | [[Multan]]
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| class="over60" | [[Ad Duwayd]]
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| class="over60" | 66.7
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| class="over60" | [[Huaide]]
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| class="over60" | [[Soul]]
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| class="over60" | [[Abiy Adi]]
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| class="over60" | [[Kamarod]]
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| class="over60" | 75.1
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| class="over60" | [[Tottori]]
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| class="over60" | 75.2
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| class="over60" | [[Nowhere]]
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| class="over60" | 80.8
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| class="over60" | [[Linqing]]
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| class="over60" | 81.9
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| class="over60" | [[Brihuega]]
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| class="over60" | 82.0
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| class="over60" | [[Old Canton]]
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| class="over60" | 82.4
 
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* The original ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|Periphery]]'' (1988) source book's map section does not show Rezak's Hole. The Pirate King hadn't become a pirate until [[3049]] and didn't became successful enough until the 3050s, when he discovered and settled his advanced staging base. Later maps and sourcebooks for the era mistakenly show this planet being named as early as of [[3025]].
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
 
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* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
 
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* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
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* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
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Rezak's Hole nearby systems
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates418.102 : 339.118[e]

The Rezak's Hole system was the location of at least one barely habitable world or construct and as of 3145 was located in the Periphery close to the border of the Ningxia and Qandahar Prefectures of the Pesht Military District of the Draconis Combine.[1][2]

System Description[edit]

Rezak's Hole is located near the Kokpekty and Land's End systems.[3][1][2]

System History[edit]

The Rezak's Hole system became an active pirate base during the mid-thirty-first century for several decades.[4][5][6][7]

Political Affiliation[edit]

Rezak's Hole[edit]

Rezak's Hole

Planetary History[edit]

The history of Rezak's Hole is intertwined with that of the pirate group known as the Band of the Damned. The Band first appeared in 3042, and made a reputation for itself by raiding worlds in the Draconis Combine and Outworlds Alliance. Covertly assisted by the corrupt commanding officer of the Seventh Pesht Regulars, the Band of the Damned found rich pickings until the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery dispatched a battalion of the Seventh to track the pirates down. The commanding officer of the Seventh ensured that the Band's pursuers were poorly-equipped and under trained; commanded by Sho-sa Vance Rezak, the detachment from the Seventh pursued the Band of the Damned throughout the Draconis Rift for months before finally cornering them.[29] With his JumpShip damaged in the resulting month-long battle with the Band of the Damned, Rezak realized he had been abandoned, and led his command in a desperate all-out assault on the pirates, a battle from which he emerged victorious—and promptly declared himself the new leader of the Band of the Damned, integrating his surviving personnel from the Seventh into the Band, and setting out on a campaign of revenge against the Combine.[30]

Rezak led the Band of the Damned successfully against the Combine, plundering extensively and building up a fortune, expanding into a small pirate empire as Rezak involved himself in a wide range of criminal activity, including slave trading, illegal arms and active piracy. Rezak used some of his wealth to maintain large estates on Antallos and to develop the marginal Periphery world that became known as Rezak's Hole into a covert base of operations, while also establishing a spy network stretching throughout the Inner Sphere.[30]

In 3063–3064, Clan Snow Raven discovered Rezak's Hole while exploring the Periphery; by this point, Vance Rezak was actively working with the Word of Blake and had a Blakist liaison named Operations Agent Smith. The Snow Ravens attacked and seized Rezak's Hole, destroying a lance of aerospace fighters, an armor battalion and three companies of BattleMechs—the location of two of which had been a carefully-maintained Blakist secret.[31][21]

The Snow Ravens used Rezak's Hole as a part of their base of operations in the Periphery, with detachments from Alpha Galaxy in place as garrison.[32][33]

The Jihad[edit]

In 3071, Tai-sa Gretchen Noda of the Tenth Ghost led her unit into defecting from the DCMS. Having taken heavy damage in fighting on Dieron in 3068 when the Word of Blake assaulted the planet—with casualties that included Noda's husband, the former Tai-sa of the regiment—the Tenth had managed to retreat to Ashio, only to be ordered to strike Dieron again in the summer of 3070, despite having received little or nothing by way of supplies and repairs. Noda killed the three Internal Security Force agents known to be operating within the remains of the Tenth before leading the Tenth on a strike at Rezak's Hole.[34]

Noda's troops found relatively few surviving pirates on Rezak's Hole and swiftly mopped the remaining pirates up, recruiting those pirates judged to be sanest into the Tenth as reinforcements. Short on equipment, Noda led the Tenth in a raid on an Interstellar Expeditions (IE) dig on the planet; IE had uncovered a Star League Defense Force cache, and that cache included two lances of Star League era 'Mechs. Renaming the Tenth as the Ronin mercenary company, Noda and her troops took the equipment and managed to leave Rezak's Hole ahead of the arrival of a DCMS patrol, which was responding to the distress call sent by IE.[34]

Military Deployment[edit]

3060[edit]

  • Band of the Damned (Elite/Reliable)[35]
- The unit was split between Rezak's Hole and Antallos.[35]

3067[edit]

Notes[edit]

  • The original Periphery (1988) sourcebook's map section does not show Rezak's Hole. The Pirate King didn't become a pirate until 3049 and wasn't successful enough until the 3050s, when he discovered and settled his advanced staging base. Later maps and sourcebooks for the era mistakenly show this planet being named as early as of 3025.

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 20 systems (8 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Land's End 21.9 Kokpekty 37.2 Hongor 37.7 Abagnar 45.3
Pusht-i-rud 46.7 Enif 51.6 Korramabad 52.2 Multan 55.7
Takata 64.4 Ad Duwayd 66.7 Huaide 67.0 Soul 72.7
Antallos 73.1 Abiy Adi 73.2 Kamarod 75.1 Tottori 75.2
Nowhere 80.8 Linqing 81.9 Brihuega 82.0 Old Canton 82.4

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI: "Inner Sphere - [3145] Map"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Handbook: House Kurita, p. 64: "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Handbook: Draconis Combine, p. 66: "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Handbook: House Kurita, p. 65: "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Era Report: 3052, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  8. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 16: "Draconis Combine Founding - [2319] Map"
  9. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 16: "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  10. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159: "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  11. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  12. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  13. ↑ Field Report 2765: DCMS, p. 25: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [2765]"
  14. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 43: "Draconis Combine after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 53: "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  16. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  17. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 71: "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"
  18. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"
  19. ↑ The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 110: "Outworlds Alliance Map - [3059]"
  20. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Field Manual: Updates, p. 199: "Band of the Damned"
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Kurita, p. 74: "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  23. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map
  24. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  25. ↑ Field Report: DCMS, p. 21: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  26. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  27. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  28. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  29. ↑ The Periphery, Second Edition, p. 83: "Vance Rezak's Band of the Damned"
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Field Manual: Periphery, p. 127: "Vance Rezak: Band of the Damned"
  31. ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 64: "Clan Snow Raven"
  32. ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 65: "Alpha Galaxy (Swift Wing Galaxy)"
  33. ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 105: "Recent Events and Current Affairs"
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 23: "Gretchen Noda"
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 Field Manual: Periphery, p. 144: "Pirates of the Periphery"
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Field Manual: Updates, p. 79: "Alpha Galaxy (Swift Wing Galaxy)"

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