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* [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p11>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"</ref> | * [[2765]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="H:LoTV1p11>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"</ref> | ||
* [[2891]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HKp77">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 77, "The Battle for Skye"</ref> | * [[2891]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name="HKp77">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 77, "The Battle for Skye"</ref> | ||
− | * [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name=HS169/> | + | * [[3025]] - Lyran Commonwealth <ref name=HS169/><ref name="HKp132">''House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)'', p. 132, "District and Prefecture Boundaries of Kurita Space"</ref> |
* [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth {{cn}} | * [[3030]] - Lyran Commonwealth {{cn}} | ||
* [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]] <ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"</ref> | * [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]] <ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"</ref> |
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(References to Skye)
Note: X and Y are coordinates (light years on XY plane) relative to Terra at (0, 0)
Skye | |
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← 3135 3151 | |
System Information | |
X:Y Coordinates | -57.01:51.74[e] |
Star names | 2 |
Spectral class | G8V, M0V[1][2] |
Recharge time | 191 hours[2] |
Recharge station(s) | Nadir, Zenith (3025-3067)[1][2] |
Planet(s) | 6 |
Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard
Contents
Owner History
- 2282 - Independent world [3]
- 2299 - Federation of Skye [3]
- 2340 - Federation of Skye [4]
- 2341 - Lyran Commonwealth [4]
- 2596 - Lyran Commonwealth [5]
- 2750 - Lyran Commonwealth [6]
- 2765 - Lyran Commonwealth [7]
- 2891 - Lyran Commonwealth [8]
- 3025 - Lyran Commonwealth [1][9]
- 3030 - Lyran Commonwealth[citation needed]
- 3040 - Federated Commonwealth [10]
- 3052 - Federated Commonwealth[citation needed]
- 3057 - Lyran Alliance[citation needed]
- 3062 - Lyran Alliance[citation needed]
- 3067 - Lyran Alliance [11]
- 3079 - Lyran Alliance [12]
- 3130 - Republic of the Sphere [13][14]
- 3135 - Clan Jade Falcon [15]
- 3145 - Clan Jade Falcon [16]
Planetary History
Exodus
During the Exodus from Terra in the years following the Demarcation Declaration, many of Terra's best and brightest left the strife and intolerance present on Terra behind and took passage on JumpShips destined for colonies outside the boundaries of the diminished Terran Alliance. One such person was Ian McQuiston, the son of a man who owned a merchant-shipping company based in Great Britain. Forced to leave because of a combination of his outspoken nature and his aggressive trade dealings, McQuiston made for Skye because he heard that Skye of all the colonies most resembled his homeland, Scotland. After arriving on Skye McQuiston began his own trading company, acquiring three of the largest trading companies on the planet; in 2282, the population of Skye elected him President of Skye, despite him not having sought political office.[3]
McQuiston continued to expand his trade empire until he had managed to combine and consolidate several disparate interplanetary merchant fleets into a single company, Skye Traders, which went on to become the dominant trade company in the region of space demarcated by the border of the Terran Alliance and the worlds of Ford, Clinton and Sakhalin by 2296. McQuiston continued to build on his political and mercantile success by announcing his intention to form an interstellar government in 2299, a nation known as the Federation of Skye.[3]
Following the coup launched by Robert Marsden in 2375 that saw him installed as sole ruler of the Lyran Commonwealth, 22 worlds including Skye were still opposed to his rule in 2378 and had withdrawn their support of both him and his new government. Many of these worlds were cowed into line through naval blockades that starved them into submission, but eight self-sufficient worlds - again, including Skye - continued to hold out, and as a result were subject to full and bloody military invasions by Marsden's forces.[17]
Third Succession War
In 2895 DCMS forces attacked Skye in some strength. The Skye Militia was mobilized, with one particular militia unit - the 348th Reserve Detachment, a unit equipped primarily with Sea Skimmer hydrofoils - was charged with reinforcing the Lyran forces defending the city of Inverness and securing the Manty River Delta. The 348th hadn't faced a serious threat or exercise in some time - training largely consisted of once a week sailing parties thinly disguised as exercises - and acquitted themselves surprisingly well during the initial stages of the defense.[18]
When a battalion of Kuritan 'Mechs broke through the defending lines and moved directly towards Inverness, the 348th were the only mobile unit left to engage them, and the 348th was down to just two operational Sea Skimmers. The commander of the Inverness defenses initiated a desperate plan to defend the city; each Sea Skimmer was equipped with a 1-kiloton nuclear demolition charge and ordered to destroy a dam located ten kilometers behind the Combine front lines. With the Manty River in full flood, the dam held back water that would otherwise have inundated local farmland. Both Sea Skimmers made a full-speed charge for the dam, attempting to avoid the Kuritan forces through sheer speed. When the Sea Skimmers met enemy 'Mech forces, one was destroyed but the second manage to escape, and despite being heavily engaged by defending Kuritan infantry at the dam, initiated the nuclear device, destroying the dam and causing widespread flooding.[18]
The Jihad
The Eagle-class WarShip FWLS Percival went rogue in early February 3068, and on the 4th of February the Percival launched a raid on Skye. Accompanying the Percival were troops in the colours of the Sirian Lancers who launched a ground assault on the planet, battling the local Skye forces for two days before withdrawing. This prompted the Duke of Skye, Robert Kelswa-Steiner to call on all Lyran Alliance units loyal to the Isle of Skye to come to the defence of the Isle, and to declare war on the Free Worlds League in retaliation for the raid.[19]
On the 4th of October 3069 a Word of Blake strike force last seen assaulting Summer the week before appeared in the Skye system and assaulted the planet. In contrast with the attack on Summer, the Blakist task force of Pocket WarShips and AeroSpace Fighters found their attack contested by the LAAF WarShip LAS Fylgia, the Mjolnir-class ship having traveled to Skye after the bombing of Alarion. Despite being hit by a nuclear attack, the Fylgia and an accompanying group of Skye DropShips and fighters were able to rout the Blakist forces.[20]
On the 26th of December 3073, after the assassination of Archon Peter Steiner-Davion, the resistance leader Devlin Stone managed to convince the government of Skye to accept assistance from the allied forces which had met at Tukayyid earlier.[21][22] As a result, three regiments of allied troops landed on Skye on the 25th of March 3074.[22][23] The inevitable Word of Blake invasion came a few months later, on the 27th of June 3074, and the conflict soon ground into a stalemate that lasted weeks. The stalemate was finally broken when Devlin Stone led an ad hoc battalion of allied forces in a flanking action that struck at the command centre of the Blakist 3rd Division, capturing the 3rd's Commanding Officer, Precentor Craig Callen, and forcing the suddenly leaderless and thinly-stretched Word of Blake forces to withdraw. The success on Skye led Stone to declare that the next target for liberation would be Hesperus II.[24][25]
Skye joined the Republic of the Sphere after the signing of the Republic Formation Treaty, and brought the bulk of the former Skye Province with it. This was in large part due to the lobbying performed by Robert and Gregory Kelswa-Steiner, and was a significant boon to the Republic given the highly industrialised nature of the Skye worlds. The military industries on Skye itself survived the Jihad with only minor damage, making them major producers for the Republic in the years after the Jihad, although as a part of the conditions for releasing the worlds of the Skye Province to the Republic, the Lyran Alliance insisted that a share of the production from the Skye plants go back to the Alliance.[26]
Planetary Garrison
3028
3038
3050
- Eleventh FedCom RCT ('Mech and Infantry)[30]
3054
3061
3067
- First Skye Jaegers[11]
- Fourth Skye Rangers RCT[11]
- Seventeenth Skye Rangers[11]
- Twenty-second Skye Rangers[11]
- Skye Guards[11]
3079
- - At this point in time the Skye Guard was operating at 40% of full strength, with 70% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.
3085
- - At this point in time, the VIII Hastati was at 80% of full strength, with 90% of their equipment featuring upgraded technology.
Manufacturing Centers
- Avanti Industries
- Cyclops Incorporated
- Drago, Ltd.
- Shipil Company
- Skye Pleasure Craft Limited
- Argile Technologies - Destroyed
Companies
Nearby Planets
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 169, "Planet Guide"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 87, "Skye"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 10, "Founding Fathers"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13, "Federation of Skye world within the Lyran Commonwealth befor [2340] and after at their founding in [2341]"
- ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere Map [2596]"
- ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
- ↑ House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 77, "The Battle for Skye"
- ↑ House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 132, "District and Prefecture Boundaries of Kurita Space"
- ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Field Manual: Updates, p. 177, "Lyran Alliance Deploment Table"
- ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table [3079]"
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- ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
- ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
- ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 13, "Marsden in Power"
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition, p. 28, "Sea Skimmer Hydrofoil"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 45, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 47, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 38, "Timeline of the Jihad"
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 52, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 48, "Timeline of the Jihad"
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 52, "Timeline of the Jihad"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 53, "The Jihad In Review"
- ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 107, "Lyran Alliance"
- ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p.44, "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"
- ↑ NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, p.45, "Operation GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG"
- ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 137, "Deployment Table"
- ↑ 20 Year Update, p. 27, "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"
- ↑ Objective Raids, p. 86, "Unit Note"
- ↑ Shattered Sphere, p. 48, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table"
- ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 15, "Skye Rangers Regimental Status"
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 187, "RAF Deployment Table - 3085"
- ↑ House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth), p. 141, "Other Major Commonwealth Industries"
Bibliography
- 20 Year Update
- Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)
- Era Report: 2750
- Era Report: 3145
- FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)
- Field Manual: 3085
- Field Manual: Updates
- Field Report: LAAF
- Handbook: House Steiner
- Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1
- Historical: Reunification War
- Historical: War of 3039
- House Kurita (The Draconis Combine)
- House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)
- Jihad: Final Reckoning
- Jihad Hot Spots: 3076
- Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
- Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers
- NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1
- Objective Raids
- Shattered Sphere
- Technical Readout: 3026, Revised Edition