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Alula Australis

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

Alula Australis
← 3135
3151
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Alula Australis nearby systems
(Map Legend)
System Information
X:Y Coordinates-24.31:-4.70[e]
Spectral classA7II[1][2][3]
Recharge time168 hours[2]
Recharge station(s)Zenith, Nadir[2][3]
Planet(s)8[3]

The Alula Australis system is the location of at least one inhabited world, Alula Australis VIII and as at 3145 is located in the Republic of the Sphere.[4][5]

System Description

Located near that Graham IV and Oliver systems,[4][5] the Alula Australis system is an eight-world system with a single class A7II primary star.[3] During the thirty-first and thirty-second centuries the Alula Australis system had recharge stations located at both the nadir and zenith jump points.[2][3]

System History

The Alula Australis system was settled early in the history of human colonization and exploration and was one of those systems to remain a part of the Terran Alliance even after the issue of the Demarcation Declaration.[6]

Alula Australis VIII

Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard Alula Australis VIII - more commonly known simply as Alula Australis - is the eighth and outermost planet in the Alula Australis system. Alula Australis has been home to a number of industrial manufacturing concerns over the centuries.[3]

Planetary History

Early History

Alula Australis was one of the worlds that remained a part of the Terran Alliance following the Outer Reaches Rebellion and the Demarcation Declaration of 2242,[6] and became one of the worlds within the Alliance Core region of the Terran Hegemony.[7]

Succession Wars

Alula Australis changed hands numerous times during the Succession Wars although there remained a long association between the planet and the Free Worlds League.[8] The Lyran Commonwealth captured Alula Australis after the fall of the Star League, but in 2799 the Alula Australis system was captured in a lighting assault by Captain-General Kenyon Marik that was so swift a pair of mercenary BattleMech battalions employed by the Lyrans were left stranded on the planet.[9]

Rather than attack the stranded mercenaries, Kenyon Marik accepted pledges of loyalty from the mercenaries and their commanding officers and allowed both battalions to remain in place as a garrison.[9] The large-scale BattleMech manufacturing center on Alula Australis made it a tempting target for aggression, and the facilities were destroyed no less than four times during the Succession Wars - once by the Capellan Confederation, twice by the Lyran Commonwelath and once by the Free Worlds League Military, the latter being an attempt to deny them to invading enemy forces.[1]

The fourth and last time the BattleMech factories on Alula Australis were destroyed was in 2947, at which point Captain-General Brock Marik decided to relocate the production facilities to Savannah, a system deeper in the interior of the Free Worlds League and further away from the Lyran border at the time; the loss of the manufacturing facilities pushed the economy of Alula Australis into a depression that lasted for decades.[1]

After the better part of fifty years the fortunes of those on Alula Australis finally improved when deposits of gemstons and rare earth minerals were discovered in the mountain ranges near New Horizon City, the planetary capital city. Mining and exporting these mineral resources allowed the planetary economy to rebound, and by the end of the Third Succession War the rare earth metals were being used in chemical industries in the Cirebon, Lengkong and Mosiro systems while the gemstones - which were predominantly sapphires - were being shipped to Atreus for use in top-secret technological experiments. ComStar had spent some time attempting to determine what the experiments being conducted on Atreus were, but without success.[1]

At the end of the Third Succession War Alula Australis was part of a three-world province within the Free Worlds League known as the Border Protectorate, the other worlds being Denebola and Zosma; the Border Protectorate was a relatively new province headed by a military dictator and represented in the Free Worlds League Parliament by two representatives. All three worlds of the Border Protectorate were economically depressed and heavily guarded as a result of the repeated invasions of the region over the three Succession Wars, and while both the dictator of the Protectorate and his appointed Parliament representatives were vocal supporters of House Marik and the ongoing war efforts, popular sentiment on all three worlds lay in completely the opposite direction.[8]

With the formation of the Border Protectorate the former mercenary forces that had sworn allegiance to Kenyon Marik in the First Succession War became the lead regiment of the Protectorate Guard, the provincial forces of the Border Protectorate.[9]

While the Border Protectorate was run as a military dictatorship in 3025, the planetary government was actually one of the more notable examples of a planetary oligarchy within the Free Worlds League.[10]

The Jihad

In late June 3070 the planetary government and military forces on Alula Australis switched their allegiance to the Word of Blake, bringing the world into the Word of Blake Protectorate; Alula Australis was one of six worlds to declare for the Blakists in the space of a week, pushing the Protectorate into Free Worlds League space.[11]

Political Affiliation

Planetary Rulers

3025

  • Dame Renèe deLoulon[1]

3067

  • Sir Jasper De Lyon[2]

3130

  • Planetary Governor Anna-Maurie Meggan[3]
  • Planetary Legate Merril d'Astiogne[3]

Military Deployment

3025

3050

3067

Geography

Planetary Locations

  • New Horizon City: the planetary capital.[1]

Industrial Centers

Image gallery

  • Planetary Flag from Alula Australis

Notes

House Marik (The Free Worlds League) makes references to Alula Australis having originally been a Lyran world prior to the Succession Wars and to the system having been conquered by Captain-General Geralk Marik in 2458 as well as the site of the first full-scale BattleMech manufacturing plant in the Free Worlds League.[1] This information is inconsistent with later publications, which clearly show that the Alula Australis system remained a part of the Terran Alliance after the Demarcation Declaration and subsequently one of the core systems within the Terran Hegemony.[6][12][13][14][16][7][17] This confusion is possibly due to the borders of the Terran Alliance and Terran Hegemony not being well-defined at the point at which House Marik (The Free Worlds League) was published, and elements of this early history appear to have also influenced later publications such as Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130). It is also possible that Alula Australis was confused with other worlds with similar names, such as Tania Australis or Asellus Australis.

Nearby Systems

Systems within 60 light-years (distance in light years)
Closest systems first:
Graham IV 5.7 Oliver 7.8 Zavijava 8.7 Chara 12.1
Thorin 12.7 Pollux 13.1 Denebola 13.9 New Earth 14.2
Lipton 14.7 Devil's Rock 15.9 Castor 20.1 Muphrid 20.1
Procyon 20.3 Sirius 22.0 Rigil Kentarus 22.6 Hechnar 22.6
Zollikofen 24.5 Terra 24.8 Liberty 24.8 Tyrfing 25.2
Killbourn 26.2 Zosma 26.5 Afleir 27.0 Haddings 27.1
Keid 27.9 Rocky 30.4 Yorii 30.6 Menkent 31.0
Talitha 31.6 New Home 32.5 Marcus 36.3 Outreach 36.7
Summer 36.8 New Dallas 37.0 Caph 37.5 Altair 37.9
Van Diemen IV 37.9 Bryant 38.4 Alioth 39.3 Mizar 39.4
Callison 39.6 Brownsville 39.7 Milton 40.8 Hall 40.9
Dieron 41.4 Asta 41.5 Cor Caroli 43.0 Wyatt 43.1
Lyons 43.4 Alchiba 43.9 Imbros III 44.7 Epsilon Eridani 45.8
Fomalhaut 46.3 Connaught 46.6 New Stevens 46.7 Dubhe 47.6
Bordon 48.2 Galatea 48.7 Capolla 48.9 Ko 49.0
Nusakan 49.1 Wasat 50.1 Phecda 50.2 Alkalurops 51.2
Wing 51.3 Chertan 51.6 Saffel 52.6 Elgin 53.0
Mandal 53.6 Acubens 53.8 Dyev 54.5 Epsilon Indi 54.6
Athenry 55.0 Terra Firma 55.0 Dieudonné 55.2 Syrma 55.2
Irian 56.3 Atria 57.0 Hsien 58.0 Northwind 58.5
Lone Star 58.5 Styx 58.6 Alhena 59.0 Zebebelgenubi 59.2
Remulac 59.9

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 156, "Alula Australis Planet Guide"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Handbook: House Marik, p. 69, "Alula Australis Planet Profile"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130), p. 232, "Alula Australis"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Era Report: 3145, p. 39, "Inner Sphere Map - [3145]"
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Field Manual: 3145, p. VI, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Handbook: House Marik, p. 16, "Free Worlds League Founding [[2271]"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Historical: Reunification War, p. 159, "Inner Sphere - 2596"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 64, "Border Protectorate"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 98, "Steel Guards"
  10. ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 73, "Provincial Governments"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 48, "The Jihad In Review"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 13, "Lyran Commonwealth Founding [2341]"
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Handbook: House Liao, p. 17, "Capellan Confederation Foundation [2366]"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 18, "Rim Worlds Republic after Age of War [2571]"
  15. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War [2571] Map"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Handbook: House Steiner, p. 25, "Lyran Commonwealth after Age of War [2571]"
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Era Report: 2750, p. 37, "Inner Sphere - 2750"
  18. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11, "Inner Sphere - 2765"
  19. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succesion War [2822] Map"
  20. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 36, "Lyran Commonwealth after First Succession War [2822] Map"
  21. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succesion War [2864] Map"
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 40, "Lyran Commonwealth after Second Succession War [2864] Map"
  23. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succesion War [3025] Map"
  24. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 47, "Lyran Commonwealth after Third Succession War [3025] Map"
  25. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succesion War [3030] Map"
  26. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 56, "Lyran Commonwealth after Fourth Succession War [3030] Map"
  27. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 59, "Lyran Commonwealth after War of 3039 [3040] Map"
  28. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 133, "Inner Sphere - 3040"
  29. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3050]"
  30. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 61, "Lyran Commonwealth after Clan Invasion [3052] Map"
  31. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 23, "Inner Sphere Map [3052]"
  32. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map [3057]"
  33. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero [3058] Map"
  34. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere Map [3063]"
  35. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 56, "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War [3067] Map"
  36. ↑ Handbook: House Steiner, p. 70, "Lyran Commonwealth after FedCom Civil War [3067] Map"
  37. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 65, "Inner Sphere [3075] Map"
  38. ↑ Field Report: LAAF, p. 19, "Lyran Alliance Deployment Table [3079]"
  39. ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 17, "Free Worlds League Military Deployment Table [3079]"
  40. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere Map - [March 3081]"
  41. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 127, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3085]"
  42. ↑ Map of the Inner Sphere 3130
  43. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 11, "Inner Sphere Map - [3135]"
  44. ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. 108, "Unit Deployment Table"
  45. ↑ 20 Year Updage, p. 71, "Com Guards Deployment Tabel"
  46. ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 161, "Free Worlds League Deployment Table"
  47. ↑ Technical Readout: 3075, p. 206, "GLD-4R Gladiator"

Bibliography

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