Zlatousi

Zlatousi
Zlatousi 3151.svg
System Information
X:Y Coordinates427.28 : 219.671[e]

The Zlatousi system is the location of at least one habitable world and as of 3145 is located in the Raven Alliance.[1][2]

System Description[edit]

The Zlatousi system is located near the Kazanka and Nexus Ri systems.[1][2]

System History[edit]

The Zlatousi system was either colonized by or joined the Outworlds Alliance at some point during the Age of War.[3]

Political Affiliation[edit]


Zlatousi[edit]

Zlatousi

Planetary History[edit]

Reunification War[edit]

Zlatousi was a world on the border between the Outworlds Alliance and the Draconis Combine when Operation UNION HOLD began in 2581. With the intention of forcibly incorporating the Outworlds Alliance into the Star League following the mass rejection of the Pollux Proclamation in 2575 by the major Periphery states, the invasion of the Outworlds Alliance saw two corps of Star League Defense Force troops and a mixed brigade of DCMS forces begin systematically occupying Alliance worlds. Zlatousi escaped the attentions of the Outworlds Alliance Task Force until September 2582.[6]

Outraged by the manner in which the Federated Suns managed to annex a number of Outworlds Alliance worlds in defiance of the plans of General Amos Forlough, commanding officer of the Outworlds Alliance Task Force, Coordinator Hehiro Kurita responded to what he perceived as an affront to his honor by recalling the various regiments of the Galedon Regulars due to act in support of Forlough's planned strike on Ki Zoban and instead instructed Sho-sho Masao Igushi to target worlds along the Combine/Alliance border. The Coordinator also removed all of the matériel the Combine had supplied to the task force equipment caches to support the Galedon regiments, disrupting or preventing months of planned SLDF combat operations. While Forlough raged over Kurita's actions, Sho-sho Igushi deployed three regiments of Galedon Regulars against the worlds of Kazanka, Nexus Ri and Zlatousi.[6]

When the Twenty-fourth Galedon Regulars faced the Alliance forces on Zlatousi, they found that the Alliance defenses were stronger and deeper than originally anticipated. The Twenty-fourth had the support of paired regiments of armor and infantry, and all of the 'Mechs on Zlatousi belonged to the Twenty-fourth, with the exception of a handful of old, light Alliance 'Mechs. The mass executions on Medron, Valentina and other occupied worlds by both Combine and Star League forces had increased militia recruitment tenfold; while elements of the Alliance First Armored Division and Second Armored Division were already in place on Zlatousi, they were backed up by a local militia which provided both armor and heavy infantry support. While the militia units lacked experience, they had been trained well by advisors from the AFFS provided by the Federated Suns under the Tancredi Accord, and had superior numbers on their side.[6]

Rather than a swift rout of light militia forces as had happened on worlds like Schirmeck, the battle for Zlatousi rapidly became a conventional war; the Mechs of the Galedon Regulars made swift gains initially, but were facing twice their number of tanks and infantry and the Alliance forces consistently surrounded the Combine 'Mechs, preventing them from breaking out to attack the civilian population. The Combine forces still made daily gains, and were supported by weekly supply shipments, but the Alliance forces resisted for the remainder of 2582; by the time the elements from the Armored Divisions had been reduced to ghosts of their former selves and forced to retreat off-world on the 27th of January, the resistance offered by the Alliance forces on Kazanka, Nexus Ri and Zlatousi had forced the Combine forces to burn through a supply reserve meant to support the entire campaign against the Alliance for a year in just three short months.[6]

Zlatousi was lost to the Outworlds Alliance, and would remain an occupied world under the 19th Galedon Regulars until the 1st of August 2585 when it and thirteen other worlds were ceded to the Draconis Combine as part of the terms laid out within the Treaty of Cerberus. Despite being a loss for the Alliance, the battle for Zlatousi helped buy time for the Alliance to build up its forces and further fortify inner worlds for the battles that would come in later years of the invasion.[7]

Military Deployment[edit]

2581-2582[edit]

Outworlds Alliance Militia garrison[43]

2583[edit]

Draconis Combine garrison (from February)[43]

Geography[edit]

Planetary Locations[edit]

Industrial Centers[edit]

Image gallery[edit]

Map Gallery[edit]

Nearby Systems[edit]

Closest 28 systems (27 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Nexus Ri 15.5 Kazanka 20.0 Milligan's World 23.4 Tabayama 23.9
Bad News 24.8 Brasha 26.5 Dunklewälderdunklerflüssenschattenwelt 27.6 Suianheer 28.0
Quantraine 31.8 Pondicherry 32.1 Osset 32.3 Ramgarh 35.8
Zalaf 39.7 Dante 44.6 Dneiper 45.0 Tottori 45.5
Chirala 46.7 Rushaven 47.1 Morthac 47.9 Prinis Prime 47.9
Greypearl 48.9 Sinope 50.9 Old Canton 53.1 Santiago 53.1
Koulen 56.4 Risin 56.6 Cerberus 56.7 Quiberas 61.0

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 3.2 Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 147: "Outworlds Alliance after Age of War (2571) and at the Fall of the Star League (2750)"
  4. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 31: "Draconis Combine after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  5. Historical: Reunification War, p. 106: "Reunifications War: Outworlds Alliance Front Deployments (2581)"
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Historical: Reunification War, pp. 121–122: "Kazanka, Nexus Ri and Zlatousi"
  7. 7.0 7.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 126: "Year Five: Peace In Our Time"
  8. Historical: Reunification War, p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  9. Era Report: 2750, p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  10. Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  11. Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  12. Field Report 2765: Periphery, p. 36: "Outworlds Alliance Militia Deployment Map - [2765] Map"
  13. Field Report 2765: DCMS, p. 25: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery Deployment Map - [2765] Map"
  14. Historical: Liberation of Terra, p. 98: "Outworlds Alliance - [2767]] Map
  15. First Succession War, pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
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  18. First Succession War, pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  19. House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. 60: "Snakes and Sneaks"
  20. Second Succession War, pp. 18–19: "Inner Sphere - 2830"
  21. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 53: "Draconis Combine after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  22. Second Succession War, pp. 78–79: "Inner Sphere - 2864"
  23. House Kurita (The Draconis Combine), p. vii: "Draconis Combine Map - [Map]"
  24. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 64: "Draconis Combine after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  25. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 66: "Draconis Combine after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  26. Historical: War of 3039, p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  27. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 68: "Draconis Combine after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"
  28. Era Report: 3052, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"
  29. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 71: "Draconis Combine after Operation REVIVAL - [3052] Map"
  30. Era Report: 3052, p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"
  31. Era Report: 3062, p. 10: Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  32. The Periphery, 2nd Edition, p. 110: "Outworlds Alliance"
  33. Era Report: 3062, p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  34. Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 150: "Outworlds Alliance (3067)
  35. Handbook: House Kurita, p. 74: "Draconis Combine after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  36. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  37. Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  38. Field Report: DCMS, p. 21: "Draconis Combine Mustered Soldier Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  39. Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  40. Field Manual: 3085, p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  41. Era Report: 3145, p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"
  42. Shattered Fortress, p. 102-103: "Inner Sphere - [3151] Map"
  43. 43.0 43.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 141: "Outworlds Alliance Front"

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