Editing Hamal

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The '''Hamal''' system was the location of at least one habitable world, '''Hamal VI''', and as of [[3145]] was located in the [[Tikonov Commonality]] of the [[Capellan Confederation]].<ref name="ER:3145p39"/><ref name="FM:3145pVI"/>

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==System Description==
The Hamal system is located near the [[Bharat]] and [[Yangtze]] systems<ref name="ER:2750p37"/> and consists of a class K2III primary orbited by eight worlds.<ref name=DARWp79/>

==System History==
The Hamal system was colonized during the [[First Exodus]] from [[Terra]] and was one of the worlds that survived the [[Demarcation Declaration]] of [[2242]]. Hamal was a member of one of the proto-nations to form during the later years of the [[Terran Alliance]], the [[Tikonov Union]], and served as one of three provincial capitals within the Union.<ref name="HL(TCC)p20"/>

==Political Affiliation==
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* Ca. [[2202]] - [[Tikonov Union]]<ref name="HL(TCC)p20">''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 20</ref>
* [[2243]] - [[Tikonov Grand Union]]<ref name="HL(TCC)p20"/><ref name="HB:HLp12">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 12: "Timeline: Capellan Zone"</ref>
* [[2366]] - Tikonov Grand Union<ref name="HB:HLp17">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 17: "Capellan Confederation Founding - [2366]"</ref>
* [[2367]] - [[Capellan Confederation]]<ref name="HB:HLp13">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 13: "Timeline: Capellan Zone 2367"</ref>
* [[2571]] - [[Terran Hegemony]]<ref name="HB:HLp25">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 25: "Capellan Confederation after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
* [[2596]] - Terran Hegemony<ref name="H:RWp159">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 159: "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
* [[2750]] - Terran Hegemony<ref name="ER:2750p37">''Era Report: 2750'', p. 37: "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"</ref>
* [[2764]] - Terran Hegemony<ref name="FM:SLDFpvii">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. xi: "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"</ref>
* [[2765]] - Terran Hegemony<ref name="H:LoTV1p11">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"</ref>
* [[2771]] - [[Amaris Empire]]<ref name="H:LoTV1p138">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 138: "Operation LIBERATION Wave 1 [July 2772 - December 2774]"</ref>
* [[2772]] - Terran Hegemony (from September)<ref name="H:LoTV1p138"/>
* [[2786]] - Terran Hegemony<ref name="FSWp59">''First Succession War'', p. 59: "Free Worlds League-Capellan Confederation Front 2786-2821"</ref>
* [[2791]] - Capellan Confederation<ref name="FSW(SB)p24-25">''First Succession War'', pp. 24–25: "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"</ref>
* [[2822]] - Capellan Confederation<ref name="HB:HLp31">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 31: "Capellan Confederation 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'', pp. 112–113: "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"</ref>
* [[2864]] - Capellan Confederation<ref name="HB:HLp39">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 39: "Capellan Confederation after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp60">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 60: "Federated Suns after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"</ref>
* [[3025]] - Capellan Confederation<ref name="HB:HLp40">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 40: "Capellan Confederation after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp70">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 70: "Federated Suns after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"</ref>
* [[3030]] - [[Federated Suns]]<ref name="HB:HLp49">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 49: "Capellan Confederation after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp72">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 72: "Federated Suns after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"</ref>
* [[3040]] - [[Federated Commonwealth]]<ref name="HB:HDp76">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 76: "Federated Suns after War of 3039 - [3040] Map"</ref><ref>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 133: "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"</ref>
* [[3050]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3052p11">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3050] Map"</ref>
* [[3052]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3052p23">''Era Report: 3052'', p. 23: "Inner Sphere - [3052] Map"</ref>
* [[3057]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3062p11">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3057] Map"</ref>
* [[3058]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="HB:HLp60">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 60: "Capellan Confederation after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp78">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 78: "Federated Suns after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"</ref>
* [[3063]] - Federated Commonwealth<ref name="ER:3062p29">''Era Report: 3062'', p. 29: "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"</ref>
* [[3067]] - Federated Suns<ref name="HB:HLp68">''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 68: "Capellan Confederation after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="HB:HDp82">''Handbook: House Davion'', p. 82: "Federated Suns after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"</ref><ref name="J:FRp43">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 43: "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"</ref>
* [[3075]] - [[Word of Blake Protectorate]]<ref name="JS:TBDp64">''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 64: "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"</ref>
* [[3079]] - Word of Blake Protectorate<ref>''Field Report: AFFS'', p. 21: "Federated Suns Region Deployment Map [3079]"</ref><ref>''Field Report: CCAF'', p. 21: "Capellan Confederation Region Deployment Map [3079]"</ref>
* [[3081]] - [[Republic of the Sphere]]<ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63: "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
* [[3085]] - Republic of the Sphere<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii: "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
* [[3135]] - Independent world<ref name=ER:3145p11>''Era Report: 3145'', p. 11: "Inner Sphere - [3135] Map"</ref>
* [[3145]] - Capellan Confederation<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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==Hamal VI==
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Hamal VI - more commonly known simply as Hamal - is the sixth planet in the system and has three moons named Arietis, Natih and Ras.<ref name=DARWp79/>

===Planetary History===
==== Founding ====
Hamal was originally colonized by settlers from the highland regions of South America on [[Terra]], who founded the only major city, Califa Hamal, at the equator.<ref name=DARWp79/>

====Early History====
The Tikonov Union allied with the nearby [[Chesterton Trade Worlds]], and with clashes with other worlds and states escalating from [[2202]] onwards, the Carinus family of [[Tikonov]] gained increasing amounts of influence until they reached a point where they could force institutional change on the Union. This led to the Union merging with the Chesterton Trade Worlds in an administrative and defensive pact, creating an enlarged Tikonov Union organized into three provinces and ruled by a quorum of four rulers known as the Tikonov Tetrarchy. Hamal was one of the three provincial capitals, alongside [[Chesterton]] and Tikonov, and would continue to be a provincial capital until at least as late as the formation of the [[Tikonov Grand Union]]<ref name="HL(TCC)p20"/> in [[2243]].<ref name="HB:HLp12"/>

As time passed, Hamal's importance diminished; other worlds were more habitable, had more resources and soon had larger populations, whilst Hamal became increasingly backwards in comparison; most of the population of Hamal lived in a tribal, nomadic fashion, following the vegetation that grows as the seasons on Hamal changed, and would continue to live in that fashion for more than a thousand years. By the time the Tikonov Grand Union joined the Capellan Confederation<ref name=DARWp79/> in [[2366]]<ref name="HB:HLp17"/> Hamal had lost the importance it once had. The [[Terran Hegemony]] subsequently agreed to incorporate Hamal into the Hegemony.<ref name=DARWp79/>

====Amaris Civil War====
As a Terran Hegemony world, Hamal became a part of the [[Amaris Empire]] during the coup perpetrated by [[Stefan Amaris]]. Hamal would remain an Amaris Empire world until September [[2772]], when the [[Star League Defense Force]] [[Fifteenth Army (Star League)|Fifteenth Army]], operating as a part of the [[Seventeenth Army Group (SLDF)|Seventeenth Army Group]], liberated Hamal as a part of [[Operation CHIEFTAIN]].<ref name="H:LoTV1p131">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 131: "High Hopes"</ref> The liberation of Hamal wasn't as easy as [[XL Corps (Star League)|XL Corps]] had anticipated; while there were no major problems, there were a number of large pro-Amaris enclaves on Hamal that XL Corps didn't expect, and defeating Amaris' supporters took more time than XL Corps had anticipated, as well as forcing the Corps to recapture territory it already believed to have been pacified.<ref name="H:LoTV1p133">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 133: "Seventeenth Army Group"</ref>

====Succession Wars====
Hamal was one of many Hegemony worlds to be annexed by the Capellan Confederation during the early years of the [[First Succession War]], and was a Capellan holding by [[2791]].<ref name="FSWp59"/> Hamal would remain a Capellan holding until it was conquered by the [[Federated Suns]] during the [[Fourth Succession War]], although the expertise of the desert fighters on Hamal earned the respect of the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]] during the invasion.<ref name=DARWp79/>

====Jihad====
The tribes on Hamal remained technologically poor during the Succession Wars, and when the [[Word of Blake]] arrived, they found willing converts among the population; some of the population would continue to remain loyal to the Blakist theology and ideology even during the [[Dark Age]].<ref name=DARWp79/> In July [[3081]] forces from the allied coalition nearly caught [[Precentor]] [[John Garrick]], the Word of Blake's Director of Nuclear Technology, in a safe house in Califa Hamal. Although the coalition forces successfully defeated a bodyguard detachment from the [[Light of Mankind]]<ref name="TCp243">''Total Chaos'', pp. 243–244: "Firefly"</ref> and even believed briefly that they had captured Garrick, the Blakist Precentor managed to escape through the local sewer system amidst the distraction offered by his bodyguard, leaving the coalition with a body double.<ref name="J:FRp76">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 76: "Chaos Undaunted: Firefly"</ref>

===Military Deployment===
====3029====
* [[Hamal Militia]]<ref name="4SWMAV1p86">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1'', p. 86: "Other Actions"</ref>

===Geography===
Hamal is a cold and dry world, a desert world consisting of a single landmass dominated by frozen tundra and windstorms that the local population refer to as "sand blizzards". Most of the planet remains below freezing; it's only at the equator that temperatures can climb above freezing. There are a number of small, landlocked seas dotted across the surface of the planet; the seas contain mostly crushed ice.<ref name=DARWp79/>

===Planetary Locations===
* Califa Hamal, the planetary capital city, and only major city on the planet.<ref name=DARWp79/>
* Bladensville, a town on Hamal.<ref name=JHSTp38>''Jihad Hot Spots: Terra'', p. 38</ref>
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== Nearby Systems ==
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! colspan="8" | Closest 80 systems (79 within 60 light-years)<br>Distance in light years, closest systems first:
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Bharat]]
| class="lessthan30" | 6.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Yangtze]]
| class="lessthan30" | 10.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Slocum]]
| class="lessthan30" | 11.1
| class="lessthan30" | [[Nopah]]
| class="lessthan30" | 12.5
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Azha]]
| class="lessthan30" | 13.7
| class="lessthan30" | [[Basalt]]
| class="lessthan30" | 14.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[Kansu]]
| class="lessthan30" | 16.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[Alpha Eridani]]
| class="lessthan30" | 16.7
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Tigress]]
| class="lessthan30" | 17.1
| class="lessthan30" | [[Kawich]]
| class="lessthan30" | 17.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Alrescha]]
| class="lessthan30" | 20.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[Woodstock]]
| class="lessthan30" | 21.7
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Ruchbah]]
| class="lessthan30" | 22.0
| class="lessthan30" | [[Arboris]]
| class="lessthan30" | 23.2
| class="lessthan30" | [[Angol]]
| class="lessthan30" | 23.5
| class="lessthan30" | [[New Hessen]]
| class="lessthan30" | 23.5
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Algol]]
| class="lessthan30" | 24.3
| class="lessthan30" | [[Ningpo]]
| class="lessthan30" | 25.6
| class="lessthan30" | [[Acamar]]
| class="lessthan30" | 25.8
| class="lessthan30" | [[Buchlau]]
| class="lessthan30" | 25.9
|-
| class="lessthan30" | [[Fletcher (CC)|Fletcher]]
| class="lessthan30" | 26.9
| class="lessthan30" | [[Ingress]]
| class="lessthan30" | 29.1
| class="over30" | [[Deneb Kaitos]]
| class="over30" | 30.5
| class="over30" | [[Genoa]]
| class="over30" | 30.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Hean]]
| class="over30" | 30.6
| class="over30" | [[Conwy]]
| class="over30" | 30.7
| class="over30" | [[Sheratan]]
| class="over30" | 32.6
| class="over30" | [[Bex]]
| class="over30" | 32.7
|-
| class="over30" | [[Rio]]
| class="over30" | 33.9
| class="over30" | [[Tybalt]]
| class="over30" | 34.0
| class="over30" | [[Halloran]]
| class="over30" | 34.5
| class="over30" | [[Ankaa]]
| class="over30" | 35.5
|-
| class="over30" | [[Demeter]]
| class="over30" | 37.3
| class="over30" | [[Poznan]]
| class="over30" | 37.8
| class="over30" | [[Tikonov]]
| class="over30" | 38.0
| class="over30" | [[Pleione]]
| class="over30" | 38.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Small World]]
| class="over30" | 38.8
| class="over30" | [[Mira]]
| class="over30" | 39.5
| class="over30" | [[Liao (system)|Cynthiana]]
| class="over30" | 39.6
| class="over30" | [[Mesartim]]
| class="over30" | 39.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Almach]]
| class="over30" | 40.2
| class="over30" | [[New Florence]]
| class="over30" | 40.9
| class="over30" | [[Nanking]]
| class="over30" | 42.9
| class="over30" | [[Gan Singh]]
| class="over30" | 43.0
|-
| class="over30" | [[Addicks]]
| class="over30" | 43.3
| class="over30" | [[Terra Firma]]
| class="over30" | 43.5
| class="over30" | [[Algot]]
| class="over30" | 44.5
| class="over30" | [[New Aragon]]
| class="over30" | 45.0
|-
| class="over30" | [[Aldebaran]]
| class="over30" | 45.2
| class="over30" | [[Epsilon Indi]]
| class="over30" | 45.3
| class="over30" | [[New Rhodes]]
| class="over30" | 46.6
| class="over30" | [[Mirach]]
| class="over30" | 47.0
|-
| class="over30" | [[Errai]]
| class="over30" | 48.5
| class="over30" | [[Zurich]]
| class="over30" | 48.9
| class="over30" | [[Shensi]]
| class="over30" | 50.3
| class="over30" | [[Ozawa]]
| class="over30" | 50.4
|-
| class="over30" | [[Northwind]]
| class="over30" | 50.9
| class="over30" | [[Ronel]]
| class="over30" | 51.1
| class="over30" | [[Epsilon Eridani]]
| class="over30" | 51.6
| class="over30" | [[Towne]]
| class="over30" | 51.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Caselton]]
| class="over30" | 51.7
| class="over30" | [[Lockdale]]
| class="over30" | 52.2
| class="over30" | [[Tianamon]]
| class="over30" | 52.6
| class="over30" | [[Hunan]]
| class="over30" | 52.9
|-
| class="over30" | [[Bhaktapur]]
| class="over30" | 53.5
| class="over30" | [[Helen]]
| class="over30" | 54.0
| class="over30" | [[Menkar]]
| class="over30" | 55.0
| class="over30" | [[New Stevens]]
| class="over30" | 56.6
|-
| class="over30" | [[Capolla]]
| class="over30" | 56.9
| class="over30" | [[St. Andre]]
| class="over30" | 57.2
| class="over30" | [[Schedar]]
| class="over30" | 57.5
| class="over30" | [[Chesterton]]
| class="over30" | 57.7
|-
| class="over30" | [[Styk]]
| class="over30" | 58.6
| class="over30" | [[Sonnia]]
| class="over30" | 58.7
| class="over30" | [[Quentin]]
| class="over30" | 58.9
| class="over30" | [[Foochow]]
| class="over30" | 59.1
|-
| class="over30" | [[Manennaia]]
| class="over30" | 59.2
| class="over30" | [[Bryant]]
| class="over30" | 59.9
| class="over30" | [[Brownsville]]
| class="over30" | 60.0
| class="over60" | [[Hsien]]
| class="over60" | 60.2
|-
|}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Dark Age: Republic of the Sphere]]''
* ''[[Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
* ''[[Era Report: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Field Report: AFFS]]''
* ''[[Field Report: CCAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Davion]]''
* ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]''
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)]]''
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
* ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1]]''


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[[Category: Word of Blake Systems]]