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The '''Karachi''' system was home to at least one habitable world and as at [[3151]] was located in the [[Rim Commonality]] in the [[Free Worlds League]].<ref name=SFp102/>
  
 
== Political Affiliation ==
 
== Political Affiliation ==
 
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* [[2271]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp16">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 13, "Free Worlds League founding - [2271] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2271]] - No record <ref name="HB:HMp16">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 13, "Free Worlds League founding - [2271] Map"</ref>
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* [[2287]] - Independent world <ref name=AToW:Cp152-153>''A Time of War: Companion'', p. 152-153, "Karachi"</ref>
 
* [[2571]] - [[Free Worlds League]]<ref name="HB:HMp24">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2571]] - [[Free Worlds League]]<ref name="HB:HMp24">''Handbook: House Marik'', p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War - [2571] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2596]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
 
* [[2596]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="H:RWp158">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"</ref>
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* [[3081]] - Independent world <ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
 
* [[3081]] - Independent world <ref name="J:FRp63">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"</ref>
 
* [[3085]] - Independent world <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii , "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
 
* [[3085]] - Independent world <ref name="FM:3085pvii">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. vii , "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"</ref>
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* [[3067]] - Free Worlds League <ref name=JFRp42>' Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 42, "Inner Sphere Map - [October 3067] </ref>
 
 
* [[3135]] - Rim Commonality <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3135"</ref>
 
* [[3135]] - Rim Commonality <ref name="ER:3145p10">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3135"</ref>
 
* [[3139]] - Rim Commonality <ref>''Map of the Rim Commonality included with Free Worlds League map as of [3139]''</ref>
 
* [[3139]] - Rim Commonality <ref>''Map of the Rim Commonality included with Free Worlds League map as of [3139]''</ref>
 
* [[3145]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:3145p38">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
 
* [[3145]] - Free Worlds League <ref name="ER:3145p38">''Era Report: 3145'', p. 38, "Inner Sphere - 3145"</ref>
 
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* [[3151]] - Free Worlds League <ref name=SFp102>''Shattered Fortress'', p. 102, "Inner Sphere - 3151" (Map)</ref>
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Karachi is the second planet in the Karachi system and has one moon, Clifton's Beach.<ref name=AToW:Cp152>
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== Planetary History ==
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While known of as a habitable world for some time prior to its colonization, Karachi was not settled until [[2287]] due to its less than ideal environment. [[Free Worlds League]] refugees fleeing conflicts along the [[Lyran Commonwealth|Lyran]] and [[Capellan Confederation|Capellan]] borders were desperate enough to make a new home for themselves on this world, with a Pakistani [[Terra|Terran]] named [[Aban Kayani]] providing the financial support to do so. While its environment was harsh, Karachi also possessed enough accessible mineral wealth to become a regional industrial center situated far away from the [[Age of War]] violence endemic to the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
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Throughout the [[Age of War]] and the [[Star League]] era Karachi provided the safe haven its first colonists had hoped for. Never attacked, its location near the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] enabled Karachi to serve as a supplier to the [[Star League Defense Force|SLDF]] and [[Free Worlds League Military|FWLM]] during the [[Reunification War]], resulting in a boost to military industry and the construction of [[BattleMech]] factories by [[Brigadier Corporation]]. Karachi's biggest threat during these centuries was economic dominance from the its provincial overlords in the [[Principality of Regulus]], and the [[Camlann v. Free Worlds]] decision enabled the planet to leave its parent province during the early twenty-eighth century.<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
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War finally came to Karachi after the Star League's collapse. During the [[First Succession War]] a deep raid by the [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces|LCAF]] resulted in Karachi's two industrial centers being destroyed by 100-megaton [[Nuclear Weapons|nuclear warheads]], killing twenty million people and the planet's industrial economy. While Karachi itself otherwise suffered minimal damage from this attack, the destroyed factories had provided items essential to keeping neighboring planets habitable, and many of these would become dead worlds in the decades to come.<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
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From the 2830s onward Karachi slowly recovered its position as an industrial hub and suffered no further attacks from other [[Successor States]]. [[Pirate]] raids were a different matter but Karachi's defense force proved capable of repelling most of these incursions. The nearby [[Marian Hegemony]], established in [[2920]], proved a wilier foe, as the Marians resorted to successful smuggling operations to steal what they needed from Karachi to ensure the viability of their new state.<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
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While distance prevented Karachi from benefiting from the boom in trade with the [[Federated Commonwealth]] during the 3050s, its industries were able to take advantage of the renaissance sparked by the [[Helm Memory Core|Helm Memory Core's]] discovery. In [[3064]] the planet began limited trade with the Magistracy of Canopus, although domestic development was prioritized. As a result of this reticence and its isolation, Karachi was spared the ravages of the [[Jihad]].<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
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Forced into independence by the League's dissolution in [[3079]] Karachi joined the neighboring [[Rim Commonality]] at some point prior to [[3130]], ensuring that it would join the resurrected Free Worlds League in [[3139]].<ref name="J:FRp63"> <ref>''Era Digest: Dark Age'', p. 12, "Map of the Inner Sphere 3130"</ref>
  
 
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* [[Seventeenth Marik Militia]]<ref name="FR2765:FWLMp10A">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 10, "Regimental Status"</ref>
 
* [[Seventeenth Marik Militia]]<ref name="FR2765:FWLMp10A">''Field Report 2765: FWLM'', p. 10, "Regimental Status"</ref>
  
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== Geography ==
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Karachi is primarily a rocky desert world with only 17 percent surface water and a thin atmosphere. However it is not especially hot but rather prone to sharp diurnal temperature changes. Rather than distinct continents, the planet's notable features are the Southern Ocean and Arctic Sea. The bulk of the population is concentrated around the shores and islands of the former, with most of the rest living close to the Arctic Sea.<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
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Surprisingly for a desert world, the bulk of long-range travel is done via watercraft due to the population being clustered around rivers and bodies of water.<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
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== Planetary Locations ==
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* Lyari: the capital city<ref name=AToW:Cp152-153/>
  
 
== Map Gallery ==
 
== Map Gallery ==
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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
 
* ''[[A Time of War: Companion]]''
 
* ''[[A Time of War: Companion]]''
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* ''[[Era Digest: Dark Age]]''
 
* ''[[Era Report: 2750]]''  
 
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* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''
 
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* ''[[Shattered Fortress]]''
 
* ''[http://cf.sarna.net/data/planets/free_worlds_league_3139.pdf Map of the Rim Commonality included with Free Worlds League map as of 3139]''
 
* ''[http://cf.sarna.net/data/planets/free_worlds_league_3139.pdf Map of the Rim Commonality included with Free Worlds League map as of 3139]''
  

Revision as of 16:24, 5 October 2021

Karachi
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3151
Karachi 3151.svg
Karachi nearby systems
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System Information
X:Y Coordinates-292.397 : -243.278[e]
Spectral classF8V[1]
Recharge time179 hours[1]
Recharge station(s)None[1]

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

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The Karachi system was home to at least one habitable world and as at 3151 was located in the Rim Commonality in the Free Worlds League.[2]

Political Affiliation

Karachi is the second planet in the Karachi system and has one moon, Clifton's Beach.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

Military Deployment

2765

Geography

Karachi is primarily a rocky desert world with only 17 percent surface water and a thin atmosphere. However it is not especially hot but rather prone to sharp diurnal temperature changes. Rather than distinct continents, the planet's notable features are the Southern Ocean and Arctic Sea. The bulk of the population is concentrated around the shores and islands of the former, with most of the rest living close to the Arctic Sea.[4]

Surprisingly for a desert world, the bulk of long-range travel is done via watercraft due to the population being clustered around rivers and bodies of water.[4]

Planetary Locations

  • Lyari: the capital city[4]

Map Gallery

Nearby Systems

Closest 32 systems (30 within 60 light-years)
Distance in light years, closest systems first:
Jiddah 14.9 Ghaziabad 16.3 Tohelet 20.7 Rzhishchev 21.3
Isabela 21.5 Negushevo 31.0 Tematagi 31.7 Turov 32.9
Lesnovo 32.9 Chagos 33.4 Westover 35.0 Hiratsuka 35.4
Mackenzie 39.2 Goth Khakar 40.1 Tapachula 44.2 Karakiraz 45.8
Prato 46.5 Mankova 48.7 Fadiffolu 48.9 Campoleone 49.1
Bismarck 51.8 Gibson 54.4 Izmir 54.5 Lengkong 55.6
Cerignola 55.9 Gatchina 56.2 Aconcagua 56.4 Jubka 56.7
Clipperton 58.2 Corbeanca 58.6 Molokai 61.0 Panjang 61.8

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Time of War: Companion, p. 152, "Karachi"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Shattered Fortress, p. 102, "Inner Sphere - 3151" (Map)
  3. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 13, "Free Worlds League founding - [2271] Map"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 A Time of War: Companion, p. 152-153, "Karachi"
  5. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 24, "Free Worlds League after Age of War - [2571] Map"
  6. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 158, "Inner Sphere - [2596] Map"
  7. ↑ Era Report: 2750, p. 36, "Inner Sphere - [2750] Map"
  8. ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. vii, "Inner Sphere - [2764] Map"
  9. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - [2765] Map"
  10. ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 24-25, "Inner Sphere - [2786] Map"
  11. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 34, "Free Worlds League after First Succession War - [2822] Map"
  12. ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, pp. 122-123, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  13. ↑ First Succession War (Source Book), pp. 112-113, "Inner Sphere - [2822] Map"
  14. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 38, "Free Worlds League after Second Succession War - [2864] Map"
  15. ↑ House Marik (The Free Worlds League), p. vii, "Free Worlds League - [3025] Map"
  16. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 42, "Free Worlds League after Third Succession War - [3025] Map"
  17. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 51, "Free Worlds League after Fourth Succession War - [3030] Map"
  18. ↑ Historical: War of 3039, p. 132, "Inner Sphere - [3040] Map"
  19. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 10, Inner Sphere - [3050] Map
  20. ↑ Era Report: 3052, p. 22, Inner Sphere - [3052] Map
  21. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 10, Inner Sphere - [3057] Map
  22. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 54, "Free Worlds League after Operation Guerrero - [3058] Map"
  23. ↑ Era Report: 3062, p. 29, "Inner Sphere - [3063] Map"
  24. ↑ Handbook: House Marik, p. 56, "Free Worlds League after FedCom Civil War - [3067] Map"
  25. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 43, "Inner Sphere - [3067] Map"
  26. ↑ Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents, p. 64, "Inner Sphere - [3075] Map"
  27. ↑ Field Report: FWLM, p. 19, "Free Worlds League Military Deployment Map - [August 3079]"
  28. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 63, "Inner Sphere - [3081] Map"
  29. ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. vii , "Inner Sphere - [3085] Map"
  30. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 10, "Inner Sphere - 3135"
  31. ↑ Map of the Rim Commonality included with Free Worlds League map as of [3139]
  32. ↑ Era Report: 3145, p. 38, "Inner Sphere - 3145"
  33. ↑ Field Report 2765: FWLM, p. 10, "Regimental Status"

Bibliography

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