Editing Tortuga Dominions

{{Update Needed|[[Historical Turning Points: Tortuga]]|[[First Succession War (sourcebook)]]|[[Touring the Stars: Tortuga Prime]]}}
The '''Tortuga Dominions''' is a [[Bandit Kingdom]] in the [[Periphery]] from which occasional raids are launched against the [[Federated Suns]] and the [[Taurian Concordat]] in search of plunder.  

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==History==
===Founding===
The beginnings of the pirate realm known as the '''Tortuga Dominions''' were laid during the later stages of the 20 year campaign against the [[Taurian Concordat]] conducted by the [[Star League]] as a part of the [[Reunification War]]. A unit from the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]], the [[237th Light Cavalry Regiment]], was all but destroyed as a result of a wasteful raid against the Taurian world of [[Sterope]]. The survivors of the 237th found themselves unable to hold their position and generally unwilling to return to [[Federated Suns]] space only to be thrown back into the fray again; instead, the members of the 237th decided to head out further into the Periphery.<ref name="TP1Ep154">''The Periphery (sourcebook)'', p. 154 - "Tortuga Data"</ref>

The group found a small, pleasant world well outside the borders of both the Federated Suns and the Taurian Concordat and settled there; shortly afterwards, they began raids against Federated Suns worlds as the newly-formed Pirates of Tortuga.<ref name="TP1Ep154"/>

===Star League Era===
Buoyed by equipment snatched, stolen or captured from a half dozen different Federated Suns worlds, the Tortugans began to expand their holdings on their new homeworld, [[Tortuga Prime]], and within a century the pirate band had reached a point where they were self-sufficient enough to begin efforts to colonize worlds beyond Tortuga Prime. By the early twenty-eighth century the pirates had expanded into five additional systems, and the resources found on those worlds - particularly raw materials and radioisotopes - fueled the rise of a pirate nation, the Tortuga Dominions.<ref name="TP1Ep154"/>

===Succession Wars===
As the [[Succession Wars (History)|Succession Wars]] engulfed the remains of the Star League, raiding forces from the Dominions would conduct raids that stretched deeply into the Concordat and the Federated Suns, earning a reputation for utter depravity, cruelty and ruthlessness; towards the end of the [[3rd Succession War]] these raids were driven by a lack of easily-scavenged resources on the various worlds of the Dominion, and although the pirates had been forced to cannibalize elements of their navy, the Jolly Rogers fleet of roughly fifteen vessels constituted the largest pirate navy in any of the bandit kingdoms of the era.<ref name="TP1Ep154"/>

[[First Prince]] [[Ian Davion]] of the Federated Suns used the [[Wolf's Dragoons]] mercenary brigade to teach the Tortugans and their leader, Lord [[Kalvin Bar-Dyness]], a punitive lesson in [[3007]]. [[Gamma Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons)|Gamma]] and [[Delta Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons)|Delta Regiments]] landed on [[New Hati]] in September, with Delta Regiment concentrating on wearing the pirates down while Gamma Regiment to encircle the brigand positions. The pirates managed to stage a breakout, but took heavy losses before escaping, and the attack effectively discouraged the Tortugans from raiding the Federated Suns for several years afterwards.<ref name="WDSBp11">''Wolf's Dragoons (sourcebook)'', p. 11, "String Of Victories"</ref>

===The Jihad===
During the early years of the [[Jihad]] the pirates of the Dominions were raiding as far afield as the [[Outworlds Wastes]], striking at worlds such as [[Ddraig]] and coming into conflict with forces like the [[Brotherhood of Randis]].<ref name="BCSLS">''BattleCorps Scenarios: Lost Souls''</ref> The pirates also found themselves in the unusual position of being invited into a number of former Federated Suns worlds; in a fit of irony, the newly-independent [[Malagrotta Cooperative]] sought to defend itself from increasing pirate activity by issuing Letters of Marque to any pirate band willing to sign on to defend the Cooperative. This led to some of the more famous and numerous bands including the [[Death's Consorts]] relocating to the Cooperative.<ref name="M&Mp41">''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 41, "Garman Doucett"</ref> 

By [[3079]] pirate activity out of the Tortuga Dominions was at its lowest ebb since the fall of the [[Star League]]; with the destruction of [[Tiqualme's Consorts]] - formerly Death's Consorts - and the large number of fellow Tortugans and denizens of the [[Pirates Haven]] the Consorts had recruited during their efforts to rule the [[Malagrotta Cooperative]], morale among the surviving pirates in the region was correspondingly low.<ref name="FR:Pp17">''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 17, "Pirate Forces"</ref>

===IlClan Era===

In [[3151]], lack of [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns|AFFS]] presence in the [[Periphery March]] allowed the pirates of Tortuga to run rampant in the region<ref name="DDp72">''Dominions Divided'', p. 72</ref>. Pirate king [[Alastar Firebeard]] even managed to conquer the world of [[Sherwood]], forcing Duke [[Bernard Marsin]] to entreat the [[Filtvelt Coalition]] to help drive him out<ref name ="DDp72"/>. 

== Politics ==
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Rulers of the Tortuga Dominions'''
|-
| [[Major]]||[[Frederick Koloniv|Frederick "Krasny" Koloniv]]||[[2589]] - [[2604]]<ref name=TtS:TPp4>''Touring the Stars: Tortuga Prime'', p. 4</ref>
|-
| [[Duke]]||[[Mitch Hibbert]]||2604 - ????<ref name=TtS:TPp4/>
|-
| ''Lord''||[[Kalvin Bar-Dyness]]||???? - [[3015]]<ref name="WDSBp11"/>
|-
| ''Dame''||[[Paula Trevaline|Paula "Lady Death" Trevaline]]||3015 - [[3042]]
|-
| Major||[[Twyla Sumeral|Twyla "The Major" Sumeral]]||[[3054]]<ref>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 130 - Tortuga Fusiliers - Twyla Sumeral and her former mercenaries take over control of the Dominion in [[3054]]</ref> - 307?
|-
| [[Word of Blake]] [[Precentor]]||[[William Derer]]||307? - ????<ref>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. ?? - Word of Blake Precentor is left in charge of Dominion after Cohorts leave for the Malagrotta region of FedSuns{{cn}}</ref>
|-
|King||Ravannion||[[3080]]<ref name=RAV>''Ravager''</ref>
|-
|King||[[Kevin Langstrom|Kevin "Black Kevin" Langstrom]]||3080<ref name=RAV/>
|-
|Duke||[[Ian Scoli|Ian "Shank" Scoli]]||[[3127]] - [[3130]]<ref name=TtS:TPp6>''Touring the Stars: Tortuga Prime'', p. 6</ref>
|-
|King||[[Alastar Firebeard]]|| ???? - Present<ref name="DDp72"/>
|}

== Notes ==
Befitting a pirate kingdom, all of the planets in the Dominions are named after either locales or personalities famed from the classical age of piracy in the Caribbean, with the exceptions of [[Fletcher's Feast]], which seems to commemorate Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutiny aboard HMS Bounty in 1789, and [[New Gascony]].

== Historical Maps ==
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Tortuga_Dominions_3050.png|Tortuga Dominions as of 3050
Tortuga Dominion 3079.jpg|Tortuga Dominions as of 3079
Tortuga Dominions Map-3081.png|Tortuga Dominions as of 3081
</gallery>

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[Era Report: 3052]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Field Report: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers]]''
* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[Ravager (short story)|Ravager]]'' (short story)
* ''[[Wolf's Dragoons (sourcebook)|Wolf's Dragoons]]''


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