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Terra
The home of ComStar, the Terran Hegemony and the Star League. The cradle of civilization and home of humanity is also a massively powerful system. Humanity spread out in the solar system before moving into the stars. They built a massive drydock in space around Titan and it was the last place that could make WarShips in the Inner Sphere for centuries. Mars is heavily settled, fortified and has factories of massive significance.
Terra itself is the single most industrialized planet in the Inner Sphere. It has tons of factories. After the major wars on Terra it was recaptured by Kerensky, he turned it over to his ally Jerome Blake. He asked some of the Star League Defense Force to stay behind and help Jerome Blake rebuild the shattered HPS network and left the Inner Sphere a short while later. Jerome Blake turned the Department of Communications into ComStar and those SLDF units became the first ComGuards.
Jerome Blake’s first tasks were to retake the entire Terran System from all bandits, house forces and remaining Amaris troops. After he did that, he declared ComStar neutral, kept the HPG Station’s running, mothballed naval assets and military assets in various systems off the beaten path. His most important role was to get all of the old factories up and running. Some were kept online, but many were mothballed and able to be restored with a few months work. Numerous mech, tank, and fighter factories were in the system.
Terra is also the single best defended system in existence. Between massive numbers of capital ships, orbital platforms, naval guns, and countless fighters – the system is virtually impenetrable. Plus add in major defensive fortresses, Brian Castles, and such. You are not going to come in here without major losses.
After the schism that tore ComStar into two pieces, one of which is Word of Blake, ComStar became more secular. As part of that, they opened up Terra for visitors for the first time in centuries. Humanity can again tour the land of its birth and ancestors. Terra is 28.29 light years away from Epsilon Eridani.
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