10th Ghost

Description

The Tenth Ghost was a BattleMech regiment, serving the Draconis Combine. This unit was resurrected twice in its history of service to the DCMS.

History

Formation

The original Tenth Ghost Regiment was formed by Draconis Combine phantom BattleMech Regiment created by Theodore Kurita just after the Fourth Succession War. The Tenth had consisted principally of two Yakuza gangs which were the Jirigawa and Minitoma Empires.

War of 3039

The unit was stationed on the Combine world of Hachiman with its sister regiment, the Ninth Ghost. The Tenth Ghost with the Ninth were deployed as part of Kurita's counterassault to the FedCom's invasion. They assaulted the recently taken world of Elidere IV in August 5th. They attacked its garrison, the 1st Screaming Eagles mercenary regiment, whose members were uncertain who the Ghost Regiments were prior to their landing. In the battle on the outskits of Jasos City, the Eagle regiment realized the they were hopelessly out numbered. Despite this fact, the Eagles attempted a risky plan. The Eagles used their LRM launchers to create smokescreens. Their plan was to use the smoke to cover a demi-battalion of Battlemechs, who would hit one of the Ghost's wing in hopes of collapsing one of regiments and force the other to fall back.

However, the combined 10th and 9th force didn't give the Screaming Eagles a chance. The Ghosts took full advantage of their force being fitted with Star League technology. They used their force's extended range weaponry to pepper the Eagles beyond the merc's long range capacites. The Ghosts continued to surprise the mercenaries by utilizing anti-missile systems. The mercs were startled by the near magical employment of lostech shooting down their smokescreen missiles. This cut holes in Eagle's coverage, and allowed Ghosts destroy the flanking attack force. The devasation of half the mercenary force was too much for the Eagles. Its commander, Colonel Hokala, signaled his willingness to surrender and withdraw. While not speaking a word, the Combine's Task Force commander in his Hatamoto-Chi signaled his agreement by hold up one of his 'Mechs arms in the air. The Ghosts allowed the mercenaries to recover their MechWarriors, but Ghost troops destroyed the leading recovery vehicle attempting to salvage the Eagle's 'mechs. Signaling their withdrawal to Davion forces, the Eagles boarded their DropShips and departed the planet.,

Clan Invasion

During the Clan Invasion, the 10th Ghosts had deployed to raid Clan held worlds. The unit had only lost few companies of troops during the raid. By 3057, the 8th Ghosts surviving battalion was merged with the 10th Ghost. However, the 10th's two yakuza gangs had been conducting shadow conflict between each other. The 8th Ghost's newcomers refused to join either side, which left the unit in state of unreliability. The unit was assigned a new commanding officer, Tai-sa Samual Noda, who was sent in to bring "peace" back to the regiment.

Dominion War

The unit participated in the defense of Garstedt with the 2nd Sword of Light in opening parts of the Ghost Bear Invasion. The unit participated in the closing battle of the conflict on Courchevel.

Federated Suns Incursion

During the FedCom Civil War the 10th Ghost punished the Draconis march forces that attacked the Combine. Along with the 15th Dieron Regulars and Ryuken-ni attacked Addicks. There they faced off against the 12th Deneb Light Cavalry, Fighting Urukhai, Davion Assault Guards, and the 12th Vegan Rangers. The 10th and other DCMS forces inflicted serious losses on the Federated Suns troops, but ultimately were forced offworld.

Jihad as the 10th Ghost

Dieron

The Yakuza staffed unit was dispatched to the besieged world of Dieron, to help fight off Word of Blake Forces in March, 3068. After retaking the main spaceport, one of their first acts on that world was to support the 3rd Dieron Regulars after the Word of Blake forces nearly destroyed that unit. The 10th's assistance kept the 3rd Dieron in the fight far longer than would have been expected. The Blakist commander assigned Burr's Black Cobras mercenary unit to destroy the 10th Ghost, and the Combine regiment took many casualties over the next four weeks. They gave as good as they got however, nearly destroying the mercenary unit completely when they were recalled to defend the spaceport. During that last engagement the 10th Ghost's Commanding Officer, Tai-sa Samuel Nodawas killed, and the unit's remaining forces quickly rallied around the commander's wife and executive officer, Chu-sa Gretchen Noda. In June 3068 the unit recieved orders from DCMS High Command to rotate to Quentin rest and refit.

Quentin

Gretchen took command of the unit, the unit remained on Quentin for two years. In 3070, received orders from DCMS High command to re-deploy back to Dieron after not receiving enough supplies and with little repair, the unit believed it would be suicide if they returned. Gretchen by now was more than angry about unit's treatment by DCMS and the death of her husband because of the high command's orders. Gretchen executed the ISF planted spies in the unit, and consolidated her power in 3071 and began conducting independent actions without the permission of the DCMS.

Rezak's Hole and the Birth of the Ronin

The unit traveled to Rezak's Hole where the unit wiped out the last of that scorched world's pirates lurking in the system. While on planet, Unit incorporated some of the "saner" pirates into the unit to becoming known as mercenary unit known as Ronin. While on planet, they raided an Interstellar Expeditions base camp, where they helped themselves to two lances worth of Star League era BattleMechs. They managed to escape DCMS patrol that were summoned to the world by IE's the distress calls. The League equipment allowed the unit to rebuilt itself to battalion. In October 7th 3072, the Draconis Combine Mustery Service officially label the 10th Ghost as Ronin unit, with orders for the unit to be destroyed on sight. The unit became unknowingly employed by Chandrasekhar Kurita through being hired by StarCorps Industries. In course of service with StarCorps, their Tai-sa Gretchen developed a reputation of being a hothead commander and a contract breaker.

Brief Resurrection in the Dark Age

At some point after the Late Republic Era the Tenth Ghosts are reformed to aid in the invasion of the Federated Suns. During the 3143-3145 Invasion the Federated Suns, the Tenth and Eleventh Ghost regiments assaulted Brookeland and faced off against the Davion Light Guards. It and the its sister units would get mauled during the fight with the Light Guards, but they manage to win Brookeland at high toll. Due damage to the unit being too high, they 10th's is merged with the Eleventh bring that regiment to two battalions worth of BattleMechs with barely any conventional supporting forces support the merged unit together.

Officers

As of 3059 to June 3068, Tai-sa Samuel Noda was the commanding officer of the 10th Ghost while they were on Dieron. He was killed in June 3068.

As of 3068 to 3070, the commanding officer of the unit was Tai-sa Gretchen Noda.

Notes

There are few details regarding state of the reconstituted 10th Ghosts during the late Dark Age era and who was in command of the unit.