11th Arcturan Guards

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History

Thirty Forties and Clan Invasion

In 3048, the periphery nation called the Rim Collection had formed outside of the FedCom's Lyran state border. In response to possible threat, the 11th Arcturans were upgraded from single regiment to a Regimental Combat Team. Still based on Timbuktu, since late Succession Wars, the newly formed Combat Team were deployed to neighboring worlds from Langhorne to Hinckley. However, the Collection threat was non-existent, save odd pirate raids, the 11th's RCT maintained is normal routes.

When the Clans arrived in 3050, the 11th Arcturan was flooded with rumor and sighting of the invaders. The 11th moved to investigate these rumors, all proving to be false. However, during their investigations, the 11th discovered the base of the Blackstar Pirates. The pirate had been continuously raiding Halifax for decades, however the Guards destroyed their base. After the Battle of Tukayyid in 3052, the periphery border reports of sightings of the Clans simmered down.

The Guard's commanding officer, then Leftenant-General Maria Esrteban sought out to improve relations with their new periphery neighbors. As the elements of the unit conducted escort missions for Lyran emissaries to Rim Collection and independent world of Hunter's Paradise. General Esrteban had reported to suggest to Collection's government to conduct joined military exercises with their own Rim Collection Militia. In 3060, the Guard's AeroSpace Brigade received pair of Eisensturm Heavy Aerospace fighters for evaluation. These fighter proved to be invaluable in the Guard's anti-pirate actions. However, the unit hadn't received more of the fighters when they had requested them.

During late 50s and early 3060s, Esrteban was grooming on of her own officers, Colonel Linda McDonald, to succeed her so she could retire to Timbuktu.

FedCom Civil War

Battle for Virtue & the formation of the Battle Group

When the FedCom Civil War broke out, the Arcturans had still been stationed on Timbuktu. Lt. General Esrteban through her unit support to the loyalist cause however remained in Theater's command world for entire First Wave of the war. In September 17th of 3063, the General ordered her troops to move into the interior of the Alliance with confidence in security of periphery border with the Rim Collection in hands of scratch assemble force she assembled. General moved to have her RCT intercept Victor Steiner-Davion's forces deciding to detour through Ferihegy and Virtue systems to get him.

The Arcturans RCT had arrived in Virtue system at same time as a one of Victor's Allied forces, 6th Crucis Lancers, was transiting through the system. General made decision to confront the unit to prevent the Tsamma Lancers (nickname of the 6th Crucis Lancers) from linking up with Victor. The Arcturans landed their forces uncontested, with 11th Arcturan Aerospace Brigade providing air cover. The Lancers used their medium and light BattleMechs and armor to strike the Guard's flank, shattering the 4th Ormstown Light Tank. This action threaten isolate the Arcturans' tank brigade, however its commander manages to blunt the attack long enough remove her forces from harm. Lt. General Esrteban attempts have her forces to sweep thrust attack of the Lancers, but fails due to Lancer's faster force.

By October 2nd, some of the Arcturans fall back to city of Chastity where they fortify position against the Lancers. However, the 6th Crucis Lancer were experts in urban fighting and utilities their skill against the embedded force of the Arcturans. After losing of her outposts in the city, General Esrteban had her force fall back from Chastity After two week of fighting, the Lancers push Esrteban's force to abandon their efforts on Virtue.

Failing to delay the Tsamma Lancers on Virtue, General Esrteban decides to conduct decoy raids in neighboring worlds to distract the Lancers from her own goals to slow Victor's advance. Her RCT breaks up into raiding forces; commence raids on Triesting and Loxley. She moves her force on to Alarion where she decides that even combined with 1st Alarion Jaegers and Alarion APM that they would be destroyed by the incoming 6th Crucis Lancers. So general orders both units to abandon their garrison duties join her force. She dispatches minimum infantry garrison to cause trouble on Alarion while take all the supplies she can from the planet. She then moves on to Carlisle rendezvous with rest of her RCT. General begins formulate a plan to begin to form a task force of loyalist forces to confront rebellion. When on Carlisle, the Arcturians convinced Carlisle the General the Carlisle Province Militia to join them as part of their growing task force. During their travels, Estaban manages secure the services of two Warships, the Fox Class Corvettes LAS Robert Kelswa and LAS Robert Marsden.

York and the Ambushing of Victor

Placed well ahead of the Victor Steiner-Davion's advancing force, General Esteban places both the Carlisle & Alarion APMs as defenders of York. When Victor's forces arrive and land on the planet. Victor dispatches the Sixth Crucis Lancers to take out the two militia regiments, while he dispatched his Outland Legion and now former ComGuard unit, Prince's Men of the 244th ComGuard Division to secure local supplies and planetary headquarters.

However, they fell for Lt. General Esteban's trap, when she had aide, Colonel Linda McDonald's lead the 11th Arcturans from orbital insertion. By dropping behind Lancer's lines, General Esteban trapped the Lancers between Arcturans and their two Loyalist Militia RCTs. The Victor order a retreat, not believing his under strength division was a match for the 11th Arcturan Guard RCT. The Sixth managed to escape set for them, which forced General Esteban to concentrate on her forces on 244th and the Outland Legion. Victor forces after hours leaving the capital city, fought a fighting withdraw with Estaban's forces. The Arcturans and its allies begun catch up with slower allied force withering some of enemy's strength. This ultimately led into a nineteen hour fire-fight which by all accounts have been described as hell on the battlefield. The Arcturan AeroSpace Brigade destroyed a third of the 244th's forces. One of the highlights of the battles was when Victor engaged Arcturans' commanding officer Linda McDonald's King Crab in impromptu duel to try buying time for his forces. His custom configured Daishi outclassed McDonald's machine, but the combination raging battle broke up the duel apart.

In orbit, the task force's two Fox Class WarShip, confront Victor's task force lone WarShip and aerospace forces. FCS Melissa Davion tries intercept the two fox ships, they threaten to provide orbit-to-ground fire support for Arcturans. The Crucis Lancer's escaping DropShips manage to evade the Avalon Class Cruiser.

The battle's retreat ultimately cost the allies two thousand troopers lives, while battalion worth of troops were captured and were imprisoned until the war's end.

Actions during Operation Scatter

In July of 3064, Victor Steiner's allies commence their Operation Scatter which was to overload the LAAF ability to respond to action done by the allies. The 11th Arcturan Guards were order by General of Armies and acting Regent Nondi Steiner to put down the Arcturan rampaging sister unit, 23rd Arcturan Guards. The Frost Giants as its sister unit's nickname, had been raiding various worlds including striking the Nondi Steiner's estate on Gallery. The 11th Arcturan arrived Thuban, where they miss bulk of the Frost Giant force. They Arcturans do manage to destroy a Combined Arms battalion which was in mists of repairs. The two regiments clashed in bloody affair on slopes of Scorpiuus Mons which inflict considerable amount damage to the both units.

First Battle for Tikonov

In early January of 3065, the 11th Arcturan Guards and its task force had arrived in the Tikonov. They had tracked down Victor Steiner-Davion and his own task force, joined the withered Loyalist forces holding key cities on planet. After weeks of fighting, allies begun to loose due to Victor Steiner-Davion withered performance due to loss of his Omi Kurita. During this time, it General Esterban pass command of situation on the planet to Colonel MacDonald, brevet Lt. General. Esterban took one of the two Warships of the Battle Group ,the LAS Robert Marsden, and departed to gather more reinforcements. The Battle Group's other WarShip, LAS Katrina Steiner, attempt move into orbit to provide fire support for loyalist ground forces, but was driven off by Victor's WarShip, FCS Melissa Steiner. The elements of the 11th Arcturan Battle Group were left behind on Tikonov and as the rest pursued the Prince. Unknown to General MacDonald, her mentor and 11th Arcturan Guards commanding officer had defected to the Free Skye movement and taken over military operations in October 9th on Freedom.

Coventry Assault

The elements of the 11th Arcturan Guard accompanied by the Royal New Capetown Training Battalion in September, 3064, while main portion of the Guards were dispatched to Skye. The Coventry bounded force was to take the lightly defended allied control world and its factories. The world was expected only be defended by elements of the 39th Avalon Hussars. However, the Guard's intelligence was wrong. For over-confident Royals' Landing Zones were quickly overrun by 7th Crucis Lancers. Unknown to the Loyalist, a third of the Lancers were deployed to the planet to give the appearance of Coventry having weak defense. The Royal New Capetown Training Battalion captured wholly, however the Arcturans were not so overconfident and had established a bridgehead to move to capture Coventry Metal Works in Port St. Lawrence. For over next ten days, Lancers provided a vigorous defense of the complex and broke the confidence of the Guards. By end of the campaign, the Guard had tried to withdraw to their DropShips, but failed and were ultimately destroyed. However, Guards reduced the Lancers to two companies of BattleMechs and battalion each of infantry and armor survived.

Action on Thorin

The 11th Arcturan Task Forces now consisting of 11th Arcturans, Alarion Jaegers, 4th Lyran Guards, 4th Alliance Guards, and two APM militia units of Carlisle and Alarion. In August 3065, the Task Force arrived on Thorin where the force had finally narrow down where Victor Steiner-Davion and his allied task force may have been hiding. However, the task force was unable to dislodge Victor's forces from planetary capital of Ecol city.

The Arcturans and its fellow task force members launched a brutal campaign for next two weeks against Victor's forces, namely 244th Division and Outland Legion. In desperate battle at Kalako Pass, the 244th Division bloodied nose of 11th Arcturans at the cost of their commander. Fortunately, the Guards' opponents withdrew from battle back to Ecol city. Task Force's commander, Linda McDonald begun to fear that Victor was not on Thorin, and their action here was to tie up among the most potient Loyalist forces here.

However, in January 3066, Victor returned to the battlefield as his personal unit dropped on top of battle of Sandstain Plateau. Turning the tied of battle for the 244th fighting the elements of the task force. Days later, unknownst Acrturans, Victor had left again.

Actions against Free Skye

In April, the McDonald's task force has arrived in the Skye system. The unit had learned from raid by the 11th Lyran Guards, that strength & dispositions of the 1st Skye Jaegers. Thus McDonald felt the her Task force consisting of both her 11th Arcturans and 1st Alarion Jaegers would be suffient against them. On May 13th, Arcturans and Jaegars landed Skye, brought the battle to the Skye Jaegars and their supporting planetary militia force. The Task Force easily takes capital city of New Glasgow, as the 1st Skye Jaagar leary of Arcturan's reputation abandoned the city for a mobile defense. The Acrturans faced well-armed citizens defending the city. By June after weeks of off and on fighting, 4th Skye Rangers arrive in system from Hesperus II, where they were defeated by Loyalist forces.

This had given General McDonald pause, of facing another regiment of worth of troops. However, General von Frisch, CO of the Rangers, declared he and his forces were neutral in this fight for the planet, siting they had shedded too much blood for the Free Skye movement. With relief, McDonald perpared to continue the pursuit of the elusive Skye Jaegers when she received message from Regent Nondi Steiner. She signalled that task force was to head to Tharkad, stating she believe coalition forces were meaning to take the capital.

The Battle for Tharkad

By late 3066, the Task Force, now only consisting of 11th Arcturans and its allied force the 1st Alarion Jaegers arrived to reinforce Nondi Steiner's 1st, 2nd Royal Guards and local ComStar ComGuard Unit, the 66th Division.

In early January of 3067, the 11th Arcturans battled Blue Star Irregulars' 21st Rim Worlds Regiment. The Arcturans gained the upper hand, as the unit overran the mercenary's command battalion during the battle. The loss of the command battalion sent the Rim Worlds into chaos and allowed the 11th Arcturans maul regiment, rendering the mercenaries combat ineffective for the rest of the conflict.

After the arrival of the 24th Lyran Guards RCT, the General McDonald pulled back the 11th Arcturans back to Tharkad City and reinforced the city's defenses.

In March 23rd, General Nondi Steiner lead offensive with 11th Arcturan Guards held back with the ComStar's 66th ComGuard Division held in reserve. The offensive was in streams of water separating Nagelring and Tharkad city known as the Wash. The 4th Skye Rangers, enticed the Arcturan Guards out of position into a what became a fruitless pursuit.

the campaign turned bad for the Loyalist since surrender of the 24th Lyran Guards, Nondi determination had ever increased. The Peter's coalition attack directly at Tharkad City on the 27th. Where Arcturans' sister unit on opposition's side, 20th Arcturan Guards suffered terrible loss, only survive if was not for Blue Star Irregulars stepping in reinforce them. General McDonald feeling the battle was hopeless and stupid since they were fighting their own people, she disobeyed Nondi Steiner's orders and surrender the 11th Arcturans to the their sister unit.

The Jihad & Destruction

The 11th Arcturan Guards were devastated by the Word of Blake controlled Battlecruiser LAS Invincible when it fired a "Warning Shot" at Tharkad City in December, 3067. The WarShip's capital grade weapons utterly destroyed core of the Arcturan Guards, covering rest under the rumble. Leaving the fellow garrison force, 24th Lyran Guards to fend off the coming attack by the 37th Division of the Word of Blake.

Officers

In 3025 the unit is commanded by Colonel Herbert Timmons.

As of 3037, the Commanding Officer of the unit was Lieutenant General Maria Esteban.

As of 3067, the Commanding Officer of the unit was Lieutenant General Linda McDonald.

Tactics

The 11th Arcturan Guards spent years hunting Periphery bandits, and has lots of specialized small units for almost all imaginable circumstances. However, the 11th has little to no experience in large-scale operations above Regiment-level. They are skilled in handing hositile environments; zero-g, underwater, freezing cold; desert. The unit is trained in combined arms, however its also seen as weakness.

Paint Scheme

The all units of the force are ('Mech, Vehicles, aerospace fighters) are pained flat white as do the rest of th Arcurian Guards. However, units also have section (wing, arm, or back of vehicle) is painted black to mark friendship it has with Periphery neighbors.

Unit Emblem

The unit emblem is a oval-shape insigna with a tiger rampant before a field of stars.

Composition History

3025

11th Arcturan Guards(Green/Reliable) (CO.: Colonel Herbert Timmons)

3040

11th Arcturan Guards (Green/Reliable)

3050

11th Arcturan Guards (Regiment)

• CO: Lieutenant General Maria Esteban

3054

11th Arcturan Guards RCT (Regular/Reliable)

• CO: Hauptmann General Maria Estaban

3062

11th Arcturan Guards (1 Regiment/Regular/Reliable)

• CO: Lieutenant General Maria Esteban

• Aide: Colonel Linda McDonald

11th Arcturian Aerospace Brigade (3 Wings)

• CO: Captain Sukit Manijr
• 14th Arcturan Wing
• 75th Arcturan Wing
• 311th Arcturan Wing

11th Arcturan Guards Armor Brigade (3 Regiments/Regular/Reliable)

• CO: Colonel Smillaaraq Jaspersen

• Aide: Leutnant-Colonel Karl Ruiz

• 4th Ormstown Light Tank Regiment: Colonel Alyn Hershey
• 9th Timbuktu Armored Cavalry Regiment: Colonel Andi Murray
• 2nd Arcturan Scout Regiment: Colonel Barry Lievesly

11th Arcturan Guards Infantry Brigade (5 Regiments/Regular/Reliable)

• CO: Colonel Wesley Corn

• Aide: Leutnant-Colonel Joseph Freilich

• 3rd Wiltshire Mounted Rifles Regiment: Colonel Lawrence Morris
• 42nd Arcturan Heavy Infantry Regiment: Colonel Leslie Smith
• 19th Firenze Infantry Regiment: Colonel Varkesh Wawra
• 7th Langhorne Light Infantry Regiment: Colonel Celia Fremlin
• 92nd Arcturan Force Recon Regiment: Colonel Peter Fojl

3067

11th Arcturan Guards (1 Regiment/Elite/Reliable)

• CO: Leutnant-General Linda McDonald

Note: Advanced IS technology: 25 percent

11th Arcturian Aerospace Brigade (3 Wings/Elite/Reliable)

• CO: Captain Sukit Manijr

Note: Advanced IS technology: 35 percent | Omnis: 5 percent

11th Arcturan Guards Armor Brigade (3 Regiments/Veteran/Reliable)

• CO: Colonel Smillaaraq Jaspersen

Note: Advanced IS technology: 20 percent

11th Arcturan Guards Infantry Brigade (5 Regiments/Regular/Reliable)

• CO: Colonel Wesley Corn

Bibliography

• Endgame
• Field Manual: Lyran Alliance
• Field Manual: Updates
• House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)
• Jihad Turning Points: Tharkad
• Storms of Fate
• Historical: War of 3039
• Objective Raids