129th Jump Infantry Division

129th Jump Infantry Division
Nickname The Jumpers of Mars
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command LVI Corps


Overview

The 129th Jump Infantry Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History

The unit took its name from their hazing ritual of giving a new soldier a parachute and push them off the edge of Mars' Valles Marineris canyon system.[1]

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the LVI Corps, Nineteenth Army, to the Periphery Military Region.[2] They were the garrison force for the Camadeierre system, which lacked any habitable planets but had a large concentration of asteroids with minerals. The three large gas giants of the system had several moons, one of which was terraformed by the Department of Mega-Engineering.[1]

The 129th was destroyed during the Periphery Uprising in 2765.[2]

Officers

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 129th Jump Infantry Division 
Major General Quinten Palomer 2764[1]

Tactics

Unknown.

Composition History

As an SLDF Jump Infantry division the 129th would have been formed from two brigades of Jump Troops, one brigade of 'Mech regiments and two Ground Aero Wings.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 225
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Star League, p. 157, "Nineteenth"
  3. The Star League, p. 133

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