Editing 14th Lyran Guards

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| image          = [[File:Lyran Guards brigade logo.png|150px]]
| Designation    = Fourteenth Lyran Guards
| formed         = 
| Disbanded      = By 3145
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = The Fearsome Fourteenth
| Affiliation    = Lyran Commonwealth
| Parent Command = [[Lyran Guards]]
| Sub-Command    = 
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==History==

=== Early History ===
The '''Fourteenth Lyran Guards''' were inactive during the majority of the [[Star League era]], having either been casualties of the [[Age of War]] or one of the commands deactivated after the founding of the [[Star League]].<ref name=FR2765LCAF-13>''Field Report 2765: LCAF'', p. 13: "Lyran Guards"</ref> The Fourteenth was subsequently reactivated at some point between [[2765]] and [[2785]].<ref name="FSWp139">''First Succession War'', p. 139: "Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces (LCAF)"</ref>

=== Succession Wars ===
The Lyran Commonwealth invaded [[Denebola]] in [[2786]], deploying the Fourteenth Lyran Guards as the invasion force, accompanied by a naval escort consisting of a pair of ''[[Commonwealth (WarShip class)|Commonwealth]]''-class light cruisers, the [[LCS Odessa|LCS ''Odessa'']] and [[LCS Porrima|LCS ''Porrima'']]. Despite being outgunned, the [[Free Worlds League]] naval picket, which consisted of two ''[[Vincent]]''-class corvettes gamely attempted to attack the Lyran invasion force, only for the opening volley of laser and missile fire from the ''Odessa'' to destroy the [[Francisco|FWLS ''Francisco'']] outright - at which point her sister ship fled the Denebola system, leaving the [[Thirty-fourth Marik Militia]] to attempt to resist the invasion without naval support.<ref name="FSWp29">''First Succession War'', p. 29: "Lyran Commonwealth Gains"</ref>

The Thirty-fourth was a new and inexperienced unit, and the relatively light garrison on Denebola was a result of how heavily deployed the [[Free Worlds League Military]] was at the time - a result of the combined stresses of heavy fighting on the border with the Lyran Commonwealth, the ongoing annexation of former [[Terran Hegemony]] worlds, and the invasion of the [[Capellan Confederation]]. The Thirty-fourth had taken up residence in the battered facilities that had once been the home base of the SLDF [[282nd Mechanized Infantry Division]], and were still settling in when the Lyrans invaded. At the request of [[Colonel]] [[Hoshi DeWitt]], the commanding officer of the Fourteenth, the ''Odessa'' and ''Porrima'' moved into orbit above Denebola and subjected the Thirty-fourth's base to a two-hour orbital bombardment that destroyed more than half the Marik forces outright. Having already lost a [[company]] of forces to Hegemony guerrillas still active on the planet, two companies of mixed armor and infantry forces from the Thirty-fourth went to ground and would spend months engaged in raids and resistance against the Fourteenth Lyran Guards, but the bulk of the survivors from the Thirty-fourth surrendered within two days of the Fourteenth's landing.<ref name="FSWp29"/>

The Fourteenth Lyran Guards defended [[Alexandria (LC)|Alexandria]] in [[2953]] and [[2955]] alongside the [[Twentieth Arcturan Guards]]. Their actions against both the [[Free Worlds League]] and [[Draconis Combine]] in the [[Third Succession War]] earned them a [[Dragon Slayer's Ribbon]] and an [[Eagle's Feather]]. After the Third Succession War, most of their focus was on the Free Worlds League.{{cn}}

In [[3047]] they attempted to raid the Free Worlds planet [[Pingree]]. Two companies of the [[Fifth Fusiliers of Oriente]] intercepted them and held them off for two days. The delay allowed the rest of the Fusiliers to deploy effectively and force the Fourteenth off-world.{{cn}}

The Second [[Battalion]] of Fourteenth Lyran Guards were defeated while attempting to defend [[Gienah]] against a raid by the [[Third Free Worlds Legionnaires]] and [[Second Fusiliers of Oriente]] in September [[3048]].<ref name=FMLA79>''Field Manual: Lyran Alliance'', p. 79: "14th Lyran Guards Unit Profile"</ref>

In [[3050]], the Fourteenth was stationed on [[Ford]].<ref name=20yr27>''20 Year Update'', p. 27: "AFFC Deployment Table - 3050"</ref> As the political situation on [[Ford]] destabilized the Thirtieth Lyran Military Police Regiment (an infantry unit attached to the Fourteenth) played a large role in maintaining order on the world.<ref name=FMLA79/>

=== FedCom Civil War ===
During the [[FedCom Civil War]], the Fourteenth joined with the [[Free Skye Movement]] and fought their fellow Guards. After the Civil War ended, the Fourteenth would have been stricken from the rolls, but Duke Kelswa-Steiner was able to talk the High Command into keeping the regiment intact. The other Lyran Guard units shunned the Fourteenth because of their actions.<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 170: "14th Lyran Guards"</ref>

=== The Jihad ===
In the [[Jihad]] the Fourteenth returned to Pingree, easily landing on the world but rapidly coming under continual fire from the defending Free Worlds units. They took heavy losses before the ceasefire. In [[3079]] they had relocated to [[Zdice]].<ref name=frla12>''Field Report: LAAF'', p. 12</ref>

As part of [[Operation SCOUR]], the Fourteenth raided [[Andiron]] with orders to secure as much [[Word of Blake]] technology as they could. The Fourteenth dropped several companies on the world. The Guards struck quickly, but only found conventional forces. After the conventional units had skirmished with the Blakists for two weeks, the Guards BattleMechs and fast vehicles struck the main Blakist repair and supply facility. The Guards seized two companies worth of combat units and tons of supplies, before withdrawing in good order. To reward their success, the LCAF High Command reassigned the Fourteenth to garrison [[Solaris VII]] and authorized their expansion to a full RCT.<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 101</ref>

=== The Dark Age ===
In [[3104]] the leadership of the shadowy organization known as the [[Brotherhood of Cincinnatus]] was destroyed on [[Gacrux]]. The Brotherhood's leadership had been targeted by a sustained military campaign conducted by the LCAF at the orders of [[Archon]] [[Adam Steiner]] following a failed attempt to assassinate [[Hanse Steiner]], the mentally handicapped son of [[Peter Steiner-Davion]] and [[Marie Hussfield]], in [[3098]]. Adam led the [[First Royal Guards]] and Fourteenth Lyran Guards personally on Gacrux, having received permission from [[Devlin Stone]] to cross the border of the Republic of the Sphere in pursuit of the Brotherhood.<ref name="FM:3145p119">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 119: "Reconstruction"</ref>

The Fourteenth were among the units destroyed by [[Clan Wolf]] during their invasion of the Commonwealth.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 126</ref>

==Officers==
{| 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;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 14th Lyran Guards'''
|-
|[[Colonel]]||[[Dale Barrows]]||[[3025]]<ref name=HSp119>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 119 (PDF version): "Unit Deployment Table - 3025"</ref>
|-
|[[Marshal (rank)|Marshal]]||[[Emily Stevens]]||[[3050]] - [[3057]]<ref name=20yr27/><ref name=ORp19>''Objective Raids'', p. 19: "AFFC Deployment Table - 3054"</ref>
|-
|[[Leutnant-General]]||[[Katinka Porter]]||3057 - [[3067]]<ref name=FMLA79/><ref name=FMUp177>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 177: "LAAF Deployment Table - 3067"</ref>
|-
|Leutnant-General||[[Pendragon Botov]]||[[3085]]<ref name=FM3085p107>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 107: "LAAF Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
|}

==Tactics==
The Fourteenth is a classic Lyran heavy assault unit. Unlike most of these regiments, the Fourteenth lacks the Lightning Companies common after the [[Fourth Succession War]]. The heavy 'Mechs are supported by lighter, more mobile armor units.<ref name=FMLA79/>

==Composition History==
=== 2786–2821===
'''14th Lyran Guards''' (Regiment/Green/Reliable)<ref name="FSWp139"/>
:CO: Colonel Hoshi DeWitt<ref name="FSWp29"/>
:Note: At this point in time the Fourteenth was an assault-weight regiment and was operating at full strength.<ref name="FSWp139"/> In 2821 the unit was operating at just below half strength.<ref name="FSWp139"/>

=== 2830 ===
'''14th Lyran Guards''' (Regiment/Green/Reliable)<ref name=2SWp99>''Second Succession War'', p. 99</ref>
: Note: At this point in time the heavy-weight unit was stationed on [[Denebola]] with an operational readiness of 106 percent.<ref name=2SWp99/>

=== 2864 ===
'''14th Lyran Guards''' (Regiment/Green/Reliable)<ref name=2SWp99/>
: Note: At this point in time the assault-weight unit was stationed on [[Denebola]] with an operational readiness of 37 percent.<ref name=2SWp99/>

===3025===
'''14th Lyran Guards''' (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=HSp119/>
:*CO: Colonel Dale Barrows
:Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Ford]].

===3040===
'''14th Lyran Guards RCT''' (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=HWo3039p137/>
:Note: At this point in time the command was stationed on [[Ford]].<ref name=HWo3039p137>''Historical: War of 3039'', p. 137</ref>

===3050===
'''14th Lyran Guards RCT ''' (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=20yup27/>
:* CO: Marshal Emily Stevens<ref name=20yup27/>
:Note: At this point in time the command was stationed on [[Ford]].<ref name=20yup27>''20 Year Update'', p. 27</ref>

===3054===
'''14th Lyran guards RCT''' (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=ORp19a/>
:* CO: Marshal Emily Stevens<ref name=ORp19a/>
:Note: At this point in time the command was stationed on [[Ford]].<ref name=ORp19a>''Objective Raids'', p. 19</ref>

===3062===
'''14th Lyran Guards''' (1 [[Regiment]]/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FMLA79/><br>
CO: Leutnant General [[Katinka Porter]]<br>
Aide: Colonel [[Quentin Springall]]<br>

'''14th Lyran Guards Armor [[Brigade]]''' (3 Regiments/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FMLA79/><br>
CO: Colonel [[Imogen Ackerman]]<br>
Aide: Leutnant Colonel [[Luther Steiner-Brewer]]<br>
360th Lyran Armored Cavalry Regiment: Colonel [[Alexii Gosness]]<br>
274th Lyran Armored Cavalry Regiment: Colonel [[Sinclair Chadwick]]<br>
4th [[Ford]] Artillery Group: Colonel [[Maxwell Jafree]]<br>

'''14th Lyran Guards Infantry Brigade''' (5 Regiments/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FMLA79/><br>
CO: Colonel [[Faustine Giron]]<br>
Aide: Leutnant Colonel [[Julious Verma]]<br>
98th Lyran Mechanized Rifles: Colonel [[Somerset Schmidt]]<br>
15th Ford Mechanized Infantry Regiment: Colonel [[Prudence Moikal]]<br>
16th Ford Mechanized Infantry Regiment: Colonel [[Noah Weekes]]<br>
393rd Lyran Heavy Infantry Regiment: Colonel [[Adora Rastern]]<br>
30th Lyran Military Police Regiment: Colonel [[Greville James]]<br>

===3067===
'''14th Lyran Guards RCT''' (Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FMUp177/>
CO: Leutnant General K. Porter

'''14th Lyran Armor Brigade''' (Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FMUp177/>
CO: Colonel Luther Steiner-Brewer

'''14th Lyran Infantry Brigade''' (Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FMUp177/>
CO: Colonel Faustine Giron

===3079===
'''Fourteenth Lyran Guards RCT ''' (Regiment/Veteran/Questionable)<ref name=“frlcaf12“>''Field Report: FWLM'', p. 12</ref>
: Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on [[Zdice]].<ref name=“frlcaf12“/> The unit lost 60% of its forces during the Jihad.<ref name=frla12/>

===3085===
'''14th Lyran Guards LCT''' (Veteran/Questionable)<ref name=FM3085p107/>
CO: Leutnant General Pendragon Botov

'''14th Lyran Armored Brigade''' (Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p107/>
CO: Colonel Chesley Elwyn

'''14th Lyran Infantry Brigade''' (Veteran/Questionable)<ref name=FM3085p107/>
CO: Colonel Shinobu Tar

==Notes==
*The Fourteenth got their nickname from the time when the entire unit was painted in black, red and grey for combat on the dark world of [[Baxter]].  The color scheme is also painted like a regimental patch on the upper arms of the unit's BattleMechs.<ref name=HSLC53>''House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)'', p. 53</ref>

==Reference==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Lyran Alliance]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Report: LAAF]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
* ''[[Historical: War of 3039]]''
* ''[[House Steiner (The Lyran Commonwealth)]]''
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''


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