Editing 27th Avalon Hussars
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
The edit can be undone.
Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision
Your text
Line 15:
Line 15: Originally formed during the [[Age of War]], during the twenty-sixth century the '''Twenty-seventh Avalon Hussars''' - nicknamed "The Fighting Irish" - became the best urban combat unit in the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]].<ref name="FR:FS2765p9">''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 9: "Avalon Hussars"</ref> Originally formed during the [[Age of War]], during the twenty-sixth century the '''Twenty-seventh Avalon Hussars''' - nicknamed "The Fighting Irish" - became the best urban combat unit in the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]].<ref name="FR:FS2765p9">''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 9: "Avalon Hussars"</ref> {{ApocryphalContentStart}} {{ApocryphalContentStart}} − According to the [[apocryphal]] German-only novel ''[[Royal Flush]]'' the 27th Avalon Hussars were sent to garrison [[McGehee]] in [[2602]]. They arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the world was in the process of seceding from the Federated Suns. The newly arrived garrison troops were not expected, as military bureaucracy had apparently failed to notify the planet of their redeployment, and they were welcomed rather coldly. Shortly afterwards, the [[Draconis Combine]] launched a surprise invasion to occupy the "independent" world. During the attack a [[DropShip]] carrying ammunition crashed into the garrison base, decimating the 27th Avalon Hussars regiment to a handful of survivors and a single operational DropShip. The survivors joined forces with the local militia to resist the attackers with guerrilla warfare and before long managed to send their DropShip out to retake their [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Shangri-La]]'', and use it as a courier vessel to notify the Federated Suns of the attack ([[hyperpulse generator]]s having not been invented yet). + According to the [[apocryphal]] German-only novel ''[[Royal Flush]]'' the 27th Avalon Hussars were sent to garrison [[McGehee]] in [[2602]]. They arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the world was in the process of seceding from the Federated Suns. The newly arrived garrison troops were not expected, as military bureaucracy had apparently failed to notify the planet of their redeployment, and they were welcomed rather coldly. Shortly afterwards, the [[Draconis Combine]] launched a surprise invasion to occupy the "independent" world. During the attack a [[DropShip]] carrying ammunition crashed into the garrison base, decimating the 27th Avalon Hussars regiment to a handful of survivors and a single operational DropShip. The survivors joined forces with the local militia to resist the attackers with guerrilla warfare and before long managed to send their DropShip out to retake their [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Shangri-La]]'', and use it as a courier vessel to notify the Federated Suns of the attack ([[Hyperpulse Generator]]s having not been invented yet). {{ApocryphalContentEnd}} {{ApocryphalContentEnd}} The Twenty-seventh was one of many [[regiment]]s within the [[Avalon Hussars]] to be deactivated following the issue of the [[Council Edict of 2650]] by the [[Star League]] Council, which limited the size of the military each [[Great House]] was allowed to field, but following the repeal of the Edict in the mid twenty-eighth century the Twenty-seventh was reactivated as the AFFS underwent a major expansion.<ref name="FR:FS2765p9"/> The Twenty-seventh was one of many [[regiment]]s within the [[Avalon Hussars]] to be deactivated following the issue of the [[Council Edict of 2650]] by the [[Star League]] Council, which limited the size of the military each [[Great House]] was allowed to field, but following the repeal of the Edict in the mid twenty-eighth century the Twenty-seventh was reactivated as the AFFS underwent a major expansion.<ref name="FR:FS2765p9"/>
The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
| Latest revision | Your text | ||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
Originally formed during the [[Age of War]], during the twenty-sixth century the '''Twenty-seventh Avalon Hussars''' - nicknamed "The Fighting Irish" - became the best urban combat unit in the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]].<ref name="FR:FS2765p9">''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 9: "Avalon Hussars"</ref> | Originally formed during the [[Age of War]], during the twenty-sixth century the '''Twenty-seventh Avalon Hussars''' - nicknamed "The Fighting Irish" - became the best urban combat unit in the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]].<ref name="FR:FS2765p9">''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 9: "Avalon Hussars"</ref> | ||
{{ApocryphalContentStart}} | {{ApocryphalContentStart}} | ||
| − | According to the [[apocryphal]] German-only novel ''[[Royal Flush]]'' the 27th Avalon Hussars were sent to garrison [[McGehee]] in [[2602]]. They arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the world was in the process of seceding from the Federated Suns. The newly arrived garrison troops were not expected, as military bureaucracy had apparently failed to notify the planet of their redeployment, and they were welcomed rather coldly. Shortly afterwards, the [[Draconis Combine]] launched a surprise invasion to occupy the "independent" world. During the attack a [[DropShip]] carrying ammunition crashed into the garrison base, decimating the 27th Avalon Hussars regiment to a handful of survivors and a single operational DropShip. The survivors joined forces with the local militia to resist the attackers with guerrilla warfare and before long managed to send their DropShip out to retake their [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Shangri-La]]'', and use it as a courier vessel to notify the Federated Suns of the attack ([[ | + | According to the [[apocryphal]] German-only novel ''[[Royal Flush]]'' the 27th Avalon Hussars were sent to garrison [[McGehee]] in [[2602]]. They arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the world was in the process of seceding from the Federated Suns. The newly arrived garrison troops were not expected, as military bureaucracy had apparently failed to notify the planet of their redeployment, and they were welcomed rather coldly. Shortly afterwards, the [[Draconis Combine]] launched a surprise invasion to occupy the "independent" world. During the attack a [[DropShip]] carrying ammunition crashed into the garrison base, decimating the 27th Avalon Hussars regiment to a handful of survivors and a single operational DropShip. The survivors joined forces with the local militia to resist the attackers with guerrilla warfare and before long managed to send their DropShip out to retake their [[JumpShip]], the ''[[Shangri-La]]'', and use it as a courier vessel to notify the Federated Suns of the attack ([[Hyperpulse Generator]]s having not been invented yet). |
{{ApocryphalContentEnd}} | {{ApocryphalContentEnd}} | ||
The Twenty-seventh was one of many [[regiment]]s within the [[Avalon Hussars]] to be deactivated following the issue of the [[Council Edict of 2650]] by the [[Star League]] Council, which limited the size of the military each [[Great House]] was allowed to field, but following the repeal of the Edict in the mid twenty-eighth century the Twenty-seventh was reactivated as the AFFS underwent a major expansion.<ref name="FR:FS2765p9"/> | The Twenty-seventh was one of many [[regiment]]s within the [[Avalon Hussars]] to be deactivated following the issue of the [[Council Edict of 2650]] by the [[Star League]] Council, which limited the size of the military each [[Great House]] was allowed to field, but following the repeal of the Edict in the mid twenty-eighth century the Twenty-seventh was reactivated as the AFFS underwent a major expansion.<ref name="FR:FS2765p9"/> | ||