The Battle Corps Legion
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Overview
The Battle Corps (also occasionally referred to as The BattleCorps, The Battle Corps Legion or The BattleCorps Regiment) is a combined arms mercenary unit with a reputation for high standards, honesty, and compassion. They are renowned for their "civilians first" doctrine.
Canonicity
The unit, as well as some of its background history and exploits, is canon by virtue of its appearance and write-ups in several canonical sources (see Bibliography section below).
The Battle Corps is the canonized version of the BattleCorps Regiment, a mercenary group developed as an ongoing, online fan project by subscribers to the BattleCorps website. Although moderated by BattleCorps site admins and BattleTech author Joel Bancroft-Connors, the rich and colorful writing about the BattleCorps Regiment by various contributors in the BattleCorps forum is not considered canonical. However, given that the unit and most of its history were carried over into proper canon, the remaining information can arguably be regarded as apocryphal.
History
The unit was raised on Outreach in early 3065 by Joey Nichole. It was constructed from disparate elements hailing from all corners of settled space, even including expelled Clansmen. Nichole is said to have family ties to ComStar, Word of Blake, and Smithson's Chinese Bandits.
Having suffered a run of bad luck on Kansu in 3067,[1] the Corps earned the emnity of the Blakists early in their career through a contract dispute with the Word-backed employer Australis Ales on Alula Australis. The unit had suffered significant losses against pirates and mercenaries by 3070. In that year the Battle Corps was contacted by the AMC and subsequently joined their ranks.[2] The second battalion of the Legion was then almost wiped out on Liberty by the Opacus Venatori.[1]
As Operation SCOUR began the Legion was one of a number of units selected to serve as a part of the mobile command tasked directly by General Belle Lee, rather than being specifically tied to a particular task force. General Lee assigned the Legion to a reconnaisance mission on Yangtze ahead of the planned Federated Suns front attack on the world, only for the Legion to be in trouble from the very start. Within half an hour of landing on Yangtze the Legion's Alpha Battalion had lost a complete company, with the remaining ground forces going to ground shortly after having taken heavy casualties. The CO of Alpha Battalion ordered the Legion's transport ships to lift off immediately, and the information obtained by those ships that survived was used by Field Marshal Katheryn Sandoval-Ito when she planned the follow-up attack on Yangtze. The level of defenses reported by the Legion saw Sandoval-Ito task all three Fox-class WarShips available to the task force to the attack on Yangtze. The few survivors of the Battle Corps recovered from Yangtze provided enough intelligence for Group I to outflank the Blakist defenders on the ground and to hit the strongest areas of resistance with targeted strikes from orbit.[1]
As part of the Coalition forces on New Home, The Battle Corps fought against the 43rd, 45th, and 47th Shadow Divisions.[3] Though successful in destroying the Blakist units,[4] the fight cost the Battle Corps dearly: only 30% of the unit managed to survive the conflict.[3]
After the Jihad the Battle Corps sought work amidst the remains of the dissolved Free Worlds League. With a choice of at least half a dozen offers to draw from, Battle Corps accepted a contract from the world of Al Jubaylah to defend the world against aggression from their large neighbour, the Principality of Regulus. The contract between Battle Corps and the Mullahs of Al Jubaylah formed part of a report by INN journalist Rachel Francis on the thriving market for mercenaries growing amidst the remnants of the League.[5]
Organization and equipment
Dragoon Ratings
3071
Dragoon Rating: D[citation needed]
Composition
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Other Information
There is another fan project that was canonized as a mercenary unit - the Chaos Irregulars. They became a regular military unit for the Rim Commonality following the Jihad, however, ending their mercenary career.
References
Bibliography
- Jihad: Final Reckoning
- Jihad Hot Spots: Terra
- Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
- Mercenaries Supplemental Update
- BattleCorps Regiment section of the BattleCorps website's forum (apocryphal)
- Introductory thread for the Battle Corps in the BattleCorps Regiment section