XII Corps (Star League)
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| XII Corps | |
| Affiliation | Star League |
| Parent Command | Ninth Army |
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Unit Description[edit]
XII Corps (or the Twelfth Corps) was one of the seventy-two Corps that made up the Star League Defense Force. Prior to the collapse of the Star League it consisted of 4 divisions and 6 independent regiments.[1]
History[edit]
In 2764 XII Corps was part of the 9th Army, assigned to District 2 of the Free Worlds League Military Region. They were largely based in the Abbey District. In fact the Twelfth Corps was the only military force of note in the area, which left the defense of many systems up to their component units. The soldiers of the Twelfth took this responsibility seriously. They patrolled the Free Worlds League/Lyran Commonwealth border as well as the Free Worlds League/Rim Worlds Republic border. They sent several recon missions into Rim Worlds Republic space, and found that the Republic units they met were overstrength. The SLDF High Command didn't view this as cause for concern however.[2]
Unlike other SLDF units in the Free Worlds League, the Twelfth Corps enjoyed a good working relationship with the population. In fact local military contractors would supply the Twelfth's units before they would supply FWLM units.[2]
When the simmering violence and rebellion building in the Periphery erupted with the New Vandenberg Uprising and subsequent Periphery-wide uprising in 2765 XII Corps was deployed into the Periphery Military Region along with the rest of the 9th Army.[1]
The resulting combat and terrorist actions within the Periphery Military Region inflicted relatively light damage on XII Corps compared to other Corps within the 9th Army; two of the Corps' independent regiments were lost, but the bulk of the Corps survived intact. XII Corps went on to fight in the Hegemony Campaign which inflicted greater damage on the Corps than the Periphery Uprising; the 32nd Infantry Division was lost, along with another independent regiment, the 22nd Light Horse.[1]
When General Aleksandr Kerensky led the bulk of the SLDF on the Exodus the majority of XII Corps followed him; the 52nd Heavy Assault Regiment chose to stay in the Inner Sphere, joining the Draconis Combine.[1]
The final fate of the 151st Royal (Ulysses S. Grant Division) was seemingly deliberately obfuscated until the Schism of ComStar and the unsealing of records; there is no record of the Division having been lost or disbanded during the Periphery Uprising, nor were there records of it joining in the Hegemony Campaign, or of it having left on the Exodus.[1] Their commanding officer, Lauren Hayes, was a staunch critic of EXODUS plan saying it was abandoning the ideals of the Star League. Due to this, Aleksandr Kerensky made a compromise with Jerome Blake that the 151st would become the military arm of ComStar.[1][3][4] Despite the fate of the 151st being regarded as unknown for several centuries after the fall of the Star League,[1] subsequent publications released in the thirty-first and thirty-second centuries revealed that the 151st almost certainly formed the basis of the "mercenaries" used to create the First ComStar Expeditionary Division in 2784.[5] Following Operation SILVER SHIELD in June 2788, in which ComStar's Expeditionary Divisions seized control of Terra, the vast majority of the Expeditionary Divisions were demobilized and their equipment cached for the future, forming the basis of the later Com Guards.[6]
Officers[edit]
| Rank | Name | Command | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commanding Officers of the XII Corps (Star League) | |||
| Major General | Sonoka Komatsuzaki | 2764[7] | |
Tactics[edit]
Unknown.
Composition History[edit]
2764[edit]
- Divisions
- Independent Regiments
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The Star League, p. 142, "Ninth"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 118
- ↑ ComStar (sourcebook), p. 013
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 17-18 "Lauren Hayes profile"
- ↑ First Succession War, p. 34, "Those Left Behind (Continued)"
- ↑ Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2, p. 117, "ComStar and the Com Guard"
- ↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. 117
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 119