205th Heavy Assault Regiment

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205th Heavy Assault Regiment
Disbanded 2781[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XLVIII Corps

The 205th Heavy Assault Regiment was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned as part of XLVIII Corps, Seventeenth Army to the Periphery Military Region.[2] The 205th was part of Task Force Aegis, a brigade that garrisoned the XLVIII Corps headquarters and reinforced other units in crisis.[3] The 205th continued to serve in the Periphery throughout the Periphery Uprising and later the Hegemony Campaign.[2]

The 205th had the distinction of being the first SLDF unit to be recruited by the Lyran Commonwealth, joining the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces as the Seventeenth Arcturan Guards in 2781.[1]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 205th Heavy Assault Regiment

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

As an SLDF Heavy Assault regiment, the 205th would have been primarily composed of three companies of heavy to assault BattleMechs with a fourth company of attached artillery.[4]

References[edit]

  1. a b First Succession War, p. 33: "Those Left Behind (Continued)"
  2. a b The Star League, p. 155: "Seventeenth Army"
  3. Field Manual: SLDF, p. 204: "XLVIII - Independent Regiments"
  4. The Star League, p. 133: "Regiments - Heavy Assault"

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