7th Hell's Brigade

Seventh Hell's Brigade
Formed ca. 3038[1]
Disbanded 4 April 3050[2][3]
Affiliation Mercenary
Parent Command Independent

The Seventh Hell's Brigade was a mercenary unit known to be active in the years immediately prior to the Clan Invasion.[4]

History[edit]

The Seventh Hell's Brigade were one of a number of smaller mercenaries who were paradoxically employed by the Draconis Combine in the 3040's despite Coordinator Takashi Kurita's infamous "Death to Mercenaries" edict. Even with the Combine's public "anti-mercenary" stance, the Coordinator's son and Gunji-no-Kanrei Theodore Kurita held more pragmatic views. Making use of contracts subsidized by ComStar as part of Operation ROSEBUD and secretly routed through Matabushi Incorporated to mask them from the Coordinator and his hardliner supporters, small units of "independent contractors" like the Seventh Hell's Brigade were employed for minor missions such as pirate hunting or garrison duty on interior worlds which would unwittingly place them right in the path of the attacking Clan invaders.[4]

As of April 3050 the Seventh Hell's Brigade were stationed on Virentofta when the world was attacked by forces of Clan Smoke Jaguar. The mercenaries were actually in the midst of evacuating the planet when two units of the 225th Jaguar Battle Cluster, Trinary Assault and Alpha Elemental Star, landed right on top of them. For several hours a desperate and uneven fight played out in the open fields surrounding Port Shianty until a pair of Elemental Points seized control of the Brigade's DropShips. A final ill-fated attempt was made by the Brigade to recapture their only hope of escape, resulting in most of the unit destroyed.[3]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 7th Hell's Brigade
Colonel John Lucifer ca. 3038 - 3050[1]

Other Officers[edit]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

3050[edit]

7th Hell's Brigade[3]

A 'Mech Company, Charon Company[1]
B 'Mech Company, Lethe Company[1]
Infantry Battalion
Transport Division, Omega, Hades, Bianca's Lament[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Longest Day (novella), ch. 1
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Longest Day (novella)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Invading Clans, p. 64
  4. 4.0 4.1 Shrapnel Issue 12: "Death to Mercenaries: Rhetoric vs. Reality"

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