151st Fusiliers
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| 151st Altairian Fusiliers | |
| Disbanded | 2244 |
| Affiliation | Terran Alliance |
| Parent Command | Alliance Global Militia |
Effectively abandoned following the issue of the Demarcation Declaration at the end of the Outer Reaches Rebellion, the 151st (Altarian) Fusiliers had the misfortune of serving as the Terran Alliance garrison on the world of Lucianca when Hector Rowe's Theban Legion arrived in 2244.[1]
History
Lucianca had been an important staging area for the Terran Alliance military during the Outer Reaches Rebellion, and almost three divisions of regular units had been stationed on the world at the height of the conflict, using Lucianca as a base for raids against neighboring systems. When the Alliance military effort against the rebellious worlds had failed, the regulars had been rotated home and the 151st, a small reserve unit, had been rotated in as the garrison. The Fusiliers were still present on Lucianca partly as a face-saving exercise on the part of the Terran Alliance, but also due to a combination of a lack of transport and a series of administrative errors.[1]
Rowe was a student of classics and history at the University of Thebes on Alexandria in 2237 when he volunteered to join the Third Alexandrian Militia, shortly before two Terran Alliance battalions invaded Alexandria in a campaign that saw three thousand Alexandrians killed.[1][2]
In the wake of the Outer Reaches Rebellion, Rowe had started a political club aimed at protesting against the Terran Alliance, which he described as the "Great Alliance Devil." Rowe's group had become increasingly militant with time, and 7 July 2244 hijacked a flotilla of JumpShips belong to the Skye Freight and Goods company, forcing the JumpShip crews to carry Rowe and his followers away. Rowe's target was the 151st, having learned that the Alliance unit was still in place on Lucianca; his followers, dubbed the Theban Legion and numbering approximately five hundred, had been recruited through Rowe's rallying call to cleanse the Outer Reaches of what he described as "the last vestiges of Alliance barbarism."[1][3]
Disguised as a relief convoy, Rowe and his fellow guerrillas infiltrated the Fusiliers and captured the unit. Having already executed the garrison commander and his executive officer of the 151st personally, Rowe then staged a series of mock trials involving the surviving three hundred and fifty members of the Fusiliers; Rowe's kangaroo courts invariably sentenced each Terran Alliance soldier to execution by torture, sentences that Rowe was busy enacting when the crew of one of the hijacked Skye vessels managed to escape with their ship.[1][4]
Certain that the escapees would spread word of his actions, Rowe blackmailed the remaining JumpShip crews into carrying them away, but not before the remaining members of the 151st had been butchered and their equipment appropriated by Rowe and his followers. The last of the Fusiliers burned at the stake before Rowe and the Theban Legion departed.[1]
Officers
| Rank | Name | Command | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commanding Officers of the 151st Fusiliers | |||
Tactics
Unknown.
Composition History
2236
Unknown.