Editing 1st Canopian Fusiliers

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| Designation    = First Canopian Fusiliers
| formed         = pre-[[2577]]
| Disbanded      = [[2584]]/[[2588]],<br />re-formed ca. [[2765]]
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = Defenders of the Realm
| Affiliation    = Magistracy of Canopus
| Parent Command = [[Canopian Fusiliers]]
| Sub-Command    = 
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The '''First Canopian Fusiliers''' were formed shortly before the outbreak of the [[Reunification War]]. Though administratively they were a regiment-sized unit, in actual practice they were split into battalion sized units stationed along the [[Free Worlds League]]/[[Magistracy of Canopus]] border.<ref name=FMP36/>

==History==
===Reunification War===
While facing the [[SLDF]] and Free Worlds League forces, the Fusiliers were often heavily outnumbered and outgunned. Despite this the Fusiliers were able to slow the invading troops and tie them down on Magistracy worlds. This allowed the [[Chasseurs á Cheval]] and Light Horse regiments to strike at the SLDF's flanks, destroying or capturing troops, supplies, and other logistical points. Unfortunately these hit and run attacks required the Fusiliers to face the SLDF directly, which led to heavy losses.<ref name=FMP36/>

====Butzfleth====
[[Butzfleth]] was an early target in the initial [[Star League Defense Force]] campaign against the Magistracy. Tasked with capturing Butzfleth was the [[Sixtieth Brigade]], one of three brigades that made up the [[Star League Defense Force]] [[Twentieth Mechanized Infantry Division|Twentieth Division]], supported by two SLDF Independent Regiments, the [[402nd Independent Regiment|402nd]] and [[403rd Independent Regiment|403rd]]. The defenders on Butzfleth consisted of a skeleton garrison drawn from the Third Battalion of the First Canopian Fusiliers, who were overwhelmed by the Sixtieth Brigade in a campaign that took just two days, ending on Halloween of [[2577]].<ref name="H:RWp94">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 94: "Reunification War: Magistracy of Canopus Front Deployments (2577)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp98">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 98: "Butzfleth and Vakarel (October-November 2577)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp148">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 148: "Magistracy of Canopus Front (Jump-Off - 2582)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp150">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 150: "Magistracy of Canopus Front (Jump-Off - 2582)"</ref>

====Aspropirgos====
The [[Star League Defense Force]] task force commanded by [[Captain-General]] [[Marion Marik]] launched their attack on [[Aspropirgos]] in September [[2580]] and while the planetary invasion force was smaller than those used during [[2578]] and [[2579]], it still consisted of a complete [[SLDF]] [[brigade]] - the [[Fifty-eighth Brigade|Fifty-eighth]] - supported by the [[Third Marik Militia]] and the [[Second Fusiliers of Oriente|Second Brigade]] of the [[Fusiliers of Oriente]]. Defending Aspropirgos were the First Canopian Fusiliers and the [[Second Canopian Grenadiers]], who managed to contest the invasion, stinging the SLDF forces and then retreating before the SLDF could mount an effective pursuit, preserving their strength as part of a general refit and rearmament campaign both sides were conducting.<ref name="H:RWp101">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 101: "Gallis, Aspropirgos, Fanardir and Borgan's Rift (January 2580-October 2581)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp148"/>

====Leyda====
[[Leyda]] was a [[Capellan Confederation]] world during the Reunification War, and was used as a staging area and supply world by the SLDF task force; as part of a campaign to force the SLDF to divert resources to garrisons and supply worlds, the MAF raided a number of worlds outside the border of the [[Magistracy of Canopus]]. While the First Fusiliers had primarily been a defensive unit up to the war and during the opening years of the campaign, they were tasked with raiding Leyda in [[2581]]. The raid was a success, and Leyda was the farthest spinward world to be raided by the MAF; the range and breadth of the raids conducted by the MAF helped tie up SLDF resources and bought the Magistracy valuable time.<ref name="H:RWp101"/><ref name="H:RWp150"/>

====Canopus====
The First Fusiliers were one of six MAF [[BattleMech]] regiments that fought to defend [[Canopus IV]] when the SLDF invaded the Canopian capital world in [[2584]]. The battle for Canopus IV lasted four weeks, with the Canopian units resisting fiercely and both taking and inflicting heavy losses, despite being outnumbered more than three to one. By early May, all of the defending units had been destroyed or captured, and the [[Magestrix]] had surrendered - although she had refused to order the surrender of the Magistracy worlds still unconquered.<ref name="H:RWp103">''Historical: Reunification war'', p. 103-105: "Canopus (March-April 2584)</ref>

====Hardcore====
Although the First Fusiliers were one of the regiments listed among the defenders of Canopus IV in 2584, some records indicate that a battalion of the First Fusiliers either survived the Canopus campaign and managed to retreat to the world of [[Hardcore]], or - and more likely, given the previous deployment of the First Fusiliers as battalion elements across multiple worlds rather than as a complete regiment - had been stationed on [[Hardcore]] while the other two battalions of the First had been assigned to Canopus.<ref name=FMP36/> While the SLDF records indicate that Hardcore was invaded in [[2588]] by the [[Fifty-sixth Brigade|Fifty-sixth]] and [[Fifty-ninth Brigade|Fifty-ninth Brigades]] and the [[401st Independent Regiment]] and that local forces put up a token resistance before surrendering,<ref name="H:RWp105">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 105: "Mopping Up (2584-2588)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp149">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 149: "Magistracy of Canopus Front (2583-2588)"</ref> other sources indicate that a battalion of the First Fusiliers were butchered during the defense of the world.<ref name=FMP36/>

===Star League Era/Succession Wars===
The Canopian Fusiliers were rebuilt before the [[Amaris Civil War]], and the [[Magestrix Command Center]] quickly began to rely on the First and its sister units. In 2765 they were based on [[Luxani]], using the terraformed world as a base of operations to destroy pirates in the area.<ref>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 15</ref> The workhorses of the MAF, the First fought on more worlds than any other MAF unit. Prior to the [[Jihad]] their last major combat deployment found them attacking [[Marian Hegemony]] troops on [[Astrokaszy]] in [[3028]] to discourage Marian adventurism.<ref name=FMP36/>

===Thirty-first Century===
In [[3064]] the First Canopian Fusiliers rotated back to the Magistracy from their assignment in the [[Capellan Confederation]]. Taking up station on [[Bethonolog]], the First desperately wanted to fight with the [[Sixth Oriente Hussars]], who were stationed just over the border on [[Eleusis]]. To probe the [[FWL]] unit's defenses, the First Fusiliers masqueraded as pirates and smugglers and conducted several raids in [[3067]].<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 191: "1st Canopian Fusiliers"</ref>

They fought the [[Word of Blake]], eventually driving the Blakists off-world.<ref name=frp10>''Field Report: Periphery'', p. 10</ref>

===Jihad===
During the [[Jihad]] the First Fusiliers were stationed on [[Bethonolog]] along the [[Free Worlds League]] border. Although they didn't participate much in the Jihad, the unit did hit [[Gallis]] and inflicted casualties on the [[Word of Blake]] forces there. After the Free Worlds League disbanded, the First was ordered to redeploy.<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 138</ref> Broken down in to smaller units on [[Dainmar Majoris]], [[Dunianshire]], and [[Addasar]], the First Fusiliers faced off against several different pirate groups. However, unlike their time on the Free Worlds League border, the First hasn't raided into the [[Fronc Reaches]]. Instead they're content to engage any pirate forces that arrive near their duty stations.<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 139</ref>

===Dark Age===
After the Jihad ended, the First spent most of its time garrisoning the far rimward border of the Magistracy. The resulting decades of inactivity resulted in the unit losing a great deal of its experience. There was some discussion of disbanding the unit, but the unit was assigned to garrison [[Deschenes]] (a world absorbed by the [[Duchy of Andurien]]) as a favor to Magestrix Ilsa's husband.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 192</ref>

In the [[Victoria War]] the First invaded [[Zanzibar]] along with the [[Second Canopian Cuirassiers]]. They fought the [[Sirdar CMM]] for several weeks, but eventually forced the [[AFFS]] unit to withdraw.<ref>''Historical: Wars of the Republic Era'', p. 58</ref>

==Officers==
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the First Canopian Fusiliers'''
|-
| [[Major]]||[[Sandra Aupriz]]||[[3025]]<ref name=TPp99>''The Periphery (1988)'', p. 99: "MAF Deployment Table - 3025"</ref>
|-
| [[Colonel]]||Sandra Aupriz||[[3050]] - [[3054]]<ref name=20Yp78>''20 Year Update'', p. 78: "MAF Deployment Table - 3050"</ref><ref name=ORp47>''Objective Raids'', p. 47: "MAF Deployment Table - 3054"</ref>
|-
| Colonel||[[Darlene McKinnon]]||[[3064]] - [[3067]]<ref name=FMP36>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 36: "1st Canopian Fusiliers Unit Profile"</ref><ref name=FMU201>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 201: "MAF Deployment Table - 3067"</ref>
|-
| Colonel||[[Robert Clark]]||[[3085]]<ref name=FM3085p149>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 149: "MAF Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
|-
| Colonel||[[Viviana Aranda]]||[[3145]]<ref name=FM:3145p200>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 200: "Canopian Fusiliers"</ref>
|-
|}

==Tactics==
Specialists in small-unit actions, the regiment tends split in nine smaller commands of around company size and defeat the enemy through harassment.<ref name=FMP36/>

==Composition History==

===2765===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FR:2765Pp15>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 15: "Canopian Fusiliers - Regimental Status"</ref>
:- At this time the First Fusiliers was stationed on [[Luxani]].<ref name=FR:2765Pp15/>

=== 2786 - 2821===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers ''' (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=1SWp140>''First Succession War'', p. 140</ref>
: Note: At this time the medium-weight unit was stationed on [[Luxani]]. In 2821 the command was reduced to 49 percent of its strength and was deployed on [[Luxani]].<ref name=1SWp140/>

=== 2830 ===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (Regiment/Regular/Fanatical)<ref name=2SWp100>''Second Succession War'', p. 100</ref>
: Note: At this time the medium-weight unit was stationed on [[Luxani]] with an operational readiness of 115 percent.<ref name=2SWp100/>

=== 2864 ===	
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (Regiment/Regular/Fanatical)<ref name=2SWp100/>
: Note: At this time the heavy-weight unit was stationed on [[Luxani]] with an operational readiness of 56 percent.<ref name=2SWp100/>

===3025===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=TPp99/>
* CO: Major [[Sandra Aupriz]]

=== 3028 ===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers'''(Regiment/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=HBSp87/>
:Note: At this time the command was stationed on [[Lindermarle]].<ref name=HBSp87>''Historical: Brush Wars'', p.87</ref>

===3050-3054===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=20Yp78/><ref name=ORp47/>
* CO: Colonel Sandra Aupriz

===3064===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (1 [[Regiment]]/Elite/Reliable)<ref name=FMP36/>
* CO: Colonel Darlene McKinnon
:* XO/First [[Battalion]]: [[Force Major]] Robert Clark 
* Second Battalion: Major Leon Sanchez
* Third Battalion: Major Marie Robson

'''First Fusiliers Armor Guard''' (1 Battalion/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FMP36/>
* Armor Commander: Major Mathew Prince  

'''First Fusiliers Horse Infantry Guard''' (2 [[Company|Companies]]/Regular/Fanatical)<ref name=FMP36/>
* Infantry Commander: Major Feng Lin

===3067===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (2 Battalions/Regular/Fan)<ref name=FMU201/>
* CO: Colonel Darlene McKinnon

'''First Fusiliers Armor Guard''' (2 Battalions/Green/Reliable)<ref name=FMU201/>
* Armor Commander: Major Mathew Prince

'''First Fusiliers Infantry Guard''' (1 Battalion/Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FMU201/>
* Infantry Commander: Major Feng Lin

===3079===
The '''First Canopian Fusiliers''' were at 80% of their pre-[[Jihad]] strength.<ref name=frp10/>

===3085===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (Elite/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p149/>
* CO: Colonel Robert Clark
 
'''First Fusiliers Armor Guard''' (Elite/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p149/> 
* CO: Colonel Mathew Prince 

'''First Fusiliers Infantry Guard''' (Veteran/Fanatical)<ref name=FM3085p149/>
* CO: Colonel Feng Lin

===3145===
'''First Canopian Fusiliers''' (Regular/Questionable)<ref name=FM:3145p200/>
* CO: Colonel [[Viviana Aranda]]

'''First Fusiliers Armor Guard''' (Regular/Questionable)<ref name=FM:3145p200/>
* CO: Colonel [[Garnet Utley]]

'''First Fusiliers Infantry Guard''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FM:3145p200/>
* CO: Colonel [[Nichol Yoder]]

==Rules==
<div class="gamerules">
===3064===
* The Canopian Fusiliers are drawn from the MAF's best troops; when generating random [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] skills, the player may roll on the Veteran column of the Random Skills Table within the [[BattleTech Master Rules]].<ref name="FM:Pp151">''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 151: "Canopian Fusiliers"</ref>
* The First Canopian Fusiliers receive a +1 Initiative Bonus when they field 12 units or less in a scenario.<ref name="FM:Pp151"/>
* The First Canopian Fusiliers receive a −2 Initiative Penalty when they field 13 units or more in a scenario.<ref name="FM:Pp151"/>
</div>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[20 Year Update]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Periphery]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: Periphery]]''
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''	
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[Historical: Wars of the Republic Era]]''
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
* ''[[The Periphery (1988)]]''
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''


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