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In May [[2787]] the Draconis Combine launched a massive invasion of the Federated Suns. The invasion was so swift and targeted communications and [[JumpShip]]s so effectively that many border systems didn't have a chance to transmit warnings or alerts, leading to widespread confusion on the part of the AFFS. Three days after the initial attacks another large wave of attacks was launched by the DCMS, based around two salients; one, under the overall command of [[Coordinator]] [[Minoru Kurita (28th c.)|Minoru Kurita]], struck into the Clovis Combat Region, beginning with invasions of [[Cartago]], [[Clovis]] and [[Olancha]]. Leading the assault on Clovis was the Coordinator himself at the head of the Third Sword of Light.<ref name="FSWp38">''First Succession War'', pp. 38–39: "The Battle for Clovis"</ref>
 
In May [[2787]] the Draconis Combine launched a massive invasion of the Federated Suns. The invasion was so swift and targeted communications and [[JumpShip]]s so effectively that many border systems didn't have a chance to transmit warnings or alerts, leading to widespread confusion on the part of the AFFS. Three days after the initial attacks another large wave of attacks was launched by the DCMS, based around two salients; one, under the overall command of [[Coordinator]] [[Minoru Kurita (28th c.)|Minoru Kurita]], struck into the Clovis Combat Region, beginning with invasions of [[Cartago]], [[Clovis]] and [[Olancha]]. Leading the assault on Clovis was the Coordinator himself at the head of the Third Sword of Light.<ref name="FSWp38">''First Succession War'', pp. 38–39: "The Battle for Clovis"</ref>
  
Clovis was the location of the headquarters of the Clovis Combat Region within the [[Draconis March]], and the Commanding Officer of the Region, [[Field Marshal]] [[Grover Simons]], was on Clovis when the Combine invasion forces arrived in-system. In addition to the Third Sword of Light, Minoru had brought two other BattleMech regiments - the [[Third Pesht Regulars]] and [[Ninth Dieron Regulars]] - eighteen assorted regiments of armor and infantry and enough aerospace fighters to ensure aerospace superiority, along with a substantial [[WarShip]] flotilla from the [[3rd Fleet (Draconis Combine)|Third Fleet]]. Although the WarShips took no part in the ground campaign, the WarShip flotilla - consisting of two ''[[Samarkand Block II (WarShip class)|Samarkands]]'', an ''[[Aegis]]'' and four ''[[Narukami (WarShip class)|Narukamis]]'' - battled the Federated Suns naval picket in the system, destroying the ''[[New Syrtis (WarShip class)|New Syrtis]]''-class carrier [[Midale (Individual New Syrtis-class WarShip)|FSS ''Midale'']] and the ''[[Davion (WarShip)|Davion]]''-class destroyer [[Reynard Davion (Individual Davion-class WarShip)|FSS ''Reynard Davion'']].<ref name="FSWp38"/>
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Clovis was the location of the headquarters of the Clovis Combat Region within the [[Draconis March]], and the Commanding Officer of the Region, [[Field Marshal]] [[Grover Simons]], was on Clovis when the Combine invasion forces arrived in-system. In addition to the Third Sword of Light, Minoru had brought two other BattleMech regiments - the [[Third Pesht Regulars]] and [[Ninth Dieron Regulars]] - eighteen assorted regiments of armor and infantry and enough aerospace fighters to ensure aerospace superiority, along with a substantial [[WarShip]] flotilla from the [[3rd Fleet (DCA)|Third Fleet]]. Although the WarShips took no part in the ground campaign, the WarShip flotilla - consisting of two ''[[Samarkand Block II (WarShip class)|Samarkands]]'', an ''[[Aegis]]'' and four ''[[Narukami (WarShip class)|Narukamis]]'' - battled the Federated Suns naval picket in the system, destroying the ''[[New Syrtis (WarShip class)|New Syrtis]]''-class carrier [[Midale (Individual New Syrtis-class WarShip)|FSS ''Midale'']] and the ''[[Davion (WarShip)|Davion]]''-class destroyer [[Reynard Davion (Individual Davion-class WarShip)|FSS ''Reynard Davion'']].<ref name="FSWp38"/>
  
 
On the ground, Field Marshal Simons used the time bought by the naval picket to have the [[First Clovis Guards]] and the three conventional regiments available to him dig into defensive positions around Gorst City, the planetary capital; the [[DCMS]] believed that Simons had three 'Mech regiments available to him, not one, and the ferocious defense put up by the defenders stymied the Third Sword of Light and other DCMS forces for the first week, while Simons called for reinforcements. Due to the pace of the invasion every unit that could have answered had either been destroyed or was desperately fighting to survive, but a small part of reinforcements from [[Xhosa VII]] did manage to make it to Clovis aboard the ''[[Robinson (WarShip class)|Robinson]]''-class carrier [[New Ivaarsen (Individual Robinson-class WarShip)|FSS ''New Ivaarsen'']], arriving five days into the second week of battles. This was too late to save Clovis, but Field Marshal Simons attempted to have his surviving forces form an orderly retreat from Clovis, to save what he could. Unfortunately for Simons, his ''[[Leopard]]''-class [[DropShip]], the last to leave the surface of Clovis, was destroyed ten kilometers above the surface when it attempted to fight rather than surrender; with Simons' death, defense in the Clovis Combat Region collapsed, and by the end of May the DCMS had conquered most of the Clovis Combat Region, half of each of the Dahar and Robinson Combat Regions and a chunk of the Fairfax Combat Region.<ref name="FSWp38"/>
 
On the ground, Field Marshal Simons used the time bought by the naval picket to have the [[First Clovis Guards]] and the three conventional regiments available to him dig into defensive positions around Gorst City, the planetary capital; the [[DCMS]] believed that Simons had three 'Mech regiments available to him, not one, and the ferocious defense put up by the defenders stymied the Third Sword of Light and other DCMS forces for the first week, while Simons called for reinforcements. Due to the pace of the invasion every unit that could have answered had either been destroyed or was desperately fighting to survive, but a small part of reinforcements from [[Xhosa VII]] did manage to make it to Clovis aboard the ''[[Robinson (WarShip class)|Robinson]]''-class carrier [[New Ivaarsen (Individual Robinson-class WarShip)|FSS ''New Ivaarsen'']], arriving five days into the second week of battles. This was too late to save Clovis, but Field Marshal Simons attempted to have his surviving forces form an orderly retreat from Clovis, to save what he could. Unfortunately for Simons, his ''[[Leopard]]''-class [[DropShip]], the last to leave the surface of Clovis, was destroyed ten kilometers above the surface when it attempted to fight rather than surrender; with Simons' death, defense in the Clovis Combat Region collapsed, and by the end of May the DCMS had conquered most of the Clovis Combat Region, half of each of the Dahar and Robinson Combat Regions and a chunk of the Fairfax Combat Region.<ref name="FSWp38"/>
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===Second Combine-Dominion War===
 
===Second Combine-Dominion War===
By the late 3090s, the regiment was assigned to garrison [[Clan Diamond Shark]] controlled world of [[Itabaiana]]. The unit was assigned defend newly built Logistic Hub on planet named LAW-8i. The Third would take advantage of the Clan Nova Cat production facilities and be fitted out with some of their allies' Clan-Tech built 'Mechs.  In the second wave of the [[Second Combine-Dominion War]], The Third Pesht came under attack by [[Clan Ghost Bear|Clan Ghost Bear's]] [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Ghost Bear)|Beta Galaxy]] on April 19th, [[3099]]. Prior to the landings, ''Tai-sa'' [[Nanami Ueno]] had ordered the surrounding area of the complex to be reinforced, now that Diamond Shark forces had withdrawn to their moons enclaves not wanting to intermix with Draconis Combine lead people on world. Unaware of the Ghost Bears' orders to avoid action against Draconis Combine Forces, Galaxy Command Vigo Hall ordered the entire Galaxy to plow through the LAW-8i defenses and destroy the complex. The Regulars would take heavy casualties, with only company of 'Mechs withdrawing into the interior of LAW-8i complex itself. Hall believing that the Regulars' Nova Cat–built 'Mechs were sign that the Clan had integrated itself into the unit, order an artillery bombardment of the complex kill Nova Cat civilians and most of the Third Pesht in the process.
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By the late 3090s, the regiment was assigned to garrison [[Clan Diamond Shark]] controlled world of [[Itabaiana]]. The unit was assigned defend newly built Logistic Hub on planet named LAW-8i. The Third would take advantage of the Clan Nova Cat production facilities and be fitted out with some of their allies' Clan-Tech built 'Mechs.  In the second wave of the [[Second Combine-Dominion War]], The Third Pesht came under attack by [[Clan Ghost Bear|Clan Ghost Bear's]] [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Ghost Bear)|Beta Galaxy]] on April 19th, [[3099]]. Prior to the landings, ''Tai-sa'' Nanami Ueno had ordered the surrounding area of the complex to be reinforced, now that Diamond Shark forces had withdrawn to their moons enclaves not wanting to intermix with Draconis Combine lead people on world. Unaware of the Ghost Bears' orders to avoid action against Draconis Combine Forces, Galaxy Command Vigo Hall ordered the entire Galaxy to plow through the LAW-8i defenses and destroy the complex. The Regulars would take heavy casualties, with only company of 'Mechs withdrawing into the interior of LAW-8i complex itself. Hall believing that the Regulars' Nova Cat–built 'Mechs were sign that the Clan had integrated itself into the unit, order an artillery bombardment of the complex kill Nova Cat civilians and most of the Third Pesht in the process.
  
 
The unit's near annihilation at hands of the Ghost Bears would rally the by then reluctant Draconis Combine to enter war with Clan Nova Cat.  While Third Pesht would slowly rebuild over the coming decades.<ref>''Historical: Wars of the Republic Era'', p. 28: The Last Stand on Itabaiana - Third Pesht Regulars' actions during the 2nd Combine-Dominion War and their near destruction</ref>
 
The unit's near annihilation at hands of the Ghost Bears would rally the by then reluctant Draconis Combine to enter war with Clan Nova Cat.  While Third Pesht would slowly rebuild over the coming decades.<ref>''Historical: Wars of the Republic Era'', p. 28: The Last Stand on Itabaiana - Third Pesht Regulars' actions during the 2nd Combine-Dominion War and their near destruction</ref>
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| ''Tai-sa''||[[Nanami Ueno]]||[[3085]]<ref name=FM3085p51>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 51: "DCMS Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
 
| ''Tai-sa''||[[Nanami Ueno]]||[[3085]]<ref name=FM3085p51>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 51: "DCMS Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>
 
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| ''Tai-sa''||[[Dante Cohen]]||[[3145]]<ref name=FM3145p56/>
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| ''Tai-sa''||[[Dante Cohen]]||[[3085]]<ref name=FM3145p56/>
 
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'''Third Regulars Aerospace''' ([[Wing (Military Unit)|Wing]]/Regular/Questionable)<ref name=FM3085p51/>
 
'''Third Regulars Aerospace''' ([[Wing (Military Unit)|Wing]]/Regular/Questionable)<ref name=FM3085p51/>
* CO: ''[[Sho-sa]]'' [[Disgleirio Nikolic]]
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* CO: ''[[Sho-sa]]'' Disgleirio Nikolic
  
 
'''201st Pesht Assault Team''' (Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p51/>
 
'''201st Pesht Assault Team''' (Veteran/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p51/>
* CO: ''Tai-sa'' [[Spurius Travers]]
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* CO: ''Tai-sa'' Spurius Travers
  
 
===3145===
 
===3145===

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