Alberta Orsina

Alberta Orsina
Character Profile
Affiliation Federated Suns
Rank Marshal

Alberta Orsina was the commander of the Fourth Davion Guards from 3050[1][2] to al least 3062.[3][1]

History[edit]

Her unit was stationed on Fort Loudon as of 3057, when Katherine Steiner-Davion assumed the throne of the newly formed Lyran Alliance. The unit commander Marshal Orsina denounced the usurpation of the throne from Victor Steiner-Davion, but the unit remained loyal to the Lyran people, and held in place to protect them from the Clans. Its neighboring unit, the Fifth Alliance Guards, were fanatically devoted to the new Archon, and supported her ascension to the throne. The LAAF began redirecting supplies away from the Davion unit in order to weaken it. However, the Fourth Guard's Marshal Orsina began raids against Clan-held worlds for supplies or taking the unit to different worlds to get supplies through friendlier sources.[4] In the early 3060s, the world's people's loyalties began to divide, with the two unit commanders on planet mutually agreeing to keep each unit based separately from one another, including the Lyran mercenary support unit, Knights of St. Cameron.

In December 3062, after the assassination of Arthur Steiner-Davion, Marshal Orsina called publicly for the resignation of the Archon-Princess. However, this call for the resignation of the Archon was a sign that forced the Fifth Alliance Guards' Lt. General James Ito into action. First integrating the Knights into his unit, he then activated Ft. Loudan's planetary militia forces and called marshal law on the planet. Alberta did not view the merc unit as a threat, but her performance would surprised both House Units.

He then ordered the Fourth Davion Guards to move to an arctic base 1,500 km from their current location near the city of Yulio on the 2nd of December. By the 7th, the Fourth Guards had not moved, and Ito was demanding that their Marshal Orsina resign. Refusing to stand down, the Marshal ordered her units to conduct a preemptive attack against the Alliance Guards and its planetary militia reinforcements.

The Fourth Guards hit Alliance's command and communication systems, to surprise Lt. General Ito. The elite Davion Guards were fortified by a brigade of mechanized battle armor units led by Major General Robert Davion-Zibler. After the initial assault, Alliance Guards held their own against the Fourths forces. For two weeks, the unit clashed, but made no headway. By this time Marshal Orsina detached General Zibler-Davion's battle armor forces to act independently. While the Marshal had her forces patrol their bases at Yulio and Carentan, the battle armor conducted raids against Fifth Alliance Guard bases, including Fort Loudan Prime, planetary capital and site of the Fifth's main base.

On the 12th, General Ito ordered his mercenary forces into action, forming a two-flanked front that was directed to attack the Fourth Davion's small base at the city of Carentan. He then had dispatched militia forces hold the Carentan forces from withdrawing to their base in Yulio. General Zibler-Davion's battle armor disrupted command and communications for militia forces, trying to allow for some Guard forces to slip in to aid besieged forces.

By 2nd of January 3063, the situation shifted. Lt. General Ito ordered his aerospace fighter squadrons to push back the Fourth Davion's heavy aerospace cover and hit the base at Carentan. A single squadron penetrated aerospace cover and successfully bombed the Fourth's Carentan base. With the successful bombing, Ito dispatched two battalions of Alliance/Knight of St. Cameron 'Mech forces into the base in a daring assault. This action successfully captured and neutralized the base and its two regiments of Fourth Davion troops. After two further weeks of fighting, Marshal decided that despite many civilians braving arrest to protest the Archon, she did not have enough support to take the planet. By February, she quietly had her forces regroup at Yulio in the guise of reinforcing their positions. The Fourth Davion Guards then departed the planet, only leaving behind special forces to keep occupation forces occupied.[5]

She survived the Civil War and by 3067 she was theater commander of the Edgeward Combat Theater with General Winona Stephenson-Voss as her aide.[6][7]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Field Manual: Federated Suns, p. 82: "4th Davion Guards Unit Profile"
  2. 20 Year Update, p. 19: "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"
  3. Objective Raids, p. 22
  4. FedCom Civil War, pp. 32–33: "Flashpoint Ft. Loudon"
  5. FedCom Civil War, pp. 33–34: "Clash of 5th Alliance Guards & 4th Davion Guards"
  6. Field Manual: Federated Suns, p. 99, "Officers"
  7. Field Manual: Updates, p. 141, "Edgeward Combat Theater (Woodbine Operations Area)"

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