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'''II Corps''', also known as the Second Corps, was one of the Corps created during the founding of the [[Star League Defense Force]] in [[2571]], and would grow to become a very large military formation, with a total strength at the height of the [[Star League]] of five full [[division|Divisions]] each of three [[brigade|Brigades]] plus two independent [[regiment|Regiments]].<ref name="SLSBp145">''The Star League'', p. 145: "Twelfth Army"</ref><ref name="H:RWp29">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 29: "II Corps"</ref>
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==Unit Description==
 
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The '''II Corps''' (also known as the 2nd Corps), was a very large [[SLDF]] military formation. The three Division formation typical consisted of a total of 27 front-line Regiments.  The II Corps typically were known to include a large quantity of [[BattleMech|BattleMechs]] and other types of equipment an troops.
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
 
===Formation===
 
===Formation===
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As the Second Corps formation begun with beginning of the [[Star League]] in [[2571]].  The SLDF was organized by Commander-in-Chief Lady [[Shandra Noruff-Cameron]], who lead to creation of the Second and its other sister formations. The Second Corps was made of originally of [[Terran Hegemony]] frontline regiments but also of green recruits whom were chosen for the loyality to the new Star league.  
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The formation of II Corps began soon after the formation of the Star League, during the initial organization of the [[Star League Defense Force]] by Commander-in-Chief Lady [[Shandra Noruff-Cameron]], and shared a number of similarities with [[I Corps (Star League)|I Corps]]. II Corps consisted of a full Royal Brigade as well as two additional Royal [[BattleMech]] regiments and a Royal armor regiment from the [[Terran Hegemony]], with the remaining troops drawn equally from other Star League member states. II Corps was originally tasked with defending those worlds within the [[Terran Hegemony]]. Initially under the command of [[Major General]] [[Amos Forlough]], II Corps was not as well equipped as I Corps but trained hard to reach Elite status before forming a part of the [[Outworlds Alliance]] task force.<ref name="H:RWp29"/>
  
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It would not be until the massive military excerise known as ''Unified Triumph Military Exercise'', when the Corps (including the Second) would learn together and gain the experience they need as army. They would pitted against Star League's veteran Member-states armies which would routinely embarrasse the League forces. The exercise was also created to as means to shore up training and team work between the SLDF and its member-state's armed forces. Despite not seen as a success, the SLDF gained bases including on the border of Periphery where League had
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It was the hard training regimen the units of II Corps undertook prior to the [[Reunification War]] that saw the majority of the regiments within II Corps miss out on the opportunity to take part in the [[United Triumph]] series of exercises that comprehensively embarrassed the nascent [[SLDF]].<ref name="H:RWp46-7">''Historical: Reunification War'', pp. 46–47: "Amos Forlough"</ref>
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routine had trouble with.<ref>''Star League sourcebook'', p. 43, 47 - Unified Triumph Military Exercise, Pollux Proclamation & Battle Plans - Events leading to the creation of the then known as 2nd Corps' formation from General Noruff-Cameron and Lord Ian Cameron's efforts building up
 
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unified force.</ref>  
 
  
 
===Reunification War===
 
===Reunification War===
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As time past since the excerise, tensions with the Periphery nations grew.  Lord [[Ian Cameron]] raise tariffs against the Periphery nations in hopes to leverage to make them join the Star League. A series of incidents would be played out between two sides, however, it would until
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Tension between the Periphery nations would grow in the years following the Unified Triumph exercises; [[First Lord]] [[Ian Cameron]] raised trade tariffs against the Periphery nations in the hope that this form of leverage along with others would make them willing to join the Star League. A series of incidents would be played out between the two sides, leading to the [[Malagrotta Crisis]] in [[2753]] which be the final straw needed to make war inevitable. Ian Cameron viewed the Periphery nations as uncivilized and as threats to his creation.  He and League members voted for [[Reunification War|war]], and Ian Cameron would issue the ''Pollux Proclamation'' to the Periphery which was effectively the unofficial declaration of war; when the Proclamation was roundly rejected by the major Periphery powers, Cameron laid plans for the military conquest of the Periphery states.
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after the [[Malagrotta Crisis]] in [[2753]] would the final straw of patience for the League would be used up. Lord Ian Cameron had viewed them uncivilized and threat to his creation.  He and League members voted for [[Reunification War|war]], and Ian Cameron would issue the
 
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''Pollux Proclamation'' to the Periphery which was unoffical declaration of war. he would begin move his realm and the Corps elements begun their trek to their stating point along the Periphery.
 
  
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Second Corps would be part of the Expedition targeting the [[Outworlds Alliance]], with the [[5th Corps (Star League)|5th Corps]] and Auxiliary Corps consisting of [[House Kurita]] troops. The Corps and rest of Expedition mates would finally be in position in June [[2581]].  The
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II Corps would be a major part of the SLDF Task Force Outworlds, targeting the [[Outworlds Alliance]], along with [[V Corps (Star League)|V Corps]] and an Auxiliary Corps consisting of [[House Kurita]] troops under SLDF command. II Corps and the rest of the task force would finally be in position in June [[2581]], and for much of the next four years the task force commander, SLDF [[General]] [[Amos Forlough]] would personally lead the II Corps' troops in conquering numerous Outworlds Alliance worlds. Among the units faced by II Corps was the [[Pitcairn Legion]], notionally a mercenary unit drawn from personnel from the elite [[Davion Brigade of Guards]], who would inflict a number of significant defeats on II Corps. Despite increasingly brutal measures inflicted on the civilian population of the Alliance, the task force would be unable to fully conquer the Alliance, and II Corps was withdrawn from the Alliance campaign in [[2584]] to fight in the war against the [[Taurian Concordat]].<ref>''The Star League'', p. 50: Outworlds Alliance War - Second Corps' actions during the war with the Alliance</ref><ref name="H:RWp140">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 140: "Outworlds Alliance Front"</ref>
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Expedition's commander, SLDF General Amos Forlough would personal take the 2nd Corps' troops and take the Outworlds Alliance mining worlds of [[Bryceland]] and [[Groveld]] with little resistence. However, secretly elements of the [[House Davion]] would strike deal with Alliance's
 
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leadership to deploy a a more sustainal force which would fight off General Forlough's military advance into the periphery nation.  
 
  
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On [[Sevon]] in October, the Corps would encounter the [[Pitcairn Legion]]. The three regiment brigade would cause would heavy casualties among Forlough's troops. This delayed the general's movement to seize the Alliance's capital of [[Alpheratz]].  By time reinforcements would
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During the long campaign to conquer the Concordat II Corps would fight on several worlds, including taking part in the bloody campaign to capture the key world of [[New Vandenberg]], and would still be active within Concordat space when the Taurian government finally surrendered.<ref name="H:RWp143"/> After the battle for New Vandenberg, General Lord [[Damien Onaga]] used II Corps to conquer [[Desolate Plains]] in 2590. Desolate Plains was spared the immense death toll and destruction that many other Taurian worlds suffered during the War; this was due to Onaga changing the strategy employed on [[Operation BULL RUN]], taking a very different approach to that ordered by the previous theater commander, [[Field Marshal]] [[Amos Forlough]]. Onaga's approach to conquering Desolate Plains saw him deliberately rotating troops<ref name="H:RWp91"/> from II Corps<ref name="H:RWp143">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 143: "Taurian Concordat Front [2586–2596]"</ref> in and out of battle, giving them an opportunity to blood themselves, while limiting his campaign to purely military targets, rather than cities and civilian infrastructure. This made the conquest of Desolate Plains a slower campaign than many previous planetary assaults, but inflicted far less damage, and with much of the planetary garrison having already been stripped away by the [[Taurian Defense Force]] to fight in other systems during earlier years of the war, the battle for Desolate Plains was over by the end of October 2590.<ref name="H:RWp91">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 91: "Cleanup"</ref>
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arrive in the form of [[Galedon Regulars]], the Legion had escaped the Sevon as Forlough would finally capture the planet for the Star League. However, due to defeats in the Taurian Campaign of the war. House Davion leadership would demand more reinforcements to be sent to the Concordat
 
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warfront. This would result the League's High Command to order the Second Corps and rest of the Expedition to hault its advance, which was only days away from assaulting Alpheratz. With third of his fleet send to Taurian Concordat, General Forlough would order his troops in [[2582]] to take several worlds surrounding Alpheratz. The Pitcairn Legion would attack Expedition's Kurita auxiliaries on [[Budingen]]. This would cause troops among expedition's Kurita auxiliaries to rage at the attack and they would take their frustation on the civilian populations of their occupied worlds.  The Second Corps and other SLDF forces would also be ordered by General Forlough to execute 10 percent of the population of a dozen worlds. This would rally additional people to join the Alliance's militia to fight them with only rifles and explosives in hand.
 
  
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The fighting would climax with "Day of Vengeance" on [[Tellman IV]] in [[2583]]. Where the Corps' sister unit, the 5th Corps would get heavily damaged by the Alliance's mustered Army and the Pitcairn Legion. The battle would reduce the BattleMech forces of both sides, which caused
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===Later Years===
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the League come to a stalemate against the stiff resistence of the Alliance's population. [[Major-General]] Franklin Barnex would be send in and replaced Forlough as the Expedition's commander. He would fail to gain upper hand against Alliance troops due to lack of reinforcements.
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At the height of the Star League in [[2764]] II Corps was assigned to the Lyran Commonwealth Military Region's Second District as part of the SLDF's [[Twelfth Army (Star League)|Twelfth Army]] in [[2764]]. With its long history, II Corps received many transfer requests from new and experienced soldiers who wanted to be a part of the storied unit. The unit as a whole trained constantly to be the best, and if a soldier wasn't performing up to standards they would frequently request transfer out of the unit rather than sully its reputation. With the repositioning of the [[Twentietth Army (Star League)|Twentieth Army]], the unit benefited from the supplies left behind as that unit redeployed. Another effect of the Twentieth Army's withdrawal from the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] was the use of II Corps [[Twenty-ninth CAAN Marine Regiment]] to conduct undercover reconnaissance missions to monitor the Periphery nation.<ref name=FMSLDFp148>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 148</ref>
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The Star League's war against the Alliance would end in [[2585]] with signing of the ''Peace of Cerberus'' treaty.<ref>''Star League sourcebook'', p. 50 - OutWorlds Alliance War - Second Corps' actions during the war with the Alliance.</ref>
 
  
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===Later Years===
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The Periphery Uprising would see the entire Corps deployed by General [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] to the Periphery to combat the uprising. The Corps' Twenty-ninth CAAN Marine Division would end up defecting to the Periphery forces, fighting against their own comrades; by the end of the campaign in the Periphery half of the Corps would be gone. The [[Ninety-second BattleMech Division|Ninety-second BattleMech]] and [[Eighteenth Royal Mechanized Infantry Division]]s would be destroyed outright in the fighting, while the [[Twenty-ninth Mechanized Infantry Division]] would be so heavily damaged that it would be disbanded for lack of personnel in [[2766]].
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The II Corps as it would be know by [[28th Century]], would be assigned to the Lyran Commonwealth Military Region's 2nd District as part of the SLDF's [[12th Army (Star League)|12th Army]] in [[2764]].  The Periphery Uprising would have entire Corps deployed by General [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] to the Periphery fight the uprising. The Corps' 29th CAAN Marine Division would end up defecting to the side of the Periphery fight against their own comrades.  By the end of the fighting with Periphery rebels, half of the Corps would be gone. Its 92nd BattleMech
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and 18th Royal Mechanized Infantry Divisions would be out rightly destroyed by the fighting, while its 29th Mechanized Infantry would be so heavily damaged, it would be disbanded from lack of personnel in [[2766]].
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The remaining Divisions and regiments of the Corps would join Kerensky's Hegemony Campaign in [[2767]]. Only two of its components would survive, the [[Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division]] and [[Thirty-eighth Light Horse Regiment]], both which answered Kerensky's call to join the [[Operation EXODUS|Exodus]].  Elements of the disbanded Twenty-ninth Mechanized would return opt to remain in the [[Inner Sphere]] and join the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]] instead of traveling with the [[Exodus Fleet]].<ref>''The Star League'', p. 145: 12th Army, II Corps - TO&E gives brief snapshot of information on the actions and fates of the components of the II Corps</ref>
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==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the II Corps (Star League)'''
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| [[General]]||[[Amos Forlough]]||[[2581]]<ref name="H:RWp107"/>
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| [[Major General]]||[[Horst Nunweiler]]||[[2749]]-[[2764]]<ref name=FMSLDFp148/>
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The remaining Divisions and regiments of the Corps would join Kerensky's Hegemony Campaign in [[2767]]. Only two of its components would survive, the 11th Royals and 38th Light Horse, which answer Kerensky's call to join the [[Exodus]].  Elements of the disbanded 29th Mechanized would
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==Tactics==
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return opt to remain and join the [[Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery]] instead of traveling with the [[Exodus Fleet]].<ref>''Star League sourcebook'', p. 145 - 12th Army, II Corps - TO&E gives brief snapshot of information on the actions and fates of the components of the II Corps.</ref>
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Unknown.
  
 
==Composition History==
 
==Composition History==
 
===2581===
 
===2581===
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Total Forces:<ref name="H:RWp107">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 107, "SLDF Task Force Outworlds"</ref>
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Administrative HQ: [[Rigil Kentarus]]<ref name="H:RWp107">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 107: "SLDF Task Force Outworlds"</ref><br />
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* 9 [[BattleMech]] regiments
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Commanding Officer: [[General]] [[Amos Forlough]]<ref name="H:RWp107"/>
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* 9 [[Armor]] regiments
 
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* 9 [[Infantry]] regiments
 
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* 3 [[AeroSpace Fighter|AeroSpace]] regiments
 
  
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Component units:
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Total Forces:<ref name="H:RWp107"/>
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*[[4th Division]]
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* 9x [[BattleMech]] regiments
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**[[10th Brigade]]
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* 9x [[combat vehicle|armor]] regiments
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**[[11th Brigade]]
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* 9x [[infantry]] regiments
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**[[12th Brigade]]
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* 3x [[aerospace fighter|aerospace]] regiments
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*[[5th Division]]
 
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**[[13th Brigade]]
 
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**[[14th Brigade]]
 
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**[[15th Brigade]]
 
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*[[6th Division]]
 
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**[[16th Royal Brigade]]
 
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**[[17th Royal Brigade]]
 
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**[[18th Royal Brigade]]
 
  
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Component units:<ref name="H:RWp107"/>
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*[[11th Royal BattleMech Division]] (The Orion Division)
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: [[Fourth Royal Infantry Division|Fourth Division]]
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*[[92nd BattleMech Division]] (The Sheridan Division)
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:* [[Tenth Brigade]]
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*[[28th Infantry Division]]
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:* [[Eleventh Brigade]]
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*[[18th Royal Mechanized Infantry Division]] (The Pride of Leningrade)
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:* [[Twelfth Brigade]]
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*[[29th Mechanized Infantry Division]]
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: [[5th Division (Star League)|Fifth Division]]
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:[[29th CAAN Marine Regiment]]
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:* CO: [[Major General]] [[Angelo Rucker]]<ref name="H:RWp116">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 116: "Medron"</ref>
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:[[38th Light Horse Regiment]]
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:* [[Thirteenth Brigade]]
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**Notes: Listing of all its Divisions prior to some of their destruction and single case of betrayal during the Periphery Uprising.<ref>''Star League sourcebook'', p. 145 - 12th Army, II Corps - II Corps' units listings as of 2764-2765</ref>
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:** CO: [[Lieutenant General]] [[Remy Mallet]]<ref name="H:RWp116"/>
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:* [[Fourteenth Brigade]]
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:** CO: [[Lieutenant General]] [[Kern Peleshenko]]<ref name="H:RWp112a">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 112: "Bryceland"</ref>
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:* [[Fifteenth Brigade]]
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:** CO: [[Lieutenant General]] [[Nathan Sóbis]]<ref name="H:RWp112b">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 112: "Groveld III"</ref>
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: [[Sixth Royal Division]]
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:* [[Sixteenth Royal Brigade]]
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:* [[Seventeenth Royal Brigade]]
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:* [[Eighteenth Royal Brigade]]
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:** CO: [[Lieutenant General]] [[Daishin Minxia]]<ref name="H:RWp123">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 123: "Pitcairn's Raids"</ref>
  
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===2767 to 2799===
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===2764–2765===
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*[[11th Royal BattleMech Division]] (The Orion Division)
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: '''Divisions'''
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*[[28th Infantry Division]]
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:* [[Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division]]
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:[[38th Light Horse Regiment]]
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:* [[Ninety-second BattleMech Division]]
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**Notes: Listing shows the remaining intact units active during the Campaign to liberate the Terran Hegemony. The 29th Mechanized Infantry Division is not listed due to its disbandment after the Periphery Uprising, however elements of the unit appeared to have been active during Liberation. Its not clear how much of the unit survive and was with the Regular Army until end of the campaign.<ref>''Star League sourcebook'', p. 145 - 12th Army, II Corps - II Corps' units listings as of 2767 to 2799</ref>
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:* [[Twenty-eighth Infantry Division]]
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:* [[Eighteenth Royal Mechanized Infantry Division]]
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:* [[Twenty-ninth Mechanized Infantry Division]]
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: '''Independent Regiments'''
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:* [[Twenty-ninth CAAN Marine Regiment]]
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:* [[Thirty-eighth Light Horse Regiment]]
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: Notes: Listing of all its Divisions prior to some of their destruction and single case of betrayal during the Periphery Uprising.<ref>''The Star League'', p. 145: 12th Army, II Corps - II Corps' units listings as of 2764–2765</ref>
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===2767–2799===
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* [[Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division|Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division (The Orion Division)]]
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* Twenty-eighth Infantry Division
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* Thirty-eighth Light Horse Regiment
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** Notes: Listing shows the remaining intact units active during the Campaign to liberate the Terran Hegemony. The Twenty-ninth Mechanized Infantry Division is not listed due to its disbandment after the Periphery Uprising, however elements of the unit appeared to have been active during Liberation. It's not clear how much of the unit survive and was with the Regular Army until end of the campaign.<ref>''The Star League'', p. 145: 12th Army, II Corps - II Corps' units listings as of 2767–2799</ref>
  
 
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===2784===
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*[[11th Royal BattleMech Division]] (The Orion Division)
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* [[Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division|Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division (The Orion Division)]]
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*[[38th Light Horse Cavalry]]
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* Thirty-eighth Light Horse Regiment
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**Notes: II Corps' last active and intact formations at time of the Exodus and remained with SLDF when it left the Inner Sphere. Its uncleared what became of the disbanded suvivors of the 29th Mechanized Infantry Division other it joined the Draconis Combine.
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** Notes: II Corps' last active and intact formations at time of the Exodus and remained with SLDF when it left the Inner Sphere. It's unclear what became of the disbanded survivors of the Twenty-ninth Mechanized Infantry Division other it joined the Draconis Combine.
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
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It is unclear II Corps remained functional a active formation durin both the Periphery and Hegemony Campaigns. In Corps' early years after SLDF had formed, the Corps would be in its entirity be used in Outworlds Alliance, but the loss of nearly half its Divisions by end or Periphery Uprising Risings.
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It is unclear II Corps remained functional an active formation during both the Periphery and Hegemony Campaigns. In Corps' early years after SLDF had formed, the Corps would only be used in the Outworlds Alliance, but the loss of nearly half its Divisions by end or Periphery Uprising Risings.
  
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The name "II Corps" is offically used in Military Region listings for the Corps, however early information shows Corps' name with "2" or "Second".<ref>''Star League sourcebook'', pp. 43, 47, 145 - Unit's name and open question if the Corps remained active during the 28th Century.</ref>
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The name "II Corps" is officially used in Military Region listings for the Corps, however early information shows Corps' name with "2" or "Second".<ref>''The Star League'', pp. 43, 47, 145: Unit's name and open question if the Corps remained active during the twenty-eighth century</ref>
  
 
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==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
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Latest revision as of 21:28, 17 January 2024

Corps II (SLDF) logo.png
II Corps
Formed 2571–2581
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command Twelfth Army

II Corps, also known as the Second Corps, was one of the Corps created during the founding of the Star League Defense Force in 2571, and would grow to become a very large military formation, with a total strength at the height of the Star League of five full Divisions each of three Brigades plus two independent Regiments.[1][2]

History[edit]

Formation[edit]

The formation of II Corps began soon after the formation of the Star League, during the initial organization of the Star League Defense Force by Commander-in-Chief Lady Shandra Noruff-Cameron, and shared a number of similarities with I Corps. II Corps consisted of a full Royal Brigade as well as two additional Royal BattleMech regiments and a Royal armor regiment from the Terran Hegemony, with the remaining troops drawn equally from other Star League member states. II Corps was originally tasked with defending those worlds within the Terran Hegemony. Initially under the command of Major General Amos Forlough, II Corps was not as well equipped as I Corps but trained hard to reach Elite status before forming a part of the Outworlds Alliance task force.[2]

It was the hard training regimen the units of II Corps undertook prior to the Reunification War that saw the majority of the regiments within II Corps miss out on the opportunity to take part in the United Triumph series of exercises that comprehensively embarrassed the nascent SLDF.[3]

Reunification War[edit]

Tension between the Periphery nations would grow in the years following the Unified Triumph exercises; First Lord Ian Cameron raised trade tariffs against the Periphery nations in the hope that this form of leverage along with others would make them willing to join the Star League. A series of incidents would be played out between the two sides, leading to the Malagrotta Crisis in 2753 which be the final straw needed to make war inevitable. Ian Cameron viewed the Periphery nations as uncivilized and as threats to his creation. He and League members voted for war, and Ian Cameron would issue the Pollux Proclamation to the Periphery which was effectively the unofficial declaration of war; when the Proclamation was roundly rejected by the major Periphery powers, Cameron laid plans for the military conquest of the Periphery states.

II Corps would be a major part of the SLDF Task Force Outworlds, targeting the Outworlds Alliance, along with V Corps and an Auxiliary Corps consisting of House Kurita troops under SLDF command. II Corps and the rest of the task force would finally be in position in June 2581, and for much of the next four years the task force commander, SLDF General Amos Forlough would personally lead the II Corps' troops in conquering numerous Outworlds Alliance worlds. Among the units faced by II Corps was the Pitcairn Legion, notionally a mercenary unit drawn from personnel from the elite Davion Brigade of Guards, who would inflict a number of significant defeats on II Corps. Despite increasingly brutal measures inflicted on the civilian population of the Alliance, the task force would be unable to fully conquer the Alliance, and II Corps was withdrawn from the Alliance campaign in 2584 to fight in the war against the Taurian Concordat.[4][5]

During the long campaign to conquer the Concordat II Corps would fight on several worlds, including taking part in the bloody campaign to capture the key world of New Vandenberg, and would still be active within Concordat space when the Taurian government finally surrendered.[6] After the battle for New Vandenberg, General Lord Damien Onaga used II Corps to conquer Desolate Plains in 2590. Desolate Plains was spared the immense death toll and destruction that many other Taurian worlds suffered during the War; this was due to Onaga changing the strategy employed on Operation BULL RUN, taking a very different approach to that ordered by the previous theater commander, Field Marshal Amos Forlough. Onaga's approach to conquering Desolate Plains saw him deliberately rotating troops[7] from II Corps[6] in and out of battle, giving them an opportunity to blood themselves, while limiting his campaign to purely military targets, rather than cities and civilian infrastructure. This made the conquest of Desolate Plains a slower campaign than many previous planetary assaults, but inflicted far less damage, and with much of the planetary garrison having already been stripped away by the Taurian Defense Force to fight in other systems during earlier years of the war, the battle for Desolate Plains was over by the end of October 2590.[7]

Later Years[edit]

At the height of the Star League in 2764 II Corps was assigned to the Lyran Commonwealth Military Region's Second District as part of the SLDF's Twelfth Army in 2764. With its long history, II Corps received many transfer requests from new and experienced soldiers who wanted to be a part of the storied unit. The unit as a whole trained constantly to be the best, and if a soldier wasn't performing up to standards they would frequently request transfer out of the unit rather than sully its reputation. With the repositioning of the Twentieth Army, the unit benefited from the supplies left behind as that unit redeployed. Another effect of the Twentieth Army's withdrawal from the Rim Worlds Republic was the use of II Corps Twenty-ninth CAAN Marine Regiment to conduct undercover reconnaissance missions to monitor the Periphery nation.[8]

The Periphery Uprising would see the entire Corps deployed by General Aleksandr Kerensky to the Periphery to combat the uprising. The Corps' Twenty-ninth CAAN Marine Division would end up defecting to the Periphery forces, fighting against their own comrades; by the end of the campaign in the Periphery half of the Corps would be gone. The Ninety-second BattleMech and Eighteenth Royal Mechanized Infantry Divisions would be destroyed outright in the fighting, while the Twenty-ninth Mechanized Infantry Division would be so heavily damaged that it would be disbanded for lack of personnel in 2766.

The remaining Divisions and regiments of the Corps would join Kerensky's Hegemony Campaign in 2767. Only two of its components would survive, the Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division and Thirty-eighth Light Horse Regiment, both which answered Kerensky's call to join the Exodus. Elements of the disbanded Twenty-ninth Mechanized would return opt to remain in the Inner Sphere and join the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery instead of traveling with the Exodus Fleet.[9]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the II Corps (Star League)
General Amos Forlough 2581[10]
Major General Horst Nunweiler 2749-2764[8]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

2581[edit]

Administrative HQ: Rigil Kentarus[10]
Commanding Officer: General Amos Forlough[10]

Total Forces:[10]

Component units:[10]

Fourth Division
Fifth Division
Sixth Royal Division

2764–2765[edit]

Divisions
Independent Regiments
Notes: Listing of all its Divisions prior to some of their destruction and single case of betrayal during the Periphery Uprising.[15]

2767–2799[edit]

  • Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division (The Orion Division)
  • Twenty-eighth Infantry Division
  • Thirty-eighth Light Horse Regiment
    • Notes: Listing shows the remaining intact units active during the Campaign to liberate the Terran Hegemony. The Twenty-ninth Mechanized Infantry Division is not listed due to its disbandment after the Periphery Uprising, however elements of the unit appeared to have been active during Liberation. It's not clear how much of the unit survive and was with the Regular Army until end of the campaign.[16]

2784[edit]

  • Eleventh Royal BattleMech Division (The Orion Division)
  • Thirty-eighth Light Horse Regiment
    • Notes: II Corps' last active and intact formations at time of the Exodus and remained with SLDF when it left the Inner Sphere. It's unclear what became of the disbanded survivors of the Twenty-ninth Mechanized Infantry Division other it joined the Draconis Combine.

Notes[edit]

It is unclear II Corps remained functional an active formation during both the Periphery and Hegemony Campaigns. In Corps' early years after SLDF had formed, the Corps would only be used in the Outworlds Alliance, but the loss of nearly half its Divisions by end or Periphery Uprising Risings.

The name "II Corps" is officially used in Military Region listings for the Corps, however early information shows Corps' name with "2" or "Second".[17]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ The Star League, p. 145: "Twelfth Army"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 29: "II Corps"
  3. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, pp. 46–47: "Amos Forlough"
  4. ↑ The Star League, p. 50: Outworlds Alliance War - Second Corps' actions during the war with the Alliance
  5. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 140: "Outworlds Alliance Front"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 143: "Taurian Concordat Front [2586–2596]"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 91: "Cleanup"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 148
  9. ↑ The Star League, p. 145: 12th Army, II Corps - TO&E gives brief snapshot of information on the actions and fates of the components of the II Corps
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Historical: Reunification War, p. 107: "SLDF Task Force Outworlds"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Historical: Reunification War, p. 116: "Medron"
  12. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 112: "Bryceland"
  13. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 112: "Groveld III"
  14. ↑ Historical: Reunification War, p. 123: "Pitcairn's Raids"
  15. ↑ The Star League, p. 145: 12th Army, II Corps - II Corps' units listings as of 2764–2765
  16. ↑ The Star League, p. 145: 12th Army, II Corps - II Corps' units listings as of 2767–2799
  17. ↑ The Star League, pp. 43, 47, 145: Unit's name and open question if the Corps remained active during the twenty-eighth century

Bibliography[edit]

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