Robert Steadman
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Robert Steadman | |
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| Personal | |
| Affiliation | Federated Suns |
| Career | |
| Rank | Marshal[1] |
| Profession | MechWarrior[2] |
Robert Steadman was the commanding officer of the Capellan March's Alcyone PDZ and the Seventh Crucis Lancers as of 3025.[1]
History
Marshal Steadman was commander of the Federated Suns' Alcyone PDZ in 3025. At the same time, Steadman was commanding officer of the Seventh Crucis Lancers and was stationed on Weekapaug.[1]
Fourth Succession War
Steadman and the Seventh Lancers participated in the Battle of Tikonov in September 3028 and were assigned with the capture of the southern port city of Bulun. The city was heavily defended by static emplacements and conventional forces, with the First Battalion of MacGregor's Armored Scouts serving to augment the city's resistance. On 27 September, the Lancers instigated fighting to Bulun's southeast and east, drawing out significant portions of both the city's regular defenders and the Armored Scouts. With the majority of the Capellan defenders distracted, a company of Crucis combat engineers crept towards the city's coastal entrance and carefully placed demolition charges along the outer walls' power and communications lines. Just as a large force of Lancers reserves rushed towards the coastal entrance, the engineers detonated their explosives and crippled the local defensive emplacements. With the coastal entrance open and a battalion of seaborne infantry securing Bulun's spaceport, the BattleMechs of both the Seventh Lancers and MacGregor's Scouts met in intense urban combat.[2]
When a lance of FedSuns tanks caught the Scouts' commander Major Keela Dahoona in the open, Steadman and his command company personally engaged the enemy officer in combat. While Steadman gave Dahoona the chance to surrender, she spurned his offer and ordered her lance to make a concentrated attack against him personally. This effort failed, with both Dahoona and her lancemates being killed in the fighting, and soon enough the remainder of Dahoona's forces were destroyed or forced to surrender. By the end of the week, Bulun and its spaceport facilities were under the Seventh Lancers' control.[2]
BattleMechs
Marshal Robert Steadman piloted a Crusader BattleMech during the Battle of Tikonov.[2]