Editing Wilhelm Mouttheim

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A cliché "[[Social General]]", '''Wilhelm Mouttheim''' was an officer of the [[LCAF]] best known for his disastrous turn as garrison commander of [[Hesperus II]].

==History==
===Battles of Hesperus===
In [[2997]] the Free Worlds League initiated the doomed [[Hesperus#Tenth battle|Tenth Battle of Hesperus II]]. The attack wasn't intended to capture the planet, but to instead raid the bunkers and warehouses furthest away from the main factories for supplies and materiel; what doomed the attack was the inbound force being detected by the early warning systems in the Hesperus system, giving the defending forces time to respond. The [[Tenth Lyran Guards]], commanded by [[Katrina Steiner]], Alessandro's niece, were able to make a sub-orbital hop to the League's landing zone and deploy via a low-altitude combat drop that brought the Tenth down on top of the League forces. The Free Worlds forces were weaker than the Tenth even before the combat drop, and in less than an hour Katrina's command had broken the League forces. The attack on Hesperus represented the largest League offensive action against the Commonwealth in a decade and its failure imbued Alessandro with a false sense of confidence.<ref name="HBHSp51A">''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 51, "The Tenth Battle of Hesperus II"</ref>

After the [[Free Worlds League]] attack on [[Hesperus II]] known as the [[Hesperus#Tenth battle|Tenth Battle of Hesperus II]], [[Archon]] [[Alessandro Steiner]] felt confident that the League's failed attack on Hesperus ensured that there wouldn't be another attack in the near future, so he stripped away three of the five defending regiments so that he could launch an attack on the important industrial world of [[Kalidasa]]. Alessandro backfilled the Hesperus garrison by assigning forces from the [[Eridani Light Horse]] mercenary unit, but the mercenaries mustered less than two regiments in strength. 

During those two years, Hesperus was attacked twice. The first attack was launched by the Free Worlds League within months of the invasion of Kalidasa was the [[Eleventh Battle of Hesperus II]] in [[2998]], and the second attack was launched by the [[Draconis Combine]] in early [[3000]]. Both attacks were eventually beaten off by the defending forces, but in each case the incompetence of the Hesperus garrison commander, Leutnant-General Wilhelm Mouttheim, compounded the losses taken by the Lyran forces and antagonized the Eridani Light Horse, who he kept misdeploying or misdirecting.<ref name=HB:HSp78>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 78</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Steiner'', p. 79</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Handbook: House Steiner]]''

[[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Characters|Mouttheim, Wilhelm]]