XIV Corps (Star League)

Unit Description

XIV Corps (or the Fourteenth Corps) was one of the seventy-two Corps that made up the Star League Defense Force. XIV Corps was a large Corps; prior to the collapse of the Star League it consisted of 9 divisions and 4 independent regiments.

History

In 2764 XIV Corps was part of the 14th Army, assigned to District 1 of the Draconis Combine Military Region. When the simmering violence and rebellion building in the Periphery erupted with the New Vandenberg Uprising and subsequent Periphery-wide uprising in 2765 XIV Corps was deployed into Districts 2 and 3 of the DCMR, along with the rest of the 14th Army, to backfill for units deployed into the Periphery Military Region.

XIV Corps fought in the 12-year long Hegemony Campaign and was reduced to a shadow of its pre-war self; of the nine divisions, only two survived the Campaign, with six being destroyed and a seventh, the Lipton Division, suffered such heavy losses that it was disbanded with elements of the shattered division choosing to join the Federated Suns. XIV Corps also lost two of its four independent regiments.

When General Aleksandr Kerensky led the bulk of the surviving SLDF on the Exodus, all of those units still within XIV Corps followed him.

Composition History

2764

• 185th BattleMech Division (The Northwind Division)
• 251st BattleMech Division (The Upton Division)
• 28th Mechanized Infantry Division
• 32nd Mechanized Infantry Division (The Aztec Division)
• 34th Royal Mechanized Infantry Division
• 51st Mechanized Infantry Division
• 53rd Mechanized Infantry Division
• 64th Mechanized Infantry Division
• 159th Jump Infantry Division
• 22nd Royal CAAN Marine Regiment
• 12th Light Horse Regiment
• 149th Hussar Regiment
• 152nd Hussar Regiment

2784

• 34th Royal Mechanized Infantry Division
• 159th Jump Infantry Division
• 22nd Royal CAAN Marine Regiment
• 152nd Hussar Regiment

Bibliography

• The Star League