Editing XXXIX Corps (Star League)

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| Nickname       = n/a
| Affiliation    = SLDF
| Parent Command = [[10th Army (Star League)|Tenth Army]]
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==Unit Description==
'''XXXIX Corps''' (or the Thirty-Ninth Corps) was one of the seventy-two Corps that made up the [[Star League Defense Force]].  XXXIX Corps was one of the larger Corps; prior to the collapse of the [[Star League]] it consisted of 6 [[division|divisions]] and 2 independent [[regiment|regiments]]. <ref name="SLp143">''The Star League'', p. 143</ref>

==History==
In [[2764]] XXXIX Corps was part of the [[10th Army (Star League)|Tenth Army]], assigned to District 3 of the [[Free Worlds League Military Region]].<ref name="SLp143"/> Assigned to the frontier regions of the Free Worlds League, the operational area patrolled by XXXIX Corps in the 2760s presented a number of challenges for the Corps, ranging from Regulan politics to pirate activity to the metal-eating slugs of [[Mankova]]. The largest of the corps within the Tenth Army at the time, XXXIX Corps was responsible for garrisoning a swath of worlds stretching from the rimward half of the [[Principality of Regulus]] through to the spinward corner of the [[Rim Commonality]], as well as being responsible for providing support to [[IV Corps (Star League)|IV Corps]] on the border between the Free Worlds League and the [[Magistracy of Canopus]] when required.<ref name="FM:SLDFp132">''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 132-133, "XXXIX Corps"</ref>

The long supply chain out to XXXIX Corps was a particular problem for General Saayman; with every province and many of the independent worlds within the League insistent on imposing border inspections and controls on SLDF shipping moving through their space, delays were common and there was a noticeably increased chance of supplies for XXXIX Corps being subject to predation by the same pirates that XXXIX Corps was hunting - with several notable instances of XXXIX Corps units having to fight pirates equipped with matériel intended for XXXIX Corps and stolen en route. As a result of the first instance of this bandit predation Saayman had started assigning naval flotillas from the [[7th Fleet (Star League)|Seventh Fleet]] to escorting supply shipments.<ref name="FM:SLDFp132"/>

When the simmering violence and rebellion building in the [[Periphery]] erupted with the [[New Vandenberg Uprising]] and subsequent Periphery-wide uprising in [[2765]] XXXIX Corps was deployed into the [[Periphery Military Region]] along with the rest of the 10th Army.<ref name="SLp143"/>

The resulting combat and terrorist actions within the Periphery Military Region inflicted significant damage on XXXIX Corps, with two divisions lost in action - the Pollux Division and the 82nd Mechanized Infantry Division - along with the independent 195th Royal Light Horse regiment. Having survived the Periphery Uprising, XXXIX Corps went on to fight in the [[Hegemony Campaign]], losing another two divisions - the Antaeus Division and the 42nd Mechanized Infantry Division - while the independent Seventh Hussar Regiment took heavy enough losses to be disbanded.<ref name="SLp143"/>

Prior to the start of [[Operation CHIEFTAIN]] in [[2772]] the XXXIX Corps absorbed the survivors of the [[XIII Corps (Star League)| XIII Corps]], which was disbanded.<ref>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 120 "Operation Chieftain SLDF Order of Battle"</ref> 

The bulk of the two surviving divisions that comprised the entirity of XXXIX after the Hegemony Campaign followed [[General]] [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] on the [[Operation Exodus|Exodus]], with the exception of the 4674th Striker Regiment, a part of the 120th Jump Infantry Division, who elected to remain in the [[Inner Sphere]] and joined the [[Draconis Combine]].<ref name="SLp143"/>

==Officers==
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the XXXIX Corps (Star League)'''
|-
| [[Major General]]||[[Baruti Saayman]]||[[2742]]-[[2764]]<ref name="FM:SLDFp132"/>
|-
|}

==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
:'''Divisions'''
:* [[21st Royal BattleMech Division|Twenty-first Royal BattleMech Division]] <ref name="SLp143"/>
:* [[58th BattleMech Division|Fifty-eighth BattleMech Division]]<ref name="SLp143"/>
:* [[42nd Mechanized Infantry Division|Forty-second Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref name="SLp143"/>
:* [[82nd Mechanized Infantry Division|Eighty-second Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref name="SLp143"/>
:* [[146th Mechanized Infantry Division]]<ref name="SLp143"/>
:* [[120th Jump Infantry Division]]<ref name="SLp143"/>

:'''Independent Regiments'''
:* [[4674th Striker Regiment]]<ref name="SLp143"/>
:* [[195th Royal Light Horse Regiment]]<ref name="SLp143"/>
:* [[7th Hussar Regiment|Seventh Hussar Regiment]]<ref name="SLp143"/>

==References==
<references />

==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
*''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''


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