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Carla Chestine | |
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| Personal | |
| Died | 3037 |
| Affiliation | Free Worlds League |
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| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
Lieutenant Colonel Carla Chestine was an officer of the FWLM.
History[edit]
Third Succession War[edit]
Claybrooke was one of a number of Free Worlds League worlds to be ruled by a military dictatorship in 3022 as a result of occupation by SAFE; other League worlds governed in the same fashion at that point included Cajamarca, Maxwell, Talitha and Zosma.[1] Claybrooke had adopted the military organization structure used by the Duchy of Andurien by 3025.[2]
Towards the end of the Third Succession War the military governor of Claybrooke came under pressure from Dame Catherine Humphreys of the Duchy of Andurien to join Claybrooke to the Duchy. Dame Humphries was interested in securing the natural gas and fossil fuel resources on Claybrooke as well as the ranch and dairy products produced on the world, and offered such economic incentives as favorable trade tariffs to try and influence Lieutenant Colonel Carla Chestine, the planetary ruler.[3]
Beset with problems relating to the mineral development of Claybrooke's two moons, a subject of furious political arguments between entrenched parties on the planet, Colonel Chestine was unwilling to entertain Dame Humphreys proposals; in fact, the pressure from Humphreys was used by Chestine as a rallying point on Claybrooke, as opposition to the threat of a takeover by the Duchy was one of the few points on which all of the factions on Claybrooke were united.[3]
Andurien Secession[edit]
The Duchy of Andurien seceded from the Free Worlds League in 3030, allying itself with the Magistracy of Canopus before launching an invasion of the Capellan Confederation, which was still trying to recover from the losses suffered during the Fourth Succession War. The Anduriens viewed Claybrooke as a vital bridge to their Canopian allies, and as a result Claybrooke was occupied by Andurien troops.[4]
Dame Humphreys appointed a new military dictator, Charles Applebaum, in place of the ousted Colonel Chestine, but Applebaum found himself ostracized by the population of Claybrooke. Quickly forced to live almost entirely within the fortified mansion he owned in Sheridan, Applebaum's tenure as dictator lasted just eleven months. Anti-Andurien forces on Claybrooke led by Chestine and styling themselves the "Army of the Resistance" captured Applebaum and ended his reign by shooting and then hanging him.[4]
Killing Applebaum wasn't the Army of the Resistance's only success; the Army waged a guerrilla campaign across the lowlands of the Hastings continent and in the Muranga Hills on Hawthorne that kept several regiments of Andurien troops tied to Claybrooke for the better part of three years, and the Army of the Resistance's almost single-handed victory over the occupying forces earned them a number of plaudits after Free Worlds League Military forces liberated the planet during their campaign to bring the Duchy to heel.[4]
Chestine supported Duncan Marik as Captain-General and led a detachment of troops to support his forces on Xanthe III, only to perish alongside her troops during an ill-planned assault on the Andurien forces there.[4]