84th Light Horse Regiment

84th Light Horse Regiment
Disbanded 2783[1]
Nickname Shepard's Light Horse
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XXIII Corps


The Eighty-fourth Light Horse Regiment was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the XXIII Corps, Fifteenth Army, to District 2 of the Draconis Combine Military Region, and transferred to an undisclosed district within the Periphery by 2765.[1] Its involvement in the Periphery Uprising and the Hegemony Campaign is unknown, but it had been absorbed by the Capellan Confederation Armed Forces by 2784.[1] The CCAF redesignated the Eighty-fourth as the Tenth Tikonov Lancers.[2]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 84th Light Horse Regiment

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

As an SLDF Light Horse regiment the Eighty-fourth would have been composed of light to medium vehicles backed up by at least two Recon companies composed of 'Mechs designed for information gathering in addition to any regular 'Mechs within the regiment.[3]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Star League, p. 148, "Fifteenth Army"
  2. First Succession War, p. 32, "Those Left Behind"
  3. The Star League, p. 133

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