Francis Ferdinand

Francis Ferdinand
Character Profile
Affiliation Free Worlds League
Rank Colonel

History[edit]

Francis Ferdinand was the commanding officer of the 12th Atrean Dragoons at the onset of Anton's Rebellion, the Marik Civil War, in 3014.

He declared for Duke Anton Marik's rebels,[1] and the bulk of his regiment followed him although a small cadre including several senior officers (implicitly, several battalion commanders) chose not to support the duke.

Ferdinand commanded the rebellious 12th Atrean Dragoons at least up until the battle of Matheran, where he is last mentioned by name.[2] Gerhardt Hansen, an influential House Marik officer at the time, was otherwise named as the man who led the 12th Atrean Dragoons during the uprising and who would go on to reform them into Hansen's Roughriders mercenary unit. Context suggests Hansen probably assumed command over the rebel unit sometime during the fighting on Matheran. The fate of Francis Ferdinand is unknown.

Notes[edit]

  • Francis Ferdinand is little more than a name dropped twice in a single sourcebook, Historical: Brush Wars. The fact that the unit he commanded would later become the famous Hansen's Roughriders mercenary unit is not mentioned in that book at all, nor is Gerhardt Hansen. The general impression is that the connection between Ferdinand's 12th Atrean Dragoons and Hansen's Roughriders was overlooked when the book was written.

References[edit]

  1. Historical: Brush Wars, p. 18
  2. Historical: Brush Wars, p. 23

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