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Following [[Operation DAGGER]], the [[Free Worlds League Military]] offensive against the Lyran Commonwealth, the League anticipated an alliance with the newly formed [[Tikonov Free Republic]] and repositioned a number of units in anticipation of a new offensive against the Commonwealth. One of the units repositioned was the elite [[Marik Guard]], a lightweight unit and significant source of [[House Marik|Marik]] pride, noted for the high numbers of rare [[Land-Air 'Mech]]s within its ranks.<ref name="FSWMAv2p86">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 86–87: "Callison"</ref>
 
Following [[Operation DAGGER]], the [[Free Worlds League Military]] offensive against the Lyran Commonwealth, the League anticipated an alliance with the newly formed [[Tikonov Free Republic]] and repositioned a number of units in anticipation of a new offensive against the Commonwealth. One of the units repositioned was the elite [[Marik Guard]], a lightweight unit and significant source of [[House Marik|Marik]] pride, noted for the high numbers of rare [[Land-Air 'Mech]]s within its ranks.<ref name="FSWMAv2p86">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 86–87: "Callison"</ref>
  
[[Captain-General of the Free Worlds League|Captain-General]] [[Janos Marik]] was caught completely by surprise when [[Supreme Lord]] [[Pavel Ridzik]] chose to lead the [[Tikonov Free Republic Army]] against the League, launching attacks that seized several League worlds near [[Terra]]. Also shocked was the FWLM, with many units left in limbo as they waited to learn if the offensive against the Commonwealth would go ahead. In July [[3029]] the Marik Guard began preparations to leave Callison to travel to [[Talitha]] to fight against the [[TFRA]] when [[General of the Armies]] [[Edward Regis]] personally led the newly hired [[Hsien Hotheads]] mercenary regiment in a surprise attack specifically targeting the Guard. Aware that the [[LCAF]] wasn't in a position to launch a major offensive but hoping to score a critical victory by humbling the prestigious Marik Guard, Regis had recruited the Hsien Hotheads and offered them triple the normal level of danger pay to launch the attack, led by Regis in his ''[[Catapult]]''.<ref name="FSWMAv2p86"/>
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[[Captain-General]] [[Janos Marik]] was caught completely by surprise when [[Supreme Lord]] [[Pavel Ridzik]] chose to lead the [[Tikonov Free Republic Army]] against the League, launching attacks that seized several League worlds near [[Terra]]. Also shocked was the FWLM, with many units left in limbo as they waited to learn if the offensive against the Commonwealth would go ahead. In July [[3029]] the Marik Guard began preparations to leave Callison to travel to [[Talitha]] to fight against the [[TFRA]] when [[General of the Armies]] [[Edward Regis]] personally led the newly hired [[Hsien Hotheads]] mercenary regiment in a surprise attack specifically targeting the Guard. Aware that the [[LCAF]] wasn't in a position to launch a major offensive but hoping to score a critical victory by humbling the prestigious Marik Guard, Regis had recruited the Hsien Hotheads and offered them triple the normal level of danger pay to launch the attack, led by Regis in his ''[[Catapult]]''.<ref name="FSWMAv2p86"/>
  
 
Emerging from a risky [[pirate point]] and navigating an asteroid field on approach to Callison, Regis expected a stiff fight from the Marik Guard, but the Lyrans were aided by confusion on Callison; mistaken for transport vessels due to arrive and relocate the Guard, the only aerospace forces that engaged the Hotheads during their approach to Callison were a trio of [[aerospace fighter]]s from the Guard, who were easily pushed back by the Hotheads' fighters. On the ground, the bulk of the Guard were at the Fallosha Spaceport with supplies and spares stacked around the various runways, in anticipation of boarding transports. Half of the Guard were already aboard [[DropShip]]s, leaving [[Colonel]] [[Takei Bryce-Marik]] with a scratch [[battalion]] of the Guard ready to fight. Bryce-Marik split his forces; launching half his available [[LAM]]s into the air to harass the dropping Hothead 'Mechs, he led the rest of his troops east into the Fallosha Valley, hoping to delay the Hotheads at their drop zones long enough for the rest of the Guard to disembark and reinforce him.<ref name="FSWMAv2p86"/>
 
Emerging from a risky [[pirate point]] and navigating an asteroid field on approach to Callison, Regis expected a stiff fight from the Marik Guard, but the Lyrans were aided by confusion on Callison; mistaken for transport vessels due to arrive and relocate the Guard, the only aerospace forces that engaged the Hotheads during their approach to Callison were a trio of [[aerospace fighter]]s from the Guard, who were easily pushed back by the Hotheads' fighters. On the ground, the bulk of the Guard were at the Fallosha Spaceport with supplies and spares stacked around the various runways, in anticipation of boarding transports. Half of the Guard were already aboard [[DropShip]]s, leaving [[Colonel]] [[Takei Bryce-Marik]] with a scratch [[battalion]] of the Guard ready to fight. Bryce-Marik split his forces; launching half his available [[LAM]]s into the air to harass the dropping Hothead 'Mechs, he led the rest of his troops east into the Fallosha Valley, hoping to delay the Hotheads at their drop zones long enough for the rest of the Guard to disembark and reinforce him.<ref name="FSWMAv2p86"/>
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