17th Army (Star League)
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The Star League Defense Forces 17th Army was assigned to operations within the Magistracy of Canopus Territorial State.
History
Formed in the great expansion of the SLDF, the Seventeenth Army replaced the VII Corps who had defeated and maintained control of the Magistracy of Canopus since the Reunification War. At its peak the 17th consisted of twenty-four divisions which included six BattleMech divisions, fifteen infantry divisions and up thirty independent regiments. [1]
Like all Territorial State armies, the 17th initially attempted to stabilize tensions in the Magistracy that led to the second Periphery rebellion prior to Stefan Amaris's murder of Richard Cameron. The divisions of the 17th suffered heavy losses in the SLDF's assault on the Rim Worlds Republic and the campaign to recapture of the worlds of the Terran Hegemony, with the Seventeenth Army disbanded upon the collapse of the Star League, the bulk of its surviving divisions joining General Kerensky on his Exodus. [1]
Corps of the 17th Army
Notes
The designation for the XVIII Corps is used twice in The Star League sourcebook, once for a Corps within the 17th Army, and once for a Corps within the 9th Army. This is most likely a typo or error, as the units forming the two Corps are different; based on the numbering convention for those Corps deployed in the Periphery Military Region in 2764, the XVIII Corps listed within the 9th Army is most likely to be the actual XVIII Corps.. The Corps designation for the unit found in the 17th Army is most likely the LXXII Corps (as there are 72 Corps-level formations in total listed in the Star League Sourcebook and the LXXII Corps is not otherwise found in this volume).[1][2]