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| Designation   = First Syrtis Fusiliers
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| image   =  
| formed        = 2300s
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| nickname =  
| Disbanded      =
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| parent formation = [[Syrtis Fusiliers]]
| Previous Designation =  
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| formed  = Mid-[[3079]]
| Nickname      = The Roughnecks
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| year    = 3145
| Affiliation    = [[Federated Suns]]
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| unitname = First Syrtis Fusiliers LCT
| Parent Command = [[Syrtis Fusiliers]]
 
| Sub-Command    =  
 
 
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== History ==
 
  
=== Early History ===
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==History==
The '''First Syrtis Fusiliers''' had relatively humble beginnings on [[New Syrtis]]; the [[regiment]] began as an ad hoc unit comprised of workers from various mining and drilling operations owned by the Hasek family. The unit was initially raised to protect the various work sites from those looking to raid the various claims and from competing companies.<ref name="FR2765:FSp18">''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 18: "Syrtis Fusiliers"</ref>
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The modern '''First Syrtis Fusiliers''' were formed in mid-[[3079]], a product of the rebuilding of the [[AFFS]], although their formation owes much to the persuasion applied by [[New Avalon]] to [[Field Marshal]] [[Nathaniel Hasek]] to persuade him to stop attempts to rebuild the various [[Syrtis Fusiliers|Syrtis Fusilier]] units as [[RCT]]s and instead embrace the [[LCT]] concept. Stationed on [[Taygeta]], by August the Fusiliers' equipment and personnel were mostly in place, although the unit was still shaking itself down. Despite the rapid construction process the Fusiliers underwent, they were soon expected to reach regular combat status thanks to intensive training with the [[Davion Assault Guards]].<ref name="FR:AFFSp15"/>
  
The Fusiliers became the private guard and personal army of the Hasek family, with their star rising alongside that of the Hasek family and New Syrtis; the [[Syrtis Fusiliers]] expanded, and as time progressed the [[brigade]] became the official guard of New Syrtis and then the perhaps the most important military command within the [[Capellan March]] Principality of the [[Federated Suns]].<ref name="FR2765:FSp18"/>
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Despite being newly formed, the Fusiliers would soon see combat; when [[Operation MATADOR]], the [[Federated Suns]] counter-offensive against the Taurian Concordat began in May [[3080]], the Fusiliers were on the front lines. The Fusiliers took part in a lightning combat drop on the world of [[Flintoft]] alongside the Assault Guards, one of nine worlds being attacked by AFFS forces; together with the Guards the Fusiliers established and secured a beachhead to allow conventional forces to land on the planet.<ref name="J:FRp27">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 61, "Bearding The Bull"</ref>
 
 
=== Davion Civil War ===
 
The bulk of the Syrtis Fusiliers brigade supported Prince [[David Varnay]] and his wife [[Cassandra Davion]] loyally throughout the [[Davion Civil War]], opposing first the combined forces of [[Laura Davion]] and [[Nikolai Rostov]] and then [[First Prince]] [[Alexander Davion]]. At the end of the war Prince Alexander offered an amnesty to the survivors from the [[brigade]], and reintegrated the Syrtis Fusiliers into the [[Armed Forces of the Federated Suns]], the restructured military that replaced the [[Federated Peacekeeping Forces]] as the state military of the [[Federated Suns]].<ref name="FR2765:FSp18"/>
 
 
 
Alexander's clemency towards the Syrtis Fusiliers and his subsequent actions in rebuffing the attempt by [[Richard Varnay]] to seize control of the Capellan March cemented the Fusiliers' loyalty to [[New Avalon]] and the wider Federated Suns.<ref name="FR2765:FSp18"/>
 
 
 
=== The Star League ===
 
The First Syrtis Fusiliers served the Federated Suns well in the two centuries following the Davion Civil War; when the [[Star League]] council issued the [[Council Edict of 2650]], sharply limiting the size of the military each [[Great House]] was allowed to maintain, the First and her sister regiments were left untouched. The brigade would remain ten regiments strong until shortly after the repeal of the Council Edict of 2650. Four centuries after the antecedents of the First were brought together as a unit, the First would continue to revel in the rough-and-tumble origins of those miners and drillers and bear the nickname "The Roughnecks" with pride.<ref name="FR2765:FSp18"/>
 
 
 
=== The Dark Age ===
 
The modern First Syrtis Fusiliers were formed in mid-[[3079]], a product of the rebuilding of the [[AFFS]], although their formation owes much to the persuasion applied by [[New Avalon]] to [[Field Marshal]] [[Nathaniel Hasek]] to persuade him to stop attempts to rebuild the various [[Syrtis Fusiliers|Syrtis Fusilier]] units as [[RCT]]s and instead embrace the [[LCT]] concept. Stationed on [[Taygeta]], by August the Fusiliers' equipment and personnel were mostly in place, although the unit was still shaking itself down. Despite the rapid construction process the Fusiliers underwent, they were soon expected to reach regular combat status thanks to intensive training with the [[Davion Assault Guards]].<ref name="FR:AFFSp15"/>
 
 
 
Despite being newly formed, the Fusiliers would soon see combat; when [[Operation MATADOR]], the [[Federated Suns]] counteroffensive against the Taurian Concordat began in May [[3080]], the Fusiliers were on the front lines. The Fusiliers took part in a lightning combat drop on the world of [[Flintoft]] alongside the Assault Guards, one of nine worlds being attacked by AFFS forces; together with the Guards the Fusiliers established and secured a beachhead to allow conventional forces to land on the planet.<ref name="J:FRp27">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 61: "Bearding The Bull"</ref>
 
  
 
By [[3085]] the Fusiliers were stationed on [[Hadnall]], although they were somewhat short of their effective combat strength compared to mid-3079.<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
 
By [[3085]] the Fusiliers were stationed on [[Hadnall]], although they were somewhat short of their effective combat strength compared to mid-3079.<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
  
After the [[Victoria War]] in [[3105]] the First Syrtis Fusiliers have 25% losses of their command stuff.<ref name="H:WotREp65">''Historical: Wars of the Republic Era'', p. 65: "Casualties of the Victoria War"</ref>
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In [[3144]] the First Syrtis Fusiliers were stationed on [[Avigait]] before being forced off-world by the [[Dynasty Guards]].<ref>''Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns'', p. 50</ref> The First Syrtis Fusiliers took heavy damage from the Dynasty Guards, including the loss of their headquarters unit.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3145 Capellan Confederation'', p. 34</ref> The survivors took up station on [[Frazer]].<ref>''Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns'', p. 46</ref>
  
In [[3144]] the First Syrtis Fusiliers were stationed on [[Avigait]] before being forced off-world by the [[Dynasty Guards]].<ref>''Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns'', p. 50</ref> The First Syrtis Fusiliers took heavy damage from the Dynasty Guards, including the loss of their headquarters unit.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3145 Capellan Confederation'', p. 34</ref> Half their 'Mechs were destroyed before battle armor and conventional vehicle support arrived and allowed them to disengage from the Guards.<ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 78</ref> The survivors took up station on [[Frazer]].<ref>''Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns'', p. 46</ref><ref>''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 78</ref>
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==Officers==
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When the 1st Syrtis Fusiliers formed, many of the unit's personnel were drawn in from [[Capellan March]] personnel stationed in non-March units. The unit CO is an example of this; [[Major]] [[Francois Wang]] was promoted two ranks when she was posted from the Heavy Guards to command the Fusiliers.<ref name="FR:AFFSp15">''Field Report: AFFS'', p. 15, "Syrtis Brigades"</ref>
  
== Officers ==
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As of [[3085]] the commanding officer was [[Leftenant General]] [[Wallace Hasek-Cole]].<ref name="FM:3085p70">''Field Manual: 3085', p. 70, "Sirdar PDZ (Sirdar Command)"</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
 
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the First Syrtis Fusiliers'''
 
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| [[Colonel]]||[[Francois Wang]]|| <ref name="FR:AFFSp15">''Field Report: AFFS'', p. 15: "Syrtis Brigades"</ref>
 
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| [[Leftenant General]]||[[Wallace Hasek-Cole]]||[[3085]]<ref name="FM:3085p70">''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 70: "Sirdar PDZ (Sirdar Command)"</ref>
 
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| Leftenant General||[[Albert Gullam]]||[[3145]]<ref name="FM:3145p90">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 90: "Armed Forces of the Federated Suns"</ref>
 
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|}
 
  
== Tactics ==
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In [[3145]] the commanding officer is Leftenant General [[Albert Gullam]].<ref name="FM:3145p90">''Field Manual: 3145'', p. 90, "Armed Forces of the Federated Suns"</ref>
=== Star League Era ===
 
The First Syrtis Fusiliers preferred close-in fighting - something that was considered to be a legacy of the unit's beginnings - and the [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] of the First trained extensively in hand-to-hand combat and [['Mech]]-to-'Mech melee combat.<ref name="FR2765:FSp18"/>
 
  
== Composition History ==
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==Tactics==
=== 2765 ===
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''' First Syrtis Fusiliers''' (Regiment/Elite/Reliable).<ref name="FR2765:FSp19">''Field Report 2765: AFFS'', p. 19: "Regimental Status"</ref>
 
:- At This point in time the First were stationed on New Syrtis.<ref name="FR2765:FSp19"/>
 
  
=== 2786–2821 ===
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==Composition History==
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers''' (Regiment/Elite/Reliable)<ref name="FSWp135">''First Succession War'', p. 135: "Armed Forces of the Federated Suns (AFFS)"</ref>
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===3079===
:- At this time the First was an assault-weight unit operating at full regimental strength, and was based on New Syrtis.<ref name="FSWp135"/> In 2821 the unit was operating at a sixth of full strength.<ref name="FSWp135"/>
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'''First Syrtis Fusiliers'''
  
=== 2830 ===
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- The First Syrtis Fusiliers are an [[LCT]] at full strength and 90% of their equipment features upgraded technology.<ref name="FR:AFFSp15"/>
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers''' (Regiment/Elite/Reliable)<ref name=2SWp95>''Second Succession War'', p. 95</ref>
 
: Note: At this time the assault-weight unit was stationed on [[New Syrtis]] with an operational readiness of 62 percent.<ref name=2SWp95/> The unit was destroyed during the war.<ref name=2SWp95/>
 
  
===3079===
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===3085===
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers LCT ''' (Battalion/Green/Reliable)<ref name="fraffs14">''Field Report: AFFS'', p. 14</ref>
 
: Note: At this time the unit was stationed on [[Taygeta]].<ref name="fraffs14"/> The First Syrtis Fusiliers are an [[LCT]] at full strength and 90% of their equipment features upgraded technology.<ref name="FR:AFFSp15"/>
 
 
 
=== 3085 ===
 
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers LCT''' (Green/Regular)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers LCT''' (Green/Regular)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
* CO: Leftenant General [[Wallace Hasek-Cole]]
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* CO: Leftenant General Wallace Hasek-Cole
:- The First Fusiliers were at 75% of full strength, but 90% of their equipment had been upgraded.
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:- The 1st Fusiliers were at 75% of full strength, but 90% of their equipment had been upgraded.
  
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Aerospace Brigade''' (Green/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Aerospace Brigade''' (Green/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
 
* CO: [[Rear Admiral]] [[Celine Doherty]]
 
* CO: [[Rear Admiral]] [[Celine Doherty]]
:- Less well manned and equipped than the BattleMech formation within the LCT, the Aerospace Brigade was at 65% of full strength with only 45% of the Brigade's equipment having been upgraded.
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:- Less well manned and equipped than the BattleMech formation within the LCT, the AeroSpace Brigade was at 65% of full strength with only 45% of the Brigade's equipment having been upgraded.
  
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Armor Brigade''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Armor Brigade''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
 
* CO: Leftenant General [[Lourdes Bertrand]]
 
* CO: Leftenant General [[Lourdes Bertrand]]
:- The most experienced element of the LCT at this time, the Armor Brigade was at 60% of full strength but 75% of their equipment had been upgraded.
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:- The most experienced element of the LCT at this point in time, the Armor Brigade was at 60% of full strength but 75% of their equipment had been upgraded.
  
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Infantry Brigade''' (Green/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Infantry Brigade''' (Green/Reliable)<ref name="FM:3085p70"/>
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:- The most heavily understrength element of the LCT, the Infantry Brigade was at just half strength in 3085.
 
:- The most heavily understrength element of the LCT, the Infantry Brigade was at just half strength in 3085.
  
=== 3145 ===
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===3145===
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers LCT''' (Veteran/Fanatical)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/>
 
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers LCT''' (Veteran/Fanatical)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/>
 
* CO: Leftenant General Albert Gullam
 
* CO: Leftenant General Albert Gullam
  
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Aerospace Brigade''' (Veteran/Fanatical)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/>
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'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Aerospace Brigade''' (Veteran/Fanatical)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/>
* CO: [[Commodore]] [[Hugh Terry]]
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* CO: [[Commodore]] Hugh Terry
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'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Armor Brigade''' (Elite/Fanatical)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/> 
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* CO: Leftenant General Meredith Webster
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'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Infantry Brigade''' (Regular/Questionable)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/> 
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* CO: Leftenant General Alexis Torgersen
  
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Armor Brigade''' (Elite/Fanatical)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/>
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==Notes==
* CO: Leftenant General [[Meredith Webster]]
 
  
'''First Syrtis Fusiliers Infantry Brigade''' (Regular/Questionable)<ref name="FM:3145p90"/>
 
* CO: Leftenant General [[Alexis Torgersen]]
 
  
== References ==
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==References==
 
<references />
 
<references />
  
== Bibliography ==
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==Bibliography==
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Field Manual: 3145]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: AFFS]]''
 
* ''[[Field Report: AFFS]]''
* ''[[Field Report 2765: AFFS]]''
 
* ''[[First Succession War (sourcebook)|First Succession War]]''
 
* ''[[Historical: Wars of the Republic Era]]''
 
 
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
 
* ''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
* ''[[Second Succession War (sourcebook)|Second Succession War]]''
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* ''[[Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns]]''
 
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3145 Capellan Confederation]]''
 
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3145 Capellan Confederation]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3145 Federated Suns]]''
 
 
  
[[Category:Federated Suns Commands|Syrtis Fusiliers, 001st]]
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[[Category:Federated Suns Commands|Syrtis Fusiliers, 1st]]

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