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Line 1: − {{infoBoxMilitaryCommand + {{infoBoxStateUnit − | image = [[File:saalphagalaxy.jpg|150px]] + | image = − | Designation = Alpha Galaxy+ | nickname = Old Blood and Guts − | formed = [[2815]] + | parent formation = ''None'' − | Disbanded = + | formed = ''2815'' − | Previous Designation = + | year = 3059 − | Nickname = ''Old Blood and Guts'' + | unitname = − | Affiliation = [[Clan Star Adder]] − | Parent Command = [[Clan Star Adder Touman|Clan Star Adder ''touman'']] − | Sub-Command = }} }} + ==History== ==History== − [[Clan Star Adder]]'s '''Alpha Galaxy''' was originally formed from the equipment and warriors of the [[146th Royal BattleMech Division]]. The unit has fought in every major conflict that Clan Star Adder has been involved in. It is considered their show piece unit, receiving the best warriors and equipment as it is always the first into battle. <ref name=fmcc123>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 123</ref> Alpha Galaxy was rebuilt after the [[Burrock Absorption]] by taking in warriors from the decommissioned [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Beta Galaxy]]. It made a strong showing in the [[Harvest Trials]], and by [[3067]] was considered at full strength. <ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 51</ref>+ Originally formed from the equipment and warriors of the [[146th Royal BattleMech Division]]. − − === Wars of Reaving === − In late [[3069]] [[Clan Blood Spirit]] was expanding its holdings in the Homeworlds, looking in part to obtain additional resources for their hidden settlements on [[Honor (planet)|Honor]] and [[Haven]]. Khan [[Karianna Schmitt]] led the Blood Spirit [[Alpha Galaxy (Clan Blood Spirit)|Alpha]] and [[Iota Galaxy (Clan Blood Spirit)|Iota Galaxies]] to [[Albion (Clan System)|Albion]], intent on seizing the Star Adder holdings there. The [[87th Dragoon (Clan Star Adder)|Eighty-seventh Dragoons]] managed to hold the Star Adder enclave at Junction City until the end of the year before falling, outlasting the [[343rd Adder Sentinels (Clan Star Adder)|343rd Adder Sentinels]] who had been defeated defending the nearby ''[[Chrysaor]]'' manufacturing facilities soon after the Blood Spirits landed.<ref name="WoRp43">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 43: "The Hellion Plan"</ref> − − In early [[3073]] the Star Adder [[Khan]], [[Stanislov N'Buta]], took Alpha Galaxy to the [[Tanis]] system to respond to the discovery that [[Clan Burrock]] had resurrected itself and the lack of contact from [[Galaxy Commander]] [[Tristyn N'Buta]] of [[Upsilon Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Upsilon Galaxy]]. Acting on intelligence from [[Clan Cloud Cobra]],<ref name="WoRp117">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 117-118, "Splitting the Snake"</ref> Stanislov took Alpha and [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Beta Galaxy]] to [[Nouveaux Paris]], escorted by the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[CSA Warlock|''Warlock'']] and the ''[[Nightlord]]''-class battleship ''[[Absolute Truth]]'' in pursuit of the Burrock [[Zeta Galaxy (Clan Burrock)|Zeta Galaxy]].<ref name="WoRp119">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 119–121: "Spreading Contagion"</ref> − When N'Buta's forces arrived at Nouveaux Paris, he discovered [[Eta Galaxy (Clan Hell's Horses)|Eta Galaxy]] of [[Clan Hell's Horses]] already in-system, escorted by the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser ''[[Blood Horse]]'' and the ''Lola III''-class [[CHH Black Knight|''Black Knight'']], engaged in battle with the Burrock, [[Dark Caste]] and [[Society]] forces who had taken control of the waystation. N'Buta demanded that the Horses get out of the way, and had the ''Absolute Truth'' and ''Warlock'' escort the bulk of Alpha and Beta Galaxies in a planetary assault, with Alpha dropping onto the planet while Beta's aerospace forces provided combat air support. Despite being hampered by Hell's Horses troops and Watch agents on the planet, the Burrocks were still able to spend two days rearming and preparing for the Star Adder assault.<ref name="WoRp119"/>+ Rebuilt after the [[Burrock Absorption]] by taking in warriors from the decommissioned [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Beta Galaxy]]. − − The [[85th Adder Cavaliers (Clan Star Adder)|Eighty-fifth Adder Cavaliers]] scored first blood, evading an ambush by the [[18th Warren (Clan Burrock)|Eighteenth Warren Cluster]] and pinning the Eighteenth in place for destruction via a bombing run conducted by [[aerospace fighter]]s from the [[10th Armored Cavalry (Clan Star Adder)|Tenth Armored Cavalry]]<ref>''BattleCorps - Scenario: 'Mechs from Heaven''</ref>. Battles and skirmishes continued for several days in and around Paris Prime, the support city and main barracks the Hell's Horses had constructed on the planet, and at one point N'Buta was believed to have been killed in an ambush that saw bandit forces drop a reinforced rail depot on top of his [['Mech]]. The Star Adders managed to find and badly damage a number of Burrock [[DropShip]]s in the Seine Valley, at the cost of many of their aerospace fighters, but were left with little choice but to withdraw from the surface of the planet when the [[98th Tanis Dragoons (Clan Burrock)|Ninety-eighth Tanis Dragoons]] attacked the grounded Star Adder DropShips and declared that they had an atomic weapon they would use, stranding the Adders in the system, if they refused to withdraw.<ref name="WoRp119"/> − − Although N'Buta was forced to retreat, he struck a deal in secret with Galaxy Commander [[Unther Cooper]] of the Horses; despite the Horses being subject to reaving, N'Buta's personal respect for the Clan and his past dealings with him prompted him to propose a controversial bargain he knew wouldn't be acceptable to the more conservative Clan leaders within the [[Clan Homeworlds]]. The Star Adders had managed to plant homing devices on a number of the Burrock ships, allowing for Zeta Galaxy to be tracked. N'Buta proposed to "loan" two Clusters from Alpha Galaxy to the Horses - the [[5th Assault (Clan Star Adder)|Fifth Assault Cluster]] and the [[191st Adder Guards (Clan Star Adder)|191st Adder Guards]] - and the combined forces would hunt down Zeta Galaxy, while N'Buta returned to [[Sheridan]] with his remaining forces and declare victory. In addition, once the mission was complete, the Star Adder forces would return to the Homeworlds, and in the event of an invasion of the [[Inner Sphere]], the Star Adders wouldn't attack through the Hell's Horses Occupation Zone. It was a bold plan, and Cooper agreed. The Fifth Assault Cluster and the 191st Adder Guards never returned.<ref name="WoRp119"/> − − The Bandit forces still on Nouveaux Paris looted the Star Adder DropShips that N'Buta had been forced to leave behind, recovering almost two [[Trinary|Trinaries]] of equipment abandoned by the [[79th Dragoon (Clan Star Adder)|Seventy-ninth Adder Dragoons]] before transferring the crews to their own vessels and scuttling the DropShips - unknowingly taking two Star Adder Watch operatives with them.<ref name="WoRp119"/> − − In July [[3074]], the Star Adder Watch contacted [[Star Colonel]] [[Boyd Truscott]] of the 191st Adder Guards, alerting him of the Burrock Zeta Galaxy's plans to sow conflict between the Hell's Horses and the [[Ghost Bear Dominion]] by equipping themselves with Horses equipment taken from Nouveaux Paris and attacking a string of Ghost Bear worlds under false colors. Truscott passed the information to Cooper, who passed it to the Ghost Bears in turn via the Horses' Khan. Given permission to intercept the Burrocks by the Ghost Bears, the Hell's Horses dispatched the [[39th BattleMech (Clan Hell's Horses)|Thirty-ninth BattleMech Cluster]] alongside the Fifth Assault Cluster and 191st Adder Guards to engage the Burrock raiders at [[Thule]]. Following the descending Burrock DropShips, the combined forces hot-dropped near the city of Accotink City - the main industrial city on Thule, located on the shores of Lake Accotink - and engaged the Burrock forces, while observed by a Ghost Bear [[Trinary]] of ''[[solahma]]'' warriors. As the battle spilled over into the city, the Ghost Bear patrol was destroyed by the Burrocks, but the Fifth Assault Cluster successfully destroyed the [[2nd Burrock Cavaliers (Clan Burrock)|Second Burrock Cavaliers]]. The remaining two Burrock Clusters evaded the 191st and the Thirty-ninth, although the destruction inflicted on the city during the three-way battle included the newly-completed ''[[Miraborg (DropShip class)|Miraborg]]'' manufacturing facility. Engaged in the air by Ghost Bear aerospace fighters and harried by the Adder and Hell's Horses ground forces, one of the two escaping DropShips was successfully destroyed.<ref name="WoRp136">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 136–137: "Poking the Bear"</ref> − − Cooper kept Eta Galaxy, the Fifth Assault Cluster and the 191st on the border of Dominion space until October, waiting for the Burrocks to return. In October, he decided to take Eta Galaxy back to Hell's Horses space, formally adopting the surviving Star Adder warriors into the Horses in the process. While the attack on Thule had been rebuffed, the attack was linked to a virus later found to have been added to the Thule water table via Lake Accotink that was responsible for the deaths of almost three hundred thousand people within the Dominion and the near-extinction of two Ghost Bear bloodlines.<ref name="WoRp136"/> − − Under [[saKhan]] [[Hannibal Banacek]] Alpha Galaxy worked with [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Star Adder)|Delta Galaxy]] to cleanse the various Star Adder holdings on [[Brim]], [[Homer]] and [[Tathis]] of taint from both the Dark Caste and Society, witnessing the tremendous loss of life that had occurred as a result of the Wars of Reaving and the actions of the Society.<ref name="WoRp183">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 183: "Hannibal Banacek"</ref> − − ===The Dark Age=== − In the aftermath of the Wars of Reaving, the Star Adders and Clan Cloud Cobra shifted from being staunch allies to respected rivals, with spirited debates in the [[Grand Council]] leading to resolution - or refutation - through battlefield [[Trial]]s. The Star Adders tended to cycle Stars from Alpha Galaxy for these trials.<ref name="WoRSp11">''The Wars of Reaving Supplemental'', p. 11: "Clan Cloud Cobra"</ref> ==Officers== ==Officers== − {| class="wikitable"+ As of [[3059]] the Commanding Officer was [[Galaxy Commander]] Dante [[Truscott (Bloodname)|Truscott]] − |- − ! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank − ! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name − ! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command − |- − | colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the Alpha Galaxy''' − |- − | [[Galaxy Commander]]||[[Tabitha Paik]]||<ref name=FMCCp120>''Field Manual: Crusader Clans'', p. 120</ref> − |- − | Galaxy Commander||[[Dante Truscott]]||[[3049]] - [[3059]]<ref name=fmcc123/> − |- − | Galaxy Commander||[[Hannibal Banacek]]||[[3067]]<ref name=fmu73>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 73</ref> − |- − | [[saKhan]]||Hannibal Banacek||[[3071]]<ref>''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 104</ref> − |- − | [[Khan]]||Hannibal Banacek||[[3085]]<ref name="WoRp168">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 168: "Alpha Galaxy"</ref> − |- − |} ==Tactics== ==Tactics== − Alpha lacks speed and prefers longer campaigns. Adept at most terrain it employs its fighters to wear down an enemy before the heavy and assault units finish the task.<ref name=fmcc123/> − ==Composition History== + − ===3059-3067=== + ==Composition== − * [[5th Assault (Clan Star Adder)|Fifth Assault Cluster]] + ===3059=== − * [[11th Armored Cavalry Squadron (Clan Star Adder)|Eleventh Armored Cavalry Squadron]] + * [[5th Assault (Clan Star Adder)|5th Assault]] − * [[85th Adder Cavaliers (Clan Star Adder)|Eighty-fifth Adder Cavaliers]] + * [[11th Armored Cavalry Squadron (Clan Star Adder)|11th Armored Cavalry Squadron]] − * [[87th Dragoon (Clan Star Adder)|Eighty-seventh Dragoon Cluster]] + * [[85th Adder Cavaliers (Clan Star Adder)|85th Adder Cavaliers]] + * [[87th Dragoon (Clan Star Adder)|87th Dragoon]] * [[191st Adder Guards (Clan Star Adder)|191st Adder Guards]] * [[191st Adder Guards (Clan Star Adder)|191st Adder Guards]] − * [[10th Armored Cavalry (Clan Star Adder)|Tenth Armored Cavalry]] − * ''[[Sovereign Right]]'' (''[[McKenna (WarShip class)|McKenna]]'' class [[WarShip]])<ref name=fmcc123/><ref name=fmu73/> − === 3085 === + ==Notes== − * [[Adder Command Keshik (Clan Star Adder)|Adder Command Keshik]]<ref name="WoRp168"/>+ − * Eleventh Armored Cavalry Squadron<ref name="WoRp168"/> − * [[73rd Adder Cavaliers (Clan Star Adder)|Seventy-third Adder Cavaliers]]<ref name="WoRp168"/> − * Eighty-fifth Adder Cavaliers<ref name="WoRp168"/> ==References== ==References== − <references />+ *[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]] − − ==Bibliography== − * ''[[Field Manual: Crusader Clans]]'' − * ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]'' − * ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]'' − * ''[[The Wars of Reaving Supplemental]]'' [[Category:Clan Star Adder Commands|Alpha Galaxy]] [[Category:Clan Star Adder Commands|Alpha Galaxy]]
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| − | * [[85th Adder Cavaliers (Clan Star Adder)| | + | * [[11th Armored Cavalry Squadron (Clan Star Adder)|11th Armored Cavalry Squadron]] |
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[[Category:Clan Star Adder Commands|Alpha Galaxy]] | [[Category:Clan Star Adder Commands|Alpha Galaxy]] | ||