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Beta Galaxy (Rasalhague Dominion)

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History

Operation Revival

Units of Beta Galaxy participated in battles for the following worlds during the invasion of the Inner Sphere. Beta Galaxy lost an entire Cluster to an asteroid strike on one of their DropShips in the Damian system during Wave Two.

Wave One

Wave Two

Wave Three

Wave Four

Wave Five

Tukayyid

Beta Galaxy was assigned to take the objective city of Luk together with Delta Galaxy. Beta did well initially, decimating the 121st Division. However, the ComGuard troops managed to trap Delta's 20th Polar Bear Attack Cluster and forced Beta and Delta to withdraw and try to reinforce Alpha Galaxy's drive on Spanac.

During the retreat, Beta Galaxy lost the Seventh Bear Guards Cluster to an ambush by the 12th Division.

Beta and Delta's eventual arrival at Spanac forced the ComGuards to withdraw from the city. Beta and Delta were left to garrison Spanac while Alpha attempted to take Luk.

First Draconis Combine/Ghost Bear War

Beta Galaxy were actively involved in the First Draconis Combine / Ghost Bear War, which began in 3062 with a suicidal attack by three regiments of the Alshain Avengers against Alshain. While the Twelfth Bear Chevaliers attacked the Clan Nova Cat forces on Mualang, preventing those forces from coming to the assistance of the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery, Beta Galaxy attacked both Dumaring and Najha.[1]

The 304th Assault Cluster took heavy damage on Maule when Nova Cat forces launched a ferocious deep strike at them, but the 304th was still able to launch an attack on Gunzburg shortly after the end of the War, working with the Second Bear Regulars from Tau Galaxy to seize the Clan Wolf world. The attack on Gunzburg was one part of the Ghost Bear counter-attack against the Clan Hell's Horses forces that Khan Vladimir Ward had brought to the Inner Sphere as allies and who had launched their own invasion of the Ghost Bear Occupation Zone during the Combine/Ghost Bear War.[1]

The Jihad

Pesht

Beta Galaxy took part in the Ghost Bear campaign against the Word of Blake during the Jihad; Beta's first target was Pesht,[2] which the Ghost Bears hit on the 15th of December 3074, the same day their forces also struck at Luthien. The Ghost Bear forces attacked the Blakist forces remorselessly, making no attempt to offer zellbrigen to their opponents on either world; the Ghost Bears also destroyed any DCMS units that attempted to intervene, and by the 20th of December had crushed their enemies on both worlds.[3][4]

Kaus Media and Ascella

Beta Galaxy then abandoned Pesht at the end of January 3075, as abruptly as they had arrived;[4][5] the Ghost Bears organized their forces to drive towards Terra in several waves, each named after the lead Galaxy in that wave. Beta Galaxy formed the heart of Beta wave, striking first at secondary worlds like Kaus Media and Ascella[2] on the 6th of October 3075.[6][7]

Rho[8] and Theta Galaxies[9] were assigned to support Beta Galaxy in Beta Wave, with Rho seizing Kaus Australis and joining the assault on Ascella;[8] the resulting battle the Fourteenth Battle Cluster take enough damage that it had to retreat, but Beta Galaxy pressed on.[2] Rho Galaxy was pushed into reserve on Ascella after the 297th Battle Cluster was nearly destroyed, leaving Beta Galaxy and one of the units personally affiliated to Devlin Stone, Stone's Lament, to clear the planet.[8] The losses on Ascella were such that Theta Galaxy was moved up from a garrison role to an active combat role within Beta Wave, only to see the Galaxy perform poorly when tasked with capturing Moore[9] in July 3076[10][11] and Pike IV[9] in September 3076.[10][11]

Dieron

Beta Galaxy won the right to join the attack on the Blakist forces at Dieron[2] in 3077[12] alongside Alpha,[13] Rho[8] and Omega Galaxies.[14] Dieron was a bloodbath for all the Ghost Bear Galaxies involved; Beta smashed through the Blakist blockade in the system and took over the city of Olivet,[12] but lost lost the 304th Assault Cluster in the battle fought in the Chiloe Pass and had to disband the Twelfth Bear Chevaliers after they were gutted by Blakist forces in the tunnels within Fortress Dieron.[2] Rho Galaxy suffered heavy enough combat losses that it had to be tasked with securing the outer areas rather than joining the Fortress Dieron assault, and the badly-damaged 297th Battle Cluster was destroyed during constant raids by Blakist forces.[8] Omega Galaxy took heavy enough damage that the surviving Clusters from the Galaxy were actually absorbed into Beta Galaxy for the remainder of the Jihad, although after Beta returned to the Dominion the Fifth Bear Guards and 357th Assault Cluster were detached from Beta once more to form the basis of a rebuilding Omega Galaxy.[14]

The Dark Age

The bloody swath that Beta cut through the Blakists during the Jihad earned them not just a passage in the Remembrance but also a grim reputation in the eyes of the Dominion's neighbours; the Dominion was more than happy to use that reputation to its advantage, and in the early years after the Jihad Beta acted as a threat to Clan Wolf. While Beta Galaxy was half the size of the Wolves Alpha Galaxy, Beta was positioned within two jumps of the Wolf capital on Tamar and served as a clear reminder that Dominion was always ready to tear straight into the heart of the Wolf Occupation Zone. Despite the relatively small size of Beta Galaxy it was able to draw on the production of factories on both Alshain and Satalice, and any lack of mass on Beta's part was compensated for using cutting edge and sheer mass, with the weight of the Clusters within Beta increasing as the Galaxy rebuilt.[15]

As a part of rebuilding Beta Galaxy the Dominion assigned the 140th Striker Cluster to them as a part of disbanding Delta Galaxy, as well as moving the Eighteenth Battle Cluster from Rho Galaxy into Beta. Both Clusters were assigned to worlds close to New Oslo, one of the Hell's Horses worlds and a menacing reminder that whilst Beta might have had problems maintaining an extended campaign at that point, it was more than capable of tearing through a defending force.[15]

By the mid-thirty-second century Beta Galaxy had been deployed to shield the Skandia province of the Rasalhague Dominion from its location near the border of the Draconis Combine's Buckminster Prefecture. After the HPG blackout began Beta was the first front-line formation in the Dominion to begin receiving new equipment, including large quantities of battle armor produced on Mannedorf.[16]

In 3137 as Clan Wolf was abandoning their Occupation Zone Beta Galaxy was swiftly redeployed to capture a number of worlds that had been members of the former Free Rasalhague Republic. In a swift campaign the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Battle Clusters managed to seize Carse, Galuzzo, Jabuka and Quarell before the Eighteenth collided with the First Falcon Jaegers on La Grave. The light Clan Jade Falcon unit used hordes of light 'Mechs to outflank the Eighteenth, cutting their supply lines and initially refusing calls for hegira. The Eighteenth managed to avoid being wiped out when Star Colonel Lynda managed to win hegira through single combat, but after La Grave Beta Galaxy began training furiously for revenge against the Jade Falcons even while threats to the Dominion on all sides forced the Dominion Council to keep the Galaxy leashed.[16]

Officers

From the start of Operation Revival through to 3085 the commanding officer of Beta Galaxy was Galaxy Commander - and Loremaster - Laurie Tseng.[17][18][19][20]

In 3145 the commanding officer of Beta Galaxy was Loremaster Hans Kabrinski; Star Colonel Freddie Sradac was serving as his military aide.[21]

Tactics

Beta units favors cautious advances and rarely commit to uncertain situations. Their preferred tactics are flanking attacks flanking attacks with mechanized battle armor support.[22]

Composition History

3050

3052

  • Shrill Keshik
  • 12th Bear Chevaliers
  • 14th Battle Cluster
  • 304th Assault Cluster
  • 332nd Assault Cluster

3061

  • Shrill Keshik
  • Twelfth Bear Chevaliers
  • Fourteenth Battle Cluster
  • 304th Assault Cluster
  • 332nd Assault Cluster
  • Black Lion-class battlecruiser CGB Bear's Den

3067

  • Trinary Galaxy Command[18]
  • Twelfth Bear Chevaliers[18]
  • Fourteenth Battle Cluster[18]
  • 304th Assault Cluster[18]
  • 332nd Assault Cluster[18]

3079

  • Trinary Galaxy Command[24]
  • Fourteenth Battle Cluster[24]
  • 332nd Assault Cluster[24]

3085

3145

  • Trinary Galaxy Command[21]
  • Fourteenth Battle Cluster[21]
  • Eighteenth Battle Cluster[21]
  • 140th Striker Cluster[21]
  • 332nd Assault Cluster[21]

Notes

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Field Manual: Updates, p. 60, "Beta Galaxy (Night Howlers)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Field Report: Clans, p. 9, "Beta Galaxy"
  3. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 55, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 53, "The Jihad In Review"
  5. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 14, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  6. ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 18, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  7. ↑ Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 54, "The Jihad In Review"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Field Report: Clans, p. 9, "Rho Galaxy"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Field Report: Clans, p. 9, "Theta Galaxy"
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Jihad Hot Spots: Terra, p. 22, "Timeline of the Jihad"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Jihad: Final Reckoning, p. 56, "The Jihad In Review"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Jihad Turning Points: Dieron, p. 5, Beta Galaxy (Clan Ghost Bear)
  13. ↑ Field Report: Clans, p. 9, "Alpha Galaxy"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Field Report: Clans, p. 9, "Omega Galaxy"
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Field Manual: 3085, p. 120, "Beta Galaxy"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Field Manual: 3145, p. 162, "Beta Galaxy"
  17. ↑ Invading Clans, p. 39
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 Field Manual: Updates, p. 77, "Beta Galaxy (Night Howlers)"
  19. ↑ Jihad Turning Points: Dieron, p. 5, Beta Galaxy (Clan Ghost Bear)
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Field Manual: 3085, p. 127, "Beta Galaxy (Night Howlers)"
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 Field Manual: 3145, p. 172, "Beta Galaxy (Night Howlers)"
  22. ↑ Field Manual: Warden Clans, p. 89
  23. ↑ Ghost Bear's Lament (Part I)
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Field Report: Clans, p. 11, "Beta Gaalxy"

Bibliography

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