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Line 31: In [[2578]] veteran tank commander [[Colonel]] [[Vincent MacLaren]] (retired) receives word that all three of his sons have been killed in action in the [[Ridgebrook]] system, fighting against the [[Star League Defense Force]]. Furthermore, the [[Taurian Defense Force]] recalls him to active duty, leaving his grandson Sammy with his now widowed mother on [[Caldwell]]. Arriving on [[Electra]], Vincent assumes command of a TDF armor detachment, under his former executive officer Colonel [[Bastian Gray]]. In [[2578]] veteran tank commander [[Colonel]] [[Vincent MacLaren]] (retired) receives word that all three of his sons have been killed in action in the [[Ridgebrook]] system, fighting against the [[Star League Defense Force]]. Furthermore, the [[Taurian Defense Force]] recalls him to active duty, leaving his grandson Sammy with his now widowed mother on [[Caldwell]]. Arriving on [[Electra]], Vincent assumes command of a TDF armor detachment, under his former executive officer Colonel [[Bastian Gray]]. − By [[2579]], the TDF's Pleiades Fleet has been forced to retreat from the cluster, leaving Electra open to invasion by [[General]] [[Manstein Wexworth]] and six SLDF combined-arms regiments. In the opening engagement, the TDF garrison is forced to retreat, and Colonel Gray is killed, leaving Vincent as the senior TDF officer onworld. + By [[2579]], the TDF's Pleiades Fleet has been forced to retreat from the cluster, leaving Electra open to invasion by [[General Wexworth]] and six SLDF combined-arms regiments. In the opening engagement, the TDF garrison is forced to retreat, and Colonel Gray is killed, leaving Vincent as the senior TDF officer onworld. By late [[2580]] Vincent is struggling to hold Wexworth's troops back with unorthodox tactics, but faces total defeat within months. As a final gambit, he attaches a nuclear warhead to his [[Augustus A-3 Tank|Augustus MBT]] and detonates it by ramming an SLDF ''[[Thug]]'', destroying large numbers of SLDF 'Mechs but failing to prevent the SLDF from conquering Electra. By late [[2580]] Vincent is struggling to hold Wexworth's troops back with unorthodox tactics, but faces total defeat within months. As a final gambit, he attaches a nuclear warhead to his [[Augustus A-3 Tank|Augustus MBT]] and detonates it by ramming an SLDF ''[[Thug]]'', destroying large numbers of SLDF 'Mechs but failing to prevent the SLDF from conquering Electra.
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In [[2578]] veteran tank commander [[Colonel]] [[Vincent MacLaren]] (retired) receives word that all three of his sons have been killed in action in the [[Ridgebrook]] system, fighting against the [[Star League Defense Force]]. Furthermore, the [[Taurian Defense Force]] recalls him to active duty, leaving his grandson Sammy with his now widowed mother on [[Caldwell]]. Arriving on [[Electra]], Vincent assumes command of a TDF armor detachment, under his former executive officer Colonel [[Bastian Gray]]. | In [[2578]] veteran tank commander [[Colonel]] [[Vincent MacLaren]] (retired) receives word that all three of his sons have been killed in action in the [[Ridgebrook]] system, fighting against the [[Star League Defense Force]]. Furthermore, the [[Taurian Defense Force]] recalls him to active duty, leaving his grandson Sammy with his now widowed mother on [[Caldwell]]. Arriving on [[Electra]], Vincent assumes command of a TDF armor detachment, under his former executive officer Colonel [[Bastian Gray]]. | ||
| − | By [[2579]], the TDF's Pleiades Fleet has been forced to retreat from the cluster, leaving Electra open to invasion by [[General | + | By [[2579]], the TDF's Pleiades Fleet has been forced to retreat from the cluster, leaving Electra open to invasion by [[General Wexworth]] and six SLDF combined-arms regiments. In the opening engagement, the TDF garrison is forced to retreat, and Colonel Gray is killed, leaving Vincent as the senior TDF officer onworld. |
By late [[2580]] Vincent is struggling to hold Wexworth's troops back with unorthodox tactics, but faces total defeat within months. As a final gambit, he attaches a nuclear warhead to his [[Augustus A-3 Tank|Augustus MBT]] and detonates it by ramming an SLDF ''[[Thug]]'', destroying large numbers of SLDF 'Mechs but failing to prevent the SLDF from conquering Electra. | By late [[2580]] Vincent is struggling to hold Wexworth's troops back with unorthodox tactics, but faces total defeat within months. As a final gambit, he attaches a nuclear warhead to his [[Augustus A-3 Tank|Augustus MBT]] and detonates it by ramming an SLDF ''[[Thug]]'', destroying large numbers of SLDF 'Mechs but failing to prevent the SLDF from conquering Electra. | ||