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	It was a testament to the resistance faced by Benboudaoud that when the hour for APOTHEOSIS came, the preemptive strike by Republican special forces to secure the planetary [[HPG]] on New Dallas were blocked, one of only three instances where Hegemony forces prevented the Republicans gaining control of the planetary communications.<ref name="H:LoTV1p71">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 71, "Hegemony Blackout"</ref> Benboudaoud also had her troops target both important personnel - including planetary governor [[Titus Clay]] - and significant SLDF installations in an attempt to sow confusion, but the local resistance proved impossible to overcome.<ref name="HTP:NDp9">''Historical Turning Points: New Dallas'', p. 9, "Houston, We Have A Problem"</ref>		It was a testament to the resistance faced by Benboudaoud that when the hour for APOTHEOSIS came, the preemptive strike by Republican special forces to secure the planetary [[HPG]] on New Dallas were blocked, one of only three instances where Hegemony forces prevented the Republicans gaining control of the planetary communications.<ref name="H:LoTV1p71">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 71, "Hegemony Blackout"</ref> Benboudaoud also had her troops target both important personnel - including planetary governor [[Titus Clay]] - and significant SLDF installations in an attempt to sow confusion, but the local resistance proved impossible to overcome.<ref name="HTP:NDp9">''Historical Turning Points: New Dallas'', p. 9, "Houston, We Have A Problem"</ref>
−	Benboudaoud's forces were equally unable to secure control over the planetary [[Space Defense System]], and with the eight-ship strong Republican [[WarShip]] squadron assigned to the New Dallas system destroyed after securing control of the local jump points, Benboudaoud's forces were heavily outnumbered in the field by Kataga's forces and were destroyed in a six-hour battle.<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+"/> Benboudaoud piloted a personalized [[Rampage#Variants|''Rampage'']] [[BattleMech]] while leading her forces in the frantic defense against the incensed SLDF forces at Fort Resolute and died in the cockpit of her 'Mech, knowing that this was her only option having failed [[First Consul]] Amaris.<ref name="HTP:NDp7"/>	+	Benboudaoud's forces were equally unable to secure control over the planetary [[Space Defense System]], and with the eight-ship strong Republican [[WarShip]] squadron assigned to the New Dallas system destroyed after securing control of the local jump points, Benboudaoud's forces were heavily outnumbered in the field by Kataga's forces and were destroyed in a six-hour long battle.<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+"/> Benboudaoud piloted a personalized [[Rampage#Variants|''Rampage'']] [[BattleMech]] while leading her forces in the frantic defense against the incensed SLDF forces at Fort Resolute and died in the cockpit of her 'Mech, knowing that this was her only option having failed [[First Consul]] Amaris.<ref name="HTP:NDp7"/>
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{{InfoBoxCharacter | image = | caption = | name = Viktoria Benboudaoud | birthdate = | died = | affiliation = [[Rim Worlds Republic]] | profession = [[General]] | parents = | siblings = | spouse = | children = }} '''Viktoria Benboudaoud''' was an officer of the [[Rim Worlds Army]] during the [[Star League]] era. ==History== Benboudaoud had reached the rank of [[General]] when [[Stefan Amaris]] launched [[Operation APOTHEOSIS]] on the 27th of December [[2766]] and was given responsibility for the campaign to secure the [[Terran Hegemony]] world of [[New Dallas]].<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 83-84, "New Dallas"</ref> A distant cousin of [[Mohommad Selim]], Benboudaoud had a reputation for loyalty and ruthlessness and actively supported the idea of conquering the Terran Hegemony. By the time APOTHEOSIS launched Benboudaoud was the commanding officer of the [[62nd Republican Brigade|Sixty-second Republican Brigade]] within the [[6th Republican Guards Division|Sixth Republican Guards Division]], a prestigious command, as well as commanding the [[154th Amaris Dragoons]] in the field.<ref name="HTP:NDp7">''Historical Turning Points: New Dallas'', p. 7, "Viktoria Benboudaoud"</ref> Benboudaoud's efforts to implement APOTHEOSIS were actively hampered by the suspicion bordering on hostility with which she and her forces were held by the population of [[New Dallas]], the Planetary Governor, [[Titus Clay]], and the senior [[SLDF]] officer, [[Major General]] [[Carlos Kataga]]. Clay and Kataga had attempted to block the deployment of Benboudaoud's forces in the first instance by mobilizing the strong planetary militia to garrison the [[Castle Brian|Castles Brian]] and other SLDF facilities on New Dallas as well as giving greater responsibility to the SLDF reserve forces present. When Benboudaoud arrived with orders signed by General [[Aleksandr Kerensky]] to garrison the three Castles Brian on the planet, she was greeted with outright laughter by Clay and Kataga; when she protested, Clay responded by having her escorted out of his office under armed guard, by canceling the landing permits for the Republican forces and by impounding Benboudaoud's [[DropShip]].<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+"/> Benboudaoud attempted to protest directly to both the senior [[Rim Worlds Republic]] military officer in the Hegemony, General [[Patrick Scoffins]], as well as directly to Stefan Amaris; neither was willing to force a confrontation with the [[SLDF#High Command|SLDF High Command]] at the time, which left Benboudaoud and her forces assigned to garrisoning only the most minor areas of the smallest, farthest-flung bases on New Dallas.<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+"/> Despite this, Benboudaoud attempted to fulfil her orders; unfortunately, her attempts were blocked at every stage. The terrorist incidents encouraged on New Dallas that were intended to make the local population more reliant on security provided by the Republican garrison were instead dealt with quickly by the New Dallas authorities, with Kataga redeploying [[company|companies]] of SLDF recruits to respond to the incidents, obtaining hands-on training of the situations they could expect to meet in the [[Periphery]]. Rather than gaining increased access to facilities and areas on New Dallas, Benboudaoud's forces were strictly limited to being able to deploy only onto training areas, and only when under close supervision by New Dallas monitoring units.<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+"/> With her efforts stymied, Benboudaoud concentrated on upgrading the 154th Amaris Dragoons as much as possible prior to the inevitable battle.<ref name="HTP:NDp8">''Historical Turning Points: New Dallas'', p. 8, "154th Amaris Dragoons"</ref> As the date for APOTHEOSIS approached, the authorities on New Dallas came increasingly close to derailing Amaris' plan; not only were Benboudaoud's forces unable to sow many of the booby traps and bombs on New Dallas that other Republican units were employing on their assignments to prepare the way for an assault against the SLDF, two [[battalion]]s of mercenary forces hired to support Benboudaoud's forces were intercepted trying to infiltrate onto New Dallas. Rather than being able to support the Republicans, the mercenaries found themselves arrested on charges of terrorism and all of their equipment confiscated.<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+"/> It was a testament to the resistance faced by Benboudaoud that when the hour for APOTHEOSIS came, the preemptive strike by Republican special forces to secure the planetary [[HPG]] on New Dallas were blocked, one of only three instances where Hegemony forces prevented the Republicans gaining control of the planetary communications.<ref name="H:LoTV1p71">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 71, "Hegemony Blackout"</ref> Benboudaoud also had her troops target both important personnel - including planetary governor [[Titus Clay]] - and significant SLDF installations in an attempt to sow confusion, but the local resistance proved impossible to overcome.<ref name="HTP:NDp9">''Historical Turning Points: New Dallas'', p. 9, "Houston, We Have A Problem"</ref> Benboudaoud's forces were equally unable to secure control over the planetary [[Space Defense System]], and with the eight-ship strong Republican [[WarShip]] squadron assigned to the New Dallas system destroyed after securing control of the local jump points, Benboudaoud's forces were heavily outnumbered in the field by Kataga's forces and were destroyed in a six-hour long battle.<ref name="H:LoTV1p83+"/> Benboudaoud piloted a personalized [[Rampage#Variants|''Rampage'']] [[BattleMech]] while leading her forces in the frantic defense against the incensed SLDF forces at Fort Resolute and died in the cockpit of her 'Mech, knowing that this was her only option having failed [[First Consul]] Amaris.<ref name="HTP:NDp7"/> ==BattleMechs== Viktoria was a ''Rampage'' BattleMech pilot. ==Notes== *Special rules for {{PAGENAME}} can be found in ''Historical Turning Points: New Dallas'' (p. 7). ==References== <references /> ==Bibliography== * ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]'' * ''[[Historical Turning Points: New Dallas]]'' [[Category: Rim Worlds Republic Characters|Benboudaoud, Viktoria]]

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