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	While Amaris' courier managed to leave for Terra before RPG forces could seize the spaceport, news of the formation of the RPG was a massive shock to the Republic; as the news rippled out from Apollo, the populations and local governments of other planets within the Republic began to split along partisan lines. Some chose to remain loyal to Amaris as First Consul, others sided with the RPG, some planets declared their independence, and some military units fractured internally with soldiers supporting different sides. That the factions would come into conflict was never in question, and by July 2575 a de facto civil war was being waged within the Republic.<ref name="H:RWp130A"/>		While Amaris' courier managed to leave for Terra before RPG forces could seize the spaceport, news of the formation of the RPG was a massive shock to the Republic; as the news rippled out from Apollo, the populations and local governments of other planets within the Republic began to split along partisan lines. Some chose to remain loyal to Amaris as First Consul, others sided with the RPG, some planets declared their independence, and some military units fractured internally with soldiers supporting different sides. That the factions would come into conflict was never in question, and by July 2575 a de facto civil war was being waged within the Republic.<ref name="H:RWp130A"/>
−	When forces from [[Task Force MAILED FIST]] landed on Apollo in [[2596]], the Eighth Fusiliers joined the Seventh Legionnaires in the defense of the capital city, Terra Prime. Fighting against the [[Star League Defense Force]], [[Lyran Commonwealth]], and [[Free Worlds League]] forces as well as Amaris loyalists, the Eighth were directly involved in the fateful battle against the [[4th Royal Guards|Fourth Royal Guards]] that saw [[Archon]] [[Viola Steiner-Dinesen]] mortally wounded, and held out for several months after [[General]] [[Nathan Isaacson]] took command of the siege.<ref name="H:RWp139">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 139: "Bitter Harvests (2591-2596)"</ref>	+	When forces from [[Task Force MAILED FIST]] landed on Apollo in [[2596]], the Eighth Fusiliers joined the Seventh Legionnaires in the defense of the capital city, Terra Prime. Fighting against the [[Star League Defense Force]], [[Lyran Commonwealth]], and [[Free Worlds League]] forces as well as Amaris loyalists, the Eighth were directly involved in the fateful battle against the [[4th Royal Guards|Fourth Royal Guards]] that saw [[Archon]] [[Viola Steiner-Dinesen]] take mortally wounded, and held out for several months after [[General]] [[Nathan Isaacson]] took command of the siege.<ref name="H:RWp139">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 139: "Bitter Harvests (2591-2596)"</ref>
	===Amaris Civil War===		===Amaris Civil War===

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{{infoBoxMilitaryCommand | image = [[File:Amaris Fusiliers.png|150px]] | Designation = Eighth Amaris Fusiliers | Formed = | Disbanded = | Previous Designation = | Nickname = | Affiliation = [[Rim Worlds Republic]] | Parent Command = [[Amaris Fusiliers]] | Sub-Command = }} A line regiment in the [[Rim Worlds Army]], the '''Eighth Amaris Fusiliers''' were the second unit to defect to the [[Rift Republican Army]] [[Rim Provisional Government]] at the outset of the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] civil war in [[2575]]. ==History== ===Reunification War=== Dissatisfaction at the rule of [[First Consul of the Rim Worlds Republic|First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] had been growing within the Rim Worlds Republic for some time prior to the civil war. Measures such as the [[Universal Act of Loyalty]], which required citizens of the Republic to swear loyalty to House Amaris and, through House Amaris, the [[Star League]],<ref name="H:RWp127">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 127: "Descent into Madness (2571-2580)"</ref> were unpopular, as were Amaris' tax policies and economic governance, which favored industries and individuals from outside the Republic over domestic industries and citizens. Discontent grew sharply when Amaris passed the [[Manchester Directive]] in early 2575 that declared the Rim Republic Army to be an illegal body and gave the government powers to seize the assets and holdings of RRA members.<ref name="H:RWp130">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 130: "The Manchester Directive"</ref> Extremist members of the RRA had been involved in incidents such as the seizure of the barracks at Efrimal Long in [[2573]] but in general the RRA was considered to be an honorable institution akin to a veterans association with many respected members.<ref name="H:RWp127"/> The tipping point that led to open civil war was Amaris' decision to attempt to use military force to end a workers strike at the [[Diplass Technologies]] [[BattleMech]] plant on [[Apollo (system)|Apollo]]. The workers in protest over Amaris' economic and tax policies, which were intended to boost the economy of the Republic and make the Republic a serious competitor to the [[Great House]]s of the [[Inner Sphere]], but which saw foreign business receive preferential treatment within the Republic and saw managerial and technical posts within industries such as the Diplass plant given to Star League citizens rather than Republic citizens. Gregory Amaris' decision to use military force to quash the strike was entirely in keeping with his character, but he didn't reckon on the character of [[Colonel]] [[Catherine Dormax]], commander of the [[Seventh Amaris Legionnaires]], when he ordered the Seventh to attack the strikers.<ref name="H:RWp130A">''Historical: Reunification War'', pp. 130–131: "The Spark"</ref> Faced with direct orders to execute everyone at the Diplass plant, Dormax instead chose to refuse her orders and put her troops at the disposal of the Rim Provisional Government,<ref name="H:RWp61">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 61: "Catherine Dormax"</ref> the provisional ruling body organized by the strikers and the RRA in response to the actions of Amaris and the Fourth Dragoons.<ref name="H:RWp130A"/> A furious Gregory Amaris promptly ordered the Eighth Amaris Fusiliers to subdue the Seventh Legionnaires and the strikers, only to have Colonel [[Dean Shields]] and the Fusiliers also defect to the RPG.<ref name="H:RWp131"/><ref name="The Star League, p51">''The Star League'', p. 51</ref> With the unpleasant realization that fully half of the [[Rim Worlds Army]] forces on Apollo had sided with the RPG and with the Fourth Dragoons' loyalties unclear, Amaris felt he had no choice but to retreat to his island estates under the protection of the [[Republican Guards (Rim Worlds Republic)|Republican Guards]], his personal troops who could be counted on to be loyal to him. Amaris fled, ceding control of the capital and the spaceport to the RPG, while dispatching a courier to [[Terra]] requesting support from the [[SLDF]]; he would continue to issue directives and orders, but with the Provisional Government in control of both the capital city and spaceport, Amaris' actual direct influence and control extended little further than the waters around his estate.<ref name="H:RWp130A"/> While Amaris' courier managed to leave for Terra before RPG forces could seize the spaceport, news of the formation of the RPG was a massive shock to the Republic; as the news rippled out from Apollo, the populations and local governments of other planets within the Republic began to split along partisan lines. Some chose to remain loyal to Amaris as First Consul, others sided with the RPG, some planets declared their independence, and some military units fractured internally with soldiers supporting different sides. That the factions would come into conflict was never in question, and by July 2575 a de facto civil war was being waged within the Republic.<ref name="H:RWp130A"/> When forces from [[Task Force MAILED FIST]] landed on Apollo in [[2596]], the Eighth Fusiliers joined the Seventh Legionnaires in the defense of the capital city, Terra Prime. Fighting against the [[Star League Defense Force]], [[Lyran Commonwealth]], and [[Free Worlds League]] forces as well as Amaris loyalists, the Eighth were directly involved in the fateful battle against the [[4th Royal Guards|Fourth Royal Guards]] that saw [[Archon]] [[Viola Steiner-Dinesen]] take mortally wounded, and held out for several months after [[General]] [[Nathan Isaacson]] took command of the siege.<ref name="H:RWp139">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 139: "Bitter Harvests (2591-2596)"</ref> ===Amaris Civil War=== The Eighth Fusiliers were involved in the defense of Terra during [[Operation CHIEFTAIN]], defending Beijing against seven SLDF [[division]]s alongside the [[Rim Worlds Army#Hegemony Patriots|Third Hegemony Patriots]] and local militia. They put up a stiff defense outside Beijing, giving up less than twenty kilometers to the SLDF after nine days of assaults and deflecting flanking attacks. It was only after the SLDF divisions that took Harbin joined the battle in mid-April that the Amaris forces gave up the spaceport and suburbs.<ref>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 82: "Harbin"</ref> Staging a fighting withdrawal, the Fusiliers and other Amaris troops retreated southwest and then west into a valley, before vanishing into a previously unknown entrance of the T'ienchen Castle Brian. Over the course of four months, the SLDF assaulted the Castle Brian, paying a steep price as the Eighth Amaris Fusiliers and Third Hegemony Patriots refused to surrender, forcing the [[16th Army (Star League)|Sixteenth Army]] to clear hundreds of miles of tunnels by force.<ref>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2'', p. 89: "Consolidation (July 2777-June 2778)"</ref> ==Officers== {| 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 |- | colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 8th Amaris Fusiliers''' |- | [[Colonel]]||[[Dean Shields]]||[[2581]]<ref name="H:RWp131">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 131: "The Rim Worlds Army Loyalties"</ref> |- |} ==Tactics== Unknown. ==Composition History== Unknown. ==References== <references /> ==Bibliography== * ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 2]]'' * ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]'' * ''[[The Star League]]'' [[Category: Rim Worlds Republic Commands|Fusiliers, 008th Amaris]] [[Category:Rim Provisional Government Commands|Fusiliers, 008th Amaris]]

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