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Both a regional capital and the most heavily industrialized planet within the Outworlds Alliance, Cerberus was an important world and a key target for the Star League Outworlds Alliance Task Force, under the command of [[General]] [[Amos Forlough]]. Cerberus had escaped attack until [[2583]] because of Forlough's plans to strike directly at [[Alpheratz]], but after having his plans stymied for the past two years due to political interference from [[First Prince of the Federated Suns|First Prince]] [[Alexander Davion]] of the [[Federated Suns]] and [[Coordinator of Worlds|Coordinator]] [[Hehiro Kurita]] of the [[Draconis Combine]] along with the dogged resistance being offered by the Outworlds Alliance Militia and the Alliance population, Forlough led a large force against the planet.<ref name="H:RWp123"/>
 
Both a regional capital and the most heavily industrialized planet within the Outworlds Alliance, Cerberus was an important world and a key target for the Star League Outworlds Alliance Task Force, under the command of [[General]] [[Amos Forlough]]. Cerberus had escaped attack until [[2583]] because of Forlough's plans to strike directly at [[Alpheratz]], but after having his plans stymied for the past two years due to political interference from [[First Prince of the Federated Suns|First Prince]] [[Alexander Davion]] of the [[Federated Suns]] and [[Coordinator of Worlds|Coordinator]] [[Hehiro Kurita]] of the [[Draconis Combine]] along with the dogged resistance being offered by the Outworlds Alliance Militia and the Alliance population, Forlough led a large force against the planet.<ref name="H:RWp123"/>
  
Cerberus had a strong garrison force, but Forlough landed two complete Star League Divisions on the planet in March 2583. The [[4th Royal Infantry Division|Fourth Division]] and [[5th Division (Star League)|Fifth Divisions]], consisting of the Tenth through Fifteenth Brigades, defeated the Alliance forces tactically and rapidly overwhelmed them. Alliance doctrine called for infantry and armor forces to pin the Star League forces in place while the Alliance [[BattleMech]] forces acted as a mobile reserve. The Star League forces dropped directly onto Alliance militia positions, conducting a lightning assault that delivered a fatal blow to the militia on the first day of the invasion, allowing them to pick apart the Alliance Mech forces when they appeared on the second day.<ref name="H:RWp123"/>
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Cerberus had a strong garrison force, but Forlough landed two complete Star League Divisions on the planet in March 2583. The [[4th Royal Infantry Division|Fourth Division]] and [[5th Division|Fifth Divisions]], consisting of the Tenth through Fifteenth Brigades, defeated the Alliance forces tactically and rapidly overwhelmed them. Alliance doctrine called for infantry and armor forces to pin the Star League forces in place while the Alliance [[BattleMech]] forces acted as a mobile reserve. The Star League forces dropped directly onto Alliance militia positions, conducting a lightning assault that delivered a fatal blow to the militia on the first day of the invasion, allowing them to pick apart the Alliance Mech forces when they appeared on the second day.<ref name="H:RWp123"/>
  
 
Despite the heavy losses inflicted on them, Sadova and the Alliance forces regrouped and resolved to battle the Star League forces for as long as they could, but even as the militia forces put up a valiant defense against the SLDF troops Forlough was already directing his troops to attack and lay waste to every factory, village, town and city on Cerberus, and thereby destroy the will of the population and the Alliance itself to resist.<ref name="H:RWp123"/>
 
Despite the heavy losses inflicted on them, Sadova and the Alliance forces regrouped and resolved to battle the Star League forces for as long as they could, but even as the militia forces put up a valiant defense against the SLDF troops Forlough was already directing his troops to attack and lay waste to every factory, village, town and city on Cerberus, and thereby destroy the will of the population and the Alliance itself to resist.<ref name="H:RWp123"/>
  
Cerberus remained heavily contested right up until the end of the Star League campaign against the Alliance, and the slow grind of combat there extensively damaged both the Alliance and Star League forces. Forlough and the [[Tenth Brigade]] left Cerberus in 2583 to conduct slash and burn raids on [[Quatre Belle]], [[Mitchella]], and [[Loparri]]<ref name="H:RWp124">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 123: "Baby Killers Unleashed"</ref> and in [[2584]] the entire Fourth Division was redeployed to the war against the [[Taurian Concordat]].<ref name="H:RWp125">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 125: "Year Four: Slow Grind"</ref> The Fifth Division would continue to fight on Cerberus until it too was redeployed to the Taurian front in [[2585]], by which point three additional Star League brigades from [[V Corps (Star League)|V Corps]] would take over the fight: the [[38th Royal Brigade|Thirty-eighth]] and [[Thirty-ninth Royal Brigade]]s and the [[Fortieth Brigade]]. The Outworlds Alliance Militia reinforced the defenders of Cerberus with those troops available; by [[2584]] all of the [[Alliance Grenadiers]] were fighting on Cerberus, along with the [[Santiago Carabiniers]] and elements of the [[Second Armored Division]], and the entire [[Pitcairn Legion]] arrived in August 2584.<ref name="H:RWp141"/><ref name="H:RWp126+">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 126: "Negotiation"</ref>
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Cerberus remained heavily contested right up until the end of the Star League campaign against the Alliance, and the slow grind of combat there extensively damaged both the Alliance and Star League forces. Forlough and the [[Tenth Brigade]] left Cerberus in 2583 to conduct slash and burn raids on [[Quatre Belle]], [[Mitchella]], and [[Loparri]]<ref name="H:RWp124">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 123: "Baby Killers Unleashed"</ref> and in [[2584]] the entire Fourth Division was redeployed to the war against the [[Taurian Concordat]].<ref name="H:RWp125">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 125: "Year Four: Slow Grind"</ref> The [[5th Division|Fifth Division]] would continue to fight on Cerberus until it too was redeployed to the Taurian front in [[2585]], by which point three additional Star League brigades from [[V Corps (Star League)|V Corps]] would take over the fight: the [[38th Royal Brigade|Thirty-eighth]] and [[Thirty-ninth Royal Brigade]]s and the [[Fortieth Brigade]]. The Outworlds Alliance Militia reinforced the defenders of Cerberus with those troops available; by [[2584]] all of the [[Alliance Grenadiers]] were fighting on Cerberus, along with the [[Santiago Carabiniers]] and elements of the [[Second Armored Division]], and the entire [[Pitcairn Legion]] arrived in August 2584.<ref name="H:RWp141"/><ref name="H:RWp126+">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 126: "Negotiation"</ref>
  
 
In February [[2585]], First Prince [[Alexander Davion]] of the [[Federated Suns]] suggested to First Lord [[Ian Cameron]] of the Star League that the Alliance might be willing to negotiate if offered a fair proposal, while his son, [[Lawrence Davion]], suggested options to Alliance President [[Grigori Avellar]]. Both Alexander and Lawrence Davion had negotiated with Avellar before—culminating in the [[Tancredi Accord]] in [[2581]]—and after four months of Davion brokering, both sides agreed to send emissaries to begin negotiations on Cerberus in June [[2585]]. The initial Alliance position had two major demands; that the Alliance and its people be granted the same freedom as any other Star League member state, and that Amos Forlough and his subordinates be tried on [[Alpheratz]] for genocide and war crimes. Ultimately, the two teams of negotiators came to an agreement in July 2585 while the Star League and Alliance Militia forces observed a truce, and with the peace treaty—named the [[Treaty of Cerberus]]—signed on the 25th of July and coming into effect on the 1st of August, the invasion of the Outworlds Alliance was over.<ref name="H:RWp126"/>
 
In February [[2585]], First Prince [[Alexander Davion]] of the [[Federated Suns]] suggested to First Lord [[Ian Cameron]] of the Star League that the Alliance might be willing to negotiate if offered a fair proposal, while his son, [[Lawrence Davion]], suggested options to Alliance President [[Grigori Avellar]]. Both Alexander and Lawrence Davion had negotiated with Avellar before—culminating in the [[Tancredi Accord]] in [[2581]]—and after four months of Davion brokering, both sides agreed to send emissaries to begin negotiations on Cerberus in June [[2585]]. The initial Alliance position had two major demands; that the Alliance and its people be granted the same freedom as any other Star League member state, and that Amos Forlough and his subordinates be tried on [[Alpheratz]] for genocide and war crimes. Ultimately, the two teams of negotiators came to an agreement in July 2585 while the Star League and Alliance Militia forces observed a truce, and with the peace treaty—named the [[Treaty of Cerberus]]—signed on the 25th of July and coming into effect on the 1st of August, the invasion of the Outworlds Alliance was over.<ref name="H:RWp126"/>

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