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Line 22: On the 11th of November [[3077]], [[Lahti]] was one of four Free Worlds League worlds to be attacked by the Marian Hegemony.<ref name="J:FRp58">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 58: "The Jihad in Review"</ref> Lahti continued to be harassed by forces from the Marian Hegemony, and finally the planetary government grew so sick of the raids by [[IV Legio]] that they hired the Protectors to launch a punitive strike against IV Legio's home base on [[Trondheimal]]. Colonel Kawamura accepted the contract, although he was unwilling to provoke the Hegemony. He attempted to fulfil the contract by subcontracting the work to [[Havoc, Inc.]]. Havoc, Inc. made a less than stellar impression when they arrived on Lahti; disreputable to begin with, the mercenaries made a drunken arrival on Lahti that prompted Colonel Kawamura to call off the raid. One of Kawamura's officers, [[Lieutenant]] [[Fiona san Marcos]], convinced Kawamura to launch the raid as a false-flag operation, using a company of Protector forces painted in Havoc, Inc. colors and deployed using Havoc, Inc. transport assets. San Marcos led the raid personally, inflicting damage on IV Legio and deliberately leaving evidence pointing towards Lahti.<ref name="SO:1MPp3">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', p. 3: "Unit History and Description"</ref> On the 11th of November [[3077]], [[Lahti]] was one of four Free Worlds League worlds to be attacked by the Marian Hegemony.<ref name="J:FRp58">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 58: "The Jihad in Review"</ref> Lahti continued to be harassed by forces from the Marian Hegemony, and finally the planetary government grew so sick of the raids by [[IV Legio]] that they hired the Protectors to launch a punitive strike against IV Legio's home base on [[Trondheimal]]. Colonel Kawamura accepted the contract, although he was unwilling to provoke the Hegemony. He attempted to fulfil the contract by subcontracting the work to [[Havoc, Inc.]]. Havoc, Inc. made a less than stellar impression when they arrived on Lahti; disreputable to begin with, the mercenaries made a drunken arrival on Lahti that prompted Colonel Kawamura to call off the raid. One of Kawamura's officers, [[Lieutenant]] [[Fiona san Marcos]], convinced Kawamura to launch the raid as a false-flag operation, using a company of Protector forces painted in Havoc, Inc. colors and deployed using Havoc, Inc. transport assets. San Marcos led the raid personally, inflicting damage on IV Legio and deliberately leaving evidence pointing towards Lahti.<ref name="SO:1MPp3">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', p. 3: "Unit History and Description"</ref> − Kawamura had deployed the Marik Protectors in anticipation of the inevitable IV Legio counterattack, and IV Legio arrived as anticipated, crashing into the Protector forces. Initially, IV Legio was able to tear through the Protector lines using [[Ravager (Battle Armor)|Ravager]] [[battle armor]], until [[Captain]] [[Doris Calhoun]] dropped a company of [[Kopis]]-equipped infantry onto the IV Legio battle armor and broke them. Kawamura's heavy armor successfully ambushed the IV Legio [['Mech]]s, pushing the Marian forces into the open for the Protectors' artillery forces to bombard; an attempt by the IV Legio [[aerospace fighter]] forces to relieve the pressure on the 'Mech forces was countered with fire from [[Partisan]] anti-aircraft tanks. The commanding officer of [[IV Legio]], ''[[Prefect (rank)|Prefect]]'' [[Alberich Winograd]], realized that his forces were in a trap, and led them in an orderly retreat back to their transport vessels; Colonel Kawamura, impressed with the Marian troops' discipline under fire, parlayed briefly with Winograd. During that parlay, the two established a degree of mutual respect for each other, as well as a détente between the Hegemony and Lahti. Encounters between IV Legio and the Protectors after the battle on Lahti were marked by relatively little bloodshed and an almost cordial or ceremonial attitude between the two commands.<ref name="SO:1MPp3"/> + Kawamura had deployed the Marik Protectors in anticipation of the inevitable IV Legio counterattack, and IV Legio arrived as anticipated, crashing into the Protector forces. Initially, IV Legio was able to tear through the Protector lines using [[Ravager]] [[battle armor]], until [[Captain]] [[Doris Calhoun]] dropped a company of [[Kopis]]-equipped infantry onto the IV Legio battle armor and broke them. Kawamura's heavy armor successfully ambushed the IV Legio [['Mech]]s, pushing the Marian forces into the open for the Protectors' artillery forces to bombard; an attempt by the IV Legio [[aerospace fighter]] forces to relieve the pressure on the 'Mech forces was countered with fire from [[Partisan]] anti-aircraft tanks. The commanding officer of [[IV Legio]], ''[[Prefect (rank)|Prefect]]'' [[Alberich Winograd]], realized that his forces were in a trap, and led them in an orderly retreat back to their transport vessels; Colonel Kawamura, impressed with the Marian troops' discipline under fire, parlayed briefly with Winograd. During that parlay, the two established a degree of mutual respect for each other, as well as a détente between the Hegemony and Lahti. Encounters between IV Legio and the Protectors after the battle on Lahti were marked by relatively little bloodshed and an almost cordial or ceremonial attitude between the two commands.<ref name="SO:1MPp3"/> Left independent in the wake of the dissolution of the Free Worlds League on 28 January [[3079]], [[Sackville]] was soon under pressure from external forces. While the [[Principality of Regulus]] destroyed the heart of the [[Circinus Federation]] with nuclear fire, survivors from the numerous pirates in the region plagued nearby worlds, and Sackville was one of their targets. One particular band, known as [[Lincoln's Rotting Corpse]], raided Sackville so frequently in [[3082]] that the government was left desperately calling for help while betting houses on the planet took bets on when the raiders would arrive again. The nearby [[Duchy of Tamarind]] declined to assist Sackville, feeling that the world had nothing to offer the Duchy; however, help came from an unexpected source, when Colonel Kawamura led a combined-arms force from the First Marik Protectors to hunt the pirates. Accurately predicting a strike against the warehouses in the city of Tighfield, Kawamura established and executed a hugely successful ambush. Kawamura's tactics were so successful that many of the pirates were killed, the Protectors captured a ''[[Mule]]''-class pirate [[DropShip]], leading the other pirate DropShips to abandon those on the ground, and as the surviving pirates went to ground a grateful planetary government declared Kawamura an honorary citizen and paid the Protectors a hefty enough bonus for them to expand their ranks with a new [[company]] of hovertanks..<ref name="SO:1MPp2">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', pp. 2–3: "Unit History and Description"</ref> Left independent in the wake of the dissolution of the Free Worlds League on 28 January [[3079]], [[Sackville]] was soon under pressure from external forces. While the [[Principality of Regulus]] destroyed the heart of the [[Circinus Federation]] with nuclear fire, survivors from the numerous pirates in the region plagued nearby worlds, and Sackville was one of their targets. One particular band, known as [[Lincoln's Rotting Corpse]], raided Sackville so frequently in [[3082]] that the government was left desperately calling for help while betting houses on the planet took bets on when the raiders would arrive again. The nearby [[Duchy of Tamarind]] declined to assist Sackville, feeling that the world had nothing to offer the Duchy; however, help came from an unexpected source, when Colonel Kawamura led a combined-arms force from the First Marik Protectors to hunt the pirates. Accurately predicting a strike against the warehouses in the city of Tighfield, Kawamura established and executed a hugely successful ambush. Kawamura's tactics were so successful that many of the pirates were killed, the Protectors captured a ''[[Mule]]''-class pirate [[DropShip]], leading the other pirate DropShips to abandon those on the ground, and as the surviving pirates went to ground a grateful planetary government declared Kawamura an honorary citizen and paid the Protectors a hefty enough bonus for them to expand their ranks with a new [[company]] of hovertanks..<ref name="SO:1MPp2">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', pp. 2–3: "Unit History and Description"</ref>
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On the 11th of November [[3077]], [[Lahti]] was one of four Free Worlds League worlds to be attacked by the Marian Hegemony.<ref name="J:FRp58">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 58: "The Jihad in Review"</ref> Lahti continued to be harassed by forces from the Marian Hegemony, and finally the planetary government grew so sick of the raids by [[IV Legio]] that they hired the Protectors to launch a punitive strike against IV Legio's home base on [[Trondheimal]]. Colonel Kawamura accepted the contract, although he was unwilling to provoke the Hegemony. He attempted to fulfil the contract by subcontracting the work to [[Havoc, Inc.]]. Havoc, Inc. made a less than stellar impression when they arrived on Lahti; disreputable to begin with, the mercenaries made a drunken arrival on Lahti that prompted Colonel Kawamura to call off the raid. One of Kawamura's officers, [[Lieutenant]] [[Fiona san Marcos]], convinced Kawamura to launch the raid as a false-flag operation, using a company of Protector forces painted in Havoc, Inc. colors and deployed using Havoc, Inc. transport assets. San Marcos led the raid personally, inflicting damage on IV Legio and deliberately leaving evidence pointing towards Lahti.<ref name="SO:1MPp3">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', p. 3: "Unit History and Description"</ref> | On the 11th of November [[3077]], [[Lahti]] was one of four Free Worlds League worlds to be attacked by the Marian Hegemony.<ref name="J:FRp58">''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 58: "The Jihad in Review"</ref> Lahti continued to be harassed by forces from the Marian Hegemony, and finally the planetary government grew so sick of the raids by [[IV Legio]] that they hired the Protectors to launch a punitive strike against IV Legio's home base on [[Trondheimal]]. Colonel Kawamura accepted the contract, although he was unwilling to provoke the Hegemony. He attempted to fulfil the contract by subcontracting the work to [[Havoc, Inc.]]. Havoc, Inc. made a less than stellar impression when they arrived on Lahti; disreputable to begin with, the mercenaries made a drunken arrival on Lahti that prompted Colonel Kawamura to call off the raid. One of Kawamura's officers, [[Lieutenant]] [[Fiona san Marcos]], convinced Kawamura to launch the raid as a false-flag operation, using a company of Protector forces painted in Havoc, Inc. colors and deployed using Havoc, Inc. transport assets. San Marcos led the raid personally, inflicting damage on IV Legio and deliberately leaving evidence pointing towards Lahti.<ref name="SO:1MPp3">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', p. 3: "Unit History and Description"</ref> | ||
| − | Kawamura had deployed the Marik Protectors in anticipation of the inevitable IV Legio counterattack, and IV Legio arrived as anticipated, crashing into the Protector forces. Initially, IV Legio was able to tear through the Protector lines using [[ | + | Kawamura had deployed the Marik Protectors in anticipation of the inevitable IV Legio counterattack, and IV Legio arrived as anticipated, crashing into the Protector forces. Initially, IV Legio was able to tear through the Protector lines using [[Ravager]] [[battle armor]], until [[Captain]] [[Doris Calhoun]] dropped a company of [[Kopis]]-equipped infantry onto the IV Legio battle armor and broke them. Kawamura's heavy armor successfully ambushed the IV Legio [['Mech]]s, pushing the Marian forces into the open for the Protectors' artillery forces to bombard; an attempt by the IV Legio [[aerospace fighter]] forces to relieve the pressure on the 'Mech forces was countered with fire from [[Partisan]] anti-aircraft tanks. The commanding officer of [[IV Legio]], ''[[Prefect (rank)|Prefect]]'' [[Alberich Winograd]], realized that his forces were in a trap, and led them in an orderly retreat back to their transport vessels; Colonel Kawamura, impressed with the Marian troops' discipline under fire, parlayed briefly with Winograd. During that parlay, the two established a degree of mutual respect for each other, as well as a détente between the Hegemony and Lahti. Encounters between IV Legio and the Protectors after the battle on Lahti were marked by relatively little bloodshed and an almost cordial or ceremonial attitude between the two commands.<ref name="SO:1MPp3"/> |
Left independent in the wake of the dissolution of the Free Worlds League on 28 January [[3079]], [[Sackville]] was soon under pressure from external forces. While the [[Principality of Regulus]] destroyed the heart of the [[Circinus Federation]] with nuclear fire, survivors from the numerous pirates in the region plagued nearby worlds, and Sackville was one of their targets. One particular band, known as [[Lincoln's Rotting Corpse]], raided Sackville so frequently in [[3082]] that the government was left desperately calling for help while betting houses on the planet took bets on when the raiders would arrive again. The nearby [[Duchy of Tamarind]] declined to assist Sackville, feeling that the world had nothing to offer the Duchy; however, help came from an unexpected source, when Colonel Kawamura led a combined-arms force from the First Marik Protectors to hunt the pirates. Accurately predicting a strike against the warehouses in the city of Tighfield, Kawamura established and executed a hugely successful ambush. Kawamura's tactics were so successful that many of the pirates were killed, the Protectors captured a ''[[Mule]]''-class pirate [[DropShip]], leading the other pirate DropShips to abandon those on the ground, and as the surviving pirates went to ground a grateful planetary government declared Kawamura an honorary citizen and paid the Protectors a hefty enough bonus for them to expand their ranks with a new [[company]] of hovertanks..<ref name="SO:1MPp2">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', pp. 2–3: "Unit History and Description"</ref> | Left independent in the wake of the dissolution of the Free Worlds League on 28 January [[3079]], [[Sackville]] was soon under pressure from external forces. While the [[Principality of Regulus]] destroyed the heart of the [[Circinus Federation]] with nuclear fire, survivors from the numerous pirates in the region plagued nearby worlds, and Sackville was one of their targets. One particular band, known as [[Lincoln's Rotting Corpse]], raided Sackville so frequently in [[3082]] that the government was left desperately calling for help while betting houses on the planet took bets on when the raiders would arrive again. The nearby [[Duchy of Tamarind]] declined to assist Sackville, feeling that the world had nothing to offer the Duchy; however, help came from an unexpected source, when Colonel Kawamura led a combined-arms force from the First Marik Protectors to hunt the pirates. Accurately predicting a strike against the warehouses in the city of Tighfield, Kawamura established and executed a hugely successful ambush. Kawamura's tactics were so successful that many of the pirates were killed, the Protectors captured a ''[[Mule]]''-class pirate [[DropShip]], leading the other pirate DropShips to abandon those on the ground, and as the surviving pirates went to ground a grateful planetary government declared Kawamura an honorary citizen and paid the Protectors a hefty enough bonus for them to expand their ranks with a new [[company]] of hovertanks..<ref name="SO:1MPp2">''Spotlight On: First Marik Protectors'', pp. 2–3: "Unit History and Description"</ref> | ||