Editing Catherine Dormax

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| birthdate           = 30 May [[2540]]<ref name=H:RWp61>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 61: "Catherine Dormax"</ref>
| died                = [[2596]]<ref name=H:RWp61/>
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| rank                = [[Colonel]]<ref name=H:RWp61/>
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| profession          = [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]]
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'''Catherine Dormax''' was an officer in the [[Rim Worlds Army]] and later the [[Rift Republican Army]] of the [[Rim Provisional Government]].

==History==
Catherine Dormax was a career military officer from a middle-class family. A competent tactician, she progressed through the ranks by dogged determination, and her sense of morality and fairness earned her the loyalty of the [[Seventh Amaris Legionnaires]].<ref name=H:RWp61/>

In [[2575]], rioting had broken out at the [[Diplass Technologies|Displass]] 'Mech plant on [[Apollo]]. A detachment from the [[Fourth Amaris Dragoons]] had been overwhelmed by forces calling themselves the Rim Provisional Government. [[First Consul of the Rim Worlds Republic|First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]] reacted in his typical cold-blooded fashion, placing all of the planet under martial law and sending in the Seventh Amaris Legionnaires and [[Eighth Amaris Fusiliers]] to restore order at the 'Mech plant. Dormax found herself with direct orders to suppress the rebellion. Rather than the police action she expected and refusing to fire on her fellow citizens, she placed her troops in service of the RPG. Dormax then gave an impassioned speech to the Eighth, committing them to the cause as well. Dormax's act of defiance sent shockwaves through the Rim Worlds Army, effectively turning the situation into civil war.<ref name=H:RWp61/><ref name=SLp51>''The Star League'', p. 51: "Rim Worlds War"</ref><ref name=TPp42>''The Periphery'', p. 42: "Conquest of the Rim Worlds Republic"</ref><ref name=H:MPSp17>''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 17: "Rim Worlds Rebellion"</ref><ref name=ER2750-16>''Era Report: 2750'', p. 16: "Preparations"</ref>

When the Amaris government collapsed, the [[Star League Defense Force]] detachment at [[Apollo (system)#Planetary Locations|Camp Cameron]], previously on good terms with the local population, was suddenly isolated and surrounded by the hostile forces of the Rift Republican Army. [[Colonel]] Dormax commanded the besiegers in what turned out to be a three-year waiting game until RRA commandos crippled the sensor net and assassinated the garrison commander, [[Major]] [[Bruce Langmuir]]. Blind and leaderless, the new RRA assault in April [[2578]] overran the cadre, killing all but nine SLDF [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarriors]] in the battle. Dormax declared them prisoners of war but extremists in the RRA militia executed the survivors before they could be taken into custody.<ref name=H:RWp130>''Historical: Reunification War'', pp. 130–131: "The Spark"</ref>

Catherine Dormax was dismayed by the anarchy her decision to join the RPG brought. She was a moderate among the hotheads and idealists of the Provisional Government, narrowly escaping death in the succession of coups and countercoups among the rebel leadership, until eventually meeting her end when [[Star League]] coalition forces battled on Apollo between 21 March [[2595]] and September [[2596]].<ref name=TPp42/> Dormax's body was never recovered and for several decades after the [[Reunification War]], a tale circulated that the ghost of Dormax would return to save the Republic from itself.<ref name=H:RWp61/>

==Notes==
* By the mid-[[twenty-eighth century]], one of the Rim Worlds Army's flagship [[Rim Worlds Army#Imperial Divisions|Imperial Divisions]] had been named after Dormax.<ref name=FR2765:P-9>''Field Report 2765: Periphery'', p. 18: "Imperial Divisions"</ref>
* Dormax's first name is spelled '''K'''atherine in ''[[The Star League]]'',<ref name=SLp51/> ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery]]'',<ref name=TPp42/> ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]'',<ref name=H:LoTV1p110>''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 110: "Any Port in a Storm"</ref> and sometimes in ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''.<ref name=H:RWp43>''Historical: Reunification War'', pp. 43, 130–131</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''

[[Category: Rim Worlds Republic Characters|Dormax, Catherine]]