FSRB Chpt 193

==The Federated Suns Reborn - Chapter 193==
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January 3070Interlude: Andurien Armed Forces in Exile 
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===Rebuilding an Orphan an Army===
Fox's Den, Grand Avalon Mountain Range
New Avalon, New Avalon Combat Region
Coreward Combat Theater (Markessan Operation's Area), Crucis March
Federated Suns
Marshal of the Armies Jackson Davion opened the next file on his desk and began to review the situation on New Andurien. Things seemed promising there. He only skim read the civilian parts of the briefing, compiled by Conrad Davion's people, but even that quick glance was enough to convince him that the world was now a going concern. Over a million refugee's had been settled there and more and more permanent housing was going up, light industries created and the infrastructure for a viable colony built up. While the world was no replacement for lost Andurien it had been chosen for it's suitability for human life. Three large continents and two smaller ones offered a wide variety of climates and ecosystems and the refugee settlement's had spread across it. Given a few more years the colony was almost certainly going to be fully self sustaining even without help from New Avalon. Content with that chapter of the briefing he moved onto the military chapter. 
The refugee's had contained elements of the shattered Defender's of Andurien. From the handful of bodyguards and wounded 1st Defender's the Duchess Humphreys had rebuilt the flagship unit of her brigade. While the almost destroyed 2nd & 3rd Defenders had limped into FedSuns space over the months after the fall of Andurien, almost all of the 3rd's survivors were heavily wounded and mixed in with fleeing civilians. All three units were still under strength but had been reequipped with "lost" equipment from AFFS stockpiles and had a steady stream of volunteers from the refugee camps that had slowly been moved to New Andurien. The 2nd Defenders was the only unit which he could truly consider combat effective, but Jackson Davion acknowledged that having been reequipped with cutting edge FedSuns military equipment and reorganized along the Dragonlords RCT model even the still heavily under strength 1st and 3rd Defender's were perhaps more dangerous than they might appear on paper and growing stronger every year with recruits joining their ranks. Certainly the large scale battle armor formations that came with their reorganized formations should give them a hell of a bite even if they were short Mechwarriors for now. 
Those recruits were being trained not at a formal military academy (except a few places at a handful of FedSuns academies reserved for officer candidates and specialists) but in two LCT formations raised as a mixture of combat units and training commands. Officially the 1st & 2nd Andurien Light Cavalry LCT were the militia of the new colony. If Baxter or any of his lackey's were buying that they were stupider than even Jackson thought. The two "militia" formations might not have quite the cutting edge technology of the more senior Defender regiments but their equipment was still on line with a non-Davion Guard or Crucis Lancers front line formation within the AFFS. Their weight classes might be lighter than the heavy and assault Battlemechs which made up most of the Defenders, but that suited their light cavalry role. And while the two Light Cavalry LCTs might not have the polish of academy graduates their training cadres hadn't been selected at random or poorly by Angela! Some of the finest snipers, special forces troopers, and marines in particular had been training the infantry cadres of the rebuilding Andurien Armed Forces in Exile to help them reclaim their lost homeworlds. A few of the earliest graduates of those training cadres were already in Andurien creating merry hell with the occupying Capellans! The very fact that not a single one of the five military formations of the planet of "New Andurien" had "New" in their titles should tell the current occupant of Jojoken Palace something... 
Having read the portion that contained the current strength of the exiles Jackson flicked quickly through the proposed plan for reconquest. This was officially Plan G although it was broadly similar to Plan F, with just a few revisions based on intelligence from occupied Andurien. Yes, the Operation Liberation-G was still recommending the use of at least one FSAC formation, two Dragonlord RCTs, a RCT drawn from each of the various March brigades - Robinson Rangers, Syrtis Fusiliers, and St. Ives Armored Cavalry - in order to show solidarity from the entire Federated Suns, as well as three Avalon Hussars/Crucis Lancers/FedSuns Dragoons RCTs or suitable mercenary command and four Chisholm Raiders LCTs, along with a large number of conventional brigades with a heavy emphasis on infantry. Alongside the Andurien Armed Forces in Exile and with a carrier battle group, cruiser squadron, and corvette flotilla the suggestion was that within six months of the launch Andurien would be returned to it's rightful owners...
Coming to the last page with a list of recommendations, Jackson quickly initialed approval for the transfer of an additional battalion of Battlemechs, six companies of armor and four battalions of battle armor to the Andurien Armed Forces in Exile. Given the shortage of pilots that New Andurien was able to raise there was no further requests for aerospace fighters, but that was why Plan G called for the inclusion of a carrier battle group... 
Placing the initialed document in the out tray Jackson moved onto the next file in his to do tray, one with the emblem of the Duke of Robinson on the front proposing additional support for the soon to be raised Dieron DMM... Combat was easier than all this paperwork!
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===Armed Forces of Andurian in Exile===
Andurien Armed Forces in Exile (from folder listed above) 
Defenders of Andurien - organized as "light" Dragonlords style RCT of a battlemech regiment (although only the 2nd is a Reinforced Regiment) with two armoured regiments and two battle armoured regiments attached alongside a single wing of fighters. 
1st Defenders of Andurien RCT - Elite - 40% - New Andurien
2nd Defenders of Andurien RCT - Veteran - 60% (Re) - New Andurien 
3rd Defenders of Andurien RCT- Green - 50% - New Andurien 
Andurien Light Cavalry - organized as LCTs 
1st Andurien Light Cavalry LCT - Green - 100% - New Andurien 
2nd Andurien Light Cavalry LCT - Green - 100% - Patrolling around New Andurien
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