55th Armoured Corps

The 77th Armored Corps (nicknamed the Sierra Marauder Scorpion Corps), was a large scale unit in the Grand Army of the Galactic Republic during the conflict known as the Clone Wars. Republic High Command noted the effectiveness of tanks in combat during the Dark Reaper Crisis, and ordered the formation of a corps that consisted solely of tanks, artillery, support platforms, transportation vehicles and infantry, with no walkers and standardised speeder or starfighter contingents.

When on the offensive, regular tactics employed by the 77th called for them to advance in a series of formations spread out over a vast amount of terrain to effectively limit the enemy's ability to flank. Their other primary tactic was to deploy their forces in massive numbers if reconnaissance beforehand deemed it an acceptable tactic.

Alongside the 46th Reaver Corps and 21st Nova Corps, the 77th Armoured Corps was a Grand Army unit which experienced some of the largest mass deployments during the Clone Wars.

## **History**

### **Clone Wars**

#### **First Battle of Ryloth**

One of the 77th Armoured's first deployments was on Ryloth, in a series of skirmishes and sieges alongside the 46th Reaver Corps, 111th Heavy Brigade and a small number of other units. Various tank, artillery and infantry battles secured the way for Jedi High General Windu to capture Watt Tambor.

#### **Battle of Tirahnn**

The Marshal Commander led a unit of vehicles and infantry against CIS forces throughout one of the planet's cities. Encountering heavy resistance, they were later assisted by elite troops from the 83rd Dark Corps, who helped clear the way for them.

#### **Avrtgarda System Campaign**

After the ending of the system-wide ceasefire, the 77th saw mass deployment across the Arvtgarda System, and were involved in every planet where warfare took place. The 144th Pathfinder Regiment performed several reconnaissance, intelligence and sabotage operations which turned multiple engagements in the Seventy-Seventh's favour.

#### **Battle of Umbara**

General Tabarin and Netic commanded a combined arms attack on several Umbaran strongholds and a city. Heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of hundreds of clone troopers and volunteers, but also eliminated or captured thousands of Umbaran soldiers. Alongside the 46th Reaver Corps and other GAR units, the 77th was responsible for keeping the majority of the Umbaran forces preoccupied whilst units such as the 7th Sky Corps, 501st Legion and 111th Heavy Brigade accomplished their various tasks and operations.

### **Imperial Expansion**

When the Galactic Republic was replaced by the Galactic Empire under Sheev Palpatine, the 77th Armoured Corps was one of the foremost units fighting for the reclamation of Imperial worlds and the conquest of the Confederate remnants. As the clone stormtroopers fell in battle, Imperial Army troopers and clone stormtroopers from dissolved units were sent through rapid training courses and attached to the 77th. While this series of changes temporarily hindered unit cohesion, and broke their no-speeder rule, it did allow them to continue military operations when other corps would have likely up and quit.

Wreckage from many 55th Armoured Corps operations could be located across hundreds of worlds, the results of anti-Separatist and anti-insurgent activities. These battles took place over such vast expanses of land that even the Galactic Empire could not salvage all of the discarded weapons, armour and vehicles left on those wide battlefields.

### **Galactic Civil War**

After the Separatist remnants were largely defeated, the Imperial Military worked to separate and amalgamate the various units of the 55th Armoured Corps into the Imperial Army, the Recon and Ordinance, and the Stiormtrooper Corps. This attempt was not as widely successful as Imperial officials hoped, because the entirety of the 77th's training centred around armoured combat. Infantry torn away from their armoured vehicular contingents were statistically less likely to achieve victory on the field of battle, as their primary sources of cover, protection, shelter, firepower and comfort were removed. While many of the Empire's units became drastically different than their clone predecessors, the 55th had already involved a healthy dosage of volunteers, humans and aliens alike, and they and the clones in the corps passed on their knowledge, skills, stories and experiences unto their human-born replacements. Ageing clone stormtroopers felt right at home in their combined arms units, and even the officers sent from the Imperial Academies to command them found it difficult to resist the combination of useful tactics and camaraderie.

This resulted in a form of favouritism, wherein pro-77th officers sought to arrange that their units were garrisoned or deployed on the various battlefronts together. The Armoured Corps commonly performed field exercises and tests to ensure their troops were up to snuff, and when their favouritism-based schemes succeeded, they had their armoured and infantry contingents adjacent to one another and were less likely to fall victim to rebel attacks. The same could not be said for the departed units, stuck in other formations which operated differently. Those troops were slowly struck down in heavy combat or retired, with fresh-faced recruits brought in to replace them, who did not bear the history of the 77th, nor the tactics. Thus, only the memories of what those units once were, remained in the minds and archives of the 77th Armoured Corps.

## **Vehicles**

### **Land Vehicles**

Infantry Support Platform

A5-Recon Juggernaut

A5 Turbo Tank Juggernaut

A6-Turbo Tank Juggernaut

Interceptor TX-130 Saber-class fighter tank

TX-130T fighter tank (Shielded TX-130 variant)

RX-200 Falchion-class assault tank

Republic Troop Transport

UT-AT Trident

### **Air Vehicles**

Advanced Gunship Fighter [AGF]

Low Altitude Assault Transport/carrier [Carrying capacity: one TX-130 Tank]

Low Altitude Assault Transport/vehicle [Carrying capacity: two TX-130 Tanks]

## **Unit Composition**

### **40th Hektos Legion**

Centi Regiment

Acre Regiment

Hectare Regiment

72nd Armored Company

73rd Sapper Company

### **39th Arura Legion**

#### **77th Castellum Company**

22nd Castra Platoon

24th Casturm Platoon

26th Architecti Platoon

28th Hastati Platoon

## **Personnel Roster**

Specialist.CT-7745 "Pinpoint" [77th Castellum Company]

Corporal VT-5230 Jura Jin [Transferred to 312th Chlorophyll Legion]

Captain CT-8874 "Haz" [77th Castellum Company]

Lieutenant CL-3840-0011 "Piki"

Captain CT-3840-0010 "Boxer" [Sapper Company]

Captain VT-6996 Kor "Omicron" Lam [72nd Armored Company]

Major VT-3839-01 "Wyrwulf"

Battalion Commander ARCC-6642 "Jaigs" [77th Castellum Company]

Jedi Commander Zhandra Arelis

Regimental Commander CC-1332-21

Marshal Commander CC-3840-0020 "Netic"

Jedi General Allayah Tabarin