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Phi Galaxy (Ghost Bear)

Phi Galaxy
FormedLate 29th Century
FunctionsCombined Arms, Corporate Security, Electronic Warfare, Intelligence, Logistics
NicknameThe Reaver Keshik
The Short-Faced Bears
30th Rasalhague Regulars
5th Drakøns
AffiliationClan Ghost Bear (until 3100)
Draconis Combine (3015-3036)
Free Rasalhague Republic (3036-3049)
Various Corporations (3052-)
Rasalhague Dominion (3101-)
Parent CommandClan Ghost Bear Touman
Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery (3015-3036)
Kungsarmé (3036-3049)
Sub-Commands7th Bear Strikers
3rd Bear Hussars (Hellfighers)
1st Bear Phalanx
Multiple Provisional Garrisons
Bureau of Corporate Security
Bureau of Mercenary Affairs
Ghost Bear Watch (After 3136)

History of Phi Galaxy

Founded near the middle of the Golden Century, the beginnings of Phi Galaxy were quite humble. At first, a Beta Galaxy provisional garrison headed by Star Colonel Alan Bekker was attacked by bandit caste from a neighboring system. His forces held the line, but required reinforcement from a neighboring system and its garrison cluster, commanded by Star Colonel Alexandria Rand. Following the intervention, the two requisitioned several merchant vessels and pursued the bandits back to the system they were hiding within and scoured it of all life. Tradition has it that when word of these Colonels’ deed reached an aging Khan Toramano Tseng, he elevated them to a new Galaxy, and assigned to them the duty of protecting the merchant and labor castes and managing garrisons that were designated to do the same.

Golden Century

Due to the nature of their role, much of Phi Galaxy was manned by previously provisional Solahma and other under skilled troops. Very few true MechWarriors nor elementals were raised into the galaxy much less chose to become part thereof. Phi was regarded as a punishment for those of higher station, as their particular form of service proved to be a meatgrinder. Constant threats, challenges, and raids committed by the dark caste caused their numbers to be in continual flux.

When Khan Kilbourne Jorgensson was slain by a Hell’s Horses warrior, things changed rapidly. Seemingly out of nowhere, a largely provisional galaxy suddenly began issuing challenges against Hell’s Horses garrisons. Hell’s Horses officers started disappearing or being found dead, seemingly by their own hand, and rumors circulated that the true role of Phi Galaxy was something far more sinister than had initially been let on. As quickly as the deaths began and rumors started circulating, all activity stopped, as though in response to the rumors a damage control protocol began to be put in place. The Hell’s Horses started referring to members of Phi Galaxy as Reavers, and the specific cluster that had challenged them most frequently came to be known as the Hellfighters. Within a decade, as the war between the two clans continued escalating, Phi Galaxy would resume their assaults against the other clan, though doing so in coordination with other Galaxies rather than on their own or through the activation of provisional garrisons.

Political Century

Between intermittent fighting with the Hell’s Horses, Wolves, and various challenges, Phi attended its primary role as stewards of logistics and of garrison management. At some point prior to the Dragoon Compromise, a matter of practicality led the Ghost Bear Khan of 2978 to vest Phi with several unique privileges, including one that allowed any Phi officer of captain or higher rank to supersede any other provisional officer unless their Galaxy Commander were directly present. Such was their trust with that Khan. At the time they also had strong ties to Alpha, Beta, Rho, and Kappa Galaxy’s command structure, which likely was the impetus underlying the appointment of responsibility.

Then Galaxy Commander Newton Hall opposed the Dragoon compromise, though he was a dissenting voice among the Ghost Bear seats in council. A decade later, when communications from the inner sphere slowed, it was clear to the Khan of Ghost Bear that the Dragoons had betrayed the clans. By 3020, when the communications from the inner sphere stopped altogether, he convinced the Clan Grand Council to send another force to the Inner Sphere with the intent to re-attempt the Dragoons’ mission, though choosing a force he knew would be loyal to the cause. In secret, their mission would be a more direct, offensive one. Namely, their role would be to clear what would eventually be the invasion corridor. He offered up Phi Galaxy as the force to enter the Sphere due to a high number of exceptionally loyal freebirth warriors among them.

Star Colonel Wilhelm Rand and Khan Newton Hall, the prior Phi Galaxy Commander, laid out a plan to the Grand Council that involved infiltrating the Draconis Combine by acting as refugees. The vast majority would act in this manner, claiming to come from territories ravaged by pirates in the periphery, and purchasing their way into positions of promise. A smaller contingent of a dozen warriors would seek employ as mercenaries by entering through the Lyran Commonwealth. This way, the latter would be able to begin to learn the ins and outs of organizations that employ mercenaries regularly.

By 3025, Colonel Rand and two clusters arrived at the edge of the Combine, presenting themselves as refugees with a great deal of mining supplies, and by 3027 offered the services of several of their members as recruits in the DCMS. Coordinator Takashi Kurita accepted their submission to service as thanks for their economic contributions and seeming obedience for the prior two years, and a presumption of obedience prior to that. They were installed as the 30th Rasalhague Regular Regiment and, after being reinforced, were deployed to Alshain, freeing the 2nd Rasalhague Regulars to mobile duty in campaigns if necessary.

From their position, they were given unique purview into logistics and operations, as well as being able to apply themselves in ways that few would have expected. Ultimately until the outbreak of the 4th Succession War, the 30th Regulars would engage in corporate and public relations-related work, as well as expeditions to the border of the Oberon Confederation to strike down pirate bands. Their jump infantry gained a reputation as being particularly savage among the DCMS, given their propensity to flay enemies that they captured.

The mercenary branch that entered through the Lyran Commonwealth registered with the then Mercenary Review Board. Soon after, they had exchanged the supplied they brought with them for a company of inner sphere Battlemechs and began taking on contracts. These contracts sometimes put them at conflict with the DCMS, against whom they would conveniently be confronted and “defeat” either the 30th Rasalhague Regulars or their associate parties, thus avoiding actual danger in such operations.

When Takashi Kurita’s contract with the Wolf’s Dragoons began falling apart by way of his Warlord, Wilhelm Rand was pleasantly surprised that he did not have to lift a finger against the traitors to cause substantial losses, and remained content to watch from afar as a portion of his orders were carried out by the infiltrated party. The same year, Newton Hall died in a duel against an unnamed Khan of Clan Hell’s Horses, becoming the second Khan slain by their rival clan. His replacement would eventually send news to the Inner Sphere that would reach Wilhelm Rand through a recon meeting in the deep periphery.

The 4th Succession War

In spite of Operation GOTTERDAMARUNG making great conquests of the Rasalhague District, the 30th Rasalhague Regulars primarily attended to counter-pirate and administrative operations. Only one attempt was made by a rogue Lyran officer to attack Alshain while the 2nd Regulars were absent. The rogue officer, who had brought a company of heavy and assault ‘mechs aided by a second company of conventional armor, saw his forces annihilated by a pair of reinforced lances of light and heavy battlemechs reinforced by a single reinforced lance of conventional armor. Chu-sa Wilhelm Rand, piloting a modified Dragon, managed to leg and down the rogue Colonel’s Atlas. The Colonel would then challenge Wilhelm to a duel with swords, being decapitated in the process. As a reward, the Atlas would be kept by Wilhelm, as would the majority of the assets brought by the enemy.

Clay Highton-Rand

Much of GOTTERDAMARUNG was used as an excuse by the 30th Rasalhague to foment dissent through their contacts in industry. Dissatisfaction with the Coordinator, fury against the territorial conquest offered only token defense, and a thought: that perhaps it was time for an independent Rasalhague once more. His job was not hard, as the people of Rasalhague were already pursuing that end, but knowing that elements of the military were on their side emboldened them to seek arbitration.

Free Rasalhague Republic Forms

In 3033, the 30th Regulars called upon and incorporated Rand’s Reavers, a mercenary company that had been operating alongside (read: sabotaging) the Wolf’s Dragoons in 3029. Soon after the incorporation, the plan was proposed to Takashi Kurita by a ComStar liaison to produce the buffer-state known as the Free Rasalhague Republic. Takashi agreed not only to give them their freedom but to enforce the formation of the new state, alongside the Archon of the Lyran Commonwealth.

The 30th Rasalhague Regulars were reformed as the 5th Drakøns in 3034, and immediately went to war against the Ronin. Almost exclusively deployed against traitorous forces, the reformed regiment sent its jump infantry into urban environments, where they committed to an unconventional method of war: they would hunt down traitorous elements in their homes, and assassinate dissidents in the streets.

Julianna Davis-Hall

On the battlefield, the now heavily modified Atlas of Wilhelm Rand, called Kamuy, became a symbol of victory for both the newly forming Kungsarmé and the loyalist DCMS who came to their aid. However, it also became a symbol of terror and death to both the Ronin and MRB, cementing a reputation that would outlive the ‘mech itself.

The 5th Drakøns primarily operated on Alshain during this period and through the War of 3039, but helped the Free Rasalhague Republic in vetting, arbitration, and elimination of mercenaries after the disasters of the Ronin War. Thanks to the victories of the 5th over several mercenary and ronin forces, and thanks to the economic and political machinations Wilhelm Rand, the 5th were restationed to The Edge and an unnamed system one jump coreward therefrom (later to be named Balmung).

Operation REVIVAL

In 3043, when a 46 year-old Wilhelm Rand received the signal that the invasion of the Inner Sphere was to begin within a few years, he mobilized the 5th Drakøns for their new task. He went to ComStar, as well as representatives from multiple defense contractors and heads of the Lyran Commonwealth and Free Rasalhague Republic. At this meeting he proposed an annexation of the HPG stations within the Oberon Confederation, or, at minimum, an apparent one. He suggested that by denying them communication, they would appeal to the neighboring states for assistance and be brought into the fold. ComStar and the other corporations would benefit from the stabilization, and the states would benefit by the gain of territory and removal of a long-term thorn in their side.

All parties agreed, and the 5th Drakøns, now a second generation of recruits and an elder generation of garrison warriors, made for the periphery. They staged several blackouts on their path, including Oberon VI, and left many of their younger warriors as a garrison of the HPG Stations, alternating between lies that they would return when the blackout was completed or that they would soon be relieved by house forces claiming the territory.

Instead, the Oberon Confederation barely noticed the blackout for several years, as they had other methods of communication in their own borders that they already used, for the most part. Meanwhile, with every HPG shut down in the coreward periphery, Phi Galaxy returned to their hidden jumpships and began the journey back to the Pentagon Worlds. ComStar and the houses monitored their progress to a degree, as they would send signals as they took a station to indicate it was taken before shutting it down. However, even those forces understood that such an operation could take a decade or more, and were willing to overlook curious incidences during its progress.

Paul Rand

Arriving back at Strana Mechty in 3047, now Phi Galaxy Commander Wilhelm Rand met the new Khan, Nornian Tseng and his SaKhan, as well as several prominent officers within the touman. He relayed to them information about advancements in Inner Sphere technology, such as the introduction of Triple-Strength Myomer and the use of melee weapons, the discovery of the Helm Memory Core and the technological renaissance that resulted, as well as the weakened stated of the corridor due to the conflicts leading through to the Federated Commonwealth. When Ghost Bear appeared before the Clan Grand Council and delivered news to the IlKhan, certain details were intentionally left undisclosed, so as to strengthen Ghost Bear’s ability to claim and secure worlds in their path.

The key Captains, Colonels, and Phi Galaxy Commander were rewarded with participation in the Clawing ritual on Strana Mechty prior to the invasion as a result of their now decades of service in exile. In his own clawing party, Wilhelm Rand met a younger Aletha Kabrinski, whose genetic material had been paired with his in the production of the twins Paul and Shelly, at that time in a creche at Arcadia. The two became friends during the ritual and he protected her when their particular party encountered a full pack of hungry Ghost Bears. This friendship would carry through the remainder of both their lives, and influence several important decisions made during Operation REVIVAL.

The Outbound Light reaching the Homeworlds was the signal for the invasion to begin. The deaths of Khan Nornian Tseng and SaKhan Ursula Jorgensson during the Wolves’ Trial of Refusal lead to the election of Carl Bourjon as Khan. The Wolves, Jaguars, and Falcons would be far more aggressive than Ghost Bear, which found itself fighting on its own the majority of the time.

Phi Galaxy, being a second-line force, kept to the rear positions of the invasion corridor, wiping out elements of resistance, including their own garrisons in the Oberon Confederation, who did not get a chance to recognize their former commanders. Moreover, the establishment of new provisional garrisons and re-establishment of ties to local defense contractors allowed infrastructure in regions conquered by the Touman to remain largely intact, which would have long-lasting positive impacts.

Getting bogged down so badly in the early stages of the Operation did not sit right with the Touman, and calls were made of no confidence against Khan Bourjon. First among those voices was his own new SaKhan, Aletha Kabrinski. Her challenge to his position would have potentially been dismissible had she not been joined by Wilhelm Rand, whose sway as a forward intelligence operative convinced the Commanders of Beta, Delta, Kappa, and Rho to join in the vote. They were soon followed by the whole of the officers in the Touman. After Jorgensson took the Khanship with a near unanimous vote and overcoming a Trial of Refusal, he and Aletha would lead the remainder of REVIVAL. With Jorgensson in command, the methods of reinforcement and reconstruction previously managed by Phi Galaxy became Touman-wide, leading to administrators from Phi accompanying every Star Colonel of the Touman throughout Operation Revival.

Shelly Rand

Phi did not participate in the Battle of Tukayyid. Instead, they focused upon their now historic role of rebuilding infrastructure and garrisoning worlds already taken. After the defeat at Tukayyid, when the truce took hold, he was proud to assist the Khan in securing the lanes that would allow the relocation of the entire Clan to the newly forming Ghost Bear Dominion. For the remainder of the period, Phi improved relations between the Touman and inner sphere corporations, helping the clan to integrate systems with the MRBC and establishing the Bureaus of Corporate Security and Mercenary Affairs, which allowed them to manage forces across the entire Inner Sphere in the ages to come.

RRR 3058-3062: The Rasalhague Rum-Runners

A curious incident that occurred during the late period of the Clan Invasion saw an ad hoc star of Phi Galaxy bondsmen escorting cargo ships to and from Timbiqui. They collected beer, wine, and other spirits by the megaton for the festivities occurring in the Ghost Bear Occupation Zone to celebrate the formation of the Ghost Bear Dominion. Along the way they had a misadventure where they were attacked by Ronin at Shiloh, a month-long stint on Solaris VII where one of their member, a LAM pilot named Ezekiel “Izzy High” Highton, had a lethal stand-off with an old rival named James Ross Lawler, and were attacked by pirates disguising themselves as ComStar after arriving at Timbiqui. On the return journey they aided in the elimination of a pocket of Steel Viper resistance in Jade Falcon space and, after they returned, those in bonds earned their freedom and right to remain through Trials of Position.

Federated Commonwealth Civil War

Apart from operations in the First Combine-Dominion War (see below), numerous elements enlisted by Phi Galaxy participated in the FedCom Civil War. Thanks to their Bureau of Mercenary Affairs, founded in early 3053, several units of Ghost Bear warriors acting as mercenaries were able to deploy, testing themselves in both sides of the massive conflict. These included members of nearly every Galaxy, who would request transfer to Phi for the purpose of a mercenary contract, then return with the honor of their victories to their original Galaxies.

Wilhelm Rand was challenged out of position in 3059 at age 62. Phi Galaxy, then under the command of Tenneyson Jorgensson, previously of the Rasalhague Rum-Runners, spent much of the late Invasion period securing borders and focusing on intelligence operations to secure the new Ghost Bear Dominion as it formed. During these operations, it became clear that there were stirrings along the front facing the Draconis Combine. Phi attempted to warn other galaxies and especially the Khan of impending attack, but by the time they had enough information to relay, it was being intercepted by counter-intelligence operatives.

First Combine-Dominion War

After the attempted attack on Alshain failed, Phi primarily coordinated jump points for the forces that retaliated, providing garrisons that secured supply lines to the front. Only one trinary of the 7th Strikers and an Ad Hoc trinary comprised of mercenaries were deployed to the front. The mercenaries were part of a rear guard action at Itabaina, which allowed Rho and the local garrisons to fall back before they were themselves captured as bondsmen to the attacking Nova Cats. The 7th Strikers, with Tennyson leading from the front, supported Alpha Galaxy at Idlewind and in other operations. Tennyson discovered a tenuous link while fighting against a Nova Cat Garrison of Vlad Ward potentially manipulating the conflict, with the promise of additional forces to split the Bears’ attention eventually coming into play. With the expectation of a separate invasion, the 7th Strikers fell back from the secured front, leaving garrisons and supply lines intact. The repositioned toward the coreward periphery in support of Rho and Kappa Galaxies, where they found the Hell’s Horses and Ice Hellions poising for an invasion of their own. Faulk Mallone, one of the Rasalhague Rum-Runners, fought in one of the sub-trials of possession at Courchevel in 3063, winning for his part in his modified Awesome “The Hammer” against an opponent piloting a modified Hatamoto-Chi.

Older Paul Rand

After the Combine was defeated, the Hell’s Horses invasion came, and ran directly into wall after wall of defenses organized by Kappa, Rho, and Phi Galaxy. For Phi, the defenses were commanded by Star Colonel Carl Hall, an elemental-phentotype Mechwarrior and prior commander of the Rasalhague Rum-Runners.

Finally, when it was confirmed that Vlad Ward had been one of the driving forces behind the two-pronged invasion of Ghost Bear space, Bjorn Jorgensson gave the order for his Phi Galaxy to assist in the vengeance to be unleashed. Tennyson Jorgensson gathered all forces that Phi had to spare, and coordinated with Alpha and Beta Galaxies to lay claim to and successfully take the Unzmarkt and Rasalhague systems from Clan Wolf.

Jihad

Due to economic matters taking center stage for most of Phi and its leaders throughout the latter portion of the FedCom Civil War, and even through the Jihad until 3073, the Word of Blake was regarded as little more than an abominable curiosity, even by Phi’s operatives. However, the death of Khan Bjorn Jorgensson at Arc-Royal changed this. Phi was called upon by the new Khan, Aletha Kabrinski, to use its corporate ties and garrison commands to root out and annihilate all traces of Blakism within the Dominion, up to and including consigning entire systems to annihilation should a certain percentage of the religion be present, or should the system be designated as being under the control of Motstånd. Galaxy Commander Tennyson Jorgensson urged reason and caution, and requested that he be allowed to conduct investigations rather than relying upon presumptions of the census to make such weighty decisions. This request was allowed by Khan Kabrinski, much to the surprise of other Galaxy Commanders.

In 3074, during one such investigation at Radstadt III, the machinations of a Shadow Division were uncovered after a trusted member of the system’s garrison assassinated Tennyson. The New Galaxy Commander, Carl Hall, immediately unleashed a bombardment of Neutron Bombs onto the system, all of its inhabitants, as well as ordering the destruction of any non-Phi force, civilian or otherwise, that attempted to jump in or out until the job was done. 893,000,000 civilians were slain in the nuclear exchange, and the Blakists, in a desperate final bid to inflict significant casualties on the foe that turned their own weapons against them, unleashed a bioweapon that targeted phenotypical traits of the Tseng bloodline, to which Carl and other warriors of Phi belonged. Many died, but Carl himself was spared.

What followed was a general wave of unbridled brutality against Blakists by all galaxies of the Touman, such that when Ghost Bear forces deployed to Luthien, Pesht, and Benjamin they would not offer any form of honorable recourse to their foe. The death of a Khan, Galaxy Commander, and multiple diplomats and corporate executives demanded nothing but blood. Phi sent the 3rd Bear Hussars to support the other galaxies involved in those actions, providing support by intercepting communications and uncovering targets to strike.

By 3077, after unleashing similar massacres on now unnamed systems within the Ghost Bear Dominion, Carl Hall resigned his command without a challenge to the twins Paul and Shelly Rand, who would become the diarchal Galaxy Commanders of Phi for a staggering 68 years to come. After resigning, Carl returned to Alshain to be healed of the new cancer caused by the bioweapons unleashed, and after recovering, married a freed Nova Cat bondswoman and moved to Tukayyid, where he lived out the rest of his days in peace as Phi’s liaison to Clan Diamond Shark trade interests there. Due to this change in power, Phi Galaxy’s interaction with Operation SCOUR was purely logistical in nature.

Throughout the period, as different Motstånd-sponsored factions appeared, Phi was typically providing counter-intelligence operatives to mark them or root them out. On several occasions, when the resistance fighters were determined to be disgruntled veterans unwilling to complete trials to retain their rank and station, Phi liaisons would offer parley and recontextualize the Trials of Position in favorable terms. In this way, throughout the Jihad, Phi incorporated dozens of resistance cells back into the fold by putting them through the same mock trials that they already had used for decades to incorporate mercenaries.

Dark Age

After Devlin Stone’s coalition finally broke the back of the Word of Blake, reclaiming Terra, a new age of relative peace (that is to say, secret wars) came upon the Inner Sphere. Phi’s new commanders took full advantage to embed Phi as corporate security within the Dominion and to those corporations’ allies without. During this time, deals were made between the Dominion Touman and several other corporations, further strengthening the relations of the Ghost Bear Touman and the people of the Inner Sphere.

An older Shelly Rand

Phi’s commanders were major proponents of the “disarmament” measures of Devlin Stone’s Republic, using the treaties as an excuse to consolidate strength and accrue corporate resources toward future projects that would be considered matters of state security. However, these projects would not come to fruition until the 3110s. One major economic opportunity that bore fruit during the late 3090s was the acquisition of Cosby Battlemech and Myomer Research’s debt on behalf of Bergan Industries, which in less than five years would lead to Ghost Bear being able to produce both Stealth Armor and Triple-Strength Myomer domestically.

In 3103, the renaming of the power into the Rasalhague Dominion coincided with the beginning of two massive economic undertakings spearheaded by Phi Galaxy and their corporate interests.

The first long-term contract through Bergan Industries was a fifty year deal with General Motors, granting the former unlimited rights to the use of the Marauder chassis specification and access to materials produced within GM facilities, and granting the latter unlimited access to clan-specifications of existing technologies and several updated ‘mech designs, as well as a new manufacturing facility to be built at Orestes.

The second contract was between Phi’s command structure and Alshain Naval Yards directly. This deal was called Project URSUS CORAX and the details of it were kept quiet for nearly fifty years as well, only being revealed at the turn of the IlClan era.

IlClan

Phi was instrumental in uncovering Dominion Hyper Myomer (also Clan-Triple Strength Myomer), as well as providing broad corporate security that leads to the launching of a new fleet of Warships (albeit a significantly smaller fleet). With the Dominion united in joining the new Star League to become the Shield of the IlKhanate, Phi is sent alongside two other galaxies to secure Bergan and General Motors interests by extinguishing hostilities within the Capellan Confederation.

Officers of Phi Galaxy

Galaxy Commander Esbern Rand
RankNameCommand
Galaxy CommanderAlexandria Rand2890-2900
Galaxy CommanderNewton Hall3010 – 3025
Galaxy CommanderWilhelm Rand3046 – 3059
Galaxy CommanderTennyson Jorgenson3059 – 3074
Galaxy CommanderCarl Hall3074 – 3076
Galaxy CommanderPaul Rand3076 – 3145
Galaxy CommanderShelly Rand3076 – 3145
Galaxy CommanderJoshua Bekker3145-3152 (Supplanted 3146 in alternate timelines)
Alternate Timelines – Diarchy Guaranteed from this point forward due to being Army and Navy simultaneously.
Galaxy CommanderEsbern Rand3146 – ????
Star AdmiralRoscoe-Martinez Lankenau3153 – ????

Other Officers

Star Colonel Julianna Hall – Aide to Esbern Rand

Loremaster Hans Kabrinksi – Circa 3145 Forward

Tactics of Phi Galaxy

Phi Galaxy, from its inception, has used combine arms formations to devastating effect. Though, on paper, their mobile units appear to follow a stringently traditional format of trinary of battlemechs, trinary of battle armor, attached star of aerospace fighters, and a support star of conventional armor. However, on the battlefield these values are deceptive.

In order to maintain parity with inner sphere forces, Phi formed what it coins the Nebula Formation. A Nebula consists of a full supernova trinary with supports, as stated above. When deployed, the formation is broken down into smaller groupings called Cores, which contain three ‘mechs, one point of aerospace fighters, one point of conventional armor, and three points of battle armor. As a result, a single portion of the Nebula formation is ten units on a battlefield, led by a Core Commander, a rank held in equal standing to a Star Captain in other Galaxies. A full Nebula is led by a Star Major, held in slightly higher standing than a Nova Captain of other Toumans.

Phi’s reputation among the other galaxies is that of a necessary evil, and among clan enemies who have encountered them as an utter disgrace. They consistently deploy electronic warfare into battle and often have no regard for Zellbrigen unless interacting with their own in specified challenges or training exercises. They favor melee weapons and attacks with their battle armor and lighter mechs, and deploy artillery and bombers regularly.

Phi requisitions its own dropships from industrial partners, and so has the internal space of their dropships aligned to allow such forces to be contained safely and comfortably on two ships per Nebula. Given that they are a second-line force, they very rarely are in position that requires them to perform a hot drop with mechs, and so they instead use spheroid dropships almost exclusively. If a situation could call for a hot drop, Phi will deploy the aerospace fighters and use them and the heavily armed dropships to form a beachhead before deploying their ground forces. Starting in the Resurgence and Vengeance alternate timelines, all mobile clusters are garrisoned on warships and those perform the clearing.

Phi Galaxy Composition History

The original force of Phi Galaxy was the 1st Bear Phalanx and a now forgotten Provisional Garrison. The latter force merged with the former to produce the initial command hierarchy that would train up two more mobile clusters and nearly a dozen provisional garrisons. Since then, the 1st Bear Phalanx has been the garrison for whatever center of commerce has required their protection, and the two other clusters that they raised, the 7th Strikers and the 3rd Hussars, became their mobile commands.

2900

  • 1st Bear Phalanx (Originally 13th Provisional Garrison Cluster)
  • 2nd Bear Phalanx (Originally 15th Provisional Garrison Cluster)
  • 16th Provisional Garrison Cluster

2975

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Bear Phalanx
  • 2nd Bear Phalanx
  • 3rd Bear Hussars
  • 7th Bear Strikers
  • 16th Provisional Garrison Cluster

3005

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Bear Phalanx
  • 2nd Bear Phalanx
  • 3rd Bear Hussars
  • 7th Bear Strikers
  • 16th, 19th, 20th Provisional Garrison Clusters

3030

  • Rand’s Reavers (Reaver Keshik)
  • 30th Rasalhague Regulars

3039

  • Rand’s Reavers (Reaver Keshik)
  • 5th Drakøns

3050

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Bear Phalanx
  • 2nd Bear Phalanx
  • 3rd Bear Hussars
  • 7th Bear Strikers

3075

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Bear Phalanx
  • 2nd Bear Phalanx
  • 3rd Bear Hussars
  • 5th Drakøn Cluster
  • 7th Bear Strikers
  • 35th, 36th, 38th Provisional Garrison Clusters
  • Mercenary Commands:
    • Auxiliary Winged Hussars (Majesty Metals)
    • Ares Dragoons (Bergan Industries Ares)
    • Tau Ceti Heavy Horse (Bergan Industries New Earth)
    • Timbiqui Reds (Multiple Agriworlds)

3101

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Bear Phalanx
  • 2nd Bear Phalanx
  • 3rd Bear Hussars
  • 5th Drakøn Cluster
  • 5th Kavalleri Cluster
  • 6th Drakøn Cluster
  • 7th Bear Strikers
  • 43rd, 44th, 45th Provisional Garrison Clusters
  • Mercenary Commands:
    • Auxiliary Winged Hussars (Majesty Metals)
    • Ares Dragoons (Bergan Industries Ares)
    • Tau Ceti Heavy Horse (Bergan Industries New Earth)
    • Timbiqui Reds (Multiple Agriworlds)

3126

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Dominion Phalanx
  • 2nd Dominion Phalanx
  • 3rd Dominion Hussars
  • 5th Drakøn Cluster
  • 5th Kavalleri Cluster
  • 6th Drakøn Cluster
  • 7th Bear Strikers
  • 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th Provisional Garrison Clusters
  • Mercenary Commands:
    • Auxiliary Winged Hussars
    • Ares Dragoons (Bergan Industries Outside Dominion)
    • Capellan Reavers (Ceres Metals Capella)
    • Carlisle Reavers (Bowie Industries Corporate Security)
    • IWCSF (Independence Weaponry Corporate Security Forces)
    • Jamestown Ferrymen (Ronin Incorporated)
    • Kathil Cuirassiers (General Motors – Kathil)
    • New Valencia Reavers (General Motors – New Valencia)
    • Perdition Phalanx (Pinard Protectorates Limited)
    • Talcott Grenadiers (General Motors – Talcott)
    • Theo Bears (Taurus Territorial Industries – Jansen’s Hold)
    • Timbiqui Reds
    • Togura no Bushi (Ibuki Robotics & Manufacturing)
    • New Vandenberg Fusiliers (Vandenberg Mechanized Industries).
    • Warlock Phalanx (Ceres Metals Warlock)

3140

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Dominion Phalanx
  • 2nd Dominion Phalanx
  • 3rd Dominion Hussars
  • 5th Drakøn Cluster
  • 5th Kavalleri Cluster
  • 6th Drakøn Cluster
  • 7th Bear Strikers
  • 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th Provisional Garrison Clusters
  • Mercenary Commands:
    • Auxiliary Winged Hussars
    • Ares Dragoons
    • Capellan Reavers
    • Carlisle Reavers
    • IWCSF
    • Jamestown Ferrymen
    • Kathil Cuirassiers
    • New Valencia Reavers
    • Perdition Phalanx
    • Talcott Grenadiers
    • Theo Bears
    • Timbiqui Reds
    • Togura no Bushi
    • New Vandenberg Fusiliers
    • Warlock Phalanx

3153 (Resurgence)

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Dominion Phalanx
  • 3rd Dominion Hussars
  • 3rd Dominion Naval Cluster
  • 5th Dominion Drakøn
  • 5th Dominion Kavalleri
  • 7th Dominion Battle Cluster
  • 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th Provisional Garrison Clusters
  • Mercenary Commands:
    • Auxiliary Winged Hussars
    • Ares Dragoons
    • Capellan Reavers
    • Carlisle Reavers
    • IWCSF
    • Jamestown Ferrymen
    • Kathil Cuirassiers
    • New Valencia Reavers
    • Perdition Phalanx
    • Talcott Grenadiers
    • Theo Bears
    • Timbiqui Reds
    • Togura no Bushi
    • New Vandenberg Fusiliers
    • Warlock Phalanx
    • Others

3153

  • Reaver Keshik
  • 1st Dominion Phalanx
  • 3rd Dominion Hussars
  • 3rd Dominion Naval Cluster
  • 5th Dominion Drakøn
  • 5th Dominion Kavalleri
  • 7th Dominion Battle Cluster
  • 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th Provisional Garrison Clusters
  • Mercenary Commands:
    • Auxiliary Winged Hussars
    • Ares Dragoons
    • Capellan Reavers
    • Carlisle Reavers
    • IWCSF
    • Jamestown Ferrymen
    • Kathil Cuirassiers
    • New Valencia Reavers
    • Perdition Phalanx
    • Talcott Grenadiers
    • Theo Bears
    • Timbiqui Reds
    • Togura no Bushi
    • New Vandenberg Fusiliers
    • Warlock Phalanx
    • Others

Notes

  • While the Reaver Keshik is not officially part of Phi Galaxy, it is attached to it administratively.
  • Rules for Phi Galaxy will be found in TRO: Resurgence.