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[InnerSphereNews]

Wed. March 27th, 3050: Overste Adrian MacGalliard of 3rd Drakons lodges official complaint over “a decade of interminable anti-piracy service.”

[Nikoliy]

No need to complain substantial pirate clean up is already underway...

[Pando]

Lodged like a pro.

[Volt Corsair]

See, we would be destroying the pirates out here, except they're slowly getting more powerful. Somethings... odd. Like they should be overheating less with what they're using, and I've been getting weird responses from them. The **** is a quiaff? They come up with a new language?

[Monsoon]

Maybe instead of complaining, he should finally deal with them. I haven't been able to get a message in or out of Thule in weeks.

[Stone Profit]

Worry not Rasalhagians, soon you will have plenty of work to do. So my magic 8 ball has said, so it shall be.

[Steel Raven]

You would think the Kell Hounds would have taken care of a problem by now.

[Scav3ng3r]

Clean up, on isle Coreward Periphery!

[joedawg39s]

Its a shame our best heavy unit has to be stuck out in the periphery, not like anything is going on out there.

[Skylarr]

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The 3rd Drakøns was among the first of Free Rasalhague Republic's KungsArmé units formed, seeing heavy action against the Clans during the inital invasion and Great Refusal.

As of 3049, the unit CO was Överste Adrian McGalliard, who died during the fighting on Satalice.

As of 3049, the veteran ranked Third were stationed on Skandia, capital of the Skandia Province. During the Clan Invasion the Third were moved to Memmingen which Clan Wolf targeted in their fifth wave in late 3051. The battle initially favored the Drakøns when Star Colonel Marcos Radick was forced to bid only a small force to beat Khan Natasha Kerensky, so that the defenders had superior numbers. The highly mobile strategy adopted by the Drakøns worked well, but increasingly angered Radick. After the Drakøns slipped from his grasp during a battle at Danton, the enraged Radick ordered Danton and the neighboring village of Greenvale razed as an example to the planet, causing hundreds of civilian casualties. Fearing more casualties, the Third chose to retreat offworld to Satalice but not before broadcasting their vow to Radick that they would never forget Danton and Greenvale and would make him pay.

Post-Clan Invasion


In mid 3065 with the Wolves busy with the Jade Falcons and Ghost Bears, and hoping to repeat the 4th Kavalleri's successful deep raid of 3063, the Third were finally allowed to raid the Clans. Unfortunately the Third's agitation to raid had an ulterior motive, to locate Star Colonel Marcos Radick. While ComStar intelligence indicated his death in the Refusal War, the Third Drakøns steadfastly refused to accept that the odious Star Colonel and his unit had not survived and set out out to locate their hated foe.

Acting with poor intelligence and no support, the Third's berserker drive across Wolf Clan territory degenerated into a tense game of cat-and-mouse. Khan Vlad Ward positioned his forces to cover routes his opponent would logically take, only for the Third rampage off in a entirely different direction. Ultimately the Drakøns luck could not last forever, and the Wolf Clan finally caught up with the Third on Thun. With Överste Dahlstrom's death, her second in command executed an impressive fighting withdrawal and pulled the battered Third Drakøns back to Rasalhague space.

[Team Leader]

Good to have some IS news back

Edited by Team Leader, 27 March 2013 - 06:00 PM.

[3Xtr3m3]

Sounds like Overste Adrian MacGalliard of 3rd Drakons is a non stop QQer.

"But I don't WANNA hunt pirates any more"

Sheesh man up dude.

[Steinar Bergstol]

I can see his point. Pirate hunting is, in my opinion, best reserved for relatively green units and Merc units of medium to small size, and the Third Drakons is a veteran unit best deployed for more important duties. Pirate bands are generally small, badly equipped and badly led unless you're talking about the big names like Redjack Ryan, Maria Morgraine, Helmar Valasek or Hendrik Grimm III. Pirates successful enough to have the equipment to threaten a front line House company or even regiment.

For most pirates though they are so pathetic in actual combat that they make good targets for bloodying and givving your greenhorns experience in relative safety, or a decent paycheck and the chance for salvage for smaller merc units (making them a step up from garrison contracts).