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Unit Name: McCandless' Wranglers
Commander: Major Moira McCandless (Ex-AFFS/Filtvelt Coalition), Sr. Captain Inigo Gonzalves (ex-Filtvelt Coalition, Mech. Infantry Commander). Captain Bharatta Srinivasmurthy (Ex-militia officer)
Forces Available: Reinforced Mech Company (16 Mechs, 3050 era machines mostly, two Bushwhackers, one Ice Ferret Omni) 2 mixed Infantry/Armor Comapnies, mostly hovers with one platoon BA[Mix of Cavalier and Kage BA, 2 squads each])
Home Planet/Origin: June, formed as the Filtvelt Coalition began giving worlds back to the FedSuns (if that happened in this AU)

Unit Name: Daniel's Avengers
Commander/Significant Officers: Colonel James Daniel
Forces Available: Starting with a Company of Mechs, with armor, infantry and aerospace support in 2778 breaking away from the 20th Dragoons.  Growing to 3 Mech Reg w/aerospace support, 3 Infantry, 3 armor in 3055.
Home Planet/Origin: Formed on Terra during the exodus. Fleeing the disentengrating Hegemony to a depot world off the fed sun/ outworld sector.  the world called victoria by Lt Daniel as honor his wife who perished during the amaris occupation.

the avengers specialize in pirate hunting.   the have done it for 300 yrs.

Unit Name: Apache Wing
Commander/Significant Officers: Major Victoria McCauley, nicknamed Major Victory
Forces Available: 4 squadrons of Yellowjacket vtols, 4 squadrons of Cavalry vtols, 1 Seeker dropship
Home Planet/Origin: Formerly part of the planetary militia of Graham IV, Major (then Captain) McCauley led those members of the aviation wing loyal to the Federated Commonwealth off-world, expecting to join a relief force to retake their homeworld. When the AFFC failed to mount such an expedition, the unit instead made for Outreach and registered as mercenaries.

Name: 1st Pathfinder Battalion aka “The Drop Bears”

Commander/Significant Officers:
Leutnant-Colonel John “Jumper” Argive: Born on Australia in the family of one of the top directors of the Commonwealth's Mint and Reserve Bank located on the planet, John Argive was just a spoiled child only interested in two things: rugby and parachute.
When he was given a BCD from the Lyran Alliance Armed Forces (ie punching an officer that wanted to prevent him from doing a parachute jump from a Dropship); his father, unwilling to see him stay at home in a “dishonourable” way (some badmouthed people say he was more afraid of the kind of people that John was dealing with and of the soon to come background check), invested their family money and offered John a deal: take this money to make something useful or be sent for a permanent stay in the space facilities of the family.
Taking the offer, John Argive decided to get back to the military by the door he had been kicked out, jumping from a Dropship.
Even now a few years after forming his unit, he is still a daredevil and willing to take any risks to have fun or do his missions.

Kommandant Moses “Stacker” Coppersmith: Pretending to come from the planet of Florida in the Lyran Commonwealth, Moses Coppersmith is an enigma even for his comrades as his accent is obviously from Glasgow in the Capellan Confederation and although he never speaks about it, he was well-connected enough to the Federated Suns to give the unit access to brand new Vampires dropships from Jalastar Aerospace and to a platoon worth of “Puma” Battle Armours. When asked how he did it, he answers that he is close enough to the “powers that be” to get access to anything.
Even why he decided to join “the Drop Bears” is strange as he just seemed to appear on Australia when the unit was formed.

Forces available:
The 1st Pathfinder Battalion is a combined-arms unit made of 4 understrength companies and specialising in combat drops or more usually in dropping ahead of the main invading forces to mark and hold drop and land zones.
Their nickname was given to them during one of their first missions by the security forces protecting the Commonwealth's Mint and Reserve Bank when the 1st Pathfinder Battalion made a really High Altitude-Low Opening jump to surprise the defending forces that had moved to face another threat during this training operation and to “drop on their head from above”.

The core of the battalion is formed by two Airborne Companies (Tonga and Market) made of 2 HALO Paratroopers Platoons supported by a Flight of Lucifers.
The remaining companies are one Air Assault Company (Mikado) with one Lance of Battle Hawks, one Platoon of Infiltrator MkII, a Flight of Lucifers and one Air Support Company (Musketeer) with 2 Lances of Dervishes supported by a Flight of Lucifers.
Thanks to both John's money and Moses' contacts, the unit has access to a full support staff and a small flotilla of DropShips with 1 Union, 1 Leopard CV and 6 Vampires (with only the Vampires being new) allowing it to move at once on a target or on several at the same time.

Home planet:
Almost all the Pathfinders come from the Lran Alliance and most of them from the Protectorate of Donegal.
The only thing they all have in common is their expertise in parachuting, something that John Argive thinks is necessary due to the speciality of his units and tests every new recruits with a HALO drop from one of the Vampires.

Name:  Sirens of Endyimon

Commander / Significant Officers:  Colonel Serenity (III) Chiba is a surprising petite woman who now commands her unit from the decks of the units flagship, the Titan-C Dropship Usagi.   A former Jagatai pilot, Serenity was able to walk away from her last landing after shooting down opposing Word of Blake ASF during a raid three years ago.   Sharp on the draw, and quick of wit Serenity has a strong following in her family owned and operated mercenary unit.  Infamous for her preferred hair style Serenity can and has held duels over insults to it.

Lt Colonel Hotaru Tomeo is perhaps one of the most heavily cyborged individuals not working for the Word of Blake, a legacy of an incident in her childhood Hotaru doesn't talk much about her childhood in the Ghost Bear Dominion, instead maintaining a sharp focus on her duties as the head of the marine forces guarding the units Dropships from boarders and on the ground.

Forces Available

A surprisingly powerful Aerospace Regiment the Sirens currently field 80 ASF based from the Titan C Usagi, the Vengeance CV Luna, and a Titan C (PWS) Glaive.  Both Titans were salvage from Serenity II's conflicts with Clan Smoke Jaguar, and in current era Serenity III decided to upgrade one Titan to the PWS configuration, since given losses all three droppers had empty bays.

Accompanying the Regiment is regiment of Marines, who maintain nearly a Trinary of BA (mostly Elementals), again salvage form the Clan Invasion.



Home Planet / Origin  One of the many SLDF Forces who turned Mercenary after the fall of the Star League the Sirens are in fact named after mythological figures of Ancient Greece.   Held by a long line of maternal ASF Pilots (technically Serenity is the 5th Colonel of her name to own the Regiment), a cagey ability to avoid the worst meat grinders and astute investments have kept the Regiment afloat. 

More importantly the Sirens are infamous for their choice of uniforms. Mini skirts, high heels and a tight armored top with decorative ribbons its distinctive, attractive and an effective form of advertising.   

Thanks for all the suggestions it really helps fluff our the mercenary trade in my AU.  I'm going to use them all at some point