Commanding Officer: Colonel Sarah Lindon - Homeworld: Caph
(Chaos March)
Experience: Veteran - Regiments: 0.33. Loyalty: reliable.
Employer: Kurita.
[Employed by FC until about 3054, Homeworld: A Place.]
Lindon's
Battalion was taking a brief shore leave on Caph before beginning
their newly signed contract with the Draconis Combine when the
Liao-Marik invasion began. Lindon's Battalion had been caught by
events while in the city of New Derry. Knowing that any action
against the terrorists by the unit might look like a Combine
attack, Colonel Sarah Lindon had kept her troops out of the
fighting. When the Denebola SMM arrived in New Derry, Lyran
Alliance Leftenant General Gould declared martial law and ordered
Colonel Lindon to surrender to him. Lindon refused, arguing that
as employees of a neutral state, the Battalion should not be
treated as an enemy force. Gould then ordered his forces to wipe
out Lindon's Battalion. The Battalion escaped, ran straight into
Gustafson's Grenadiers, and received a safe-conduct to Aswan to
await transport to the Combine.
Repelled
from Aswan by the Stealthy Tigers, Lindon's Battalion was also
marching toward Cimmeron, the nearest sizable city. Upon the
Battalion's arrival, Colonel Lindon received an urgent message
from the Coordinator of the Draconis Combine, requesting the
Battalion to keep peace on Caph under the authority of ComStar.
Soon afterward, Gould reached the outskirts of Cimmeron and
ordered Lindon to abandon the city or face destruction. Lindon
informed Gould of her orders and told him that his entry into
Cimmeron would be an act of war, but Gould refused to believe her
and ordered his 'Mechs forward. Free to fight back, Lindon's
Battalion engaged in a fierce battle with Gould's troops,
savaging the Lyran 'Mechs and killing Gould. The surviving 'Mechs
of the Denebola SMM fled back to New Derry. All sides are
scrambling to hire mercenaries to augment their dwindling forces.
Only Lindon's Battalion has stayed mostly neutral, fighting only
when necessary to keep peace in Cimmeron.