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September 23, 3063 – A mercenary unit calling itself the 48th has unloaded here on Epsilon Eridani. They have a contract with a a local company, and they apparently did an Extraction Raid for them. We do some checking, the 48th just appeared in the Chaos March about three years ago, and have refused to register with the MRBC over at Outreach. In fact, the 48th have never even been to Outreach, it seems like the only time they went outside of the Chaos March to find a contract, it was to Galatea, and then they got a deal and came right back to the March. They’ve done contracts with local nobles, short term security deals, raids, those sorts of things, but no major garrison work or anything. This is the first time they did work for someone here on EE though.
Duke Essex has Chief Foster do some more digging. The unit keeps to themselves, and has revealed pretty much nothing about itself to its employers. They have a Clan Overlord DropShip, a battalion of mechs of, mostly but not exclusively, Combine make, and they are light and medium, with very fast units, and they appear to have some clan weapons on their mechs or a few clan mechs here and there. We contact some previous employers and they say that the 48th appears to be extremely honorable and capable. There was one contract done for the Ridzik Brothers over at Hall where they were involved in a ambushed with crossfire in a city, by mechs, and they immediately exposed themselves to shut down that fighting as quickly as possible ,and minimize the local damage.
Those are exactly the sort of people we are looking to bring on, so Duke Essex asks to set up a meeting with the 48th CO.
September 29th, 3063 – Duke Essex meets with the 48ths CO, Major Namihito. We would like to discuss hiring the 48th to a contract and He tells Essex that they have two contracts lined up, two Raids to do for local Chaos March worlds, and then he would be happy to negotiate with the Coalition. Duke Essex inquires, gently, honorably, about wanting to register their contract with the MRBC, but is also gently, and completely, refused.
The 48th will leave EE in a week or so.
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