Formations and Ships of the PACT Arm

Famous Formations

PACT

The Special Service Force (The Devil's Brigade)

Spiritual successor to the joint American-Canadian commando unit of the Second World War, the Special Service Force was a multinational special operations command which would ironically grow to approximate a division in size.

Background: With the large-scale ground defeat on Kanon, the militaries of the North Pacific Group began to discuss and debate the necessity of a strategic pause to enable the rebuilding of the majority of the ground forces available to the NorPac belligerent states. Amidst the chaos of these discussions, a suggestion was made by the chief representative of the small, highly-trained Canadian Army - to carry on the war with attritional raids by small units of the assembling Joint Task Force 13 and the units of a proposed pan-NorPac special operations command. This suggestion was met with approval from both factions of the Joint Combat command; the cautious and conservative officers advocating a pause in large-scale operations approved of its' limited scale, and the headstrong and tenacious officers advocating a full-scale offensive approved of the plan's commitment to continued action.

Thus was the Devil's Brigade reborn.

It would go on to... (more goes here)

Fifth Special Service Group (The Dirty Deeds Battalion)

• Combat Record:
  • Choson
    • Choson Raid, 2186
  • Kanon
    • Kanon Raid, 2186
  • Theia
    • "Advisory" service under joint MAC-T/CTDF authority, 2187-88
    • Support of Operation Righteous Talon landings, 2188
    • Conventional combat operations, 2188-89

46th Tactical Mobile Suit Squadron, HSDF (The Night Witches)

One of three formed by the Horizonic Space Defense Force during third year of the war, this all-female unit of KS87 mobile suits proved devastatingly effective in combat against Combined Militia forces around Anchorage, Choson and Horizon, racking up one the highest kill ratios achieved by any PACT mecha unit of the war. They were later enlarged into a full three-squadron wing before being reduced to a squadron at the end of the war. Postwar, these highly-decorated women remained in service as instructors in the HSDF and JSDF.

PACT First Fleet

Overall command of all PACT memberstate forces posted at or around Horizon and the front line during the Zodiac War. First Fleet was responsible for all offensive operations in-theater for the majority of the war, until the majority of Second Fleet was retasked from rear-area defense against ZOCU raiders to facilitate more widespread and larger-scale operations during the 2188 counterattack and continuing operations through 2189.

Joint Task Forces 11 & 12

These conventional heavy striking forces conducted the large-scale operations of 2185 and, with the support of similar forces from Second Fleet, those of 2188/89. They otherwise simply stood their ground and looked just menacing enough to prevent ZOCU from making any sweeping offensives into PACT space.

Joint Task Force 13

One of several component formations of First Fleet, Joint Task Force 13 was the fleet detached-operations command from shortly after the evacuation from Kanonian space until the end of the war. Further subdivided into a number of independent, multinational task groups, the forces of JTF 13 conducted asymmetric warfare operations against ZOCU raiders and their bases in the Backwater, carrying out the most numerous and most bitter, grueling PACT operations of the war.

Famous Ships

PACT

HDS Ryūhō

A variant of the Australian Melbourne-class carrier, the Ryūhō served throughout the war as first a conventional carrier and then a converted mobile suit carrier, operating as mothership for the first squadrons of mobile suits produced by the Anchorage Project. She later participated as flagship of local vessels during the defense of the facility in November 2186 against attacking ZOCU forces. Survived the war to become a training vessel for Horizonic and Japanese pilots.

USS Rutledge (aka "Rutridge")

Flagship of Task Group 13.1 throughout the war, the Antietam-class cruiser Rutledge and its' brood of cruisers, destroyers, and light carriers largely operated outside of the main PACT fleet areas of responsibility, participating in numerous small-scale engagements against ZOCU raiders and staging bases in the many systems between Horizon and the ZOCU worlds. The ship is famous for becoming the bane of Hampshiran and Ophenian raiders due to its' heavy armor and armament, allowing it to sustain the brunt of enemy surprise attacks and return heavy fire; it is infamous for being referred to throughout the war as the Rutridge due to a Chosonese mistake in translation.

NAeL Rio de Janeiro (A 19)

The NAeL Rio de Janeiro was the flagship of the Marinha Brasileira do Espaço from its commissioning ceremony at the EMGEPRON Orbital Shipyards above São Galvão in 2183 to the commissioning of the NAeL São Galvão(A20) in the same shipyard during 2193, the Rio was stationed above São Galvão at the onset of hostilities. While the Rio de Janeiro was smaller than the USASF Lincoln class Fleet Carriers and nowhere near as well armed as the JSDF Battlecarriers and Aviation ships, the ship was fast and stealthy, allowing it to launch strikes on unsuspecting ZCM ships and avoid major leapmissile reprisals. The Rio and its airwing saw action during the battle of Kanon, supported USMC landings on Kachin, and after obtaining a full squadron of the new Alce Mobile Suits, participated in the battle of Rapture alongside USASF and JSSDF forces. Following the end of the war and the Treaty of Sirius, the Rio's carrier battle group was stationed in orbit until the completion of the São Galvão, at which time it was reassigned to the Brazilian Home Fleet.

ZOCU

LS Boadacea

First-mark Pallada and Lord Lee Dorington's flagship at the Battle of Aldebaran. Lost with all hands at same.

LS Londenium

Late-mark Pallada and Lord Clarence Gladstone's divisional flagship at the Battle of Haraway's World. Lost with all hands securing the escape of a large portion of the Combined Militia Battle Fleet.