Yawatono Kurita
Yawatono Kurita | |
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| Affiliation | House Kurita |
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| Rank | Sho-sho[1] |
Yawatono Kurita was the commanding officer of the Twelfth Dieron Regulars as of 3025.[1]
History
Sho-sho Kurita, serving with the Twelfth Dieron Regulars, was stationed on Ashio in 3025.[1]
A distant cousin to the rulers of House Kurita who was considered something of a fop, Kurita was more of a mascot for the Twelfth Dieron Regulars while his executive officer handled most of the unit's military matters. On 14 July 3039, the Twelfth and Twenty-seventh Dieron Regulars were tasked with liberating the world of Athenry from the mercenary Blue Star Irregulars, with the resistance the Regulars faced while landing leading to heavy damage to several of their DropShips. Equipped with plenty of blue-water vessels, Kurita's forces spent the entirety of July and August destroying enemy resistance in the Larsen Island Chain with a mixture of offshore bombardments and bitter hand-to-hand combat. September saw much of the Wandessa and Zubeckis islands occupied by Kuritan soldiers before the 6 October landings in the Espalar archipelago met heavy resistance from Blue Star Irregulars BattleMechs. Two breakout attempts on the 11 and 15 October failed to expand the Draconis Combine's foothold in the region, although losses for both the Dieron Regulars and Blue Star mercenaries were high during these operations.[2]
Kurita soon recognized this stalemate for what it was and his secondary landings eighty kilometers to the south of Espalar on 8 November finally forced the Blue Star troops to abandon the coast to Kurita's forces. Initial efforts to push through the Agilar Pass met with yet more heavy resistance but the prodigious use of artillery assets forced the mercenary defenders to retreat after three days and reduced the Agilar Pass to rubble within another week. The exhausted Twenty-seventh Dieron spent the rest of November removing the Blue Star Irregulars from the resort town of Kolos and, by the end of the month, Kurita's forces were ready to begin the final push against the planetary capital. The Blue Star Irregulars' commander, recognizing the weak hold his soldiers had on Athenry and the high cost in lives a battle for the capital would extract from both sides, decided to open up negotiations with Kurita rather than endure more heavy fighting. The Blue Star Irregulars soon agreed to surrender terms and, by 10 December, Athenry was left under Kurita's control after nearly six full months of warfare.[2]