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| Designation    = 129th Concordat Chasseurs 
| formed         = [[2588]]<ref name="H:RWp145">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 145-147, "Taurian Concordat Front (2586-2596)"</ref>
| Disbanded      = [[2588]]<ref name="H:RWp89"/>
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| Affiliation    = Taurian Concordat
| Parent Command = [[Taurian Guard Corps]]
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The '''129th Concordat Chasseurs''' were a [[BattleMech]] [[regiment]] in the [[Taurian Defense Force]] during the [[Reunification War]].

==History==
Mustered in [[2588]], ten years into the invasion of the [[Taurian Concordat]] by the [[Star League]], the 129th was one of a number of regiments from the [[Concordat Chasseurs]] to be raised as the Concordat fought to try and retain its freedom.<ref name="H:RWp145"/>

The 129th was either one of five BattleMech regiments assigned to the defense of [[New Vandenberg]]<ref name="H:RWp145"/> when the Star League arrived in January [[2588]]<ref name="H:RWp89">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 89-91, "Charon's Express"</ref> or mustering during the months of the invasion, serving alongside the [[Second Pleiades Hussars]] and three other regiments from the Chasseurs, the [[17th Concordat Chasseurs|Seventeenth]], [[111th Concordat Chasseurs|111th]] and [[122nd Concordat Chasseurs|122nd]]<ref name="H:RWp145"/> under the overall command of [[Colonel]] [[Alana Bar'Dyness]]. When the [[Star League Defense Force]] launched its assault, [[Field Marshal]] [[Amos Forlough]] was the overall commanding officer, and he was determined to achieve a quick victory and then launch an assault on the [[Hyades Cluster]], the heart of the Concordat. Forlough dispensed with any attempt at demanding the surrender of the government or population, and began his assault with forty days of orbital bombardment by the combined [[WarShip]]s of the [[1st Fleet (Star League)|First]] and [[2nd Fleet (Star League)|Second Fleet]]s and his available [[aerospace fighter]]s, an attack he broadened the scope of after twenty days by ordering the defoliation of the continent of Brittain in an attempt to locate the 129th and the other elements of the Taurian garrison. Forlough was determined to break the spirit of the population, and his attacks incorporated industrial sites and cities intentionally; his aerospace fighters dropped more than 200,000 tons of munitions during the bombardment, mostly incendiary.<ref name="H:RWp89"/>

Forlough's initial efforts were unsuccessful despite their sheer destructiveness, as Colonel Bar'Dyness had ordered the construction of a huge number of underground shelters, both to house the garrison and millions of civilians - bunkers that included hospitals, schools and complete industrial sites. As soon as Forlough began landing forces from [[I Corps (Star League)|I]], [[II Corps (Star League)|II]] and [[IV Corps (Star League)|IV Corps]] - and later [[IX Corps (Star League)|IX Corps]] and the [[Federated Suns Auxiliary Corps]] after they were made available - the 129th and the other garrison units launched attacks on the [[SLDF]] units, frustrating them and offering a much stiffer resistance than expected. Forlough responded with characteristic brutality, ordering the use of chemical weapons and nerve agents on the population and nuclear strikes on selected targets, attacks to which the TDF responded in kind several days later.<ref name="H:RWp89"/>

By August, the 129th and the other elements of the garrison had been destroyed, but the toll exacted was immense. For the SLDF, the conquest of New Vandenberg was the single costliest operation of the war to date; more than five thousand troops had died in direct combat against the TDF, with many more dying as a result of attacks using weapons of mass destruction, and more than five times as many had suffered wounds so severe and debilitating as to prevent them ever returning to combat duty, and many died from wounds during the following months. I, II, IV and XI Corps could only muster approximately forty percent of their preconquest combat strength, while the AFFS Auxiliary Corps was at approximately sixty percent strength, having joined the battle later.<ref name="H:RWp91">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 91, "The Reaper Is Relieved"</ref>

As severe as the SLDF casualties were, the consequences of the invasion were far worse for the population of New Vandenberg. Every major city was in ruins, as was every industrial center that hadn't moved underground. Somewhere between fifty and a hundred million civilians were dead, while hundreds of millions more were homeless, and the population had been rendered absolutely incapable of supporting themselves due to the devastation wrought by Forlough's forces. The [[Bureau of Star League Affairs]] had to take over administration of the planet as the population lacked the resources to operate their own government, and the thousands of relief workers and tens of thousands of tons of supplies the Bureau had arriving within weeks paled into insignificance in the face of the desperate needs of the population. Forlough's actions on New Vandenberg left the population of the planet undergoing decades of rebuilding, work that continued well into the [[twenty-seventh century]].<ref name="H:RWp91"/>

==Officers==
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 129th Concordat Chasseurs'''
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==Tactics==
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''

[[Category: Taurian Concordat Commands|Concordat Chasseurs, 129th]]