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| image          = [[File:41st_shadow_div.png]]
| Designation    = 41st Shadow Division 
| formed         = Late 3060s
| Disbanded      = [[3079]]
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = Uriel's Blinding Fire
| Affiliation    = Word of Blake
| Parent Command = [[Shadow Divisions]]
| Sub-Command    = 
}}

==Unit Description==
The '''41st Shadow Division''' was an elite military unit of the [[Word of Blake|Word of Blake's]] [[Manei Domini]] faction during the [[Jihad]].  The Division's warriors were cybernetically enhanced and fanatical to the Word's cause. However, as a Shadow Division, they answered to the Manei Domini's leader Precentor [[Apollyon]] and his master. 

The Division was known for its actions in the Word's Periphery Combat Theater.

==History==
In 3069, elements of the [[41st Shadow Division]] augmented by elements of the [[13th Division (Word of Blake)|13th Division]] captured Spica, both masquerading as elements of the "[[House Liao]]" offensive. The Avatars raided a Protectorate Militia on planet and then retreated to [[Kittery]].<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents)'', p. 95 - "13th Division unit history" - birth to reduced raiding force in Liao space by 3073</ref> This time the Shadow Division was not identifying itself as such.

The unit was first seen in action in [[3071]], where the unit arrived on [[Canopus IV]] to aid the [[34th Division (Word of Blake)|34th Division]] in securing the capital city of the [[Magistracy of Canopus]].  The ''Blinding Fire'' set the city on fire ending the struggle for Crimson between Canopian guerrilla forces and Word of Blake forces.  The unit conducted raids that year against Canopian worlds to break those worlds' resistance.  The raiding forces consisted of one or two of [[Level III]] formations, striking at worlds such as [[Adherlwin]], [[Bass]], [[Borgan's Rift]], [[Lindenmarle]], and [[Megarez]].

In June of [[3073]], the unit's staging base on [[Aspropirgos]] was struck by a Canopian-Capellan Task Force.  The Task Force utilized Capellan chemical munitions that destroyed the cybernetic warriors by causing their myomer implants to detonate. The assault was reported to have caused the destruction of almost all of the 41st Infantry elements and its staging base.  The Division was reportedly spotted withdrawing deeper into the League. Elements of the 41st Division had been reported remaining behind in Canopian space, while majority of the Division (3 level IIIs) returned to [[Gibson]].<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 104, "41st Division unit profile".</ref>

The 41st was destroyed in [[3079]] on Gibson.<ref>''Jihad: Final Reckoning'', p. 125, "Shadow Divisions Status"</ref>

==Officers==
{| class="wikitable"
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! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
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| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 41st Shadow Division'''
|-
|}

===Other Unit Officers===
* [[Phantom (Manei Domini Rank)|Phantom]] [[Manei_Domini#Manei_Domini_Ranking_.26_Classes|Demi-Precentor Tau]] [[Aria Shannadah]], [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] during the Jihad.<ref name=TRO3075>''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 74</ref><ref name=TROJ>''Technical Readout: Jihad'', p. 90</ref>
* [[Poltergeist (Manei Domini Rank)|Poltergeist]] [[Adept|Adept Omega]] [[Lila Anaru]], [[battle armor|armored]] infantryman during the Jihad.<ref name=TRO75p20>''Technical Readout: 3075'', p. 20: "Asura Medium Battle Armor"</ref>

==Tactics==
The unit uses weaponry to set fires to flush out their enemies.

==Composition History==
===3073===
* 3 Level III Formations(?)<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 104, "The strike against Aspropirgos in 3073 has reportedly reduced the Division to 3 Level III formations".</ref> 

==Notes==
* Rules for the Forty-first Shadow Division can be found in ''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]''.<ref>''Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents'', p. 142 - "Rules Annex", 41st Division special abilities.</ref>

==Reference==
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==Bibliography==
*''[[Jihad: Final Reckoning]]''
*''[[Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents]]'' 
*''[[Technical Readout: 3075]]''


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