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| image          = [[Image:Principes_Guards.png|190px]]
| Designation    = VIII Principes Guards
| formed         = [[3084]]<ref name=FM85p181>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 181</ref>
| Disbanded      = 
| Previous Designation = 
| Nickname       = 
| Affiliation    = Republic of The Sphere
| Parent Command = [[Principes Guards]]
| Sub-Command    = 
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==History==
===Formation===
The '''VIII Principes Guards''' (also known as the Eighth Principes) were the first Principes Guards unit to enter service. Formed in 3084 they landed on [[New Aragon]] and drove the [[5th Capellan Defense Force]] off the world. They then went to Gacrux, where the unit assisted new immigrants who arrived as part of the Relocation Directives.<ref name=FM85p181/>

In [[3085]] the VIII Principes is stationed on [[Gacrux]] in [[Prefecture VIII]] of the [[Republic of the Sphere]].<ref name=FM3085p187>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 187, "RAF Deployment Table - 3085"</ref>

==Officers==
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the VIII Principes Guards'''
|-
| [[Colonel]]||[[Amun-Re Waliuddin]]||[[3085]]<ref name=FM3085p187/>
|}

==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
===3085===
'''VIII Principes Guards''' (2 [[Battalion]]/Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p187/> 
* CO: Colonel [[Amun-Re Waliuddin]]

'''820th Armor Brigade''' (Regular/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p187/> 
* CO: Colonel [[Gerold Kuhnke]]

'''820th Infantry Brigade''' (Green/Reliable)<ref name=FM3085p187/> 
* CO: Colonel [[Shanelle Lakeshia]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''


[[Category:Republic of the Sphere Commands|Principes Guards, 08th]]