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| Designation = Zeta Galaxy
| Formed = 
| Disbanded = [[3075]] (Destroyed)
| Previous Designation = 
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| Affiliation = [[Clan Steel Viper]]
| Parent Command = [[Clan Steel Viper Touman|Clan Steel Viper ''touman'']]
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==History==
'''Zeta Galaxy''' was sent to the [[Inner Sphere]] as part of [[Clan Steel Viper]]'s contribution to [[Operation Revival]], together with [[Alpha Galaxy (Clan Steel Viper)|Alpha]], [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Steel Viper)|Beta]] and [[Gamma Galaxy (Clan Steel Viper)|Gamma]] Galaxies.<ref name=FM:WCp146>''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', p. 146: "Zeta Galaxy"</ref>

The Steel Viper [[Khan]]s included the second-line Zeta in the bidding for landing rights on [[Tukayyid]] (replacing the frontline Beta Galaxy) in order to secure earlier landing times and to show their contempt for the [[Com Guards]].<ref name=FM:WCp146/> Zeta was not intended to fight on Tukayyid, but ultimately entered the action to cover the retreat of Alpha and Gamma.<ref name=FM:WCp146/>

During his tenure as [[Khan]] of Clan Steel Viper [[Perigard Zalman]] made Zeta Galaxy the focus of his experiments involving [[freeborn]] warriors. This meant that even before Zalman's death, Zeta was subjected to derision from many other elements of the [[Clan Steel Viper Touman|Steel Viper ''touman'']] - including the other second-line Galaxies.<ref name="FM:Up67">''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 67: "Steel Viper ''touman''"</ref>

[[IlKhan]] Andrews' violation of the Council's rules and traditions by shooting Khan N'Buta during the meeting pushed the Cloud Cobra Khan [[Hollyann Kardaan]] to condemn the act as evidence of the Steel Vipers' corruption, calling for an Annihilation of the Clan. Unable to fight off the combined [[Home Clans]], the Vipers and Zeta Galaxy were wiped out in [[3075]]. Zeta's last stand came on [[Circe]]. Two hundred DropShips of the combined Home Clans landed troops on the planet despite the fire of the SDS ground batteries. Zeta had been defending the enclave of Tash as it was assaulted by the forces of [[Clan Star Adder]], [[Clan Stone Lion]] and [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]]. Zeta held, but the counterattack of the Thirty-eighth Phalanx was halted by the arrival of a force from [[Clan Coyote]]. Zeta retreated into the ruins of Dehra Dun, but were hunted down and destroyed.<ref>''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 149–150</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="3" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the Zeta Galaxy'''
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| [[Galaxy Commander]]||[[Bard Tsongas]]||[[3052]]<ref name=FM:WCp146/><ref name=FM:Up80>''Field Manual: Updates'', p. 80: "Warden Deployment Table - Clan Steel Viper"</ref>
|-
| [[Galaxy Commander]]||[[Soren Grimaldi]]||[[3052]] - [[3067]]<ref name=FM:WCp146/><ref name=FM:Up80/>
|-
|}

===Other Officers===
* [[Star Colonel]] [[Felix Breen]], [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]].<ref name=BTCAHS>''BattleTech: Clan Ad Hoc Star, Felix Breen Pilot Card''</ref>
* Star Colonel [[Monday Stoklas]] was serving as aide to Galaxy Commander Soren Grimaldi in 3067.<ref name=FM:Up80/>

==Tactics==
Zeta specialized in fighting with minimal use of communication signals.<ref name=FM:WCp146/>

==Composition History==
===3052===
'''Zeta Galaxy'''
* [[2nd Fang (Clan Steel Viper)|Second Fang]]<ref>''Tukayyid'', pp. 83–84</ref>
* [[71st Phalanx (Clan Steel Viper)|Seventy-first Phalanx]]<ref>''Tukayyid'', p. 88</ref>
* [[38th Phalanx (Clan Steel Viper)|Thirty-eighth Phalanx]]<ref name=FM:WCp146/>

===3054-3067===
'''Zeta Galaxy'''<ref name=OR30>''Objective Raids'', p. 30</ref><ref name=FM:WCp146/><ref name=FM:Up80/>
* [[1st Fang (Clan Steel Viper)|First Fang]]
* Second Fang
* Thirty-eighth Phalanx
* Seventy-first Phalanx

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[BattleTech: Clan Ad Hoc Star]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Updates]]''
* ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
* ''[[Objective Raids]]''
* ''[[Tukayyid (scenario pack)]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''


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