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| Designation = Seventeenth Royal Division
| formed = [[2571]]
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| Affiliation = [[Star League]]
| Parent Command = [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]]
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The '''Seventeenth Royal Division''' was a part of the [[Star League Defense Force]] Regular Army.

==History==
Formed as a part of [[VI Corps (Star League)|VI Corps]] during the creation of the [[Star League Defense Force]] in the beginning years of the [[Star League]], the Seventeenth Royal Division served alongside the other units of VI Corps in the [[Taurian Concordat]] campaign from the beginning of [[Operation BULL RUN]] in [[2578]] until [[2582]];<ref name="H:RWp142">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 142: "Taurian Concordat Front (Jump-Off - 2585)"</ref> IV Corps was then reorganized and redeployed, forming one of the core units within [[Task Force MAILED FIST]]—the Task Force assembled to implement [[Operation MAILED FIST]]—the Star League intervention in the [[Rim Worlds Republic]] civil war.<ref name="H:RWp152">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 152: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-Off - 2587)"</ref>

===Persistence===
One of the first wave of assaults conducted by Task Force MAILED FIST, the SLDF landings on [[Persistence]] were a deliberately provocative move intended to judge the performance of the Rim Worlds Republic forces. Stationed on Persistence was a battalion from the [[5th Amaris Fusiliers|Fifth Amaris Fusiliers]], a unit that had chosen to remain loyal to [[First Consul of the Rim Worlds Republic|First Consul]] [[Gregory Amaris]].<ref name="H:RWp132">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 132: "Persistence, Treeling, Star's End and Black Earth"</ref>

The Fifth Fusiliers hadn't been given any orders relating to the deployment of SLDF units on Persistence, and as a result put up a determined resistance against the invading forces; when the SLDF attempted to land at the Danderson City starport the inbound transport [[DropShip]]s came under fire from both surface-to-air batteries located around the city and Republican [[aerospace fighter]]s. The Seventeenth Royal Division had to launch a ground assault to secure the spaceport and allow further landings, and the Fifth Fusiliers continued to resist the occupation of Persistence; the SLDF managed to force the Fifth to concede by systematically securing the desalination plants that were key to keeping Persistence habitable, but the Fifth fought until the last plant had been captured.<ref name="H:RWp132"/>

===Malibu===
A destructive raid on [[Alarion]] prompted the SLDF to alter its initial strategy for the campaign, and the focus shifted to reducing Rim Worlds Army concentrations throughout the Republic. As a result the Seventeenth Royal Division found itself facing another [[Rim Worlds Army]] loyalist unit on [[Malibu]] in [[2584]],<ref name="H:RWp133">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 133: "Island Hopping (2582 - November 2590)"</ref> where as a part of Battle Group Apollo the Seventeenth fought against the [[3rd Amaris Dragoons|Third Amaris Dragoons]].<ref name="H:RWp154">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 154: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (Jump-Off - 2587)"</ref>

===Derf===
In late [[2584]] the SLDF changed tactics again; a number of major RWA units had been destroyed or captured, and the focus for the campaign shifted to capturing worlds of strategic importance, but the campaign was slowed by the greatly increased resistance offered by the RWA and local civilian populations, prompted by atrocities performed by the [[Draconis Auxiliary Corps]] when they captured [[Nightwish]] in mid-2584. The conquest of [[Derf]] was one such example of a campaign that took longer than originally planned due to the level of resistance offered by the civilian population; [[General]] [[Nathan Isaacson]] of Battle Group Apollo assigned the Seventeenth Royal Division to conquering Derf in [[2586]], but even a year after the planetary capital had been occupied instances of civil unrest were still occurring.<ref name="H:RWp134">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 134: "Arlina to viborg (December 2584 - September 2588)"</ref><ref name="H:RWp152"/>

===Somerset, Wotan, and Bensinger===
The Seventeenth's campaigns on [[Somerset]] in [[2588]], [[Wotan]] in [[2590]], and [[Bensinger]] in [[2594]] all saw the Seventeenth fighting local militia units; with the campaign to secure the Rim Worlds Republic moving slowly towards completion, forces were concentrated in the [[Apollo (system)|Apollo]] Province from [[2591]] onwards, and whereas the Seventeenth had operated alone in previous campaigns, three [[regiment]]s from the [[Second Marik Auxiliary Corps]]—the [[2nd Marik Militia|Second]] and [[6th Marik Militia|Sixth Marik Militias]] and the [[1st Fusiliers of Oriente|First Brigade]] of the [[Fusiliers of Oriente]]—were assigned to the conquest of Bensinger alongside the Seventeenth.<ref name="H:RWp153">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 153: "Rim Worlds Republic Front (2588-2596)"</ref>

===Taran's World===
The campaign for [[Taran's World]] in [[2595]] was the last campaign of the [[Reunification War]] for the Seventeenth, and the third time that the Seventeenth would face a line formation from the Rim Worlds Army—in this case, the [[Second Amaris Legionnaires]]. While Task Force MAILED FIST had already secured the approaches to [[Apollo (system)|Apollo]], General Isaacson wanted to ensure that the Second Legionnaires were contained, as they were the last active Rim Worlds army unit outside of those formations located on Apollo itself. The Seventeenth secured Taran's World and remained on the planet until the end of Operation MAILED FIST in September 2596.<ref name="H:RWp139">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 139: "Bitter Harvests (2591-2596)"</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
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 17th Royal Division'''
|-
|}

==Tactics==
Unknown.

==Composition History==
Unknown.

==Notes==
It was confirmed by the author of ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]'' that in general, the Divisions listed within ''[[The Star League]]'' be traced back directly to those Divisions listed within Historical: Reunification War.<ref name="CGL:ATW05102011">''[http://www.classicbattletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,11015.0.html Ask The Writers: Star League Divisions: Reunification War to Liberation of Terra]'' {{Dead link|date=November 2024}}</ref> However, in [[2764]] there are three divisions listed as the Seventeenth within the SLDF: the [[Seventeenth Royal Mechanized Infantry Division]], [[VIII Corps (Star League)|VIII Corps]]<ref name=SL147>''The Star League'', p. 141: "Fourteenth"</ref>; the [[Seventeenth Jump Infantry Division]], [[XXI Corps (Star League)|XXI Corps]]<ref name=SL140>''The Star League'', p. 140: "First"</ref>; and the [[Seventeenth Infantry Division]], [[LXXI Corps (Star League)|LXXI Corps]].<ref name=SL154>''The Star League'', p. 154: "Seventeenth"</ref> It is not known which of these can trace their history back to the Seventeenth Royal Division of the [[Reunification War]] era.

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''

[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands|Division, 0017th Royal]]
[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands - Royal Commands|Division, 0017th Royal]]

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