Maji Rebels - Galatea c.a. 3010

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Galatea - Home of mercenary recruitment before the days of Wolf's Dragoons and Outreach.  Although not the only place to hire a sell sword or a gun hand in the Inner Sphere, it was certainly a thriving mercenary hiring location in the early 3000's.  It was this time period that the Kell Hounds novellas centering around there founding take place, and one of the founding stories is that of the Maji Rebels and there action against the world government.

The Kell Hounds had just begun forming up, having accepted Ociern's Crushers as there infantry contingent and looking at bringing in a host of new mercenary MechWarrior's when they were approached to help put down a faction of religious fanatics - Church of the Majificient - who had rebelled in the worlds industrious agricultural belt.  The threat of starving out the city forced the local governor to request the employment of the Kell Hounds; and they dutifully went to put down the rebellion.

The rebels were rag tag but devoted - fielding mostly infantry backing up Agro-Mechs mounting machine guns and a few old Battlemechs.  Although part of the planetary militia went over to the rebels the most dramatic encounter was between a young MechWarrior, piloting his antique Centurion, who had been turned down by the Kell Hounds and Patrick Kell.  The fight ended how you would expect, but it made for good storytelling.

In this little rebel faction i choose to represent a few elements I thought fitting - always Infantry for this kind of thing, and I enjoy this little rebel and insurgent factions.  I also included the Centurion - I actually had this 3d print for a while after I started gravitating towards the new CGL sculpt but I still like this MWO version and thought it fitting for a religious zealot.  Finally I had to include some rebel technicals.  The jeep is actually a cannon unit, found in the original MechWarrior RPG and also in some record sheets from the first set published.  They are nearly useless on the tabletop but who can resist a good 'Toyota of War' when the occasion calls for it?  These are obviously not BT related, but they are fun so I don't care.







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