Sunbats mercenary company

"Over-resourced and under-supervised"

An incompetent mercenary company created by the Lyran Commonwealth as deniable assets during the Succession Wars. The Sunbats were staffed by common infantrymen instead of veteran mechwarriors and strategists due to an administrative error. The officer in charge of the scheme, Leutnant-General Leerkopf, realising the blunder and fearing a military disaster that could cost his political and military career, has lavished resources and equipment upon the hapless new mechwarriors to compensate for their incompetence.

A training exercise with dummy rounds and low-powered lasers, designed to make mechwarriors of these infantrymen, nevertheless resulted in a 17% casualty rate when the company traversed through an artificial lake and two mechwarriors had failed to correctly close their hatches.

The more gross incompetence demonstrated by the Sunbats, the more they were funded and subsidised by an increasingly desperate Leerkopf. Leerkopf did make one excellent staffing decision- one of his aides was an outstanding accountant and bureaucrat who was able to reallocate and misappropriate vast resources to prevent the Sunbats from crossing over the brink of failure.

Thus the worst mercenary company ever assembled failed their way to become a battalion, and somewhat competent, within seven years of their founding.