180th Volunteer Rifles Company

The 180th Volunteer Rifles Company ("Eight Hundred of Pandora") was a volunteer militia force loosely under the command of MAC-P-SOG. Formed as one of several volunteer militia groups aligned with Pandora indigenous groups, the 180th Volunteer Rifles fought in many skirmishes and battle on Pandora against invading Axis military forces. They were destroyed during the initial moments of the Local Cluster War, during the defense of Hive City Argon, and was not reformed afterwards.

The 180th were formed in Year 931, shortly after Axis aligned "separatist" movements, with the support of the Axis Guards, illegally subjected portions of Pandora to military occupation. It was initially comprised of a combination of former Accord Home Army enlisted and members of the Three Arrows, the militant arm of the Iron Front. As it was raised independently of MAC-P-SOG and its efforts to establish special operations units, the 180th only loosely honored MAC-P-SOG orders and usually operated in conjunction with Pandoran indigenous militias.

The 180th Company received its name during the Battle of Hill 3954. The entire force of the 180th, 800 soldiers on paper but only 414 in actuality, fought a delaying battle against a 35,000 strong force of Axis Guards, separatists, and Black League Einsatzgruppen over the course of four days. Outnumbered more than 40 to 1, the 180th Company successfully bought time for Pandoran indigenous settlements to evacuate ahead of imminent large-scale implementation of Axis criminal orders.