The 10347th Independent Battalion was a tactial unit of the Solarian Gendarmerie. In 1922 PD, it was assigned to the Saltash System in the Verge. Its Able and Charlie companies were guarding the brig aboard Shona Station, where the crew of two illegally seized Manticoran merchantmen was imprisoned. When a Royal Manticoran Navy task force arrived to free Manticoran spacers, a significant number of 10347th personnel was killed when getting in the RMN boarders' way. (HH14)