Reduced to little more than a paper regiment while defending Kentares IV during the first Succession War, the Seventh Lancers were slowly rebuilt during the early years of the Third Succession War. The unit distinguished itself during the Third and Fourth Succession Wars but was blind-sided by then Gunji-no-Kanrei Theodore Kurita's counterattack durint the War of 3039. The Seventh Lancers withdrew from Klathandu IV, broken but not dispirited. The Seventh quickly rebounded from their rout, but stripped of their Naval Transport Squadron at the outset of the Clan invasion, the unit saw no action against the Clans, virtually trapped as they were along the Lyran Periphery. When the LAAF finally reassigned permanent transport to the unit in 3058, the Seventh RCT engaged in a long series of independent exercises in the Periphery. The elements of the RCT alternated between garrison duty on winter and training on worlds in the near Periphery.