The small background blurbs are completely made up by me and fit within the Battletech universe’s timeline. I also used them to give a little context to the overall Skondia campaign, the units involved, and the time period of the Fourth Succession War. Let me know what you think and feel free to use any of these personalities as NPCs in any of your campaigns.
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Mechwarrior Kieran Farquhar: Farquhar was an elite aerospace pilot with the 33rd Avalon Hussars until she fell in love while on vacation on Outreach with the senior officer of the 2nd Legion of Vega General Michael Heise. Turning her back on the Federated Suns, she married Heise and followed him back to Vega. Because there have not been any openings in the Legion’s aerospace wings, Farquhar took up piloting mechs and has proven herself very capable in several skirmishes. She displays a large sun on top of her Jenner in respect to her former comrades in the Federated Suns.
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Mechwarrior Sean Ono: Ono was an up and coming favorite in the arenas of Solaris 7 until he publicly criticized his stable. In the following battle, Ono’s mech's gyro was sabotaged causing him to lose the match giving his stable reason to fire him. He drifted around for some time, working for small mercenary outfits until he got a job with the Legion.
Mechwarrior Alan Albright: Albright was raised on Vega, his father is a middle manager for a computer company and his mother is a tour guide for the pyramids built there. He originally left and became a mech pilot for a small corporate security firm in the Lyran Commonwealth which has since gone bankrupt. Having lost his job, he returned home and was picked up by the 14th Legion of Vega.
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Lyran Commonwealth:
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Staff Sergeant Joshua MacDerment: MacDerment comes from a military family who has sworn to defend Skondia from the Draconis Combine. His wife works at Fort Eagle and he has not spoken with her since the invasion.
Sergeant Jun-seok Yi: Yi is a Veteran of the Third Succession War attached to the 9th Rasalhague Regulars. He soon defected and actively supports the Free Rasalhague Movement.
Hauptmann Oscar Laundsen: Laundsen is a commercial pilot on Skondia ferrying contractors and miners to remote areas of the world. He works for the Militia only as a reserve pilot. He has not slept since the recent invasion. Instead, he has been ferrying troops and supplies so that the militia can mount a counter attack.
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Sergeant Pengel Duba: Duba recently earned Sergeant and has just been given command of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion. The platoon also recently became SRM capable and he wants to show that through his command, his men can take down a mech if given the chance.
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First Lieutenant Agata Furnes: Recently retired from the Skye Rangers, Furnes settled on Skondia because she was awarded several thousand square kilometers from the Skye government as part of her retirement package. However, she soon found that retirement was boring, so she became an instructor with the Skondia Mech Piloting School.
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