<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">Pilot</span><br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Janos Ilyanovich Wu<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Male<br/><strong>Age:</strong>26 (June 5th, 3023)<br/><strong>BattleMech:</strong>Cataphract CTF-1x<br/><strong>Homeworld:</strong>Tikonov<br/><strong>Original Faction:</strong>Capellan Confederation<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Rather average for the typical Capellan mix of Rus and Chinese, but with a rather slender jawline. His slim 5'6" may not look like much in his strict robes but his nimble body and classic education (which includes martial arts) has made sure he hides some surprises for the overly curious.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Born to two military engineers on Tikonov in 3023, Janos grew up surrounded by mechs. In particular he grew up together with the Cataphract prototypes which were built and tested by his father's engineering team. He was only five when the Fourth Succession War began, the FedSuns marking the event by invading his homeworld. His mother died during the struggles and he was taken away along with his father with an emergency evac-shuttle as the battles were raging around them. They were taken to Betelguese where they lived through the 4th Succession War.<br/><br/>As he grew up Janos kept sharing his free hours with his father, who fought tooth and nail to revive the Cataphract facilities on Betelguese. He spent many hours being told by his father what monsters House Davion and their new fellows the Steiners were, even more so than he heard in his schooling. Finally in 3032 his father got his will through and resurrected the production on Betelguese. Janos helped the engineers and mechanics as good as he could and even started earning his early degrees in the same field. It would seem that the young patriot would follow in his father's footsteps all the way.<br/><br/>However his head seemed to go in strange directions. As he entered his teen years he became very arrogant and ostentatious. He started building up a cult following of his own in the school, which brought down the wrath of the local government. After several reprimands he was booted from the academy and threatened with servitorship. Nothing seemed to be able to stop his ambitions however. He became enthralled with the idea of perfecting the Cataphract design, warping it into something akin to what the FedSuns had done to it. He took part of smaller skirmishes as a test pilot for his new models, which the industrial magnates of House Liao were very interested with. Janos was given resources and praise without even having passed his evaluation for citizenship, something that further angered those that had come to resent him.<br/><br/>His luck ran out during an urban battle in which he found himself cornered by an Assault mech and flanked by several lights. His current build was unable to counter them and he was brutally beaten, his Cataphract left for scraps. He escaped with scars and a nasty concussion which he took several weeks to recover from. His new designs with a Gauss Rifle and smaller complementary weapons was not deemed adequate by the magnates and Janos lost his backing. His personal cult disappeared and he consequently failed his evaluation. He worked hard for two years to earn his citizenship at his second trial, but his old rivals and enemies made sure he failed once more. Faced with becoming servitor he contacted one of his initial investors, a mercenary financier by the name Kevin Perkins, for a way out of Capellan space...<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Janos like many Capellans are rather arrogant about his superiority over the lesser factions. No one really escapes faction-wide indoctrination after all. But where most took the collective lessons of Korvin to heart the way they were intended, Janos was confused early on in philosophy class and took his on spin to it. The result is a Capellan who is not only collectively arrogant, but even more so on an individual level. This has earned him a lot of ire from the government, which has put him in his current predicament. These events have not notched this particular part of his personality anyway, his self-esteem  just runs too deep.<br/><br/><strong>Speciality Skills:</strong>Janos knows just about everything that goes into the construction of a 'Mech. The mechanics, engineering, physics, weapons, everything. He dreams of one day designing the most versatile and powerful BattleMech in history. He has classical education, which includes beating the snot out of people in a highly stylistic and fluid manner as well as dance.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">BattleMech Characteristics</span><br/><br/>To be announced...