<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=190440.msg9230649#msg9230649">Quote from: Anathanasia on 22-11-2013, 23:53:51</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Anyone up to being the person who saved Lee from the rockslide? An officer would be best. Here's her current bio for your convenience (some dates and names will need to be changed, of course):<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Xuē Lei Fang</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Click to see pic!</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2109/katanaheroinebyrickysu.jpg)</div></div><br/><strong>Name:</strong> Xuē Lei Fang (Lee)<br/><strong>Rank:</strong> Ban-zhang (Lieutenant), serving as Mechwarrior with Stryker's Strikers<br/><strong>Unit:</strong> Stryker's Strikers, home unit: Warrior House Fujita battlemech battalion<br/><strong>Homeworld:</strong> Grand Base, Capellan Confederation<br/><strong>Age:</strong> 20<br/><strong>Height:</strong> 5'3”<br/><strong>Weight:</strong> 102lbs<br/><br/><strong>History:</strong><br/>   Lei was born on the planet Styk and orphaned by the fighting there during the Fourth Succession War. She was lucky enough to be among those rescued by a Warrior House Fujita mechwarrior when he stole away with a <em>Mammoth</em> class dropship loaded with freed prisoners and Davion battlemechs.<br/>   Needing to rebuild, House Fujita took in many of the orphans, including Lei, to begin training them in their monastic mechwarrior tradition, based on the tenets of Bushido. So it is that Lei has known very little else in her life, having trained every day in a wide array of the arts of war since she six years old. She was identified as a solid candidate for the Fujita mech battalion early on, and her training focused there ever since, though she is just as diversely skilled as any other member of a Confederation Warrior House. <br/>   Despite her youth, Lei is a highly skilled and talented mechwarrior, more experienced than many her age due to the severe and regimented training she's undergone for almost the whole of her life. This is not to say she's what passes for 'experienced', exactly, only that she's far more capable than most mechwarriors her age. <br/>   In addition to her excellent skills in the cockpit of her <em>Warhammer</em>, one of the mechs stolen in that dropship and recently refitted, Lei has also received thorough infantry training, enough to qualify her for special operations by the militaries of most of the Successor States. She is an expert martial artist and knows full well how to wield the katana she carries, and she is a passable computer hacker and knows her way around a demolitions kit.<br/>   Sometimes, all the training in the galaxy isn't enough keep someone out of trouble, though, as Lei found out on only her third mission as an active duty mechwarrior. Separated from her unit while they engaged in a running night battle with the mercenary unit Stryker's Strikers, she seized the chance to try and ambush one of the Strikers' lances when the opportunity presented itself. Concealing her mech out of sight on a ledge against a cliff face overlooking a ravine, she waited, listening for her pursuers to pass below. She was reasonably certain they wouldn't even notice the ledge in the dark of night, and would assume she was still ahead of them; Lei wouldn't have, only she'd noted it earlier in the day. It would have been easy to cripple them, firing her <em>Warhammer's</em> considerable arsenal into the rear armour of the Strikers' mechs, but fortunately for them, when Lei's 70 ton mech went to step out from hiding, the ledge gave way under it, dragging Lei and her battlemech down in to the ravine and starting a rockslide that threatened all of them. Staggering back to it's feet, Lei's <em>Warhammer</em> was about to be smashed flat by a huge check of stone when the lead Striker mech, which turned out to be the commander himself in his <em>Highlander</em>, shoved Lei out of the way.<br/>   She still wound up on her <em>Warhammer's</em> ass, pinned and mostly buried by rock and dirt. The Strikers had come out of the rock slide just fine, however, and seeing the four mechs move in to surround her, Lei thought for sure she was finished, one way or another. To her surprise, at the direction of the <em>Highlander</em>, they began to dig her out.<br/>   If it had been a simple matter of capture, Lei would have committed seppuku to cleanse her honour and be done with it, but the Strikers' commander had probably actually saved her life. Owing him a debt of honour, though displeased with the situation, Lei convinced Stryker to let her join him. She's not sure why, but perhaps it's just as simple as he doesn't want to feel responsible for her suicide should he not respect her sense of honour and give her the opportunity to pay back the life-debt the old fashioned way.<br/><br/>(http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/c/c0/Warhammer.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>WHM-6LC <em>Warhammer</em></strong><br/><strong>Chassis:</strong> Starcorp 100<br/><strong>Engine:</strong> Magna 280 (uses DHS)<br/><strong>Mass:</strong> 70 tons<br/><strong>Max Walk Speed:</strong> 43.2kph<br/><strong>Max Speed:</strong> 62.8kph<br/><strong>Armour:</strong> 10.5 tons Ferro-fibrous<br/><strong>Heat Sinks:</strong> 16 Double Heat Sinks<br/><strong>Weapons:</strong><br/>--2x Ceres Metals Warrior ER-PPC [Right Arm, Left Arm]<br/>--2x Martell Medium Laser [Right Torso, Left Torso]<br/>--2x Magna Small Laser [Right Torso, Left Torso]<br/>--2x FlameTech K-213 Flamer [Right Torso, Left Torso]<br/>--1x Holly Short Range Missile Pack (6) SRM-6 w/ 1 ton ammunition [Right Torso]<br/><strong>Equipment:</strong><br/>--Artemis IV Fire Control System for SRM-6 [Right Torso]<br/>--CASE [Right Torso] </div></div><br/>If Lee is not going to work, I'm not that worried. I found the redhead from Skye, so I could always play her instead:<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Kate MacTaggart</div><div class="spoiler_body">(no pic yet)<br/><strong>Name:</strong> Kathryn Emily MacTaggart ("Kate")<br/><strong>Age:</strong> 23<br/><strong>Hair:</strong> Red (kind of a darker, brandy red)<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong> Pale blue<br/><strong>Height:</strong> 5'2"<br/><strong>Build:</strong> Petite<br/><strong>Homeworld:</strong> Skye<br/><strong>Piloting:</strong> AS8-X4 Atlas (late-Star League variant prototype)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Description:</span></strong><br/>   Petite, very pretty and outgoing, Kate wears her dark red hair shortish, which naturally falls into loose, unruly ringlets, down to just past her shoulders. Her eyes are a startling pale blue, and if it weren't for the pallor of her alabaster skin they would look very out of place beside her red hair. The rest of her features are delicate and pretty, from her pouty mouth to slender waist and dainty feet. Kate's breasts are smallish, but a nice size for a small woman like her, and pert, and it seems like she gets most of her 5'2" from her stunning legs. <br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">History:</span></strong><br/>   Kathryn Emily MacTaggart is the eldest child and heir to her families land and holdings on the Lyran Alliance world of Skye. The MacTaggart's are what could be described as 'landed' mercenaries, mercenaries with long standing ties to House Steiner, or more appropriately, the Federation of Skye, but they are still mercenaries. Their ties date back to final days of the Star League, when one Captain Jennifer MacTaggart (keeping the MacTaggart name through marriages is tradition), a test pilot at the Hesperus II facilities decided to stay in the Inner Sphere along with so many other <em>Atlas</em> pilots, in hopes of bettering her station through her powerful mech. It worked.<br/>   Kate herself was raised into this warrior household, despite being essentially a member of the minor nobility, to take over the front line duties of the head of the household. She trained from a young age, learning to fire small arms and assist the house techs as they worked on the massive <em>Atlas</em>. <br/>   After a hard fought battle, Kate's father wound up injured to the point where he could no longer serve on the front lines, and so he turned to <em>Atlas</em> over to her despite her young age, just shy of sixteen. Kate's father has since taken an instructors position at Sanglamore Academy on Skye, piloting an old <em>Crusader</em> mech his own father had captured on the field decades earlier.<br/>   So it was that already in possession of her own assault mech, Kate was sent off to the Sanglamore Academy to formally study as a mechwarrior. It was standard fare; Kate did well, her outgoing nature and beauty helping her to get along with the other students, almost all from privileged families such as her own. Kate made one important friend in the quartermasters office there, a supplier of booze when she was a student, and even more useful things now.<br/>   After graduation, Kate took a contract with the Skye Rangers, filling out an assault company with her own mech. She negotiated for ammunition and a decent percentage of repairs so it wasn't the end of the world when the op when pear-shaped and there was an entire extra battalion of Snakes there. They fought their way free, the battalion sized raiding force of Skye Rangers had brought an assault company along and they sure proved their worth after some bumpy, but effective, redeployment by their <em>Union</em> dropship crew. <br/>   After this battle, Kate decided to not replace the old Star League gauss rifle, and the last spare from her families secret stockpile had been used almost 20 years ago, instead installing an ultra-AC/20 (her father had already replaced the old SRM6 with a Streak model as soon as he'd been able to get his hands on one). Kate likes the increased firepower, feeling the ER large lasers and LRM20 are ample long range firepower. The massive, rapid firing autocannon is far more of a heat burden than the old gauss rifle, but since hardly anyone can stand up to it, it's hopefully worth it.<br/>   Kate took a contract with another merc unit next, and it turned out to be a banner couple of years. They saw a lot of action, moved around quite a bit, and did quite well. In a lot of ways, it was like a roving party with a few battles breaking it up, the time of Kate's life with lots of hot sex and insane battles.*<br/><br/>*I'm thinking that unit could be the Dark Angels? Rob, does that work for you?<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Key Skills:</span></strong><br/>Mech Piloting and Gunnery (all +2s...getting to +3s is insanely hard since that editor won't let us spend the remainders. :p)<br/>Sensor Ops<br/>Tactics/Mech<br/>Speaks Scottish Gaelic (essentially her 1st language), English, German<br/>Scrounge<br/>Streetwise/Lyran Alliance<br/>Seduction<br/>Technician/Mechanics and Myomer<br/><br/><strong>AS8-X4 Atlas</strong><br/><br/><strong>Tonnage:</strong> 100<br/><strong>Internal Structure:</strong> Endo-Steel - 5 tons<br/><strong>Engine:</strong> 300 Vlar - 19 tons<br/><strong>Movement:</strong><br/>   Walk: 3<br/>   Run:  5<br/><strong>Heat Sinks:</strong> 13 Double<br/><strong>Armour:</strong> Standard - 19 tons<br/>   Head: 9<br/>   Center Torso: 47/14<br/>   R./L. Torso:   32/10<br/>   R./L. Arm:      34<br/>   R./L. Leg:      41<br/><br/><strong>Armament:</strong><br/>Ultra AC/20 - RT<br/>ER Lg Laser - RA<br/>ER Lg Laser - LA<br/>SRM 6 Streak - LT<br/>LRM 20 - LT<br/>Med. Laser (x2) - CT(R)<br/><br/><strong>Notes:</strong><br/>CASE in LT only (2x LRM ammo, 1x SRM ammo, 1x UAC/20 ammo)<br/>No CASE in RT (2x UAC/20 ammo)<br/>LRM Ammo of choice is generally 1x SwarmI and 1x Semi-Guided (great with Tag equipped scouts!)<br/>UAC/20 feeds from RT ammo bins first, LT is 'reserve'<br/>Yup, this mech can overheat like stink. It's all about flexible response IMO when you get to assault mechs, not alpha strikes. ;)</div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Considering Erich's penchant of leading from the front (despite being in an 80-ton sniper), Getting landed on by a warhammer and a pile of rocks would be fairly likely. (Plus, unlike the 'hammer, his 'mech has a hand, so it can clear the debris better than Xue Lei could.)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=190440.msg9230685#msg9230685">Quote from: orderNchaos on 23-11-2013, 00:04:26</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh Erich's going to love this.  We'll have to change the companies name to the Red marauders!!  ehehehhee<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Erich isn't biased; He hates everyone and everything in public; In private, (ie; off the clock), that's when he can, on occasion, loosen up and show that he's not a machine made to cause hate.