<div class="floatright">(http://rs5.pbsrc.com/albums/y156/jillvader/Mobile%20Uploads/mw-receivingendpc_zpse7fd107f.jpg~320x480)</div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">Pilot</span><br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Cass Tenclay<br/><strong>Sex:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Homeworld:</strong>Caph<br/><strong>Original Faction:</strong>Federated Commonwealth<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Cass presents a striking figure; tall and slender, her features are crowned with long red hair that, in turn, frames light blue eyes. Adding to the image are the ornate tattoos that run up the length of both arms, depicting a variety of colourful designs intertwined with each other.  She usually dresses casually, with little regard for uniform or the like. Often she will wear a necklace with an elaborate pendant, the latter of which dates back to the Star League era.<br/><br/>Cass at home on Caph (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y156/jillvader/4ac4ff316708d.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>If any world could be best used to sum up the damage wrought by the Succession Wars, it would be Caph. At the height of the Star Leauge it was a part of the Terran Hegemony, a world of wealth, high tech industries and research and unique megafauna. Three centuries of warfare had left it a shell of its former self, with two of its three continents uninhabitable, its population shrunken by nearly eighty percent, its industries and universities reduced to rubble and its unique wildlife extinct. As can be imagined, the population of Caph had long memories and little love for the so-called “great houses”.<br/><br/>Cassiopeia (“Cass” to everyone except her parents) Tenclay  was pretty typical of that belief. While well-off by her world’s standards with ties to an old, well-established family, it was not hard to grow up with an attitude of “what have the successor lords done for us?” As they grew up, they developed a desire to get away from the wasteland that their ancestral homeworld had become, as well as a desire to live their own life. As soon as she reached their majority (and received a chunk of family trust that had been held for them), Cass was off, leaving Caph and not looking back.<br/><br/>After a couple of years of “bumming around” (her words), she would up on Outreach, managing to fall in with a small mercenary company who needed a filler. Having done a round of compulsory training with the planetary milita, Cass showed an aptitude for ‘Mech piloting, one that was enough to earn her a billet and a paycheck. Two years later she chose not to renew her contract, rather setting out on her own with a range of newly marketable skills and a brand new BattleMech to boot.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Cass is head-strong and rebellious, with a desire to do what she wants and not what is expected of her. She does have enough sense to buck down and follow orders in the field, but at the same time she expects her superiors to have earned their rank rather then have it given to her. She has an inherent distrust of nobility and especially the ruling houses of the Successor States, having seen what their wars and ambitions did to her homeworld.<br/><br/>Despite her desire to get off-world, she does have a degree of attachment to Caph, especially given that she has family there. Recent events, especially the collapse of the planet’s central government into warring city-states concerns her, something that she tries not to let show.<br/><br/><strong>Speciality Skills:</strong>Cass has an interest in Star League-era artifacts and history, especially when it comes to the worlds of the former Terran Hegemony. She speaks a smattering of bits of several languages as a result of her time spent travelling.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">BattleMech Characteristics</span><div class="floatright">(http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/a/a1/DragonFire.jpg)</div><br/><br/><strong>BattleMech:</strong><em>Dragon Fire</em><br/><strong>Weight Class:</strong>Heavy<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Copperhead<br/><strong>Description:</strong>(name’s) ‘Mech is practically brand new, having never seen any real combat. The ‘Mech is currently painted with a green and yellow, snake-like pattern<br/><br/><strong>Loadout:</strong><br/>Zeus Slingshot Gauss Rifle<br/>Mydron Excel LB-X-10 Autocannon<br/>Exostar Large Laser<br/>2 Defiance B4M Medium Pulse Lasers<br/><br/><strong>Modules:</strong>CASE, Guardian ECM Suite<br/><br/><strong>Upgrades:</strong>XL Engine, Endo Steel Structure.