Kate's eyes darken some just as her face reddens, about exactly the stereotypical tempermental reaction one would expect from a redhead of Scottish ancestry. For all that, though, her voice is even, just a touch louder and even firmer than before as she replies to Tetsuo, "I am Kathryn MacTaggart of the Skye MacTaggart's, Heir to our Lands and Titles, which will one day make me Countess. The MacTaggart legacy is right there, that<em>Atlas</em>, which has been in my family since the fall of the Star League, when Jennifer MacTaggart, who held the prestigious position of Test Pilot at the Hesperus II facitilities, used her late-model prototype<em>Atlas</em>to leverage herself a promotion instead of leave the Inner Sphere. I myself graduated with Honours from the Sanglamore Academy on Skye and served with the Skye Rangers for two years, fighting mostly against the DCMS but we did see some action against the Clans as well. Then I joined the Dark Angels, and have served with destinction; enough to have been granted the rank of Major, or as you may call me,<em>Ma'am</em>."<br/><br/>"Now, as to the difference between 'carreer military' and 'professional soldier', it's really very simple, Mechwarrior." Kate makes very deliberate use of the word mechwarrior, as if a reference to rank and not occupation, "Professional soldiers are just that, professionals. For us, it should<em>never</em>be personal, our only loyalty is to the contract. It strikes me that you are possilbly too stuck up about being samurai, and too tied to the Combine. What will you do should we take a contract to raid a Combine world? Given that by then you will have signed a binding contract to the Angels, and thus be obligated to fulfill your duty here?"