Stiltson’s
Company, 2/Addicks DMM, ca. Civil War Era
Oliveria’s Light Strike Lance
Leftenant
Jay Oliveria, Skill 3, Centurion CN9-D
(Speed Demon SPA)
Staff
Sergeant Joyce Tay, Skill 4, Wolverine
WVR-7D
Sergeant Yee
Hwang, Skill 5, Flea FLE-17 (Speed Demon
SPA)
Sergeant Max
Andreyev, Skill 4, Jenner JR7-D (Speed
Demon SPA)
Stiltson’s Attack Lance
Hauptmann
Rhonda Stiltson, Skill 3. Spider SDR-7M
(Speed Demon SPA)
Master
Sergeant Khalil Miller, Skill 3, Sentry
SNT-04
Sergeant
Anni Andrassen, Skill 5, Hornet HNT-151
(Speed Demon SPA)
Sergeant
Jasmine Jansons, Skill 7, Valkyrie VLK-QD
(Speed Demon SPA)
Dubois’s Scout Lance (Forward
Observer SPA for all units, 3 units have Maneuvering Ace or Eagle Eyes)
Leftenant
Harold Dubois, Skill 3, Watchman WTC-4M
Staff
Sergeant Melody Russo, Skill 3, Ostsol
OTL-5M
Sergeant
Sumio Hoffmann, Skill 4, Locust LCT-3M
Sergeant
Walker Salcedo, Skill 4,
Javelin JVN-10P
Total Point cost for the company is 284. A link to download a set of Alpha Strike Cards for the company can be found
here.
Bios of Company Mechwarriors
Leftenant Jay
Oliveria: Leftenant Olivaria is a solid ‘Mechwarrior, a so-so officer,
and a devout Methodist from Defiance. His religion makes him a severe, and by
many accounts, glum man with a dour outlook on life, and a command style best
described as “stern but fair”. He is very much a “by the book” officer, and
will not stray out of line one iota, which makes him sometimes unpopular with
his fellow junior officers as he is not a man who is given to rash risks. In
fact, one could say for a Strike Lance leader, he is a bit too cautious, but
his caution has saved the rest of his lance many times, as he has a good eye
for an ambush.
His background is from a middle-class family on Mallory’s
World, his father was a English Composition teacher at the high school level,
his mother, a nurse practitioner at a local hospital. Oliveria was a standout
graduate from the Conroe Training Battalion, and attended the PDZ OCS where he
graduated towards the middle of his class in 3055.
Staff Sergeant
Joyce Tay: Staff Sergeant Tay is at best, a mediocre NCO who only got
promoted because she is an exceptional athlete who always wins intermural
trophies for the 2nd Battalion. Her skills as a ‘Mechwarrior are
average, and she probably would be best at a desk job somewhere, but Hauptmann
Stiltson cannot manage to get rid of her, as her reputation as an arrogant pain
in the ass proceeds her. She really does look down on everyone she meets,
seeing them as her physical inferior, and it rubs the rest of the company the
wrong way. At least she is an even-tempered person in combat, and willing to
take a bit more risk than Leftenant Oliveria, even if she poorly qualified to
weigh that risk properly.
What the rest of the company does not know is that her
parents on Eldire IV were killed during a Kurita raid in 3041 when she was away
on a class trip in high school. She has never forgiven herself, or the Combine,
and is burning with a desire for revenge, and might take some stupid risks to
get that revenge. She is a graduate of the Kilborne Academy, class of 3046, and
ranked towards the middle of her class.
Sergeant Yee
Hwang: Sergeant Ye Hwang is a
recent graduate from the Bell Training Battalion (class of ’59), and is very
green, having graduated towards the bottom of her class. She is a likeable
‘Mechwarrior, and is popular in the company, even if her skills need a lot of
work, and Leftenant Olivaria is doing what he can to assist in that endeavor,
as well as calm her down in combat, as she does have a nasty habit of wading
into a fight without much thought. She is a supporter of Katherine’s, as she
believes Victor abandoned the FedCom to go “play soldier rather than do his
job” and she thinks Katherine will do better in this regard.
Sergeant Hwang is from the world of Argyle, and her parents
were both former infantrymen in the AFFS, having met during the War of ’39. She
was born two years later and followed her parents into the infantry, serving
with several March Militia commands. She has excelled in the rest of her military
career until recently, capturing a pirate Flea
single-handedly (the same one she pilots now).
Sergeant Max
Andreyev: Sergeant Andreyev is a graduate of the Sarna Martial Academy,
class of ’40, and is a native of Second Try. His loyalties were suspect as a
former Liao citizen, with his family both having been infantrymen with the
Second Try Home Guard, and both died in the defense of the world during the 4th
War, Max wound up living with the family of a distant cousin on Chesterton.
Thus, Max was posted far from home in a March Militia unit.
He is a meek fellow, not wanting to rock the boat any, as
the DMI pretty much thinks he is a potential traitor, but probably would have
made a better ‘Tech than a ‘Mechwarrior, as he enjoys tearing apart his old Jenner, captured from the DCMS in the 3rd
Succession War. Somehow, he has managed to wring a lot of speed out of the old
girl, and his dogged nature with things mechanical has gotten him noticed by
Hauptmann Stiltson.
Max is cautious in battle, as he knows nobody is going to
give him another ‘Mech if he loses this one, but he isn’t a coward, just smart
about how and when he fights. In this, his style matches Leftenant Olivera’s.
Hauptmann Rhonda
Stiltson: Hauptmann Stiltson is a well-known figure in the Addicks DMM,
loved by some, loathed by others due to her cunning nature. She uses her people
with as much concern as one shows a pawn on a chessboard, and displays a
tactical brilliance that has made her one of the leading lights of the Addicks
DMM. In short, she is a model AFFC officer. All of this probably would have
earned her a transfer to a frontline unit, it if it wasn’t for the fact that
she has turned down such transfers on multiple occasions. She realizes that
such a transfer might come with a demotion to Leftenant, and she’s already been
a lance leader once.
As it is, she continues to run, in her mind, one of the best
light companies in the AFFC, and she has the results to prove it, as she has
won multiple awards for excellence in training exercises, and has made that
training work in spades in fights with both pirates, and the DCMS. Captain
Stilltson likes where she is, and would not trade it for the world.
Hauptmann Stiltson was born in 3009 on Bryceland, her
parents ran a small farm and their daughter had exceptional skill behind the
controls of an AgroMech. It wasn’t long before she received a scholarship to
the Robinson Battle Academy, where she excelled, graduating 3rd in
her class in 3029, and then first in her OCS class in 3030. She missed the 4th
War by months, but was in the thick of it in the ’39 War with the 17th
Avalon Hussars. She won the FedSuns Star for conduct on An-Ting, leading her
lance to cover the retreat of a MASH from the advance of the Ryuken.
In 3036, she was promoted to Captain, and sent to the
Addicks DMM for what was supposed to be a TDY, but Stiltson settled on Addicks,
marrying a local business consultant, and producing two children with him, both
are currently serving in the AFFC. Further promotion has been slow, and at 53,
it may not be long before Stiltson decides it is time to hang up her spurs. But
there is one more war coming, and Stiltson doesn’t want to miss it.
Her Spider is
distinctive with gold edging, and is a warning to enemies, that Stiltson and
her company have arrived to wreak havoc.
Master Sergeant
Khalil Miller: Master Sergeant Miller is a cautious, careful man, so
much so, that he is not seen as one of the more effective NCOs in the battalion,
he was sent to Stiltson’s Company on the principle that there was little damage
he could do there. His promotions have come mostly based on inertia, and the
fact that overall, he is a decent ‘Mechwarrior, even if he is an at best,
average NCO. At the age of 55, he is thinking very hard about hanging up his
spurs, as he realizes his time in the cockpit is slowly ending.
That said, he has been kept there mostly because of his
solid loyalty to the Archon Princess on New Avalon, even in the face of the
widespread dissatisfaction with her throughout the AFFC, but Miller has always
been loyal to whomever occupies the throne, as he is fond of saying, “We salute
the rank, not the person wearing it.” But Miller knows, there might be a time
he may have to shoot people wearing the same uniform he does.
He is a solid, but overly cautious person in a fight, much
to Stiltson’s frustration, and will often try to temper her more aggressive
plans, some have made some not so charitable charges that in fact, Miller is
little more than a coward. The truth is, he just wants to live to see his
grandchildren grow up. The fire in the belly left him a long time ago. His
pessimistic nature doubts that will happen, but he has a little bit of hope
left that, perhaps, he might beat the odds.
Miller was born in 3007 on Exeter, to a family of
accountants, the last thing they thought their only son would want to be was a ‘Mechwarrior,
but his early aptitude surprised them, as well as the AFFS recruiter. Miller
graduated the Robinson Battle Academy in 3023, and had a very solid record with
the 1st Robinson Rangers. He was married (his wife has been deceased
three years), with three children, until his oldest died in the Clan invasion
with the 2nd New Ivaarsen Chasseurs on Anywhere in 3050. At that
point, Miller requested a militia position, which was granted, and he joined
Stiltson’s company as the new SNCO, which is a position he holds today. He is a
broken man, hurt by the loss of his oldest son, and his wife. He is living
simply for his grandchildren, and little else.
Sergeant Anni Andrassen:
One of a pair of recent graduates from the Conroe Training Battalion (Class
of ’61), Andrassen is very, very green, and her skills show it. Some in the company
wonder aloud if she or her fellow ‘Mechwarrior, Jasmine Jansons, should have
even been allowed to graduate. But, unlike Jansons, Andrassen shows some
promise, and she has a good bit of common sense, her egotistical nature (“I’m a
‘Mechwarrior!”) has rubbed a lot of non- ‘Mechwarrior personnel the wrong way,
but it is beginning to soften as she becomes more exposed to the “real” AFFC,
and how it really works. As Master Sergeant Miller puts it “Andrassen will
settle down, and fly right, she just needs a little time.” Whether she has that
time is a very open question, in any event, Stiltson has both ‘Warriors in her
lance where she can keep a close eye on them.
Andrassen was born in 3041 to a pair of AFFS vehicle crewmen
in the Clovis DMM, both were a pair of devout Unifinished Book believers, and
their daughter is the same, and for all of her egotism about being a ‘Mechwarrior,
she still follows religiously the tenets of the Unifinished Book movement. She
earned a slot with the Conroe Training Battalion because of her academic
grades, and her score during the “skull cap” test. She did reasonably well as a
cadet, graduating towards the middle of her class, but somehow thinking that
she was now part of a “’Mechwarrior elite”. Ironically, it was this attitude that
the training battalions were meant to stamp out.
Sergeant Jasmine
Jansons: Sergeant Jansons is the embarrassment to a long standing Lyran
military family from Skye. Generations of Jansons have served Skye well (and
too often, wound up in the ranks of Free Skye), Jasmine, however, as a second
child, and a daughter, was enough of a disappointment to her father, but her inability
to become little more than a mediocre ‘Mechwarrior led to her father exiling
her to the Robinson Battle Academy in Davion space. She was the class goat in
the Class of ’61 and was assigned to the Addicks DMM on the virtue of her
academic scores (which were top notch). Jansons is simply put, an inept fool
behind the controls of her Valkyrie.
Worse,
a burning desire to prove herself to her father, and her nation’s monarch has
made her bold to the point of reckless in combat. It’s a combination that might
get her killed, and Stillson has decided that it’s best she ride herd on
Jansons personally, so at least she survives her four-year enlistment, and she
can be quietly mustered out before anything else happens.
(Note: The truth
about Jansons is quite different. Her real name is Stephanie Goltz, and she is
a LIC operative inserted into the Addicks DMM to ensure the unit remains loyal
to Katherine. The rest of her past is fiction, though there was a Jansons
family, but it was wiped out during the last Skye Rebellion in 3057. No one in
Davion space, except perhaps a historian or an intelligence officer would know
that, which makes it a pretty good cover. Her skill is really 4, but she will
not reveal it unless the circumstances are dire).
Leftenant Harold
Dubois: Leftenant Dubiois is a skilled ‘Mechwarrior and an excellent
leader, were he not from a wealthy ‘Mechwarrior family with deep links to the
Citizens for Davion Purity, and a cocky bastard to boot, he might be serving
with a line regiment somewhere, but his attitude, along with his family’s
questionable background, has exiled him to this backwater. To his credit, he
has managed to make the best of it, and is an even-tempered, competent leader
in combat, and his men tolerate his cockiness away from the cockpit as a
result.
Dubois is a graduate of the Robinson Battle Academy, class
of ’54, and has done well since graduation, earning a slot in a OCS class in ’56
and graduating towards the top of his OCS class. Promotion in a DMM comes slow,
and he has been a Leftenant for 6 years. It’s been frustrating for Dubois, but
his family’s background has stalled his career.
Staff Sergeant
Melody Russo: Only daughter of a
wealthy family that owns a variety of interests throughout the Federated Suns,
Melody has no interest in either becoming heir to the family business, nor
being an officer, though she would be competent and well qualified to do both.
Instead, she is happy enough piloting the company’s only heavy ‘Mech, and being
a Lance SNCO. She likes the challenge of riding herd on Leftenant Dubois,
although he is a solid enough Leftenant that she doesn’t have to do that very
often.
The rest of the company likes Russo, with her only real vice
is being a “foodie”. Any new restaurant in the company’s AO is like a siren
song to Russo, and she is an avid fan of cooking shows, using the rest of the
company as her gastronomical guinea pigs. To her credit, she is a very good
cook and competition to be said guinea pigs is quite fierce, though it is said
she passes the annual PT tests by thinner and thinner margins.
Russo graduated in the middle of her class in the Conroe
Training Battalion, (class of ’30), she then served with the 22nd
Avalon Hussars, until requesting transfer to the Addicks DMM to be closer to
her parents. She has developed into a very fine NCO, one that is being consciously
groomed for an NCO slot at either battalion or regimental HQ, but that won’t
come for a few years at least. The only worry is that she is a bit reckless in
a fight, and might get herself killed, but in this, Dubois does a good job of
reigning her in.
Sergeant Sumio
Hoffmann: Sergeant Hoffmann is a ‘Mechwarrior that is in it for the
status. A stereotypical rich kid (and only child to boot), he is lazy to a fault
and the bane of Staff Sergeant Russo’s existence, Hoffmann is in and out of all
kinds of trouble, mostly of the wild parties and paternity suit kind. He’s been
kicked out of three other units, including the Clovis DMM, and wound up here as
kind of a “last chance” before an other than honorable discharge.
Hoffmann knows this and is determined to straighten out and
fly right, or at least, what he thinks is straighten up and fly right. So far,
his own efforts have done little but frustrate Staff Sergeant Russo. That said,
he is a competent ‘Mechwarrior who is smart and even-tempered in a fight, all
things said, he does well enough.
A graduate of the Sakahara Academy, class of ’59, he was
something of a dubious legend, as his spoiled and lazy ways cut quite the swath
through the academy and surrounding community. His graduation was seen as “good
riddance.”
Sergeant Walker
Salcedo: Sergeant Salcedo is an obnoxious fellow who thinks money
equals some sort of moral superiority, and he is willing to do anything to get
the kind of money he thinks would make him a good person. His appeals to the
other members in the company to invest in his “get rich quick” schemes have
managed to alienate just about everyone. He’s even been decked by Max Andreyev,
which surprised everyone.
Salcedo is also a graduate of the Conroe Training Battalion,
class of ’45, and his parents were both teachers on Exeter, who were surprised
that their son aspired to be a ‘Mechwarrior. Salcedo is almost embarrassed of
his origins, and his attempts to “kiss up” to the wealthier members of the
company is another black mark against him as far as the rest of the company is
concerned.
His combat style is bold, almost reckless, and is met with
grudging admiration and concern, depending on who you ask.
