Wolf's Dragoons Personalities

Personalities

Name: Commander Jaime Wolf (ret.)
Assignment: Supreme commander of Wolf's Dragoons
Jaime Wolf is a short, compact man with a full head and beard of soft gray hair. Despite his age, he is at least 62 standard years of age, he is fit and active. Though he rarely mounts his reconditioned Archer battlemech any more, when he does so for training exercises, it is clear he is still a superior pilot even though his speed and response time has been eclipsed by younger Dragoons.
For over forty years, Jaime Wolf commanded the Dragoons in the field as well as off. He earned a deserved reputation for tactician and strategic brilliance, leading the Dragoons from victory to victory. In the course of his career he has worked with and fought against all of the major Houses and most of the Clans, earning the respect of all of his opponents as well as his employers. Wolf's classic texts on military strategy and tactics, once the exclusive property of the Dragoons, are now in use at leading military schools throughout the Inner Sphere.
The long years of strife and successive tragedies seemed to have sapped his once iron will. The death of his last surviving son Mackensie seemed to have broken something inside the aging warrior. He withdrew from his responsibilities, abandoning control at a crucial phase in the rebuilding of Dragoon strength after the losses at the siege of Luthien. The result was a tragic civil war within the Dragoons. The challenge shook Wolf out of the lethargy into which he had fallen. Buoyed by the faith of a large segment of the Dragoons, both old and new, Wolf rebounded to meet and overcome the challenge of the forces under his grandson Alpin Wolf and Elson NovaCat.
Recently, he has retired from field command and turned his attention to the governance of Outreach and the coordination of the Dragoons new role as a tiny, independent power in the Inner Sphere.

Name: Captain Brian Cameron
Assignment: Aide to Commander Wolf
Brian is a blood line descendent to William Cameron, founder of the dragoon honorline of Cameron, and won the honorname simultaneously with graduation from his sibko. There is a strong physical similarity between Brian and William, indicating a powerful influence of William's genes on Brian's phenotype. Like his bloodline father, he served as aide and communications specialist to Jaime Wolf.
Some anecdotes point out the similarity of the two Camerons careers and abilities by having Jaime Wolf calling Brian by Founder William's name. The physical resemblance is less important than the abilities that Brian inherited. One need only observe a session in a battle control center to see that Brian has the same rare combination of gifts that made William Cameron so valuable to Wolf. Brian is a communications wizard with a gift for filtering out unimportant data.
Lurid tent town tabloids have Brian intimately involved with Maeve Wolf. If true, it would not be the first time soldiers were involved. It may explain why Brian was transferred from his position as communications officer on the staff of the Dragoon's field commander on the day that Jaime became Commander and Maeve was appointed general. Brian is reported happy to still be near the Wolf but simultaneously disappointed to be away from military affairs.

Name: General Maeve Wolf
Assignment: Field Commander of Wolf's Dragoons
Maeve Wolf is a compact, raven-haired fireball of energy. Though shorter than most of the warriors under her command, none look down on her. She has proven her ability as a mechwarrior over and over, demonstrating an amazing combination of skill, reflexes, and fight savvy that is said to rival that of Natasha Kerensky in her prime. As a commander, she is shown herself fully capable of conducting offensive and defensive operations with equal facility, often achieving notable successes with forces most would have deemed inadequate for the job. Her troops have nothing but praise for the fairness of her treatment and she has often been likened to a mother wolf for the fierceness with which she defends those in her charge.
As the first to hold the rank of General within the Dragoons, Maeve Wolf is charting new territory. The new rank is part of the restructuring of the new Dragoons, emphasizing their independence by dropping the traditional practice of ranking a mercenary officer no higher than a colonel. The new rank also dispenses with the "first among officers" custom employed by the Dragoons since the death of original co-commander Joshua Wolf. She has risen nicely to the demands of the position. In such incidents as the Corralize Affair on Elgin and the Black River campaign on Yorii, she has reaffirmed classic Dragoon practices regarding proper treatment of civilians and strict adherence to the ancient Ares Conventions.
Given her age, the uninformed usually assume that Maeve is the granddaughter of Jaime Wolf. However, she is not. Early biographies referred to her as one of the Dragoons' "war orphans," but actually she was born and raised in one of the sibkos initiated by the Dragoons to fill their depleted ranks. Born of one of the mixed blood sibkos, Maeve had no "family" honorname to aspire to. Lacking such, she made her lack of unknown parentage a point of honor and, despite her obvious qualifications, refused to participate in any honorname competitions. That resolution crumbled when the reunited Dragoons forced Jaime Wolf to add the name Wolf to the list of honornames and conduct a competition. In an incredible display of respect for her performance in the recent fighting and approval of her qualifications, none challenged Maeve's claim to the name.
A persistent rumor says that Maeve is the illegitimate daughter of Jaime Wolf, and suggests that nepotism was behind her unusually easy access to the name as well as her promotion. This is unlikely as Wolf swore to his troops that he would not appoint any of his blood to a commander's position for two generations. detractors need only look at her record. Maeve Wolf promises to be a worthy successor to command of Wolf's Dragoons, or as she likes to call them, Wolfpack.

Name: Major Elson NovaCat
Assignment: Commander Elemental Strike Battalion, Special Operations Group; Staff Advisor to Infantry Operations Commander
Elson is the freebirth son of a Clan Nova Cat elemental. A warrior of superior skills ands undisguised ambition, he fought his way through Nova Cat freebirth infantry training, ultimately winning warrior status and the right to wear a battlesuit. He earned adoption into his Clan during the first year of the invasion of the Inner Sphere for conspicuous gallantry. When the Clans failed in their attempt to take Luthien, Elson was among the troops surrendered by the Nova Cats to the Dragoons.
In the Dragoons, he took advantage of his experience and rose rapidly within the young elemental arm. He did not like the people among whom he found himself. He was especially appalled by the weakness he saw in Jaime Wolf and the other oldsters; he thought that they had betrayed their Clan heritage and gone soft. His ambition surfaced again when he saw a chance to reclaim the Dragoons to Clan culture. Working with a notable warrior's charisma and a surprisingly good strategic sense for an elemental, Elson masterminded the recent internal strife among the Dragoons.
Expecting to die for his failure, Elson was surprised by Jaime Wolf's offer of a place in the reunited Dragoons. Unsure of the right if it, Elson accepted the offer. Wolf had proven himself a warrior, though not the sort Elson was used to, and bested him. Elson's honor demanded he submit. Whether Elson can truly come to accept Wolf and his Dragoons, and vice versa, remains to be seen.

Name: Major Kiyomasa Tetsuhara
Assignment: Commander of Baker Battalion, Alpha Regiment
Kiyomasa Tetsuhara is the eldest son of the late Minobu Tetsuhara, fast friend of Jaime Wolf and the man most responsible for the Dragoons' former blood feud with House Kurita. At the death of Takashi Kurita, Kiyomasa gathered a group of like minded Kuritan warriors, many of them veterans of the Ryuken or the offspring of such and sought out Minobu's old aide, Michi Noketsuna, with the intent of having the old samurai lead them. They were unable to get the tired warrior to accept the position of leader but, with Jaime Wolf's aid, kept Noketsune from seppuku.
When Noketsune consented to accompany Wolf to Outreach, Kiyomasa took it as a sign and convinced his fellow Kuritans and their families to travel to Outreach as well. Once in orbit, they applied en mass for acceptance into the Dragoons. Facing understandable suspicion and distrust, the Kuritans encamped in Harlech and were caught up in the Dragoon civil war. Kiyomasa led the exodus to the Outback and fought with distinction under Wolf. As a reward, he had been given command of Baker Battalion, a unit composed mostly of his fellow Kuritan expatriates. Kiyomasa is maturing into a fine commander, but has shown little tact in dealing with the occasional friction between his troops devotion to the code of bushido and Dragoon culture.

Name: Colonel Kelly Yukinov
Assignment: Commander of Alpha Regiment
Yukinov's reputation would be outstanding anywhere else, but within the dragoons, it suffers due to comparison with Jaime Wolf, one of the greatest military leaders of our time. Some men might be embittered by such constant belittling of their achievements, but not Yukinov. Wounded several times in the course of his career he has always bounced back to take firm control of Alpha.
A competent officer with occasional flashes of brilliance, he handles Alpha with the ease of long practice and , while not as innovative as his predecessor, he is also less vulnerable to being caught with his pants down while taking a long shot.

Name: Colonel Anton Reed
Assignment: Commander of Beta Regiment
Anton Reed took command of beta regiment when the former commander, Neil Parella, disappeared during the climactic battle of the Dragoon civil war, and presided over the transition back into the fold. Reed is one of the younger Dragoons, an Inner Sphere adoptee. A strong, aggressive commander who prefers to lead from the cockpit of his BattleMech, he continually exhorts his troops to prove that they are indeed "second to none." Reed is a veteran of Luthien where he took battlefield command of his battalion and repulsed a NovaCat sortie and succeeded in capturing a number of elementals. Attempts to exploit his Inner Sphere heritage have proven fruitless; Reed is a whole hearted believer in the Dragoon way.

Name: Colonel Irwin "Lucky T" Tyrell
Assignment: Commander of Gamma Regiment
Nearly killed on Harrow's Sun when his second mech was shot out from underneath him, Tyrell moved up in the ranks almost by virtue of simply surviving the murderous battles that devastated the Dragoons before and during the Fourth Succession War. He fought, and lost another mech, on Luthien. Though prone to taking chances in battle, Tyrell has shown a surprising flair for the mundane, routine business of running a regiment between battles.

Name: Colonel Shelly Brubaker
Assignment: Commander of Delta Regiment
Colonel Brubaker comes from one of the Dragoons' more distinguished lines of mechwarriors. She is a tall, slim woman as fast with a quip as with responding to a battle reverse. In keeping with the mission of Delta Regiment, Brubaker prefers on the spot command and operates out of a fast light 'mech rather than the sort of heavier models most commanders seem to prefer. "Keep it mobile; keep 'em guessing," was her response when asked about her unusual choice in command vehicles.

Name: Colonel Elizabeth Nicole
Assignment: Commander of Epsilon Regiment
The loyalty of Colonel Nicole and her regiment was one of the big question marks of the Dragoon civil war. Nominally she supported Alpin and Elson, but her actions suggested that she held strong reservations. Though normally a typically aggressive dragoon commander, she withheld her troops, skirmishing and probing when given attack orders. It has been speculated that her lack of commitment enable Jaime Wolf's forces to succeed where they would have otherwise failed. her retention as Epsilon commander may be due as much to that as to using her as a figurehead leader from the defeated faction to soothe the transition back to Jaime Wolf's control.
Nicole has recently placed a request for retirement but Wolf Hall has not yet replied.

Name: Colonel J. Elliot Jamison
Assignment: Commander of Zeta Battalion
J. Elliot Jamison is one of the oldsters, an original member of Wolf's Dragoons. He is a tall, imposing man, though now somewhat stooped shouldered with age. The oldest officer in a combat command slot, Jamison also holds the record for length of service as commander of Zeta battalion, a testament to his command skills as well as his fighting skills.
Despite his reputation as an easy going, light discipline commander, Jamison is a hard liner with regard to Dragoon custom. Thus, he supported Alpin Wolf's claim to control of the Dragoons. His reason of record is that Alpin attained his position through a legal Trial of Position. It is evident that Jamison holds a lingering anger that Jaime Wolf would challenge Alpin's control and bring the Dragoons to a civil war. Jamison has made no formal statements of discontent but remarks concerning his disaffection that have been made by his staff and men have gone undenied.

Name: Major John Clavell
Assignment: Commander of Wolf Spider Battalion
Gentleman Johnny is one of the original Dragoons and a founding member of the Black Widow Company, the unit that grew and metamorphosed into Wolf Spider Battalion.
Upon promotion to permanent command of the battalion, Clavell ordered the unit's most recent name change. At the time, he cited the need to break with certain traditions, a move that he said was in keeping with the overall reorganization going on in the Dragoons. Facing criticism from several comrades for abandoning all ties to his former commander, Natasha Kerensky, he made one public reply, saying "the Lady made her choice when she took ship to return to Clan Wolf. She's Khan now and I'm damn proud of her, but I'm a Dragoon and Wolfpack has no more ties to the Clan," and has since remained silent on the subject. It is reported that he cried publicly when the Dropship his battalion now uses landed on the field at Harlech and he saw the name painted on the side: Widow's Regards. We have confirmed that the JumpShip that brought the DropShip to the system was a Wolf Clan ship.

Name: Fleet Colonel Issola Chandra
Assignment: Commander of Aerospace Command
Issola Chandra parleyed her neutrality in the recent fighting into a strong position, increasing the involvement of the Aerospace Command in all operations. As commander of Dragoon Aerospace assets, she has direct control of the warships recovered from the Bristol cache. Clearly proud of her fleet, some suggest that she is anxious to use her ships and that she chafes at Jaime Wolf's order that the warships remain in the Outreach system as a defensive measure except in specific, one-time assignments of escort duty.

Name: Colonel Steven Graham
Assignment: Commander of Special Operations Command
Steven Graham previously commanded the Special Recon Group and is no stranger to scouting and clandestine missions, but this once active soldier has found a desk job harder to manage than a one-legged scout mech. His biggest complaint is having to deal with the "cloak-and-dagger shenanigans" of wolfnet. He finds the reticent manner of wolfnet's current commander particularly annoying. Graham currently has a request for return to field duty pending on General Wolf's desk.

Name: Michi Noketsuna
Assignment: Commander of Intelligence Group
Michi Noketsune is a Kuritan ex-patriate and formerly served as an aide to one-time Dragoon liaison Minobu Tetsuhara. From Tetsuhara, Noketsune learned the harsh and unforgiving code of bushido, the way of the samurai. It is his belief in that code that brought him to serve Jaime Wolf. Noketsune's varied past has suited him for the job. The man has been everything from a bounty hunter to a Kuritan Warlord. In between long years of living on the edges of Inner Sphere society has given him an unmatchable insight to the ways information flows through society. That insight brought him immediately to the attention of the late Stanford Blake, Wolf's last security chief who had nothing but praise for the Kuritan's skills.
Even though Wolf has retired from the field, Noketsune serves on in a job he does not particularly like but performs well, driven by his unyielding interpretation of the code. He remains an extremely private individual, rarely spending time in social circumstances.

Name: Colonel Hamilton Atwyl
Assignment: Commander of Outreach Command
Once an outgoing fighter jock, Hamiliton Atwyl has become subdued under increasing responsibility. Some have said that his personality has grayed along with his hair. Atwyl's unexplained resignation from the Aerospace Command suggest that he has some difficult with the new commander, Fleet Captain Chandra, under whom he was interred during the recent internal conflict.
Only after a private interview with Jaime Wolf did Atwyl accept Maeve Wolf's offer of his new position. As commander of Outreach, he is often brought into contact with Fleet Captain Chandra and so far relations have been cordial on both sides, but it is clear that there are unresolved tensions between the two officers.. Atwyl assuredly knows the importance of the fleet to his new command and has enough diplomatic experience to put personal feelings aside. As always, his loyalty is to the Dragoons and he can be expected to put their interests first, no matter what his personal feelings.

Name: Major Reva Mabuto
Assignment: Commander of Contract Command
A stunningly beautiful woman, Reva Mabuto could make a fine living as a fashion model, but she has chosen to make her home with the Dragoons. One of the real "war orphans," Mabuto alleges not to know the Successor State of her birth, claiming she was reborn the day she was adopted by the Dragoons. Along with her loyalty, she has given the dragoons one of her arms. The replacement looks perfectly normal but the surgery could not restore full function so she was retired from active duty. Still wishing to serve, she found a role with Contract Operations, rapidly rising through the ranks. Her appearance has proven to be a great asset in her role as principal contract negotiator and public relations official for Wolf's Dragoons. Mabuto's battle record as a dashing hovercraft pilot hasn't hurt either. Although mechwarriors often deride her for having served in a lesser arm, she takes the jibes well, usually letting an aide inform the jocks of how many mechs her platoon disposed of.

ASSOCIATIONS
Blackwell Industries
For many years, there was a great deal of speculation about whether the Dragoons had influence with certain supplies of military materiel. Much of that speculation has proven bootless, but one of the subjects of all those rumors has at last been proven to be closely allied with the Dragoons. Blackwell Industries was once a minor supplier to the military and is now one of the major arms corporations in the Inner Sphere. With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy now to see how the growing influence of Blackwell coincided with their increasing cooperation with the dragoons.
Once Blackwell was presented as a simple supplier, providing the Dragoons with certain equipment under license, such as BattleMechs like the Marauder II which were unavailable to other customers due to Dragoon demand accounting for their full production capacity. Now, with Blackwell operating a factory on Outreach and providing second rate versions of Dragoon mechs to Inner Sphere customers, it is quite clear that Blackwell is little more than the manufacturing arm of Wolf's Dragoons. Blackwell's rebuff of ComStar orders may be take as a sign of the corporation's exclusionary policy, and as a sign of caution for all Inner Sphere customers.
The Dragoons have kept secrets for decades, not the least of which was their close involvement in the operation of this corporation. Can the child not mirror the parent? How reliable can arms supplied by a company built by Clan derived knowledge be when the Clans turn their attention once more to conquest?
Ignoring well founded cautionary advice from our Blessed Order, the lords and powers of the Inner Sphere continue to patronize this firm, drawn by the lure of its technology and reputation of its products for battlefield reliability and performance. Such patronage empowers this firm, allowing it to grow within our midst. Are we nurturing a viper?

Mercenary Bonding and Review Commission
The Mercenary Bonding and Review Commission is the successor to our Blessed Order's Mercenary Review Board. When first organized in 3042, the Commission lacked credibility. It was no longer in the direct control of ComStar and therefore lacked our, admittedly weakened at the time, prestige. The Commission is primarily staffed by ComStar acolytes and still has direct and unlimited access to ComStar facilities for interstellar communication, giving it a communication ability unrivaled in the Inner Sphere. But still, there were problems in acceptance.
Shortly after its founding, word leaked to the general public that Wolf's Dragoons were the driving force behind the establishment of the Commission. There was much talk about the Commission being a protective front for mercenaries, especially the dragoons. Some when so far as to suggest that mercenaries would use the Commission as a facade to gloss over acts of barbarism and give them the veneer of legality. In the decade that followed the Commission's organization, our Order has worked hard to build a reputation for impartiality.
While it is true that Jaime Wolf approached ComStar with the outline for the Commission, it was the hard work of our Blessed Order by which it came to pass. Hard won recognition by three of the Great Houses and the fervent advocacy of the commission by the heroic Precentor Martial Focht stilled much of the talk. A constant thorn in the Commissions side during the early years was the near continual denunciation of it by the Coordinator of the Draconis Combine. Finally in 3048, a statement from the Kanrei of the Combine reversed House Kurita's position and the Combine joined the rest of the Great Houses as a sponsor of the Commission.
The Commission is made up of ComStar officials, a selection of volunteer mercenary officers, and representatives from each of the Inner Sphere's formal political entities: (in order of their joining) the Capellan Confederation, the Federated Commonwealth, the Free Rasselhague Republic, the Free Worlds League, the St. Ives Compact, the Magistracy of Canopus, the Outworlds Alliance, the Taurian Concordat, and the Draconis Combine. The implications of a request from Ryan Steiner that House Steiner be granted a place on the commission are still being considered.
When sitting in arbitration, a panel of four hear the arguments of the contending parties. In order to ensure fairness each judging panel consists of one ComStar official who serves as the president of the panel, one mercenary officer who is unaffiliated with either party, and two national representatives, neither of whom may be from the hiring state or any state against which the mercenaries have fought during their contract. Either contending party may dismiss one sitting judge if they believe that person will show unfair bias against them. In the case of a hung decision, the case is submitted to an executive session of the entire Commission.
Despite its lack of an enforcement arm, the Commission has been a success and we may have every expectation that it will continue to be so, for it exists to perform two functions vital in a military situation where mercenaries are employed on a regular and continuing basis. First, it provides impartial arbitration in contract disputes between mercenaries and their employers. Second, through its ComStar-bonded bank accounts, it provides a secure depository of payment funds, thereby assuring both the mercenary unit and its employers with a reasonable expectation of good faith performance.