He joined Space Vermin early in the Battletech game. He joined after the
Coordinator
and Derek. He
was the third GM of our
Battletech game.
He also ran our
SPACE:1889
campaign.
Mitch wrote a running commentary on the Battletech game, mostly as reports
and letters home from the view of Dysart Quinn, one
of his characters. These files can be found on the CHRONICLES NOTES file
on Digital's ERIS system. Sorry, you
have to be on the inside of DEC's firewall
to reach it. You can find some samples on the
Space
Vermin Fiction Page. He also ran an interesting PBEM TW2K (1st
Edition) game on a
Boston area
BBS a few years back.
He compiled a
list of Alien
Races for
Traveller.
He has also produced a page detailing the
High
Rhoades, the Sky Galleon used in our
Space:1889
game. Mitch has several adventures published online.
These include:
Leftenant Dysart Nathaniel Quinn
A former lance
leader in
Haldane's
Harriers, a mercenary Mech Battalion in the employ of the Lyran
Commonwealth (usually). Currently the XO of
Steele's
Spartans. He saw his
first
combat while a member of then Mechwarrior Sergeant
Grex
Steele's lance.
Dysart was born November 11, 3006 on the planet Keystone, a member of the
Free Worlds
League. He is the sixth child in a
near-noble
Mechwarrior family. Like most of his family, he attended a military prep
school on Keystone. From there he went to the Allison Mechwarrior
Academy. He graduated in 3022 (sixth in his class). Since his family
had no mech for him to pilot (older sibs got 'em), they sent him to War
College on Goshen (in the
Federated
Suns) for a year for additional studies. Afterwards he was sent to
the LCAF's Sanglamore Academy (3024-3025; Master of
Military Administration). All this training has given Quinn a taste for
both military discipline and military pomp and circumstance.
On his way back to Keystone for a family visit, he met up with
Haldane's Harriers
on Kalidasa.
He currently pilots a Griffin-S, which he rechristened
Raptor.
Lft. Quinn believes that good troops
cross
train with other branches of service. He organized his lance (a practice
copied in some of the other Harrier lances) to fight as two pairs of
buddies.
He often
writes
home to his Mother, but oddly enough, never his father.
MWSgt Szato "Slick" Corazon
A former member of the DCMF's
Legion of
Vega, Slick talked his fellow company members to dispatch their officers
and find new employers. They linked up with
Haldane's
Harriers, who were part a raid on Proserpina in Draconian space at the
time. He is often seen with former
Vegan, MW
Lamont Grimjack. The two have served in the same lance since joining
the Legion.
While not a particularly good mech warrior, he has a powerful gift of gab.
Originally from
Liao
space, he defected to a
Davion-sponsored
mercenary outfit that beat his unit in the field. He later left that unit
in the Periphery beyond Davion/Kurita space, existing for a while
as the planet's sole mech military force. When the planet was attacked by
Kurita
units, he surrendered. The Kuritans transferred him to the Legion of Vega.
In each case, talk got him out of a "non-viable military situation" with
his life and mech intact.
Slick turns a profit on the side via his Meltine Meltdown sales. He
was usually called in to help negotiate Harrier contracts. Since the
Harriers calved off Steele's Spartans, Slick has left
hte Harriers for greener pastures.
MW Banzai Weiner
Another
ex-Legion
of Vega deserter. He currently serves in
Captain
Steele's Alpha Lance of
Steele's
Spartans.
Banzai pilots a Jenner, which he calls Passed Tense.
He is a good gunner, but only a fair pilot. His general tactic is to run
close to a target, empty all his weapons into it, and then run away before
overheating.
Senior Tech Hsiu Zhiao Dysart Quinn's retainer and former personal tech. His
family has served the Quinns for three generations. He is now Senior Tech
of Steele's
Spartans.
Technician Tsu-Wing Chang
Nephew of the Spartan's Senior Tech, Hsiu Zhiao. At 17.5 standard T-Years,
he is the junior member of the Spartan Technical crew. He has been
assigned to Tech
Ralph
Sherman's team.
Wiley
A Coyote Shaman. A roamer of the streets.
Eclipse
likes the level of unpredictability he brings to runs.
Indiana Jones
An unpleasant dwarf Decker and Technician. A fair decker at best, Jones is
a good programmer and builder of electronic equipment of all sorts. He is
also a coward, paranoid, and has a chip on his shoulder the size of the World
Trade Tower. Born to normal parents, they shipped him to a school for orphans
to keep him out of the way. He has seen the six Indiana Jones movies
too many times, and wears the hat, jacket, pistol, and whip when he runs.
Eclipse
decided to seek other sources for those types of services. An interesting
character, but not a good one for group role-play.
Trader Garek Sung
A former First Officer of a Merchant Trader working the trade lanes of the
Spinward Marches. He
volunteered
to be the Purser of the March Hare.
Chief Engineer Gaba Ndehlingisis Kim
A retired
Darrian
Naval officer. Commander Kim (DN, ret) is currently the Chief Engineer
aboard the
March
Hare.
Byron Bayswater
A reporter for Syrtis Major bureau of the Morning Telegraph aboard
the SS High Rhodes (an NPC, actually). Bayswater's paper paid to have
him aboard the High Rhodes on its journey around Mars. Picture Jimmy
Olsen with an annoying british accent...
Yaargoon
A Martian cloudshipman (topman) aboard the SS High Rhodes. Yaargoon
claims to be from a tribe of Qeln riders. That's silly, since everyone knows
that the Qeln, the flying ferocious beasts of the mountains, are quite
unapproachable by man or martian. The other martians in the crew would roll
their eyes and call him a liar and a teller of tall tales, and suggest that
he must have a low, impoverished background to need to invent so silly a
tale...
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