[indent][B]Name:[/b] Ansgar Staudinger
[B]Age:[/b] 23
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Branch of Service[/b]: Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces
[B]Physical Description:[/b]
[INDENT]Ansgar is a thin framed young man, standing just under 5'8" and barely under 150lbs, giving him an almost frail look. This is deceptive, he has the constitution for handling a BattleMech. When not in a BattleMech, he prefers to wear rather formal attire, thanks to family upbringing and not having worn anything else. He wears a dark navy blue jacket typically, under which is a white dress shirt, with a dark red tie with a small family jewel forming a choker where top of the tie would be. Under the jacket, he has a holster for a sidearm, usually carrying a means of self defense concealed beneath his dress jacket. He wears a well pressed pair of dress pants that are the same color as his jacket, while he wears a polished pair of black leather dress shoes. He wears his longer dirty blonde hair in a pony tail, without any sort of hat, and continues to choose to wear his glasses even though his vision was long since corrected.[/INDENT]
[B]Character History:[/b]
[INDENT]The Staudinger family has a long, century spanning history as what those that decried the family referred to as 'Crude, Jumped up Artillerymen', to which the family with happily agree with the Artillerymen bit, even jumped up one a good day. The Staudingers are, as a whole, typically skilled at long ranged combat, often times pioneering long range, even artillery level BattleMech tactics and are disliked by those that prefer an up close fight or shy away from scorched earth. Ansgar, the first born son of the latest generation of the Staudinger house, was highly groomed for the expectation of carrying on their proud tradition of long range, precision BattleMech piloting. And as soon as he was of age, traditionally for his family at the standard 18 years of age, Ansgar would join the LCAF and attend the prestigious Nagelring military academy for a full four years. The split between noble and commoner was felt harshly here, something Ansgar, oddly, hardly noticed do to his high birth.

Unsurprisingly, he excelled in long to mid range BattleMech operations, but his close range operations in light Mech's was surprisingly lacking, although he had this bad habit of literally leaping into larger Mech's he couldn't readily damage in simulations, and engaging in otherwise suicidal actions when he couldn't conventionally damage the enemies, especially in spite of damage suffered to his own Mech, showing a defiance to traditional lose/lose scenarios. He had his uncle to blame for this mentality, since the man had largely raised and trained the boy prior to the academy, and the man had suffered disgrace at the hands of incompetent officers who prematurely surrendered. As such, while his determination and the damage done to the simulated enemies was well regarded, the cost to friendly forces was usually above average as well, showing a penchant for taking locations and digging in. He would take every BattleMech course available, spending his time at the academy taking advantage of every course available to him.

Graduation from the academy earned him the right, from his family, to pilot the BattleMech that typified the thinking of the Staudinger lineage. A CPLT-C4C, modified by the Staudinger lineage for the current field testing for additional ranged accuracy. After graduating and receiving the family's latest Catapult, now Lieutenant Staudinger was assigned to a relatively easy gig, something that chaffed with Ansgar. He wanted to be on the front, earning his family the respect it deserved, something that had waned in the years due to the generations being relegated to second line roles. But he had little say in the matter, and if he had known that things were about to get far from easy at his first official posting testing experimental designs, his own Catapult's systems included, then he just might not have nearly been as eager as he is to get into the fight.
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[B]Psychological Profile:[/b]
[INDENT]Ansgar has a analytical, quiet thinkers mindset most days, preferring to take a few moments to think and formulate a plan prior to acting. This tends to happen in all things, from personal interactions, professional life, and especially combat situations, simulated as they have been so far. This lends itself well to long ranged actions, and Ansgar has a stand offish attitude from this, coupled with the noble upbringing he had. He doesn't necessarily have an issue with those from ignoble birth, but it just ends up coming across that way. Tends to have a highly formal way of speaking, in part to keep his temper in check, which flares when pressed, in combat up close or when confronted harshly outside of combat, getting increasingly combative for often little reason, relatively speaking, off setting his normal self when he doesn't have the time to think and plan things out. His drive to succeed for the sake of his family can make him take risks that are unnecessary or otherwise dangerous for the given model he is piloting, but a good commanding officer should be able to compensate for this.[/INDENT]
[b]Skills[/b]:
[indent]Nagelring BattleMech Courses: Above Average marks, note of concern should student be forced into Light Mechs due to over familiarity with long to mid range, high power weapon systems. Resorts to highly risky methods should on board, conventional weapons systems prove ineffective against enemy targets. 

Analysis: Ansgar shines at mid to long range, having a knack for target acquisition and tracking that outshined the rest of his class. Positioning and evasion of targets attempting to close with him was also a natural skill, and it was noted that if forced into a guerrilla fighting situation, Ansgar would thrive as long as ammunition for his weapons held out, due to his general distaste for energy based weapons. Tactically speaking, Ansgar is heavily defensive minded, useful for potential siege situations but will likely get outpaced and outmaneuvered in field exercises. Overall, a reliable, skilled fire support pilot, but risky should combat get too close and interfere with his thought processes.[/indent]
[B]Equipment:[/b] 
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Hold-Out Pistol - Ansgar's sidearm, carried hidden under his dress jacket when not in his mech, or worn openly when inside of the cockpit and dressed down for piloting purposes, Ansgar finds an odd joy in range shooting and practicing with his pistol, despite the odds that if he ends up in a situation requiring him to seriously use it, he is likely a dead man walking. Nothing special besides its sturdy, well designed frame, being made to a higher standard of quality than normal hold out pistols.

Personal Journal - Ansgar routinely updates and writes his own personal musings within the journal, an item he rarely parts with, usually tucked into the pocket of his dress jacket for safe keeping.
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[b]Battlemech[/b]
[indent] Catapult Model CPLT-C4C - An upgrade to the original C4 model, conventional C4C units have replaced their conventional engines with an extralight model, their two small lasers with a light pulse laser, heavy laser and beagle probe thanks to the freed up tonnage from the upgraded engine, while the LRM-15's have been upgraded to LRM-20's with twice as much ammo than the old LRM-15's carried. This increased its overall performance at long range by notable degrees, despite its weakened close combat capabilities. The Staudinger family could not leave well enough alone, and have further modified the C4C and have taken to referring to it as the C4S, instead.

C4S Modifications - Ditching the heavy laser completely, the freed up weight utilizes an installed Artemis IV Targeting system for the LRM-20's. This increases direct fire accuracy by a notable margin, coupled with the Beagle Active Probe from the conventional C4C model, makes a theoretically terrifying hunter-killer model of the Catapult, able to pick out targets through active electronics interference at long range, and provide improved munitions fired to munitions effective ratio. The most glaring downside to the C4S variant the Staudinger family is attempting to pioneer is its relatively laughable close range defenses of a solitary light pulse laser. However, the Catapult did receive the retrofit upgrade from the Anderson Propulsion 21 jumpjets, known for their tendency to break down suddenly and overheat the Mech due to poor venting, to the 25 series which addressed these deficiencies. 

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