[b]Name:[/b] Edric Burns
[b]Rank:[/b] Cadet
[b]Allegiance:[/b] Lyran Commonwealth
[b]Planetary Origin:[/b] Donegal
[b]MOS:[/b] Mechwarrior

[b]Synopsis of Role:[/b] Edric was born on Donegal, the son of 24th Lyran Guards mechwarrior Charles Burns and Anna Rosenbaum. While not of extraordinarily high birth, service in the Lyran Guards ensured the Burns family a measure of prestige, enabling Edric to enroll at the Nagelring. 

Edric aspires to honor his father's service to the Commonwealth, succeeding not by blood, but by merit. With the merger of the Federated Commonwealth, "social generals" have become less of a hindrance to the Lyran military, a shift in direction Edric approves of.

Currently, Edric operates a VLK-QD Valkyrie, gathering post-deployment data on the variant as part of his duty in the joint Nagelring/NAIS experimental program.

[b]Battlemech:[/b] VLK-QD 
[i]The QD Valkyrie is a major overhaul of the design debuting in 3049. The chassis has been re-engineered to use Endo Steel construction and the armor has been upgraded to Ferro-Fibrous with CASE. This allowed the variant to update the laser to a Sutel Precision Line Medium Pulse Laser and an Artemis IV fire control system added to the Devastator LRM-10. 
[hr]Following the formation of the Federated Commonwealth, its nascent military force was faced with the problem of combining two entirely separate militaries into one unified whole. Part of the solution was commonality of equipment, and the Valkyrie was chosen to be the standard light 'Mech of the AFFC. Following the discovery of the Helm Memory Core, the New Avalon Institute of Science was able to restore the Valkyrie industrial complex to its full Star League era production rate, while Corean was able to utilized lostech components to construct the new VLK-QD model starting in 3049.[/i]
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