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[color=043682][b][i]Name:[/i][/b] Avery Sysko
[b][i]Nickname/Callsign:[/i][/b] “Ranger”
[b][i]Age:[/i][/b] 45
[b][i]Gender:[/i][/b] Male
[b][i]Crew Position:[/i][/b] Mechwarrior
[b][i]Nationality:[/i][/b] Serenity (Unaligned Periphery State)
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At 45 he’s pushing the upper age bracket of most Mechwarriors, and fully attributes the fact he’s still alive to sheer luck. While his naturally blond hair [i]has[/i] more than started to go grey, his hair was already so pale that one would have to get uncomfortably close to really notice. More indicative of his age are the lines on his face and the shadows behind his eyes.

Physically he’s rather fit, though maintaining it seems to get harder every year. His body carries the expected collection of scars and tattoos one might expect of a man of his experiences, including a very detailed full-sleeve down his right arm. His most notable injuries are the fact that both his legs were amputated just above the knees, leaving him with a pair of Type 5 prosthetic legs.
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[b][i]Biographical History[/i][/b]
Avery isn’t one to say much about his early history save, he was born into a hardscrabble life on [i]Serenity[/i], itself a bit ‘south’ of the Taurian Concordat, and that at 15 he shipped off-world with a passing Merc Company and hasn’t been back since.

Starting as a ‘gopher’ to the Mechtechs, drop ship crew, and pretty much everyone else, he earned his keep either doing jobs no-one else wanted to do or that they were too large for; in doing so he also learned a fair amount about Mech/Aerospace/Vehicle/Drop Ship maintenance among other things. By 18 however he was itching to take a more active role in operations and started working as either a driver or gunner on various company vehicles. 

After a personnel loss he was promoted to ‘Mech Pilot’, driving the Company’s [i]Cicada[/i], a job he was six months into when a contract went bad and they found themselves in over their heads. What was supposed to be a quick Concordat backed ‘Smash-and-Grab’ job on a FedSuns border world led to them being engaged by two House Davion Lances with VTOL support. While attempting to withdraw, his mech took leg damage which drastically slowed him, leaving the vehicles to out pace him to the LZ. 

As the company’s [i]Leopard[/i] landed it started taking fire from more as yet unseen Davion’s which led to them panicking and dusting off before Avery could drag his damaged [i]Cicada[/i] to the LZ, abandoning him to his fate; he was livid about this right up until the point that the ship was struck by heavy ground fire and exploded in a rather spectacular fashion. Having temporarily broken contact with his pursuers, and hoping that the destruction of the Dropship had them further distracted, he drove his mech into a lake before abandoning it and swimming to shore.

For about two years he dodged security patrols and starvation before he was able to stow away aboard a merchant Dropship and get off-planet. From there he bounced around like any Mechwarrior, going where the money was. His proudest moment was about ten years ago when he was between employers and killing time on Canopus. Though the story’s details change from telling to telling, what it really boils down to is that he actually ‘won’ his [i]Marauder[/i] in a poker game…

[b][i]Personality[/i][/b]
A quiet man by nature, he holds people at an arm's length, not because he’s some antisocial loner but out of a more practical “Why get too close to folks that might be dead by the next Drop.” That said, he’s not some grim stoic, never seen to laugh or smile…just don’t try to be his ‘friend’.
In combat he’s a quintessential ‘Heavy’ pilot; calm, collected and willing to beat six shades of shit out of anything between him and his goal. Given that he’s made it to an age where most Mech Jocks have either died or retired (more former than latter), his personal credo is very much ‘Show Me The Money’; there aren’t many jobs he [i]won’t[/i] do, assuming the price is right, as he’s slowly saving up to try and get himself a [i]Maurder II[/i] after seeing on in action after [i]Lyon’s Steel Order[/i], the Company he was working for at the time, was sent in to provide support to a [i]Wolf’s Dragoons[/i] assault Lance.[/color][/hider]

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[color=043682][b][i]Asset Name:[/i][/b] General Motors MAD-3D/M [i]Marauder[/i]
[b][i]Asset Nickname:[/i][/b] ‘Mad Jack’
[b][i]Asset Type:[/i][/b] Heavy Mech
[b][i]Asset Tonnage:[/i][/b] 75 Tons
[b][i]Asset Crew/Staff:[/i][/b] None
[hr][b][i]Asset Weaponry[/i][/b]
[i]Right Arm:[/i] 1x Defiance B3L Large Laser
		1x Defiance B3M Medium Laser
[i]Left Arm:[/i] 1x Defiance B3L Large Laser
         	1x Defiance B3M Medium Laser
[i]Torso:[/i] 1x Defiance B3L Large Laser

[b][i]Asset Equipment[/i][/b]
1x Dalban Micronics Comm
1x Dalban HiRez Target & Tracking System
24x HartfordCo Industries Heat Sinks
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Originally a 3D, which swaps the autocannon for a Large Laser and more heatsinks, a previous owner brought it to almost a 3[i]M[/i] configuration by replacing both PPCs with Large Lasers and then making up the tonnage with even more heatsinks. As it stands, it takes a very hot world or a very protracted fire fight before ‘Mad Jack’ starts to get seriously warm.

The mechwarrior he ‘acquired’ it off of had painted the Mech a rather lurid bright blue, but wear and tear has significantly toned it down as, unlike a lot of his peers, Avery has never given much thought to how his machine looked. The paint is chipped and worn at panel edges, burn marks dents and gouges mark the passage of old hits, and plating that [i]has[/i] been replaced is a mixture of dull primer colours and/or whatever colors it had been painted before it was salvaged to make repairs.

Unless an employer specifically tells him so he rarely marks his ‘Mech with the Company’s logo, instead he just sprays the new name along the left side of the torso (‘Mad Jack’ is painted along the right side). All in all, his lack of concern for his ‘Mechs appearance not only makes it rather distinctive, but has led more than one person to regard it as nothing more than some barely functional ‘pirate’ build.

That however couldn’t be further from the truth. While he spares little to no attention to it’s looks, he pours as many c-bills as is needed into the functionality and warfighting capacity, leaving most of those who disregarded it to not make that mistake a second time…not that many of them [i]get[/i] a second chance.[/color]
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