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[b]Name:[/b] Marley Swanson
[b]Nickname/Callsign:[/b] Boss, Commander, and similar
[b]Age:[/b] 50
[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Crew Position:[/b] Mercenary Company Commander

[b]Nationality:[/b] Free Worlds League
[b]Biographical History:[/b]
Marley was born in the Free Worlds League, and that's about as much as she remembers from her very young childhood, for she was effectively adopted as a war orphan at the age of 3 by the original head and founder of the company that would become Marley's Misfits, one Jack Thompson. The company, known at the time as the Battle-born Brigadiers, had been operating on a Free Worlds League border world that had been attacked by a Lyran invasion force during one of the many battles of the Third Succession War. The company had found Marley in a besieged city they had just helped liberate. All she was able to tell them was her name, and when she asked for their help they took her in.

From there, Marley was practically raised alongside the crew, with Commander Thompson in particular serving more or less as her father figure. She learned pretty much all walks of life in the mercenary business from the crew, ranging from Tech skills, to administrative work, to Mech and ASF piloting, tank command and even infantry combat. Eventually she settled into the roll of MechWarrior above all, piloting a Centurion in the company's primary lance. It was here that she spent most of her time, eventually taking the mantle of head of the mech division, and overall second in command of the company.

When she was around 30, tragedy struck the company as Commander Thompson was killed in action during a border skirmish operation in service of the Federated Suns against the Capellen Confederation. Thompson was operating in conjunction with the Federated Suns command staff out of their mobile command center, which was struck directly by a bomb from a Capellan aerospace fighter. Everyone on board the command vehicle was killed outright, which left Marley to assume field command. She quickly took to this, taking control of the deployed company forces and directing them all from her Centurion, and the company managed to make it through the rest of the engagement with minimal losses. When it was all said and done, the company held a memorial in the name of Jack Thompson, and at the end of it the command staff universally agreed to name Marley the new full-time commander of the company. In one last honor to her father-figure, Marley took his personal custom refit of the Rifleman, nicknamed the Bossman due to its refitting as a command mech, as her own.

That position is where Marley has been for the last twenty-odd years, operating the company as she was taught, doing her best to keep her de facto family afloat. For several years they continued to operate under the name of the Battle-Born Brigadiers, but following Marley's penchant for recruiting from a wide range of colorful characters from across the Inner Sphere, and the company's combined arms approach to tactics in the face of the usual gaggle of mech-centric mercenaries, Marley eventually redubbed the company to Marley's Misfits, which is the name they carry to this day.

[b]Personality:[/b]
To her crew, Marley treats them  as comrades in arms and family, with formality limited primarily to business and other major events. She sees the company as her home, and anyone aboard as someone she's invited in and thus deserving of being treated kindly and casually, though don't mistake this for inability to get serious or give orders when needed.

To potential employers and professional contacts she is dignified and direct, focusing on hashing out contracts and agreements, arranging coordination and cooperation in the field, and getting the job done with as little hassle and strife as possible. She has little care for the politics of the Inner Sphere, and often refuses to deal with shady contractors or those who refuse to give her full details of the operation. She's burned more than a few bridges over refusing to take contracts that involve any sort of operation that involves civilian and non-combatant populations, and in one instance even fought a duel over a former client taking this as an insult.

In battle, she's a quick thinker, known for being able to coordinate multiple different unit types on the fly in both large and small-scale operations. She's firm in her convictions, and does her best to lead with stern confidence and a solid hold on morale. She cares first and foremost about her people, and is not afraid to pull them out of a dangerous situation even if it makes their contract more difficult in the end.
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[hider=RFL-3N-B055 "Bossman"]
[b]Asset Name:[/b] RFL-3N-B055 Rifleman Custom Command Refit
[b]Asset Nickname:[/b] Bossman

[b]Asset Type:[/b] BattleMech
[b]Asset Tonnage:[/b] 60 tons (Heavy Mech)

[b]Asset Crew/Staff:[/b] N/A

[b]Asset Weaponry:[/b]
This custom refit strips the core weaponry of the RFL-3N and replaces them all with four Armstrong model Autocannon/2s outfitted with tracer rounds for assisted directional tracking. While this limits the mech's per-hit firepower, it provides it with additional ammunition and equipment storage, while also helping to combat the primary issue that plagues the Rifleman line, heat dispersion.

[b]Asset Equipment:[/b]
This custom refit is distinct in that its primary focus is on command. The previous owner, Commander Jack Thompson, had the cockpit completely overhauled with command and control systems designed to help direct the multitude of asset types the company is known for operating. Additionally, these have been interlinked with the advanced fire control system and communications equipment the Rifleman is known for, effectively making the mech into a mobile command platform combined with a light fire support platform.
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