ALR (ATwT) Chpt 9

==A Legacy Reforged (ATwT) - Chapter 9 ==
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===Seeing off young Warriors===
Mechbay, Warrior House Sortek Monastery
Marduk, Robinson PDZ 
Draconis March, Federated Suns
13th September, 3117
Deep within the Buick Mountain Range on Marduk Warrior House Sortek had made its home it had taken the last three years for them to carve out a facility within the mountain. The facility was built in layers with technicians housed beside the equipment bays, the next layer housed the warriors and their families, beyond them were the Houses inductees and their trainers. In an emergency the facility could hold three thousand people was completely nuclear and orbital bombardment proof. The Warrior House could hold off an enemy for months in a siege using the Monastery’s defenses and other surprises to augment their firepower.
On the upper most levels of the facility there was an entire underground airfield which allowed aerospace fighters to launch without fear of being bombed while there were several DropShip landing pads hidden on the surface of the mountain with each able to retract into the mountain. The leadership of the Warrior House had already sent a request to New Avalon requesting that the Warrior House be allowed to contract companies to build naval defence weaponry into the mountain given the location of Marduk on the Draconis Combine border.
Currently there was a little over four hundred personnel inside the base and the current mission was intended on changing that. Walking down the stainless-steel steps to the reinforced base of the huge Mechbay Warrior Grandmaster of the Warrior House Imarra Sortek approached the four MechWarriors standing waiting for her Leftenants Chang Wong, Jessica Sortek, Cassidy Youngston and Mark Delanty. Each of them was dressed in the ceremonial hoodless robes of Warrior House Sortek with the insignia of the Federated Suns replacing the one of the Confederated Suns on the arms and on the left breast of their robes. Under their robes Imarra Sortek knew each had a leather sash that crossed their bodies and on it there was a vibroblade and a gauss pistol intended on giving the MechWarriors a fighting chance on any battlefield. Every member of the Warrior House was armed from the MechWarriors to the technicians and cooks everyone would step up to defend their home to the last if it came down to it.
“Good morning to you all.” she said greeting them “When we all arrived here you were children, you were sent to our Warrior House to grow up, learn how to be warriors, adults, and people of disciple. Now we are far from our homes and far from the nation we were all born into and sworn to protect” she said reminiscing a little remembering the Confederated Suns, her home all of their homes, “however, we cannot remain in the past” she said continuing “your mission is to bring the word, and honor, of our Warrior House. Like you were sent to us our hope is your actions will bring recruits to our banner and bring honour to Warrior House Sortek.” She said walking from one end of the line to the other, all four of them were between eighteen and twenty years old far from being fully fledged MechWarriors and members of the Warrior House. “I do not expect you to fight the big battles that the Federated Suns is presently fighting, your lance will not be enough for that, instead you will travel the length and berth of the Federated Suns and help its people with the smaller jobs that you find across this nation.” She stopped walking and turned to look back at the line of MechWarriors “Good Hunting, your personal belongings have been moved to the DropShip, get to your Mechs.” She commanded them each saluted her then turned and ran towards their Mechs leaving their robe with their technician each of them ascended to their Mech. Each of the Mechs had been picked specifically for this missing each was either a heavier medium BattleMech or a faster heavy BattleMech. Chang Wong’s Men Shen OmniMech was the first prepared it stepped clear of the gantry, built to be fast and capable of delivering a reasonable amount of firepower, Cassidy Youngston’s OTL-8E Ostol was next the sixty ton Mech was capable of delivering a withering amount of pulse laser fire which would make most Mechs the same size and smaller worry, Mark Delanty piloted the third BattleMech clear of the maintenance cradle was the pride of House Davion which had been given to the unit, a recently produced Centurion OmniMech. Finally, Jessica Sortek stepped forwards in her advanced fifty-ton Agrotera BattleMech the Mech’s Partial Wings giving it an almost bird-like Mech moved with the others heading for their Aurora class DropShip which would take them across the Federated Suns in their mission.
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