Rosalina Demirkol

Rosalina Demirkol was a mercenary mechwarrior originally from the Lothian League. After leaving the League she joined up with Royce's Rangers and was one of the few survivors of Lackhove, after which she joined Turkowska’s Lifeguard Irregulars. She continued to serve with the Irregulars through the Clan Invasion, the FedCom Civil War, and the Jihad. 
==Early Life==
Demirkol was born on Lordinax, in the Lothian League on 8 July, 3025. The daughter of a local shop keep and a mercenary captain, Rosalina took to battlemechs at an early age owing to her father's work. Raids from the Marian Hegemony proved a constant threat, quickly familiarizing the young Rosalina with the threat and power of battlemechs. Such raids claimed her father's life at the age of 15, leaving her mother despondent. Rosalina began training on her father's Panther as soon as she was able and by the age of 17 was already running ops for the local security of her home world. While these were often quiet, a few occasional skirmishes with Marian raiders provided Rosalina with a level of experience that raised her skills in gunnery and piloting. 
By the mid-3040s the situation on Lordinax had deteriorated, both politically and personally for Rosalina. Increasing belligerency from the Marian Hegemony had made life on Lordinax increasingly dangerous, and with the League's government unable to effectively reply, employment and pay became unreliable. Rosalina suffered another blow when her mother died in 3046, which proved the final nail in the coffin and she decided to leave the League for greener pastures in the Inner Sphere.
==Royce's Rangers==
With her father's Panther and what money she had made selling her family's small estate, Rosalina managed to book a flight on a JumpShip and headed for the Inner Sphere. While on a scheduled stop in the Federated Commonwealth Rosalina encountered a representative from Royce's Rangers, a small mercenary outfit. While some other mercenary units had doubted her capabilities given her young age and Periphery origin, she successfully secured a spot with the Rangers. Despite her noticeably different background (most of the Rangers were veterans or citizens of either the Lyran Commonwealth or the Federated Suns), Rosalina melded well with the unit and formed part of Gallows Lance as part of the Ragner's Battlemech company. 
Shortly after joining the Rangers, the unit accepted a contract to defend the planet of Lackhove in the Periphery. Expected to be a quiet assignment, Rosalina deployed with the rest of the company to the planet in late 3048. What was supposed to be a quiet assignment ended in disaster for the Rangers when the 7th Falcon Regulars of Clan Jade Falcon made landfall as part of Operation REVIVAL. The Rangers were completely outclassed and annihilated; Rosalina was the only mechwarrior to survive the engagement and managed to lead two hundred other survivors off planet in a chaotic route.
The destruction of the Rangers devastated Rosalina, who had begun to see the unit as something like a family despite her short tenure with them. With the Rangers practically nonexistent, Rosalina split from what remained of the unit, unsure where to go or what to do. By sheer coincidence, Rosalina ended up running into Helena Turkowska, commander of the Turkowska’s Lifeguard Irregulars. Helena, having learned of Clan Jade Falcon's attack on Newtown Square, was moving the rest of the Irregulars to meet the Clan offensive. Upon learning that Rosalina had experience fighting the previously unknown enemy and still had her battlemech, Helena immediately offered her a position with the Irregulars. Incensed by the chance to gain some kind of revenge against Clan, Rosalina agreed.
==Lifeguard Irregulars==
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