ALR (ATwT) Chpt 11

==A Legacy Reforged (ATwT) - Chapter 11 ==
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===Aftermath===
Andrea Moreira Firebase
Tarncredi IV, Tarncredi IV PDZ 
Crucis March, Federated Suns
11th February 3118
In the history of Tarncredi IV, Andrea Moreira was a name as well known as the planetary dukes during the Davion Civil War. Moreira had been a minor noble woman who had taken up arms to join Alexander Davion’s forces and fought in the final battles for control over Tarncredi IV and to end the Civil War. The firebase occupied by the victors of the most recent battle were a command which while in the service of House Davion were currently working without command authority Leftenant Laure Bieganski of the Order of Sortek had come to Tarncredi IV to assist in the defense of the system fighting against a Clan Snow Raven raid.
Now she and the two MechWarriors of the lance were repairing their three BattleMechs. Unfortunately, MechWarrior Jochen Stuppacher had been killed in the fighting and his once proud Catapult BattleMech was nothing than a wreck. As thanks for their assistance in the Trial the commander of the First Dragonlords Regiment had authorized the surviving MechWarriors to each select a single piece of Clan built salvage from the battlefield so with assistance from the tech teams each of them was fitting these weapons into their BattleMechs. Laure’s own Enforcer III’s Extended-Range Large Laser had been replaced with a Clan made model with an additional Extended Range Medium Laser mounted beside it in the space made using the smaller weapon increasing the Mech’s hitting power.
Standing away from the lance’s Cuirass, Laure Bieganski watched as the Mech’s pilot and a tech continued work to replace the torso mounted laser system with a salvaged laser when she became aware of two people approaching her from the right. Laure was forty-two years old and had served with Warrior House Sortek for twenty-four years and had remained with the House when it had come to this universe thirteen years before. She was one of Imarra Sortek’s greatest supporters she still believed in the warrior-monk ideals of the Warrior Houses she had learned in the Confederated Suns which was why Grandmaster of the Order Imarra Sortek had deployed her with this lance to screen recruits before they arrived on Murduk. As she turned her hand drifted to the sabre which hung from her belt out of habit rather than the threat, she wore the sabre as her primary weapon but like all members of the unit she also wore a vibroblade and a gauss pistol as standard uniform.
“Leftenant, I am Scott Kelly and this is Charlie Johnston we both served with the Dragonlords but have been given permission by our Colonel to speak with you. We wish to apply to join the Order of Sortek.”
“You have jobs in the service of House Davion, why would you want to transfer to another command?” She asked the Order of Sortek was an elite unit, but they normally trained warriors from being raw recruits not accepting members of other units. This was never meant as a slight towards other units but the belief was that a warrior trained by another command would have the habits of that command ingrained in them which the Warrior House did not need.
“We wish to serve the whole of House Davion; your mission will take you across the Federated Suns. We wish to train with the best and progress our careers. Neither of us could afford to go to one of this nation’s prestigious schools we have learned on the job throughout, we wish to bring that to your command.” Charlie Johnston explained.
“You do know that once our mission is completed, we will be heading back to Marduk and we’ll primarily serve as the defense of that world.” She cautioned them their story of learning from doing would set them up well as members of the Order.
“Yes, but we’ll learn from the best warriors on the Draconis March and join something bigger than us.” The way Scott spoke she wondered what exactly they understood about the mystique surrounding the Capellan originated Warrior House which the Order of Sortek originated from, to outsiders they were an elite unit which was fanatically loyal to its liege lord. While there was an element to that in truth every Warrior House, or Order, was loyal to itself and its warriors first, its nation second, there was a connection between the warriors and the teachings of the order.
Laure privately wondered if the Federated Suns truly understood what the Order of Sortek was and what its true purpose was, Amarra Sortek had already told all of their members that the establishment of an order which would stand the tests of time and be self sustaining was all important. There was a loyalty to New Avalon but a distinct lack of loyalty to House Davion specifically within the unit, Amarra Sortek publicly as the Grandmaster of the Warrior House spoke to her unit's loyalty, and by recruiting from the population of the Federated Suns loyalty to House Davion would likely come but who knew what would happen long term.
“I will speak with your Colonel and confirm your attachment to my lance, neither of you will immediately serve as a MechWarrior you will go back to being apprentices that is understood? There will be a lot of fetch and carry tasks to do, we will keep your MechWarrior training up but it will mainly be in the simulators until you have proven yourselves.” She warned them both, there was no point taking people who weren't willing to make personal sacrifices. “Assuming your transfer is confirmed I will assign you to one of my MechWarriors a new form of learning and training will begin. None of this will be easy” she warned. “You will be tested on academic study, history, hand-to-hand and personal weapons, BattleMech piloting, gunnery and maintenance.” Both nodded their acceptance of the terms within hours Laure had spoken to the Dragonlords Colonel who explained that while he had have liked to keep the two MechWarriors both had lost their Mechs fighting the Ravens and he had no other BattleMechs available at present so he was ready to dispossess them as he had no means of transferring them to another unit. Both MechWarriors were capable if not stellar Laure hoped that with training the two would become productive members of the Order of Sortek, if not they would be cut perhaps serving with the Household Guard instead.
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