Hannah Faust

Hannah Faust was the first Khan and founding head of Clan Ashen Corsac. She lead it for 29 years (3064-3093) until the discovery of her genetic lineage lead to her death in the infamous Repudiation of the Usurper. She was known as a cunning and pragmatic individual whose quiet nature and benign appearance hid the capability for immense ruthlessness and ambition. She successfully defended the fledgling Clan from its larger neighbors, lead the first phases of the Restoration Wars and was the main promoter of the Neo-Crusader Ideology.

## History

### Early Life

Hannah Faust was the result of an illegitimate liaison between Countess Evelyn Sauber, ruler of one of Dalkeith V's major population centers, and Captain Maxwell Corwin, a decorated veteran of the Federated Suns' border skirmishes against the Draconis Combine. What could have been a life of comfort and wealth would be none of these things as the baby was abandoned in an orphanage instead, with neither parents wanting to take responsibility. Countess Sauber was a blasé woman suffering of perpetual ennui and generally neglectful, while Captain Corwin was, far from his resplendent image as a heroic veteran, actually a self-centered, egotistical womanizer with ideas of racial purity.

Instead, Hannah grew up a gifted but under-performing child suffering from abandonment issues, loneliness, and an ever-present sense of 'why?'. She escaped from the orphanage to live in the outback at the highly immature age of 12 but surprisingly managed to survive, using an ancient bolt-action rifle to hunt, only coming back to trade rare furs or herbs for needed tools or supplies. This state of affairs continued until the brief occupation of Dalkeith V by the Draconis Combine during the short War of 3039. After witnessing the open persecution of her homeworld's people during one such milk run, Hannah decided to fight back, using her antique rifle to assassinate several DCMS officers and officials and causing a general state of instability among the occupation forces, who wrongfully scoured high and low for some kind of grizzled LCAF veteran and did not suspect that the small 16 years old child in front of them was their tormentor all along. By the time the Commonwealth kicked out the DCMS occupation force, its own intelligence services were surprised, having made the same mistaken assumption, and eventually found otherwise.

### Sanglamore and Heimdall

After the 3039 incident, Hannah was scouted by the Lyran Intelligence Corps and provided a sponsorship to attend the Sanglamore Military Academy on Skye. Though she continued to struggle with motivation issues and was frequently belittled for her lack of 'lineage' - a tragic irony in and of itself - her natural talent at marksmanship and infiltration overcame her sub-par effort. She managed to complete the full MechWarrior regimen with special forces training in only 4 years, during which her prime concern was to find some form of a cause or ideal she could actually believe in; something to live and stand for. A tentative answer came in the form of Heimdall, a branch of the organization nominally dedicated to reigning in the various excesses of other branches and nobles within the Commonwealth which often caused blatantly unnecessary and callous collaterals among the people.

### Muspelheim's Vigil

Heimdall had assembled a large, battalion-level force of elite operatives and MechWarriors to form the Muspelheim's Vigil, a black ops, deniable assets group that would pose as a 'mercenary unit' and could be used for all sorts of interventions where subtlety had failed and muscle was required. Highly trained, and equipped with the best that the LIC could provide, the Vigil would also be used to gather information about the capabilities of the other Great Houses and to conduct a covert war with other intelligence services.

Hannah's first major deployment with the Vigil brought her to Tiegel IV, where the unit was severely depleted, taking horrific casualties in men and material in a large-scale battle against ROM during the Tiegel One Day War. Despite having never been any sort of a leader type of person, Hannah was so shocked by the atrocities committed by ROM that she found a new calling and rallied the battered remnants of the Vigil, managing to take down and wipe out the agents of ROM's conspiracy before further atrocities could be committed, with the help of the Duke of Tiegel.

> *“I don’t care. If I have to do it alone I’ll do it. It’s not exactly the same as Dalkeith but I’ll manage. I’m not going to let the sacrifice of Heidrich and the others be in vain. I’m going to stop these assholes, with or without you.”*
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With the Vigil's frontline leadership decimated by ROM and presented with a Fait Accompli, Heimdall decided to allow the young agent to remain at Interim command. Faust would go on to rebuild the Vigil for the next 6 years, touring much of the Inner Sphere under mercenary cover and earning a good level of fame for the unit through consistently stellar performance while bringing back considerable amounts of information about the other Houses' military capabilities.

### Clan Invasion

Everything changed with the Clan Invasion. The Vigil was urgently recalled and tasked with finding out everything that could be gleamed about this new foe that had clawed a huge swathe of territory in the Coreward sector in just a few months. So stunning was the Clans' invasion that despite having been ordered to be on standby in a world that would normally be seen as safe from attacks, the Vigil found itself at the forefront of the fighting during The Baker 3 Clash. Having extensively studied the preliminary reports and gained insight into the ways of the Clans, Faust was able to properly respond to a BatChall and follow Zellbrigen, therefore allowing most of the Vigil to not only survive an encounter with the Jade Falcons' Turkina Keshik, but also withdraw with honor and most of its equipment intact after Alpha Company fought against a binary of elite Jade Falcons.

> *“I didn’t think you would back away from that challenge, no. I’m not familiar with this title your Clan uses, but I assume anything with the word ‘Khan’ in it must be very important.”*
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The Baker 3 Clash was another turning point, as it allowed Faust and the Vigil to learn considerably more about the Clans and their ways not only during the battle itself as they exchanged battle banter, but also afterwards as they tended to their respective wounded and salvage with a tense co-existence. It was thanks to this knowledge that Faust was able to claim her first bondsman from the Falcon Guard shortly afterwards during the Second Battle of Twycross, through whom she would continue to learn more.

As the invasion winded down with the Battle of Tukayyid, Hannah's Vigil spent the next decade wholly focused on the Clans exclusively, which meant taking every excuse to conduct skirmishes and encounters with the mysterious warriors from the Deep Periphery. This suited her well, as Faust was fascinated by the history she learned and the ways she heard of. The ideal of ritualized warfare for the express sake of minimizing as much as possible waste of lives and resources appealed greatly to Hannah, whose entire life had been painted by the ravages of the Great Houses' Succession Wars and general callous behavior, with ComStar being even worse. Many among the Vigil felt the same.

Faust used the cover of her official mission objectives for the LIC to swell the ranks of the Vigil with Abthaka - Bondsmen accepted as Warriors of their new 'Clan' - and even to reform the Vigil's entire order of battle and command structure to follow the Base-5 Star system of the Clans. Having also managed to acquire a considerable amount of Clan-base technology and OmniMechs through a mixture of ruthlessly cunning bidding practices and great personal skill, Hannah managed to turn the Vigil into something that looked and fought almost indistinguishable from a Clan second-line Freeborn Cluster by the second half of the 3050s. Her personal reputation for unassailable honor and Warrior skill among Clans Jade Falcon and Wolf, first acquired on Baker 3 and well cultivated since, was instrumental in gaining the credibility to undertake the majority of those actions.

### Punitive Strikes

By 3058, Hannah had just about wholly converted to the Clan ways, or at least an idealized vision of it born from a mixture of tales of the Remembrance and a focus on how things ought to be according to the original word of Kerensky, rather than the corruption of it that had grown to affect some parts of modern Clan society. And there was no better example of this corruption at the time than Clan Smoke Jaguar, whose ruthlessness and twisted treatment of the people of the Inner Sphere - and indeed, all Freeborn - had become infamous since the Turtle Bay Massacre. Faust saw the Smoke Jaguar as a failed Clan who had lost sight of the ideals and values they were supposed to embody and defend, and as such lobbied intensely for the Vigil to take part in Operation BULLDOG at every phase.

Hannah personally lead a single trinary of the Vigil's most elite warriors - many of them Abthakas - during Operation BIRD DOG, the precursor operation aiming at misleading the Smoke Jaguars about the full scope of the coming attack and disrupting their operations. She would go on to prosecute highly aggressive, punitive warfare against the Jaguars throughout all phases, with the goal of crippling their ability to wage war and liberating the native populations of the Occupation Zone. The hectic tempo undertaken by the Vigil under Faust's watch briefly stopped to follow the Exodus Road before concluding in the final stages of the Battle for Huntress, though she refused to take part in Victor Steiner-Davion's Great Refusal and declined an explanation, departing back to the Inner sphere after a few weeks on Huntress.

On her way back from the Homeworlds with a relatively intact Vigil strong with isorla, Faust's path co-opted the same jump lanes as an enormous Jade Falcon force also returning to the Inner Sphere. Intrigued by Hannah having told Davion to touch grass on the matter of the Refusal, and partially thanks to her personal reputation dating back to Baker 3, the Falcons decided not to try to use their superior numbers to absorb the much smaller force and instead used the time to rest and parley. The result of this trip was a closer working relationship with the Falcons and Hannah and her Vigil's eventual participation in the Hegira Wars on Marthe Pryde's side, as she viewed them as the morally superior side and sought to extend the punitive strikes begun against Smoke Jaguars to the Steel Vipers for their hateful and ignorant rhetoric.

### The FedCom Civil War

After her return from the Hegira Wars and the fighting on Waldorff, the increasing tension in the splintered Federated Commonwealth caused the chain of command to become increasingly blurred and dislocated, and Hannah to grow increasingly maverick and ignore said contested and at times contradictory chain of command. She used her own network of contacts set up across the Inner Sphere throughout the previous decade to keep close tabs on events throughout the Sphere. The next two years were spent mostly watching, as the Vigil was exhausted from the past years of hectic high intensity fighting, but Hannah struggled to relent, as the increasingly erratic Archon's blatant assassinations and the punishment of entire worlds for this or that noble's actions multiplied. By 3063, Faust deemed the Federated Commonwealth 'beyond salvation' as its Lyran half was ruled by a psychopathic, murderous conniver and its Federated half by ruled a naive idiot who swayed back and forth from LARPing as an idealistic crusader and an incompetent leader.

### The First Restoration War

Having managed to gather a relatively large force of like-minded, ideologically driven people mixing disillusioned Inner Sphere veterans and bondsmen from at least 4 different Clans, Faust decided to take a radical step. From a barely educated orphan, she had become an almost scholarly reference on the Remembrance and Star League history worthy of any Loremaster. Returning to Tiegel IV, Hannah announced the creation of Clan Ashen Corsac and challenged the 26th Falcon Regulars to a Trial of Possession over the entire world, putting a valuable pair of Jumpships as collaterals. The worlds was already much more lightly defended than it would have been due to the Falcons' own large-scale offensive against the Lyran Alliance, but Faust had no intention of undertaking a large, costly and damaging battle. Bid-Diving almost obscenely below cutdown through a mix of clever rhetoric and genuine philosophy, she managed to get the defending Falcon commander, Star Colonel Adel Helmer, to agree an almost impossible odd. Taking advantage of Tiegel IV's harshest, smoke-choked battlefield, Faust managed to sequentially defeat no less than 5 opponents, including Helmer himself, winning both the planet and her own Trial of Position as Khan of the newly formed Clan. This would also herald the beginning of the first phase of the Restoration Wars. Or at least, once the RCT and ComGuards sent by the Lyrans to retake Tiegel was defeated...

Hannah formally announced the fledgling Clan's position as Neo-Crusaders whose main concern was to fight against barbarians and despoilers across the Sphere, a mirror of her own personal ideals as they had matured up to this point. Recognizing that her small force had effectively no real ability to enact change on a larger scale, she opted to focused on a more achievable goal closer to home. Through organizing the successive Operation VELVET and Operation PROVING GROUND, she managed to secure no less than 6 relatively significant Near Periphery worlds of the former Rim World Republics, of which two were once Republican economic and industrial powerhouses. She was only personally present for the first however, and delegated the second to her SaKhan Kadenza Schtern as Faust had full confidence in her and was at the time investigating the rumors of an ancient, derelict SLDF Battleship discovered by an explorator team.

Having already managed to secure a surviving WarShip through the cunning and relatively non-violent political takeover of the former Aerospace giant Grenze - the Lola III Destroyer then renamed CAS Ambitions - Hannah journeyed on the chartist team's trail, escorting a pair of JumpShips loaded with thousands of tons of repair materials, but also Aerospace Fighters and Battle Armor marines. At the coordinates, she found the SLS Vengeance, a Stefan Amaris-class battleship captured and commandeered personally by Kerensky and thought lost during the campaign to retake New Home and open the path straight to Terra. After defeating a large pirate force which had appropriated the derelict as their base of operations, Hannah's Corsacs discovered the tragic fate of the original crew in the ship's ancient logs. Thrown hundreds of lightyears off-course by a damaged KF drive malfunction, they had attempted to limp back to the Inner Sphere, but replenishing their supplies of food and water on the unsettled planet it now orbited had unleashed a deadly plague that quickly consumed the entire crew. Faust ordered all those aboard the SLS Vengeance - including herself - quarantined under further notice and forbidden from returning to the Inner Sphere on pain of immediate execution. Thankfully, further study on the matter revealed the plague had burned itself out long ago, and she was able to oversee sufficient field repairs to bring the Vengeance back to Grenze's orbital shipyards, to be refitted as the Corsacs' new flagship and trump card.

> *"By direct order of the Khan, no one is to be allowed on the surface of T82-44-16, I hereby put the entire planet under quarantine. Anyone who disobeys will be executed on the spot. Additionally, no one is allowed to return on the Ambitions if they've been onboard the Vengeance until I say so, and any new personnel boarding the Vengeance are required to wear environmentally sealed suits."*
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### The Kerensky Cluster and the Reavings

Already in 3062, Hannah Faust had journeyed to Babylon to attend the first of the Cloud Cobra's Babylon Diet. Though she was not impressed by the obvious schemes of control in the Cobras' faith, she did impress by participating in the defense of the Diet against Coyote raid targeting it. In 3067, she returned, partially to attend again, and partially on a sort of pilgrimage to see the Homeworlds and curry legitimacy and respect for her Corsacs. Initially, things seemed promising, as Hannah demanded to be allowed to attend to the Grand Council as befitted of a Khan, then issued a Trial of Refusal when the demand was rejected. Bidding only herself and her Mech, she proceeded to shock many among the Homeworld leadership by sequentially defeating Bloodnamed 3 Warriors (1 from Steel Viper, 1 Star Adder and 1 Coyote), winning her seat, then proceeding to immediately abstain from supporting any candidate to Ilkhanship but voting in favor of resuming the invasion and of striking out against the Word of Blake.

From 3068 to 3070, Faust personally lead Alpha Galaxy, spearheaded by the CAS Vengeance on a serie of very typical Clan trials and battles where she went to great paints to ensure Zellbrigen was strinctly respected. Within less than a month, the Fire Mandrills and Ice Hellions were ejected from the former Smoke Jaguar holdings on Huntress, with the Goliath Scorpions and Star Adders also losing a number of Enclaves. With the Falcons in the Homeworlds being caught engaging in repeated Dezgra actions around the same time and Falcon SaKhan Clees defending these actions, Hannah proceeded to vote against their Abjuration but immediately extended her campaigns to eject the Falcons as well from Huntress. By the mid 3068, the Corsacs controlled nearly all of Huntress, and had done so with very little bloodshed.

3069 marked a painful turning point, as (substantiated) charges were raised against Clan Snow Raven (of Genocide) and Clan Diamond Shark (Of trading restricted technology with the successor states). Against the evidence, Hannah was forced to side with the Viper/Adder/Cobra power block, whom she knew despised her deeply, against her own political allies the Ravens and Sharks, and this so shortly after having been forced to fight another ally, the Falcons. The move earned her political enmity from her old allies, and not much capital from her enemies, but all were forced to admit that Faust was one of the few in the Council to vote according to timeless Clan principles, rather than politics, and this forced a measure of respect from all.

Already, Hannah was starting to sense the rot at the fish's head, and rather than expand in the every-increasing sea of under-defended open targets, she decided to have Alpha Galaxy consolidate on Huntress, trialing only for war materials and supplies that could be brought back and stockpiled. This also included a frenzy of Trials of Possession by individual Trueborn Corsac Abthaka Warriors to win back their genetic legacies. Most marking among them however was the capture of a York-class Destroyer and a Sovetskii Soyuz cruiser from the Snow Raven and an additional Lola III from the Diamond Sharks, considerably bolstering the Vengeance's presence, which Hannah used as a personal flagship.

By the turn of 3071, it had become painfully obvious to Hannah that the events that were slowly snowballing into motion would result in a storm of destruction - a conclusion that had prompted the relocation of many Clans years before already - but against recommendations by her own staff to also withdraw from the Homeworlds, Hannah felt an overwhelming compulsion to try to slam the brakes on the looming catastrophe. Her first of such act was to introduce before the Grand Council the concept of Trials of Repudiation, arguing than in this time of flagging honor and widespread 'taint' it was necessary for 'pure' Warriors to have a way to distance themselves from - and perhaps even stop altogether before disgrace could come to pass - dezgra actions by their comrades. The measure passed, narrowly. She would later go on to make an impassioned speech before the Council, rebuking Khan Andrews Brett's notion of rampant taint and corruption from all contact by the Inner Sphere by telling of her own - and the Corsacs' - story.

> *"My fellow Khans, am I truly the only one who finds such a notion only as ludicrous as repulsive? You speak as if the Ways of the Clans are so fragile and weak that they cannot survive contact with outside modes of thought. How insulting is that to our entire heritage? Nay, I say, how can you hope to reclaim Terra if merely breathing the same air as its inhabitants could bring us all to barbarous madness? Nay, on the contrary! My very existence and that of my Corsacs proves that through contact with the true Way, barbarians can be uplifted from the treacherous morass of the Successor States."*
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As the situation grew ever more tense, Faust attempted to make herself a bastion of Clan honor, not only for self-preservation, but as a living counter-argument to the Vipers and Adders' taint' rhetoric. This resulted in a number of awkward developments, such as her nomination - none was more surprised - for the succession of ilKhan in the wake of previous ilKhan Sainze's death. This had been a calculated political move by the snakes, much as Sainze had been an incompetent nominated just to make the alternative look better, Faust had been nominated as a seemingly 'impossible' candidate that would cause the session to flounder. The fact that most Inner Sphere Clans either voted in favor or abstained served to enrage the snake power block further. Hannah herself had neither desire nor confidence for the position, and ultimately reluctantly voted for Brett Andrews, whom despite his clear racism had proven most honorable in actual battles thus far.

This hesitant trust was immediately betrayed as he announced the beginning of the Wars of Reaving, forcing Hannah to find loopholes in his proclamation to stave off an immediate implicit Trial of Absorption against her Corsacs, which she did by highlighting that her worlds were in the near periphery, and technically not within the Inner Sphere so reviled. This would only be a temporary reprieve and she knew it, ordering her forces to avoid needless combat and to conserve troops and material for the inevitable confrontation as much as possible. She raised a new Galaxy made entirely of forces taken as isorla from various other Clans throughout the past few years and organized new Harvest Trials, announcing that any Warrior who was disgusted by dishonorable actions of their own Clan was welcome to fight on with the Corsacs instead. As treachery and even orbital bombardments multiplied as the Homeworld Clans turned onto one another, Gamma Galaxy grew, and all remaining enclaves on Huntress were forcefully ejected.

Then came 3072, heralded strong with the attack on the Kerensky Blood Chapel by Clan Wolf. Hannah lead a Star of Corsac warrior into the Chapel, but was constantly bogged down by wasteful Trials by rival Clans who wanted to secure the Kerensky legacy for themselves. Ultimately she was able to personally slay Star Colonel Ramil Kerensky, leader of the strike, but not before the Wolf Watch had its way. She was thought dead when explosives set by Ramil brought the entire Chapel down, but her Leviathan emerged from the flames and debris soon afterward, and she turned her attention to helping the civilians of Katyusha alongside Star Adder Sakhan Dante Truscott, as the out-of-control fighting had started immense fires.

Things quickly went from bad to worse as the Steel Vipers sabotaged the HPG relays and the Society began to strike out across the entire Homeworlds. Thankfully, Hannah had set up a contingency plan using the Lyran Black Box technology and the Corsacs' forces on Huntress never lost contact with their own homeworlds. Meanwhile, the Khan hurried back to Huntress as a major Society presence had festered in the ruins. While the 1st Star Rangers began a SpecFor war against the Society Cell, Hannah had to defend Huntress repeatedly, at first from raids from the Cobras and Scorpions, then against large strike forces including naval assets from the Coyotes and their Bandit allies. While all attacks were bloodily repulsed by Alpha Galaxy, the Society nonetheless unleashed deadly bioweapons across an entire continent, forcing the Corsacs to focus inward and with containment and triage procedures.

By 3073, all Society presence on Huntress had been wiped out, but nearly the entire HPG network had gone dark, giving the Corsacs and their Black Boxes a massive strategic advantage, which Faust was quick to exploit, beginning Operation ANGELS' LAMENT. The whole of the Homeworlds had descended into chaos, with entire worlds left to die from starvation as food shipments ceased, or from runaway bioweapons. Disgusted and unwilling to stand and watch, Faust had most elements of Alpha and Gamma galaxies spread out, with on-world intelligence pre-emptively gathered by the 1st Star Rangers. She had them conduct extermination attacks on all located Society cells within a 60 lightyears radius of Huntress, while abandoned Enclaves of all other Clans - generally heavily diminished and starving - were treated as they should.

As the Society was relentlessly hunted down, Faust redirected the large amounts of shipments of foodstuff and civilian goods that had been previously imported from the Corsac breadbasket worlds to the inhospitable Clan homeworlds and distributed them as best as possible between the abandoned enclaves, many of which allowed themselves to be Absorbed by the Corsacs with a token fight if any. Evacuation of the civilians and valuable machinery then began formally, with jumpships coming from the Corsac Worlds heavily laden with food and medicine and coming back filled with civilian refugees. Fearing that more bioweapons might be dormant amont the refugees - which happened regularly on many other worlds according to intercepted communications - Faust coordinated with SaKhan Schtern to have a new world hastily colonized to use as a quarantine and triage point. Each planet of the Clan homeworlds would have its own enclave, separate from one another, and strict NBC containment procedures would be maintained on this new quarantine world. The chosen planet was renamed Anima Sola, after the old myths of purgatory before heavens.

By 3074, all orbital and naval defenses in the 60 ly oasis were destroyed or taken over by the Corsacs, and the evacuation of civilians and assets from Huntress itself began. With the Tanis system discovered as the stronghold of the Society/Bandit rebellion, Faust personally led Gamma Galaxy and the CAS Vengeance in support of the Cobra/Adder joint assault, leaving the rest to protect the evacuation zone. Though she had previously strictly opposed all orbital bombardments before and issued frequent condemnations about the act, Hannah couldn't help but nod in weary and reluctant approval as the Cobras and Adders decided to wipe out a population which was clearly widely complicity in the Society's atrocities. Tens if not hundreds of thousands had been kidnapped and experimented on with horrific results, for whom death would have been a mercy...

This would be the penultimate major action undertaken by Faust and her Corsacs during the Wars of Reaving. With the Society and its Coyote allies defeated - the latter by the Steel Vipers - several Grand Council sessions followed to sort out the mess, but Hannah refused to attend in person and only attended virtually, suspecting treachery from the ever more bloodthirsty and purity-obsessed Khans. Though she still cast several important votes and continued to do so with conviction under the very end, she no longer wholly cared. Even as Ilkhan Andrew Brett called for the Corsacs' abjuration after the Horses as the 'last source of dangerous taint', she barely batted an eye.

> "*Do not worry, we are already leaving. In fact we have been leaving for two years now while you were shedding blood everywhere.* [sigh] *I came to the Homeworlds 8 years ago, full of wonder and hope, eager to see the holy land of those who taught me there was a viable alternative to the depravity of the Great Houses; a light in the darkness. I see now, the taint you were so terrified of came not from outside, but from within. The Clans I hoped to meet and learn from are dead, consumed by their own dark obsessions. Play 'Clan' as you will. I will carry Kerensky's true vision and dream with me. Now kindly stay the fuck away from Huntress until my Warriors are done, because I will not tolerate any vultures or rabid mutts. I issue a Trial of Refusal not on my abjuration, but on the traditional 5 days deadline, and I bid the entirety of Alpha, Beta and Gamma Galaxies and their 5 assorted Naval Stars in defense.* [Outraged gasps] *Yes, Beta arrived yesterday with the Paladin, Ambitions, and several Jumpships' worth of additional Attack ships and ASFs. Now let me restate this to be sure it came across: Get lost you damn LARPers.* [Connection terminated]"
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### Return to the Inner Sphere and Jihad

The final stage of the evacuation of Huntress was hectic and deadly due to the final provocation, but it had been a calculated move. The sheer rage that the Homeworld Clans felt at the insult prevented them from properly uniting and coordinating their attacks, causing them to send attacks piecemeal and ineffectively rather than in one giant coalition force. With Warships present at both the Nadir and Zenith jump points and wolfpacks of assault dropships at ASFs at every known pirate jump points, the Huntress system was locked down tight and while the Corsacs suffered considerable damage to their naval assets, the assault quickly proved to be not worth the costs and most ships managed to limp back to the Inner Sphere.

For Faust however the truest damage was psychological. She had grown up disillusioned and alone, found a cause and ideal to believe in, then saw the very cradle of this ideal slowly die before her eyes. Once again, she felt disillusioned and alone, growing highly erratic and violent for a year or two as she remained on Tiegel and delegated all matters of the Corsacs' participation in the Coalition Force to retake Terra from the Blakists to SaKhan Kadenza Schtern. Thankfully, through the support of her close circle and the reintegration of the Council of Six - Council of Seven now - she eventually went back to normal by 3077, where she offered unconditional Surkairede to the Falcons, Wolfs, Sharks and Ravens for their prior conflicts and offered to the new Council the entirety of the Corsac Watch's logs and information about the events that took place in the Homeworlds during the Wars of Reaving, including extensive information about the Society's bioweapons and means of combating them.

## BattleMech

For nearly 50 years, Hannah Faust piloted a Leviathan nicknamed the 'Surtr', which was gifted to her by the Duke of Tiegel after her actions in the Tiegel One Day War, where her previous Mech was critically damaged and irradiated by exposure to the outer edge of a nuclear warhead's shockwave.

The Surtr was originally an LVT-A model with restored Star League technology and saw several refits and alteration throughout the following decades, generally making use of Clan Tech either salvaged or won via trials. In the waning years of the 3080s, this came to include an Interface Cockpit making use of the Corsacs' Augmented Neural Interface technology developed via Project Ouroboros

The Surtr always had a highly distinctive paint job, eschewing camouflage to feature an highly stylized flame pattern with a large sword, turning the Mech into an avatar of the mythological fire giant after which it is named. Faust occasionally used this visibility to trick her foes, using herself as bait or throwing off their expectation of where the main thrust of an attack would come by being personally present in distraction forces.

## Game Rules

All Clan Ashen Corsac forces under Khan Hannah Faust's command follow a Strict adherence to Zellbrigen and must offer at least one chance for their opponents for fight at Honor Level 1 as per Total Warfare rules, even if they are Inner Sphere or Mercenary units. If intelligence intercepted by the Watch suggests an ambush is being prepared or if the target was previously marked for Annihilation however, they may engage at Honor Level 4 with no penalty.

Hannah's nerves of steel and talent in marksmanship grant her the Iron Will and Sniper special abilities respectively. Her reputation grants a +2 Positive Reaction Modifier among the Clans, but a -4 Negative Reaction Modifier among the Lyran Commonwealth/Alliance and those with Compulsion/Hatred of Freeborn trait. When present on the battlefield, her Piloting and Gunnery ratings are 2/1 and she confers a +1 to her side's initiative rolls, stacking with Comms Equipment and/or Command BattleMech.