Warner Doles (character)
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Major (later Colonel) Warner Doles was an officer of the St. Ives Compact armed forces during the Capellan-St. Ives War. He later joined up with Free Capella, and continued to oppose Sun-Tzu Liao's military forces well into the Jihad period.
[edit] Military Career
Warner Doles was the commandng officer of the second Battalion of the Blackwind Lancers. In this capacity, he was one of the people that helped to start the Capellan-St. Ives War. He and his commanding officer, (a deep-cover Capellan spy ordered to do so), jumped the St. Ives border to strike the Capellan Confederation on the world of Hustaing. There, they narrowly came close to capturing Isis Marik, but were beaten back by elite Warrior House troops. Warner Doles and all of his men were captured by the Capellans, but were later returned to the St. Ives Compact (without any of their equipment) in a prisoner exchange.
Doles was immediately assigned as the Colonel of the Blackwind Lancers upon his arrival back in St. Ives territory, and was refitted with new St. Ives 'Mechs for the defense against the Capellans. He and his Lancers fought against the Capellans in a slow, grinding battle on the St. Ives Front, but were slowly pushed back by the sheer number of Capellan troops. During the Black May attacks, he was approached by the leader of Free Capella, who had recently "recaptured" Doles' former commanding officer. When she was revealed as a Liao agent, she tried to escape, but was killed by Doles.
[edit] Post-Military Career
Although Doles never truely left the military, he joined up with Free Capella permenantly following the dissolution of the St. Ives Compact in 3063. In this capacity, he opposed the Capellans in the former Compact up until the Word of Black Jihad. The Blakists detonated a nuclear device against St. Ives, and framed the Federated Suns for the attack. Doles, along with the rest of Free Capella, joined the government to fight the Suns and the Blakists, even after it revealed to be a Blakist trick.
