Aidan Pryde

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A trueborn of the Ramon Mattlov-Tania Pryde Sibko. Aidan became a MechWarrior of Clan Jade Falcon who earned his warrior status and the Pryde Bloodname through a very unorthodox and unClanlike path. Aidan failed his Trial of Position, which would have qualified him as a warrior, and was demoted to the tech caste. Through the manipulations of Ter Roshak, Aidan secretly assumed the identity of a dead freeborn cadet. Under this identity, Aidan won his second Trial of Position with the freeborn, Horse. Aidan was granted warrior status as a freeborn, which in the caste descriminatory Clan society, meant little respect and constant harrassment from trueborns. Eventually it was revealed that Aidan was in fact a trueborn, which brought a "taint" upon the victories on his codex. Nevertheless, Aidan was able to compete and win the Pryde Bloodname. During the Clan Invasion of the Inner Sphere, Aidan Pryde came to command the Falcon Guards, a recently disgraced unit that was defeated at Twycross. This unit was considered dezgra and the replacements sent to rebuild the Guards were the misfits of the clan. Aidan recruited his old instructor and nemesis, Joanna to the unit. She subsequently, through her harsh training style, whipped the Guard warrior into fighting shape. The Falcon Guards were bid into the fight for Tukayyid. There, Aidan rallied his clan from their relative inaction to put up some fight against the ComGuards opposing them but to no avail. The Falcon Guards, also referred to as Pryde's Pride, fought well, but the trickery of the ComGuards and general unClanlike attitude of the other Jade Falcon warriors led to a need to withdraw to escape total destruction. During the evacuation of Tukayyid, Aidan Pryde fought fiercely to hold off the crushing advance of the ComGuards so that the surviving Clan Jade Falcon forces could withdraw to their DropShips. He died in this action, but Aidan was posthumously honored for his bravery when the clan added his genes to the Jade Falcon Gene Center to be passed to a sibko. Aidan was further honored when his genes were fast-tracked for immediate use in the creation of a sibko.