Archer Christifori
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Archer Kendrick Christifori | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Born | c. 3020[1] |
| Died | 3069[citation needed] |
| Affiliation | Federated Commonwealth |
| Career | |
| Rank | Major General |
| Title(s) | Knight of the Sword[1] |
| Profession | MechWarrior |
| Family | |
| Siblings | Andrea Christifori |
Archer Christifori hailed from a well respected family on Thorin, the operators of Christifori Express, an interplanetary shipping company.
Contents
History
Operation BULLDOG
Along with Task Force Serpent, Operation BULLDOG was part of a two-pronged Inner Sphere plan to destroy Clan Smoke Jaguar. BULLDOG's purpose was to fight planet-by-planet to push the Jaguars out of the Inner Sphere, while Serpent snaked around the Exodus Road to strike the Jaguar's homeworld Huntress. A Major in the AFFC at the time, Archer supported BULLDOG by commanding a company of Victor Steiner-Davion's elite Tenth Lyran Guards. The Guards suffered only light losses during the operation, and were able to link up with Serpent on Huntress, only to find the Task Force remnants under intense siege from the very Jaguar forces BULLDOG had chased back to the planet. As BULLDOG forces dropped to assist their comrades, Archer was ordered to relieve the Northwind Highlanders, who at the time were engaged in a pitched battle against the Jaguars. Archer ordered his company dropped directly between the two sides, and formed a line to defend the Highlanders. Archer himself engaged and destroyed six Jaguar 'Mechs and three Elementals. For his efforts, he was awarded the Star League Medal of Honor for extreme courage during combat, one of only two BULLDOG members to earn the award on Huntress.[2]
FedCom Civil War
In October 3062 the First Battalion of the Fifteenth Arcturan Guards were posted to Thorin. This placed Lieutenant Colonel Christifori and his Militia under the command of Colonel Felix Blucher. Christifori began his involvement in the war because of the death of his sister, by the lyran noble Luther Fisk. Outraged by the fact than Fisk was amnistied by Katherine Steiner-Davion, he decided to take the arms against her, involving into the FedCom Civil War.[3]
He formed his unit the Archer's Avengers (A2 for short) and successfully took Thorin and Muphrid in 3063 and as reward, Victor Davion promoted him to General. Later, after collaboration with the mercenary unit Snord's Irregulars, Odessa.[4] In 3064 and 3065 Christifori also led Operation AUDACITY with A2, Phelan Kell and his Clan Wolf-in-Exile and Adam Steiner and his forces. This operation was designed to check the untimely invasion of the Inner Sphere by Clan Jade Falcon during the FedCom Civil War. This was done by jumping deep into the Jade Falcon occupation zone and taking worlds behind their lines.[5]
Christifori and his unit took part in the battles on New Avalon in early 3067. They undertook a diversionary assault on Avalon Island, pretending to be the main assault force to draw loyalist units away from the true intended beachhead on the island's opposite side. Although this action exhausted his troops and incurred heavy casualties, Christifori and at least some of his troops also took part in the assault on Davion Palace, though it remains unclear if they were deployed as an irregular floating "firefighter" unit or acting entirely on their own behalf.
Ultimately, Victor Steiner-Davion did Archer Christifori the favor of sending him back with Jackson Davion to arrest Katherine Steiner-Davion following her unconditional surrender: It was Christifori who got to handcuff and march the captive Katherine Steiner-Davion off from her throne.
Post–Civil War and death
Following the civil war, Christifori and the Avengers were posted to Gibbs and undergoing demobilization as of September 3067. This process was aborted as the Blakist Jihad began and the unit remained on the LAAF rolls for the next year and a half.
In response in a new Jade Falcon incursion into the Lyran Alliance, Christifori and the Avengers were tasked with assaulting Baker 3 alongside the Knights of St. Cameron. This strike into the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone was intended to threaten their lines of communication and divert Falcon units from Lyran territory; instead it ended in disaster for the Avengers. Confronting two veteran front-line Clan Clusters (the 7th and 8th Talons) rather than the garrison cluster expected, the Avengers were hammered from the start and only a surprise attack by the Knights upon the Falcons' rear allowed the survivors to retreat to their DropShips. Archer Christifori was not among them and was listed as MIA.[6]
When the Jade Falcons joined Devlin Stone's coalition some years later, they confirmed that Christifori had indeed been killed.[7]
BattleMech
His trademark BattleMech was a Penetrator that was modified from its original stock model specifications over time, making use of captured Clan Extended Range Large Laser technology that was salvaged from Clan space. Clan technology consistently gave him an advantage over many Inner Sphere pilots.
References
Bibliography
- Blake Ascending
- Call of Duty (novel)
- The Longest Road (short story)
- Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers
- Measure of a Hero (novel)
- Operation Audacity (novel)