Ean

==Ean==. {{InfoBoxCharacter | name = Ean. | birthdate = 30?? | died = 3060 | affiliation = Clan Jade Falcon, (formerly), Clan Smoke Jaguar
| profession = Point Commander

Ean (born 30?- died 3060)

Point commander Ean was a trueborn pilot of clan Jade Falcon, who was shot down in planet Apollo, in the Jade Occupation Zone, in 3050. He survived, but wounded, and was hospitalized. There, where he recovers, he known a freeborn native, Dr. Vikram Khatri, from hindu origins, who tell him the tale of eagle king Garuda and his fight against the Naga, a race of poisonous cobras. At the beginning, Ean didn't want to hear it, but later ended enjoying the stories of doctor, and as Jade Falcon identified himself with Garuda. Ean never discover the end of the legend, as Vikram has been relocated to another hospital. His age made his clan send him to a solahma unit. His military career seems ended, but then a new chance arrived: the clan Smoke Jaguar made a trial of possession by take him, and other solahma aerospace pilots, as bondmen, and after winning it, they carried them to his homeplanet of Huntress. There, they offered them the chance to be warriors again, and Ean accepted. The reason the Jaguars want them is to be test subjects of the ProtoMech project. When Task Force Serpent arrived and attacked the Jaguars, Ean was already familiarized with his ProtoMech: ironically, a Roc, a walking mythical bird. As of 12 May 3060, Ean, piloting a Roc, partakes in the defense of the Pahn City Factory Complex on Huntress against forces from Task Force Serpent. During the battle fights the Legacy Grasshopper that he holds to be a Naga. Ean/Garuda is gravely injured in the fight by the explosion of a PPC of a Jaguar Warhammer over which he was.

15 March 3060, Ean awakes in the jungle encampment of the last Smoke Jaguar forces. He is informed that his his point of ProtoMechs was annihilated in the battle, and he had been recovered unconscious from the battlefield. His injuries and nervous damage are crippling, but that he could pilot a ProtoMech again for a short time. Enemy forces are massing for a new attack against Pahn, the Smoke Jaguars are desperate for warriors to defend, and Ean is the only ProtoMech pilot left. Ean willingly accepts the surgery for the chance to pilot his ProtoMech one more time, even if it will likely result in (more) brain damage and further degrade his personality. The same day, Ean fought his last battle. The transformation into a ProtoMech pilot affects his sanity, and he believes to be Garuda battling his mortal enemy, the Naga. Reborn as Garuda, he goes to face the Naga again later, though the factory complex, until was rapped in a open ground, and perishes in combat. He is implicitly killed by a discharge from the Legacy Grasshopper's large laser.

BattleMechs

It is unknown what class of fighters piloted Ean as Jade Falcon, but as a Smoke Jaguar his machine was a Roc ProtoMech.

Notes

Ean appears to have been the last ProtoMech pilot to die in the battle of Huntress, and maybe even his clan.

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Bibliography

• Battletech: Legacy