Herras Ragen

Herras Ragen
Personal
Affiliation	Mercenary
Profile
Profession	Mechwarrior
Family
Parents	Joseph T. Ragen (father)

Herras Ragen is a MechWarrior mercenary.

Description

Herras Ragen is the son of Colonel Joseph T. Ragen. Colonel Ragen was a soldier in the AFFS whose mission was to infiltrate and destroy the renegade mercenaries called the Dark Wing Lance. In 3017 the Dark Wing attacked Colonel Ragen's home on Redondo in retaliation, killing him and most of his family. Herras survived and in 3027, at the age of 22, he set out on a quest of revenge to hunt down the Dark Wing Lance. Herras acts as a mercenary, selling his services as he uses contacts to gather information on the Dark Wing Lance until he can avenge his family.

Herras tracks down and kills three of the Dark Wing Lance members: Wolf Glupper, Zach Slasher, and Duff Skully. During his search, Herras encounters multiple references to a mercenary underground engaged in criminal and terrorist attacks (guerrilla warfare to disrupt planetary governments, bombings, theft of secret documents, raids, planetary assaults, etc.). After Herras kills Duff Skully, Yerg Gantor offers to hire Herras for missions, offering the location of the head of the Dark Wing as a bonus. Unfortunately for Herras, Yerg himself is the head of the Dark Wing, and has tricked Herras into carrying out missions for the mercenary underground. Herras eventually faces off against Gantor in personal combat and kills him, achieving vengeance and stopping the Dark Wing's mercenary underground.

Notes

• He is the main character in MechWarrior (SNES).
• This is a significant alteration from the backstory of the original PC game; the player character has a different identity and backstory. It should be noted though that the two backstories and storylines do not rule each other out and could technically both be "true".

Bibliography

• MechWarrior (SNES) video game