Marcus Kotare
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Star Colonel Marcus Kotare was a high-ranking Clan Smoke Jaguar MechWarrior commander. He appeared in two PC games: a cameo role in MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries and as the main antagonist in MechCommander: Desperate Measures.
In 3060, during Operation Bulldog, Kotare was captured by SLDF authorities and placed under house arrest, pending a court-martial for war atrocities. Kotare was widely believed to be mentally unstable and an incredibly dangerous sociopathic murderer, since he would not hesitate to use extreme amounts of violence (that were considered highly dishonorable by Clan standards, even by the Smoke Jaguar Warrior Caste) against his enemies.
Kotare managed to escape his captors and fled to the Deep Periphery planet named Cermak, a former Star League outpost world mainly used for the storage of surplus weapons. Along the way, Kotare managed to recruit Smoke Jaguar extremists such as Star Colonel Burnell Wirth and Star Captain Katherine Furey and other Clan survivors of Operation Bulldog.
The SLDF assigned Yankee and Zulu companies of 1st Battalion of the 1st Davion Guards to investigate Kotare's presence on Cermak. The Davion forces discovered that Kotare had pinpointed the location of underground weapons vaults containing chemical and nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and was trying to confiscate the weapons by using plasma drills to unearth them.
It was strongly believed that Kotare would first use the WMDs against the Davion Guards that were pursuing him, then he would use the weapons to eliminate his enemies on other worlds, including Terra itself.
Kotare and his renegade Smoke Jaguar forces were hunted down and eliminated by the MechWarriors of 1st Battalion and the WMDs were safely disposed of. Kotare's plans of genocide and terrorism were stopped before he could potentially wipe out billions of innocent lives.