Ron Dexter
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Ron Dexter was a MechWarrior with the Cameron's Legion mercenary unit, where he piloted a Marauder.
He became notorious in an incident on 2 May 3034 that later became known as the Nystaad Massacre: Defending the local government in the city of Nystaad on Bruben agains a sneak attack from Ronin forces, Cameron's Legion found itself in an intense 3-hour urban battle that cost 493 civilian lives. During the fighting, more than 100 children were killed when a school building was destroyed; Dexter was implied to be responsible, and reputedly said afterwards that the building "had just been in the way".
Canonicity
Cameron's Legion was the "personal" mercenary unit of German BattleTech author Hartwig Nieder-Gassel. The unit and its characters, including Ron Dexter, featured in many of his articles, scenarios and game aids in FanPro's German magazine Wunderwelten (1989-1999) and in the German scenario pack Ronin! (1996). The storyline from Ronin! was retold in 2006 in the (canonical) Historical: Brush Wars, canonizing the unit and the events and minutiae mentioned in this sourcebook (again including Ron Dexter).
Apocryphal information
According to the "Schwarzer Tag" training scenarios Wunderwelten#Issue 20, Ron Dexter ranked Major was exective officer and second-in-command of Cameron's Legion (after Colonel Thomas Cameron) and had been a MechWarrior since the age of 14, when he defeated two opponents in subsequent 'Mech duels.
References
Bibliography
- Historical: Brush Wars
- Ronin! (apocryphal)
- Wunderwelten (apocryphal)