Rudolf Schmidt
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Rudolf Schmidt | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | 3100[1][2][3] |
| Affiliation | Hanseatic League (formerly) Scorpion Empire |
| Profile | |
| Rank | Captain-Marshal[2] (formerly) Star Colonel |
| Profession | MechWarrior |
Rudolf Schmidt was a Hanseatic League officer and its last surviving leader before it’s absorption into the Scorpion Empire
History
Captain-Marshal
After Helga Bauer retired as Captain-Marshal of the Hanseatic Defense Force in 3135, Schmidt would chosen by the Captain-Generals and Admirals to succeed her.[1] Like his predecessor, he was ill-inclined to rest on his laurels and sought to use constant, unannounced live-fire training exercises with hand-picked elite soldiers to push the HDF's units to improve their performance on his unique "inspection tours" across the League. This also served as a method for him to assign leaders and advisors with proven skills into each of the RDF's once said elites in the Schmidt's Petraries unit reached the end of their assignment tours. At the same time, the training exercises helped with finding potential protegees for him to induct for further training. During the Hanseatic Crusade, he would lead the entirety of the Hanseatic Defense Force in defending their nation against the Imperio's conquest and would command them into effective delaying actions and counter feints that delayed the League's conquest. However, he would order all HDF forces to surrender in the name of saving the lives of their civilians after the Merchant Council committed mass suicide and destroyed the capital city during the Battle of Bremen.
Star Colonel
After the Hanseatic Crusade and the absorption of the Hanseatic League into the Scorpion Empire, he would be appointed as a Star Colonel to Hellion Keshik within the Empire's Hellion Galaxy.