Takeo Kurita (20th c.)
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| Rank | Vice Admiral |
Takeo Kurita was a famous twentieth century Japanese admiral and is mentioned in Experimental Technical Readout: 1945 as having commanded a sizeable portion of the Japanese fleet.
He is one of the few real-world historical people in BattleTech with a fictional component, in this case his line of descendants in BattleTech: The BattleTech timeline, which begins to deviate from real history around the year 1988, posits that descendants of Takeo Kurita would form House Kurita, the ruling dynasty of the Draconis Combine, in the twenty-fourth century.[1][2][3]
Fictional BattleTech descendants[edit]
In BattleTech history, Takeo Kurita's great-great-grandniece Katherine Kurita married Takayoshi Fuchida in the spring of 2021. From that marriage descended the line that would ultimately form the empire that became the Draconis Empire in 2319.[1][3] His great-great-great-great-grandnephew, the grandson of Takayoshi and Katherine, had the same name and would be known in history for his military actions while resolving strikes in Brazil.[4]