Thomas Andrews
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Thomas Andrews | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Died | 29 July 3075[citation needed] |
| Affiliation | Clan Steel Viper |
| Profile | |
| Rank | Star Colonel |
Thomas Andrews was a Star Colonel within Clan Steel Viper touman.
History[edit]
Two days after ilKhan Brett Andrews' decree of Reaving, two DropShips of the now-Abjured Clan Wolf swooped down over Strana Mechty, dropping two Clusters of the Wolves' new Omicron Galaxy, seizing the Kerensky Blood Chapel. Wolf Watch Star Colonel Ramil Kerensky issued a challenge to the rest of the Clans to take it back from them. Katyusha again erupted into violence. IlKhan Andrews issued a decree stating that any Clan that captured the legacies would become the permanent holders of the Founders' Genes. Clan after Clan vied to take back the genetic legacies of Nicholas and Andery Kerensky - often as much with each other as with the Wolves. Three days later, Star Colonel Kerensky's Dire Wolf finally collapsed. As he taunted his foes one last time, the Blood Chapel was ripped apart by an explosion from within, burying all underneath the rubble, and leaving everyone to believe that the Founder's legacies were destroyed. The Winson Blood Chapel was also burning, due to the work of Wolf Elemental saboteurs. During the chaos, the Wolves had also infiltrated the master repository under auspices of daily business, destroying all known copies of the Kerensky's genetic legacies, as well as that of Jennifer Winson. Only later in the Inner Sphere would Vlad Ward reveal to the Spheroid Clans that the legacies were safe and unharmed.[1]
A Grand Council emergency session was called in the immediate wake of these events. Clan Wolf was put up for a Trial of Annihilation, though the Khans of the Ghost Bears, Jade Falcons and Hell's Horses were not present. IlKhan Andrews ordered Loremaster of the Clans Kael Pershaw to keep the results secret. The grizzled old warrior's loyalty to Clan law precluded this. After informing his counterpart in Clan Ghost Bear, Loremaster Laurie Tseng - as well as the Jade Falcon Khans - Pershaw began preparations to depart Strana Mechty with the remainder of Jade Falcon personnel in the Clan Homeworlds. The Steel Viper Watch spied on his conversation with Khan Pryde, and a Reaving call was issued for Pershaw soon after. Star Colonel Thomas Andrews confronted Pershaw and declared a Trial of Reaving, to which Pershaw bid simply himself and his prosthetic limbs. Seconds later, Andrews lay dead, shot by the laser pistol grafted to Pershaw's left arm. Pershaw departed the stunned gathering easily, the Trial's bid having not been violated.[1]