Yang Virtanen
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Yang Virtanen | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | 2987[1] |
| Career | |
| Profession | Technician |
Yang Virtanen is the Chief 'Mech Tech of a mercenary unit formerly known as Markham's Marauders operating in the Aurigan Reach circa 3025.
History[edit]
Yang is a native of the Capellan Confederation and a veteran of the Third Succession War. Born on Bryant, a miserable little ball of windblown dirt, actively hostile to human life. The only places where people could live in relative safety were the planet's poles. Of course, you can't fit a planet's entire population into a handful of cities at its poles - there isn't enough space, no matter how far down you dig or how tall you build. His childhood home in a nutshell was way too many people jammed into a tiny, claustrophobic space, with nowhere to go but off-planet. He cleared out of there as fast as he could and never looked back.
He enlisted as a soldier and served with distinction in the First Battalion of the Second St. Ives Lancers, under Major Ling. The veteran unit was particularly involved in the fighting and in 3010 Yang wound up losing his arm on St. Loris, an agricultural world and a breadbasket for the neighboring systems. Green fields, rolling hills, the perfect place for R&R after the vicious fighting with the Federated Suns on Kittery between 3005 and 3010.
Barely a month into their deployment, the Ceti Hussars arrived to burn them out and finish the job they started. Yang remembers kicking back in the 'Mech Bay, feet propped up on an engine block, sipping on a snifter of Ambergrist vermouth, when a lone scout hit his 'Mech Bay. The only reason he survived was that he was tinkering around in a Centurion's custom-made rumble seat at the time and the armor took most of the damage. He lost two of his favorite assistants, his right arm, and got a cybernetic replacement as consolation.
It's one of many things he carried out of Capellan space and one he resents the most. He left the Confederates when his tour was over and never looked back. The greatest factor was the elitism saturating Capellan culture, and especially how it rewards high-born idiots at the common people's expense. As a result, he's naturally wary of nobles.
Notes[edit]
Birth year is a guess based on age in character profile given in Kickstarter update and assuming timeline of 3025.
Canonicity[edit]
Featured only in the apocryphal BattleTech video game, the character of Yang Virtanen is apocryphal as well.
References[edit]
- ↑ Harebrained Schemes LLC: Kickstarter Update #33: "Introducing the Main Characters"