Connor Rood

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Conner Rood
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Born	3038
Affiliation	Clan Goliath Scorpion Clan Ice Hellion (formerly)
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Profession	saKhan Formerly Khan

Conner Rood (born 3038 - died 3???) - Late thirty-first century Clan Trueborn, MechWarrior, and saKhan (later briefly Khan) of Clan Ice Hellion until the Clan's demise. He later became the saKhan of Clan Goliath Scorpion.

Character Personality

A young moderate Crusader amongst his Trueborn brethren. He was noted for his intelligence and political views which made him popular among his subordinate Freeborn warriors.

Character Brief

Early Life

Conner Rood was a ristar in his Clan. When he undertook his Trial of Position, his skill and kills earned him rank of Star Captain. This rare feat gain him noticed among fellow Clanners. In time he gained his Bloodname, along with fame for his accomplishments. His first command was a Cluster of Beta Galaxy's 121st Hellion Lancers. His personal Trinary was noted for its performance in engagements with other Clans. Rood's command style and political views gained him the trust of the warriors under his command. He was soon considered a Khan in the making.

saKhan of Clan Ice Hellion

In 3065, Conner's career changed, with Raina Montose's successful Trial of Grievance over Khan Asa Taney. Conner was chosen to become saKhan and Galaxy Commander of Beta Galaxy.

By 3067, Conner had rebuilt the esprit de corps of Beta Galaxy's warriors with help from his aide, Star Colonel Brendon Wick. However, Connor's efforts had been successful only due to the presence of two Flurry Clusters among his Galaxy's numbers. The Flurry Clusters caused any victory won by the Galaxy to be tainted due to the presence of combat vehicles.

Inner Sphere Invasion of 3071-72

In the early 3070s, Khan Montose devised a plan to invade Clan Jade Falcon's Occupational Zone as part of her plan to create an OZ for the Ice Hellions at the cost of the Falcons. She mustered all their frontline combat Galaxies and divided them between herself and Conner. Rood was given command of three Galaxies for his Task Force, Delta, Zeta, and his own Beta Galaxy. His forces were to secure the Periphery border, while she would secure industrial worlds to bolster their declining Touman strength.

In June 3071, saKhan Rood lead his task force on a successful conquest of six Falcon worlds. The Falcon Guard retook the planet Bone-Norman shortly thereafter. Rood was nearly killed on Bone-Norman, when his Kit Fox was attacked by a star of Erinyes ProtoMechs led by Star Captain Kandari Falcon.

The successes of his Task Force's campaign continued for six months with few reversals. However, by November Clan Hell's Horses begun to aide the Falcons in their resurgent of their offensive against his Clan's efforts. Conner was forced to retreat to Lackhove due to the Falcon's reinforcements, leaving his Galaxy's command unit, the 200th Attack Cluster, in the process.

By early 3072, faced large quantity of Jade Falcon and Hell's Horse forces hunting down his task force. Conner orders his task force's survivors to pull back to Dark Nebula, one his unit's first conquests. In March, Beta's survivors and his Galaxy's Naval Star clash with Falcon's Delta Galaxy and Hell's Horses Theta Galaxy. Rood's Naval forces are heavy mauled, leaving him only Potemkin, CIE Coterie left his command. Falcon saKhan Samantha Clees offers him and his command Hegira, which he accepts at later discourse of his Khan.

Post-Invasion and Jihad

Rood had reportedly taken the Conterie with his Galaxy's three remaining Clusters and withdrawing to the Deep Periphery. Intelligence reports suggest his destination was Nouveaux Paris, where his Clan had maintained a garrison outpost.

Goliath Scorpion

The few elements of the Hellions under the leadership of Connor Rood, the main body of their Clan's remnants, were able to make it back to Clan space with the WarShip ''Osis' Pride'' at the end of December 3072, with the three Trinaries of the 200th Attack Cluster represented a significant boost for the heavily depleted Clan, whose enclaves outside Hector had been stripped away through predation by the other Clans, Bandit Caste forces and the Society while the HPG network across the Homeworlds was inactive.

As they cannot rebuild their Clan, in 3073 Rood negotiated with the Khan of Clan Goliath Scorpion with a view to having the surviving Ice Hellion elements merge with Clan Goliath Scorpion, his preferred alternative to seeing the Ice Hellions vanish completely. The offer was initially rejected - the Goliath Scorpions resenting any implication that they might be in a weak enough state to need to merge with another - with Rood being honest and open about the perilous state the Hellions were in, the Goliath Scorpions offered to Absorb the Hellions in a fashion that limited the number of losses.

The proposal was agreed by both Clan Councils, and following a ferocious but brief battle between a Star of forces from each Clan in March 3074, the remaining Ice Hellion holdings and touman joined the Goliath Scorpions, with Connor Rood being elected to the post of saKhan in place of Kelton Myers, who had been killed during the Trial. With the Absorption complete, the Osis' Pride became the CGS Osis' Pride.

Notes

Conner Rood's information is incomplete due to lack of full profile done on him. His whereabouts and his actions after the invasion of Clan Jade Falcon's territory had been reduced to scattered intelligence reports. His destination of Nouveaux Prime, in Jihad Secrets, may be an error and may actually be Nouveaux Paris instead.

He was also noted as a Kit Fox OmniMech pilot during Operation ICE STORM.

Bibliography

• Field Manual: Crusader Clans
• Field Manual: Updates
• Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
• Technical Readout: 3075
• The Wars of Reaving