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| − | Garmen was a ''ristar'' in Clan Wolf, from the [[Kerensky, | + | Garmen was a ''ristar'' in Clan Wolf, from the [[Kerensky, Andery (Bloodname)|Andery Kerensky Bloodname]]. In the [[sibko]], he was close with his sibkin [[Satinka]], until she failed her [[Trial of Position]]. |
On 8 April [[3071]] he attended a secret meeting with the [[Khan of Clan Wolf|Wolf Khan]] [[Vlad Ward]] while in orbit above [[Strana Mechty]]. There, the Khan informed him of the bombing of the Scouring of [[Tamar]], and his plan to leave the [[Clan Homeworlds]] and move all its Clan assets to the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref> ''Icons of War'', p. 6 </ref> | On 8 April [[3071]] he attended a secret meeting with the [[Khan of Clan Wolf|Wolf Khan]] [[Vlad Ward]] while in orbit above [[Strana Mechty]]. There, the Khan informed him of the bombing of the Scouring of [[Tamar]], and his plan to leave the [[Clan Homeworlds]] and move all its Clan assets to the [[Inner Sphere]].<ref> ''Icons of War'', p. 6 </ref> | ||
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Garmen Kerensky | |
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| Personal | |
| Also known as | "Yama" |
| Affiliation | Clan Wolf, Dark Caste, Stone's Coalition |
| Profile | |
| Rank | Star Captain |
| Profession | Elemental |
Garmen Kerensky was an Elemental trueborn of Clan Wolf, who lead a secret and daring mission to Strana Mechty during the Jihad.
History
Garmen was a ristar in Clan Wolf, from the Andery Kerensky Bloodname. In the sibko, he was close with his sibkin Satinka, until she failed her Trial of Position.
On 8 April 3071 he attended a secret meeting with the Wolf Khan Vlad Ward while in orbit above Strana Mechty. There, the Khan informed him of the bombing of the Scouring of Tamar, and his plan to leave the Clan Homeworlds and move all its Clan assets to the Inner Sphere.[1]
To realize it, he had planned what he called Operation DAMOCLES II, a three-parts plan. Garmen had to take a key part in the second phase, Operation Kopis, and lead the third: Operation Spatha. Essentially, Garmen had to lead a Star of the Wolf Watch and warriors passing as laborers, to infiltrate into Katyusha City Blood Chapels, protecting the Kerensky and Winson legacies and collecting info to facilitate their retrieval. And Spatha's objective was to infiltrate into the McKenna's Pride and steal Aleksandr Kerensky's coffin.[2]
The infiltration was a complete initial success; as their cache had a full Trinary of second-line BattleMechs, and much other weapons, they began selling them, winning a good reputation as arm dealers. In 10 July 3071, during an arm selling deal, a man named Balbas presented them to his boss, a white masked woman, the legendary Zimnyaya Ledi, Winter Lady, who recognized Garmen, now calling himself Yama as a Wolf warrior. But before a firefight can began, she took her mask, and revealed herself as Satinka. Despite both sides mistrust, both groups began working together, and both began sleeping together.[3] Thanks to Satinka's people, Garmen's people realized their missions much better and faster, even obtaining a DropShip, the Botany Bay.[4]
However, when Spatha was launched, in the confusion of Operation Kopis, the 3 December 3071, the plan fall apart right after it had begun: the several clans fight in the streets and riots delayed Garmen's men advance, and when arrived to the Botany Bay, the DropShip had already been destroyed by an aerospace fighter, with the point of Elementals onboard died. Garmen was forced to retreat and reassess the operation.[5]
When Garmen managed to reunite with Satinka, almost two weeks later, she was very affected too: in a discussion, she tell him than she had lost dozens of her enforcers, and the Guild she lead was in shambles. As both have common enemies and shared goals, Satinka and Garmen made an alliance to gather resources and strength her position. Over four years, Garmen's men acted as enforcers for Satinka's group, training her people and eliminating rivals. Thanks to this, she became the most powerful Dark Caste leader in the city, and the Winter Lady had become an urban legend.[6]
The 9 August 3075, by Satinka's suggestion, she and Garmen recruited Stas, an old Wolf warrior of Kerensky bloodline, to lead a suicide attack against the Space Control Center. Very resentful against the Grand Council, he agreed, and personally recruited and trained a full Trinary of multi-Clan volunteers: the later known as Retribution Wraiths.[7] The 30 August, Garmen and Satinka, who had attracted too much attention as Dark Caste members, suffered an attack of the Katyusha Keshik and Ebon Keshik forces in an apartment, but thanks to a warning, they managed to escape shooting their way out, but that only reinforced both Keshiks determination to capture them, despite the fact they even didn't suspect who really was Yama.[8]
Garmen's people went to hiding, as Satinka's awaiting for their opportunity to strike. The Dark Caste members wanted to escape the Clan Homeworlds with Garmen's people's help. Finally, after the Clan Steel Viper annihilation, the McKenna's Pride returned to Strana Mechty. the 5 April 3076, Operation Spatha was finally launched.[9] While several technicians sabotaged all other DropShips in the spaceport, and Operation Pilum, the Wraiths's suicide attack, began, Garmen's people boarded and take to DropShip McKenna's Honor, which supplied the Pride. After killing any Ebon Keshik Warrior who resisted, the Wolves and Dark Caste members imprisoned the rest in a bunker, before departing the planet in the Honor. They boarded the Pride without being detected, and quickly and easily took the WarShip's key points, without raising any alarm outside the ship, but they were discovered. The original plan, to steal Aleksandr's coffin and flee in the Honor, will took too much time, so Garmen changed the plan: they will steal the Pride and flee with it.[10] After threatening to vent their compartments to space, Garmen convinced the remaining Pride's crew to escape the ship in escape pods, and the Pride put on motion.
The Grand Council throw all they got to stop or delay them: aerospace fighters, boarding DropShips, other WarShips... after a long persecution, and the Honor's sacrifice, however, the Pride jumped out system: Spatha II had been a success.[11]
Return to the Inner Sphere
In the unnamed system where it had jumped, the Pride found three other JumpShips fulls with forty DropShips: Satinka's Dark Caste's people who wanted to emigrate to the Inner Sphere.
Together, they traveled through the Exodus Road. Satinka and Garmen, during the trip, had a child which they named Andery, but before reaching Wolf Clan territory, she and the child separated from them with the Dark Caste fleet. When, in 11 June 3077, the Pride made reunion with Vlad Ward, it was alone, and Garmen hid very well Satinka and her people's existence to the Khan. Ward was so surprised as impressed by Garmen's trophy, but after five years far from the Clan, he said cannot justify her absence, so, to camouflage their arrival, and hid to the rest of the Clan the Pride's existence, send Garmen's surviving men to join a Wolf Star in Stone's Coalition, with Garmen leading it, after ordering them to keep secret all what they had do, before taking personally the Pride to hid it in the Dark Nebula.[12]
Death and Legacy
There are no information about Garmen's whereabouts, but even if he did not die in the Jihad, as Khan Ward secretly expected, he must have taken the McKenna's existence to the grave, as the Wolf members of the 32th century ignored everything about Operation Spatha II.[13]
References
Bibliography
- Icons of War (novella)