Hosteen
Sarna News
- Bad ‘Mechs - Sentinel
- HEXTECH Review - Wave 3 Brings More Urban Options To Your Battlefield
- Your BattleTech News Round-Up For March, 2024
- Crashing 'Mechs With Jennifer Brozek, Author Of The Rogue Academy Trilogy
- Getting The Word Out With Rem Alternis, Catalyst Community & Marketing Director
- Read more →
 | This article may be very hard to understand. Sometimes this can be due to issues with the translation to English. In particular, this page has multiple spelling, grammar, and sentence issues. |
Hosteen | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Died | 8 November 3152 |
| Affiliation | Clan Jade Falcon |
| Profile | |
| Profession | MechWarrior |
Hosteen was a solahma warrior of Clan Jade Falcon Remnants.
Contents
History[edit]
Hosteen was a veteran warrior which served at his Clan during a long but common career. He never won a Bloodname, and, by 3150 had been relegated into a solahma, so, when Khan Malvina Hazen, he was left behind on Sudeten. However, luck changed for him and others in 3151, when Jiyi Chistu decided to rebuild their clan in Sudeten. As he lacked forces, he made the unusual step to allowing a second Trial of Position to older and discarded warriors. His second in command, Star Captain Quinn only identified ten promising candidates, and Hosteen was one of these. On 9 August, their training began. On 10 September, the aspirants fought their Trial of Position. Hosteen fought his beside another candidate, Dawn. Hosteen was one of five candidates to pass the Trial, though marginally, as he only became a warrior.[1]
On 9 October, Hosteen, along Dawn, was selected by Chistu tu participate into a daring raid to Quarell, to capture several Clan Ghost Bear sibkos, traveling onboard the Falcon's Shadow. During the way, he fully supported Dawn, which was his commander, and quickly adapted to use new tactics to win.[2]
Once on Quarell, Hosteen fought well in the Trial of the Pykon River Delta, and Khan Chistu tasked him personally to ignite a forest filled with Ghost Bears, making himself a target to protect a point of Salamander Elementals he carried. Hosteen survived the Trial, but not the aftermath of it: when the Falcon's DropShip was to depart with the cadets, the Bears Star Captain Allison Rand, after murdering his superior, launched an attack to the spaceport to recover the cadets. With the Falcon's Shadow threatened, Hosteen volunteered to launch a rearguard action to distract the attacking Bears, along with other four Falcon solahma warriors. Reluctantly, Chistu agreed, and the suicide Star, led by Hosteen, took five heavy Mechs and launched a daring attack against Rand's forces. All were killed in a matter of minutes, but their sacrifice won time for the DropShip to depart, saving Chistu and the cadets, and saving his Clan at short term.[3]
BattleMech[edit]
Hosteen passed his Trial of Position in a Locust IIC. On Quarell, he fought within a Nova, though for his last battle, he piloted a heavier Mech.[4]
References[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- A Question of Survival (novel)