Lon Volker
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Lon Volker was a Kore native, Storm Rider mercenary MechWarrior, and Pirate.
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Physical description
Volker, of Germanic heritage, was described as tall, broadly built, heavily muscled, and dark blond hair.
Personal History
Volker was born, apparently, on Kore, in a unknow date, but around 3050, as it was only a year older than Sturm Kintaro. His fathers were killed during the Clan Invasion, and after Kore was liberated, he was one of the first Kore natives recruited in the Storm Riders and the first to become MechWarrior.
Volker was a womanizer, using his charms to seduce several local girls, including Laura Metz. When Susie Morgraine Ryan Pirates attacked Kore, he tried to escape, with Kintaro, but his Panther was too slow, and was touched in his back, and fell. Unable to fight, Volker surrendered, And was taken prisioner.
After confronting Susie for the first time, he identified her immediately, and made all the possible to appear useful to her.[1]
Volker seen Susie again when she ordered him to go to his room, a week later. She interrogated him about Sturm, but Volker didn't speak too wella bout the young boy. Willing to prove himself useful, even offered himself to hunt the misterious "Winter ghost" who was hunting the pirates. Susie start kissing Volker, sleeping with him.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
Volker helped Kintaro to train their new MechWarriors, including Laura, but made comments about the pirate's superiority, weakening the morale. When Sturm leaved the base in secret to attempt to rescue his father from the pirate's base, Volker tried to convince Krenner to surrender to Susie, but when he refused, Volker kill him shooting him from the back.[2]
When Susie Ryan's forces located Shangri-La, thanks to a emision of Volker, he keep the lance of Riders on open ground, trapping him in a valley, and even shoot Laura's 'Mech, the bigger in the lance, damagig it. Only then Volker admited he had join the pirates and driven them there.
Susie and Volker expected the remaining Riders surrender, but they were mistaken, and they resist. Volker trapped Laura in a corner, but then, Sturm, who had been captured by the pirates and escaped, joined the fight with his 'Mech. Volker informed Sturm about his killing of Krenner, enraging him and exposing it to a attack from the back from Susie.
However, all Volker's efforts failed: Sturm, with his father's help, located a magma pocket on the mountains, and shoot it with his weapons. The magma flow, burning badly Volker's OmniMech, who barely managed to fall outside the magma, and heavily damaging Susie's Mad Cat. Now undergunned, she agreed to cease the fight.[3]
Volker survived, but was badly burned. Susie asked Sturm to leave her take Volker, and the Rider agreed, putting him in a life support capsule and leaving Kore with him. It remains unknown if Volker survived the trip to Star's End, but Susie Ryan planned to do all the possible to ensure that: she wanted to turning him into a living weapon she planned to use to make Kintaro and his people pay for his defeat.[4]
Personality and traits
Volker, despite being only a year older than Kintaro, always acted asif he was a veteran, and treated Sturm as his was his younger brother. Without any family, his goals were to left Kore behind, making no secret of his ambitions. Considering himself a survivor above all, left behind and his little loyalty to the Lancers, without showing any restraint in trying to demoralize their fellow lancers, without hesitating to kill.
BattleMechs
The first 'Mech of Volker was an old Panther, which replaced with the second heaviest 'Mech of Shangri-La, a Hellhound.
References
Bibliography
- Ghost of Winter (novel)