Magon Scott

Magon Scott
Personal
Born	3105
Affiliation	Clan Goliath Scorpion Escorpión Imperio Scorpion Empire
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Position(s)	Khan
Profession	MechWarrior

Magon Scott was a Clan Goliath Scorpion warrior and later Khan of the Empire.

History

Magon Scott was chosen as Khan of the Escorpión Imperio in 3137. The Imperio and the Hanseatic League had been fighting each other in a low intensity set of raids and skirmishes for decades. Tensions ultimately boiled over in 3139. Then, a group of Seekers was found by Hansa forces on Bergen while searching for Star League relics and were slaughter to the last man. Knowing retaliation had to be escalated to end the conflict permanently, he knew the moment for a war of conquest had arrived. To unify his people, Scott proved his cunning by offering a vote to all in the Imperio. While he could have simply ordered the Scorpions forces to go to war, he allowed a representative from each of the non-Warrior castes to vote as the conquest and incorporation of the Hansa would inevitably affect the civilian castes' activities. The response was unanimously favorable: the war would be fought in the name of all Imperio citizens, not only the Scorpion's Warrior caste. The Hanseatic Crusade had begun.

Scott led the Crusade well by using almost all the Imperio's touman outside a skeleton set of clusters, PGC's, and Warships kept in the Imperio to defend against outside threats. With the conflict generally going in the Imperio's favor, he didn't participate on the fight until the Wave 5. By then, he created a new Galaxy, Grunt Galaxy, as an ad hoc unit to unite and administer the strength of all Garrison Caste's Provisional Garrison Clusters, and decided to finish off the Hansa permanently by launching a decapitation strike on Bremen with five Galaxies while the Hansa's RDF's were scattered and distracted.

In both space and on the ground, the Battle of Bremen was hard fought. The Hansa leading officer, Captain-Marshall Rudolf Schmidt, was a cunning leader and losses were growing on both sides. Finally, the 12 October, Scott lead Alpha Galaxy and made the key move. While Scorpions weren't able to penetrate into the capital city, the Khan expected it and planned contingency strategies. As they tied down the defenders, he sent a head-hunting attack unit, which also contained several points of Elementals and led by Star Captain Luko, into penetrating in the capitol's fortifications. Scott expected than the capture of the Council of Merchants will put an end to the fight. He was proven right... but not in the way that he expected. Rather than surrendering, the Merchant Council activated "failsafe" explosive in tunnels beneath the city. Besides slaying themselves alongside their Elemental captors, the action also wound up killing countless civilians, Hansa defenders, and Scorpion Warriors alike. The mass destruction, which ravaged both sides and was blamed on the other in turn, motivated RDF 3 and Tau Galaxy into engaging each other in a merciless frenzy that wiped out RDF 3 to the last man. However, unaware of the Merchant Council's decision and shocked by the devastation, Captain-Marshall Schmidt order all RDF forces in the League to surrender in order to save lives. After mopping up the die-hards who refused to comply, Bremen fell to the Scorpions the same day. After pacifying all the Hansa worlds, Scott announced the formation of the Scorpion Empire with the unification of the Hansa with the Imperio.

The 22 May of 3151, after a Hansa terrorist attack blew the Clan Council Chamber on Braunschweig, Scott went to a hospital to have a meeting with the Star Colonel Peter Noye and Galaxy Commander Emmy Line who were wounded in the attack. The Khan wasn't there only to see them, but also to talk with Line about the Empire's internal problems. The tensions caused by mutual animosity between the traditionalist Preservers, who mistreated lower castes and Freeborn, and the absorbed civilians form the Empire's preceding nations (most recently the Hansa), was motivating an endless cycle of oppression and retaliation with the situation only worsening by day. To protect their civilians while gaining their trust, Scott wanted to reform to the Empire's government creating a new position, the ZarKhan, to lead the civilian half of the Empire's management. He also wanted Emmy to become the first ZarKhan, as she was the only member of the reformist Imperials who was Galaxy Commander of Hanseatic Freeborn descent in the Empire. And as a trump card, the Imperials would rally the entirety of the Empire in defending their realm and ways of life against any outsiders once they revealed the creation of the IlClan and the risk the IlKhan would demand their fealty without concessions. But to do so, the Khan wanted to weaken the Preservers, reducing their numbers in the inevitable Trials of Refusal which they will launch to oppose the reform. Knowing she would be inevitably targeted again and again by the Preservers until the final vote, Emmy reluctantly agreed.

In the next few weeks, the Preservers and Imperials were at each other's throats in multiple combat Trials to thin each faction's ranks. His rank allowed him to reject many of the challenges, however. Once the voting was over, Magon faced the final Trial of Refusal. In this one, Scott led the Imperial defenders to victory after killing the Galaxy Commander Miros Baba of Tau Galaxy.

BattleMech

Magon's 'Mech was a Warhawk.

Bibliography

• Moving Forward in Shrapnel#6
• Operational Turning Points: Hanseatic Crusade