Paula Trevaline
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Paula Trevaline (Born 2991[1] - Death 3075[2]), who was better known as Lady Death, who's arrogant and cruel ways were well known. She was known for the Bravado personality that allowed her climb the ranks of Pirate clan. Her principle goals were to accumulate as much wealth and power at the expense of others. When she captures she was delighted in humiliating them before executing them.
In her prime in 3025, she was Tall & Muscular, with long waist-length red hair with gray eyes. She was known to coat her long fingernails with poison nail polish on them.[3]
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Character History
Early Life and Rise to Power
Trevaline was born on the Periphery world of Tortuga Prime, a child of reluctant pirate Gunnery Master. At age eleven, she would killed her first rival. She would proceed on path to become a pirate, climbing up its ranks.
In 3015, she had become Senior Mate on the Tortuga City's Council of the Damned. During this year she a had fencing match with then reigning monarch ruler of the Pirates and the Dominion, Lord Kalvin Bar-Dyness. In this match, her skills allowed to achieve one her life goals, become supreme leader of the Pirates of Tortuga Dominion. She gave herself the self-titles of Dame Murderess Extraordinaire.[4]
Early Piracy Career and Imprisonment
During the first stretch of her career as Pirate Queen of the Tortunga Dominion, she employed her Pirates in Federated Suns and near-by Periphery nation states. She continue maintain her throne of power with has been described as armies of cutthroat-like assassins. However, she had been known to taken down opponents to her rule by lethal poison nails.
However, 3042, the 9th FedCom RCT was dispatched to Periphery by First Prince Hanse Davion to hunt Trevaline down. The conflict cost the Davion's' over nine hundred infantry, a battalion Armor Vehicles, and two companies of BattleMechs. However, in the end, they succeeding in capturing Lady Death and bring her to justice on New Syrtis. There she was sent to maximum-security prison for twenty-two years, until she managed to escape her Davion captors in 3064 during the FedCom Civil War. [5]
Later Piracy Career
Formation of Death's Consorts and the Pirates Haven Star Cluster
Once free of her imprisonment on New Syrtis, Trevaline returned to her old career of piracy. She had learned bitter lessons from her fall from power in the Tortuga Dominion. She headed to Verdigreis, where she sent out a call for new recruits to join her. From thousands of pirates who answered the call, she selected only the elite of these warriors to form her new pirate band, the Death's Consorts. She had other potential recruits go to the Pirate's Haven Star Cluster to meet her there. She quickly, commenced the first pirate raids with the Consorts against Althea's Choice, where they resupplied themselves.
After arriving at the Pirate's Haven Star Cluster, she moved her forces to the only inhabitable planet in the system. There she seized control of the planet and the cluster from the Pirate Lord, Bloody James Kaiten.[6] Migrations of Pirates from her old holdings, as well other pirate bands, continued to flock to join her in the Cluster.
In the years after taking the Pirate's Cluster. She setup, and fortified her position, where she began to have her techs build their own light BattleMechs from supplies and parts acquired in their raids over the years. The Brigand, been used as means to make money as well as strengthen her pirate band. She had it designed so its armor is weak in back, to guarantee her MechWarriors would keep fighting and not retreat.[7]
By 3067, her band had been benefited from the secession of the Calderon Protectorate from Taurian Concordat and the death of two of its worlds.[8] She began striking the Protectorate with the new Battle Armor her raiding forces had been fielding.[9]
The Jihad and Her Demise
During the Jihad, Lady Death led her Death's Consorts in assaulting her own former kingdom the Tortuga Dominion, destroying its current rulers the pirate band known as the Tortuga Fusiliers.[10]. After reasserting her control over the Dominion, she then moved on to enter the service of the Malagrotta Cooperative with a Letter of Marque. Which she leads her people into fighting pirate invested Cooperative, as mercenaries. However, in October, 3076, she is allegedly murdered by Cooperative elected leader Marion Whillshire.[11])
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Notes
Though not publicly known, Word of Blake had aided Lady Death in early 3060s just as she escaped New Syrtis. However, nature of the aid has never been specified.[13][14]
References
- ↑ The Periphery, p. 154 - Age 34, source game year it was published was 3025.
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076 p. 51 - Under New Management - Gary Tiqualme announce murder of Paula Trevaline.
- ↑ The Periphery, p. 154 - Personal Profile of Lady Death Paula Trevaline.
- ↑ The Periphery (1988), p. 154 - Early Life of Paul Trevaline.
- ↑ Field Manual: Periphery, pp. 124-125 - Paula Lady Death Trevaline - The Lady Death - Brief history & update profile up to 3064 of Paula Trevaline.
- ↑ Field Manual: Periphery, p. 126 - Death's Consorts unit profile - Lady Death's career after imprisonment & her new realm.
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3067, p. 46 - Brigand - Lady Death has her own Light 'Mech produced in the Haven Star Cluster.
- ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 199 - Formation of Calderon and death of two Concordat worlds allows for Lady Death's band to prosper.
- ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 11 - Calderon Protectoate is hit by Lady Death's new Battle Armor which is been rumored by intel.
- ↑ Masters & Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers p. 239 - Tortuga Prime - Lady Death & her Consorts retake Tortuga Dominion from Tortuga Fusiliers.
- ↑ Jihad Hot Spots: 3076, p. 51 - Under New Management - Announcement of Lady Death's murder by Malagrotta elected leader.
- ↑ Field Manual: The Periphery, p. 130 - Tortuga Fusiliers - Twyla Sumeral and her former mercenaries take over control of the Dominion in 3054.
- ↑ Field Manual: Updates p. 199 - Lady Death Trevaline has Word of Blake messenger flogged with message her debt paided in full.
- ↑ Handbook: Major Periphery States, p. 111 - Rumor of Word of Blake operatives secretly meeting with Lady Death.