Anita Chu Lai

Anita Chu Lai
Character Profile
Affiliation Waco Rangers
Rank Captain
Profession MechWarrior

Captain Anita Chu Lai was a member of the Waco Rangers from at least 3025 to 3058.[1][2][3]

History[edit]

Early Career[edit]

In 3025, Anita Chu Lai was a sergeant within the Waco Rangers' Winston's Scout Lance, Kelly's Headquarters Company of the Second Battalion (Kelly's Support Battalion).[1]

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The information after this notice comes from apocryphal sources; the canonicity of such information is uncertain.
Please view the reference page for information regarding their canonicity.


Blazing Aces[edit]

In the 1989 MechWarrior video game, which is set between ca. 3024 and 3028, A. Chu Lai appears as a mercenary MechWarrior who is "formerly a Javelin pilot in Winston's Scout Lance, Waco Rangers," and a possible recruit for the Blazing Aces. This suggests she left the Waco Rangers (at least temporarily) sometime between ca. 3025 and 3028.

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Nockatunga[edit]

On 9 September 3032, Anita Chu Lai, still (or again) a sergeant with the Waco Rangers and piloting a Javelin, was part of a scout contingent (elements of Kelly's Support Battalion, namely Winston's Scout Lance and Kelly's Scout Lance) that fought against Snord's Irregulars on Nockatunga, where the Rangers unsuccessfully tried to lure the Irregulars into a trap in the city of Thule using Demmings Crystal as bait. Seeing through the trap, Snord's Irregulars liberated the bait in a commando action. Winston's Scout Lance spotted Irregulars' 'Mechs in Thule and the Rangers units attempted to break free of the Irregulars' jamming range to warn Colonel Wayne Waco that his trap was up. Only one of the five Waco Ranger 'Mechs – two Javelins, two Jenners and a Wasp – escaped; it was not specified which one but according to a witness both Jenners were destroyed and the escaping 'Mech was apparently one of the Javelins which was said in the same sentence to have been "finished off" but also "still up and running" (which may mean the 'Mech retreated but had suffered crippling damage, or was otherwise neutralized as a combatant). It may or may not have been Anita Chu Lai's.[3]

Coventry[edit]

By 3058, Chu Lai had been promoted to captain and was part of the Waco Rangers' contribution to the Coventry Expeditionary Force, which fought against Clan Jade Falcon during the Battle of Coventry. On 21 April, Chu Lai participated in the Waco Rangers' attempt to flank the Jade Falcon forces via the Dales Highlands on Coventry, which blundered into a Jade Falcon ambush. The Rangers suffered heavy casualties in this battle, including the capture of Colonel Wayne Rogers.[2] Chu Lai was however one who managed to pull back towards the Tenth Skye Rangers, under the command of Hauptmann Caradoc Trevena, who fought a rear-guard action to aid the mercenaries' retreat.[4]

BattleMech[edit]

Anita Chu Lai was known to have initially piloted, from at last 3025 to 3032, a Javelin BattleMech.[1][3] By 3058 however she was piloting a WR-DG-02FC War Dog.[2]

Notes[edit]

Anita Chu Lai's name is spelled in some sources as "Anita Chi Lai."[5]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mercenary's Handbook, p. 88
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Battle of Coventry, p. 42
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rhonda's Irregulars, p. 43
  4. The Battle of Coventry, p. 44
  5. The Battle of Coventry, p. 45

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