Janet Rice

Janet Rice
Character Profile
Affiliation Outworlds Alliance
Profession MechWarrior


History[edit]

Janet Rice was a MechWarrior in service to the Alliance Military Corps prior to and during the Jihad. Janet was the daughter of a Periphery trader - who was sometimes described by others as a Kuritan Oil Merchant - and Janet developed the attitude that if something looked too good to be true, then it wasn't true. In later life, this made her distinctly skeptical of the motives of Clan Snow Raven, as the Ravens built relationships with the Outworlds Alliance and laid the groundwork for the formation of the Raven Alliance. Janet feared that ultimately, the Ravens would prove more dangerous to the Outworlds Alliance than the worst Periphery pirates.[1]

Janet served in the Alliance Grenadiers BattleMech regiment; by 3050, Janet had reached the rank of Chairman and was the Commanding Officer of the Grenadiers' First Battalion.[2] During the Clan Invasion era, Janet was given overall command of the Grenadiers, who by that point were considered to be a low-morale rabble with little skill. Janet was given responsibility for transforming the Grenadiers back into an effective combat command, something she worked on through a combination of intensive training and new equipment. By the beginnings of the Jihad, the combination of Janet's actions and some battlefield successes during the increasingly frequent pirate raids plaguing the Outworlds Alliance had worked wonders for the Grenadiers' morale, although the regiment was still considered to be a very green formation.[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, p. 142: "MLN-1A Merlin"
  2. 20 Year Update, p. 79: "Alliance Military Corps Deployment Table"

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