Siyanda Ashanti

Siyanda Ashanti
Character Profile
Born 3100
Died 3132
Affiliation Republic of the Sphere
Title(s) Knight

Siyanda Ashanti was a Knight of the Republic.[1]

History[edit]

She was sent to Proserpina to investigate several incidents. She discovered that a movement called Combine Now!, backed by backed by several prominent Draconis Combine businessmen went from political advocacy to violent confrontation with the outbreak of riots on Proserpina in June 3132. Her arrival seemed to calm things down, and by the 19th of February they tried to assassinate her.[2][1]

Ashanti entered the Combine Now! movement headquarters and arrested more than a dozen conspirators. When they were going to be judged, they were freed by a rogue 'Mech force, led by a Black Hawk. She led a small force in search of the rogues and caught up with them before they made it back to their DropShip but found her forces outnumbered by two–to one. She nevertheless led her troops into battle, charging into the fray in her Atlas. The Black Hawk and its compatriots singled her out from the start, and eventually brought her down, but not before she felled the Black Hawk. The serious damage she dealt to them, and her death simultaneously threw her MechWarriors into a rage and the rogues into a panic. her put down the rogues and recaptured the surviving conspirators minutes after her heroic death. A day later, the combined population and citizens of Proserpina rose up in Ashanti's memory and rid their world of Combine Now!.[1][2]

BattleMech[edit]

She piloted an Atlas.[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dark Age: 3132-3134 INN, p. 21 "Knight Siyanda Ashanti Killed in Action"
  2. 2.0 2.1 Era Digest: Dark Age, p. 22 "OTHER GROUPS"

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