Editing Daniel Brewer

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| caption             = Daniel Brewer in 3067
| name                = Daniel Brewer
| birthdate           = [[3035]]{{cn}}
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| othernames          = Daniel Brewster
| affiliation         = [[House Brewer]]
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| title               = [[Duke of Hesperus II]]
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| profession          = Noble
| parents             = [[Randolph Brewer]] (father)<ref name=OEc15>''Operation Excalibur'', ch. 15</ref><br>[[Clarissa Brewer]] (mother)<ref name=OEc15/>
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'''Daniel Brewer''' was [[Duke]] of [[Hesperus II]] and an officer in the Gray Death Legion.

==History==
Daniel was named [[Duke of Hesperus II]] after his parents died in a VTOL accident in [[3051]]; he was little more than a figurehead for Marshal [[Brandal Gareth]]s, secret aspirations to create his own state. He seized the opportunity to "tutor" the young Duke Daniel, taking advantage of the boy's idealism and dream of becoming a MechWarrior. Gareth separated him from the rest of his surviving family and secretly assumed control of [[Defiance Industries]]. Gareth launched what he dubbed "[[Operation Excalibur]]", a plan to secede the [[Isle of Skye]] and create his own state, which he called "the Free Star Republic". The young duke dreamt to be a MechWarrior, but Gareth only left him to briefly pilot the prototype 'Mech of Defiance Industries' new ''Defiance'' during his presentation.

When the [[Gray Death Legion]] attacked his factory from the inside, Daniel saw his opportunity: using his great knowledge of the place, he infiltrated the factory to take the prototype and used it to attack the Legion. Damaged and weakened, they were on the verge of defeat, and Daniel was helping make that defeat possible. However, in a desperate move, [[Lori Kalmar]], the new leader of the Legion, dumped a bucket of molten metal over his 'Mech. With his 'Mech overheated, Daniel ejected inside the building. It was a suicide move but, incredibly, he survived when his parachute was caught on the roof supports, and was rescued afterwards. [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] forgave him as he hadn't any knowledge of Gareth's plans and he enlisted in the Legion temporarily, making his dream of becoming a MechWarrior come true.

The Duke served in the Legion for seven years, and in 3065 he has the rank of captain. When the Gray Death Legion was sent by [[Katherine Steiner-Davion]] to defend Hesperus II of the Skye Separatists, during the [[FedCom Civil War]], Daniel found himself in a difficult position, with the double place as CEO of DefHes and his position in the Legion, as the Hesperus board of directors considered him more loyal to the unit than to his company, and were very hostile to the Legion, which had attacked the planet years before. However, he did all he could to unite the two sides.<ref>''The Dying Time'', p. 62</ref>

Daniel distinguished himself when the Maglev train which the Legion was using to cross the planet came under attack by rebels, crashing and killing some legionnaires. Lori Kalmar was presumed killed and [[Davis McCall]]'s 'Mech was crippled, so McCall Daniel in the charge of the defense against the overwhelming rebel attack. Daniel managed to drive back the attackers, being commended by Lori after the battle.<ref>''The Dying Time'', p. 191</ref> Daniel survived the Legion's destruction, and was one of the few Legion's officers to do it. He incorporated the remnants of the Legion into [[Defiance Self-Protection Force]]. They would later become known as [[Brewer's Legion]].<ref>''FedCom Civil War'', p. 147</ref>

===Jihad===
When the Blakists attacked and seized the vital industrial world at the beginning of the [[Jihad]], they placed Daniel under house arrest after he refused to flee the planet. While he occasionally would feign cooperation with the occupation, making public broadcasts calling for an end to violence and resistance, he also covertly stayed in touch with the LCAF and Devlin Stone through a hidden [[Black Box]]. Using his inside information to help coordinate the planet's liberation, he was badly injured during the coalition assault on the world in [[3074]]. Brewer directed his company to spend the next few years determining the extent of the damage that the Word had done to the facilities on their way out.<ref>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 97</ref> Brewer was badly injured during the liberation of Hesperus II, suffering fractures in his hip and femur which were complicated by infection. Brewer had still not fully recovered from his injuries by 3077, leaving him unable to pilot a BattleMech.<ref>''Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers'', p. 256</ref>

===Death and Legacy===
Daniel carried the ignominious distinction of being the first (and so far, only) Duke to lose Hesperus II to an invader.{{cn}}

==BattleMechs==
Daniel Brewer piloted a ''[[Defiance (BattleMech)|Defiance]]'' BattleMech, the first prototype built, during the Gray Death Legion's assault on the factories of Hesperus II. Later, as a captain of the Legion, he piloted a ''[[Champion]]''.{{cn}}

==Other Appearances==
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In the ''[[MechWarrior IV: Mercenaries]]'' computer game, due to timeline, the information states that Daniel Brewer worked in secret with [[Alexander Carlyle]] to rebuild the Gray Death Legion after their destruction on Hesperus II.
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[The Dying Time]]'' (novel)
* ''[[FedCom Civil War]]''
* ''[[Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers]]''
* ''[[Operation Excalibur]]'' (novel)


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