BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks' Inception/The Citadel

The following text is displayed when Jason enters the Citadel during his training at the Pacifica Academy:

• You are standing in the House Steiner citadel, the center of Lyran Commonwealth operations on Pacifica. The sentry recognizes you as the son of the Captain of security forces, and informs Katrina that you wish to speak to her. She agrees, and you are escorted into her plush offices.

If no training missions have been completed yet:

• Katrina: “Hellooo, Jason. How are you? How is your training coming? I see that you haven’t completed a mission at the training center yet. You know, you really should. That’s what you’re here for, after all.”

• Katrina: “Well, must be off. I have preparations to make for the wedding, you know.”

If at least one training mission has been completed:

• Katrina congratulates you on your efforts to graduate, and hopes that you will be as capable a MechWarrior as your father. She cautions you not to neglect the other areas of your training, such as the combat classes offered here.

• Before you can get a word in edgewise, she is bombarded by a flurry of interruptions from her offices, and is swept away in a blizzard of paperwork.

If Jason elects to visit the Citadel's museum:

• Our first exhibit is a portrait of the Archon herself, Katrina Steiner, Duchess of Tharkad. Katrina is here on Pacifica for a short while, on her way to the Federated Suns for the marriage of her daughter, Melissa.

• Here we have a picture of one of the many BattleMechs that help to protect our Commonwealth from the Liao, Marik, and Kurita invaders. This example is a Locust, a very common ‘Mech, armed with a medium laser and machine guns instead of hands.

• This is an extremely rare ‘Mech, a Phoenix Hawk LAM. This ‘Mech can convert from a normal ‘Mech to an aerospace fighter, or a hybrid mode pictured here. There are very few MechWarriors who can pilot these complex machines. Perhaps the most skilled and famous is our own Security chief, Jeremiah Youngblood.

• This is Edward Tellhim, an extremely brilliant scientist responsible for much of the recovered technology we have today. He is also somewhat eccentric, and retired somewhere north on Pacifica to be away from people. Some rumors say that he is still alive, but he hasn’t been seen in years.

• Depicted here is one of the Defiance Industries BattleMech factories on Hesperus II. This is one example of the Commonwealth’s superiority in manufacturing and commerce among the Successor States.

• Our last exhibit shows the Battle of Mallory’s World, 12 years ago. Here, a lance of the Steiner mercenary unit Kell Hounds fought off a determined Kurita invasion. The Hounds stayed hidden in the trees, where they were difficult to hit, while Jeremiah Youngblood used his LAM’s superior maneuverability to drive the Dracos off.