Editing Cassandra Allard-Liao

'''Cassandra Allard-Liao''' was the second oldest child of [[Justin Allard]] and [[Candace Liao]], as well as the twin sister of [[Kuan-Yin Allard-Liao]]. A [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] and career military officer, Cassandra played a key role in the [[Capellan-St. Ives War]] before becoming a mercenary.

==Biography==
===Early Life===
As with older brother [[Kai Allard-Liao|Kai]], Cassandra trained as a MechWarrior.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', p. 35</ref>

===Outreach===
In [[3051]], Cassandra accompanied her parents and older brother to [[Outreach]] at the invitation of [[Jaime Wolf]]. There, she undertook training and team-building exercises with other heirs to [[Inner Sphere]] nations. During a [[Clan]]-style [[Trial of Position]], Cassandra scored a 189, sixth out of the eight individuals who were put through the combat.<ref>''Blood Legacy'', pp. 17-27, 53-64, 74-80, 98-105, 123-126, 141-150, 163-166, 223-224, 236-239</ref>

===War===
Worried about Chancellor [[Sun-Tzu Liao]] provoking her military into a fight, on 10 August [[3060]] Duchess Candace dispatched Cassandra at the head of a battalion from the [[Second St. Ives Lancers]] to [[Indicass]] to rein in the [[Rubinsky's Light Horse]] regiment of [[Khorsakov's Cossacks]]. Arriving at the Xin Singapore Spaceport on 11 September, Cassandra met Colonel [[Marko Rubinsky]] and his son [[Tamas Rubinsky]]. The father-and-son duo instantly charmed her.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', pp. 34-37, 57-60</ref>

With the war over and the reintegration of the [[St. Ives Compact]] into the [[Capellan Confederation]], Cassandra joined up with Rubinsky's Light Horse. The Light Horse stayed on in the personal employ of Duchess Candace Liao until May [[3067]] when they took a contract with the [[Lyran Alliance]]. Cassandra took over command of the First Battalion to allow Colonel Marko Rubinsky to create a command company.<ref>''Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised'', p. 98</ref>

===Marriage and children===
Cassandra married Tamas Rubinsky and, as of [[3071]], was expecting a child.<ref name=MSU102>''Mercenaries Supplemental Update'', p. 102</ref>

===Republic era===
In [[3085]], Cassandra was in command of the remaining battalion of Rubinsky's Light Horse, station on [[Kowloon]].<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 160</ref>

==BattleMechs==
During her time on Outreach, Cassandra piloted an ''[[Orion]]''.<ref>''Blood Legacy'', p. 105</ref> With the Second St. Ives Lancers in 3060, she was at the helm of a ''[[Cestus]]''.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', p. 122</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*''[[Blood Legacy]]''
*''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
*''[[Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised]]''
*''[[The Killing Fields]]''
*''[[Mercenaries Supplemental Update]]''
*''[[Threads of Ambition]]''

[[Category:House Liao Characters]]
[[Category:Mercenary Characters]]
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 '''Cassandra Allard-Liao''' was the second oldest child of [[Justin Allard]] and [[Candace Liao]], as well as the twin sister of [[Kuan-Yin Allard-Liao]]. A [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]] and career military officer, Cassandra played a key role in the [[Capellan-St. Ives War]] before becoming a mercenary.
-==History==
+==Biography==
-===Early life===
+===Early Life===
 As with older brother [[Kai Allard-Liao|Kai]], Cassandra trained as a MechWarrior.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', p. 35</ref>
 ===Outreach===
-In [[3051]], Cassandra accompanied her parents, older brother, and [[Kuan-Yin Allard-Liao|sister]] to [[Outreach]] at the invitation of [[Jaime Wolf]], the legendary commander of [[Wolf's Dragoons]]. There, as part of the [[Outreach Summit]], she undertook training and team-building exercises with other heirs to the [[Inner Sphere]] nations, seeking to meet the threat of the [[Clan Invasion]]. During what was supposed to be an exercise in team-building among the young royals, Cassandra attacked [[Sun-Tzu Liao]], then the heir to the [[Capellan Confederation]], because the group wanted to use his extra-long fingernails to defuse a bomb. She wrestled him to the ground and threatened to break off one of his nails until stopped by [[Ragnar Magnusson]]. Sun-Tzu, for his part, did nothing to hide his antipathy towards her.<ref>''Blood Legacy'', pp. 17-20, 53-64, 74-76, 98-106, 141-147, 164-165</ref>
+In [[3051]], Cassandra accompanied her parents and older brother to [[Outreach]] at the invitation of [[Jaime Wolf]]. There, she undertook training and team-building exercises with other heirs to [[Inner Sphere]] nations. During a [[Clan]]-style [[Trial of Position]], Cassandra scored a 189, sixth out of the eight individuals who were put through the combat.<ref>''Blood Legacy'', pp. 17-27, 53-64, 74-80, 98-105, 123-126, 141-150, 163-166, 223-224, 236-239</ref>
-During a [[Clan]]-style [[Trial of Position]], Cassandra scored a 189, sixth out of the eight individuals who were put through the combat.<ref>''Blood Legacy'', pp. 223-224</ref>
 ===War===
-Worried about [[Chancellor]] Sun-Tzu Liao of the Capellan Confederation provoking the [[St. Ives Compact]] into a fight, on 10 August [[3060]] Duchess Candace dispatched Cassandra at the head of a battalion from the [[Second St. Ives Lancers]] to [[Indicass]] to rein in the [[Rubinsky's Light Horse]] regiment of [[Khorsakov's Cossacks]]. Arriving at the Xin Singapore Spaceport on 11 September, Cassandra met Colonel [[Marko Rubinsky]] and his son [[Tamas Rubinsky]]. The father-and-son duo instantly charmed her. As the representative of the Duchess, Major Cassandra Allard-Liao assumed command of the defense of Indicass.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', pp. 34-37, 57-60</ref>
+Worried about Chancellor [[Sun-Tzu Liao]] provoking her military into a fight, on 10 August [[3060]] Duchess Candace dispatched Cassandra at the head of a battalion from the [[Second St. Ives Lancers]] to [[Indicass]] to rein in the [[Rubinsky's Light Horse]] regiment of [[Khorsakov's Cossacks]]. Arriving at the Xin Singapore Spaceport on 11 September, Cassandra met Colonel [[Marko Rubinsky]] and his son [[Tamas Rubinsky]]. The father-and-son duo instantly charmed her.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', pp. 34-37, 57-60</ref>
-Using an invasion by a St. Ives battalion commanded by a [[Maskirovka]] spy as pretext, Chancellor Liao, acting in his capacity as [[First Lord]], ordered [[Star League Defense Force]] peacekeepers to St. Ives worlds. Despite the fact that she was supposed to be there to avoid provoking a fight, Cassandra's aggressive actions when the [[Second Oriente Hussars]] landed on Indicass on 1 December played perfectly into her cousin's plan. Though the St. Ives battalion bloodied the Hussars scouts, Colonel Rubinsky pulled his forces back and relieved Cassandra of command once it was clear that the "invaders" were [[Free Worlds League Military]] forces operating under the auspices of the [[Star League]]. Recognizing that her daughter was in over her head, Candace ordered Cassandra's battalion back to [[St. Loris]].<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', p. 77, 122-127, 131, 179-180</ref><ref>''Field Manual: Capellan Confederation'', p. 15, "The St. Ives Conflict"</ref>
-After the Capellans escalated hostilities on Indicass in January [[3061]] by picking a fight with the Light Horse, Cassandra felt vindicated, though it was another month before her mother let her leave St. Loris. She raided [[Milos]] in March, running up against the [[Third Canopian Fusiliers]], a [[Magistracy Armed Forces]] command loaned to the Confederation as part of the [[Trinity Alliance]].<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', pp. 161-169, 188-190, 200-207</ref><ref>''Era Report: 3062'', p. 44, "Third Canopian Fusiliers"</ref>
-Back on Indicass in May, Tamas Rubinsky began courting her in earnest, despite the tense situation.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', pp. 236-239</ref>
-By July, the Compact had lost three worlds, Indicass, [[Denbar]], and [[Vestallas]]. Cassanrda's efforts ensured that the Capellans could not immediately consider the worlds pacified, however.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', p. 261</ref>
+With the war over and the reintegration of the [[St. Ives Compact]] into the [[Capellan Confederation]], Cassandra joined up with Rubinsky's Light Horse. The Light Horse stayed on in the personal employ of Duchess Candace Liao until May [[3067]] when they took a contract with the [[Lyran Alliance]]. Cassandra took over command of the First Battalion to allow Colonel Marko Rubinsky to create a command company.<ref>''Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised'', p. 98</ref>
-The Confederation invaded St. Loris in March [[3062]], a world that was defended by the Light Horse and Cassandra's battalion of the Lancers augmented by [[Home Guard (Capellan Confederation)|Home Guard]] forces. On 3 April, Cassandra took her Lancers on the offensive, intent on flanking [[House Hiritsu]] and the [[Third Confederation Reserve Cavalry]]. A demi-company of Reserve Cavalry overextended themselves and charged at Cassandra's position, intent on taking her down. She turned her company on them and destroyed the [['Mech]]s before they could get her. Weeks later, Cassandra planned another offensive action, this one meant to sever the supply lines of the forces on St. Loris and bog down the [[Teng]] front. She broke her unit down into companies to hit multiple objectives.<ref>''The Killing Fields'', pp. 50-55, 67-69, 102</ref>
-Beginning on 2 May, Thuggee followers of [[Kali Liao]] used a nerve gas agent taken from [[Wei]] to attack "traitor Liaos" in what would become known as [[Black May]]. When the Light Horse received word of the imminent attacks, Tamas Rubinsky took his company out looking for Cassandra. A Confederation [[DropShip]] attacked the forces as they were linking up. Damaged from the DropShip attack, Tamas punched out, directly into the path of a nerve gas cloud. The younger Rubinsky had been affected by the weapon meant for her. She had to explain the ordeal to his father days later. The neurological damage he suffered would never allow him to pilot a 'Mech again with any effectiveness. On the 18th she oversaw a prisoner exchange with House Hiritsu, though [[Aris Sung]] got the better of her when she tried to negotiate a partial withdrawal. By June, Tamas had recovered enough to get around, so Cassandra made plans to relocate the Lancers and stay on the offensive.<ref>''The Killing Fields'', pp. 85-92, 101-105, 108-112, 122, 133-138, 157</ref>
-Cassandra had relocated to [[Ambergrist]] by August and was on [[Tantara]] in September. Her work holding the Teng front along the so-called "St. Loris line" allowed Candace to forge a plan that involved abandoning the St. Ives front, including the capital itself, to hold more of the Compact's worlds.<ref>''The Killing Fields'', pp. 194-200, 251-253, 259</ref>
-A series of ceasefire agreements were implemented and broken beginning in [[3063]]. At the behest of Candace, Kuan Yin negotiated a peace agreement that brought the Compact back into the Confederation as the [[St. Ives Commonality]].<ref>''Field Manual: Capellan Confederation'', p. 16, "The Capellan Solution"</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 65, "Standing Firm"</ref>
-===Postwar===
-With the war over and the reintegration of the St. Ives Compact into the Capellan Confederation, the Light Horse stayed on in the personal employ of Duchess Candace Liao until May [[3067]] when they took a contract with the [[Lyran Alliance]]. Betrothed to Tamas, Cassandra left with them, taking over command of the first battalion to allow Colonel Marko Rubinsky to create a command company.<ref>''Field Manual: Capellan Confederation'', p. 30, "Rubinsky's Light Horse"</ref><ref>''Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised'', p. 98</ref><ref>''Handbook: House Liao'', p. 81, "St. Ives"</ref><ref name=MSU102 />
-===Jihad===
-After leaving the Confederation, the Light Horse settled in on [[Blackjack (system)|Blackjack]], directly across the border from [[Clan Jade Falcon]]. The Falcons took advantage of the chaos caused by the [[Jihad]] and attacked in January [[3069]]. The Light Horse initially beat back the [[3rd Falcon Swoop (Clan Jade Falcon)|Third Swoop Cluster]]. The following day, the Falcons sent a headhunter unit after the regiment's command staff. Colonel Rubinsky anticipated the maneuver and dispatched Cassandra and her battalion on a similar operation against the Falcon's on-world headquarters. Cassandra surprised the Falcons, who could not defend their base for a full ten minutes. At the cost of two 'Mechs, the first battalion nearly annihilated the Falcon base and supplies. When the Third called in reinforcements, the Light Horse quit Blackjack and retreated to [[Melissia]].<ref name=MSU102 />
 ===Marriage and children===
-Cassandra married Tamas Rubinsky and, as of [[3071]], and was expecting a child.<ref name=MSU102>''Mercenaries Supplemental Update'', p. 102</ref>
+Cassandra married Tamas Rubinsky and, as of [[3071]], was expecting a child.<ref name=MSU102>''Mercenaries Supplemental Update'', p. 102</ref>
 ===Republic era===
-The Light Horse held [[Graus]] against the clusters from [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Jade Falcon)|Delta Galaxy]], but could not hold against a second assault by the [[1st Falcon Jaegers (Clan Jade Falcon)|First Falcon Jaegers]].<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', pp. 117-118</ref>
+In [[3085]], Cassandra was in command of the remaining battalion of Rubinsky's Light Horse, station on [[Kowloon]].<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 160</ref>
-In [[3085]], Cassandra was in command of the remaining battalion of Rubinsky's Light Horse, stationed on [[Kowloon]].<ref>''Field Manual: 3085'', p. 160</ref>
 ==BattleMechs==
-During her time on Outreach, Cassandra piloted an ''[[Orion]]''.<ref>''Blood Legacy'', p. 105</ref> With the Second St. Ives Lancers in 3060, she was at the helm of a ''[[Cestus]]''. Notably, her ''Cestus'' appears to be an undocumented jump-capable variant.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', ch. 26, p. 202</ref>
+During her time on Outreach, Cassandra piloted an ''[[Orion]]''.<ref>''Blood Legacy'', p. 105</ref> With the Second St. Ives Lancers in 3060, she was at the helm of a ''[[Cestus]]''.<ref>''Threads of Ambition'', p. 122</ref>
 ==References==
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 ==Bibliography==
-* ''[[Blood Legacy]]'' (novel)
+*''[[Blood Legacy]]''
-* ''[[Era Report: 3062]]''
+*''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
-* ''[[Field Manual: 3085]]''
+*''[[Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised]]''
-* ''[[Field Manual: Capellan Confederation]]''
+*''[[The Killing Fields]]''
-* ''[[Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised]]''
+*''[[Mercenaries Supplemental Update]]''
-* ''[[Handbook: House Liao]]''
+*''[[Threads of Ambition]]''
-* ''[[The Killing Fields]]'' (novel)
-* ''[[Mercenaries Supplemental Update]]''
-* ''[[Shattered Sphere]]''
-* ''[[Threads of Ambition]]'' (novel)
-[[Category:Capellan Confederation Characters|Allard-Liao, Cassandra]]
+[[Category:House Liao Characters]]
-[[Category:St. Ives Compact Characters|Allard-Liao, Cassandra]]
+[[Category:Mercenary Characters]]
-[[Category:Mercenary Characters|Allard-Liao, Cassandra]]
-[[Category:Notable Cestus Pilots|Allard-Liao, Cassandra]]