Jessica Carson

Jessica Carson
Character Profile
Died 30 November, 3063[1]
Affiliation Lyran Alliance
Rank Leftenant General[2]
Profession MechWarrior[1]

Jessica Carson was the commanding officer of the Third Lyran Regulars as of 3062.[2]

History[edit]

Leftenant General Carson, serving with the Third Lyran Regulars, was stationed on Pitkin in 3062. Having taken charge of the unit soon after its return to its despised posting in the Draconis March of the Federated Suns after a period of equally-maligned rear-echelon service in the Lyran Alliance, Carson only avoided being lynched by her troops due to her avid loyalty to the Lyran government. While Carson was the best soldier the Federated Commonwealth could produce - being an avid student of both military history and politics- only by playing upon the Third Regulars' deep resentments was she able to keep the unit together.[2]

Once the Federated Commonwealth Civil War began in earnest, Carson and the Third Regulars were dispatched to Woodbine in late 3063 in order to prevent Tancred Sandoval from obtaining another anti-Katherine Steiner-Davion support base.[3] By the time that Sandoval and his forces- consisting of the battered Mayetta Draconis March Militia and a combat command of the Third Crucis Lancers -arrived on Woodbine on 4 September, Carson had already taken Woodbine's ruling House Rein into protective custody. While crossing the Darrant River proved to be more costly to his forces than he originally anticipated, the Third Regulars detachment holding the Reins was quickly crushed once Tancred's forces completed their maneuver. Carson's Regulars were forced to defend Woodbine's capital of Gastogne with relatively little armor and miltia support and the arrival of the First Crucis Lancers on 30 September only served to worsen Carson's predicament. Still, Carson retained some advantages in her prodigious use of artillery against the Mayetta DMM and her access to Woodbine's logistics centers, while Tancred was further hampered by the wavering support of the Rein family in light of Duke James Sandoval's disapproval for his son's actions.[1]

When Tancred pushed a reinforced battalion of armor into Carson's rear, it severely damaged the Third Regulars' artillery but instigated a counterattack that forced Tancred's force into the swamps of Molson's Wash and destroyed two of the Mayetta DMM's combat commands. Unfortunately for Carson, the fresh troops of the First Crucis Lancers did not break and instead launched their own counterattack that split her Third Regulars in half. Carson lost Gastogne on 23 November upon the arrival of Marshal Mordecai Rand-Davion with yet more Crucis Lancers, retreating eighty kilometers to the city of Rhinehold, but even this wasn't enough to preserve her unit. Although the Lancers were dealt heavy casualties in their haste to end the battle quickly, once Carson was killed at the controls of her BattleMech on 30 November, the majority of the Third Regulars surrendered.[1]

BattleMechs[edit]

Leftenant General Jessica Carson piloted a Gunslinger BattleMech and died along with it in the battle for Rhinehold.[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 FedCom Civil War, p. 79: "Woodbine- Wave Two"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Field Manual: Lyran Alliance, p. 86: "3rd Lyran Regulars Unit Profile"
  3. FedCom Civil War, p. 65: "Strategic Movements- Wave One"

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