Satinka

Satinka
Personal
Also known asWinter Lady,
Brenda Winter
AffiliationDark Caste
Clan Wolf (former)
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ProfessionElemental
Family
SpouseGarmen Kerensky
ChildrenAndery Winter

Satinka was a Dark Caste key leader who had previously been an Elemental Warrior Caste washout.

History[edit]

Warrior Caste[edit]

The individual who would later become known as Satinka was a trueborn Elemental phenotype who was born into the Warrior Caste of Clan Wolf, in the same sibko as Garmen Kerensky. Both were of Andery Kerensky's lineage.

Satinka failed in her Trial of Position due to the unlikely circumstance of missing with every single missile shot, her battle armor communication malfunctioning, and its motive system freezing. Satinka was dismissed from the Warrior Caste for this poor performance, since she could not prove that her equipment had been sabotaged.[1]

Merchant Caste and Dark Caste[edit]

After being dismissed from the Warrior Caste, Satinka tested down to the Clan Wolf Merchant Caste. A merchant named Jarlath became her mentor, but after Jarlath was murdered by another merchant, the enraged Satinka killed her mentor's murderer and the murderer's bodyguards. Consequently, Satinka was forced to flee to the Dark Caste with the assistance of another merchant named Zorian.

Zorian was the Guildmaster of the Red Willows Free Guild but also was the Zimniy Korol – Winter King – leader of the Snezhnyye Siroty – Winter Orphans – one of the most powerful Dark Caste organizations.[2]

Satinka became Zorian's protégée, with Zorian teaching Satinka everything about the legal and illegal sides of the guild. After Zorian died, Satinka replaced Zorian, adopting Zorian's dual life as the new Guildmaster in the Merchant Caste and adopting the title of Zimnyaya Ledy, the Winter Lady, in the Dark Caste.[3]

Satinka's role in Operation SPATHA II[edit]

In 3071, Satinka heard about a new weapons dealer in Katyusha City, a male Elemental, and she organized a meeting to buy from him, on 10 July, through Balbas, her second-in-command. Maybe she suspected who he was, but seeing him face-to-face, she recognized him as Garmen. After unmasking herself, both agreed to make business together.[4]

Satinka's people continued doing business with Garmen's for months, and slowly their relationship grew, first with her sharing why she failed in her Trial of Position, for which she suspected another sibkin, Laya. Garmen told her how Laya had died crushed by a Hell's Horses 'Mech, and Satinka found it appropriate. Soon after, she and Garmen became lovers. He didn't share why he was there, but she guessed it on her own and offered him her people's aid in gathering intelligence and he agreed.[5]

Satinka's assistance proved invaluable to Garmen's team, who were to execute Operation SPATHA, part of Operation DAMOCLES II, a Clan Wolf series of attacks to claim all Bloodhouse Kerensky legacies in the Clan Homeworlds. Garmen's team was to board the WarShip McKenna's Pride and steal General Aleksandr Kerensky's coffin; Satinka's people helped them buy a DropShip, the Botany Bay.[6]

When the Wolves attacked, they turned all of Katuysha City into a battlefield, and Garmen returned to Satinka two weeks later; they'd lost the Botany Bay and five men. Satinka had lost dozens of men and most of their guild's revenue but had survived. Each group needed the other's assistance, so a formal alliance was made, and Garmen's team became the Winter Lady's group enforcers and trainers.[7]

Four years later, in 3075, Satinka's people controlled about 80 percent of all illegal activities in Katyusha City, thanks to the chaos of the Wars of Reaving, which were still raging, and to the assistance of Garmen's people. SPATHA's survivors trained the Winter Lady's enforcers, and only fought in the most important actions, while they prepared SPATHA II.[8] Toward the end of the year, Satinka suggested creating a suicide unit to attack the Space Control Center of Katyusha City. She helped Garmen recruit Stas, an old Wolf MechWarrior who held a deep grudge against the Grand Council. He agreed, and recruited first three other former Wolves, and later a full Trinary, which became the Retribution Wraiths.[7]

While SPATHA II was being prepared, Satinka's acquisitions, which were meant not only for SPATHA, but also to relocate part of her people, including her, to the Inner Sphere, attracted the attention of Ebon Keshik analyst Kyne, who correctly identified Garmen and Satinka as the key enforcer of the Winter Lady and the Lady herself, respectively.[9]

On 30 August, Katyusha Keshik forces assaulted the hotel were Satinka and Garmen were sleeping, but thanks to a warning from an inside source, they were prepared and managed to escape, shooting their way out.[10]

After that, Satinka's people vanished and her official existence as a guild leader ceased, but the Katyusha Keshik forces were unable to seize more than a little part of her resources.[11]

On 5 April 3076, SPATHA II was finally launched; Garmen and Satinka's people who would leave the Clan Homeworlds attacked together, taking the McKenna's Honor DropShip and later boarding the Pride. But when Garmen's people attempted to recover the "Great Father's" coffin, they had problems, and Garmen decided to take the WarShip with them. As she had more JumpShip experience, Garmen gave the command position to Satinka.[12]

She did a good job, and after a long pursuit, they managed to escape the system and join with Satinka's people's fleet.[13]

During the way through the Exodus Road, she became pregnant and had a child with Garmen, a boy whom they named Andery, in honor of their common ancestor. Before Garmen's people joined up with Wolf forces, Satinka and her people separated from them.[14] However, despite Satinka's departure, the Winter Lady stayed alive; Balbas, who succeeded her, keep the mythical leader active using four body doubles – succeeding her, but keeping himself in the shadows.[15]

Dark Age Era[edit]

Satinka apparently vanished after separating her fleet from the Pride, but, after the end of the Word of Blake Jihad, Garmen, who had become a Republic of the Sphere soldier, married a merchant named Brenda Winter, having a son with her, whom they named Andery Winter. Both the same name for their son and Brenda's family name, almost identical to her Dark Caste title, clearly imply that Brenda was the identity taken by Satinka.[16]

Physical description[edit]

Satinka was described as tall, but lean and trim, instead of bulky, with a beautiful face and sparkling blue eyes.[17]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Icons of War, p. 24
  2. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 24–25
  3. ↑ Icons of War, p. 25
  4. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 16–17
  5. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 26–27
  6. ↑ Icons of War, p. 29
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Icons of War, pp. 36–37
  8. ↑ Icons of War, p. 39
  9. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 52–53
  10. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 58–61
  11. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 62–63
  12. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 119–120
  13. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 173–175
  14. ↑ Icons of War, p. 181
  15. ↑ Icons of War, pp. 64–65
  16. ↑ IlClan, p. 19
  17. ↑ Icons of War, p. 19

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