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'''Willard Theodore Puritan''', better known under the name of '''Kangaroo Jack''', was a notorious smuggler and captain of the [[JumpShip]] "Stone Arrow" that was known to travel between the [[Steiner]] world of [[Dustball]] and the [[Davion]] and [[Kurita]] space.
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As of [[3024]], '''Willard Theodore Puritan''', better known under the name of '''Kangaroo Jack''', was a notorious smuggler and captain of the [[JumpShip]] ''[[Stone Arrow]]'' that was known to travel between the [[Federated Suns]], [[Lyran Commonwealth]], and [[Draconis Combine]] space.
 
  
==History==
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His trademark was a bush hat with the rim pinned up to the crown by a tiny kangaroo.
Puritan's trademark was a bush hat with the rim pinned up to the crown by a tiny kangaroo. He did not get along well with his brother [[Wendall Puritan]], who piloted a [[Scorpion (BattleMech)|''Scorpion'']] for [[Smithson's Chinese Bandits]].
 
  
Kangaroo Jack worked with Draconis Combine crime lord [[Grig Griez]]. It was his ship, the ''Stone Arrow'', that brought the [[Dark Wing (Mercenary Command)|Dark Wing]] unit to [[Ander's Moon]] during [[Operation Inroad]] in April 3024. He was subsequently tracked down by [[Gideon Braver]] on a world in the Federated Suns (randomized in the game, but usually [[Okefenokee]] or [[Tancredi IV]]) sometime between 3024 and 3028, but was murdered before Gideon Braver could talk to him; the assassin, a known gangland assassin known as Grim Jim, was also found dead.
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He did not get along well with his brother [[Wendall Puritan]], who piloted a [[Scorpion (BattleMech)]] for [[Smithson's Chinese Bandits]].
  
==Canonicity==
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Kangaroo Jack was associated with [[Draconis Combine]] crimelord [[Grig Griez]]. It was his ship that brought the [[Dark Wing]] unit to Ander's Moon during [[Operation Inroad]] in April [[3024]]. He was subsequently tracked down by [[Gideon Braver]] on a world in the [[Federated Suns]] (random, but usually [[Okefenokee]] or [[Tancredi IV]]) sometime between 3024 and 3028, but was murdered before Gideon Braver could talk to him; the assassin, a known gangland assassin known as Grim Jim, was in turn killed by Gideon Braver in self defense.
Willard Puritan appears in the ''[[MechWarrior (1989 Video Game)|MechWarrior]]'' video game.
 
  
The game, and therefore its storyline, is [[Canon|apocryphal]] (see section about Canonicity in the game's article): It is expressly not included among the list of canonical sources for the [[BattleTech]] universe, but it has also been said that, until contradicted, information from certain sources including this one "can be assumed to be part of the shared universe if it makes sense". MechWarrior in particular is one of the computer games where the storyline is widely treated as canonical.
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=Other Information=
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*''Kangaroo Jack'' is a prominent background character in the 1989 Activision computer game [[MechWarrior_I|MechWarrior]], where the player takes the role of Gideon Braver in his quest to find out about and stall ''Operation Inroad'', and reclaim the Chalice. He has to find out about the "Stone Arrow" and track down Kangaroo Jack over the course of the storyline.
  
==Notes==
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[[Category:People|Puritan, Willard Theodore]]
*''Kangaroo Jack'' is a prominent background character in the 1989 Activision computer game [[MechWarrior (1989 Video Game)|MechWarrior]], where the player takes the role of Gideon Braver in his quest to find out about and stall ''Operation Inroad'', and reclaim the [[Chalice of Herne]]. Over the course of the storyline, he has to find out about the ''Stone Arrow'' and track down Kangaroo Jack.
 
*At one point in the game the player has a choice of whether or not to go to a certain address to presumably meet Kangaroo Jack. If the player elects to follow the lead he finds Jack's dead body and can then either flee or shoot the assassin in self defense. However, the deaths of both Kangaroo Jack and Grim Jim are inevitable in the story. The report about the murder of Kangaroo Jack as well as the death of his presumed assassin will appear on the news, regardless of what choices the player makes.
 
 
 
==References==
 
* ''[[MechWarrior (1989 Video Game)|MechWarrior]]'' (1989 video game)
 
 
 
[[Category:Apocryphal articles|Puritan, Willard Theodore]]
 
[[Category:Video Game Characters|Puritan, Willard Theodore]]
 

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