Calista Monroe (testing)

Name: Calista Monroe

Rank: Captain

DoB: 10-16-3027

Affiliated Faction: Magistracy of Canopus

Homeworld: Canopus IV

Description
5'11" and extremely fit, she's the kind of girl that dreams are made of. She favors practical military garb and is always armed.

Traits
Highly trained and supremely confident, Calista still strongly believes in the necessity of traditional infantry even with the growing popularity of power armored infantry in the Inner Sphere. She takes her role very seriously, and considers the Strykers' power armored units, especially the Clan Elementals, to be rivals. Her priorities in any combat situation are always the mission first, the lives of her men second, and her orders third. To her, enemy 'Mechs are dangerous but juicy targets, and she has a reputation for taking them down with little more than grappling hooks and shaped charges.

Equipment
Sternsnacht Python Auto-Pistol

Rorynex RM-3/XXI Submachinegun

Federate-Barrett M42-B Rifle System

Public Bio
Born and raised in the Magistracy of Canopus, Calista's parents were both MechWarriors in the Magistracy Armed Forces. They died in the failed invasion of the Cappellan Confederation during the Andurien Succession and Calista was placed into government care. While initially intending to become a MechWarrior, a rare neurological condition kept her from being able to successfully use a neurohelm. She enlisted in the MAF on her 18th birthday, joining the First Canopian Cuirassiers as General Infantry. The Magistracy was able to hire a Grey Death Legion infantry adviser to train up elite anti-mech infantry, and Calista's unit was picked to receive the training shortly after her graduation from Officer Candidate School.

The Anti-Mech company was regularly split into independent squads and sent around the Magistracy to be utilized by local garrisons. Not pleased with her unit being broken up, Calista chose not to reenlist and traveled to the Inner Sphere looking for merc work. She was briefly with the 21st Centauri Lancers, but a behavior incident led to her dismissal. She was picked up by the 201st Strykers in 3053, who were looking to create a small special forces infantry unit after multiple encounters with nontraditional engagements in recent years.

Though unable to mount the sheer brute force capability of the unit's Battle Armor forces, Calista's unit is extremely capable in infiltration and extraction missions, and is regularly hired out separate from the 201st's 'Mech forces to provide security for VIPs or other missions where traditional 'Mech forces can't operate.