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Henry Kincaid | |
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| Personal | |
| Also known as | "Hack" |
| Affiliation | Wolf's Dragoons |
| Career | |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Profession | MechWarrior |
Henry Kincaid was a 32nd Century MechWarrior and officer in the Wolf's Dragoons mercenary unit.
Contents
History
Dark Age
Major Henry "Hack" Kincaid was a MechWarrior in the Spider's Web Battalion of Wolf's Dragoons. He helped capture an Overlord-C DropShip from Clan Jade Falcon on Great X which was rechristened the Jaime Wolf, one of four DropShips that Kincaid helped capture during his career as a Major.[1]
3139-3140
Colonel Kincaid was commanding officer of the Spider's Web Battalion during the time that Wolf's Dragoons were employed by the Draconis Combine and tasked with conquering the worlds of the Draconis Reach, on the Draconis Combine border with the Federated Suns. Kincaid held Wolf's Dragoons history and traditions very dear, including his reluctance to see Wolf's Dragoons employed by the Draconis Combine again and his reverence when shown the memorial to fallen Wolf's Dragoons and Ryuken warriors on Misery.[2] While working with the Ryuken, Kincaid shared a professional respect and then affectionate feelings towards Tai-sa Tori Ishihara, the Dragoons' Professional Soldiery Liaison officer and Kincaid's counterpart in operational planning.[2]
IlClan Era
After receiving orders from General Thomas Brubaker to terminate the contract with the Combine, Hack obeyed, and took his unit, the Wolfsbane Battalion and Tarantulas Battalion, out of Combine space. As they weren't able to participate at the ilClan Trial, he took both units and the Dragoons' dependents to a meeting point on Savannah in Free Worlds League space. There, on 3 June 3151, the Dragoons' survivors arrived. A furious Kincaid ordered the arrest of Marotta Kerensky and all Dragoons officers, charging the officers with treason, becoming the new Dragoon leader.[3] Hack was as much determined as Brubaker to rebuild the Dragoons and search revenge. He made a plan and began executing him: after gathering all Dragoons' officers and announcing him the beginning of their war against Clan Wolf, he moved all their fleet to the Marik System. In their Nadir recharge station, the 13 June, he called his captain Haya Tetsuhara, making her to pose as his aide, to a meeting between him and Captain-general Nikol Halas-Hughes Marik.[4] There, he made a deal with Nikol, giving her six Ares (BattleMech) and info about the Battle of Terra, he obtained control about Nockatunga recharge station, to use it as transhiptment point.[5]
The 6 of June, Hack saw the former general Brubaker. He had been stripped of his rank and sentenced to exile from the Dragoons. Kincaid rebuked him for his actions on Terra and before. He offered Brubaker to choose between the exile or an honorable death. Choosing the last option, Thomas choosed the last option, comitting suicide.[6] The same day, Kincaid had an interview with Nicholas Crews. The former colonel had been declared guilty of treason. Hack didn't accepted his excuses and left, after telling him he will be executed by firing squad the next day.[7]
Without losing more time, Kincaid led its fleet to begin their war. Searching for recruits, salvage and weapons to rebuild the Dragoons, he sent the Tarantulas to attack New Olympia, to take a cadet Cluster as bondsmen and later Campbelton, to loot a weapons factory. The first one was a stunning success... but the second find unexpected resistance: after losing thirteen Dragoons, Hack ordered the retreat, conceding victory to the Wolves... for the moment.[8]
After leaving the system, the Tarantulas surviving officer, which was Haya Tetsuhara, boarded Kincaid, furious for the retreat order. Kincaid gave her a good welcome, and say she hadn't done nothing bad. He presented himn a businessman, Phu-Phu Engaga, and talked her about the Dragoons' next step. It then became evident than Hack had been grooming Haya for higher responsabilities: he promoted her to major and gave her the task of rebuilding her next command: the long-time destroyed Zeta Battalion.[9] After that, the Dragoons settled on their new secret base, on the desert planet of Ilion, where they build a base, which Kincaid named Fort Joshua. After Haya resurrected Zeta, Kincaid send them to their first contract, for the Duchy of Tamarind-Abbey, where they took easily three worlds of the Empire. Hack ordered Haya to make sure the Wolves were sure than it was the Dragoons alone the ones which punish them, not the Tamarind troops.[10] The 17 of August, Kincaid visited for first time the captive Marotta. At the beginning, the Wolf officer was proud of its acts, but later admited being unable to understand Alaric's insult of the Dragoons. Kincaid simply called him a fool and laugh of him before leaving.[11]
The 20th April 3152, Hack received Haya and the victorious Zeta, and explained her he was leading the rebuilding of the long-gone Epsilon Regiment, before sending Zeta in a private mission at Gienah, the Empire's capital.[12]
The 2th July, after Zeta' successful return, he visited Marotta again, on Nockatunga, recharge station, and tell him how Alaric had abandoned his empire. Marotta didn't want to believe him, but Hack explained him that he can see it for himself, as he will be released and sent to Gienah, and Terra, if he can.[13] Only then revealed the true purpose of Zeta's last mission, and why he had kept Marotta alive and unharmed: to make him return to Terra as a loser, telling Alaric how the Dragoons have stole his future: Zeta, on Gienah, had stole a sibko of Alaric's genetic progeny, and gave them as presents to all other Clans, but keep some of them to be raised as Dragoons. After he said in some time he will use them against Alaric, Kincaid promised Marotta he will kill him if he ever sees him again, before sending him out.[14]
BattleMech
Kincaid piloted a Guillotine IIC as part of the Command Star of the Spider's Web Battalion.[15]
Notes
- Ironically, Kincaid share several features with his adversary, the Empire's Viceroy, Star Colonel Othar: both were originally unremarcable warriors, but raised to command its own by being the highest rankofficer left behind. Both resented having being denied the right to fight in Terra (or prevent its people fighting, in Hack's case), deeply resented Alaric Ward, and both refused to promote themselves to a higher rank.[16][17]
References
- ↑ Redemption Rift, p. 13
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Redemption Rift, p. 130
- ↑ Redemption Rites, pp. 5–7
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 22
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 34
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 51
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 121
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 109
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 112-117
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 2179
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 245
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 254-255
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 331
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 331-333
- ↑ Redemption Rift, p. 20
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 48
- ↑ Redemption Rites p. 282