Editing Salazar Tsakalotos

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| name                = Salazar Tsakalotos
| birthdate           = [[3041]]
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| affiliation         = [[House Tsakalotos]]
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| profession          = [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]]
| parents             = [[Bertrand Tsakalotos]] (father)
| siblings            = Several
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'''Salazar Tsakalotos''' was an independent mercenary who worked for the [[Word of Blake]] during to the [[Jihad]].<ref name=ST>''BattleTech Dossiers: Salazar Tsakalotos'', pp. 2-3 "Subject Profile"</ref>

==History==
He was born on [[Chesterton]], first son of billionaire bachelor Bertrand Tsakalotos.

His father's autobiography hinted a very dysfunctional relationship between them, that his father blamed Salazar's ''idiot friends'' in general and more specifically with [[Jonas Eccles]], a small-time mercenary commander who befriended him, presumably because of his family fortune. If true, this scheme backfired as he disowned his son when he left at the age of fifteen to pursue a career as a [[mercenary]].

Not much is known of his early years as a mercenary except that he drifted from several minor commands with little distinction, until he was made a sort of star when his unit, the [[Bad Tenants]] raided a [[Clan Steel Viper]] world.

He was then spotted in the [[Chaos March]] during the 3060s, at least serving once the [[Federated Commonwealth]] on [[Arboris]], and even once logging a stint with the [[AMC]] as a subcontractor. 

He was one the first batch of mercenaries retained by the [[Word of Blake]] to support their efforts there. He participated in operations on [[Bryant]], [[Ingress]] and [[Keid]], as well as numerous bandit-hunting missions in uninhabited systems, or remote areas of inhabited systems. He commanded several small lance-sized mercenary forces, disbanding them as they were smashed, and forming new ones with survivors from other small outfits. 

All his whereabouts and activities during the Jihad cannot be confirmed, but [[Republic of the Sphere]] intelligence pointed him operating on many [[Word of Blake Protectorate]] worlds as a minor enforcer.

By [[3085]] he was operating as a solitary contractor.<ref name=ST/>

==Personality==
Throughout his career, he was known to operate as a true mercenary, fighting for coin over politics.<ref name=ST/>

==BattleMech==
He piloted a custom [[Thunderbolt#Custom Variants|TDR-10M ''Thunderbolt'' Salazar]].<ref name=ST/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[BattleTech Dossiers: Salazar Tsakalotos]]''

[[Category:Federated Suns Characters|Tsakalotos, Bertrand]]
[[Category:Notable Thunderbolt Pilots|Tsakalotos, Bertrand]]