User:Oseng

Name: Lauren Corwin
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Char Type: Newtype Sniper

Skills
Pilot: 3 dots
Mecha: 2 dots (both free)
Newtype Power: 3 dots
Physical: 2 dots (both free)
Command: 1
Rank: 2
Charisma: 2 (1 free dot)
Conspiracy: 1
Special Skills: 0

Traits:
Rival = +2 point
Lauren has had several encounters with another pilot, a sniper and long range specialist like her. He tends to turn up wherever shes goes, and she grown to regard him as both a curse and an interesting challenge. They've had several outright duels on the battlefield but neither one of them has been able to pull off anything resembling a decisive win.

Special Patronage = - 1 point
One of the pilots that was able to withdraw thanks to her actions, actually her unit leader, is the eldest son of a powerful transhuman family with a military tradition and a great deal of political pull.

Newtype Feats:
Spatial Awareness
Newtype Flash

Mecha:
13 MCP

Lauren pilots a customized F-GC-9236 “Artemis” Mobile Combat Suit, a mass produced mobile suit designed for use by long range combat specialists such as snipers. It's known for being easy to maintain and repair and as such is fairly well liked by mechanics as well as pilots. They are somewhat older suits but they are still in wide use and it looks like they will be sticking around for a good while.

Melee: 1
1x Vulcan cannon in head, 1x short beam saber/knife built into right arm

Firepower: 4
Sniper Beam Rifle with enhanced range/firepower, long range guided missile launcher (right shoulder), Stealth Sensor Drone launchers aka “Spotters” (left shoulder)

Defenses: 3
Enhanced Armor, Flicker Shields

Speed: 2
Special: 2 (advanced stealth systems and cloaking gear)

History:

Laruen Corwin was a low level transhuman from one of the out of system colonies under the Sol Federation's control, who scored fairly well on the Exam and choose to enter the Military. After passing through her training with flying colors she should found herself assigned to INTACT as a low ranking mobile suit pilot, with a specialization in sniping and long range combat.

Most of her tour of duty as an enlisted member of INTACT was fairly quiet, relatively speaking, though she was commended and well spoken of by her superiors for being dependable and hard working. That was before a mission her unit was assigned went completely belly up and FUBAR, primarily due to bad intelligence.

Her mobile suit squadron and some infantry units had been dispatched to patrol and scout an area where recently gathered intelligence placed a small unit of a terrorist organization. According to the intelligence they had been provided the enemy forces had at most a few older mobile suits and some ill trained infantry. Instead they found what was later confirmed by a second larger wave of troops to be one of the organization's major bases. They were grossly outnumbered, and while the enemies' equipment was older then the INTACT force's gear, it was still highly effective.

Both Corwin's mobile suit squadron and the infantry units they were working with were badly savaged and forced to retreat towards a nearby field where they could be evacuated from the field. Lauren, as the pilot of one of the only three suits that were still fairly combat worthy, volunteered to hold a choke point in order to allow the rest of the squadron and the infantry units to retreat. It was thought to be a suicide mission and she was not expected to survive.

However against all odd she and one other pilot held the choke point against nearly a squadron's worth of enemy mobile suits, and bought time for everyone else to withdraw. Not only that she managed to then withdraw and link up with the reinforcements that had been landed to deal with the base, though her suit was an utter wreck that had to be written off and she had sustained several injuries. The other pilot also managed to link up with the reinforcements but later died of his injuries.

After recovering from her injuries Lauren was highly decorated for valor under fire and sent off to officer candidacy school back on Earth. After passing OCS with good solid grades she was assigned to the 313th Tactical Aerospace Squadron as a pilot and sniper specialist.