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<blockquote data-quote="Shalimar" data-source="post: 1474095" data-attributes="member: 9600"><p>McKenzie it seemed, was hated aboard the dropship that carried her on her journey across the Innersphere from Steiner Space to the game world of Solaris. At first she had tried to fit in, tried to play nice with her fellow passengers, the people she would be spending a few months with on the journey, but that desire wore thin as she got to know them. While she was letting on that she was a Lyran officer, she had not let on who she really was, and that was the basis of the problem, a Kurita Merchant on business for his house had made a few rather suggestive remarks about McKenzie's cousin, and she certainly couldn't have that, Melissa was the nicest girl a person could ever hope to meet, and to have a slimy snake make suggestive comments simply got the Mechwarrior's blood boiling after what had happened to her.</p><p> </p><p>While the Captain wasn't very amused when she broke the Businessman's jaw, the mostly Steiner crew was tickled pink, and had actually started betting before the captain broke it up. While the Lyran Officer was not a hand to hand combat specialist by any means, demolishing a somewhat drunk, over-weight merchant was never that hard. From the fight onward, she was known to the passengers as a troublemaker, and those who wished to stay on the good side of the merchant and be able to purchase his luxury wares during the trip stayed well away from her, so she spent most of the trip in the gym to maintain her muscles as well as in the cargobay, doing all she could to familiarize herself with Fox's workings.</p><p> </p><p>Fox was far from a standard mech, and she could only count on herself to maintain her. It was with a sigh of frustration that McKenzie finally left the dropship Star Jewel, and headed into the customs office. While her bags were ransacked by the bored customs officials, she tried to maintain her cool, not used to being at the whim of such petty individuals. When satisfied that her belonings were in order, the official asked her for her papers, correctly assuming from her bearings that she was a mechwarrior. Showing him the papers, with a slight sigh, she left the puzzled customs officer behind, she could still hear him puzzling over what exactly a WLF-1 was.</p><p> </p><p>Her next stop, one of many, unfortunately, was to the Spaceport warehouses, to secure a berth for her mech, she knew the officials tended to make trouble if you just went about strutting in a battlemech, something about private citizens walking around with enough firepower to slag a few city blocks gave them a headache. Once she had secured a berth for Fox, and the promise of no one but her touching, or even really taking a good look at the mech, she walked the Mech from the ship Cargo bay directly into the warehouse and powered her down, making sure that all precautions were taken.</p><p> </p><p>The young woman's next step was to book a hotel room in Silesia, the Steiner area of the famous gaming world, although the Black Hills of Davion, would have been accpetable, Silesia offered more of home. It was while she was checking into the Hotel that she saw the flier for the Dark Knights. She wasn't interested in being an arena duelist, and certainly not freelance, if she were to go the route of a duelist she would sign on with any of the Steiner backed Stables who would be more then glad to sign her, for her name, her connections, or her skills and mech. The only thing keeping her from discarding the notice out of hand was the mention of the Simulators, she knew that her funds were not unlimited and sim time was expensive, and she did need to get practice in lights, even if they probably didn't have a Wolfhound in their sim, it would still be worthwhile, actually, she would even bet that they didn't the design was too new, she had the 3rd one of the line, and not even all of the regular LCAF had access to it for sims.</p><p> </p><p>That is how McKenzie Steiner found herself in front of the Dark Knights headquarters not 5 hours after she had landed on the planet. She entredand looked around for someone who could assist her in getting the sim-time. <span style="color: cyan">"Hello, My Name is McKenzie, but you can call me Mac, I just got to Solaris, and I was wondering if you couldn't help me figure out if my piloting skills are still there, what with my mech being stored in a hold for 2 months."</span> she tells the person who looks to be in charge, grinning at them, she is wearing her Steiner Garrision fatigues, and while the patches have been carefully removed, it is easily distinguishable which armed forces the clothing came from, especially as the look to be fairly new.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shalimar, post: 1474095, member: 9600"] McKenzie it seemed, was hated aboard the dropship that carried her on her journey across the Innersphere from Steiner Space to the game world of Solaris. At first she had tried to fit in, tried to play nice with her fellow passengers, the people she would be spending a few months with on the journey, but that desire wore thin as she got to know them. While she was letting on that she was a Lyran officer, she had not let on who she really was, and that was the basis of the problem, a Kurita Merchant on business for his house had made a few rather suggestive remarks about McKenzie's cousin, and she certainly couldn't have that, Melissa was the nicest girl a person could ever hope to meet, and to have a slimy snake make suggestive comments simply got the Mechwarrior's blood boiling after what had happened to her. While the Captain wasn't very amused when she broke the Businessman's jaw, the mostly Steiner crew was tickled pink, and had actually started betting before the captain broke it up. While the Lyran Officer was not a hand to hand combat specialist by any means, demolishing a somewhat drunk, over-weight merchant was never that hard. From the fight onward, she was known to the passengers as a troublemaker, and those who wished to stay on the good side of the merchant and be able to purchase his luxury wares during the trip stayed well away from her, so she spent most of the trip in the gym to maintain her muscles as well as in the cargobay, doing all she could to familiarize herself with Fox's workings. Fox was far from a standard mech, and she could only count on herself to maintain her. It was with a sigh of frustration that McKenzie finally left the dropship Star Jewel, and headed into the customs office. While her bags were ransacked by the bored customs officials, she tried to maintain her cool, not used to being at the whim of such petty individuals. When satisfied that her belonings were in order, the official asked her for her papers, correctly assuming from her bearings that she was a mechwarrior. Showing him the papers, with a slight sigh, she left the puzzled customs officer behind, she could still hear him puzzling over what exactly a WLF-1 was. Her next stop, one of many, unfortunately, was to the Spaceport warehouses, to secure a berth for her mech, she knew the officials tended to make trouble if you just went about strutting in a battlemech, something about private citizens walking around with enough firepower to slag a few city blocks gave them a headache. Once she had secured a berth for Fox, and the promise of no one but her touching, or even really taking a good look at the mech, she walked the Mech from the ship Cargo bay directly into the warehouse and powered her down, making sure that all precautions were taken. The young woman's next step was to book a hotel room in Silesia, the Steiner area of the famous gaming world, although the Black Hills of Davion, would have been accpetable, Silesia offered more of home. It was while she was checking into the Hotel that she saw the flier for the Dark Knights. She wasn't interested in being an arena duelist, and certainly not freelance, if she were to go the route of a duelist she would sign on with any of the Steiner backed Stables who would be more then glad to sign her, for her name, her connections, or her skills and mech. The only thing keeping her from discarding the notice out of hand was the mention of the Simulators, she knew that her funds were not unlimited and sim time was expensive, and she did need to get practice in lights, even if they probably didn't have a Wolfhound in their sim, it would still be worthwhile, actually, she would even bet that they didn't the design was too new, she had the 3rd one of the line, and not even all of the regular LCAF had access to it for sims. That is how McKenzie Steiner found herself in front of the Dark Knights headquarters not 5 hours after she had landed on the planet. She entredand looked around for someone who could assist her in getting the sim-time. [color=cyan]"Hello, My Name is McKenzie, but you can call me Mac, I just got to Solaris, and I was wondering if you couldn't help me figure out if my piloting skills are still there, what with my mech being stored in a hold for 2 months."[/color] she tells the person who looks to be in charge, grinning at them, she is wearing her Steiner Garrision fatigues, and while the patches have been carefully removed, it is easily distinguishable which armed forces the clothing came from, especially as the look to be fairly new. [/QUOTE]
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