Lachie Grozda
Lachie Grozda | |
|---|---|
| Personal | |
| Born | 3077 |
| Died | 12 June 3129[1] |
| Affiliation | ComStar[2] |
| Career | |
| Rank | Demi-Precentor[2] |
| Profession | MechWarrior |
Demi-Precentor Jasmine Lech was a MechWarrior, and founding commander of ComStar's reformed First Division, during the thirty-second century.[2]
History
Early Life
Lech was the child of to veterans of ComStar’s Seventy-ninth Division, who were forced into civilian life after the Word of Blake Jihad, following the dissolution of the Com Guards. Not willing to let go of a military arm of ComStar, Lech's parents helped form what became the neo-Blakist Blessed Order during the thirty-second century, and passed on to Lachie a fanatical sense of duty to that organization.[2]
First Division
One of the founding officers of Malcolm Buhl's reformed First Division, when it was recreated sometime after 3112[3], Lech helped define it tactics and military doctrine, including its use of the controversial Word of Blake sourced Choir formation.[2] Despite resistance from others in the Blessed Order, the Choir formation proved its value to First Division, during a 3129 raid on Epsilon Eridani.[2]
Building up the strength of the hidden First Division, Grozda and his unit followed Buhl to various worlds where he had influence within ComStar, firstly being Odessa, then Caph, before finally settling on Epsilon Eridani and its rediscovered Alpha Base.
Epsilon Eridani
Acting as security for Alpha Base, Grozda and First Division successfully defeated four attempts by outside parties to discover the Blessed Orders presence over a three year period, including A final raid in 3129 which ended in a bloody fight with raiding Pebble Court Jesters who managed to get within 300km of the facility.
Grozda defeated the Jesters, by using stealth technologies and his knowledge of the local terrain, to lure them into an ambush. While the mercenary commanders were quickly put out of action, their troops did not break, and attempted to break out of the ComStar encirclement. This break out was only stopped by Grozda's personal intervention, placing his own 'Mech in the way of an entire Jesters Company, which inspired his subordinates to finish off the mercenaries. The 12 to 1 odds were however too much for Grozda, who died during the fighting.[3]
BattleMech
Grozda was known to have piloted a EXC-D1 Excalibur BattleMech.[4]