Savannah Johnson
Savannah Johnson | |
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| Personal | |
| Affiliation | Lyran Commonwealth |
| Career | |
| Rank | MechWarrior[1][2] |
| Profession | MechWarrior |
Savannah Johnson was a veteran MechWarrior who had racked up many kills when she was selected to fight a mock battle against a hovercraft prototype for evaluation by Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces in 3025.[3]
History
This battle was the final test, after three weeks of grueling testing for a new recon vehicle that House Steiner was soliciting for the LCAF. Samuel Lewis, president of S. L. Lewis Incorporated, piloted his prototype hovercraft. Over the course of a day, Lewis consistently won all trial engagements against Johnson, darting behind her Locust BattleMech while his own vehicle could barely be targeted because of its speed. Johnson remained cool until after her twelfth defeat; after her fifteenth defeat Lewis began to taunt her and question her abilities. During the seventeenth battle she snapped and turned the mock battle into a live-fire duel that she lost as well, surviving the destruction of her Locust through auto-ejection when its ammunition stores exploded from a hit. The as-yet unnamed hovercraft was named Savannah Master following the trial and would go on to become a staple recon vehicle throughout the Inner Sphere and Periphery.[1][2]
In later years, it was suggested that the now-famous procurement exercise and Johnson's defeat may have been staged, as LCAF training regulations prohibited carrying live ammunition in a training exercise.[4]
BattleMech
Savannah Johnson piloted a Locust.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Technical Readout: 3026, p. 6; reproduced verbatim in Technical Readout: 3026 Revised, p. 10
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 16, p. 6
- ↑ While the original write-up only establishes that the Savannah Master was designed between 3024 and 3026, the Master Unit List establishes its inception year as 3025
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3039, p. 10