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'''Savannah Johnson''' was a veteran [[MechWarrior (pilot)|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]].<ref>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</ref>

==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 (Businessman)|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]].<ref name=TR26>''Technical Readout: 3026'', p. 6; reproduced verbatim in ''Technical Readout: 3026 Revised'', p. 10</ref><ref name=RG16p6>''Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 16'', p. 6</ref>

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.<ref>''Technical Readout: 3039'', p. 10</ref>

==BattleMech==
Savannah Johnson piloted a ''[[Locust]]''.<ref name=TR26/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Recognition Guide: ilClan, vol. 16]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3026]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3026 Revised]]''
* ''[[Technical Readout: 3039]]''

[[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Characters|Johnson, Savannah]]
[[Category:Notable Locust Pilots|Johnson, Savannah]]

Savannah Johnson - Revision history

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