Kevin Jessup: Hauptmann Jessup was scheduled to
retire after decades of competent but unremarkable
service commanding First Company of Second Battalion
in the Twenty-Sixth Lyran Guards when Khan Natasha
Kerensky and Alpha Galaxy of Clan Wolf landed on
Tamar in November of 3051. Duke Kelswa, convinced
his personal guard could defend Tamar, refused to give
the Guards support and barred them outside his fortified
position. When Kommandant Silvia Lamont, CO
of Second Battalion, fell, the other officers turned to
Jessup. With his unit trapped on open ground beneath
the walls of Tamar City, Jessup’s simple command was
“Stand and deliver.” Blunting the Clan Wolf thrust, Second
Battalion held position, allowing the bulk of the battered
Guards to withdraw in good order before yielding
the field to superior forces. Three weeks later, when
Clan Wolf’s Beta Galaxy attacked the Twenty-sixth on
Kobe, Leftenant General Jinders Green-Davion cited
Jessup’s Second Battalion and their “preternatural
cool under fire” as a major factor in the unit’s survival.
Wounded on Thurn, Jessup was forced to retire against
his will. He, in his family’s unmodified QKD-4G, had
made seven confirmed OmniMech kills on three worlds
in the space of a month. Though it is believed the aged
warrior has taken a teaching position in a smaller academy,
Jessup’s whereabouts are unknown.