Sasha Breen...
Sasha Breen
Steel Viper Star Captain
Sasha is a trueborn warrior of the Breen bloodline. She was born in 3035 at the
Steel Viper enclave located at New Kent. Under the watchful eye of the Viper
trainers, she and her sibkin, Claudia, were the only two who graduated this
particular class of extremely difficult training, even for Clan standards, and
washing out the others of their sibko. Admittedly, however, in Sasha's case, it
seemed due to the incredible luck she maintained during and after her sibko
training. This luck follows her throughout her career, but to Sasha it seemed to
taint her, as many in the Steel Vipers considered her to simply be 'lucky' rather
than good; all this despite her excellent codex and a natural affinity for command.
Following her sixteen years at the sibko and training cadre, she was assigned as a
Mechwarrior in the Triasch Keshik of Alpha Galaxy, under Khan Natalie Breen.
Her first mission, a year after her assignment to Alpha Galaxy, and just as she
arrived in the Inner Sphere, was Tukayyid. During the fighting at Devil's Bath,
most of the Trinary that Sasha was assigned to were destroyed, but only one
member of Sasha's star was lost. Despite this fact the members of the Trinary
were reassigned, with Sasha going to the First Viper Guards (The Viper's Fury) of
Alpha Galaxy, and Claudia being shuffled to Beta Galaxy. Following Tukayyid in
3053 the Guards were used to assault the Jade Falcon planet of Montmarault,
garrisoned by the 305th Assault cluster. Her aggressive actions, and some luck,
earned her recognition as well as the chance at a promotion and a bloodname. She
easily took her opponents in the Trial of Position for the position of Star Captain.
However, her bloodname battles were hard fought and barely won it seemed, until
only one person remained against her for the right to wear the bloodname of
Breen. That was Claudia from beta Galaxy. Sasha seemed overmatched in the
fight until once again luck shined on her and she hit the ammo stored in Claudia's
left torso. The CASE saved the Mech, but severely crippled her Mech, making
Claudia easy pickings for Sasha. Following these victories, the First Viper Guards
turned their attention to the Jade Falcon world of Antares, where Star Captain
Sasha Breen was assigned to take a small town in the wetlands of the planet. The
target town was easily taken when Sasha Breen, in a daring move, simply
challenged the defending Trinary's commander, and won. Taking the commander,
Rally Pryde, as a bondsman, she moved on to the next objectives. Eventually, the
Steel Viper's took the planet. Following the action on Antares, the occupation zone
quieted down, with the Viper's offensive against the Falcons stopped. The only
action then was to quelling of riots that rose from time to time. Then in 3060, she
was shuffled back to Rho Galaxy, a garrison galaxy with close ties to Alpha
Galaxy. Using her command skills she increased Rho's winning percentage
against Alpha during the war games the two often played. During her time with the
Fifth Legion of Rho Galaxy, she learned just about every underhanded
dishonorable trick the Inner Sphere surats ever knew. Then in 3062 she was
approached by a Star Colonel Alexei Dumont with a proposition. Apparently the
Nova Cats were forming some Inner Sphere/Nova Cat alliance and asked for
assistance from the independent-minded Steel Vipers to help the team. The Steel
Vipers agreed, even though they had limited or no contact with any Clan other than
themselves. Naturally Star Captain Sasha Breen scoffed at such a thing, but after
the other 'option' of becoming a trainer at New Kent was explained to her, she
agreed. The only other thing about this assignment was that she would become a
member of the Steel Viper Watch, and would be reporting only to Star Colonel
Alexei Dumont and the Khan himself. Even the members of her own task force
were not to know of this. It was easy to discern why the Steel Viper's sent those
they did. They were all either getting 'old', as in her and Claudia's case (Claudia
too had been given the choice of Inner Sphere or garrisoning New Kent), or
incompetent.
On first sight, Star Captain Sasha Breen is not very impressive at only five feet
four inches tall, and light in weight. She keeps her brunette hair short and rarely
removes her Steel Viper body suit, which she wears with its boots and gloves. She
also wears a laser pistol at all times as a personal sidearm, and is highly skilled in
unarmed combat, to the point where some would claim she is better at that than she
is at Mech combat. She has been awarded the Viper's Coil many times over, one
of which is gold, symbolizing her participation in the battle of Tukayyid.
Sasha has become an extremely important member of the Strikers after the death
of Commanders Carns and Strider. She is one of the driving forces of the team,
and her incredible will dominates the team's contract and deployment decisions.
As a result, the unit has come to behave more as a Clan-oriented force. Only Duo
Maxwell and Dr. Suzy Evans have as much leverage as her among the newer
leaders. Some would even argue the two Inner Sphere leaders must constantly
combine their power simply to counter Sasha's own influence.
Her rise to power within the unit has been partially due to her luck, as well as her
performance in battle. When the assassination strike killed both Commanders
Carns and Strider and most of the command company, Sasha was fortunate enough
to be off-planet. When Blakist saboteurs poisoned the Clan barracks' drinking
water after infiltrating the Strikers' makeshift base, Sasha was important in
organizing the batchall against the Blakists. Finally, when the surviving Clan
members engaged those responsible for the poisoning, Sasha led her
Mechwarriors into battle with a rage unseen in previous combat situations. She
was thrust into the spotlight with the incredible victory.
Sasha's membership to the Watch was recently discovered by the Strikers. Her
push to inform the spy organization of the Striker's attaining of the Arbiter lostech
Warship was announced publicly, in an effort to maintain her honor to her unit.
This push to reveal such a confidential Strider's Strikers secret was met with
extreme denial within the mercenary unit's ranks. Even Clan Nova Cat members
objected to her proposed revelation. However she won the Trial of Refusal issued
by a Nova Cat warrior and further cemented her status as a rising star within the
mercenary group. With the loss of Devon, Sasha is by far the most influential and
vocal of the Clan members within the Strikers' ranks.
This profile was last updated in 3068.