Commander Link Mantenna from the Black Company
Biography
Mantenna is an Enforcer Commander and a glowering savage of a human, a man with the appearance of being born for nothing else but warfare. Recruited into the Enforcer corps in AE985 from a prison barge, Mantenna has excelled as an Enforcer. His natural size and strength were both enhanced by the Program, but although Mantenna has never hesitated to unleash his own brand of lethal brutality against a Marauder he has a stern respect for his enemies born out of hard years fighting them.
He first saw service on Pilgrim, where his Strike Team was tasked with eliminating a group of Marauders that had branched out from their normal work as hired muscle and formed an ad hoc crime syndicate. The targets were using the cave systems beneath New Coronado City to move large quantities of illicit chemicals into the city without detection by local security services.
Following a lightning attack on the orc compound, Mantenna was the sole survivor of the subsequent massacre in the caves beneath it. More Marauders than anticipated had escaped into the subterranean network but, despite the Company’s significant losses, the mission was considered a success. It was the making of Mantenna too; he was promoted for his actions on Pilgrim and went on to lead an exemplary career in the Black Company. His experience on that operation taught him two valuable lessons though: never to underestimate the fighting strength of a Marauder, and never to rely too heavily on corporate intelligence when engaging one.
Lair of the Mawbeast
Cabot III now serves as a battlefield where a fraction of Enforcement Patrol Group ‘Hammer’ from the Black Company under Commander Mantenna are trying to find and eliminate Marshal Tung and his Marauders after getting ambushed at the Cerberus Maw by the Orc ships.
A mere fraction of the Enforcers sent to rein in the rogue Marauders of Cabot III actually reached the surface. As what remained of the EPG’s starships struggled to reach a safe distance from the orc blockade, Commander Mantenna took stock of what had made it down with him. The good news was his Accusers were well equipped, having been fully prepped for the mass assault that had been planned. The bad news was he only had limited numbers of any particular piece of kit.
Mantenna knew that reinforcements would eventually reach them - there was just no way of knowing for exactly how long he and his operatives would be cut off. Not that it mattered. Even on their own, the mission of Mantenna and the EPG Hammer Enforcers has not changed: they must prevent Cabot III becoming the new home of the Marauders. A hard task, to be sure. And with limited access to resources, Mantenna knew he would have to fight smart. To survive, they would need to secure whatever resources they could from what already exists on the planet. They would need to raid Marauder outposts, kill as many enemies as they could while avoiding large-scale engagements for as long as possible, and gather as much intelligence on the rebellious orcs as they could find along the way.
If they didn’t know it already, the Marauders would soon be aware there were Enforcers on their self-proclaimed home world and Mantenna and his Hammers would be hunted every step of the way. But, Mantenna thought as he pulled back the priming lever on his Genling 45, it wasn’t as if he was trapped on an isolated alien world with an army of hostile Marauders to take care of - they were trapped on Cabot III with him.
As Mantenna briefed his operators on the tasks ahead of them, Marshal Tung, the great Mahu’Oran, was reflecting on how his own destiny may have changed in the last few hours. Having won the first battle in the skies above his planet, Tung knew he had just sent the rulers of the GCPS an unequivocal message - don’t come here. But, even though the Council’s first foray into the Cabot system was now reported to be running away with its tail between its legs, he also knew more would come after them. It was in their nature to rise to a challenge from a rival, just as it was his. When they did come back, Tung knew his Marauders would be waiting for them again.
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