Born to a lower class farming family on Luzerne, Rinko Murasaki (born Rinko Hastings) grew up refusing to bow to clan rule. She was only ten when the Smoke Jaguars landed on her homeworld and she found herself a member of the Combine resistance. Though unwilling at first, she quickly took to guerilla operations, becoming a skilled demolitionist and scout by the time she was fourteen years old. At sixteen, she'd drawn the attention of the resistance's small contingent of mechwarriors due to her exceptional reflexes and was taken on as an apprentice after a Jaguar raid took out several of their remaining mech pilots. By the age nineteen, she was a qualified (though green) mechwarrior and was able to observe the landings of the new Star League's liberation army from the cockpit of her own Wasp.
Of course, the liberators failed to make much of an impression. Intelligence failures had left the League forces savaged in orbit and badly outmatched on the ground, forced into a five week battle for survival, with the resistance providing aid where it could. For her part, Rinko found herself "drafted" into the beleagured Comguard contingent, her performance earning her the right to pilot a Warhammer following the loss of her Wasp during the siege of Thun. After the arrival of reinforcements allowed the Star League to finally liberate the world, Rinko and the rest of the resistance were discharged from service, however her performance sufficiently impressed the commander of Comstar's 208th Divsion that he arranged for her to keep her new battlemech. Six months later, she recieved a full ride scholarship to the newly opened Fotch War College on Terra.
Unfortunately, if her sponsors had expected great things from Rinko, she would quickly disappoint. The street kid who'd thrived in the chaos of the Smoke Jaguar occupation of Luzerne failed spectacularly at adjusting to a disciplined military life, and found herself expelled from the War College before her first year was up. Like so many others, this led her to move on to Solaris VII, where she once again found her niche. Her history, her battlemech, and her adorkably loveable personality quickly made her a favorite among audiences of the Kobe district. Even more so when, in a daytime drama style twist, it was discovered that she was in fact related by blood to the Murasaki family (noble rulers of the Combine planet of Sakuranoki). Though her absent father turned out to be a philandering, disgraced warrior who had been exiled from the Combine, this didn't stop her from taking the Murasaki name for herself, causing controversy among the Kobe community that only increased her exposure.
Just before the Jihad reached Solaris, Rinko arranged for her mech to undergo extensive modifications in preparation for settling a long rivalry with another Solaris duelist, a former Smoke Jaguar warrior named Deacon who was known for piloting an Awesome. Believing no advantage was too cheap to employ, Rinko had her battlemech equipped with a sheath of reflective armor that would allow her to largely shrug off the fire of Deacon's energy based machine while she savaged his own mech with her brutal close range firepower. How this would have worked out will never be known, as their duel was postponed by the Word of Blake's invasion of Solaris.
Warhammer WHM-7K Rinko
Base Tech Level: Experimental (IS)
Level Era
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Experimental 3072-3080
Advanced 3081+
Standard -
Tech Rating: E/X-X-F-E
Weight: 70 tons
BV: 1,989
Cost: 7,945,233 C-bills
Movement: 4/6
Engine: 280
Double Heat Sinks: 15 [30]
Gyro: Standard Gyro
Internal: 107 (Endo-Steel)
Armor: 216/217 (Reflective)
Internal Armor
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Head 3 9
Center Torso 22 30
Center Torso (rear) 13
Right Torso 15 20
Right Torso (rear) 10
Left Torso 15 20
Left Torso (rear) 10
Right Arm 11 22
Left Arm 11 22
Right Leg 15 30
Left Leg 15 30
Weapons Loc Heat
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Snub-Nose PPC RA 10
Snub-Nose PPC LA 10
Medium Pulse Laser RT 4
Medium Pulse Laser RT 4
Medium Pulse Laser LT 4
Medium Pulse Laser RT 4
Medium Pulse Laser LT 4
Medium Pulse Laser LT 4
Equipment Loc
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PPC Capacitor RA
PPC Capacitor LA
