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The Silver Hawk Irregulars are a moderate RP and casual Battlemech unit with a solid core of driven and competitive members built around the simple truth that sometimes real life intrudes upon game time. RP is fun and we stick to the lore where possible but comms chatter is pretty loose when not actively in a battle.
We are currently holding hardcore competitive 8 man drops on Wednesdays at 9pm EST with regular training drops and community events twice a week at 9pm EST every Friday. Participation is encouraged but not required for Friday events with promotions and honors rewarded to regular members who can make the scheduled competitive Wednesday drops.
We are allies of the Marik Gunfighter Alliance and call www.house-marik.net our home. Our own website is currently in the works and use the House Marik teamspeak. Even if you can't make a schedualed event there is almost always someone online you can drop with.
Emblem and Color Scheme
The Silver Hawk Irregulars do not have a set color scheme. Each individual member usually paints their equipment in the same style as whatever unit they were a part of prior to their assignment to the Silver Hawks.
The Current Emblem emblazoned on every Silver Hawk Battlemech, and the only unifying decoration that all units have in common.
Recruitment Requirements
Our only real requirements are dedication, willingness to experiment and learn from your mistakes, and to have a sense of humor.
Those who are interested should contact me, Anthony Gryphon or Greyrook and sign up for the forums at www.house-marik.net which also contains the teamspeak information. Just mention on the application that you are looking to join the Silver Hawk Irregulars as this is a collective website which caters to everyone who is a part of the FWLM.
Who we are in the Battletech Universe
Taken from the House Marik field manual
"An outgrowth of the Concordat of Danais, a mutual defense pact signed by five different League provinces in 2966 in protest of the Captain-General's plans for war, the Silver Hawk Irregulars constitute the mutual peacekeeping forces of the Silver Hawk Coalition. The disparate compositions of the Silver Hawk regiments reflects the wide variety of cultures in the Coalition's five member states which comprise a total of ten different worlds.
Each Silver Hawk world supplies a specific number of troops, usually in lance of company sized contingents. Consequently the quality of the Silver Hawk units varies enormously.
The planets of Kalidasa and New Hope view their contributions to the force as their duty to the Coalition and to the Free Worlds League, and they provide the best trained and best equipped personnel. In contrast, Shiloh's troops represent the dregs of that world's society- individuals who have joined the military simply as a means of escaping poverty, prison, or a number of other fates. Furthermore, the beaurocratic planetary government of Shiloh seems preoccupied with reducing it's expenditures as much as possible, and so it provides the poorest equipment and virtually no maintenance funds to the Shilohan Silver Hawk troops."
The Silver Hawk Irregulars are notorious for repeatedly being subject to the Home Defense Act during times of war but can now be required to fight on the front lines due to the Addendum to the Military Reorganization act.
The Silver Hawk Coalition lost the planets Callison and Marcus to the Lyran Commonwealth while the Irregulars were away on the front lines during the 4th Succession war and they are sporting for a rematch to retake their former homeworlds.
As irregulars the Silver Hawks are known for fighting using unorthadox methods of battle, and are sometimes accused of being rowdy and chaotic, but as the Lyran Commonwealth learned during the Silver Hawk Irregular's raids into the Isle of Skye in 3039 (an almost single handed effort to keep the Lyrans busy while the rest of the League dealt with the Andurion Crisis), chaotic doen't mean innefective as the disruption is attributed to be one of the causes for the Lyran half of the Federated Commonwealth pulling out of the offensive again the Draconis Combine.
Edited by anthony gryphon, 07 December 2012 - 12:00 AM.
