The story of Colonel Scoltock and his 42nd Highlanders truly began in the dark days of the Amaris coup which gave birth to a legacy of honour, courage and peculiar eccentricity.
William Scoltock graduated from Sandhurst Royal Military College in the summer of 2750, the scion of a long and storied English, military family. William showed promise and was commissioned a lieutenant in March, 2752 and joined the 341st Royal Battlemech Division. 2756 saw William's promotion to Captain and a place in the Gunslinger program. On the 23rd April 2760, Captain Scoltock reached the pinnacle of his career and was inducted into the Royal Black Watch Regiment, piloting a Highlander 732b.
When Amaris launched his coup on 27th December 2766, Captain William Scoltock was in the British city of Manchester on compassionate leave, his mother had passed away the previous week. In the resulting chaos of the Amaris civil war, William first got his family into safety and then joined a British based resistance movement that adopted the name "Home Guard". William would never speak of that hard, bitter decade nor of the reasons he did not make his way to North America to join his few remaining Black Watch comrades, however it does seem that he was in contact with Captain Elisabeth Hazen as part of a wider resistance network.
During Operation LIBERATION, the Home Guard provided intel for the 15th Army's assault on Sandhurst and London, spearheaded by William's old division. Captain Scoltock rejoined the division, piloting a captured Blackjack during the aftermath and mopping up operations.
Exhausted and broken, William chose not to join his division when Kerensky left the Inner Sphere. Instead he took his family to Northwind at the invitation of Major Hamish Mckay, an officer of the Stuart Highlanders with a long association with the Royal Black Watch.
The Scoltock family settled in a Halifax City, home to English descendants from the original settlement of Northwind. While the majority of Northwind was settled by Scottish emigrants, a small number of English settlers established themselves on Northwind's smallest continent of Halidon. The people of Halidon eventualy embraced the Scottish culture of the rest of Northwind, however some families continued to maintain their English heritage and became know as "Sassenachs" by the rest of the population. The biggest concentration of Sassenachs is the Little England quarter of Halifax City, it was here that the Scoltock family came to live and heal the mental and physical scars of the Amaris civil war.
Charles Scoltock, grandson of Captain William Scoltock, joined the Northwind Highlanders in 2790. Bullied in school for his English heritage and discriminated against during his time at the Northwind Military Academy, his skill and dogged determination got Charles through and earned him a place in the 1st Northwind Highlanders. Charles adopted the callsign Sassenach, turning an insult into a badge of honor.
For over a century, the firstborn of the Scoltock family and their Blackjack served with the Northwind Highlanders while stubbornly embracing their English heritage and SLDF traditions until a brutal incident in 2900 while the 1st Highlanders where stationed on the St Ives Commonality world of Sharpe. Rose Scoltock was drinking in a local bar with her lance, her distinctly English accent and mannerisms, including pronouncing lieutenant with an 'f' sound, drew unwelcome attention from the locals as such traits where associated with the hated Federated Suns. Rose became seperated from her comrades and set upon by a gang of drunk locals. By the time Rose's lance arrived to pull her off the last would-be attacker, four would be hospitalised and two killed in their botched attempt to assault the 1st Highlander's unarmed combat instructor....
One of the dead turned out to be the Diem's son, who charged Rose Scoltock with murder. Facing a kangaroo court and execution Rose fled, with the tacit assistance of her regiment and became a mercenary hiring her skills and her Blackjack for a decade till she took a contract for a woman called Keona Arano and assisted her in building the Arano Coalition. Rose's reward was a patent of nobility for the House of Scoltock, she married her partner Lisa Hamilton in 2915 and established a family on Coromodir.
History repeated itself in 3022 when the Arano family fell to a coup staged by Santiago Espinosa. Like his distant ancestor, David "Sassenach" Scoltock, last scion of the Scoltock family was serving in the Royal Guard but escaped the destruction due to the kindness of a mercenary lance. Rising to command the unit, David renamed them as the 42nd Highlanders to honour the memory of his ancestors and a reminder of the repitition of history.
The Highlanders proved instrumental in the restoration of Arano rule during a fierce conflict in which history came full circle and Commander Scoltock aquired a star league era Highlander.
William Scoltock graduated from Sandhurst Royal Military College in the summer of 2750, the scion of a long and storied English, military family. William showed promise and was commissioned a lieutenant in March, 2752 and joined the 341st Royal Battlemech Division. 2756 saw William's promotion to Captain and a place in the Gunslinger program. On the 23rd April 2760, Captain Scoltock reached the pinnacle of his career and was inducted into the Royal Black Watch Regiment, piloting a Highlander 732b.
When Amaris launched his coup on 27th December 2766, Captain William Scoltock was in the British city of Manchester on compassionate leave, his mother had passed away the previous week. In the resulting chaos of the Amaris civil war, William first got his family into safety and then joined a British based resistance movement that adopted the name "Home Guard". William would never speak of that hard, bitter decade nor of the reasons he did not make his way to North America to join his few remaining Black Watch comrades, however it does seem that he was in contact with Captain Elisabeth Hazen as part of a wider resistance network.
During Operation LIBERATION, the Home Guard provided intel for the 15th Army's assault on Sandhurst and London, spearheaded by William's old division. Captain Scoltock rejoined the division, piloting a captured Blackjack during the aftermath and mopping up operations.
Exhausted and broken, William chose not to join his division when Kerensky left the Inner Sphere. Instead he took his family to Northwind at the invitation of Major Hamish Mckay, an officer of the Stuart Highlanders with a long association with the Royal Black Watch.
The Scoltock family settled in a Halifax City, home to English descendants from the original settlement of Northwind. While the majority of Northwind was settled by Scottish emigrants, a small number of English settlers established themselves on Northwind's smallest continent of Halidon. The people of Halidon eventualy embraced the Scottish culture of the rest of Northwind, however some families continued to maintain their English heritage and became know as "Sassenachs" by the rest of the population. The biggest concentration of Sassenachs is the Little England quarter of Halifax City, it was here that the Scoltock family came to live and heal the mental and physical scars of the Amaris civil war.
Charles Scoltock, grandson of Captain William Scoltock, joined the Northwind Highlanders in 2790. Bullied in school for his English heritage and discriminated against during his time at the Northwind Military Academy, his skill and dogged determination got Charles through and earned him a place in the 1st Northwind Highlanders. Charles adopted the callsign Sassenach, turning an insult into a badge of honor.
For over a century, the firstborn of the Scoltock family and their Blackjack served with the Northwind Highlanders while stubbornly embracing their English heritage and SLDF traditions until a brutal incident in 2900 while the 1st Highlanders where stationed on the St Ives Commonality world of Sharpe. Rose Scoltock was drinking in a local bar with her lance, her distinctly English accent and mannerisms, including pronouncing lieutenant with an 'f' sound, drew unwelcome attention from the locals as such traits where associated with the hated Federated Suns. Rose became seperated from her comrades and set upon by a gang of drunk locals. By the time Rose's lance arrived to pull her off the last would-be attacker, four would be hospitalised and two killed in their botched attempt to assault the 1st Highlander's unarmed combat instructor....
One of the dead turned out to be the Diem's son, who charged Rose Scoltock with murder. Facing a kangaroo court and execution Rose fled, with the tacit assistance of her regiment and became a mercenary hiring her skills and her Blackjack for a decade till she took a contract for a woman called Keona Arano and assisted her in building the Arano Coalition. Rose's reward was a patent of nobility for the House of Scoltock, she married her partner Lisa Hamilton in 2915 and established a family on Coromodir.
History repeated itself in 3022 when the Arano family fell to a coup staged by Santiago Espinosa. Like his distant ancestor, David "Sassenach" Scoltock, last scion of the Scoltock family was serving in the Royal Guard but escaped the destruction due to the kindness of a mercenary lance. Rising to command the unit, David renamed them as the 42nd Highlanders to honour the memory of his ancestors and a reminder of the repitition of history.
The Highlanders proved instrumental in the restoration of Arano rule during a fierce conflict in which history came full circle and Commander Scoltock aquired a star league era Highlander.
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