Was Mason's father from MW5: Mercenaries a freeborn?

[RiseAgain]

Was he sent to the Inner Sphere because the clans didn't deem him worthy to pilot an Omnimech?

[Harukage]

Mason and his father are noncannon creations of PGI. The only known clanners in pre-Invasion IS were Woolf's Dragoons and Snord's Irregulars. Nuff said.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Harukage:

Mason and his father are noncannon creations of PGI. The only known clanners in pre-Invasion IS were Woolf's Dragoons and Snord's Irregulars. Nuff said.

the implication is that mason's father was a dragoon. overall canon status is not relevant, as we are discussing a non-canon character in his native setting.

Originally posted by RiseAgain:

Was he sent to the Inner Sphere because the clans didn't deem him worthy to pilot an Omnimech?

no, the dragoons were mostly freeborn, true, but they were volunteers. i suppose some might have volunteered in order to escape being a second-class citizen, but it seems clan wolf, where most of the dragoons came from, offered the job to their best and brightest freeborn. the leaders of the dragoons got a bloodname out of the deal, and i understand it's fairly rare for freeborn to be allowed to earn bloodnames.

[Yaldabaoth]

Originally posted by Thundercracker:

Originally posted by Harukage:

Mason and his father are noncannon creations of PGI. The only known clanners in pre-Invasion IS were Woolf's Dragoons and Snord's Irregulars. Nuff said.

the implication is that mason's father was a dragoon. overall canon status is not relevant, as we are discussing a non-canon character in his native setting.

Originally posted by RiseAgain:

Was he sent to the Inner Sphere because the clans didn't deem him worthy to pilot an Omnimech?

no, the dragoons were mostly freeborn, true, but they were volunteers. i suppose some might have volunteered in order to escape being a second-class citizen, but it seems clan wolf, where most of the dragoons came from, offered the job to their best and brightest freeborn. the leaders of the dragoons got a bloodname out of the deal, and i understand it's fairly rare for freeborn to be allowed to earn bloodnames.

None of the freebirths got a bloodnames. The first one to achieve that was Phelan Kell/Ward. Jaime Wolf or Cranston Snord just "took" a name for their undercover mission as it would have been quite suspicious for a few hundred people to show up and all be named "Wolf" (Natasha Kerensky aside, she earned it before going on the mission).

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Yaldabaoth:

None of the freebirths got a bloodnames. The first one to achieve that was Phelan Kell/Ward. Jaime Wolf or Cranston Snord just "took" a name for their undercover mission as it would have been quite suspicious for a few hundred people to show up and all be named "Wolf" (Natasha Kerensky aside, she earned it before going on the mission).

you need to pay close attention to my wording. i said the leaders of the dragoons got a bloodname out of the deal.

sarna tells me:

"For the mission Freeborn warriors would be employed, and Khan Ward not only offered command of this force to Jaime and his brother Joshua but also promised the creation of a 'Wolf' Bloodname upon the mission's successful completion. Jaime, who would also use the surname 'Wolf' as part of his new identity, accepted and the newly dubbed Wolf's Dragoons set out in 3004 for the Inner Sphere.[1]"

source cited is: Historical: Brush Wars, pp. 15–16: "Jaime Wolf Profile"

now, it is true that "wolf" was never made into a real bloodname, it was offered as such to the leaders of the dragoons, jamie and joshua.

[Player 9000]

Mason dad was in the IS in the 2080s already according to ryena i think

[Player 9000]

I feel like masons dad was something else not a dragoon, cause then the wolfs dragoon would have sheltered mason i feel

[Player 9000]

2980s, my bad

[Player 9000]

His nightstar was also not normal clan mech but real sldf tech