Morrison's Extractors

Periphery States: Rack and Pain

          One of the most rapacious pirate bands to form in the past fifteen years, Morrison's Extractors owe their fierce reputation partly to the Star League-era technology they possess and partly to the natural cruelty of their self-styled king, Hopper Morrison. A company commander in the Black Warriors of the Circinus Federation, Morrison stumbled on a small cache of lostech on an isolated planet while resting up between raids in Lyran space. Though not a major find by most standards, the cache included BattleMechs, and to Morrison it looked like immense wealth. Rather than return to the Circinus Federation with their booty, Morrison and his battalion kept the contents of the cache and used it to start a new career in banditry.

          By the end of the 3040s, less than eight years after going rogue, Morrison's Extractors had become the scourge of Lyran space near the Periphery border, and had also raided worlds in their former nation with great success. The bandits' exploits continually attracted more renegade MechWarriors in search of action and easy money, and by 3048 the Extractors had grown to the size of a regiment. When forming the pirate band in 3042, Hopper Morrison had set up a base of operations on a planet far away from civilized space; he christened the world Pain, in an apparent attempt at dark humor. In 3048, Morrison took over another barren world nearby, which he named The Rack.

          The Clan invasion unfortunately did not touch the Extractors, whose holdings lay some distance from the Clans' chosen route toward Terra. In fact the invasion served as a boon to Morrison and his men, who found their favorite Lyran targets virtually stripped of troops, as the Commonwealth tried desperately to fend off Clan attacks. Morrison's Extractors terrorized countless Lyran border worlds, carefully staying just far enough from the Clan front to keep from attracting the invaders' attention. Since the Truce of Tukayyid halted the Clan advance in 3052, Lyran military units have once again made the Extractors a primary target; Archon Katrina Steiner-Davion of the Lyran Alliance recently offered a sizable bounty for Hopper Morrison's head. So far, however, the pirates have escaped the grasp of both Lyran forces and units of the AFFC.

          In the past two years, the Extractors have grown even larger. The unit gained the bulk of its expansion troops when Morrison and his men tangled with Simonson's Cutthroats, a mercenary unit employed by the Federated Commonwealth that went rogue over disputes about combat assignments against the Clans. When the dust settled, the Extractors had defeated the Cutthroats and absorbed the majority of their surviving MechWarriors. A few stragglers fled to parts unknown in the deep Periphery, vowing revenge against Morrison, but it remains to be seen if they will ever have the strength to take them on with a hope of winning. The Extractors currently field approximately two BattleMech regiments, including some Star League-vintage machines. Morrison has also expanded his band's list of targets to include the fledgling Rim Collection, whose six worlds are only just beginning to lift themselves out of centuries of poverty.

          A cruel man, Hopper Morrison enjoys causing pain and suffering. Rather than granting mercy to captured military men, he is infamous for letting them suffer a painful death chosen by an audience of his cronies.

Morrison's Extractors Force Listing

(Deployment as of 3058)

Unit Name                        Experience   Regiments  Homeworld    
1st Extractors                   Regular         1       Pain
(CO: King Hopper Morrison)
2nd Extractors                   Regular         1       The Rack
(CO: King Hopper Morrison)

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