Jane Hartman (Character Sheet)

[Jane Hartman]

Jane Eliza Hartman

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“ Sacrifice. That’s not a word we use often enough.”
— James Lambert, Visiting Hours

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___Gender: Female
___Age: 37 Years
___Affiliation: Liberty Navy
___Date of Birth: 21st Feburary 786A.S
___Birthplace: New Richland City, Planet Houston, Texas
___Place Of Residence: Delaware OCS, Planet Houston, Texas

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#001 Service History - The Ashes Of Her Fathers

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Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Service Number: NF-403198
Division: First Fleet
Service Record:

> 804A.S - Enlisted: Liberty Marine Corps
> 804A.S-804A.S [15 Weeks] - Marine Corps Recruit Depot Hampton Hill, Planet Houston

Promoted to Private First Class.

> 804A.S-804A.S [2 Months] - Marine Corps School of Infantry Center, Planet Pittsburgh

Assigned rifleman MOS and posted to 4th Marine Regiment on graduation.

> 804A.S-806A.S [18 Months] - Homeland Security (Planetside, Pittsburgh)

Promoted to Lance Corporal.

> 806A.S-806A.S [6 Months] - LNS-Philadelphia (Titania class assault carrier. Shipboard security detail.)
> 806A.S-806A.S [2 Months] - LNS-Douglas (Interdictor class battlecruiser. Shipboard security detail.)
> 806A.S-806A.S [1 Month] - Exercise Blue Shade, Planet Pittsburgh
> 806A.S-807A.S [3 Months] - LNS-Burbank (Defiant class gunboat, assigned to 214th Rapid Response Flotilla. Shipboard security detail.)

Status altered: Wounded in action.

> 807A.S-807A.S [1 Month] - Beaumont Medical Center
> 807A.S - Medical discharge: Liberty Marine Corps.
> 809A.S - Appointed: Liberty Navy Primary Fleet
> 809A.S-810A.S [18 Months] - Officer Training School, West Point Military Academy.

Promoted to Flight Recruit.

> 810A.S-811A.S [6 Months] - No 4. Basic Flight Training School, Fort Severn.

Promoted to Ensign.

> 811A.S-811A.S [6 Months] - No 2. Flight Training School, Fort Bush.
> 811A.S-814A.S [3 Years] - 131st Strike Wing, Battleship Missouri

Promoted to Flight Lieutenant.

> 814A.S-817A.S [2 Years] - 2nd Medium Lift Squadron, California

Promoted to Lieutenant Commander, assigned as Acting Fleet Logistics Officer.

> 817A.S-818A.S [1 Year] - 21st Combat Support Group, New York

Promoted to Commander, assigned as assistant Fleet Logistics Officer, alongside VA Teerin.

> 818A.S-819A.S [1 Year] - Normandie Battlegroup.

Assigned as Commanding Officer: LNS Normandie (Former Royal Navy Valor-class dreadnought. Lost to mutiny.)

> 819A.S-821A.S [2 Years] - 21st Combat Support Group, New York

Promoted to Captain, assigned as Commanding Officer of 21CSG.

> 821A.S-822A.S – 10th Fleet, Leeds

Promoted to Acting Admiral, assigned as Commanding Officer 10FLT during the Leeds offensive.
Status altered: Wounded in action.

> 822A.S-Present. – Delaware Officer Candidate School, Houston

Demoted to Lieutenant Commander (Reserves).

Decorations (By order of precedence.):

> Distinguished Service Medal - LN
> Purple Heart - LMC
> Combat Action Award - LN
> Liberty Navy Commendation Badge - LN
> Liberty Logistics Badge - LN
> Joint Service Ribbon - LN
> Gold Service Pin - LN
> Command Service Pin - LN
> Aviator's Wings - LN
> Recruiter Ribbon - LN
> Trainer Ribbon - LN
> Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal - LMC
> Rheinland Campaign Medal - LN
> Hellfire Legion Campaign Medal - LN

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#002 Appearance - Not A Single Excuse

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Height: 175cm
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Gray
Distinguishing Marks: A savage line of scar tissue curves across the right side of her face, inching its way from her fringe to just beneath her chin, a remnant of a shrapnel wound from a long dead smuggler.

A military woman from her regulation haircut to the soles of her polished boots, Hartman does not so much walk as march. Firm in her belief that a soldier's personal bearing should reflect the professionalism of the Navy as a whole, it is rare to find a hair out of place on her carefully pressed uniform and rarer still to see her wearing anything not issued from a navy store. Eyes that could make a raptor wince rest in a face only beginning to show the lines of nearly fifteen years of military service. Critically evaluating of her subordinates and superiors alike she rarely relaxes, the faint, knife-edge tension of a veteran evident in her movements, even when apparently at ease.

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#003 Personality - The Knife At Her Neck

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In the end, no-one remembers the battle itself, the strategies and the tactics, the hard won meters and the blood-soaked ground. When the bodies cool and the dust settles, people remember what you fought for. Long years of service have cemented that belief in Hartman's mind, and she has pledged herself to a cause she believes is worth fighting, and dying, for. While other officers may fight for the Republic of Liberty or family at home, Hartman's loyalty lies with the Navy itself. Fiercely protective of the honor, traditions and personnel of the Republic's armed forces, Hartman comes across as harsh to many of her subordinates.

Intolerant of any lapse in personal discipline or bearing in her subordinates, and despairing of it in her superiors, Hartman believes the best way to serve the Navy is to ensure high standards are maintained by those within it. She is not an automaton; however, and does genuinely care for the troops she serves alongside, and can be friendly on the rare occasions when duty is not nipping at her heels.

Born on Houston, she has retained a faint Texan accent, despite the years spent rotating between postings. The accent quickly fades when she is truly angry; however, replaced by clipped words spoken with all the formality and implied condemnation of a high court verdict.

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#004 History - Rats’ Alley

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Some people grow into the military life. Others are born to it. With a pair of retired marines for grandparents and an office worker and florist for parents, Hartman fell exactly in the middle. Life on Texas was tough, but livable, though financial difficulties forced the Hartman extended family to share an apartment. Raised on the stories of her grandparents, despite the quiet disapproval of her parents, Hartman seemed set for the military life long before a twelve year old Jane stepped through the faded green gates of Carolina Military School.

Fire years later she walked through those gates for the last time, graduating with the rank of cadet sergeant and an acceptable, if not outstanding, academic report. The students had become family in all but name in the intervening years, and tears were shed on their final day. Many met again at recruiting centers like the one Hartman found herself in later that year, a stroke of a pen cementing her place as a marine recruit in New Richland's 804A.S intake.

She took her place on the bright yellow boot prints outside Marine Corps Recruit Depot Hampton Hill alongside two hundred other hopefuls, eyes set on a Recon place. One in ten candidates was gone by the end of week one. Drills and the training became their lives. For the first month of training, drills were held at all hours of the night and, on one occasion, in the middle of breakfast. Rigorous firing drills were repeated, time and again, instructors marking names off lists for purposes known only to them.

Three months in, now at the School of Infantry, the cause of the unceasing drills was revealed. Fifty candidates, including Jane, had been chosen to undergo Recon selection. Three days into the training, the number was down to forty two. By the end of week one, thirty six. In the early hours of day eight, a kilometre from the end of a timed thirty kilometre pack march, the number dropped to thirty five. A knee injury, acquired in the early stages of training, had finally pushed Hartman past her breaking point. Unable to walk, she bowed out of selection. A little over two weeks later, at the completion of a hellish half year, Private First Class Hartman was assigned to the 4th Marine Regiment as a Rifleman under Major Carne, and posted to shore facilities on Pittsburgh

The eighteen months of relative inactivity passed slowly after the ceaseless rush of boot camp. Regardless, the 'soft' assignment left plenty of time for individual projects, and Jane took advantage of what spare time was available to catch up with the family she had neglected.

Reassignment aboard the Titania class assault carrier Philadelphia finally bought the excitement the Marines had been promised. Philadelphia and her four hundred strong Marine compliment was incorporated into Operation Hedgerow, a sector-scale operation working to eliminate key sources of influence for pirate leaders in central Liberty. The 4th was ordered to board and seize a small Rogue 'bolt hole' station in Texas, an action that lead to what the media later termed the "Blackrock Massacre". A convoy of civilian transports containing liberated slaves was ordered by the Marines to evacuate the station, only to be fired on by undiscovered pirate weaponry, resulting in the death of thirty four non-combatants and twelve Marines. Of the fifty six Marines assigned to board Blackrock, just over half made it back uninjured. Hartman was one of the survivors, thanks largely to the actions of one Captain Christopher Tancher. With such a significant portion of Bravo Company out of action, the depleted unit was reassigned to a smaller interdictor class battlecruiser, Douglas.

Douglas saw significant combat; however, her missions were primarily conducted against hostile warships at ranges that left the marines of bravo company unable to do more then clutch their rifles and grit their teeth. After two months aboard, the unit was rotated through to Pittsburgh and granted a brief leave period prior to conducting a one month joint exercise with elements of the Army. Units were drilled in aerial insertion and fire co-ordination. The exercise was political maneuvering at its finest; part training exercise and part a display of force intended to dissuade the rising pirate threat in Liberty's border worlds, it was a resounding success on the first count and an equally resounding failure on the second. Hartman was simply glad to be free of the smothering confines of a warship's corridors.

By early 806A.S, the ceaseless pirate attacks and accompanying contraband could no longer be ignored. Bravo Company; along with significant elements from the remainder of the 4th Regiment, were assigned to the 214th Rapid Response Flotilla, a gunboat-centered light interception force focused on scouting missions and the enforcement of harsh anti-smuggling laws. The 214th had a great deal of success in its assignment, on one occasion single-handedly holding back a rare pirate heavy cruiser in California until reinforcements arrived by boarding the ship and disabling its drive systems. The success did not come without cost, and Bravo Company's return to the flotilla left many empty bunks.

Two months into the assignment, Hartman's squad was dispatched to support a routine cargo-interception run. Designated as the unit negotiator, Hartman had removed her helmet and suffered extensive shrapnel wounds when a proximity explosive shredded the internal walls of the transport they had boarded. Bleeding and screaming, she was dragged back to the shuttle and rushed to med-bay aboard Mississippi. Thirty six hours later, she was transferred to Beaumont Medical Center, Manhattan. Hartman spent a month undergoing reconstructive surgery to repair the damage. After her injury Jane reportedly struggled to face the idea of returning to active duty and, in light of her record, was offered a medical discharge, which she accepted.

Hartman failed to return to Beaumont for follow-up treatment; a decision whose consequences remained etched in scar tissue on her features. Save a ticket on a public shuttle returning her to Houston and a smattering of accommodation and food bills, no record exists of Hartman's actions between departing Beaumont Medical Center and reappearing outside Manhattan's Recruitment Center two years later.

Hesitant to take command, Hartman was hardly West Point's most shining example of an officer candidate; however, she struggled through the course with the same determination that had carried her through multiple combat tours. Hartman kept her distance from the teenagers that made up most of West Point's population, and it wasn't until she was assigned her first naval posting that she began to feel the old military camaraderie creeping back in.

A competent and committed officer, almost to the point of fanaticism, Hartman served in a variety of postings alongside strike wings and resupply squadrons. When Commander Clark stepped down as Fleet Logistics Officer, Hartman; then a freshly-promoted Lieutenant Commander and experienced logistics officer, was granted temporary command of the logistics corps. She retained the position when Admiral Teerin assumed control of the corps, albeit as an assistant and full commander and, save for a year-long absence simply marked in the files as 'classified,' remained at that post until her promotion to Admiral in late 821A.S.

Hartman served briefly as Admiral of the 10th Fleet, a supporting element, during the doomed Leeds incursion known as Royal Flush. When her flagship was shot out from under her, Hartman and a handful of her crew were fortunate to survive the descent to Leeds. There, injured, they weathered the toxic atmosphere and Gallic patrols long enough to be retrieved by elements of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, under the command of then-Captain Reginald Lewis. Nonetheless, the combination of physical injury and the political backlash saw Hartman relegated first to Herbert Beeler Naval Hospital on LA for recovery, and then to a training position with Delaware OCS on Houston. Devoid of a command appointment, she reverted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and remains in the position to the present day.

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