Colonel Adam Crowe (born Adam Gavrilyuk) was a skilled MechWarrior who commanded the Bloody Buccaneers mercenary company from the late Dark Age on through the days of the ilClan.
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While he would initially pilot a Vulture Mk IV B when he first started serving as an active MechWarrior with the Buccaneers, Adam would soon inherit the ancestral BattleMechs of the Crowe family from his uncle Greyson.
"Mordhau"[]
"Mordhau" would be the first of the Crowe family 'Mechs Adam would inherit, being granted to him in 3140. Using the 'Mech during his final year of tutelage under his uncle, Adam quickly grew extremely fond of the machine, and even after inheriting "Hellhammer" and "Deathblow" when his uncle died of a stroke the following year "Mordhau" would in large part remain Adam's primary and signature steed.
Originally a late Star League-era BL-6-KNT Black Knight found in the private collection of a Lyran noble by his great-grandfather during the latter years of the Third Succession War, "Mordhau" and its sister 'Mechs "Hellhammer" and "Deathblow" would each see multiple refits over the decades. Following the end of the initial Clan Invasion in 3052, Adam's grandfather Halvors would slowly start to outfit "Mordhau" with a small array of salvaged Clan weapons: first a Type 22 ER PPC stripped from a Warhawk C in 3052, followed by a pair of Series PPS-XIX medium pulse lasers and a Chi Series small pulse laser taken from a Clan Smoke Jaguar stockpile during Operation BULLDOG in 3059. Later, Adam's uncle Greyson would gradually refit Mordhau with additional Clan technology as he acquired increasing amounts of it through his dealings with Clan Sea Fox. In addition to the previously mentioned Clan weaponry added under Halvorson's ownership, by 3111 Greyson's refits would cumulatively see the 'Mech outfitted with two Series 2b ER medium lasers and a pair of Series 7K ER large lasers linked into an advanced targeting computer (along with the pre-existing ER PPC and pulse lasers), seventeen Clan double heat sinks and 11 tons of Forging AM15 Clan ferro-fibrous armor, and lastly a Clan Active Probe and Clan ECM suite. Adam would largely leave "Mordhau" in this same 3111 configuration, mostly only making small ergonomic upgrades to the 'Mech's cockpit.