Originally a Freeborn MechWarrior of Clan Smoke Jaguar, circumstances would ultimately see Alana Crowe to go onto become a renowned Inner Sphere mercenary as a member of Crowe's Bloody Buccaneers, eventually going on to marry the outfit's then-commander Halvorson Crowe. Born to a pair of Trueborn MechWarrior sibko trainees belonging to Clan Smoke Jaguars' Wirth-Wimmer lineage, while her father would go onto become a Bloodnamed Warrior who would serve with distinction during Operation REVIVAL, her mother's pregnancy would cause her to wash out into the laborer caste. As per Clan law, Alana was taken from her mother upon birth and raised communally, but even so it would prove impossible for Alana to avoid learning of her parents' identities, considering the uncommon circumstances of her birth. Against the advice of those around her, Alana would seek out her parents, eventually locating her mother at the age of nine. To her dismay, however, the reunion was anything but happy, with her mother Tabitha lashing out violently at her, blaming Alana wholly for her failure to become a Warrior. While traumatized by the experience, it would only serve to make Alana even more resolute in her desire to meet her father, naïvely hoping to bury the painful disdain of one parent beneath the approval of the other.