Anna Rosse

Life for Anna Rosse was brutal and uncompromising from the time she was very young. When the hated Usurper invaded Terra, Rosse was only nine years old. Captured, she was being led to an internment camp when a resistance cell rescued her.

An all-women resistance cell in Greece took her in after two years on the run. This deeply spiritual group helped heal Rosse of her emotional scars, and she repaid them with sensible and intelligent suggestions on improving their communications networks and their methods of acquiring and distributing supplies. The leaders of her cell quickly realized her value and began to pass her on to other cells to aid in their effectiveness. As she grew older, her mehtods became common practice among most of the resistance cells in Europe and Asia. By the time of the Liberation of Terra by Kerensky's troops, she was stationeed in Moscow.

Quietly hailed as a hero of the resistance, Anna Rosse met Captain Peter Karpov of the SLDF at one of the intial meetings between the resistance leaders and the liberators. The two were married within a year, and bother joined the Exodus. They departed the Inner Sphere aboard the Prinz Eugen.

All know of the history of that traitorous ship and crew. Defying the Great Father himself, the Prinze Eugen and eight other ships decided to return to the Inner Sphere. Only one solution was possible: Kerensky captured the nine ships and excuted their officers - including Karpov.

All Clans realize that this act saved us from destruction - look at what happened when the Inner Sphere finally did locate us. However, Karpov's death worsened Rosse's emotional problems, and she could not even find solace in Aleksandr Kerensky's General Order 137. When the SLDF finally arrived at five marginally inhabitable worlds - later dubbed the Pentagon worlds - she made her new home on the planet Circe. Living with two of her husband's cousins, she tried to start a new life. Remebering the spiritual strength of the resistance cell, she began her own healing process through a set of private rituals. What began as a mental technique to help her come to grips with evreything she had lost blossomed into a way in which to view life. She came to understand the power of ritual and began to accept the turth of visions. It was during theis time that she met Phillip Drummond.

Drummond had tested out of the SLDF during the controlled demobilization that followed the arrival on the Pentagon worlds and became a scientist. Rosse became a successful merchant, and in those first few peaceful years of colonization, they joined to create a family and gave birth to three children.