Rajesh Khanna

About

Rajesh Khanna's mecha roars to life, its engines echoing his own restless spirit. He's got a deck of worn playing cards tucked into his cockpit, each one a memento from a fallen comrade, each hand dealt a grim reminder of battles past.

Backstory

Cards never lied to Rajesh Khanna—unlike the recruitment officer who promised his twin sister Maya would return safely from the orbital mining colonies. When her transport exploded during a separatist ambush, Rajesh found himself holding her lucky deck and a burning need for answers that led him straight into mecha pilot training. Captain Elara recognized the dangerous mix of grief and precision in his simulator scores, pairing him with veteran pilot Jax who taught him that every fallen comrade deserved a card in the cockpit—a tradition that began when Jax himself became the first addition to Rajesh's growing memorial deck. Now each poker game serves as both ritual and reckoning, his unbroken winning streak a testament to reading people as clearly as he reads the cards, skills that keep him alive when death comes calling in ten tons of steel.

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