Though many steam ships boast mechaniks who know their way around an engine, Meg was born with a natural engineering aptitude others might lack after a lifetime of training. Employed by a warcaster famous for running his ’jacks hard, Meg is well aware of the value of her skills and enjoys throwing her weight around. “Dirty Meg” fits right in on the Calamitas, giving as good as she gets. Anyone standing in her way is liable to lose teeth to her wrench or be heaved overboard by the nearest Freebooter laborjack.
Those who have earned Megan Melroane’s grudging friendship know that she once worked as a member of the Ceryl Dock Workers’ Affiliation, whose elements attend to the countless crates of cargo shipped through Cygnar’s second-largest city. Though Meg became a top-notch laborjack handler, she received a pittance for her efforts. She began stealing from her employers to redress this inequity, using her access to ’jacks to move purloined goods with a speed none of her competitors could match.
A lucrative job selling stolen laborjacks to Bartolo Montador attracted the attention of Mercarian League enforcers. When mercenary thugs came to question her, one of them made the mistake of laying a hand on her, at which point a nearby Freebooter moved up and tore the man in two. Meg evaded capture but became a fugitive wanted for murder.
She arranged for a berth on the first vessel leaving Ceryl in the middle of the night, a smuggling ship bound for Five Fingers. Meg moved from one ship to the next nursing leaky steam boilers and patching up tangles of pipes. Ever alert for the Calamitas, she eventually caught up to the ship’s captain in a tavern. She elbowed her way into his dice game and demanded on the spot that he give her a job, calling it her “just due” given that he had lost her the last one.
Spurning her request, Captain Montador awoke the next morning to find one of his ’jacks disassembled in a pile in front of his door—and Meg standing calmly by with a wrench in hand. She offered to reassemble his ’jack as soon as she had the job. Meg joined the Calamitas that same day and quickly acclimated to the various sea dogs and massive arsenal of Montador’s vessel. Meg has also become a frequent visitor to pirate havens like Bottomton, Captain Phinneus Shae’s island headquarters.
Meg loves to enter battle alongside six-ton, steam-belching ’jacks, using her custom-built mechanikal cannon to seize up gears or short out conduits with jolts of energy. Meg has proven as grim and pragmatic in battle as any of her mates, and they can always find her in the heat of combat by the sound of her cursing over the grinding of gears.