Liam was a Force-sensitive human male Jedi youngling who trained in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during the Separatist Crisis. He was trained by Yoda, the Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
And then what happened
I've been talking about doing this for something like a year, but I'm finally confronting nostalgia and I'm gonna' stream Heavy Gear 2.
Heavy Gear's late 90s PC Games are Activision's response to losing the license to develop/publish the Mechwarrior franchise. They snapped up a different tabletop mecha IP, and decided they wanted to make games that focused on faster gameplay. So they made some absolutely wonderful games that we have all absolutely collectively forgotten.
Heavy Gear splits from your usual mechwarrior/battletech title by making the titular "Gears" the middle child of the armored warfare scene. Instead of being a hulking behemoth with feet of steel between you and your foes, you're more like light cavalry. You have hands that let you do things like swap out for weapons you may find in the field as you find them. You have rollers/tracks on your feet so that you might rollerskate about at high speeds. You have a FUCKIN' MECH STEALTH BAR. You can crush the shit out of infantry but tanks are by default bigger and meaner than you could ever hope to be, so you have to be more clever than they are.
There's also a couple of zero gravity segments in which you take the awkward, stilted mecha controls INTO SPACE and try to pilot relatively flimsy, clunky, internal combustion-powered mech in open space where there's notably a lack of cover.
If all this sounds good, then you'll be happy to know that a team of intrepid coders have preserved the game for the time being.
You can go pick it up and experience it yourself. If you need a little more selling I'm going to be playing the game today live on twitch at http://twitch.tv/wobblypython. Celebrating 1000 followers (late). I am terrified the game is gonna' suck shit and I'll look like a goober, but I'm still gonna' do it and celebrate this absolutely forgotten chunk of neat mecha history.
Come join in! http://twitch.tv/wobblypython