House Liao (Capellan Confederation)
Franco Liao rose to leadership when the Federated Suns and Free Worlds League endangered the worlds of the Capellan Zone. His solution to this looming threat was unification.
Immediately upon the formation of the Capellan Confederation in 2367, Davion troops occupied its capital. Franco made a brutal choice to survive: an orbital bombardment destroyed the enemy, and his own capital city.
The ethos that “the State is all” reached a new apex in 2505, when Kalvar Lorix wrote “The Lorix Creed,” a tract naming the MechWarrior as the pinnacle of military and social evolution. Such thinking swept the rest of the Inner Sphere.
Half a millennium later, the peoples of the Capellan Confederation take pride in knowing they must earn their citizenship. Duty to the State and its current Chancellor, Daoshen Liao, is lauded and respected, bringing out the best in society.
None garner more respect and admiration than Liao MechWarriors, whose unshakable nationalistic pride and tenacity have met setback after setback with determination and grit throughout the centuries. In recent years that resolve drove the Confederation to reclaim its ancestral worlds from the faltering Republic of the Sphere. With the Republic’s demise, all Capellan warriros, from the elite Death Commandos to the lowest soldier, stand ready to face the ilClan and secure a prosperous future for the confederation.
The defiant dao sword of the Liao crest represents the Capellan Confederation motto “One Vision.”