House Steiner – Lyran Commonwealth
The establishment of the Lyran Commonwealth in 2341 was as much a business merger as a political alliance between the Protectorate of Donegal, Federation of Skye, and Tamar Pact, with the nation to be ruled by a council of nine Archons. Eventually Katherine Steiner would assume sole Archonship in 2408, firmly establishing House Steiner as the central dynastic power in the region.
Over the centuries, Lyran business acumen turned the Commonwealth into an industrial powerhouse, but the nation’s military ambitions were often plagued by the ineptitude of “social generals”: soldiers iwth more noble lineage and business connections than tactical or strategic expertise.
Many of the Commonwealth’s MechWarriros today lack confidence in Archon Trillian Steiner’s leadership, but they fight on, often in the assault-class BattleMechs at their disposal.
In the Lyran throne room, two Battlemechs flank the Archon’s throne and the emblem of House Steiner, exemplifying their motto “Indomitable Will.”
The Hinterlands
Clan Jade Falcon’s abandonment of their nearby Occupation Zone, coupled with political and economic stresses in the Lyran Commonwealth, caused several smaller states to rise to power and carve out swaths of former Lyran and Jade Falcon territory. Foremost among them are the Vesper Marches, a region claimed by Duke Vedet Brewer, briefly an usurper to the Lyran throne; the Tamar Pact a spiritual resurrection of one of the founding member-states of the Lyran Commonwealth, helmed by Governor-General Sarah Regis, a former Lyran general; and the Arc-Royal Liberty Coalition, a protectorate defender by Colonel Callandre Kell, leader of the famed Kell Hounds mercenary unit. Other, smaller realms have cropped up as well, including a remnant Falcon contingent and the Malthus Confederation, home to a long-standing organized crime family.