Lyran Alliance

The Lyran Alliance is a fictional state in the BattleTech universe. It was created as a result of a deal between Thomas Marik and Kathrine Steiner-Davion.

History

The "Lyran Commonwealth" was a fictional interstellar state in the game BattleTech supposedly formed in the year 2341 and disbanded in 3056 to join the Federated Commonwealth. The Lyran Commonwealth was formed by the merger of the Tamar Pact, the Alliance of Donegal, and the Federation of Skye. The original capital of the Lyran Commonwealth was Arcturus, but the throne was transferred to Tharkad in 2406, where it has remained ever since. The Lyran Commonwealth was ruled for most of its history by House Steiner.

To prevent the Free Worlds League from discontinuing supplies for the war against the Clans to the rest of the Inner Sphere, Victor Steiner-Davion had substituted a double in place of Thomas' son, Joshua Marik, since the boy had died of leukemia despite his treatment in the New Avalon Institute of Science.

When Thomas discovered the deception, he launched a war, allied with Sun-Tzu Liao and his Capellan Confederation to retake worlds he lost to Victor's father, Hanse Davion, in the Fourth Succession War. Victor controlled the half of the Federated Commonwealth formerly known as the Federated Suns, while Katherine controlled the half formerly known as the "Lyran Commonwealth". Thomas sent a message to Katherine reassuring her that he had no quarrel with her, and accordingly would not attack any of her worlds, though he would understand if she sided with her brother and would bear no ill-will. Instead, Katherine decided to give Victor no support and to effectively sever her half of the realm and christen it the Lyran Alliance (not reverting completely to the original name because she claimed that, because of Victor's actions, the word commonwealth now carried a taint.)

In 3067, after Katherine Steiner-Davion was deposed, her brother Peter took up the post of Archon, and renamed the nation as the Lyran Commonwealth as a way to divorce the nation from the more totalitarian rule enforced under the deposed Archon-Princess' rule.

References

*Stackpole, Michael A. (1995). "Bred for War". Roc Books.

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