Editing Petyr VanLees

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| title               = [[Duke of Kathil]]
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| profession          = Noble
| parents             = [[Koster VanLees]] (father)<ref name=FPc2>''Flashpoint'', ch. 2</ref>
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'''Petyr VanLees''' was the [[Duke]] of [[Kathil]] in [[3067]].<ref name=FCCWp191>''FedCom Civil War'', p. 191</ref>

==History==
Kathil, the system with the best shipyards in the FedCom, was the place where the second spark ignited. Obviously, Katherine understood the crucial importance of the war fleet, and WarShips almost only were built in this system. The new [[Avalon]] class of ships was in production, and as Kathil was part of the Capellan March (a territory under the command of [[George Hasek (31st c.)|George Hasek]], who didn't accept her as his ruler), she took measures to ensure the control of the new WarShips and the planet. One was to assign at least one Lyran naval officer in every new WarShip, and another, to keep an extra "garrison" on the planet. This garrison, the [[Eighth FedCom RCT|Eight Regimental Combat Team]] received orders from her to stay on the planet... ignoring direct orders by Duke Hasek to move to another system. The situation was aggravated when the leader of the Eighth, [[General]] Weintraub ignored direct orders of the [[Duke of Kathil]] Petyr VanLees. Frustrated Duke Hasek bought back the [[First Capellan Dragoons]] regiment his father had sold. Upon their arrival in-system fighting started. The materially inferior forces of the local Kathil Militia with a cadre of [[NAIS]] managed to defeat the 8th RCT and secured Kathil for Duke Hasek... and, indirectly, for Victor Davion. Some hopes in Kathil arose that this battle would signal the end of the conflict, but they were thwarted: shortly after, upon the assassination of his brother Arthur, Victor Davion started the fire of the real war.<ref>''FedCom Civil War''{{cn}}</ref>

The ''[[Robert Davion (Individual Avalon-class WarShip)|Robert Davion]]'' was being constructed in the [[James McKenna Shipyards]] above [[Kathil]] on the 28th of November 3062 under the command of [[Admiral]] Paulsen when Admiral [[Jonathan Kerr]] seized control of the cruiser by deception in the name of [[Archon]] [[Katherine Steiner]].<ref name="FCCWp24">''FedCom Civil War'', p. 24: "Kathil"</ref><ref name="FPp157"/> Kerr had been due to take up the post of Executive Officer in mid-December, making it easy for him to smuggle armed troops aboard; Kerr announced as he seized the ship that he was doing so under the authority of [[Duke]] Petyr VanLees and [[General]] [[Mitchell Weintraub]].<ref name="FPp157">''Flashpoint'', ch. 20, pp. 157–160</ref>

== Titles and Positions ==
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* ''[[FedCom Civil War (sourcebook)|FedCom Civil War]]''
* ''[[Flashpoint (novel)|Flashpoint]]'' (novel)


[[Category:Federated Suns Characters|VanLees, Petyr]]