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| name                = Tormano Liao
 
| name                = Tormano Liao
 
| birthdate          = [[2996]]<ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 78</ref>
 
| birthdate          = [[2996]]<ref>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 78</ref>
| died                = May [[3062]]<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', pp. 9–10: "Service Timeline 3062" - Tormano dies in 2nd Black May attack</ref>
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| died                = [[3062]]<ref>''Field Manual: Updates'', pp. 9–10: "Service Timeline 3062" - Tormano dies in 2nd Black May attack</ref>
 
| othernames          = Ironheart
 
| othernames          = Ironheart
| affiliation        = [[House Liao]]<br/>[[Free Capella]]
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| affiliation        = [[House Liao]];<br/>[[Free Capella]]
 
| rank                =  
 
| rank                =  
 
| title              = [[Mandrinn of Capella|''Mandrinn'' of Capella]];<br>Leader of Free Capella
 
| title              = [[Mandrinn of Capella|''Mandrinn'' of Capella]];<br>Leader of Free Capella
 
| position            =  
 
| position            =  
 
| profession          = [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]],<br>Politician
 
| profession          = [[MechWarrior (pilot)|MechWarrior]],<br>Politician
| parents            = [[Maximilian Liao]] (father)
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| parents            = [[Maximilian Liao]] (father)<br/>[[Jasmine Liao (30th c.)|Jasmine Liao]] (mother)
 
| siblings            = [[Candace Liao]]<br/>[[Romano Liao]]
 
| siblings            = [[Candace Liao]]<br/>[[Romano Liao]]
 
| spouse              = [[Hanya No Cha]]
 
| spouse              = [[Hanya No Cha]]
 
| children            = [[Treyhang Liao]]<ref name=FMCCp113>''Field Manual: Capellan Confederation'', p. 113: "Free Capella Profile"</ref><br>Unnamed daughter
 
| children            = [[Treyhang Liao]]<ref name=FMCCp113>''Field Manual: Capellan Confederation'', p. 113: "Free Capella Profile"</ref><br>Unnamed daughter
 
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'''Tormano Liao''', also sometimes spelled as '''Tormana Liao''', was the only son of [[Maximilian Liao]], [[Chancellor]] of the [[Capellan Confederation]], and youngest of his three children.
 
'''Tormano Liao''', also sometimes spelled as '''Tormana Liao''', was the only son of [[Maximilian Liao]], [[Chancellor]] of the [[Capellan Confederation]], and youngest of his three children.
  
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He had a strained relationship with his family; as of ca. [[3025]] it was noted that only his sister [[Candace Liao]] seemed to speak in his defense, and there was speculation at the time that their relationship might be more than just a brother-sister relationship.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 124: Candace Liao profile</ref>
 
He had a strained relationship with his family; as of ca. [[3025]] it was noted that only his sister [[Candace Liao]] seemed to speak in his defense, and there was speculation at the time that their relationship might be more than just a brother-sister relationship.<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 124: Candace Liao profile</ref>
  
At some point prior to [[3021]]<ref>Based on the assertion that he had not seen his wife in five years as of [[3026]], as per ''Think Like a Liao''</ref> he secretly married [[Hanya No Cha]], a botanist from [[Brazen Heart]],<ref name=NAISv2p18>''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', p. 18</ref><ref name=HBHLT/> the Capellan Confederation's secret prison world. His stepmother [[Elizabeth Jordan-Liao]] reportedly demanded his banishment for not having consulted with her before marrying "beneath his station",<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 126: Elizabeth Jordan Liao profile</ref> but it is uncertain if or to which extent this played a role in Maximilian Liao's strong disapproval of the action. When Tormano refused to divorce his wife, the Chancellor annulled the marriage by decree<ref name=HBHLT/> and named his oldest daughter Candace the heir to the [[Celestial Throne]], removing Tormano and his children from the Capellan ruling line. Tormano placed himself in exile to [[Hsien]] as part of the [[First Ariana Fusiliers]] in ca. [[3023]].<ref name=HBHLT/>
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At some point prior to [[3021]]<ref>Based on the assertion that he had not seen his wife in five years as of [[3026]], as per ''Think Like a Liao''</ref> he secretly married [[Hanya No Cha]], a botanist from [[Brazen Heart]],<ref name=NAISv2p18>''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', p. 18</ref><ref name=HBHLT/> the Capellan Confederation's secret prison world. His stepmother [[Elizabeth Jordan-Liao]] reportedly demanded his banishment for not having consulted with her before marrying "beneath his station",<ref>''House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)'', p. 126: Elizabeth Jordan Liao profile</ref> but it is uncertain if or to which extent this played a role in Maximilian Liao's strong disapproval of the action. When Tormano refused to divorce his wife, the Chancellor annulled the marriage by decree<ref name=HBHLT/> and named his oldest daughter Candace the heir to the [[Celestial Throne]], removing Tormano and his offspring from the Capellan ruling line. Tormano placed himself in exile to [[Hsien]] as part of the [[1st Ariana Fusiliers]] in ca. [[3023]].<ref name=HBHLT/>
  
 
===Doppelgänger===
 
===Doppelgänger===
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===Fourth Succession War===
 
===Fourth Succession War===
In the first wave of the [[Fourth Succession War]] that broke out on 20 August [[3028]], the First Ariana Fusiliers on Algol were attacked by the [[Eridani Light Horse]] and [[3rd Davion Guards]] RCT. The [[AFFS]] forces found Major Tormano Liao's headless ''[[Centurion (BattleMech)|Centurion]]'' after the fighting, and assumed that Tormano had been killed in action. Similarly, House Liao assumed he had been killed when he was not among the soldiers that retreated off-world.<ref name=NAISv2p18>''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', p. 18</ref> When he was apprehended by AFFS forces after he ejected and headed into the wilderness, Tormano Liao was reportedly "half alive", with an infection that almost cost him a leg and a "broken ankle that will never heal quite right;" [[Hanse Davion]] ordered him brought to [[New Avalon]] in secret upon receiving the report on 25 September 3028.<ref>''Warrior: Riposte'', p. 248</ref> (Notably, Tormano must have been on the world of Algol in the eponymous system, and not on the hostile world of Kali anymore; he also had a different 'Mech from the ''Vindicator'' that he had used on Kali.)
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In the first wave of the [[Fourth Succession War]] that broke out on 20 August [[3028]], the 1st Ariana Fusiliers on Algol were attacked by the [[Eridani Light Horse]] and [[3rd Davion Guards]] RCT. The [[AFFS]] forces found Major Tormano Liao's headless ''[[Centurion (BattleMech)|Centurion]]'' after the fighting, and assumed that Tormano had been killed in action. Similarly, House Liao assumed he had been killed when he was not among the soldiers that retreated off-world.<ref name=NAISv2p18>''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', p. 18</ref> When he was apprehended by AFFS forces after he ejected and headed into the wilderness, Tormano Liao was reportedly "half alive", with an infection that almost cost him a leg and a "broken ankle that will never heal quite right;" [[Hanse Davion]] ordered him brought to [[New Avalon]] in secret upon receiving the report on 25 September 3028.<ref>''Warrior: Riposte'', p. 248</ref>
  
A [[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2|treatise about the war for the NAIS]] by Dr. [[B. Banzai]] tells a slightly different story, claiming that guerrilla operations on Algol a month after the battle showed someone with proper training was running the resistance movement. This reportedly led to a manhunt which resulted in the capture of Tormano Liao after two more months of ambushes and guerrilla strikes.<ref name=NAISv2p18/> This version is demonstrably false. The book was published shortly after the war already; from the context it could be assumed that the [[New Avalon Institute of Science]] deliberately obfuscated the truth for some reason.
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A [[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2|treatise about the war for the NAIS]] by Dr. [[B. Banzai]] tells a slightly different story, claiming that guerrilla operations on Algol a month after the battle showed someone with proper training was running the resistance movement. This reportedly led to a manhunt which resulted in the capture of Tormano Liao after two more months of ambushes and guerrilla strikes.<ref name=NAISv2p18/> This version is demonstrably false. The book was published shortly after the war already; from the context it could be assumed that the NAIS deliberately obfuscated the truth for some reason.
  
 
In exchange for Tormano's surrender, the [[MIIO]] reportedly agreed to smuggle Tormano's wife out of the Capellan Confederation.<ref name=NAISv2p18/>
 
In exchange for Tormano's surrender, the [[MIIO]] reportedly agreed to smuggle Tormano's wife out of the Capellan Confederation.<ref name=NAISv2p18/>
  
[[Hanse Davion]] extended an invitation to Tormano Liao and his wife. They arrived on [[New Avalon]] on 19 April 3028. While there Tormano (using "The Black Ram" as his alias) used access to military simulators to challenge cadets at the NAIS and Albion military academies. At the same time, Hanya No Cha used her access to the [[NAIS Information Network]] to learn about the new trends in botany. Hanse Davion also used Tormano's presence to gain a greater insight into the upper levels of the Capellan Confederation's political structure. These insights would serve him well when [[Pavel Ridzik]] formed the [[Tikonov Free Republic]] and [[Candace Liao]] contacted the First Prince about the secession of her [[St. Ives Compact|St. Ives Commonality from the Confederation]].<ref name=NAISv2p18/>
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[[Hanse Davion]] extended an invitation to Tormano Liao and his wife. They arrived on [[New Avalon]] on April 19, 3028. While there Tormano (using "The Black Ram" as his alias) used access to military simulators to challenge cadets at the NAIS and Albion military academies. At the same time, Hanya No Cha used her access to the [[NAIS]] Information Network to learn about the new trends in botany. Hanse Davion also used Tormano's presence to gain a greater insight into the upper levels of the Capellan Confederation's political structure. These insights would serve him well when [[Pavel Ridzik]] formed the [[Tikonov Free Republic]] and [[Candace Liao]] contacted the First Prince about the secession of her [[St. Ives Compact|St. Ives Commonality from the Confederation]].<ref name=NAISv2p18/>
  
 
Tormano was quick to build a new power base in the Federated Suns, with the long-term goal of putting himself on the Confederation's throne, and, with clandestine funds from the MIIO, started his Free Capella movement which he made into a powerful force over the next two decades.<ref name=ER52>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 79</ref>
 
Tormano was quick to build a new power base in the Federated Suns, with the long-term goal of putting himself on the Confederation's throne, and, with clandestine funds from the MIIO, started his Free Capella movement which he made into a powerful force over the next two decades.<ref name=ER52>''Era Report: 3052'', p. 79</ref>
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=== War of 3039 ===
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=== Clan Invasion Era ===
 
=== Clan Invasion Era ===
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=== Capellan-St. Ives Civil War ===
 
=== Capellan-St. Ives Civil War ===
Tormano assumed a leading role in the war. He recruited his son, Treyhang Liao, to his side. His ambitions were to obtain a kingdom - either St. Ives or in the Confederation - for himself.  He never realized his own ambitions: in [[3062]], on Indicass, as Tormano Liao made a speech in a pavilion, a hovercar attacked the meeting. It was destroyed by the ''[[Helios (BattleMech)|Helios]]'' BattleMech standing guard (piloted by Treyhang), but it was too late. The nerve gas it carried killed most of the people present, including Tormano and the planetary governor. Treyhang, however, survived in safe confines of his 'Mech. The attack was orchestrated by his niece [[Kali Liao]] and carried out as part of the [[Black May]] strikes across the St. Ives Compact.
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Tormano assumed a leading role in the war. He recruited his son, Treyhang Liao, to his side. His ambitions were to obtain a kingdom - either St. Ives or in the Confederation - for himself.  He never realized his own ambitions: in [[3062]], on Indicass, as Tormano Liao made a speech in a pavilion, a hovercar attacked the meeting. It was destroyed by the ''[[Helios]]'' BattleMech standing guard (piloted by Treyhang), but it was too late. The nerve gas it carried killed most of the people present, including Tormano and the planetary governor. Treyhang, however, survived in safe confines of his 'Mech. The attack was orchestrated by his niece [[Kali Liao]] and carried out as part of the [[Black May]] strikes across the St. Ives Compact.
  
 
===Legacy===
 
===Legacy===
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==Notes==
 
==Notes==
In early publications such as ''[[Warrior: Riposte]]'', the ''[[Blood of Kerensky]]'' trilogy, and ''[[House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)]]'' Tormano was named as Torman'''a''' (except for a few isolated occasions which may have been typos). The 1993 ''[[Assumption of Risk]]'' used Tormano, as have more modern works.
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Tormana was the spelling used in early publications such as ''[[Warrior: Riposte]]'' and ''[[House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)]]''. ''[[Assumption of Risk]]'' in 1993 used Tormano, as have more modern works.
  
 
==Portrait Gallery==
 
==Portrait Gallery==
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* ''[[Think Like a Liao]]'' (in: ''Shrapnel'')
 
* ''[[Think Like a Liao]]'' (in: ''Shrapnel'')
 
* ''[[Warrior: Riposte]]'' (novel)
 
* ''[[Warrior: Riposte]]'' (novel)
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[[Category:Capellan Confederation Characters|Liao, Tormano]]
 
[[Category:Capellan Confederation Characters|Liao, Tormano]]

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