Victor Steiner-Davion

Full name: Victor Ian Steiner-Davion.

Previously known as: Archon-Prince Victor Ian Steiner-Davion.

As the first child of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner, he was to inherit the most powerful realm of the Inner Sphere, the Federated Commonwealth.

During the initial invasion by the Clans, his unit the 12th Donegal Guards was destroyed on Trellwan (Trell I) by Clan Jade Falcon and, against his wishes, he was ordered to personally withdraw.

Victor now took personal command of a battalion of the 10th Lyran Guards and rallied his forces, this time on the world of Twycross. The Federated Commonwealth forces achieved victory in the battle when Kai Allard-Liao, then serving in the AFFC, single-handedly destroyed a flanking maneuver that would have overrun the FedCom positions.

After Twycross, Victor and the other heirs and rulers of the Inner Sphere were invited to Outreach by Jaime Wolf. Once there, the origins of the Clans were revealed, and tentative truces were made between the powers of the Inner Sphere to combat the Clan menace.

The Clan Invasion began again in late 3051 and again the forces of the Inner Sphere found themselves forced to retreat.

Victor, defending the world of Alyina, once more faced the Jade Falcons. His unit was again overrun, but Victor and the 10th were able to withdraw.

With the Clans stalled by the ongoing Battle of Tukayyid, Victor answered Omi Kurita's personal plea to rescue her brother Hohiro, who, along with his forces, was fighting a losing battle on Teniente against Clan Smoke Jaguar. Victor lead the 10th Lyran into battle and successfully extracted Hohiro and his troops.

During the initial years after the Truce of Tukayyid, Hanse Davion would die of an apparent heart attack, and, shortly after, Melissa Steiner would be killed in an assassination secretly plotted by Victor's sister Katherine Steiner-Davion (labelling herself Katrina to appeal to the Steiner half of the Federated Commonwealth). His ill-fated attempt to replace the recently cancer-deceased Joshua Marik with a double infuriated Thomas Marik when it was discovered and lead to a retaliatory assault by Free Worlds League and Capellan Confederation troops in 3057.

Katherine Steiner-Davion, though already privately implicated in her mother's assassination, used this opportunity and a rarely known clause within the Federated Commonwealth treaty to secede the Lyran half of the realm and abandoned the nominally Lyran Sarna March to the FWL and CapCon assault.

In 3058, a Jade Falcon incursion into the Lyran Alliance would prompt Katrina to request aid from all nations across the Inner Sphere, secretly withholding crucial intelligence in the hope that her enemies, specifically Victor, would be killed in the ensuing slaughter.

Victor, however, became aware of the size of the Falcon forces on Coventry and instead of fighting negotiated 'Hegira,' a peaceful withdrawal, by the Jade Falcons, in the town of Whitting. This unified response to a Clan assault laid the foundations for what became known as the Whitting Conference and the subsequent reformation of the Star League.

After the Whitting Conference, Victor led the armies of the Inner Sphere to destroy Clan Smoke Jaguar in Operation: Bulldog. The offensive was successful and Victor traveled to the Clan Homeworlds, where he declared and won a Trial of Refusal against the Clan invasion of the Inner Sphere. During this time period, his sister Katherine Steiner-Davion launched a bloodless coup d'état against his regent and younger sister, Yvonne removing him from the throne of the Federated Commonwealth.

Now deposed, he retired to Luthien before joining ComStar and replacing the retiring Anastasius Focht as Precentor Martial. Seemingly content to remain out of Inner Sphere politics, Victor was thrust into conflict with his sister Katherine after the assassination of their younger brother Arthur in late 3062. Victor set aside his role as Precentor Martial and for the next five years led his supporters in the FedCom Civil War. Personal tragedy again struck him when Omi Kurita was assassinated on the orders of his sister. After defeating Katherine, he relinquished his claims to the thrones of two nations and returned to ComStar. Yvonne Steiner-Davion was made Regent of the Federated Suns and Peter was made Archon of the Lyran Alliance.

Not long after this, the Word of Blake launched their Jihad, bringing destruction to much of the Inner Sphere. Victor, as Precentor Martial of ComStar, was a leader in this conflict.

Eventually becoming a Paladin within the Republic of the Sphere, Victor went on to lead a full life within the Republic's borders. He was murdered on 26 November 3134 on the orders of a cadre of Republic Senators, led by Geoffrey Mallowes of Skye, in Sante Fe on Terra. He was 104. He is survived by several children and grandchildren, including Kitsune Kurita, his illegitimate son with Omi Kurita.