2795 Barbara Liao dies, Sandol-Quinn becomes regent
2797 John Davion and his son Joshua asassinated, Paul Davion becomes First Prince
2801 Ilsa Liao is of age, Sandol steps down as regent but remains her advisor
2802 Ilsa offers Paul Davion a conference. Offers a guarded truce to Paul Davion, who is in the early stages of a major counter-offensive against the Combine. Points out that no state can win the war, only survive, and the best chance of this is not to to shoot at each other.
2804 Michael Davion born
2805 Laurelli Liao born
2807 Federated Suns counter-offensive concludes. Second conference between Paul Davion and Ilsa Liao.
2815 Ion Liao born
2818 First meeting of Laurelli Liao and Michael Davion, accompanying their parents to the third conference between Chancellor and First Prince
2819 Death of Jerome Blake, Conrad Toyama becomes Primus
2820 Marriage of Laurelli Liao and Michael Davion. Toyama tries and fails to prevent the marriage.
2821 End of First Succession War
2822 Salicia Liao-Davion born.
2823 Archon Richard Steiner pushes to remove ComStar's tax exempt status in the Lyran Commonwealth, incurring an Interdiction of Tharkad.
2824 End of the Interdiction of Tharkad.
2825 Carl Liao-Davion born
2826 Vindicator battlemech design enters production.
2828 Ilsa Liao personally retakes Andurien
2829 Otto Liao-Davion born
2830 Start of Second Succession War.
2832 Guided by intelligence from ComStar, the FWL launches a successful offensive into the Sarna Commonality. Ilsa Liao dies in action against House Marik, Laurelli Liao-Davion takes office as Chancellor.
2833 Melissa Liao-Davion born
2835 Damien Hasek appointed Duke of Tancredi IV, taking command of military efforts against the Galedon District of the Draconis Combine. Although intended to mitigate Sandoval influence, this creates a potentially dangerous split in authority within the Draconis March.
2837 Suspecting ComStar is playing both sides as even with the intel advantage there have been several defeats, Charles Marik leaks information about a lost SLDF warehouse on Cursa. Within weeks CCAF regiments strike at the world. Believing ComStar was responsible for the leak, the Captain-General destroys the Oriente HPG station and the Free Worlds League is placed under interdict. Death of Conrad Toyama.
2838 ComStar lifts the interdiction of the Free Worlds League, which has lost all its gains against the Capellan Confederation since 2830. Primus Karpov orders Operation Holy Shroud, targeting scientists across the Inner Sphere. Efforts are made to mark Capellan deaths as MIIO operatives and Suns deaths as assassinations by the Maskirova, although this proves unconvincing.
2840 Yoguchi Kurita's efforts to tie up the AFFS with operations around Robinson fail utterly and the Sandovals spearhead efforts to retake worlds around Kentares, while Damien Hasek leads an offensive near the periphery.
2842 Paul Davion dies, Michael Davion becomes First Prince. His core policy is essentially defensive, with a focus on rebuilding infrastructure lost over the last six decades.
2847 Federated-Boeing restore their Delavan yards after damage from the First Succession Yards. Unable to continue building Star League standard jump cores they revise their Invader and Star Lord production to use more germanium intensive and expensive compact cores.
2849 Yoguchi Kurita caught behind enemy lines on Tishomingo and organises resistance to the AFFS invaders. Despite efforts to rescue him, Yoguchi is surrounded and commits suicide rather than be captured.
2850 Although the Lyran Commonwealth appears weaker, the death of his father compels Miyogi Kurita to launch a strong and concerned attack against the Federated Suns
2864 Robinson falls to a major DCMS attack, further weakening House Sandoval's influence in favour of House Hasek's. House Kurita's last warships are sent into the fray.
2865 A major aerospace operation over Robinson, supporting a false invasion force, draws out the DCA warships and they're destroyed with nuclear warheads.
2860 Laurelli Liao dies, Salicia Liao-Davion becomes Chancellor. While concerned about infrastructure, she wishes to regain worlds lost to the Confederation in the Succession Wars.
2863 Exhausted by the offensives into the Suns and heavy fighting to retain their gains, the DCMS requests a slowing of operations. Miyogi Kurita approves this, a large step towards the end of the Second Succession War.
2864 End of Second Succession War
2866 Start of Third Succession War
2867 The DCMS focuses its attention against House Steiner, suspecting Archon Steiner is aware of their shameful internal conflicts between the ISF and PRE. With Michael Davion uninterested in aggression this spares the Federated Suns the initial fighting.
2873 Michael Davion dies, Salicia Liao-Davion becomes First Prince, union of FS and CC formally completed. Peter Davion dies the same year as his nephew. Carl Liao-Davion becomes Prime Marshal of the allied military.
2874 Placing Otto Liao-Davion in control of the Draconis front, Salicia and Carl lead a major offensive against the Free Worlds League, seeking to regain the Andurien worlds while regiments from the Duchies of Andurien and Orloff are fighting in Skye. A number of worlds are regained, discrediting Captain-Geeral Marie Marik in the eyes of the Humphreys.
2884 Anticipating an internal power-struggle between Elizabeth Marik and Lloyd Marik-Stanley, Salica and Carl lead an attack on Oriente. Instead House Marik pulls together and Carl is seriously wounded defending Salicia.
2885 With coordination crippled by Taragi Kurita, the DCMS is open to attack which Otto quickly takes advantage of, scoring several military victories. Taragi suggests the need for a single leader to face the AFFS but is infuriated when Jon Kurita is appointed rather than himself.
2886 Salicia dies, her children having predeceased her in the fighting. The childless Carl Liao-Davion abdicates his claim in favour of Otto, who becomes the second Prince-Chancellor of the Capellan Suns. With his sister's war goals largely met, Otto takes a defensive stance which proves well-timed in the face of FWLM offensives.
2891 As Jon Kurita's second in command, Taragi deliberately leaves Robinson's defenses short of supplies. Under the command of Melissa Liao-Davion, the planet is quickly reclaimed and she is granted the rule of New Syrtis (although not control of the Capellan March) as a reward.
2892 Miyogi Kurita is assassinated and Taragi Kurita quickly eliminates Jon Kurita, making himself Coordinator.
2894 Otto Liao dies, handing power to his son Merlin. As Prince-Chancellor, Merlin focuses on addressing the remaining conflicts between Liao and Davion adherents, rationalising his government and husbanding the strength of the Capellan Suns, reasoning that in the extended fighting victory would go to the state with the greatest ability to endure.
2895 Under heavy pressure from the DCMS, the LCAF has been pushed back to the point of having to defend Skye itself, narrowly succeeding. Archon Elizabeth Steiner dies and her son Erich succeeds before the battle is decided.
2900 Merlin formally combines the Commonality system (of civil leadership) with the March system (for military leadership).
2903 Merlin successfully negotiates an agreement with Elizabeth Marik to refrain from targeting jumpships in battle.
2907 Shortly after taking office, Coordinator Shinjiro Kurita approves an agreement with Merlin Liao-Davion not to target jumpships. ComStar actively mediates similar agreemnts between the Combine, the Commonwealth and the League.
2908 Erich Steiner launches a serious of military reforms as well as extending military service.
2913 Archon Erich Steiner's rebuilding of the LCAF allows him to begin a steady series of operations to reclaim worlds of the Federation of Skye - primarily from the Draconis Combine.
2920 Death of Merlin Liao-Davion. His son Joseph Liao-Davion is focused on battlefield leadership, taking the field repeatedly against the DCMS and leaving government leadership to his Ministers.
2923 Prince-Chancellor Joseph appoints himself Marshal of the Draconis March in efforts to halt conflict between House Sandoval and House Hasek. It only draws House Liao-Davion into the quarrels. Meanwhile, Joseph's cousin Dainmar (grandson of Melissa), the Duke of New Syrtis, becomes increasingly influential on New Avalon and Sian.
2930 Joseph Liao-Davion seriously wounded in battle, abdicates in favour of his son Andrew - then serving on the Marik front. Andrew is shot by a sniper on his way to New Avalon and the crippled Joseph is quietly confined by Dainmar, who assumes power as Prince-Chancellor.
2933 Joseph Liao-Davion dies of his injuries.
2935 Dainmar approves the formalisation of the Mechwarrior brotherhoods as Warrior Houses, basing them along the borders of the Capellan Suns.
2944 Death of Samuel Marik ends a period of strong Marik leadership with three Captain-Generals dying between 2947 and 2949, leaving the arrogant Thaddeus II Marik as Captain General. Many provinces use the Home Defense Act to deprive Thaddeus of military forces.
2945 Dainmar authorises offensives against the Free Worlds League only to run headfirst into aggressive aerospace operations that nearly lead to disaster. Significant resources are shifted into the AFFS' aerospace operations, annoying mechwarriors.
2951 The 'Warrior's Cabal' spreads within the AFFS, seeking to restore their threatened mechwarrior dominance.
2954 Vandenberg Mechanized Industries develop the Medium Range Missile as a substitute for LRMs and SRMs, for which they can no longer build the guidance heads. Limited LRM and SRM production continues using imported components.
2955 Dainmar appoints his younger daughter Rebecca Liao-Davion commander of the Brigade of Guards. She systematically purges the brigade of Cabal supporters and as a veteran of the Ceti Hussars integrates combined arms into the RCTs.
2957 Tarlak Liao-Davion, Dainmar's heir, formally joins Warrior House Imarra, stationed on Liao.
2961 Tarlak becomes Master of House Imarra and champion of the Warrior's Cabal.
2963 Death of Thaddeus Marik raises Stephan Marik to Captain-General but does little to ease relations between the Captain-General and Parliament.
2965 Hohiro Kurita launches an offensive towards Tikonov, intending to cut off a major AFCS supply world and weaken the pressure on Dieron District. In response, Dainmar orders several warrior houses and the Brigade of Guards to reinforce Tikonov.
2966 Despite heavy fighting on Tikonov between Warrior Houses and elite DCMS regiments, Rebecca Liao-Davion strikes at the DCMS supply base on Towne and then invades Al Na'ir, forcing Hohiro Kurita to pull back to defend the factories there. Both siblings claim victory but the Warrior Houses have taken serious losses while the Brigade of Guards are in much stronger shape.
2968 Anticipating a power struggle between the siblings, Hohiro Kurita orders the assassination of Dainmar Liao-Davion as well as secondary efforts by the ISF to drive a wedge between Tarlak and Rebecca.
2970 Seeking to break the long-standing stalemate along the border with the Commonwealth, Stephan Marik orders a coordinated assault on Solaris, seizing the world before LCAF - then focused upon the Combine front - can rally reserves.
2971 After several years of working his way into the court, an ISF operative within Warrior House Barlow guns down the Prince-Chancellor before turning his gun on himself. Tarlak Liao-Davion assumes power and orders the dissolution of Warrior House Barlow before cashiering his sister for failing to protect their father.
2972 Unidentified battlemechs destroy the Liao-Davion palace on New Syrtis where Rebecca had withdrawn. Her son, Maximilian Liao-Davion considers this a plot by his uncle and feigns his own death. Instead he crosses the Capellan Suns incognito, networking with the mercentile nobility and his mother's suppporters in the AFCS.
2974 Tarlak Liao-Davion visits Tancredi IV to begin an inspection of the Draconis front. With aid from House Hasek, Maximilian has him detained and after a private conversation surprises Duke Hasek by drawing a sidearm and executing the Prince-Chancellor. With no choice but to support Maximilian, the Haseks proclaim him the new ruler of the Capellan Suns.
2975 Warrior Houses lead an ill-coordinated insurrection against Maximilian, who relies on the Brigade of Guards to systematically break the back of resistance in each region, sometimes pausing to repel raids from the DCMs or FWLM. While not a significant military leader himself, Maximilian proves an able politiican.
2978 After three years of fighting, Maximilian Liao-Davion is left in control of a weakened Capellan Suns. He weds his cousin Matilda Davion (one of the Argyle Davions), who served as his main military commander and banishes the surviving Warrior Houses to garrison worlds along the periphery borders, much reducing their strength. Maximilian's core policy is to hold the existing borders militarily while rebuilding from the civil war and expanding the reach of MIIO.
2979 Matilda Liao-Davion is appointed Prime Marshal of the AFCS and granted carte blanche to reform the service. The modern RCT begins to take shape.
2982 Birth of Yvonne Liao-Davion
2984 Last factory in Free World's League capable of building PPCs is destroyed by a Lyran objective raid.
2987 Archon Alexander Steiner revises Lyran military strategy, largely unchanged since the time of Erich Steiner, switching to a dramatic series of deep raids into both neighbouring realms and even into the Capellan Suns.
2989 Janos Marik becomes Captain-General of the Free Worlds League following the assassination of his father by an officer of the Orloff Grenadiers.
2997 Tenth Battle of Hesperus II won by Katrina Steiner.
2998 With Katrina Steiner's regiment reassigned to fighting on Kalidasa, only the Eridani Light Horse and Friedrich Steiner's 7th Regulars manage to hold Hesperus II against a new FWL attack.
2999 Death of Matilda Liao-Davion.
3000 DCMS return to Hesperus II for the Twelth Battle. Defeat looks certain until Katrina Steiner and Friedrich Steiner combine forces. Despite this the Eridani Light Horse seek new employment with the FWL. In response Alexander Steiner moves regiments from the interior to reinforce the League border, a policy he calls 'concentrated weakness'. Hohiro Kurita promotes his elder son Takashi from command of the Second Sword of Light's heavy assault battalion to command of the Otomo, the Coordinator's bodyguard regiment.
3003 FWLM launches repeated attacks on Lyran Commonwealth, exploiting the Archon's 'Concentrated Weakness' strategy. Anton Marik is appointed supreme commander of Free Worlds League operations on the Capellan front.
3004 Coordinator Hohiro Kurita is assassinated by a member of the Otomo. Although the assassin is associated with the Tyr resistance movement, rumours suggest he was actually sent by another member of the House Kurita. Takashi Kurita has those he suspects of spreading these rumours arrested and executed for undermining the state.
3005 Wolf Dragoons arrive in Inner Sphere and take service with the Capellan Suns. Takashi Kurita reforms the DCMS' system of front commanders, placing more responsibility on District Warlords.
3006 Friedrich Steiner and Katrina Steiner jointly speak before the Estates-General, calling for a vote of no confidence. Within weeks of the vote, Alexander Steiner abdicates in favour of Friedrich.
3007 After seeing the effectiveness of the Wolf Dragoons, Maximilian Liao-Davion orders several training exercises pitting them against AFCS forces to learn as much as he can from their doctrine and equipment. The Wolf Dragoons sign an exclusive deal with Blackwell Industries, investing in their factories in return for purchasing rights on all their production.
3008 Faced with a vote of no confidence from the Estates-General, Alessandro Steiner resigns as Archon, appointing Frederick Steiner as his heir. As his first act, the pugnacious new Archon appoints his cousin Katrina as General of Armies.
3010 After several years service against the FWL, the Wolf Dragoons quit service with the Suns and take a contract from House Marik, on condition they're deployed against House Steiner. With the new Lyran leadership proving bruisingly effective, Janos Marik approves the deal. No sooner have the Dragoons left than the MIIO begins work extracting technical data from Blackwell Industries.
3011 Maximilian Liao-Davion issues his Peace Proposal, recommending collective negotiations to end the Succession Wars and formally end all efforts to claim the throne of the Star League. Janos Marik, having recently lost his second wife, allows his brother Anton free reign to exploit this sign of weakness while Takashi Kurita orders his warlords to do likewise. Fighting breaks out all along the borders of the Capellan Suns.
3012 Fully reformed AFCS forces, well supplied after relative peace in recent years, honed in exercises against the Wolf Dragoons and alert to the DCMS and FWLM movements, converge on the invaded worlds to contain and smash the regiments involved. Quintus Liao-Davion is killed in the fighting on the Marik front, as are two of Janos Marik's elder sons. With limited supplies after years of fighting the Lyrans (who are refraining from attacking save for some probes the Dragoons can hold back), Anton is forced to retreat by the end of the year.
3013 A task force led by Yvonne Liao-Davion wins a critical victory on Halstead Station, destroying the DCMS' supply base for their offensive. Damage in the fighting uncovers the ruins of a Star League university and Yvonne is able to load her dropships with an enormous haul of books and data cubes. Maximilian founds the New Avalon Scientific Academy to make use of the collection. With AFCS reserves shifting to the Draconis March and DCMS losses mounting, Takashi orders the seppuku of the Warlords of Dieron and Galedon, allowing the invasion forces to withdraw with their own honour intact. Third Succession War deemed by ComStar to have ended in October when a three-way ceasefire is agreed by Janos Marik, Takashi Kurita and Maximilian Liao-Davion. Friedrich Steiner ratifies similar agreements with his neighbours a month later.
3014 Wolf Dragoons leave Marik service for House Steiner, this time with the condition they be assigned to fight against House Kurita. Maximilian Liao-Davion meets with Frederick Steiner on Mars. The wily Prince-Chancellor asks the Archon simply: "Now you have seen my strength against our common enemies, are you with me or against me?" ComStar begins cultivating the Taurian Concordat, Magistracy of Canopus and Outworlds Alliance in an effort to outflank the Capellan Suns.
3015 On New Earth, Archon Frederick Steiner weds Yvonne Liao-Davion, heiress to the Capellan Suns. On Terra, Takashi Kurita and Janos Marik sign the Kapteyn Pact
