Lyons Thumb

The so-called Lyons Thumb was a region within the Chaos March.

Overview

The Marik-Liao invasion of 3057 and the events surrounding it that led to the sundering of the Federated Commonwealth and the creation of the Chaos March. Within the Chaos March were three distinct areas; the territories that were disputed by the rump Commonwealth and the Capellan Confederation, newly-independent states, and the Lyons Thumb. The Thumb was an group of worlds in the Chaos March to the "north" of Terra that were claimed by Archon Katrina Steiner-Davion as terrority of the newly formed Lyran Alliance, yet extended into the Draconis Combine.

While attempting to reinforce the region with Lyran Alliance Armed Forces units in the face of Liao-Marik aggression, Coordinator Theodore Kurita was able persuade Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht and Primus of ComStar Sharilar Mori to install approximately nine Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery regiments under nominal ComStar control to maintain order. Both Katrina and Victor Steiner-Davion, both valid claimants to former FedCom worlds, publicly welcomed the Combine peacekeepers, though the Archon seethed that foreign troops had effectively annexed the Thumb despite the fact Theodore had no such intention; desiring instead to maintain his realm's focus on rebuilding and the Clans.

The worlds of the Thumb existed in limbo until 3062, when mercenaries under the employ of the Kokuryu-kai attacked the Lyran Alliance world of Skye disguised as Combine troops and Imbros III and Yorii disguised as Lyran troops. Forces from the Isle of Skye attacked the alleged Combine unit on Ko, which coincided with the other attacks against the Combine. Faced with the perceived Lyran aggression, Coordinator Kurita formally annexed the Lyons Thumb and brought those worlds under direct Kuritan rule.