Trillian Steiner-Davion

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Trillian Steiner-Davion (Born 3108)[1] - 32nd Century noblewoman, who is the granddaughter of Peter Steiner-Davion. She is the House Steiner Royal public adviser and aide to the Archon Melissa Steiner.

She is acts as the Steiner family historian. She is loyal and believes in Devlin Stone's dream of republic. She been trained for many years with Commonwealth's Diplomatic Corp where she acquired good negotiation skills.

Character History

Trillian's parents were killed while she was young, and was raised with her cousin Melissa as if they were sisters.

She meets with distant cousin, Jasek Kelswa-Steiner, while on business with Duke Vedet Brewster in November 3134.

She & Duke Vedet were convinced by him to usher support for his cause to fight Clan Jade Falcon in Republic of the Sphere.

In spring of 3135, she attends her great uncle Victor Steiner-Davion's funeral and meets with some of the Inner Sphere nobility.

In November, 3136 Archon Melissa Steiner informs her that she is assigning her as military envoy to Duke Vedet's expeditionary force that to hammer various parts of old Free Worlds League to prevent there reformation. She would be given considerable sweeping powers as envoy of the Archon. Part of her mission also includes her being send to Arc-Royal's Clan Wolf-in-Exile to form an pack with them. To get them to negotiate a secret pack with their other half to help invade Free Worlds League space. She names Colonel Klaus Wehner as military aide.

In March 18th, 3137 she meets with Duke Vedet Brewster and his military aide Bernard Nordhoff and offers him position as campaign leader of coming invasion of Free Worlds League. She must use her diplomatic skills to plan keep Duke 's ambitions in check. She orders a new military formation created with her cousin, Roderick Frost as its commander.

In May, she briefed by General Heinrick on Cavanaugh II in on planning of what is called Operation Hammerfall.

Where she checks on the details of the plans also raid Clan Jade Falcons with the operation. In July, She meets with Roderick and confides him he is needed by his house and for her to lead special military force under command to do special missions. Roderick accepts and assembles people to form his "Broken Swords" Battalion. In September she has Klaus Wehner, Roderick try to figure out the fighting patterns in in Marik-Stewart Commonwealth. Roderick suspects that Silver Hawks are being used to bleed Lyran forces and keep resistance up on the captured worlds.

Trillian arrived on Tamarind in November to negotiate with Duke Fontaine Marik to convince him to sign a peace treaty with Lyran Commonwealth. As backup to her plan, she had her cousin Roderick's Broken Swords battalion travel days behind her and later backed up both the 1st Hesperus Guards and 3rd Lyran Regulars arrive to bail her and Swords out if negotiations failed.

She and her aide escaped through Lyran Consulate's secret tunnels system. She and Klaus slipped into the city, but were confronted by city police. There in an alley way, she police officer grabbed her. Thinking she was going be captured, raped, and possibly killed. She struggled with the officer and managed to strangle him to death.

There she and Klaus try blend into the city's homeless population. Hoping to keep out of the eye of the authorities that were seeking them. She began suffer from nightmares of her encounter with the police officer while hiding in the city. News of one of Roderick's dropships being destroyed, but successfully destroying the many of the world's communication system gave her hope that she could hook up with him and his force. Duke had ordered all the homeless people of the city to help in the defense of the city to aide to build barricades to defend the city with. They are taken to the outskirts of the city where they work with rest of the work gangs to build simple brick barricades. Later, she and Klaus slip away. By the 9th they manage guess where Roderick held up, in village of Burkettsville.

Five days later on the 14th, the Third Lyran Regulars arrived on world with two battalions of troops. By this time her cousin’s unit had been rendered to shadow of a company and they were exhausted. She turned Roderick and told him she chose him because not only for his skills as military commander, but who he really was…Steiner. She and Archon has agreed that victory on Tamarind must be won for Lyran people and not by Duke Vedet or one his proxy like General Nordhoff. So convinced him to use his true name and rally his troops to link up with the Third and ursp the victory from Vedet and his people. Roderick concedes and reveals who he is and manages to turn tide of battle after attacking Tamarind’s forces rear flank’s and getting rally Third Lyrans to join him in cutting Tamarind force in half.

After the discovery of General Nordhoff’s desertion, Roderick then takes command of Third Lyrans and quickly takes the city after refitting his forces.

Trillian arrives at Marik Palace, where she is meets with Grand Vizier Sha Renkin, whom is ordered by Duke Marik to broker armistice so as to stop his people's blood from being spilled. Duke having fled situation and vowing continue fight against invasion saying there would be no peace until Lyrans were gone.

By March of 3138, Trillian had returned to Tharkad report of armistice of Duchy of Tamarind-Abbey. She had been still having nightmare of the incident with police officer she had killed. After talking to Melissa, was she able to relieve onslaught of nightmares. Melissa then spoke to her that she too had nightmares since starting war and cost of all lives both sides. She then said heard from Clan Wolf, that they had now emerged from silence and began attacking Marik-Stewart commonwealth and starting with the world of Gannett.

References

  1. Blood of the Isle, p. 167

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