BattleTech Legends: Storms of Fate by Loren L. Coleman

Author:Loren L. Coleman [Coleman, Loren L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 2011-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Dormuth, Marik

Marik Commonwealth

Free Worlds League

7 November 3064

Katrina Steiner-Davion rested her folded hands on the marble table’s cool surface, one long, white-painted fingernail tapping in time with the step of the soldiers who paraded a slow circuit around the hall bearing the flags of each voting Council member. Five flags. Five votes. And that was why she was here. Her one and only concern was to win enough of those votes to become the next First Lord. By her count, surveying the room, she already had the election won.

She noted that Thomas Marik had done little to change the room for the meeting of the Star League Council. The hall was slightly smaller than the ballroom she had converted on Tharkad, its architecture more functional than the soaring buttresses and vaulted ceilings she was used to. Of course, the whole Marik Royal Palace was unremarkable except for its bunker-like design.

Eight long tables were arranged in an octagon, with the banner of the appropriate nation or organization hanging from the ceiling above each of the six occupied tables. The empty table closest to the door held only a speaker’s podium. The other empty table would be occupied later when the Star League accepted its first probationary member.

To the right of the podium table, under the rearing dragon of the Draconis Combine, sat Theodore Kurita, who presided over this Council as the outgoing First Lord. His son and heir, Hohiro, was present as the current commanding general of the Star League Defense Force. Two other officers accompanied them. Seated at the next table, under the eagle of the Free Worlds League, was Thomas Marik. Also with him were his wife and some high-level Word of Blake precentor. Then came a table for newly elected Prince-regent Christian Mansdotter and his party, representing what was left of the Free Rasalhague Republic. The Clans still occupied most of the former Rasalhague worlds, and ComStar protected the rest.

Katrina had been assigned the table directly across from the podium, under a long banner displaying the emblems of both the Lyran Alliance and the Federated Suns. She had considered returning to the insignia of the Federated Commonwealth, the symbol that had once united the two realms. With Victor fighting the civil war in a Federated Suns uniform, she thought that claiming the Suns emblem for herself would make a strong statement. In the end, she opted for acknowledging both realms individually. She had permitted only Nondi Steiner, as General of the Alliance Armies and her regent in Lyran space, to join her at the spacious table.

To her left was the other empty table, and next to it the Capellan section. Two of the leaders sitting with Sun-Tzu eyed the vacant seats hungrily. The Capellan section, seating six people, was so crowded that it made the room look a bit lopsided. Besides Candace Liao and Morgan Kell, the Chancellor had invited one of his Warrior House leaders, Naomi Centrella of the Periphery’s Magistracy of Canopus, and Grover Shraplen of the Taurian Concordat.

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