The Federated Suns, ruled by House Davion, was the second major state to form outside of the Terran Alliance. Though it cloaks its actions in pleasant-sounding words like "freedom," it's just as strongly expansionist as its neighbor and constant rival, the Draconis Combine. Following the Fourth Succession War, the Federated Suns merged with the Lyran Commonwealth to create the Federated Commonwealth, the largest single nation in human history, which controlled nearly half of all worlds in the Inner Sphere. This super-state didn't last long, splitting in 3058 after political missteps by Victor Steiner-Davion. By the ilClan era the old alliance is ancient history, though technically ilKhan Alaric Ward is a Steiner-Davion... The Crucis Lancers are some of the oldest units in the Inner Sphere, originally formed by one of the Federated Suns' founding nations. Like other premier units (Marik Militia, Sword of Light, etc.) the exact number of Crucis Lancer regiments has...