Katherine Steiner-Davion



Katherine Steiner-Davion, also known as Katrina Steiner, is a major recurring villain in the lore of the mecha sci-fi tabletop game Battletech and it's videogame spin-off series Mechwarrior and Mechcommander.

A power hungry and tyrannical noble woman, she became infamous due to her complete selfishness and cruelty which were quite unusual in the morally grey nature of the Battletech setting.

Role
She is a member of the noble Steiner family. Seizing power after having her own mother and siblings killed by an assassin and framing her surviving brother Victor, she ruled the Lyran Alliance and the Federated Commonwealth between the year 3057 and 3067 and she was the main villain of the FedCom Civil War storyline, opposing the faction of her brother Victor.

She sold out the nation she had the most loyalty with to the Clans in an attempt to defeat her brother and his mercenary groups and finally, after being deposed, escaped with her Clan allies and created an artificial baby with Victor's DNA and her own who would hopefully go on to lead the clans in getting revenge on Victor and the entire Inner Sphere for her at a later date. However, even her aforementioned son, Alaric, got fed up with her insanity. He ends up killing her after she orders him to murder a close ally, to protect her own position. Especially since maintaining her position may get him and his Clan destroyed.

Trivia

 * Katherine is one of the few Battletech villains to be considered Pure Evil, alongside Stefan the Usurper and General Amos Forlough.