Otto Steiner-Braunschweig

Duke Otto Steiner-Braunschweig (von Verneigung) was a and the ruler of the small merchant hub world of Verneigung in the , on the Lyran border with the . A member of the Lyran Commonwealth's ruling and distant relative of the by marriage to his wife Helga, Duke Steiner-Braunschweig was the patriarch of the cadet branch House Steiner-Braunschweig.
In 3020, discovered that Duke Steiner-Braunschweig had been allowing Kuritan intelligence access to restricted data and locations on Verneigung and other worlds nearby, in exchange for data on the location of caches in the coreward . In response the Lyrans hired a company, Crowe's Bloody Buccaneers, to kill the traitorous Duke as he attempted to flee Verneigung.
In truth, the Duke had been set up by agents operating within both Lyran Intelligence and the Kuritan . Obsessed with expanding a personal collection of rare and extinct , Steiner-Braunschweig had been tracking the activities of , and was subsequently marked for assassination by Verneigung's local .
After his death, rule over Verneigung was taken over by his widow, Helga Steiner, who would drop the surname of her late disgraced husband.
==Trivia==
*The Duke is named for Otho von Braunschweig, the incompetent leader of the short-lived Lippstadt League in the Japanese space epic Legend of the Galactic Heroes.
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