What Persian Noble Families could have replaced the Achaemenids?

Without the Macedonians, could the another Persian family have taken over? What noble family could have taken over from the Achaemenids?
 
It would have likely been an Iranian tribal confederation from Central Asia, they were the most restive and had the most legitimacy in claiming leadership (being from the same race as the Medes, Persians and Bactrians).
 
I was thinking of a family closer to the Achaemenid Dynasty, a family already in the government of Persia and able to claim legitimacy. Was the Sassanid Family a noble family at the time for example?
 

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I was thinking of a family closer to the Achaemenid Dynasty, a family already in the government of Persia and able to claim legitimacy. Was the Sassanid Family a noble family at the time for example?

The Sassanids came hundreds of years after the fall of the Achaemids.
 
I think I will go with the Orontid Dynasty for my TL when the time comes, unless I can find the names for Assyrian or Median Satraps.
 
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