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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8775228" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>Excellent Summary.</p><p>Misses a few bits...</p><p></p><p>The 5 Great Houses... </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Kurita - Draconis Combine</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Davion - Federated Suns</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Liao - Capellan Confederation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Merrick - Free Worlds League</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Steiner - Lyran Commonwealth</li> </ul><p>Also called the "Successor States" - as they're the successors to the Star League.</p><p></p><p>The First Succession War was when the Star League fell... the biggest survivors became the 5 great houses. And don't let the names decieve - in the lore, they're all essentially autocracies, most being hereditary.</p><p></p><p>Around the 5th Succession War, Houses Davion and Steiner are looking more and more like allies, despite being (literally) across the "inner sphere" from each other... Resulting eventually in a (short-lived?) Merger into the Federated Combine.</p><p></p><p>Now, the end of the civil war needs a bit more, as well... One of the last senior officers of the Star League, Aleksander Kerensky, decides to withdraw the League's Star Navy from the inner sphere, grabbing a bunch of techs and scientists, as well as anything tech he could grab... and fleeing the bounds of the old League... he finds a habitable cluster, and creates a warrior culture with surviving star league tech... but no industrial base. So, they set about preserving the tech and building the industrial base to come back and reinstate the Star League by force... With the navy pulled out, the would be successor states (not just the 5 great ones) blasting each other's infrastructure...</p><p></p><p>The folks Kerensky took beyond the edge of the League evolve into The Clans - a warrior dominated culture based upon competition at all things... They've got a tech base, they've got an industrial base to use it, and a deep commitment to correcting the errors of the Inner Sphere.... I got off the lore train after the clans invaded the inner sphere...</p><p></p><p>Note also that Kerensky was also the person who negotiated ComStar's neutrality...</p><p></p><p>ComStar also has monastic trappings...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8775228, member: 6779310"] Excellent Summary. Misses a few bits... The 5 Great Houses... [LIST] [*]Kurita - Draconis Combine [*]Davion - Federated Suns [*]Liao - Capellan Confederation [*]Merrick - Free Worlds League [*]Steiner - Lyran Commonwealth [/LIST] Also called the "Successor States" - as they're the successors to the Star League. The First Succession War was when the Star League fell... the biggest survivors became the 5 great houses. And don't let the names decieve - in the lore, they're all essentially autocracies, most being hereditary. Around the 5th Succession War, Houses Davion and Steiner are looking more and more like allies, despite being (literally) across the "inner sphere" from each other... Resulting eventually in a (short-lived?) Merger into the Federated Combine. Now, the end of the civil war needs a bit more, as well... One of the last senior officers of the Star League, Aleksander Kerensky, decides to withdraw the League's Star Navy from the inner sphere, grabbing a bunch of techs and scientists, as well as anything tech he could grab... and fleeing the bounds of the old League... he finds a habitable cluster, and creates a warrior culture with surviving star league tech... but no industrial base. So, they set about preserving the tech and building the industrial base to come back and reinstate the Star League by force... With the navy pulled out, the would be successor states (not just the 5 great ones) blasting each other's infrastructure... The folks Kerensky took beyond the edge of the League evolve into The Clans - a warrior dominated culture based upon competition at all things... They've got a tech base, they've got an industrial base to use it, and a deep commitment to correcting the errors of the Inner Sphere.... I got off the lore train after the clans invaded the inner sphere... Note also that Kerensky was also the person who negotiated ComStar's neutrality... ComStar also has monastic trappings... [/QUOTE]
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