Editing Wars of Reaving (section)

== Prelude to War ==
The [[Clan Invasion]] had happened, and while it started strong and several clans had made meaningful gains, it ultimately had failed miserably, and the subsequent War of Refusal, which ended even more poorly for the Clans, had their entire societal mindset fractured. They had long believed they would return to the Inner Sphere as conquering heroes or enlightened warrior-kings, and had that particular belief both shattered and warped by interaction with the Spheroids, who only ever saw them as one thing: Invaders. Due to the 15 years Truce of Tukayyid denying any Clan the chance to get closer to Terra, the Crusader - Warden division in Clan politics was replaced with the Invader and Home Clans; Clans separated by whether or not they had a foothold in the Inner Sphere or not, and whether or not they even wanted anything to do with the Inner Sphere. Whereas the Invader Clans wanted to reinforce their holdings in the Inner Sphere and hopefully resume the march to Terra, the Home Clans were either jealous of their Invader brethren’s valuable territories or accused them of ideological compromise from having to adapt against non-Clan tactics.

Things looked bad already, but the gears of what really got the Wars of Reaving going began with [[Clan Smoke Jaguar|Smoke Jaguar]] not just getting defeated in the Wars of Refusal, but outright annihilated. Clans Ghost Bear and Nova Cat then promptly said "lmao bye nerds" and went to go to their ultimate fates in the Inner Sphere, leaving Clan Space for good. This meant that massive swathes of the otherwise tightly compacted Clan Homeworlds were officially up for grabs, and the subsequent Wars of Possession created more rifts among the Clans than there had ever been before. In all this chaos, Clan Steel Viper returned from the Inner Sphere, broken and furious that they'd been so utterly outclassed by fucking Spheroids, and set about to building up their resources among the Homeworlds to work off some steam and build for the future, while allying themselves with Clan Cloud Cobra and Star Adder, creating a Snake Alliance. The consequences of this action would have disastrous effects on the Clan homeworlds, though nobody knew it at the time.