Editing Star League (section)

=== Height of Glory ===
[[Image:StarLeagueCameron.png|300px|thumb|left|The Federation if it had balls.]]
Now that he had consolidated power in the Inner Sphere, Cameron immediately set about pumping up the Star League's combined military might into dragging [[The Periphery|the Periphery]] back under a Terran ruler, which presented a bit of a problem: the [[Taurian Concordat|Taurians]] and the [[Magistracy of Canopus|Canopians]] did ''not'' care for the Inner Sphere as a matter of principle due to their founders being scornful of the Inner Sphere's corruption, and the [[Outworlds Alliance]] had largely been a proxy for House Kurita's expansionism at the time with realpolitik focused on balancing [[Draconis Combine|Draconis]] and [[Federated Suns|Suns]] relations. Thus sparked the Reunification Wars, where they dragged all parties involved into an all-out, drag 'em down war where two of the three powers got seriously merked, and forced through a lengthy rebuilding process. By the end of it all however, Ian Cameron had died, and his son Nicholas had taken over.

Because there really weren't any real frontiers left to conquer (there was the [[Deep Periphery]], but at that point it was like saying you wanted to conquer a bunch of farms out in the boondocks. It just wasn't worth the effort.), the Star League put it's money towards technology, and under Nicholas' reign, many of the great things that the BattleTech universe takes for granted were discovered, created, and then put into practice; the HPG network, neural-dimensional computing, advanced water purification, and major advances in medical technology such as the Stasis Tube. Star Leaguers were by and large some of the richest, most fulfilled, most well educated, and in general best lived people in the entire history of mankind. And while the Star League Defense Force and House Cameron did have to deal with secretly state-sanctioned piracy or skirmish disputes during the Hidden Wars with the Great Houses, the League's planets and citizens by and large were relatively peaceful with modestly advanced technology shared by the Terran Hegemony.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't last forever.