Editing Deep Periphery

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The Deep Periphery is the very tip, the ''very last'' edge of human civilization before going back out into open frontier space in the [[BattleTech]] universe.

== Overview ==
If life in the [[The Periphery|Periphery]] feels like you're in the boondocks, then the Deep Periphery means you may as well be off the grid. The Deep Periphery generally speaking describes the space completely outside of the HPG Network and farther out from the Inner Sphere than even the Periphery is, and as such much of the Deep Periphery's inhabitants (not that there are many) are completely isolated from the concerns of humanity. Because the term is so vague, anything outside the bounds of the traditional Periphery powers and going out into deep space could be called the Deep Periphery. Any surviving settlement out here may as well be a kingdom unto themselves, as most of the time it takes a ''lot'' of work to keep any of the worlds surviving, let alone thriving. 

But that doesn't mean there aren't major powers out in the Deep Periphery. Plenty of mercantile kingdoms, religious states, and minor nobility have the capital to control more than a few systems at a time, and of course the big axe hanging over everbody's head is the Clans, who fled to the Deep Periphery hundreds of years ago, and whose influence gets felt whenever they make moves.

== Notable Deep Periphery Powers ==
It should be noted that due to the sheer distance between most of these powers, they rarely actually interact through violence, and are often found dealing with their own problems rather than fighting in the way Inner Sphere powers do.
* '''[[The Clans]]''': The Former SLDF that decided to make their own society out here. Control the most amount of power and worlds, however they are far from a united front, and are far more focused on the Inner Sphere than anybody else. The Wars of Reaving changed that, as some clans have struck out on their own.
* '''The Hanseatic League''': For most of the Deep Periphery's history of human colonization, the Hanseatic League has been the biggest non-clan power in the Deep Periphery, being a mercantile kingdom that has often been the lifeline for hundreds of Deep Periphery worlds. Less focused on battle than most, though if pressed they could call upon Spheroid level tech. Got eaten alive however during the Hanseatic Crusades started by the Escorpio Imperion.
* '''Scorpion Empire''': Previously Clan Goliath Scorpion who utterly consumed the entire Castilian Cluster of worlds, which included the Umayyid Caliphate and Nueva Castile empires. This group would become a much more potent threat after defeating the Hanseatic League, and as of 3150 are the biggest players in the Deep Periphery that aren't tied directly to the Clan Worlds.
* '''Chainelane Isles''': The answer to the question of what the Succession Wars looked like in miniature. Ten competing worlds all vying for dominance over the same 100 lightyear stretch of space, where Mechs are as rare as they were in the Third Succession War. Were in the path of the Clans, but only one planet's military got the axe from them, so they were generally left alone to deal with themselves.
* '''JàrnFòlk''': Rasalhague refugees who control only four worlds. Basically became the Medieval Faroe Islands but in space.
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