Editing Free Rasalhague Republic (section)

== History ==
Originally a Scandinavian themed region named the Principality of Rasalhague before being annexed via marriage, the space that would become the Free Rasalhague Republic was previously a Province controlled by the [[Draconis Combine]], and it had always been an especially strained relationship since their "joining" of the Combine. The people of Rasalhague as well as it's surrounding stars absolutely refused to assimilate to the Combine's weeb ways, and uprisings in this province were both common and often quite violent to the point that it ended up the most unstable border in the Combine. In the Fourth Succession War, the [[Lyran Commonwealth]] plunged into the Combine's territory with help from the now hundreds of years-old separatist movements within the Province, and [[ComStar]]'s Primus at the time convinced the Draconis Coordinator that it would be better to just let the Rasalhagues have their freedom as both a way to get rid of their most annoying/violent citizens as well as make sure there was a wall the Lyran Commonwealth had to go through in order to get to them. Seeing how the Lyran Commonwealth was about to merge with the Federated Suns, it would halven their borders with hostile enemy states. Rasalhague's declaration of Independance was signed officially in 3034, with ComStar and the Combine quickly endorsing it, and the Lyrans shrugging and handing whatever worlds they'd grabbed in the Province's space back since they really didn't actually need them for much. To keep both sides happy, one of the first things the new Republic did was begin an equal trade agreement between Lyran and Combine. Everything seemed to be going pretty well for them...

=== SUDDENLY CLANNERS ===
Right up until [[The Clans]] happened! Oops!

While the Inner Sphere in general did not take the initial [[Clan Invasion|Clan invasion]] well, no individual state got their shit wrecked as hard nor as fast as the FRR got it. The Clan Invasion was only about four years long, but Clan Ghost Bear and Clan Wolf ran completely roughshod over the entirely unprepared nation. By the end of it, the state that had once held 80 worlds between two enormously powerful nations now only kept seven, and were only allowed to survive through ComStar's intervention. After the Battle of Tukayyid however, the major shift in Clan Ghost Bear's ideology meant that the already pretty conservative, familial, and careful clan was considering just putting down roots (not that it was hard, the vast majority of Clan Ghost Bear named characters imply they were descendants of Rasalhague space to begin with) and striking a deal with the Rasalhague people (who were already starting rebellions, because they already had hundreds of years of practice at it) to assimilate to ''them'' rather than the other way around. By the end of the Jihad, most of the Clanner bullshit was more or less relegated to the armed forces, and the Khan and Prince ruled together, forming the Rasalhague Dominion.