Editing Free Worlds League (section)

== Origins ==
The Free Worlds League started life as several individual worlds and states, most prominently the Marik Commonwealth, The Federation of Oriente, and Regulan Principality, who all came together post-Terran Alliance collapse to mutually form together to face oncoming threats and hopefully spread their burgeoning state through trade rather than conquest, which was immediately set aside once they had needled their immediate neighbor; the dictatorial Stewart Commonality into open war, which thanks to their now combined forces, needed a strong leader to put them all into line. Thus began the creation of the position of Captain-General, and from then on, it was history. What would become the general borders of the Free Worlds would be solidified just before the Age of War, with the planet of Andurien being it's biggest conquest, which in hindsight would become it's biggest headache, as it would have to deal with regular incursions from the [[Capellan Confederation]] for much of it's initial existence over this one planet for the next several hundred years. 

The first iteration of the Free Worlds League was completely dissolved and disbanded during the Word of Blake Jihad; as the Captain-General at the time; Thomas Marik, was in-fact also the supreme master of the Word of Blake, and the entire extended Marik family immediately began making claims to the title, leading ultimately to the state balkanizing itself over the course of the Jihad, losing hundreds of worlds to their neighbors.

The current iteration of the Free Worlds League came into being in the 3080's as a result of the hard work of Jessica Marik, the daughter of Thomas Marik’s body double, who had long since dreamed of reforming it after it's dissolution post-Jihad, and worked hard to get the resultant individual states back under the Marik banner. She did it, but the unity of this one is much more fragmented, especially after Clanner refugees were given amnesty in the new FWL's borders.