Editing Outworlds Alliance (section)

== History ==
The Outworlds Alliance has long been the hard luck state of the Periphery, sandwiched beside the [[Federated Suns]] and the [[Draconis Combine]]. When the Reunification Wars began, the [[Star League]] had only known the Alliance as a backwater full of peaceniks and conscientious objectors who wanted to be left alone, and so decided to just garrison them rather than outright conquer them, in the name of peace and mutual defense. However, tensions rose between the Combine, the Star League, and the Alliance themselves, until finally the Combine fucked up by mass-slaughtering civilians on the Alliance planet of Santiago in 2572, causing a massive shitstorm to ensue. Realizing that the [[Inner Sphere]] would never help them, the President of Parliament, Grigori Avellar, decided to strike a secret deal to begin creating an army to keep the Star League out, and the Federated Suns would hand over some of their best tech at the time to help them do it. 

The wars were costly, and almost 12 million Alliance citizens perished in the Reunification wars, but they ultimately made the Star League's conquest an enormously costly one. They were battered and bruised, but they had survived. And then the Combine fucked up again by helping fund a coup... of a true Alliance patriot who ended up being a savvy economist and diplomat, turning the Alliance from obnoxious backwater to helpful ally to both Suns and Combine alike. However, once that guy bit the dust, it was mostly a series of cascading failures that were only saved through being neutral or by being too far below the notice of the larger powers. Eventually, after the Jihad, the moribund state was given a shot in the arm by shacking up with Clan Snow Raven, who desperately needed friends to help them avoid getting Reaved, marking the creation of the '''Raven Alliance'''.