Editing Amaris Civil War (section)

=== Prelude ===
The root causes of the Amaris Civil War go back to the Reunification Wars that House Cameron and the SLDF waged against the Periphery States to bring them into the Star League by force. Whereas most of them wanted no part in the Inner Sphere, the Rim Worlds Republic's populace, who were independent-minded, revolted against House Amaris once Gregory Amaris demanded absolute loyalty to himself, the Republic, and the Star League. The revolt took a while to be put down as the SLDF had other immediate enemies to pacify. While House Amaris was publicly "grateful" for the SLDF relieving the besieged capital from the uprising, they held a secret grudge for not responding to their pleas for aid quickly enough despite their eager proclamation of loyalty. 

[[File:Stefan Amaris.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Stefan Amaris: the best you can say about him is that he's not [[Erebus]] ]]
Centuries later, with the early death of Simon Cameron by sabotage that was secretly disguised as an accident, then-Consul Stefan Amaris exploited the situation by maneuvering the young Richard Cameron into distrusting all political figures except himself. To make matters worse, Aleksandr Kerensky, who was forced to act as Regent for the young First Lord, grew bitterly antipathetic with all the major House Leaders for their petty squabbling. 

Meanwhile, tensions from the Periphery boiled over and the New Vandenburg uprisings erupted with the Taurians tacitly endorsing the revolts. Kerensky and the bulk of the SLDF were deployed to quell the revolts. Meanwhile, the Rim Worlds Republic Military, who was seen as a [[Horus|poster child]] for being unusually loyal to House Cameron, were permitted to garrison the Terran Hegemony worlds alongside the skeleton garrisons of the SLDF.