Editing Amaris Civil War (section)

=== Operation CHIEFTAN ===
With the bulk of the Great Houses hedging bets on who to support, the SLDF fought a long and bloody campaign back into Terran Hegemony space. In the end, they were able to breach the orbital defense systems around Terra and Kerensky himself captured Stefan by breaching the gates after Terra was consumed in a bloody meatgrinder. While House Amaris was originally treated fairly as prisoners of war, news of the deaths of House Cameron led to the entire house being executed while any branch families were subjected to lynchings across the Inner Sphere. To make matters worse, any bureaucrat who was a collaborator or tried to "remain neutral" during the Civil War was purged from office; leading to the Terran Hegemony being completely headless at a planetary and interstellar level. All that remained would be Kerensky as Commanding General of the SLDF and Jerome Blake as the future head of the Star League's Department of Communications (which evolved into the entity known as ComStar).