Editing Star League (section)

== Further Attempts at Inner Sphere Unity ==
=== The Second Star League ===
The Second Star League was a creation largely out of necessity rather than a genuine desire for Inner Sphere peace; for the Clan Invasion had happened, and pretty much every Successor State felt wildly outmatched individually, and so under the watch of one Theodore Kurita, the Inner Sphere united once again to beat back the Clannerscum, and finally managed to force the Clan advance to a standstill, and ultimately broke their entire societal understanding of war underneath their boots. 

Of course, the minute that happened, almost everybody immediately began trying to worm their way out of the idea, as each Successor State now had infinitely more power alone than they ever had as a member of the Star League, and centuries of societal change had meant that each nation was wildly different from the group that had signed the initial accords, and way better armed thanks to ComStar's intervention. Pretty much everybody decided that it was a good idea to just call it off and see what happened from there, and they got their answer.

[[Word of Blake|In the form of the Jihad.]]

=== The [[Republic of the Sphere]] ===
The Jihad wrecked pretty much any place it touched, and after Devlin Stone and his massive coalition of military might had re-conquered Terra and dissolved ComStar, the appetite for pretty much any war at all had been well and fully drained from the devastation the Blakists had wrought. So Stone and the Great Houses basically decided that there would be an enormous buffer state placed between themselves and the center of the Inner Sphere, totaling up to 200 worlds. It lasted for about 70 years until the Dark Age hit with the majority of the HPG network being sabotaged on Grey Monday and a bunch of nationalists began clamoring for their former Successor State's control, and the Clans then divebombed into the fractured Republic. The Republic capital managed to hold out for a decade or so with use of the Fortress Wall blocking KF jumps into the heart of the Republic. Up until Devlin Stone secretly played kingmaker to let Clan Wolf pick up the pieces once the wall was reaching it’s use limit.

=== Third Star League ===
With the recent ilClan sourcebook and novels coming out in 2021, it's been confirmed that Clan Wolf was able to breech the Fortress Walls in 3151 (unknown to most, Devlin Stone snuck them the access codes as he believed they were the least terrible of bad outcomes). Clan Wolf then proceeded to [[What|invite]] Clan Jade Falcon to tackle the Republic's forces together before conducting a Trial to take the spoils. While the end result was with Clan Wolf (both Crusader and Exiled reunited) as ilClan and Clans Jade Falcon and the newly reformed Smoke Jaguar (from Fidelis survivors who [[skub|somehow]] let go of their grudge against the Clans for leaving them to die at the Second Star League's hands) as their bodyguards/special forces in recognition of their bravery or cooperation. It's confirmed that a Star League roughly based on Clan culture with assimilated Spheroids is still around in 3250 (though rebellions here and there are still a thing) from Technical Readout Sourcebooks detailing BattleMech models in the form of historical research but any other details are deliberately left vague.


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