Star League

Star League was a faction in Battletech that existed from 2570 to 2780, a rough political confederation encompassing most worlds colonized by humanity at that point with House Cameron at it's head. It's the high point to which humanity ascended before everything went to shit.

Military

In general the policy of House Cameron would be to try to get the Inner Sphere to demilitarize. Mostly through diplomacy and other soft means. "Things are peaceful nowadays and Mechs and Warships are expensive, dude. We got the Lyrans to scale back their stuff last year and you'll look like a jerk if you did cut back a little ya know. Take a chill bill, give your subjects a tax break and we'll go party on Canopus. Howbout that?" But for those occasions when diplomacy failed, Star League had the Star League Defense Force. Recruiting from all Star League member states, the SLDF grew into the biggest military in the galaxy.

Legacy

IRL There have been a lot of people over the last six centuries that had/have a romantic view of Ancient Rome. We see this in everything from Neoclassical Architecture to the Founding Fathers quoting Cicero to Mussolini declaring that he'd Rebuild the Roman Empire. Now imagine that instead of just being an advanced-for-it's-day iron age society the Romans had colonies on the Moon and Mars, self driving cars and fusion reactors. That's basically how people think of Star League in the Battletech.

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