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.
History
Origins
Height of Glory
Downfall
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. By extension, everyone wants to be the founders of a new Star League made in their own image.
The nuclear scrum that started in 2786 after Kerensky sailed off into the sunset was started by Coordinator Minoru Kurita deciding that he was the new First Lord. The other four Inner Sphere powers had similar views with differences of an "insert-name-here" variety. ComStar's view of matters was that none of them were fit for the role and that their objective was to control technology so that they could orchestrate a proper reconstruction of Star League on their terms. One of Alexander Kerensky's goals in Operation Exodus was to try to preserve a bastion of Star League away from the Inner Sphere. After things fell apart and had to be forced back together at gunpoint, Nicholas did a massive societal overhaul. Despite that he maintained that The Clans were the True inheritors of Star League and that would in time eventually return.
| Battletech Factions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Successor States: | Capellan Confederation • Draconis Combine • Federated Suns • Free Worlds League • Lyran Commonwealth | |
| Inner Sphere: | Free Rasalhague Republic • ComStar • Solaris VII | |
| Periphery and Beyond: | Magistracy of Canopus • Taurian Concordat • Outworlds Alliance • The Clans (Clan Wolf •Clan Jade Falcon • Clan Diamond Shark • Clan Smoke Jaguar ) | |
| Historic: | Star League • Word of Blake • Clan Wolverine • Republic of the Sphere | |
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