Editing The Periphery (section)

== General History ==
The Periphery encompasses any space outside of the "Inner Sphere" of human civilization, around 550 light years away from Earth. While many individual colonies existed out here before the time of even the [[Star League]], the vast majority of major players out here came to be during the Age of War; often refugees or former statesmen who had become fed up with the Inner Sphere's burgeoning realpolitik and their personal grudges never quite sated. While for a time the people of the Periphery mostly kept to themselves, the Star League's Reunification Wars came like a truck barreling down on a tortoise, and inevitably ended up with a bunch of states who were mostly tied to their personal standards; only achieving freedom during the collapse of the League and even then reeling from the lack of Star League resources, all suffered quite a bit for a while during the Succession Wars, but were otherwise able to recover due to the fact that they were in fact powers at this point, and have been suffering and succeeding throughout the years ever since by either shacking up with other Periphery groups, or getting in good with an [[The Clans|enterprising Clan]].