Editing Succession Wars (section)

=== Preamble To War ===
With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris during the [[Amaris Civil War]] and the Rim Worlds Republic' [[Just as Planned|secret long-term]] infiltration into the Star League's trust as a poster child Periphery State, there was no one left to take over as First Lord of the Star League. Additionally, the Terran Hegemony's bureaucracy was gutted by the Amaris and SLDF purges of collaborative officials with only Jerome Blake from the Ministry of Communication (later called ComStar) surviving. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander Kerensky. Outside of appointing Jerome Blake as head of Comstar to keep the HPG network running, their last action as a unified body was to strip Kerensky of his title as head of the SLDF. While the SLDF was still the biggest military in human history, they were decimated from their [[Iron Warriors|grinding attritional war]] while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra with over a staggering 75% of their regiments and warships destroyed. That, alongside Kerensky's antipathy to politics, made him convinced the best way to save the Star League was to take it's entire fighting force into exile in hopes the threat of retaliation would make the Great Houses compromise. To say it didn't work is a ''massive'' understatement.