Succession Wars

The Succession Wars were a series of conflicts between the powers of the Inner Sphere from the late 28th to early 31st centuries in the Battletech Universe. With the eradication of House Cameron by Stefan Amaris and the Rim Worlds Republic' 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. To make matters worse, each of the Great Houses distrusted Alexander Kerensy. 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 grinding attritional war while fighting back from the Periphery to Terra. 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 retatiation would make the Great Houses compromise. Once he had gone into exile, the Succession Wars began among the Successor States to establish who'd replace House Cameron as the head honcho of the Inner Sphere after the fall of Star League, they were utterly devastating.

Consequences

As a consequence of the Succession Wars, all of the Great Houses expended the bulk of the Inner Sphere's riches and advanced technology while making life go back centuries in terms of living quality for civilians. While the discovery of the Helm Memory Core by the Grey Death Legion would partially bring back the Inner Sphere's technological development and the newly formed Federated Commonwealth seemed the most likely hegemon to come, all that came crashing down once the Clan Invasion began with the descendants of Kerensky's followers would return after 300 years of isolation due to probing expeditions from the Inner Sphere.

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