2:50 Definitely. Like the Horus Heresy, the Amaris Civil War is basically the instigating event in the backstory that sets up the major status quo of the universe. 5:50 You don't need to worry about the Free Worlds League dissolving and reforming quite yet; that's something that occurs in the Jihad era, centuries after the Star League's founding, and there's an absurd amount of backstory behind it. Short version? The Captain-General at the time was not who people thought he was, and backed the wrong side. 11:45 More or less. In the beginning, the Terran Alliance tried to rule centrally, but bureaucratic issues, political squabbles and the sheer distance involved (especially since FTL communication wasn't a thing at that point) made it a doomed effort. The Alliance collapsed in a military coup, and the Terran Hegemony was founded in its wake, yet it only controlled a relatively small chunk of the Inner Sphere around Terra. Outside of the Hegemony, it was basically a 4X game; certain nation-states/kingdoms that banded together for mutual trade and defense conquered or integrated their neighbours, snowballing in strength and territory until eventually you had the Great Houses. I should also note that the title of the "Reunification War" is a bit of a misnomer, for the Periphery was more or less wholly independent before the League came along; indeed, most of them went out that far into space to avoid having to deal with Terra in the first place. 17:10 Yes, the strength of the MIC was definitely a factor is making sure that the SLDF was built up the way that it was. At the same point, the SLDF was also trying to keep the lid on the pot of interstellar peace and stability. Much of the Hidden Wars Tex mentioned were about the Great Houses flexing their muscles and seeing what they could get away with while remaining part of the League, so having the ability to give Kurita or Liao a corrective spanking was necessary. Also, while the Periphery is conquered at this point, it's hardly tamed, and a significant SLDF presence was required to keep them in line as well.
If the century number seems low, there's some radical deviation from our own timeline starting at about the fall of the USSR. For example, General Motors having figured out commercially viable fusion reactors by 2020. First successful FTL jump was achieved in 2107.
Why did the Star League push military build up so hard when they were already the biggest military and everyone was under their thumb? Reasons in order of relevance 1) Economics - it took money from members and enriched defense companies owned by the Cameron family (the First Lord's family). 2) Fear - varying degrees of paranoia are a common trait of the Cameron (First Lord) family. 3) Ego - self explanatory. 4) Course Correction - the Star League frequently bought extremely expensive but garbage equipment and then had to replace it without admitting they messed up. See the "Charger" mech and "Baron" destroyer.
Not to mention the fact that while they did technically have "everyone under their thumb," in practice, things weren't so clear cut. 1) The house lords weren't really happy with having diminished power under Star League control and were always on the lookout for the slightest hint of weakness. 2) While the SLDF was big and scary, it couldn't be everywhere at once. Principally, it was reliant on the Hobbsian Leviathan approach. Which namely requires that your army be bigger than any 2-3 of your rivals'. 3) In order to maintain primacy as the greatest and mightiest leviathan force, the SLDF was buying everything in vast quantities for no other reason than it was weapons not in the other houses' hands.
17:54 Basically. Everyone. The Great Houses didn't like how much their own power started getting limited by Star League, the Periphery never really stopped fighting the SLDF even if they couldn't coordinate anymore. Basically once the SLDF really set in and started checking the Great Houses ambitions there were these endless series of quiet brush wars and cold conflicts that never quite went away. It just got brushed aside. These are called the Hidden Wars.
The best/worst thing about BT lore is how painfully real it can feel at times. You can see history in so much of it and if you do the research every event feels inevitible.
keep learning about battletech. the lore is DEEP. very entertaining, funny, and well it mirrors our own history if you back far enough... and while bleak I can't help but picture our own future heading this way if we are alone in our galaxy.
Okay, so in the very beginning of FTL travel, humanity spread far and wide. At some point, the Terran government got tired of trying to support thousands of worlds spread light-years apart. So, they set up a demarcation line, and cut off support to any world beyond that. The Great Houses and other nations of the Inner Sphere and Periphery were born out of necessity for mutual support and defense. Hundreds of years later, with the Houses and Terran Hegemony more or less settled into stable borders, along came Jacob Cameron and the birth of the Star League. The Reunification Wars were the result of the Star League essentially trying to reclaim the Periphery worlds that their ancestors had once cut loose. Hence "Reunification." Unfortunately for some SLDF units, they were rasked with subduing the Taurian Concordat, colloquially called "Space Texas." And the TC, didn't flirt with high technology and theoretical wonder weapons. They liked weapons and systems that worked, and lots of them. You'll learn more about that when you get to the Tex Talks Battletech video about the Warhammer.
Let's be honest, "Reunification War" is in universe double think. It reunited Terra's lost colonies via a war with colonies that were never part of the pre-Demarcation Edict colonies.
11:10 Keep in mind that these are all former Colonies of Earth. Quick Tangent/Timeline: Humans discover Technology necessary for Jump Drive - FTL Travel. Humans settle nearby Star Systems. Humans expand further. Repeat that for a bit. Colonies are more and more of a Burden on earth, as fresh Colonies are a significant investment. Some stuff happens, Earth basically turns towards an almost isolationist phase. Every Colony more than (iirc) 30 Light Years away from Earth is declared independent, even if they don't want to be independent. The 30 Light Year Radius becomes the Terran Hegemony. Everybody else is left to fend for themselves. A lot of Colonies perish, some thrive. Significant Powers begin to establish themselves (those we now know as Successor States / Great Houses, as well as a few others). Fast Forward through a few Hundred Years of Space Feudalism and War.
16:55 There technically are, but we all agree not to talk about them. Also yes, the SLDF at this point was basically a kind of mixture of some kind of National Guard and a proper Military.
11:47 Yes, the original government was called the Terran Alliance. But, the weight of the vastness of space, combined with the abscence of any form of large scale, galactic communication caused it to collapse
On the subject of the "Reunification Wars," the name was chosen purely for propaganda purposes: by saying 'Reunification,' it was implying that the Periphery broke away, which would motivate the Star League states to bring them 'back into the fold,' when really they had all formed independently.
When humanity first expanded into interstellar space, originally all these colonies were defacto parts of the "Terran Alliance". They were all "unified". Of course, many of these colonies wanted nothing whatsoever to do with Terra (specifically the folks that made it all the way out to Taurus). When the cost of keeping all the breakaway colonies became too high, the Terran Alliance cut all the colonies farther than 30 light years (one hyperspace jump) loose, whether they wanted to be independent or not. It was called the Demarcation Declaration. It was only a generation or two later when Admiral McKenna turned the Terran Alliance into the Terran Hegemony and began a multi-generation project of undoing the Demarcation Declaration. So when Ian Cameron sought to unify the other five Great Houses by pointing them all at a "common enemy" (i.e. the Periphery), his goal was "reunifying" all of humanity under Terra's dominion the way it had been waaaaaay back when humanity had first spread among the stars.
38:32 You may as well say no nation on earth needs a standing army because we are all from the same world. It's the same principle as modern geopolitics as applied to several stellar empires instead of the earth, but all the hate and warfare that led to the collapse of Star League is covered in other parts. But the point is none of these people got along; everyone wanted the big chair, and the Camerons got it because everyone else felt they were the most neutral and they didn't want an opponent to have it. The other House Lords didn't choose the Cameron dynasty because of who they were; they chose them because of who they weren't.
That's the 'face' of it. The actual 'WHY' has more to do with Sabre Rattling (proving the SLDF are every bit indominable) and maintaining control (make the Houses understand that it's far better to stick with the Star League and get more territory)
19:00... in the more recent history... "yes, we created the international courts to stop bullies and madmen... but we did not expect you to try and stop us"... but if the ICJ had its own UN troops.
Why do they need a standing army? Here is the SLDF spread so thin they can't maintain order. The SLDF was a police force but it was for policing worlds or empires that likely didn't want to be policed. Or to hold the threat of military force to ensure compliance with the SL's rule.
What were the "Hidden Wars"? Well, Star League had brought about a "Pax Leaguearium". So there wasn't any war now. First Hidden War: Sure, Kuritan warriors who no longer had wars to fight to make them feel manly and samurai-ish were systematically challenging SLDF units to to-the-death duels, but it's NOT a war, because there is no war in Ba-Sing-Se. Second: And a generation later Davion and Kuritan units are full on fighting a war with one another after a Davion Princess fell for a Kuritan Prince and were trying to get their kid on the throne of the Fed Suns - but it was NOT a war. Under the Star League there ARE. NO. WARS! And Third: And sure, a decade or two after that pirate raids from periphery pirate kingdoms in mechs with periphery pirate logos and pirate kingdom flags raiding Lyran Commonwealth and Fed Suns territory on either side of the Draconis Combine (and who all, for some reason, spoke Japanese and used mechs most commonly used by the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery). But! it wasn't an inter-house war. The are NO WARS under the peaceful umbrella of the Great and Benevolent Star League!! So they called them "hidden wars" because the League consistently maintained that they didn't actually exist, and to the extent that they might have existed (which they didn't), they were only a very few, very minor, VERY insignificant "skirmishes". Because, again, there is NO WAR in the unified Star League. On another note: notice the one common denominator in all three of the "Hidden Wars". Also note that once Kerensky and the SLDF left, it was House Kurita who kicked off the First Succession War. And once the First Succession War petered out and ComStar wanted the five great houses to finish the job of destroying their mutual infrastructures and militaries and wanted to find a way to get the war going again, they manipulated who? House Kurita into attempting to invade the Fed Suns. And once the Second Succession War died down because the Great Houses had pretty much wiped out their space fleets and most of their armies and ComStar was all, "not mutually assured destroyed enough for our purposes yet" and wanted to get a THIRD war going, who did they turn to again? (Hint: it starts with "Draconis" and ends with "Combine".)
hidden wars: aka small wars kept quit and 'small scale' so everything did not explode yet Comstar is later after the SL fell apart there is a shit load of lore
If you didn't start at the beginning of the Lore, you may want to go back to the beginning and work your way back up here. The lore with this universe rivals Tolkien, just minus the supernatural species.
Humanity expanded to quick for the government to controll it. think manifest destiny on a much grander level. so military's just kinda pop up like wild fire war against each other because differences and "you have nice things, I want nice things too, I think I'll just take your nice things because it is easier to take your nice thing to make my own nice thing..." mentality... such an interesting own it is interesting as all hell and the great houses only make it better. you have space england / Davion fed suns. then you have space communist china / capellans (fuck them they are why we can't have nice things.)... then space austro-hungry (or US if it was a bit more democratic.) free worlds league, space germany steiner (they are literally space post WW1 Germany... or if Baveria where in conrtol instead of Prussia. good military on paper but in practice not so much...) Rasselhage is literally space sweeden... and the Draconis combine is literally Facist space japan (so yeah the government and even society is based on facist japan of ww2.
>Humanity expanded too quick for the government to control it Also, there is a lack of FTL communications during the earlier stages of human expansion. You can't micromanage anything when everything (including news and orders) takes about a year to travel from one side of the state to another, so you must have at least a semi-competent guy with independent decision-making powers to run things locally. But the problem is: at least semi-competent guys with independent decision-making powers tend to like being independent top dogs, not some mere local governors.
Sad thing is despite Alexander Kerensky being the best tactical mind and and assault mech designer. His greatest flaw is more of that he's not the best Dad like look how Richard Cameron turned out a dead idiot and his eldest son Nicholas (amaris wannabe) Kerensky who had the misfortune of growing up on a amaris controlled earth ends up being a psychopathis manchild who used daddies legacy to one up himself before dying to friendly fire
Yes, Terran Alliance exactly. Several successful rebellions resulted in the Alliance having a shitfit and declaring everything beyond 30 lightyears independent, and accidentally creating 5 much larger problems for itself. This eventually caused the collapse and reorganization of the Alliance as the Terran Hegemony, led by the Camerons.
2:50 Definitely. Like the Horus Heresy, the Amaris Civil War is basically the instigating event in the backstory that sets up the major status quo of the universe.
5:50 You don't need to worry about the Free Worlds League dissolving and reforming quite yet; that's something that occurs in the Jihad era, centuries after the Star League's founding, and there's an absurd amount of backstory behind it. Short version? The Captain-General at the time was not who people thought he was, and backed the wrong side.
11:45 More or less. In the beginning, the Terran Alliance tried to rule centrally, but bureaucratic issues, political squabbles and the sheer distance involved (especially since FTL communication wasn't a thing at that point) made it a doomed effort. The Alliance collapsed in a military coup, and the Terran Hegemony was founded in its wake, yet it only controlled a relatively small chunk of the Inner Sphere around Terra. Outside of the Hegemony, it was basically a 4X game; certain nation-states/kingdoms that banded together for mutual trade and defense conquered or integrated their neighbours, snowballing in strength and territory until eventually you had the Great Houses. I should also note that the title of the "Reunification War" is a bit of a misnomer, for the Periphery was more or less wholly independent before the League came along; indeed, most of them went out that far into space to avoid having to deal with Terra in the first place.
17:10 Yes, the strength of the MIC was definitely a factor is making sure that the SLDF was built up the way that it was. At the same point, the SLDF was also trying to keep the lid on the pot of interstellar peace and stability. Much of the Hidden Wars Tex mentioned were about the Great Houses flexing their muscles and seeing what they could get away with while remaining part of the League, so having the ability to give Kurita or Liao a corrective spanking was necessary. Also, while the Periphery is conquered at this point, it's hardly tamed, and a significant SLDF presence was required to keep them in line as well.
If the century number seems low, there's some radical deviation from our own timeline starting at about the fall of the USSR. For example, General Motors having figured out commercially viable fusion reactors by 2020. First successful FTL jump was achieved in 2107.
At 2:55 eh. One of them. BT has few. Demarcation Edict, McKenna, Hanse+Melissa, the WoBbie Tantrum. BT History is a lot less monolithic than WH40k.
Clan Invasion (and the fallout of its failure) were also that kind of events that stirred the pot a bit.
Why did the Star League push military build up so hard when they were already the biggest military and everyone was under their thumb?
Reasons in order of relevance
1) Economics - it took money from members and enriched defense companies owned by the Cameron family (the First Lord's family).
2) Fear - varying degrees of paranoia are a common trait of the Cameron (First Lord) family.
3) Ego - self explanatory.
4) Course Correction - the Star League frequently bought extremely expensive but garbage equipment and then had to replace it without admitting they messed up. See the "Charger" mech and "Baron" destroyer.
Not to mention the fact that while they did technically have "everyone under their thumb," in practice, things weren't so clear cut.
1) The house lords weren't really happy with having diminished power under Star League control and were always on the lookout for the slightest hint of weakness.
2) While the SLDF was big and scary, it couldn't be everywhere at once. Principally, it was reliant on the Hobbsian Leviathan approach. Which namely requires that your army be bigger than any 2-3 of your rivals'.
3) In order to maintain primacy as the greatest and mightiest leviathan force, the SLDF was buying everything in vast quantities for no other reason than it was weapons not in the other houses' hands.
17:54 Basically. Everyone. The Great Houses didn't like how much their own power started getting limited by Star League, the Periphery never really stopped fighting the SLDF even if they couldn't coordinate anymore. Basically once the SLDF really set in and started checking the Great Houses ambitions there were these endless series of quiet brush wars and cold conflicts that never quite went away. It just got brushed aside. These are called the Hidden Wars.
Sure, but USUALLY it's Kuritans who start that shit.
Of course, that's not to say someone else likely wouldn't have at some point.
11:54 "Collapse of some Terran Alliance"
Well you got the name and concept right so... pretty much!
The best/worst thing about BT lore is how painfully real it can feel at times.
You can see history in so much of it and if you do the research every event feels inevitible.
3:09 yes. Yes, this is the battletech horus Heresy
Starting the erebus of battle tec
keep learning about battletech. the lore is DEEP. very entertaining, funny, and well it mirrors our own history if you back far enough... and while bleak I can't help but picture our own future heading this way if we are alone in our galaxy.
Okay, so in the very beginning of FTL travel, humanity spread far and wide. At some point, the Terran government got tired of trying to support thousands of worlds spread light-years apart. So, they set up a demarcation line, and cut off support to any world beyond that. The Great Houses and other nations of the Inner Sphere and Periphery were born out of necessity for mutual support and defense.
Hundreds of years later, with the Houses and Terran Hegemony more or less settled into stable borders, along came Jacob Cameron and the birth of the Star League. The Reunification Wars were the result of the Star League essentially trying to reclaim the Periphery worlds that their ancestors had once cut loose. Hence "Reunification."
Unfortunately for some SLDF units, they were rasked with subduing the Taurian Concordat, colloquially called "Space Texas." And the TC, didn't flirt with high technology and theoretical wonder weapons. They liked weapons and systems that worked, and lots of them. You'll learn more about that when you get to the Tex Talks Battletech video about the Warhammer.
*Patriotic Bull Noises*
Let's be honest, "Reunification War" is in universe double think. It reunited Terra's lost colonies via a war with colonies that were never part of the pre-Demarcation Edict colonies.
Nice to see another Tex Talks Battletech Reaction :)
And yeah, Battletech is absolutely a Sci-Fi Feudalism Setting.
2:50 Absolutely. Every single thing that happens in the 400ish years the story has progressed from that point so far is caused by this event.
5:59 To be fair, that Dissolution happened significantly after the events we're covering today in singnificantly newer story advancement.
11:10 Keep in mind that these are all former Colonies of Earth. Quick Tangent/Timeline:
Humans discover Technology necessary for Jump Drive - FTL Travel.
Humans settle nearby Star Systems.
Humans expand further.
Repeat that for a bit.
Colonies are more and more of a Burden on earth, as fresh Colonies are a significant investment.
Some stuff happens, Earth basically turns towards an almost isolationist phase.
Every Colony more than (iirc) 30 Light Years away from Earth is declared independent, even if they don't want to be independent.
The 30 Light Year Radius becomes the Terran Hegemony.
Everybody else is left to fend for themselves.
A lot of Colonies perish, some thrive.
Significant Powers begin to establish themselves (those we now know as Successor States / Great Houses, as well as a few others).
Fast Forward through a few Hundred Years of Space Feudalism and War.
16:55 There technically are, but we all agree not to talk about them.
Also yes, the SLDF at this point was basically a kind of mixture of some kind of National Guard and a proper Military.
11:47 Yes, the original government was called the Terran Alliance. But, the weight of the vastness of space, combined with the abscence of any form of large scale, galactic communication caused it to collapse
On the subject of the "Reunification Wars," the name was chosen purely for propaganda purposes: by saying 'Reunification,' it was implying that the Periphery broke away, which would motivate the Star League states to bring them 'back into the fold,' when really they had all formed independently.
When humanity first expanded into interstellar space, originally all these colonies were defacto parts of the "Terran Alliance". They were all "unified". Of course, many of these colonies wanted nothing whatsoever to do with Terra (specifically the folks that made it all the way out to Taurus). When the cost of keeping all the breakaway colonies became too high, the Terran Alliance cut all the colonies farther than 30 light years (one hyperspace jump) loose, whether they wanted to be independent or not. It was called the Demarcation Declaration.
It was only a generation or two later when Admiral McKenna turned the Terran Alliance into the Terran Hegemony and began a multi-generation project of undoing the Demarcation Declaration. So when Ian Cameron sought to unify the other five Great Houses by pointing them all at a "common enemy" (i.e. the Periphery), his goal was "reunifying" all of humanity under Terra's dominion the way it had been waaaaaay back when humanity had first spread among the stars.
Was playing fallout 4 when you played that Super Mutant clip. I damn near shit myself in a panic, so thanks for that.
11:20 - well it was viewed as reunifying all humanity under one banner.
38:32 You may as well say no nation on earth needs a standing army because we are all from the same world. It's the same principle as modern geopolitics as applied to several stellar empires instead of the earth, but all the hate and warfare that led to the collapse of Star League is covered in other parts. But the point is none of these people got along; everyone wanted the big chair, and the Camerons got it because everyone else felt they were the most neutral and they didn't want an opponent to have it. The other House Lords didn't choose the Cameron dynasty because of who they were; they chose them because of who they weren't.
Pretty wild stuff! This is such an age old story of human politics and wars. Well played.
It really is, isn't it?
I always thought of reunification wars as Star League wanting to "reunite" all of humanity under one banner.
That's the 'face' of it.
The actual 'WHY' has more to do with Sabre Rattling (proving the SLDF are every bit indominable) and maintaining control (make the Houses understand that it's far better to stick with the Star League and get more territory)
19:00... in the more recent history... "yes, we created the international courts to stop bullies and madmen... but we did not expect you to try and stop us"... but if the ICJ had its own UN troops.
Why do they need a standing army?
Here is the SLDF spread so thin they can't maintain order.
The SLDF was a police force but it was for policing worlds or empires that likely didn't want to be policed. Or to hold the threat of military force to ensure compliance with the SL's rule.
What were the "Hidden Wars"? Well, Star League had brought about a "Pax Leaguearium". So there wasn't any war now.
First Hidden War: Sure, Kuritan warriors who no longer had wars to fight to make them feel manly and samurai-ish were systematically challenging SLDF units to to-the-death duels, but it's NOT a war, because there is no war in Ba-Sing-Se.
Second: And a generation later Davion and Kuritan units are full on fighting a war with one another after a Davion Princess fell for a Kuritan Prince and were trying to get their kid on the throne of the Fed Suns - but it was NOT a war. Under the Star League there ARE. NO. WARS!
And Third: And sure, a decade or two after that pirate raids from periphery pirate kingdoms in mechs with periphery pirate logos and pirate kingdom flags raiding Lyran Commonwealth and Fed Suns territory on either side of the Draconis Combine (and who all, for some reason, spoke Japanese and used mechs most commonly used by the Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery). But! it wasn't an inter-house war. The are NO WARS under the peaceful umbrella of the Great and Benevolent Star League!!
So they called them "hidden wars" because the League consistently maintained that they didn't actually exist, and to the extent that they might have existed (which they didn't), they were only a very few, very minor, VERY insignificant "skirmishes". Because, again, there is NO WAR in the unified Star League.
On another note: notice the one common denominator in all three of the "Hidden Wars". Also note that once Kerensky and the SLDF left, it was House Kurita who kicked off the First Succession War. And once the First Succession War petered out and ComStar wanted the five great houses to finish the job of destroying their mutual infrastructures and militaries and wanted to find a way to get the war going again, they manipulated who? House Kurita into attempting to invade the Fed Suns. And once the Second Succession War died down because the Great Houses had pretty much wiped out their space fleets and most of their armies and ComStar was all, "not mutually assured destroyed enough for our purposes yet" and wanted to get a THIRD war going, who did they turn to again? (Hint: it starts with "Draconis" and ends with "Combine".)
I hate Kurita... and I'm a Kurita player. Love the mechs, hate the faction... But FWL mechs aren't my style and RH only lasts for around 20 years.
Fuckin' KURITA.
Literally the worst (except for Theodore but yeah no, FUCK these guys)
Great video! :D
Thanks Man!!
hidden wars: aka small wars kept quit and 'small scale' so everything did not explode yet
Comstar is later after the SL fell apart
there is a shit load of lore
If you didn't start at the beginning of the Lore, you may want to go back to the beginning and work your way back up here. The lore with this universe rivals Tolkien, just minus the supernatural species.
the Black marauder: are you sure about that?
@@thorveim1174 Black Pants Legion: Quite so good sir, shall we go to the local bar and share a cold one over stories?
Humanity expanded to quick for the government to controll it. think manifest destiny on a much grander level. so military's just kinda pop up like wild fire war against each other because differences and "you have nice things, I want nice things too, I think I'll just take your nice things because it is easier to take your nice thing to make my own nice thing..." mentality... such an interesting own it is interesting as all hell and the great houses only make it better. you have space england / Davion fed suns. then you have space communist china / capellans (fuck them they are why we can't have nice things.)... then space austro-hungry (or US if it was a bit more democratic.) free worlds league, space germany steiner (they are literally space post WW1 Germany... or if Baveria where in conrtol instead of Prussia. good military on paper but in practice not so much...) Rasselhage is literally space sweeden... and the Draconis combine is literally Facist space japan (so yeah the government and even society is based on facist japan of ww2.
>Humanity expanded too quick for the government to control it
Also, there is a lack of FTL communications during the earlier stages of human expansion. You can't micromanage anything when everything (including news and orders) takes about a year to travel from one side of the state to another, so you must have at least a semi-competent guy with independent decision-making powers to run things locally. But the problem is: at least semi-competent guys with independent decision-making powers tend to like being independent top dogs, not some mere local governors.
Sad thing is despite Alexander Kerensky being the best tactical mind and and assault mech designer. His greatest flaw is more of that he's not the best Dad like look how Richard Cameron turned out a dead idiot and his eldest son Nicholas (amaris wannabe) Kerensky who had the misfortune of growing up on a amaris controlled earth ends up being a psychopathis manchild who used daddies legacy to one up himself before dying to friendly fire
Yes, Terran Alliance exactly. Several successful rebellions resulted in the Alliance having a shitfit and declaring everything beyond 30 lightyears independent, and accidentally creating 5 much larger problems for itself. This eventually caused the collapse and reorganization of the Alliance as the Terran Hegemony, led by the Camerons.