Free Worlds League
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| Crest of the Free Worlds League | |
| Free Worlds League | |
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| Faction Profile | |
| Time period: | 2271 – present |
| Classification: | Successor State |
| Controlled systems: | 330+ |
| Capital world: | Atreus |
| Ruler title: | Captain-General |
| Military: | (de-centralized) |
| Secret Service: | SAFE |
The Free Worlds League is one of the Successor States, ruled by House Marik. Its capital is Atreus.
The Free Worlds League is notable as the first successor state founded in the Inner Sphere. It was multicultural, with strong European, American and Indian overtones. It also traditionally offered great autonomy to its component regions, like the Duchy of Oriente, Principality of Regulus, and Duchy of Andurien. While their history is wracked with many vicious civil wars and tensions along the House Liao border—much of the League's territory there originally having belonged to the Capellan Confederation—the coming of the Clans in Operation Revival in 3049 changed their role in the galaxy considerably as one of the two untouched and—until Operation Serpent—uninvolved nations in the war.
This brought the Free Worlds League the status of economic powerhouse, with it supplying materials, ranging from food to 'Mechs, to other factions in need. The League would often receive advanced Clan technology in exchange. During this time the split between the Word of Blake and ComStar impacted the League as well, making them the first house to remove ComStar from providing interstellar communications, in favor of the Blakists.
The Free Worlds League has a strong emphasis on combined-arms tactics, with almost all of their regiments featuring a large number of infantry, armor, and aerospace assets, as well as one of the largest navies in the Inner Sphere. The focus on BattleMechs, however, does exist within their elite regiments, including the Knights of the Inner Sphere. Near the end of 3067, the Free Worlds League had a space navy that greatly outpaced those of the other Successor States.
After the Word of Blake Jihad, the Free Worlds League dissolved and was torn apart by several competing factions, some of which tried to re-unite it. For decades these factions fought each other while the Lyrian Commonwealth, taking advantage of the whole mess, conquered several worlds.
Jessica Marik (Halas), daughter of the false Thomas Marik, engineered the reformation of the Free Worlds League. She reinforced her claim to the House Marik legacy by marrying Thaddeus Marik, scion of the line of Alys Rousset-Marik. She largely succeeded in her reformation plan and was pronounced Captain-General of the reformed Free Worlds League on July 3, 3139.
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