Rim Collection
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| Rim Collection | |
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| Faction Profile | |
| Time period: | 31th century - present |
| Classification: | Periphery State |
| Controlled systems: | approx. 6 |
| Capital world: | Gillfillan's Gold |
| Ruler title: | President |
| Military: | Rim Collection Milita (RCM) |
| Secret Service: | Unknown |
Contents
Faction Description
Formed in 3048, the Rim Collection is a small Periphery state consisting of former Rim Worlds Republic worlds outside the boundaries of the Lyran Alliance.
History
In 3048 six former Rim Worlds Republic worlds signed the Rim Collection Charter in hope of becoming a true state to be reckoned with, naming the world Gillfillan's Gold as capital of their new nation.
In the first decade of its existence, conditions in the Rim Collection steadily improved. The confederated planets started trading grains and iron ore with the Federated Commonwealth in 3053, trade relations continuing with the Lyran Alliance. Planetary Councilman Roberts also opened trade negotiations between Gillfillan's Gold and the Free Worlds League, with the promise of extending all trading rights to the rest of the Collection if he succeeded. However, the immense degree of autonomy given to member worlds by the charter slowed the pace of government to a crawl. Professor Moroney, seeing more possibilities for economic expansion with more centralized government control, pushied for a temporary expansion of the president's powers to allow the revitalization of Star League era tourist attraction Hunter's Paradise. While some members of the council were opposed to any change in the balance of power between the president and council, with Councilman Roberts' elevation to president Moroney's plan found traction. Reopened in 3057, Hunter's Paradise was just beginning to attract the interstellar clientele it once did long ago and becoming the Collection's cash cow in the process, when the FedCom Civil War and Blakist's Jihad disrupted interstellar travel to the Collection. While still luring the intrepid, the volume of secondary trade such visitors brought to the Collection as a in the years of peace has greatly declined.
Militarily, the Collection hired the Able's Aces mercenary unit to defend against pirate attacks against the newly formed nation, the unit admirably fending off raids on Caldarium and Slewis by Morrison's Extractors and eventually crippling the pirate band, as well as training the Rim Collection Militia on each of the six worlds of the Collection to bolster the two Battalions worth of serviceable BattleMechs the nation has been able to outfit.
The only sour note has been the Aces' response to the efforts by a few councilmen for the Collection to hire more mercenaries, with the Aces stonewalling these efforts as unwanted encroachment on what they consider their turf. However, the Aces' interference with the Collection Council also had an immense positive benefit, Colonel Able's constant insistence on refusing the Word of Blake's enticements to join them in the Jihad allowing the Rim Collection to avoid the fate suffered by the Circinus Federation. [1] By 3081 the Rim Collection was building its own BattleMechs on Otisberg, although the 'Mechs were based on RetroTech technology.[2]
By the time of the Dark Age era, the Collection had grown to seven worlds,[3] although the worlds of Caldarium and Slewis had become independent periphery worlds again; having claimed Hunter's Paradise, the newly-settled worlds of Able's Glory and Moroney are counted as members of the Collection.[4]
Politics
Military
Able's Ace
By the Jihad, while still formerly listed as mercenaries, the Aces had employed so long by the Collection that many viewed them as a formal part of the nation's military.
Rim Collection Militia
The Rim Collection Militia consists of three combined-arms Battalions trained by the mercenary unit Able's Aces who also contracted to provide long-term defense for the Collective.
Historical Map Gallery
Rim Collection in 3050
Rim Collection in 3067
Rim Collection in 3130
