Rim War

History

The Rim War was a border conflict between the early Capellan Confederation and the Taurian Concordat officially declared in 2417 and ended by truce in 2423. But the actual 'begining' was in 2397, when Chancellor Kurnath Liao began attempting to push the Taurian Concordat out of the region Rimwards of the Confederation. The Concordat, under Protectors Richard Calderon, Age of War and later Daniel Calderon, had established several military outposts/Naval bases along their borders with the Inner Sphere to provide advanced warning in case of Inner Sphere (Davion) attack. Kurnath Liao sought those developed sites to grow his nation at the expense of the Concordat's. The Capellan Navy began raiding those and other Concordat worlds and continued off-and-on for 20 years, not always surviving contact with the Taurian Navy. But these raids grew into something hideous under Arden Baxter when he became Chancellor after Kurnath.

Under Baxter the Capellan Confederation officialy declared war on the Taurian Concordat in 2417. The young ambitious Capellan officers sought to outdo each other in their victories, leading to savage reprisals and wholesale slaughter of civilians when they would not submit to Capellan rule. The Taurians very quickly followed suit, even perpatrating worse crulties on captured Capellans. These pyrrhic 'victories' gained ChancellorArden Baxter the worlds of Zanzibar, Corodiz and Mendham but had cost his nation far more than his nation could keep paying. By early 2422 ChancellorArden Baxter was forced to call a halt to the fighting to save his own political future. By then Amanda Calderon was Protector and with her former Regent Admiral Sigur Fonn she negotiated an end to the war. But Baxter attempted to go further that just peace; he proposed a 'thousand world alliance' of the Confederation and Concordat as well as the smaller interstellar entities between them. Advised by Admiral Sigur Fonn, Amanda rejected this blantantly anti-Marik offer, instead chosing a path of neutrality.

Dispite the loss/gain of a few barely habital worlds, the Rim War 's greatest legacy was the huge loss of life and utterly honorless fighting. Because of the horrors the Rim War inflicted on their people, neither Admiral Sigur Fonn nor his ward Amanda Calderon signed the Ares Conventions in 2412, making the Taurian Concordat the only major power of that era (and current era) to not do so.

Bibliography

• The Periphery (sourcebook)
• House Liao (The Capellan Confederation)
• House Davion (The Federated Suns)
• Field Manual: Periphery