Terran Hegemony
This article needs to be updated with material from Handbook: Major Periphery States, Historical: Operation Klondike, Star League sourcebook. Once these titles clear the Moratorium period, or if they already have, please consider revisiting this article and updating it with the new material. |
Property "Update Needed From" (as page type) with input value "Handbook: Major Periphery States]], Historical: Operation Klondike, [[Star League sourcebook" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.
Terran Hegemony | |
---|---|
Faction Profile | |
Time period: | 2315-2767 |
Classification: | Inner Sphere State |
Controlled systems: | 95 |
Capital world: | Terra |
Ruler title: | Director-General |
Military: | Hegemony Armed Forces (HAF) |
The Terran Hegemony is the dynastic realm on McKenna's successor, Michael Cameron and his line, House Cameron. The Hegemony lies at the center of the Human Sphere and Inner Sphere, encompassing all developed systems within 60-120 light years of humanity's birthworld, Terra. Like the other Great Houses of the Inner Sphere, the Hegemony was heavily influenced by Terran culture, in this case the North American cultural melange. Possessing many of the oldest and most industrialized worlds humanity had founded, but lacking size and resources and surrounded on all sides the Great Houses, the Hegemony quickly became the leader in technology, especially military research, pioneering both the IndustrialMech and the BattleMech and developing massive fleets of JumpShips and WarShips. The Hegemony eventually dominated Inner Sphere politics, and did so for 400 years. It was impetus by the Terran Hegemony that lead to the formation of the Star League and mankind's "Golden Age".
The Hegemony was founded by Admiral James McKenna, the Canadian-born leader of the Terran Alliance Global Militia, in 2315 out of the ruins of the corrupt Terran Alliance. However, the decisions by James McKenna's only son, Konrad, led the first Director-General to resign, allowing Michael Cameron to come to power.
In the mid-2500's, the Terran Hegemony, under the leadership of Ian Cameron, became the nucleus for the star-spanning government known as the Star League. In this Star League, the Terran Hegemony and its ruling House Cameron became the hereditary First Lords in the League High Council.
The Terran Hegemony fell after it was taken over by Stefan Amaris of the Rim Worlds Republic. The "Usurper" Amaris befriended the young Richard Cameron, only to murder the First Lord and kill his entire family. Aleksandr Kerensky liberated the Hegemony from Amaris and executed him, but the remnants were a shadow of its former self. Following Kerensky's exodus from the Inner Sphere, the remains of the once mighty Hegemony were conquered by the remaining five Great Houses, leaving only Terra which fell under the control of ComStar.
Family Tree
Those members of House Cameron who were both Director-General of the Terran Hegemony and First Lord of the Star League are highlighted in bold below.
Sources
The text in this article is based on this revision of the Wikipedia article "Terran Hegemony" used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See the BattleTechWiki's copyright notice.