![]() ![]() Opening this front with a brutal attack which virtually depopulated Novaya Zemlya, the Capellans were largely successful against House Davion. Only a year after the Andurien War began, the Capellan Confederation was also at war with the Federated Suns. The six-year conflict which followed - which was eventually won by Captain-General Peter Marik - proved to be bloodier than any in recent memory. The Age of War is held to have begun with the First Andurien War in 2398 when Chancellor Kurnath Liao launched a major offensive aimed at reclaiming Andurien, which had been annexed by the Free Worlds League three decades prior. State militaries and border world defenses were transformed into technologically sophisticated forces, even as local disputes now risked war between vast empires rather than small states. A key factor in this change was the growth in centralized, neo-feudal governments with access to far greater resources in population, raw materials, industry and science - all of which could now be redirected from colonial survival to large-scale warfare. Īs the twenty-fourth century drew to a close, these localized and relatively short conflicts would give way to an era of endless fighting on a grander scale. Some conflicts had already been fought between these small states or their Great House successors, notably the Terran Hegemony's Campaigns of Persuasion, Shiro Kurita's relentless expansion of his empire, and numerous petty wars fought by the Capellan Zone proto-states with each other or the neighboring Free Worlds League and Federated Suns. Throughout the twenty-third century numerous proto-states emerged and during a century-long period ( 2271– 2366) these small nations merged by treaty or conquest into five interstellar states ruled by the Great Houses. While some colonies perished, many others successfully forged themselves as interstellar powers in their own right. LC, Bolan and getting bogged down (2427-2440)įollowing the Outer Reaches Rebellion and the subsequent withdrawal of the Terran Alliance from nearly all of its colonies, the hundreds of now-free worlds across the nascent Inner Sphere were forced to carve out new destinies for themselves. FWL, Tintavel and the Ares Conventions (2412) 3 The Ares Conventions and After (2412-2439).Their efforts resulted in the unification of the Inner Sphere under the Star League in 2571, bringing the Age of War to an end. ![]() Nonetheless, the endless state of war took its toll on all combatants, and by the mid-twenty-sixth century peacemaking efforts were begun in earnest by Ian Cameron and Albert Marik. ![]() The introduction of the BattleMech in 2439 and the rise of the MechWarrior as a latter-day knight ensured that these conflicts became both more frequent and less destructive overall. While the Conventions did result in more 'civilized' fighting that usually spared civilians, it also legitimized warfare as 'diplomacy by other means'. Initially the era was marked by escalating levels of violence and atrocity, until the horrific civilian death toll on Tintavel resulted in the adoption of the Ares Conventions in 2412 by all major powers. ![]() Officially beginning in 2398 when the Free Worlds League and Capellan Confederation went to war over the Andurien system, fighting soon spread across the entire Inner Sphere. The Age of War was a one-and-a-half-century period characterized by constant warfare. Once this title clears the Moratorium period, or if it already has, please consider revisiting this article and updating it with the new material, removing this tag once all information has been added. This article needs to be updated with material from Era Digest: Age of War. ![]()
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