Handbook: Major Periphery States

This article is about the Handbook. For other uses, see The Periphery.

Description

Handbook: Major Periphery States is a sourcebook released electronically in June 2009.

From the back cover

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The peoples of the Inner Sphere often consider themselves the epitome of technology and culture and relegate the denizens of the frontiers of known space to second-class citizenry, or worse. And yet it took the combined armies of the Inner Sphere more than twenty years to subjugate them during the forming of the first Star League half millennia ago. Magistracy of Canopus, Taurian Concordat, Marian Hegemony, Outworlds Alliance and Circinus Federation. Each is a unique star-spanning empire whose hardy-people have carved out their freedom with bare hands: an identity they will not give up without a fight. Even the Great Houses have begun to learn that underestimating these Periphery States is dangerous indeed. Handbook: Major Periphery States collates the essential history, politics and culture of the Major Periphery States into a single volume. More than a mere sourcebook, Handbook: Major Periphery States provides rules for both BattleTech and A Time of War: The BattleTech RPG game play, including new support vehicles, creatures and more!

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Contents

• Local Color
• Introduction
• Good Night and Good Luck

• War is Hell: The Rim Worlds Republic

The Lucianca Incident

• Strange New Worlds
• The Taurian Concordat
• New Jerusalem: The Periphery Takes Shape

Outworlds Alliance

Magistracy of Canopus

• War and Peace: The Star League Era

• A Fateful Choice

Santiago and Aftermath

• Crossing The Rubicon

Rim Worlds Rebellion

Quagmire

Sowing and Reaping

• Reconstruction

Brave New Worlds?

• Decline and Fall

• Directive 41
• Changing of the Guard

Long Live the King

• Stefan the Schemer

Vengeance Is Mine

The Boy King

"No Taxation Without Representation"

Road to Hell

Amaris the Liberator

Rim Worlds Ascendant

"The Revolution Will Be on Holovid"

Final Preparations

• New Vandenberg Uprisings
• "The End of the Beginning"

Checkmate

The Coup

Betrayal

• Blowback: Events
• In the Rim Worlds
• Rim Worlds Campaign

A Dream Deferred

One Brief, Shining Moment

The Republic-Commonwealth War

• Exodus and Succession Wars

• The Star League Disbands
• Into Exile
• Succession War Era

Bandit Kings and Pirate Nations

More Perfect Unions?

• False Dawn

• Adventures in Conquest - Andurien and Canopus

Emma Rising

• Politics of Fear - The Taurian Condordat

Years of Misfortune

"Phony War"

• A Delicate Balance - The Outworlds Alliance

"That Foreign Woman"

"New Blood, New Hope"

• The Coming of the Clans

• Assault on the Inner Sphere

Where Few Have Gone Before

• Summits and Spies
• New Powers, New Foes

The Marshal and the Heir

Laying the Foundation

• Taurian Concordat - Crisis and Succession
• From Neighbors to Allies
• Strange Bedfellows

The Pirates' War

Sound and Fury

• Outworlds Alliance - The ComStar Schism

Resuurection

• Star League Redux?

• Storm Warnings

• Detroit Debacle
• Achilles Heel - Events in the Concordat

With Friends Like These...

Rumblings of Rebellion: The Fronc Reaches

Restoration: The Calderon Protectorate

The Pleiades Campaign

• Shifting Sands - The Magistracy and Its Allies

Taurian Troubles

• Quiet Renaissance - The Outworlds Alliance
• Ave, Imperator - Rise of the Marian State

Conscience of the King

• Days to Come

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