[PBW] A House Divided - Discussion thread (PBW Setup Online!)

[Loser]

Originally posted by Joachim:
Can I have some more background on the empire so as to develop my renegade House?

It would be good if we can have a quick history, name of race/empire etc.

I'm all for taking the FASA, Battletech, Inner Sphere for our background.

Basically the Star League resulted from the unification of distant colonial empires under the Terran Hegemony. It was a Golden Age of Man, but all things come to an end, you know.

SOme traitor kills the young ruler of the Star League at some point and tries to take over. There is a spilt in the military, and a war that this traitor loses. He is killed.

At this point the various Great Houses of the Star League, remnants, I belive, of the colonial empires, begin to war amongst themselves at the head of each house declares him or herself ruler of the Star League.

The Star League military gathers itself under its great leader, Kerensky, and just leaves, buggs out and heads for uncharted space. They left so they could not be used in the succession wars that followed.

For the most part the Great Houses kept to a rule, for many ages past, agianst orbital bombadment and nuclear weapons, and fought amongs themselves with limited space battles and extensive ground campaigns featuring great war machines called Battlemechs.

The territories of the five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are layed out like slices of a pie from the center, Earth. This reflects the spread of people of similar ethnic and national backgrounds that made up the pre-Star League empires. The worlds that were once part of the Terran Hegemomy were taken by whatever House could hold them in the beginning. Earth itself is held by a quasi-religious decendant of the Star League Communications Authority, calling itself ComStar.

I'm sure, if we take this route, I can find more links for further details on the matter.

The five Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are as follows.

House Davion, the The Federated Commonwealth

House Liao, the Cappelan Confederation

House Kurita, the Draconis Combine

House Marik, the Free Worlds League

House Steiner, the Lyran Alliance

Of course, we don't have to take this path. We could be much more vague on the background and let each player build their own history... at least build it back to the point of our common place in the Old Empire.