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Line 1: {{Essay}} {{Essay}} ==History== ==History== − The '''Dark Age''' began with the [[Blackout]] (as opposed to the [[Jihad]]'s whiteout) of 80% the [[HPG]] network on August 7th of [[3132]]. Humanity was suddenly thrust back into the early days of space travel where [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive|FTL]] communication was not possible and messages had to be couriered by [[JumpShips]]. This made command and control of armed forces and the governing of the [[Inner Sphere]] empires very difficult, if not impossible. Just two years earlier, [[Devlin Stone]], founder of the [[Republic of the Sphere]], retired and vanished, promising that he will return when the Republic needs him the most. + The '''Dark Age''' began with the blackout (as opposed to the [[Jihad]]'s whiteout) of 80% the [[HPG]] network on August 7th of [[3132]]. Humanity was suddenly thrust back into the early days of space travel where [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive|FTL]] communication was not possible and messages had to be couriered by [[JumpShips]]. This made command and control of armed forces and the governing of the [[Inner Sphere]] empires very difficult, if not impossible. Just two years earlier, [[Devlin Stone]], founder of the [[Republic of the Sphere]], retired and vanished, promising that he will return when the Republic needs him the most. The blackout allowed the Houses, Clans, and other powers both within and outside the Republic to begin reclaiming or conquering worlds they had ceded to or that had been taken by the Republic. Before long, military factions whose loyalty lay with one of the Great Houses or Clans began to organize and take action against the Republic government. Several Republic officials, planetary leaders and nobles, and industrial giants who pledged their allegiance to the greater powers of the Inner Sphere supported or, in some cases, headed these factions. [[House Liao]] was the first of the Great Houses to invade the Republic, claiming worlds like [[Liao]], which the Confederation had grudgingly surrendered after the Republic used military force to claim the world. The other Houses quickly followed suit, using the gains of their factions to make footholds deep in the Republic. The blackout allowed the Houses, Clans, and other powers both within and outside the Republic to begin reclaiming or conquering worlds they had ceded to or that had been taken by the Republic. Before long, military factions whose loyalty lay with one of the Great Houses or Clans began to organize and take action against the Republic government. Several Republic officials, planetary leaders and nobles, and industrial giants who pledged their allegiance to the greater powers of the Inner Sphere supported or, in some cases, headed these factions. [[House Liao]] was the first of the Great Houses to invade the Republic, claiming worlds like [[Liao]], which the Confederation had grudgingly surrendered after the Republic used military force to claim the world. The other Houses quickly followed suit, using the gains of their factions to make footholds deep in the Republic.
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| − | The '''Dark Age''' began with the | + | The '''Dark Age''' began with the blackout (as opposed to the [[Jihad]]'s whiteout) of 80% the [[HPG]] network on August 7th of [[3132]]. Humanity was suddenly thrust back into the early days of space travel where [[Kearny-Fuchida Drive|FTL]] communication was not possible and messages had to be couriered by [[JumpShips]]. This made command and control of armed forces and the governing of the [[Inner Sphere]] empires very difficult, if not impossible. Just two years earlier, [[Devlin Stone]], founder of the [[Republic of the Sphere]], retired and vanished, promising that he will return when the Republic needs him the most. |
The blackout allowed the Houses, Clans, and other powers both within and outside the Republic to begin reclaiming or conquering worlds they had ceded to or that had been taken by the Republic. Before long, military factions whose loyalty lay with one of the Great Houses or Clans began to organize and take action against the Republic government. Several Republic officials, planetary leaders and nobles, and industrial giants who pledged their allegiance to the greater powers of the Inner Sphere supported or, in some cases, headed these factions. [[House Liao]] was the first of the Great Houses to invade the Republic, claiming worlds like [[Liao]], which the Confederation had grudgingly surrendered after the Republic used military force to claim the world. The other Houses quickly followed suit, using the gains of their factions to make footholds deep in the Republic. | The blackout allowed the Houses, Clans, and other powers both within and outside the Republic to begin reclaiming or conquering worlds they had ceded to or that had been taken by the Republic. Before long, military factions whose loyalty lay with one of the Great Houses or Clans began to organize and take action against the Republic government. Several Republic officials, planetary leaders and nobles, and industrial giants who pledged their allegiance to the greater powers of the Inner Sphere supported or, in some cases, headed these factions. [[House Liao]] was the first of the Great Houses to invade the Republic, claiming worlds like [[Liao]], which the Confederation had grudgingly surrendered after the Republic used military force to claim the world. The other Houses quickly followed suit, using the gains of their factions to make footholds deep in the Republic. | ||