Editing Pentagon Powers

'''Pentagon Powers''' - These were small political/military factions or proto-states that were formed in the wake of the [[Exodus Civil War|Pentagon Civil War]] after [[2801]]. 

==Brief Description==
These powers were originally part of the five [[Pentagon Worlds]] nation known as the Star League In Exile. The nation was established by the SLDF's [[Exodus Fleet]] and led by [[General]] Alekander Kerensky. However, underlying tensions among the citizenry and soldiers of the [[SLDF]] grew after leaving the [[Inner Sphere]]. Insurrection in the City of Cathry and ultimately the death of General Alekander Kerensky brought about the demise of the Star League in Exile and gave birth to the fragmented powers which were formed in the fires of unchecked warfare.

These groups were not interstellar powers, but small factions of people divided and united by their past political makeup.  The Exodus War Civil War - or Pentagon Civil War as it was sometimes referred to - reduced the technology levels of the Pentagon Powers to a hodgepodge of low technology nations with high-tech artifacts.

It wasn't until [[2821]], when these nations were destroyed and conquered by ilKhan [[Nicholas Kerensky]] and his followers that were known as the [[Clans]] that these fractious groups were reunified.

==Listing of Pentagon Powers==
The following is a break down of each faction found per world/landmass they resided on.

===Arcadia===
====East Arcadia====
*Democratic Republic of Rand
*Helgren County
*Kingdom of Surev
*Garrak & Korban
*Principalities of Breck & Xanadi
====West Arcadia====
*Confederation of Arcadia
*Ilkasur Shogunate
*Nation of Hastur
*Ravisham Collective
===Babylon===
====Abyssinia====
*Abyssinia - 2 total mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-135>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 135 "The Pentagon - Babylon"</ref> 
====Callandra====
*"Mountain People" - 4 veteran mixed companies.<ref name=HOK-135/>
====Corsen====
*City of Gralen - 4 mixed regular companies.<ref name=HOK-135/> 
*the Oppenreich - 3 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-135/>
====Solath====
*Camlaan - 3 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-135/>
*East Solath rebels groups - 4 total mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-135/>
====Valence====
*Sumral Carta - 2 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-135/>

===Circe===
====Northern Habitable Zone====
*<span id="Sand Confederacy">Sand Confederacy</span> - 3 mixed regular battalions. <ref name=HOK-136>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 136 "The Pentagon - Circe"</ref> One of the oldest factions on Circe, the Confederacy was a loose collection of nomadic desert tribes that chafed at the rules imposed by the Star League-in-Exile, expanding considerably with refugees from the Pentagon Civil War. Their nomadic nature dragged out their conquest until Clan Snow Raven's capture of the city of Dehra Dun and free offer of access to its aquifer in return of obeying Clan laws ended their military opposition.<ref name=HOK-72>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', pp. 72-76 "Circe - The Northern Campaign"</ref><ref name=HOK-136>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 136 "The Pentagon - Circe"</ref>
*<span id="Empire of Hidalgo">Empire of Hidalgo</span> - 5 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/> More formally known as "the Glorious Imperial Dominion of the God-King Hidalgo", the Empire was ruled by Antonio Hidalgo, a devout but mentally unbalanced SLDF lieutenant who created a theocratic empire, brutally meting out divine justice to those who didn't strictly follow his faith. In the twenty years leading up to Klondike, Hidalgo's white clad ''Brigada de Dios'', literally Brigade of God, slaughtered 20 to 40 thousand people in purges of the unfaithful.<ref name=HOK-72/>
*<span id="Tabor Voivoidate">Tabor Voivoidate</span> - 2 mixed green battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/> Democratic proto-state of Free Worlds League heritage. In contrast to most of the other battles, most significant opposition to Clan conquest was protest marches and strikes, its military quickly collapsing. <ref name=HOK-76>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 76 "Circe - The Northern Campaign - The Last Campaign"</ref>
*<span id="Kerensky Dominion">Kerensky Dominion</span> - 3 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/> Terran Loyalist faction that steadfastly held to the attitudes and morals of the Star League and Aleksandr Kerensky. Led by a triumvirate drawn from the military, political and religious elements of society, the Dominion acted only defensively and occasionally attempted to act a neutral part and peacekeeper in the region, retaining a relatively high level of technology and a strong military. Mistakenly believing they would be treated as equals, during Klondike the Dominion leadership pledged its support to the "sons of the great father" and aided the Clans in defeating the Hidalgo Empire and Tabor Voivoidate. Dismayed to find the Clans had little in common with the Star League and aggrieved at their use seemingly only as cannon fodder, a senior Dominion military officer was killed while attempting to protest the treatment of his troops, the Clans brutally putting down the Dominion's "mutiny".<ref name=HOK-72/>
*<span id="Rasmussen Elite">Rasmussen Elite</span> - 4 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/> A strange mixture of Lyran, Combine and Terran warriors, the Elite were a "thugocracy", offering "protection" in return for the every whim of its warriors being met. Settling its disputes between warriors in trials by combat, often to the death, in many respects the individual warriors of the Elite were the equal of the Clans in one-on-one combat, only falling thanks to their inferior technology and coordinated Clan Wolverine counterattacks. The ilKhan would ultimately describe the Rasmussen Elite as the Clans' "shadow brothers", their society corrupted by their martial prowess rather than using it to protect it.<ref name=HOK-136/> At the time of their destruction, they were led by [[Gustav Kran]].<ref name=BoIcP>''Betrayal of Ideals'', Prologue</ref>
*<span id="Isle of the Eagles">Isle of the Eagles (''L’Isle des Aigles'')</span> - 2 veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/> House Davion-originated power, known to favor French language.<ref name=HOK-72/>

====Southern Habitable Zone====
*<span id="Emerald Kingdom">Emerald Kingdom</span> - 4 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/>
*<span id="Gant Republic">Gant Republic</span> - 5 mixed green battalions.
*<span id="Mongrel Mob">Mongrel Mob</span> - 3 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/>
*<span id="Brotherhood of Fianna">Brotherhood of Fianna</span> - 3 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-136/>

===Dagda===
====Dratha====
*Hailes Commonwealth - 1 mixed regular battalion, 11 coastal cutters.<ref name=HOK-137>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 137 "The Pentagon - Dagda"</ref>
*Oriente Dominion - 3 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-137/>
*Ryan's Roughnecks - 4 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-137/>
*Imbros collectives - no organized military.<ref name=HOK-137/>
*Minor Gressen factions - 2 mixed green battalions.<ref name=HOK-137/>
====Riva====
*McMillan Collective - 2 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-137/>
*Minor Rivan factions - 3 mixed regular companies.<ref name=HOK-137/>
*The Chosen - 2 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-137/>
====Salò====
*Scattered Salan factions - 6 mixed regular companies.<ref name=HOK-137/>
====San Biagio====
*Brotherhood of Donegal - 4 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-137/>
====Tenno====
*The Drakkars - 2 mixed veteran battalions.
====Ocean Based Factions====
*Mimosa Atoll - 1 veteran [[infantry]] company.<ref name=HOK-137/>
*Penn Atoll - 1 regular infantry company.<ref name=HOK-137/>
*Kepler Atoll - Unknown volume of infantry.<ref name=HOK-85>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 85 "Dagda - The Legend of the Ghostly Seawolf"</ref>

===Eden===
====Amur====
*Minor Amur factions - 3 mixed regular companies<ref name=HOK-138>''Historical: Operation Klondike'', p. 138 "The Pentagon - Eden"</ref>
====Irkutsk====
*Irkutsk Irregulars - 2 mixed regular battalions.<ref name=HOK-138/>
====Noruff====
*Levic Ascendancy - 2 'Mech battalions, 5 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-138/>
====Yakut====
*The McDonald Collective - no organized military.<ref name=HOK-138/>
*People's Congress - 2 green infantry companies.<ref name=HOK-138/>
*Sarbat Khanate - 4 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-138/>
*Purgatory Cities - 4 mixed veteran battalions.<ref name=HOK-138/>
*Abaddon mining settlements - 3 mixed green companies.<ref name=HOK-138/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*''[[Historical: Operation Klondike]]''


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