Ryerson Accord

The Ryerson Accords, also known as the Ryerson Conventions, was a secret agreement between the Parliment of the newly formed Free Worlds League and the Capellan Hegemony against the Sarna Supremacy.

Overview

As the Capellan Hegemony and the Sarna Supremacy's ongoing conflicts became what would later be known as the Capellan-Supremacy War in 2305, the Capellan Strategios predicted a single large strike against the Supremacy's capital of Sarna would end the war within four weeks. Unfortunately that prediction was hopeless optomisitic as the costly war dragged on, but even as they gained the upper hand the Capellans still sought a quick and easy end to their hated foe and made what would be a fateful choice: Prime Magnate Paula Aris of the Capellan Hegemony courted the aid of the nearby Free Worlds League.

The result was the Ryerson Accord signed in 2306, the League was to provide military support to the Capellan forces to ensure a rapid defeat of the Sarna Supremacy and minimise the cost of lives to win the war, in exchange for support of the League's territorial claims. But while the combined Capellan and League forces outnumbered the Sarna defenders and captured no less than seventeen Sarna held worlds by September 2308, the League troops provided were little more than newly trained milita and Captain-General Selaj of Regulus, the post not yet permanently associated with the House Marik, frequently acted on his own without consulting the Capellan military, leading an ill-advised and costly campaign to capture Wasat and Berenson.

As the Aris goverment was forced to impose draconian measures to continue to support the war and the hositle populations of the supposedly pacified worlds rose up to target their "liberators", the League Parliment increasingly looked to withdraw from the Accords and recieved a trigger in so-called Arboris Decision, the attempted succession of Arboris from the Hegemony in December 2308. The failure of the Capellan fleet commander, Admiral Ishidai, to defeat an unexpected naval led by Independent Republic of Liao President Emile Falkner Liao and bring Arboris to heel was all the excuse Parliament needed, and the League withdrew its support, making it now untenable for the Capellan Hegemony to continue fighting and spelling the end of the Capellan-Supremacy War.

References

• House Liao (The Capellan Confederation) - pp 16-17
• House Marik (The Free Worlds League) - pp 11