In the fictional BattleTech setting, the Free Rasalhague Republic was a nation born in the wake of the Fourth Succession War, which enjoyed less than two decades of independence before being almost totally overrun by the invasion of the Clans. 20 Year Anniversary of BattleTech logo. ... The fictional Clans of BattleTech were originally the self-exiled remnants of the Star League army, after Amaris the Usurper brought about the downfall of the Star League. ...

In 2330, House Kurita's expansionist Draconis Combine invaded the Principality of Rasalhague, subduing it only after more than three decades of guerrilla war. The Rasalhague District remained the most restive province of the Combine, as its original Scandinavian inhabitants resisted assimilation into the Japanese-dominated culture of their Kuritan conquerors. In 3004, a Rasalhagian bodyguard assassinated Coordinator Hohiro Kurita. During the Fourth Succession War, many Rasalhagians greeted the Lyran Commonwealth troops as liberators and helped them to capture many Rasalhague worlds before the war's end in 3030. However, Lyran Duke Selvin Kelswa wanted to retain the conquered planets in his Tamar Pact, and his heavyhanded treatment of their people thoroughly alienated them. The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Draconis Combine is the Successor State in the North-East quarter of the Inner Sphere. ... Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe named after the Scandinavian Peninsula. ... Assimilation, from Latin assimilatio meaning to render similar, is used to describe various phenomena: schema (psychology), the process of assimilating new ideas into a schema (cognitive structure). ... This article does not make a clear distinction between fact and fiction. ... Look up Liberator on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Liberator can refer to several things: In a political sense, a person or thing that delivers a group of people or a nation from conquest or political oppression. ...

Primus Myndo Waterly of ComStar convinced Theodore Kurita of the advantages of granting Rasalhague independence. It would relieve the Combine of its most rebellious citizens, create a buffer state on the border with the Commonwealth, pressure the Lyrans to disgorge their Rasalhagian conquests to the new republic, and perhaps inspire secessionists in the Lyran Isle of Skye. She also promised him military equipment from ComStar's secret stocks in exchange. In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Successor States are the major military powers of the Inner Sphere, each governed by one of the Great Houses. ... A buffer state is a country lying between two rival or potentially hostile greater powers, which by its sheer existence is thought to prevent conflict between them. ...

Rasalhague's proclamation of indepedence on March 13, 3034 was quickly recognized by ComStar and the Draconis Combine. Some Kuritan troops refused to obey Theodore's orders, but he crushed them in the Ronin War. As foreseen by Waterly, Lyran ruler Katrina Steiner turned over captured Rasalhague planets to the FRR. The new state sought to appease both the Commonwealth and the Combine through scrupulous neutrality, even adopting a policy of equal trade.

However, the gravest threat to Free Rasalhague's precarious independence would come not from these two great powers, but the unexpected Clan invasion of the Inner Sphere. Most of the FRR was overrun by Clan Wolf and Clan Ghost Bear, before the Clan advance was halted in 3052 by the intervention of the ComGuards. The rump state that survived became a virtual protectorate of ComStar. In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Inner Sphere is a region of interstellar space, ruled by the five Great Houses (each of which dominates one of the Successor States.) After the fall of the Star League, the Inner Sphere fractured as each of these Houses attempted to secure rulership during... Insignia of Clan Wolf. ... Clan Ghost Bear is a member of the Clanners in the popular sci-fi universe BattleTech owned by the FASA Corporation. ... A rump state is the remnant of a once-larger government, left with limited powers or authority after a disaster, invasion or military occupation. ... A protectorate is, in international law, a political entity (a sovereign state or a less developed native polity, such as a tribal chiefstainship or feudal princely state) that formally agrees (voluntarily or under pressure) by treaty to enter into an unequal relationship with another, stronger state, called the protector, which...

Meanwhile, the Ghost Bears pursued good relations with their subjects, creating the Ghost Bear Dominion. In 3103, the holdout Free Rasalhague Republic merged with the Ghost Bears to form the Rasalhague Dominion. Founding Year: 3060 (as the Ghost Bear Dominion), 3103 (renamed as the Rasalhague Dominion) Executive Capital (City, World): Asgard, Rasalhague Clan and Governmental Council Capital (City, World): Silverdale, Alshain National Symbol: A white, roaring bear’s head, set against a dark blue triangle Location (Terra relative): Coreward, between the Wolf...

Sources

• Robert Charrette, Heir to the Dragon, FASA, 1989.
• FASA, 20 Year Update, 1989.