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Encyclopedia > Free Worlds League

In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Free Worlds League is one of the Successor States, ruled by House Marik. Its capital is Atreus. An illustration from Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland, depicting the fictional protagonist, Alice, playing a fantastical game of croquet. ... BattleTech is a wargaming and science fiction franchise, launched by FASA Corporation and currently owned by WizKids. ... The Universe is defined as the summation of all particles and energy that exist and the space-time in which all events occur. ... In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Successor States (named such due to their being the Successors of the Star League) are the major military powers of the Inner Sphere, each governed by one of the Great Houses. ... In the fictional Battletech universe, House Marik rules over the Free Worlds League. ... In the fictional BattleTech universe, Atreus is the capital world of the Free Worlds League. ...


The Free Worlds League is the oldest of the Inner Sphere's five major Successor States. Being in nature as a multicultural, with strong European, American, and Indian overtones. It also traditionally offered great autonomy to its component regions, like the Duchy of Oriente, Principality of Regulus, and Duchy of Andurien. While FWL's history is wracked with many vicious civil wars currently with fractured league in due part of the Word of Blake Jihad and tensions along border coensiding with the House Liao border as much of the League’s territory originally have belonged to the Capellan Confederation. The immeregince of the Clan invasion changed the role of the League in the Inner Sphere considerably as being one of the two untouched nations during the Clan invasion were it would a major supplier to its enemys of fooods and even weapons to fend off the Clans; and until Operation Serpent it would be a neutral in the war. In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Successor States (named such due to their being the Successors of the Star League) are the major military powers of the Inner Sphere, each governed by one of the Great Houses. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... The Duchy of Andurien in the fictional BattleTech universe is a province of House Mariks Free Worlds League. ... 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. ... Flag, featuring the Shahada, used by Muslims Army during early Islam Jihad (Arabic: IPA: ) as an Islamic term, is sometimes referred to as the sixth pillar of Islam, although it occupies no official status as such in Sunni Islam. ... In the fictional BattleTech universe, House Liao is the smallest of the 5 Great Houses of the Inner Sphere. ... In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Capellan Confederation is the smallest Successor State, ruled by House Liao. ... 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. ...


This brought the Free Worlds League to being an economic powerhouse, supplying materials ranging from food to ‘mechs, to other factions in need; often trading for advanced Clan technology. During this time the split between the Word of Blake and Comstar impacted the League as well, making them the first house to remove Comstar for interstellar communications in favor of the Blakeists. 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. ... 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. ...


The Free Worlds League having a strong emphasis on combined arms tactics, with almost all of the regiments featuring a large number of infantry, armor and aerospace assets as well as one of the largest navies in the Inner Sphere. The focus on battlemechs however does exist within their elite regiments that make up the Knights of the Inner Sphere in an effort to return to Star League tradition of minimizing loss of life by reducing war to just a handful of combatants. Near the end of 3067, the Free Worlds League possesed a space navy that greatly outpaced those of the other Successor States. 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... BattleMechs from cover of the book The Legend of the Jade Phoenix by Robert Thurston BattleMechs (often abbreviated Mechs) are large walking war machines that feature prominently in the fictional universe of BattleTech. ... Star League The Star Legue was an orginization that united the the various states of the Inner Sphere. ... A space navy is a fictional military service arm tasked with waging battle in space. ...


After the Word of Blake Jihad, the Free Worlds League dissolved into serval bosies with three as the main contenders for the right to rule the Free Worlds League but many smaller relms and even non-aligned planets battle via surpermecy over each other.


The Beginning

Formed in 2271 by the Treaty of Marik, uniting the Marik Commonwealth, the Grand Duchy of Oriente, and the Principality of Regulus. This loose organization of states, began to expand almost immediatly into the surrounding systems. With the annex of the Stewart Commonality, was point in time were the rulere of the FWL was to be designated Captain-General. Since then, House Marik has held the post of Captain-General to the fracturing of the Leguae were false Mariks, disposed Mariks, and even other Houses withen the former Free Worlds League Question the long time serving Marik family right to rule over the FWL today.


In 2398, the Capellan Confederation declareing war on the League in an attempt to annex the Andurien system and other surrounding systems would the beging of the 150-year period known as the Age of War. By 2556, Ian Cameron, leader of the Terran Hegemony, negotiated the Andurien Peace Treaty, ending the Age of War, and with the aid of the two nations sett the foundations for the creation of the Star League. After the Star League Civil War by Stefan Amaris, the Usurper, Aleksandr Kerensky left the Inner Sphere with the majority of the Star League Armed Forces. Set forth the First Succession War began. the First Succession War began. The First, Second, Third, and the Forth Succession War. In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Capellan Confederation is the smallest Successor State, ruled by House Liao. ... Mary Worth is a newspaper comic strip syndicated by King Features and created by writer Allen Saunders and artist Dale Connor in 1940, under the pseudonym Dale Allen. The title character, a 60-year-old former teacher and widow of a Wall Street tycoon, lives in the Charterstone Condominium Complex... Star League The Star Legue was an orginization that united the the various states of the Inner Sphere. ... Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky ( Russian:Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский) ( April 22, 1881 ( May 2, New Style) - June 11, 1970) was the second prime minister of the...


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Free Worlds League (3976 words)
The Free Worlds League was formed in 2271 by the Treaty of Marik, which united the Marik Commonwealth, the Grand Duchy of Oriente, and the Principality of Regulus.
League Traders began to do business with all the major Houses, and the Free Worlds League soon had one of the strongest economies in history.
The Free Worlds League-Capellan Confederation alliance is particularly dangerous to the rest of the Inner Sphere because of Thomas Marik's ties to the renegade Word of Blake, whose Precentors have provided Marik with ComStar manufacturing techniques that will be used to produce an impressive new line of BattleMechs.
Btech Universe Timeline (2148 words)
With the Taurian Concordat, The Rim Worlds Republic, and the Magistracy of Canopus resisting all efforts to be brought into the League by diplomatic means, war is declares between the Star League and the Periphery States.
The Major States are The Draconis Combine ruled by House Kurita, The Free Worlds League ruled by House Marik, the Federated Suns ruled by House Davion, The Capellan Confederation led by House Liao, and the Lyran Commonwealth led by House Steiner.
Free Worlds League interdicted by Comstar after the destruction of the HPG facility on Oriente.
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