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The
Great Houses
of the Inner Sphere
The discovery of hyperspace travel in 2108 paved the way for the colonization of
thousands of new solar systems, eventually populating a 1,000 light-year wide
area known as the Inner Sphere. After centuries of petty wars, the Star League
united humanity in a glorious age of peace and prosperity in 2571. All that came
crashing down in 2766, when a bloody coup shattered the fragile Star League
Council. Each of its members declared himself the rightful First Lord and laid
sole claim to the entire Inner Sphere.
At the time of the fall of the Star League, human-occupied space was dominated
by five interstellar empires which would come to be known as the Successor
States. Each of them is ruled by a powerful dynasty known as a Great House, and
the leader of each House held a seat on the Star League Council and thus laid
claim to the title of First Lord. To this day these Great Houses and their
machinations dominate the Inner Sphere.
Inner
Sphere Map
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