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Free Worlds League

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In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Free Worlds League is one of the Successor States, ruled by House Marik. Its capital is Atreus. 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 coinciding with the House Liao border as much of the League’s territory originally have belonged to the Capellan Confederation. The emergence of the Clan invasion changed the role o The Free Worlds League is one of the five Successor States within the fictional BattleTech universe. The Free Worlds League has been traditionally ruled by House Marik, which has held the title of Captain-General for centuries, and a central Parliament, located on Atreus, the capital of the Free Worlds League.

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In the fictional BattleTech universe, the Free Worlds League is one of the Successor States, ruled by House Marik. Its capital is Atreus. 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 coinciding with the House Liao border as much of the League’s territory originally have belonged to the Capellan Confederation. The emergence 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 enemies of foods and even weapons to fend off the Clans; and until Operation Serpent it would be a neutral in the war. 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. 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 possessed a space navy that greatly outpaced those of the other Successor States. After the Word of Blake Jihad, the Free Worlds League dissolved into several bosies with three as the main contenders for the right to rule the Free Worlds League but many smaller realms and even non-aligned planets battle via supremacy over each other. The Free Worlds League is one of the five Successor States within the fictional BattleTech universe. The Free Worlds League has been traditionally ruled by House Marik, which has held the title of Captain-General for centuries, and a central Parliament, located on Atreus, the capital of the Free Worlds League. The Free Worlds League is considered by most canonical sources as one of the oldest of the Inner Sphere's five major Successor States. Unlike the other Successor States, it is surprisingly multicultural, with strong European, American, and Indian overtones. In the BattleTech series as a whole, the Free Worlds League is the least depicted of the major Successor States, receiving only passing references in most of the books and only a few direct source material to its credit.