[Abe Sargent]

In 3079 begins, The Jihad is winding down, extremely quickly. There are just a few worlds left in the Protectorate, and the worlds in the FWL are shrinking quickly. The Campaign for Terra has begun. They jump in and take the Titan Shipyards in a battle that was harder than expected. Ghost Bear lost their Leviathan WarShip, and almost 50% of the fleet was destroyed. The battle for Terra begins soon enough. One of our ships is used in the Titan Attack and it is destroyed, but salvageable.

Later they will attack and take Mars and Terra, and it will fall. Blake’s retreat is in the Free Worlds League, and they flee there, but orbital bombardment on worlds they hold by the Free Worlds league will kill Apollyon and the Manei Domini and the Master as well in 3081 and the Jihad officially ends.

With the destruction of the Word of Blake coming soon, Duke Essex understands that he needs to make nice, and do so quickly, so he sends out tons of JumpShips and DropShips, with medicine, food, and other supplies for locals all around the Celestial Coalition. This begins a few years before the end of the Jihad, and won’t end until post-War against the Stone.


Many politicians will exclaim Duke Essex and the Celestial Coalition as the only area that won the Jihad. Although that’s not completely true, places like the Filtvelt Coalition and Duchy of Andurien made out nicely as well.

The major issue for the Celestial Coalition is Devlin Stone. After the Jihad is over in 3081, Devlin Stone announces the creation of the Republic of the Sphere, from the home-base of Terra. He wants to create a new, democratic, republic, and a new way of administering the world that have been heavily fought over the centuries. It’ll be a new buffer state that will help to keep the Inner Sphere powers from each other’s throats as well,

The remains of the Protectorate are basically ceded to Stone by the major houses. The problem is two fold. Many worlds didn’t go back though – the Lyrans needed to keep Hesperus II and Solaris VII, and the Fed Suns, for example, got back Kittery and the nearby worlds.

He wants every planet within 150 light years of Terra. Federated Suns agree to do so. As do the remnants of the Free Worlds League, Lyrans and the Dragon.

Every great house, save for Liao, signs a Republic Formation Treaty.

Now, he wants every single world we took – all of them. But here’s the thing – We have done many of the things he wants to do in his “great experiment.” We have democracy, and a Coalition, and elected leadership. We have invested, heavily, in reclaiming the infrastructure of these worlds, and we are doing quite a bit to help. Worlds like Fletcher, Epsilon Indi, Caph, Zurich, and Bryant have fallen in love with us. We have protected Small World and Arboris, and retaken, and defended Quentin.

We are not the normal uncaring House Lord, that Devlin’s plan is designed to fix, and we point that out. He knows, and we helped to inspire him that there could be a different way. So, he offers to do something unusual. He will annex the Celestial Coalition completely, and it will simply be a member state of the Republic of the Sphere as is, virtually no changes at all.

After taking the offer to the Celestial Coalition Ruling Council, they agree, and on January 2, 3082, we accept annexation into the Republic of the Sphere.



That’s what I think would actually happen if I were to run the Jihad campaign.