I am placing this topic up again after seeing the topic: Sell me on the Rim Worlds Republic. Unfortunately, the original post got mangled when the message server was switched.
Rulers of the Rim Worlds Republic
1. Hector Worthington Rowe (ruler from 2250-2305) (founder)
The founder of the Rim Worlds Republic, Hector started off as undergraduate student studying classical history and philosophy at the University of Thebes on Alexandria when the Outer Reaches Rebellion erupted. Hector volunteered by joining the 3rd Alexandrian Militia in 2237 and defending his own university from March to June 2238 against the 14th and 29th Alliance Special Combat Battalions until they were forced to withdraw from Alexandria.
After the Terran invasion was defeated, Hector founded a quasi-political club which he would dub the “Theban Legion” to continue on with a war against the Terran Alliance. On July 7, 2244; Rowe and 500 members of the Theban Legion hijacked several jumpships belonging to Skye Freight and Goods. Rowe and his followers traveled to the nearby system of Luciana where elements of the Terran 151st Altairian Fusiliers were stationed. The Theban Legion seized the Terran barracks and captured the garrison in a surprise attack. The 350 prisoners seized were tried as “war criminals” by Hector and burned at the stake after being found guilty.
Realizing that he could not go back to Alexandria because a jumpship had fled with the news of the massacre of the Terran garrison, Rowe led his Theban Legion with their jumpships in a pirating expedition against the worlds that would eventually form the Tamar Pact and seized women, slaves, and supplies. He would lead the Legion through the Dark Nebula and find the world of Apollo and official proclaim the Rim Worlds Republic on September 8, 2250. Declaring himself First Consul of the Rim Worlds Republic, Rowe set up the society in a warp version of his favorite philosopher, Plato. Hector Rowe would commit suicide in November 2305 after his son drove him out of the government.
2. Maxwell Achilles Rowe (ruled from 2305-2339) (third son of Hector Rowe)
Maxwell came to power with bribes of precious metals and slaves to senior members of the Rim Worlds government. The bribed members were instrumental in driving Hector Rowe out of power and placing Maxwell as First Consul of the Rim Worlds Republic. While in power, Maxwell abolished slavery but still kept a disenfranchised Helot caste on Apollo. Maxwell also contacted nearby worlds like Star’s End, Steelton, Wotan, Toland, Bensinger, and Anywhere that had been settled by refugees from fighting in the Inner Sphere to join the Republic with trade and educational agreements. Maxwell also promoted the Republican colonization of Icar, Persistence, Winfield, Derf, Golandrinas, Lackhove, and Gotterdammerung. After three jumpships of the Republic were mistakenly destroyed by the Tamar Pact, Maxwell went to the Pact in March 2339 and negotiated a treaty of friendship and alliance. While returning from Tamar, he learned that his daughter had arranged a coup and overthrown him. He fled with his supporters on the jumpship to an unknown fate in the deep Periphery.
3. Arabella Rowe (ruled from 2340 -2376) (daughter of Maxwell Rowe)
Arabella came to power with the backing of the newly enfranchised Helot caste in a coup while her father was on Tamar. After taking power, Arabella continued the expansion of the Republic by colonizing the worlds of Barcelona, Black Earth, Beta VII, and Malibu. She also created the Rim Worlds Army while refusing to develop a naval force that might provoke a military response from the newly formed Lyran Commonwealth. She also changed the Republican society with the education of the newly freed Helots and the expansion of industry and commercial development in the Republic. Gradually the Republic would change into an absolute monarchy like 17th century France during Arabella’s reign.
4. Michael “Mishka” Durant (ruled from 2376 – 2406) (son of Arabella Rowe)
Michael became the next First Consul of the Republic after his mother’s death in 2376. Michael also continued the gradual expansion of the Republic by slow colonization of nearby systems. Michael greatly improved the economic and military strength of the Republic by offering cheap labor and production plants in return for military technology. The Republic became a producer of cheap commercial goods for the Lyran Commonwealth, Draconis Combine, and Terran Hegemony during Michael’s rule. Personally, Michael was a hedonist who overindulged in food, liquor, and scantily clad women whom he appointed as his personnel advisors. Heather Durant took over as First Consul after Michael’s death.
5. Heather Durant (ruled from 2407 – 2463) (daughter of Arabella Rowe)
Heather Durant created the Republic intelligence service of AsRoc after she took over as First Consul. Heather also declared the Republic to be neutral when war broke out between the Lyran Commonwealth and the Draconis Combine. Heather would loan an intelligence team from AsRoc to the Lyran Commonwealth to participate in the raid on Hesperus II that would provide both the Commonwealth and the Republic with the newly developed Battlemechs of the Terran Hegemony. In return for a guaranteed supply of Republic battlemechs and secret training grounds in the Republic, the Lyran Commonwealth gave the Republic several Lyran worlds. In 2451, Heather would become sexually involved with the wife of the Terran ambassador, Lady Teren Amaris that would continue on until her death in 2463. Heather would appoint her lover Teren Amaris as the next First Consul since she had no children or any close relatives.
6. Lady Teren Amaris (ruled from 2463 - ?) (Heather’s lover, appointed head of the Republic after Heather’s death)
Lady Teren Amaris was the wife of the Terran ambassador Lord David Chi Wong. Lord Wong was previously married and had two children which Teren adopted. In an agreement with Lord Wong, their own children kept the last name of Amaris. Lady Amaris and her husband were assigned to the Republic to investigate its possible connection to an attempted assassination of Director-General Jacob Cameron. While on Apollo, Lady Teren Amaris became Heather’s lover. Heather would first grant Lady Teren and her husband citizenship in the Republic and then would make Lady Teren her heir-apparent. After Heather’s death, Lady Teren would take over as First Consul and establish the Amaris family’s control of the Republic until its end.
7. Unnamed son of Teren Amaris
Unfortunately, no information is available about the sixth First Consul