Could Inglesmond have survived

[Korzon77]

Okay, Inglesmond--one of hte many worlds the successor lords butchered in their quest for the shiny seat.

One of the thoughts in the sourcebook is tha thad they managed to protect their shipyards from the Kuritan raid, they might have been able to survive, possibly even pull a rump Hegemony out.

But was that ever in the cards?  The Entire MO at this point was: If I can't have it, you won't. So I could see them surviving a few more years, but eventually, without a lot more help, one or another of hte House Lords would have smashed their defenses, and then, either destroyed the world themselves or seen it destroyed by another Houe to keep it from falling into their hands.

[Deadborder]

No. The presence of an active Warship yard would have, sooner or later, attracted the attention of a house lord. And when that didn't work, then the nukes would have come into play to deny anyone else the prize. It may have been later and possibly a lot bloodier, but Inglesmond was going to be doomed, one way or another.

Added to that, the idea of salvaging a "rump Hegemony" was pretty much impossible regardless. It's not just the House Lords that were the problem here; it was that in many ways the remnant Hegemony was ungovernable. It had no central leadership and between Amaris and post-Amaris purges, had nobody who could lead it. On top of that, it's military consisted of remnant SLDF units with again, no central leadership. Maybe an influential world might have been able to sieze power in a coup, but getting anyone to follow it would be another matter.