I am restoring back this post for anyone who is interested in the history of the rulers of the Rim Worlds Republic. The information is combined from the two Periphery sourcebooks and Handbook: Major Periphery States.
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
8. Gregory Amaris (ruled from unknown – April 2575/September 2596 – 2599) (grandson of Lady Teren Amaris)
The seventh First Consul of the Republic, Gregory Amaris alienated his countrymen by his support for the newly formed Star League by using military force against dissidents and a series of suppressive measures like the Universal Act of Loyalty and the Manchester Directive to force the Republic citizens to support the League. In addition, Gregory Amaris tried to greatly expand the industrial base of the Republic but alienated his people even further with massive tax increases, seizure of large amounts of property, and favoritism shown towards foreign scientists, engineers, and technicians that had immigrated under preferred status to the Republic to expand the industrial base. Gregory was the first to set up the Amaris family as the owners of all of the commercial and industrial companies in the Republic as well as the major landowners on all the Republican worlds.
Gregory Amaris would be overthrown in a coup when the 7th Amaris Legionnaires and 8th Amaris Fusiliers Battlemech regiments revolted rather than put down a workers strike in the Diplass Battlemech factory on Apollo. Gregory withdrew with the few soldiers still loyal to him to his estate in the southern continent of Apollo after the coup. He remained under virtual house arrest until he was freed by invading Star League forces on Apollo until 2595. After the surrender of the Rim Worlds Provisional Government, he returned to his former position as First Consul until he was assassinated.
9. Rim Worlds Provisional Government (April 2575 – September 2596)
The Provisional Government’s came from the Rift Republican Army. The RRA was an association of retired members of the Rim Worlds Army and their descendents with meeting halls on every Republican world. The RRA was suppressed with military force by the Manchester Decree issued by Gregory Amaris which drove the RRA underground. Members of the RRA were the leaders in the strike at the Diplass Battlemech factory on Apollo. After the 7th Legionnaires and 8th Fusiliers defected to the side of the strikers, the workers at the plant formed a provisional government which took control of Apollo. Over the next several weeks, the Provisional Government took control of the entire Republic. However, the majority of the battlemech forces of the Rim Worlds Army stayed loyal to Gregory Amaris and withdrew from the Republic by either going to the Commonwealth or staying in their bases. The Provisional Government broke the Republic away from the Star League and then fought against the Star League which invaded in 2581. The remnants of the Provisional Government surrendered to League forces in September 2596.
10. Admiral Hakim Wbika (military dictatorship from 2599 – 2604)
Admiral Hakim Wbika personally assassinated Gregory Amaris with his own laser pistol in 2599. Then Admiral Wbika set up a military junta with Gregory’s son, Richard Amaris, as a puppet of the junta. The Admiral also changed the title of ruler from First Consul to President. Admiral Wbika and the other members of the junta would be assassinated by Richard Amaris in 2604.
11. Richard Amaris (ruled from 2604 -2619) (son of Gregory Amaris)
Richard Amaris was surprised when he was not executed during Admiral Wbika’s coup. Kept by the military junta as a puppet First Consul, Richard Amaris cultivated the palace guards and arranged for a series of miscommunications to occur while playing General Samuel Macao (Admiral Wbika’s chief military aide) against the Admiral. When the Admiral and the General got into a shouting match, Richard Amaris personally shot both men and had the palace guards kill the remaining members of the military junta. Richard Amaris then took absolute power until his death of brain fever as the first President of the Republic.
12. Amanda Amaris (ruled from 2620 – 2621) (daughter of Richard Amaris)
Amanda Amaris announced that she would restore democratic elections to the Republic but was assassinated in a botched coup attempt by her cousin, Willard Amaris. Willard would also be accidently killed by crossfire during the coup.
13. Jeffrey Amaris (ruled in 2621) (son of Richard Amaris)
Jeffrey Amaris stepped into the breach as the third president after the death of Amanda. After one year of rule, Jeffrey resigned as First Consul in place of his infant daughter, Selenta, and established a protectorship to run the Republic until she came of age.
14. “Protectorship†(ruled the Republic from 2622 – 2639)
The Protectorship was composed of three leaders who controlled the Republic: Jimmy Siever, Honor Chan, and Gregory Wong. Gregory Wong would be killed in a mysterious car crash a couple of months into the Protectorship and replaced by Jonofra Marcus. Selenta would eliminate the members of the Protectorship who were engaged in plots to remain in power with her as a puppet from the Republic after she took power by promoting them as ambassadors to the Magistracy of Canopy, the Terran Hegemony, and the Free Worlds League.
15. Selenta Amaris (ruled from 2622 – 2687) (daughter of Jeffrey Amaris)
Selenta took over as the fourth president after having the three members of the Protectorship promoted to ambassadors in 2639. Selenta was stricken with a rare form of cancer in the late 2640’s. She appointed a dangerous rival and her cousin, Tadeo Amaris, in her place as regent while she undertook medical treatment. She also set Tadeo up by playing the Star League council against him. After he was discredited and removed from the government, Selenta took back control of the Republic and ruled it from her bed for the remainder of her life.
16. Tadeo Amaris (Regent of the Republic from 2649 – 2653) (cousin of Selenta Amaris)
Tadeo Amaris was Minister of Military Affairs to Selenta Amaris and also a rival to Selenta Amaris. Tadeo was appointed by Selenta to be Regent while she was undergoing cancer treatment. She also insured that the palace guards remained under her direct control. Tadeo began a massive military buildup of the Rim Worlds military and stationed them along every border world along the Lyran Commonwealth. Archon Sarah Steiner-Dineson, with the support of the Star League Council, led a major demonstration of Star League forces on Black Earth that forced Tadeo Amaris to back down and disband his expanded army (but not the navy). After embarrassing the Republic, Tadeo was forced to step down as Regent and replaced by Fiona Amaris as commander of the Rim Worlds military. Fiona and Selenta would implement the Rim Royal Guard Act. The Act would establish an imitation of the “Krumper Act†of Napoleonic Prussia that would quadruple the size of the Rim Worlds military with the recall of reservist. Fiona and Selenta would also massively expand the military-industrial complex of the Republic.
17. Betram Amaris (ruled for one day in 2687) (son of Selenta Amaris)
Betram Amaris was assassinated by his cousin, Gregor Siever, by having his throat cut in the Presidential Palace before he could be sworn in as president.
18. Carl Siever (ruled from 2687 – 2695) (cousin of Betram Amaris)
Carl Siever came to power by killing his brother Gregor Siever in a knife fight only 15 feet away from the dead body of his cousin, Betram Amaris. Since he was the only adult member of either the Siever or Amaris family, Carl Siever was appointed the fifth president of the Republic. Carl Siever became increasingly unstable as a ruler over the years as the knowledge of having murdered his brother continued to haunt him. Carl Siever stepped down as president when Cynthia Amaris came of age and went into reclusion in a monastery for the rest of his life.
19. Cynthia Amaris (ruled from 2695 – 2751) (granddaughter of Selenta Amaris and grandniece of Carl Siever)
Appointed the sixth president of the Republic when her uncle Carl Siever retired to a monastery, Cynthia continued on with the policies of her predecessors. She married the industrialist Stefan Gorienko in 2717. In 2718, she gave birth to her only child, Stefan Amaris. During her reign, the High Council of the Star League began a series of oppressive tax measures against the Periphery states and independent worlds that Stefan Amaris would exploit in setting up the Periphery Uprising.
20. Stefan Amaris (ruled from 2751 – 2779, Emperor of the Amaris Empire and First Star Lord of the Star League 2767 – 2779) (son of Cynthia Amaris)
Stefan Amaris became the seventh President of the Republic upon his mother’s death in 2751. Stefan Amaris used his control of the Republic to finance and support Periphery terrorist groups against the Star League. He also set up the dummy companies that provided training centers and equipment for the 50 battlemech divisions that would engage the SLDF when the Periphery Uprising occurred. By acting as a sycophant to Richard Cameron, he was able to get the SLDF out of the Republic. He also faked a military battle to insure that the Republic appeared to be loyal. Gradually, he set up the Rim Worlds Army to be positioned for the coup against First Lord Richard Cameron when the RWA was allowed to deploy to the Terran Hegemony. Stefan Amaris personally assassinated Richard Cameron with a laser pistol while Richard was sitting on the Star League throne as a signal for Stefan’s coup-de-stat. Within days, the Terran Hegemony was conquered by the RWA. Stefan declared himself the new First Lord of the Star League and Emperor of the Amaris Empire after having every member of the Cameron family on Terra massacred in the Star League throne room. Atrocities became commonplace in the Terran Hegemony after the RWA took over the nation. After a bloody seven year campaign with massive atrocities being committed by the retreating Rim Worlds Army, Emperor and First Lord Stefan Amaris personally surrendered to General Kerensky in his Orion by laying the pistol that he used to murder Richard Cameron at the feet of Kerensky’s battlemech. Stefan Amaris and his entire family would be executed by firing squad under the personal command of General Kerensky by the SLDF. Stefan’s body would languish in New Samarkand Medical School until his remains were tossed into an unmarked grave in a potter’s field near the hospital.
21. Mohammed Selim (ruled as Regent in 2767)
Selim was appointed as Regent of the Rim Worlds Republic by Emperor and First Star Lord Stefan Amaris because of his fanatical support of the Amaris family. Selim was overthrown when the SLDF conquered the Republic and was lynched by rioting crowds on Apollo for his support of the Amaris family. In addition, all members of the Amaris family in the Republic were either killed by mobs or murdered by members of the SLDF. The related Marcus, Siever, Wong, and Chan families flee from the Republic.
22. Lucien Dormax (ruled from 2772 – 2775)
Lucien Dormax was the senior leader of the underground Rim Republican Army. After the SLDF had conquered the Rim Worlds Republic, the RRA took over control of the Republic and Dormax became the eighth and last president. When the SLDF withdrew to begun their liberation campaign of the Terran Hegemony, the Rim Worlds Republic was besieged by terrorist attacks launched by Stefan Amaris supporters, worlds being seized by renegade military units or the remnants of Rim World Army supporters of Stefan Amaris, and finally a full scale invasion by the Lyran Commonwealth. The Dormax government collapsed along with the Republic when the LCAF conquered the capital of Apollo in 2775. Lucien Dormax disappeared after being taken into Lyran custody.
