Just catching back up to the current time line since my local group is moving from 3067 -> Ilclan era for our next campaign and damn the state The Hegemony has been put in is kinda depressing. Like I get we're the regional punching bag for the more popular FWL and MoC but it's hard being a roman it seems. I have so many unanswered questions.
- Why and how is Lothia independent again? Sarna doesn't even know and it seems like a just because kind of thing. Not even a mention of puppethood or rebellion. Only that it happened and that we almost had to invade them again.
- Legio V also defects to Lothia (but decades before their independence?) because of their own allied mercenaries actions. They become the Punic Legion, effectively the Lothian Armed Forces then kinda just sit around for another 4 decades, not being hunted be MHAF on the still occupied Lothian worlds, until the above point happens?
- We get a minor minor wins against the FWL in 3077 but then get nuked in response, effectively Crippling II Legio
- We then get our entire capitol nuked by the Wobbies, setting us back industrially too. So our effective faction growth has been almost entirely undone. Somehow we get lucky and the some of the Caesar bloodline was out of the dangerzone preventing a succession crisis.
- We get a period of recovery though, I guess what we'd call the MH's golden age as we start local mech production, develop some of the best battle armour and tanks out there. Our legions are effectively rebuilt, Legio V is reformed.
- Then in the lead up to the Ilclan Era proper we attack and hold three entire FWL worlds and were raiding three others uncontested! At this point I'm getting excited. The recovery time was well spent and now we can hang out with the big boys! Even if the Big boys are much diminished from their glory days, atleast we're there having serious impact!
- And then of course the shoe drops. We suddenly and inexplicitly open a second front with the Canopians *just* as we're starting to face actual pressure from the purple bird. So we get counter invaded by the Bird and Canopies. Our holdings are split into two, Entire legions are surrounded, isolated or destroyed and genuinely I'm having a hard time seeing a future for The Marians in the sphere.
Is there any light at the end of the tunnel or are we just boned at this point?
Hi Marían Citizen
There is always light at the end of the tunnel.
Several details, the Hegemony is no longer divided into two. Illirya has already been released.
The Hegemony already had three worlds ex-Marik and was going to annex two more that were independent and already had forms of government copying the Hegemony (Lahti and San Nicolas were those two)
Why was the NFWL attacked and then Canopus at the same time?
Who knows, only the feverish mind of a writer who decided that this would happen in the Era Report and Field Manual 3145 was exactly the opposite, the Hegemony entrenching itself for fear of being attacked but from one year to the next Ignatius decided to go on the attack and abandon the project of cultural annexation and going crazy
During this time, our legions, the most seasoned and combat-tested forces of the entire Periphery, magically transform into Capelans cadets of 3025.
The Hegemony reaches the Star League technological level in 3130, check the Withworth fluff in the Rec Guide 30 if I remember correctly and that one is built and the lines of the primitive versions that we already made Icarus II, Gladiator, Centurion and Emperor are modernized at least those four by Marian Arms
