The Succession Wars were unkind to humanity and created a backslide in technology. Following the League's collapse, Coordinator Minoru Kurita was the first Council Lord to declare himself First Lord, leading to the First Succession War. The Combine was the last Inner Sphere nation to join the Star League. The Combine also attempted to conquer the Azami worlds in 2497 with limited success. The First Coordinator was responsible for integrating many neighboring realms into the Combine, with two exceptions: an assault on the Principality of Rasalhague in 2330 was largely successful, though the integration of the Rasalhagians into Draconian culture was heavily resisted and it remained a vassal state for some time. Shiro established House Kurita as the ruling dynasty of the Combine, whose reign was interrupted only by the rule of the Von Rohrs family from 2421 until they were wiped out in 2510. Under the leadership of Shiro Kurita, the Alliance, rechristened the Draconis Combine in 2319, used threats, intimidation, deceit, and outright military conquest to expand. The roots of the Draconis Combine lie with the Alliance of Galedon between the worlds Galedon V and New Samarkand. Main article: History of the Draconis Combine Her opponents briefly plunged the Combine into a civil war which ended in Yori's victory, following which the Combine mounted a successful invasion of the Federated Suns which resulted in the conquest of New Avalon itself.īy the dawn of the ilClan Era, the Draconis Combine has reached a peak of military success, but is also in a precarious position from its greatly expanded and contested borders, attacks by neighboring enemies and the ongoing power struggle between Yori Kurita and Toranaga. After reclaiming worlds from the Republic, the ruling branch of House Kurita was wiped out in 3137 and replaced by Yori Kurita, descended from an illegitimate scion of Theodore and placed upon the throne by the ambitious Matsuhari Toranaga. Badly damaged by the Word of Blake and the subversive Black Dragon Society during the Jihad, the Combine underwent a period of stasis throughout the pre- Blackout Republic era.įrom 3132 however, the realm witnessed a tumultuous time. While the Fourth Succession War ended in defeat for the Combine, it also heralded the rise of Theodore Kurita, whose reforms enabled his realm to withstand the War of 3039 and later the Clan Invasion. Throughout the Succession Wars the Combine proved itself a military powerhouse of the Inner Sphere, posing formidable challenges to the neighboring Lyran Commonwealth and Federated Suns. The nation was formed after the campaigns of Shiro Kurita resulted in an empire forged by conquest, and his successors maintained this militaristic outlook through the Age of War and even into the relatively peaceful Star League years. House Kurita's rule is also upheld by the Internal Security Force and Order of Five Pillars intelligence agencies, and an all-encompassing government bureaucracy.įrom its inception the Draconis Combine has been a state oriented towards war as its primary means of expansion and acquiring power. Founded in 2319 by the empire-builder Shiro Kurita, the Combine has been ruled as a hereditary dictatorship by the Coordinators of House Kurita.Ĭulturally the prevailing mores of the Combine are based upon Shogunate Japan of pre-spaceflight Terra, with a pervasive class system in which the nobility and modern samurai of the military are dominant. The Draconis Combine is one of the five Successor States of the Inner Sphere. Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery (DCMS)
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