Kerensky proved unable to bring the colonists back in line, and indeed following the DeChavilier Massacre the violence spread to the remaining four Pentagon worlds. In 2800 the first of several small-scale clashes broke out on Eden between colonists of Capellan and Federated Suns origin by May of next year full-scale rebellion broke out. By 2794 prosperity had taken hold and colonization efforts were directed to a group of nearby stars, the Kerensky Cluster. Upon their arrival Kerensky's followers tried to reforge life as they knew it once again and create a Star League-in-Exile. After years of travel coreward from the Inner Sphere, the massive flotilla of Star League refugees came upon five marginally habitable worlds, the so-called Pentagon Worlds (due to their nearly pentametric relation to each other), in August of 2786. Fully eighty percent of the SLDF agreed to this plan, and in November of that year they made their fateful departure. In February of 2784 he made this plan known to the rest of the SLDF: they would depart from the Inner Sphere and live in exile, denying the competing great houses the misuse of their military might during the coming conflagration which would soon engulf known space. He finally abandoned this effort by August of 2783 and began work on a plan he hoped would at least preserve the spirit of the League. Though the Star League officially disbanded in 2781, Aleksandr Kerensky would spend the next two years shuttling between the Great Houses in an attempt to salvage the situation. Precentor Martial Anastasius Focht, 1st December 3052 They are still our brothers and sisters, but hardened to a point that we fear even in our nightmares. Now they are so utterly alien that it is hard to accept that they are human. They were brothers and sisters to our own ancestors 250 years ago, yet have been tempered by a stronger flame. With both sides swearing off all contact from each other, the hatred has now shifted from one of ideology to territorial. This war would cause the remaining Invader Clans to be ejected out of the Homeworlds as the Home Clans would abandon the old Crusader-Warden views for more brutal and self-protective ones instead, seeing the Inner Sphere as irredeemably tainted. Instead of resuming their trek on Terra, a civil war based on territorial status and resentment was started among the Clan Homeworlds. But after their loss at Tukayyid, internal tensions within the Clans and an alliance between the Great Houses drew the invasion to a standstill.Īfter the Truce of Tukayyid had dissolved along with the reborn Star League, the Clans would be permanently fractured as a whole. When they returned to the Inner Sphere, 250 years after their ancestors' departure, the Great Houses were mostly powerless to stop the massive Clan Invasion. While the Inner Sphere was mired in the destructive Succession Wars, the Clans experienced a technological renaissance. After much infighting between the members of the former SLDF, Aleksandr's son Nicholas Kerensky took command of the exiles, reorganizing them into twenty Clans of warriors leading and protecting their attendant civilian castes.
General Aleksandr Kerensky led his forces to a hidden destination far from the Great Houses because he believed that a catastrophic war was inevitable, one that even the once mighty Star League army would be powerless to stop. The Clans were originally descended from the self-exiled remnants of the Star League Defense Force, who had departed the Inner Sphere after Stefan Amaris brought about the downfall of the Star League.