Timeline of the Sanctuary Worlds, Part 1: Origins and Exodus

Hello, Patrons! Today I bring you some tasty background lore about the Sanctuary Worlds. I'll be breaking it up across a few days and a few posts, just to not overwhelm with info (there's a lot of it). Today is their root origins as Terran Hegemony corporations in the pre-Star League era and the story of their founding in the Sanctuary Worlds themselves.

Hope that you enjoy the timeline! If you've got any questions, please ask away and I'll answer as best I can!


Pre-Exodus:

-2451: Dane Computing is founded in the Terran Hegemony on the world of Procyon.

-2477: Jacobson Arms is founded in the Terran Hegemony on the world of Dieron.

-2479: Mallard Robotics is founded in the Terran Hegemony on the world of Ingress.

-2501: All three companies are major military contractors for the Hegemony Armed Forces by this point and are considered critical infrastructure by the HAF.

-2501: Deborah Cameron is elected Director-General of the Terran Hegemony. Her rule, from 2501 to 2542, is marked by an era of so-called aggressive diplomacy and sees a reduction of the HAF's budget and influence in the government.

-2549: Ian Cameron declares himself Director-General of the Terran Hegemony after the current Director-General, Joseph Cameron, is assassinated, kicking off the events of the September Revolt. Ian puts down the revolt swiftly and begins to turn the Hegemony towards his eventual end goal, the Star League.

-2569: The final Great House, House Kurita, signs a treaty with House Cameron, paving the way for the Star League after 20 years of effort. Elements of the HAF's industrial-military complex, which had been quietly voicing grievances about Director-General Cameron's plan for years, become further concerned and begin making their own plans.

-2570: The families behind three major HAF suppliers, Dane Computing, Jacobson Arms, and Mallard Robotics, hold a joint meeting to discuss Ian Cameron's nascent Star League. They agree that, in their view, the HAF's power and authority would wane under the Star League and they would be cast aside. This proved intolerable and so they began a plan to leave the Hegemony that was spurning them.

-2571, June 9th: Director-General Cameron officially signs the Star League Accords, forming the Star League and became First Lord of the Star League.

-2571, September 10th: Dane Computing, Jacobson Arms, and Mallard Robotics load up several warship hulls and dozens of dropships with all their assets as well as their families and several large batches of colonists and set out to form their own colony in deep space. The Inner Sphere never sees the three corporations, nor any of their colonists, again and the exodus is largely forgotten in the wake of the Star League's founding as a historical oddity.


Exodus:

-2572, early in the year: After several months of travel, the corporate fleet has left known space rimward past the Terran Hegemony. They spend some time flailing around in deep space, mostly lost and finding nowhere habitable.

-2572, late in the year: The corporate fleet discovers an as-yet-unknown batch of worlds that appear largely habitable. With morale low and only now realizing precisely the magnitude of what they had set out to do, the corporations call a halt to the journey and begin to set up camp on the new worlds.

-2575: After more than 2 years of hard work, the colonies in what the colonists came to call the Sanctuary Worlds were largely up and running. Each corporation split off to nearby planets to found their own fiefdoms. The Dane Hegemony (2572), Jacobson Haven (2573), and Mallard Republic (2575) are officially founded between 2572 and 2575, though they would not take on their final forms for some time yet.