History Characters / BattletechInnerSphere

* HobbesWasRight: A firm believer in the idea that humanity's future progress and prosperity could only be secured under a single, firm guiding hand (his own, of course). He justified the Reuinification War against the Periphery states, the bloodiest war in human history up to that point, as an enlightened crusade against "a minority of radical isolationists."

* TallPoppySyndrome: While the "social general" phenomenon is sometimes overstated, the LCAF officer corps' reputation isn't at all helped by the fact that competent commanders sometimes deliberately underperform to avoid drawing the ire of less competent but more influential peers and seniors. Those who don't play the political game with equal acument to their tactical skill often find themselves either [[ReassignedToAntarctica stuck in dead-end postings]] or leaving the LCAF entirely (sometimes striking out on their own as mercenaries). The reforms of the [=FedCom=] era have gone some way to reversing this trend.

* AffectionateNickname: Her friends call her 'Bel.'
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Her loyalty to the Lyran Commonwealth forced Isobel and her brother Ronan to leave the 26th Arcturan Guards and return to the Commonwealth. Unfortunately, they were both cashiered out of the LCAF anyway, a decision that eventually lead to the siblings to resurrect the Gray Death Legion using salvaged LCAF mechs and equipment.

* TheEmpire: Pretty much this, both before and after the Star League.

* InsaneAdmiral: One of the most bloodthirsty in ''Battletech'' history.
* KarmaHoudini: His "punishment" for ordering the deaths of millions of civilians throughout the Periphery was an early retirement. Post-war he was awarded the Medal of Valor and the Order of the Star, eventually dying of old age.

* PraetorianGuard: The Royal Black Watch Regiment, which eventually became the mercenary command Northwind Highlanders. They nearly stopped Amaris' coup dead in its tracks on the first day; Amaris had to resort to nuking them to get them off his back, and there were ''still'' Black Watch members on Terra ready to assist Kerensky in his final assault on Amaris.

* MoralMyopia: They don't "conquer." They "liberate."

* {{Determinator}}: She'll stop at nothing to rebuild the Free Worlds League, "false" Marik or no. It takes her almost four decades, but she eventually succeededs.

Captain-General of the League, which prospered under his reign. Early on, Thomas nearly died in the car bomb that killed his father and left crippled without the use of cybernetics. [=ComStar=] had him replaced on the throne by a body double who would go on to lead the League in his absence.

* SplitAndReunion: At the climax of the Jihad, a number of internal and external pressures caused the League to completely dissolve in 3079, becoming a hodgepodge collection of independent worlds and multi-planet minor states that [[WeAreStrugglingTogether would war amongst each other but band together temporarily to fight off bigger threats]]. This status quo remained for sixty years, until in the late 3130s Jessica Marik was able to begin the long task of reassembling the League. Most of these former member states and worlds reunited in 3139 but Regulus continued to spar with the League until subdued in 3148, and as of June 3152 Andurien is still fiercely independent and shows no inclination to rejoin the League.

* HegemonicEmpire: While Hegemony is in the name, the Terran Hegemony wasn't ''really'' this within its own territory -- the majority of the Hegemony's territory was either directly inherited from the Terran Alliance or conquered by force -- but the Star League was effectively the Terran Hegemony's HegemonicEmpire over the Inner Sphere.

* GeneralFailure: The Commonwealth's senior officers are easily the least respected anywhere in the Inner Sphere, as many of them gain their positions by maneuvering through politics and bureaucracy rather than battlefields. Referred to as "social generals," they are at best talented with logistics and administration, and at worst a bunch of oblivious screw-ups with endless excuses. The union of the Federated Commonwealth did reverse this trend somewhat, favoring more capable field officers and [=NCO=]s.

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: The Tyr Resistance Movement spent ''700'' years battling Combine occupation of the Rasalhague worlds, and the Motstånd movement became its spiritual successor under Clan Ghost Bear[[note]]Motstånd is Swedish for "Resistance", though not all meanings of it[[/note]]. The main difference is that while the Tyr movement was popular and ultimately successful, Motstånd swam against the pro-Ghost Bear tide and ended up being crushed into irrelevance by both native and Clan forces.

[[folder:Christian Månsdottir]]

Regent for the second elected prince of the Free Rasalhague Republic and third (and last) Lord of the Second Star League, Månsdottir was a former soldier of the Tyr Resistance Movement.

* BatmanGambit: Called for a vote of no confidence in his own leadership in an attempt to keep the Second Star League together. The gambit failed as the measure passed, forcing Månsdottir to dissolve the Second Star League and directly setting off the Jihad.

* GenderBlenderName: His surname 'Månsdottir' is UsefulNotes/{{Patronymic}}, and means 'daughter of Mån' in the same way that 'Magnusson' means 'son of Magnus'. Explainable by the Republic likely having abandoned actual patronyms centuries ago[[note]]of the Nordic countries, only UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}} still has them today[[/note]] and the surviving ones were converted into 'regular' family names.
* InspirationalMartyr: Was assassinated by the Motstånd movement in a car bomb alongside hundreds of other citizens during the Jihad. The death of someone so well-loved by the Rasalhague citizenry, combined with evidence surfacing that they were aided by the Word of Blake, all but destroyed any public support for the resistance movement overnight and ended up aiding Clan Ghost Bear's rulership more than anything.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Ulric Kerensky offered him the post of governor of the Republic worlds Clan Wolf had conquered if he could make the resistance movement stand down. Månsdottir refused.

* HateSink: For all its flaws in practice, the Star League represented the dream of a future where humanity could finally put violence behind them and work together as a species for the betterment of all, rather than embroiling itself in an endless cycle of self-destruction. Amaris and his mad power grab killed that future stone dead.

* TheParanoiac: After killing Richard Cameron and taking his place, Amaris went to extreme lengths to make sure the same couldn't happen to them. He massively fortified the Terran Hegemony's already-formidable planetary defenses, and he made extensive use of SecretPolice to weed out the slightest hint of dissent. His efforts to protect himself grew more and more extreme as the Civil War ground on.

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: The famous Voice of Kerensky, as quoted above. It was a message of peace transmitted via standard radio from the newly settled Pentagon Worlds by Kerensky himself, and it wouldn't reach the borders of the Inner Sphere for almost a thousand years (1500 years until it reached Terra itself). Ironically, the first people to hear it were the members of Task Force Serpent in 3060, on their way to attack Clan Smoke Jaguar in retaliation for the Clan Invasion.

* AsskickingLeadsToAuthority: ''By law'', one cannot be the First Prince of the Federated Suns without having served five years in a frontline military unit. Most First Princes have been highly skilled [=MechWarriors=].

[[caption-width-right:154:''For though an enemy, her courage none can deny.'' -- Clan Rememberance]]

* BadassGrandpa: A literal example of this as he fought the Battle of Luthien by the time ''he already had grandchildren''. What made him ultimately listen to his son Theodore was hearing that his granddaughter Omiko was in danger of getting captured or killed by the Clans.

* OldSoldier: Fought his last battle at the age of eighty-two, and would have fought a final DuelToTheDeath if he hadn't been persuaded otherwise.