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| name                = Althea Roark
| birthdate           = [[2724]]<ref name=ASP>''A Soldier's Privilege''</ref>
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| affiliation         = [[House Roark]]
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| title               = [[Baroness]]
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| siblings            = [[Bartolomeo Roark]]<ref name=ASP/>
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| children            = [[Stephan Roark]]<ref name=ASP/>
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'''Althea Roark''' was the Baroness of Wyatt in the early years of the [[First Succession War]].<ref name=ASP/>

==History==
Wyatt had been annexed by the [[Free Worlds League]] early in the First Succession War, but the [[Marik Militia]] forces assigned to Wyatt withdrew in late [[2790]], leaving the planet open to conquest. The League had honored the titles of the Roark family on Wyatt when the world was annexed from the [[Terran Hegemony]], in exchange for the Roark's fealty. That fealty was tested when two [[Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces]] [[regiment]]s - the [[Fourth Donegal Guards]] and [[Fifth Lyran Guards]] - arrived to annex the planet in January [[2791]]. A Lyran negotiator attempted to persuade Baroness Althea Roark to switch her allegiance to the [[Lyran Commonwealth]], but Althea's son - former [[Captain]] [[Stephan Roark]] of the [[SLDF]] and his cousin [[Dera Roark]] - were opposed to breaking their oaths to [[House Marik]], as was Stephan's uncle, the retired SLDF [[General]] [[Bartolomeo Roark]]. The defending forces on Wyatt consisted of the [[Wyatt Militia (FWL)|Wyatt Militia]] - a force that could muster barely four [[lance]]s of [['Mech]]s - and the personal 'Mechs of House Roark, which were dispersed around the various Roark landholdings across the world. Stephan and his allies fought against the annexation, but were undercut by the Baroness Althea Roark, who aligned House Roark with the Commonwealth to preserve the family's position on Wyatt.<ref name=ASP/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[A Soldier's Privilege]]'' (short story)

[[Category:Terran Hegemony Characters|Roark, Althea]]
[[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Characters|Roark, Althea]]
[[Category:Free Worlds League Characters|Roark, Althea]]