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| title = ''[[Imperator of the Marian Hegemony|Imperator]]''<br />
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'''Johann Sebastian O'Reilly''' was the founder of the [[Marian Hegemony]].<br />
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==History==<br />
In [[2920]], [[Periphery]] native and lostech prospector Johann O'Reilly was searching for reputed lost caches of [[Star League]] technology on the planet [[Alphard (MH)|Alphard]] rumored to have been left behind by the defunct [[Alphard Trading Corporation]] when he instead found a treasure trove of [[germanium]] estimated to be worth fifty billion [[C-bill]]s.<ref name=H:MPSp42>''Handbook: Major Periphery States'', p. 42: "Bandit Kings and Pirate Nations"</ref><ref name="FM:Pp69">''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 69: "Nova Roma"</ref><ref name=TP2p54>''The Periphery (2nd Edition)'', p. 54: "Marian Hegemony: Foundation and Early History"</ref><br />
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O'Reilly immediately hired some small [[mercenary]] units to protect his newly found wealth and established a colony to serve both as a trading hub and a distraction, diverting those who would follow from the location of his find. Johann named the colony after a seven-time consul from ancient Rome on [[Terra]], [[w:Gaius Marius|Gaius Marius]], and populated his colony with refugees from across the [[Inner Sphere]] fleeing the constant warfare of the Succession wars. Johann fancied himself something of a historian, and drew on the structure of the ancient Roman Republic when establishing his new colony; he stylized himself as [[Imperator of the Marian Hegemony|''Imperator'']] and streamed the refugees into the three classes of his new society: ''patrician'', the upper class; ''plebs'', the middle and lower classes; and a slave class.<ref name="FM:Pp69"/> He was long rumoured to have kept a collection ancient Terran Roman artifacts, though this was never proven and he may have simply been a fan of their aesthetic.<ref name=TP2p54b>''The Periphery (2nd Edition)'', p. 54: "When In Rome..."</ref><br />
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Despite the financial reserves O'Reilly could draw on, his new Hegemony was simply too small, unable to attract the defenders it would need to defend itself against larger states but too small to attract the attention of those states. As such, the Hegemony spent almost a century as little more than a [[bandit kingdom]] fashioned after a society that had been dead for millennia.<ref name="FM:Pp69"/> Rampant piracy reinforced this view as Marian "privateers" raided [[Magistracy of Canopus|Canopian]] and [[Free Worlds League]] worlds throughout the [[Third Succession War]].<ref name=TP2p54/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* ''[[Handbook: Major Periphery States]]''<br />
* ''[[Field Manual: Periphery]]''<br />
* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition (sourcebook)|The Periphery (2nd Edition)]]''<br />
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