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The Reunification War really resulted from a combination of two underlying factors. The origins of Periphery states meant that the denizens of the Periphery tended to fiercely desire their independence. Comforts like better education, higher standards of living, improved technologies, and increase in wealth (among the higher classes of society) were meaningless to a people who left the Inner Sphere (and these amenities) in favor of freedom.
Conversely, the Inner Sphere had a vested interest in controlling the Periphery. The common Spheroid desired protection, not necessarily from the Periphery states themselves, but from the unknown which the Periphery represented. The high standards of living and wealth meant that the people of the Inner Sphere feared loss, and desired the security provided by the knowledge nothing sinister was occurring outside their gaze. For the most part, the Periphery had far more to fear from the undivided attention of the Inner Sphere. Spheroids simply did not see it that way.
The Inner Sphere also desired the Reunification War for a far more sinister rationale. After the close of the Age of War, the militaries of the Inner Sphere were idle for the first time in over a century. Inner Sphere militaries feared the outcome of not using their forces, fearing a lack of experience or discipline, and the possibility of rebellion.
Conversely, the Inner Sphere had a vested interest in controlling the Periphery. The common Spheroid desired protection, not necessarily from the Periphery states themselves, but from the unknown which the Periphery represented. The high standards of living and wealth meant that the people of the Inner Sphere feared loss, and desired the security provided by the knowledge nothing sinister was occurring outside their gaze. For the most part, the Periphery had far more to fear from the undivided attention of the Inner Sphere. Spheroids simply did not see it that way.
The Inner Sphere also desired the Reunification War for a far more sinister rationale. After the close of the Age of War, the militaries of the Inner Sphere were idle for the first time in over a century. Inner Sphere militaries feared the outcome of not using their forces, fearing a lack of experience or discipline, and the possibility of rebellion.