Khwarazm Empire

Overview
The Khwarazm Empire was a small deep periphery proto-state consisting of four worlds - Herat, Nishapur, Marv and Urgenj - located coreward from the Inner Sphere. All Khwarazmi worlds are rugged, with mountainous terrain and scattered deserts.

The bulk of the Khwarazmi people were poor subsistence farmers, while the merchant ruling class lived in relative opulence. Khwarazmi technology was well below that of the Inner Sphere. As of 3049 the Khwarazm Empire possessed no standing army, no BattleMech-scale weaponry, and only small personal weapons.

This lack of serious military power enabled Clan Jade Falcon to easily seize the Khwarazmi worlds and use them as a port of call along the Exodus Road during and after Operation REVIVAL. The Clan occupation resulted in little discernible change to Khwarazmi technology and social order; the chief exception was restrictions placed upon the native merchant princes' freedom of trade. As a result anti-Clan sentiment was strongest among the merchants.

However, the handful of active resistance fighters possessed only small arms and were unable to challenge even the small Jade Falcon garrison of two Trinaries from the Twenty-fourth Provisional Garrison Cluster. Encouragement of these rebels by Explorer Corps-sponsored mercenaries did not alter this situation.