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but looking over the other books it was very clear to me that the Cameron Family had enough respect and will to force the Succession States to tow their line of thought.  Camerons say cut your forces, the Succession States did it (perhaps not as much as the Cameron family wanted but they did cut down forces)

And the advanced tech and the war tools to avoid fighting against the 5 Successor States at once.

2) massive intersteller war ala succession wars all over again that would have left every state shattered and balkanized into 15 some odd successor states not 6.

Either that, or Age of War II.

Aleksander Kerensky leaving with the SLDF was a moral failure because he gutted the Terran Hegemony's army, left worlds unable to defend themselves who were not interested in assimilating into other cultures.  This defiance is seen all the way into the Jihad.  if you read those books you find many worlds in the Word of Blake Protectorate retained their sense of history, and knew that the houses claim to their world and interposing their culture was always bupkiss.  they joined the Word willingly cause they were different, or at least promised a difference.

Nailed it.

2) massive intersteller war ala succession wars all over agasin that would have left every state shattered and balkanized into 15 some odd successor states not 6.

Aleksander Kerensky leaving with the SLDF was a moral failure because he gutted the Terran Hegemony's army, left worlds unable to defend themselves who were not interested in assimilating into other cultures.  This defiance is seen all the way into the Jihad.  if you read those books you find many worlds in the Word of Blake Protectorate retained their sense of history, and knew that the houses claim to their world and interposing their culture was always bupkiss.  they joined the Word willingly cause they were different, or at least promised a difference.

massive interstellar war could have still happened had a Blake/Kerensky combo been successful I don't think the League would have survived the change.

Kerensky leaving - I totally disagree.  The Terran Hegemony for all its vaunted strengths was battered and almost beaten by the Liberation campaign - looking over Liberation of Terra points to dozens of worlds that were dead already.  Worlds and units were already being courted by the Succession States AND the Casper net was a total and utter mess - because Amaris used it.  They could not have stood up to all 5 Realms at once.

If Kerensky had stayed the First Succession War would have been even nastier in my opinion, the House Lords would have fallen on the Hegemony and Terra at its centre would have no option to opt out and remain neutral.  None of the worlds would have been spared.

Because of the defiance these worlds still felt during the Jihad I think you would have had a hundred more New Dallas if the SLDF has stayed - every single world would be telling the Inner Sphere to screw themselves because the SLDF Army and Navy were on their way even if they were tied up at another brush fire.

Kerensky leaving did gut these worlds but it also made sure they were not all turned into charred rubble by the incoming Succession Worlds, most of them knew - we can't stand up to this, we surrender - only the really stubborn ones died.  Kerensky leaving was a Tactical Retreat for the longer Strategic Game if Kerensky had found a safe haven he could have comeback.  Unfortunately the Exodus didn't work as he planned

The Star League was never officially ended as all five Successor Lords was claiming the rule of it.

In practise the destruction of the Bureau of Star League Affairs during the late 2760s and 2770s, the dissolution of the High Council in 2781, the Exodus in 2784 and the transformation of the Ministry of Communications into ComStar in 2786 essentially ended the Star League as an entity but there was no official dissolution of it, just of its agencies.