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| The Fronc Reaches | |
|---|---|
| Faction Profile | |
| Time period: | 3066 - Present |
| Classification: | Periphery State |
| Controlled systems: | 6 |
| Capital world: | unknown |
| Ruler title: | unknown |
| Military: | unknown |
| Secret Service: | unknown |
The Calderon Protectorate is a small, Periphery state located spinward of the Taurian Concordat. The Protectorate began as small settlement newly-colonized by the Taurian Concordat, an effort which started with the Far Lookers movement and was backed by Concordat financial interests.
Though not interested in independence initially, the Protectorate declared itself a separate nation in the wake of recognition of the Fronc Reaches. The decision was based on several complaints:
- The Taurian Concordat had invested (and lost) a significant amount of resources in order to colonize the newly-independent Fronc Reaches.
- The Taurian people were upset with Grover Shraplen because of his entering the Trinity Alliance.
- Many people were outraged with Grover Shraplen's refusal to recognize the illegitimate son of Jeffrey Calderon, Erik Martens-Calderon, or any other distantly-related Calderon as the new Protector.
The primary political adversary to Grover Shraplen was Marshal Baron Cham Kithrong. Lacking the political power to outright oust Shraplen, Kithrong decided to take the Taurian VI Corps and secede from the Concord, vowing never to return to a Concord unless a Calderon sat on the throne.
Shraplen deployed (a relatively unmotivated) V Corps to quell the rebellion. V Corps was not successful, and Shraplen himself lacked the political clout to force a concerted effort by the TDF to retake the Protectorate - an act that would (almost certainly) start the first Taurian Civil War.
In the wake of the Protectorate secession, the Taurian Concordat has also lost another two settlements (now independent) and has ended colonization efforts on another two worlds.
Sources
- Field Manual: Updates, pp.186-198