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| name                = House Calderon
 
| name                = House Calderon
 
| titles              = [[Protector of the Realm]]
 
| titles              = [[Protector of the Realm]]
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| cadet lines        = [[House Bogdanovich-Calderon]]<br/>[[House Martens-Calderon]]
 
| cadet lines        = [[House Bogdanovich-Calderon]]<br/>[[House Martens-Calderon]]
 
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'''House Calderon''' was the dynastic ruling house of [[Taurus]], the Taurian Homeworlds, and the [[Taurian Concordat]].  From its founding in [[2335]] to [[3060]], the [[Protector of the Realm|Protectors of the Realm]] of the Taurian Concordat were all Calderons (with the exception of a single regent). The family crest is a pair of crossed rapiers on a field of stars.<ref>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 68</ref>
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'''House Calderon''' was the dynastic ruling house of [[Taurus]], the Taurian Homeworlds, and the [[Taurian Concordat]].  From its founding in [[2335]] to [[3060]], the [[Protector of the Realm|Protectors of the Realm]] of the Taurian Concordat were all Calderons (with the exception of a single regent). Despite its continued reign, the Calderon line was fair, egalitarian, and pragmatic in their decisions.{{cn}}
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However, frontier existence and surviving the depredations of the [[Inner Sphere]] also made the Calderons overly xenophobic.
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==Quote==
 
==Quote==
{{Quote|Morals are one thing. Survival is everything.}}
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{{Quote|Morals are one thing. Survival is everything.<ref>More than any other major Periphery realm, House Calderon and the Taurians have had to compromise to survive.
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[[Samantha Calderon]], October, [[2252]], reported in ''Modern Explorers''<ref name=FM:Pp47>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 47</ref>
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-[[Samantha Calderon]], October, [[2252]], reported in ''Modern Explorers''<ref>''Field Manual: Periphery'', p. 47</ref>
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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Samantha died in a freak accident in [[2268]], leaving her son [[Timothy Calderon|Timothy]] as her sole heir.  Despising the hated, brutal, but democratic [[Terran Alliance]], Timothy and the Taurian people agreed that the Protectorship would remain a hereditary Calderon title, further distinguishing the Taurians from the heart of the Inner Sphere.  It was Timothy who established egalitarian Taurian social policy - food for work.
 
Samantha died in a freak accident in [[2268]], leaving her son [[Timothy Calderon|Timothy]] as her sole heir.  Despising the hated, brutal, but democratic [[Terran Alliance]], Timothy and the Taurian people agreed that the Protectorship would remain a hereditary Calderon title, further distinguishing the Taurians from the heart of the Inner Sphere.  It was Timothy who established egalitarian Taurian social policy - food for work.
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====Summary====
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Ultimately, House Calderon's actions always seemed intended to promote the greater good of the Taurian people.  Whether the consequences of their actions actually were beneficial to the Taurian Concordat is debatable, on a grand or microcosmic scale.
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On a grander scale, two glaring examples present themselves.  The Calderon expedition chose to settle within the Hyades cluster in part because of the natural defense the Hyades asteroid field provided.  When war came to the Concordat, though, hiding within the asteroid field allowed the far-flung colonies of the Concordat to be depredated.  Further, while the military stance of the Concordat may have indeed been necessary - especially given the early history of the Taurians with their two neighbors, the [[Federated Suns]] and the [[Capellan Confederation]], but this policy drew the unwanted attentions of the nascent [[Star League]].  Through the [[Reunification War]], the Taurian Concordat was transformed from a viable, powerful Periphery entity into a ravaged shell.
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On a much smaller scale, the case of [[Amalthia Kincaid]] is another great example.  General Kincaid was successfully conquering the Taurian Concordat during the Reunification War, with a minimum of casualties on either side.  The Concordat, possessing a weapon which could only kill a seriously ill person, assassinated the sickly Kincaid.  The void left by Kincaid's death allowed General [[Amos Forlough]] to conduct war against the Concordat.  General Forlough wasted no time in destroying (literally burning) world upon world and slaughtering millions of innocents.
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==Ability to Wage War==
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The [[Taurian Concordat]] was essentially established as a mutual protection pact, fearing that larger Inner Sphere neighbors would depredate a defenseless Periphery state.  Though there is a much greater degree of freedom within the Concordat relative to Inner Sphere powers, the Concordat has always put an emphasis on and taken great pride in being able to protect itself.  All Taurian citizens must enlist in military service for at least four years, though most will never see a battlefield.  Frontline soldiers are also extremely capable fighters, given their extensive training and schooling.  The only exception to this lies within the Concordat's Aerospace assets, a flaw the Concordat tried to rectify in the 3040s with the help of the [[Outworlds Alliance]].
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The military-industrial complex of the Concordat is also capable of maintaining a healthy fighting force.  Indeed, before the [[Reunification War]], the Taurians were the second Periphery nation to field BattleMechs (after the [[Rim Worlds Republic]], who assisted the [[Lyran|Lyrans']] efforts to steal the original schematics), and boasted the largest WarShip fleet beyond the Inner Sphere.  Lacking self-sufficiency and having lost a majority of its territory after the Reunification War, including its entire capacity to construct and maintain WarShips, the Taurians still maintained enough production to field a sizeable BattleMech army, supplemented with combat vehicles and infantry.
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With advances in lostech, especially after [[3060]], the pace of technological development within the Concordat began outstripping the abilities of technicians to keep pace.  Combined with the succession crisis caused by the death of Protector [[Jeffrey Calderon]], and the thinly spread resources (gambling on colonization), the Taurian Concordat of the latter half of the [[thirty-first century]] has become a nation close to collapse.  Though traditionally the Concordat was one of the most stable Periphery realms with a very capable army, the Concordat has become a mere specter of its former glory.
  
 
==Calderon Family Tree==
 
==Calderon Family Tree==
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{{familytree |:| | | | | | | | |JC| |BC| | | |JC=[[Jentarra Calderon]]|BC=[[Brandon Calderon]]}}
 
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'''* ''' - though not explicitly stated, it may be implied that the Calderon line did not experience a succession crisis until the death of [[Marantha Calderon]]<ref name=TPp44>''The Periphery'', p. 44</ref>
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'''* ''' - though not explicitly stated, it may be implied that the Calderon line did not experience a succession crisis until the death of [[Marantha Calderon]]<ref>''The Periphery, First Edition'', p. 44</ref>
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'''†''' - no information is about the parents of [[Nicoletta Calderon|Nicoletta]].  For that matter, it is likewise unclear if the line of succession remained unbroken between [[Nicoletta Calderon]] and [[Zarantha Calderon]], and how many generations come in between.
  
 
===Thirty-first Century Family Tree===
 
===Thirty-first Century Family Tree===
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* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
 
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
 
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
 
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery]]''
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* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)]]''
* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition (sourcebook)|The Periphery, 2nd Edition]]''
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* ''[[The Periphery, 2nd Edition (sourcebook)]]''
  
  
 
[[Category:Noble Houses|Calderon]]
 
[[Category:Noble Houses|Calderon]]

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