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* TorosYFlamencos: The Concordat is lead by a Spanish-descended Great House whose symbol is a bull.
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* TorosYFlamencos: TorosYFlamenco: The Concordat is lead by a Spanish-descended Great House whose symbol is a bull.
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* {{Foil}}: To the other major Rimward Periphery power, the Taurian Concordat. While both value freedom, the Taurians are a militaristic society obsessed with defending it whereas the Canopians, while willing to defend their borders by force if necessary are first and foremost a mercantilist culture that mainly relies on economics and soft power to advance its interests, even if it means occasionally making concessions to their neighbors. In a meta sense, they're also one to [[Literature/{{Dune}} Arrakis]], which is said to orbit Canopus, whose barren, harsh environment and consequently viciously disciplined society are about as far away from "Las Vegas InSpace" as one can get. Not to mention it starts off being secretly run by women suffering from repressive, Middle Eastern-style internalized misogyny as opposed to openly run by women suffering from hypersexualized Western-style internalized misogyny.
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* OutcastRefuge: Many Periphery worlds are settled by the descendants of people who fled the Inner Sphere due to persecution or discrimination.
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* {{Determinator}}: The Concordat was the first Periphery state to be invaded during the Reunification Wars, and the last to surrender twenty years later, and only did so after SLDF forces under Amos Forlough made it clear that they were able and willing to [[CivilizationDestroyer utterly raze any and all planets that continued to resist to extinguish the Taurians as a people]]. Even after the conquest, resentment and secessionist attitudes continued to simmer below the surface for a century and a half before boiling over once again in the New Vandenberg Uprising.
