Editing Marantha Calderon

{{Update Needed|[[Historical: Reunification War]]}}
{{Otheruses|the character|the WarShip bearing her name|Marantha Calderon (Individual Concordat-class WarShip)}}

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| name                = Martha Calderon
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| died                = 23 September [[2596]]<ref name=TPp44>''The Periphery'', p. 44</ref>
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| affiliation         = [[House Calderon]]
| rank                = 
| title               = [[Protector of the Realm]]
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| parents             = [[Mitchell Calderon]] (father)
| siblings            = [[Argento Calderon]]<ref name=H:RWp162>''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 162: "Traitor or Patriot?"</ref>
| spouse              = [[Peter Carliss]]
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'''Marantha Calderon''' was a [[Protector of the Realm|Protector]] of the [[Taurian Concordat]] during the [[Reunification War]].

==History==
Marantha was [[Mitchell Calderon]]'s daughter and heir to the Protectorship during the Reunification War. She married [[Peter Carliss]] and had three children with him. Upon Mitchell's death in [[2588]], Marantha assumed leadership of her nation as it struggled to resist the [[Star League Defense Force]] invasion. Although the Taurian Defense Forces and the civilian guerrillas had fought bravely and cunningly, by [[2590]] the SLDF had taken all but the [[Hyades Cluster]] worlds.<ref>''The Periphery'', p. 33</ref>
Marantha had tried to use more defensive tactics to hold her planets against the invaders but SLDF reinforcements from the conquered [[Rim Worlds Republic]] and [[Outworlds Alliance]] were too much to resist. Beginning in the spring of [[2591]] the naval forces of the SLDF probed Flannagan's Nebulea and began a five-year slog through the hardened defenses of the Cluster.<ref>''The Periphery'', p. 34</ref><ref name=TSLp49>''The Star League'', p. 49</ref>

===Death===
SLDF Naval forces finally broke through the TDF lines in [[2595]] and began advancing on the last free worlds of the [[Taurian Concordat]]. Marantha decided to spare her people and ordered the TDF to surrender and stand down. On 22 September [[2596]], the Taurian conflict officially ended. Marantha Calderon committed suicide the next day. Her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered into space.<ref name=TSLp49 /> Her death led to the first succession crisis of [[House Calderon]].<ref name=TPp44/>

==Titles and Positions==
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{{s-bef|before=[[Mitchell Calderon]]}}
{{s-title|title=[[Protector of the Realm]]|years=[[2588]] - [[2596]]}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Henry Calderon]]}}
{{S-end}}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Historical: Reunification War]]''
* ''[[The Periphery (sourcebook)|The Periphery]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''

[[Category:Taurian Concordat Characters|Calderon, Marantha]]
[[Category:Protectors|Calderon, Marantha]]