Editing Magistracy of Canopus (section)

== Founding ==
The Magistracy was founded by Kossandra Centrella, who was a captain in the [[Free Worlds League]] militia. Her unit was left behind deep within [[Capellan Confederation]] space thanks to some truly stunning incompetence from her superior officers, and while she was able to narrowly avoid complete destruction or capture for her unit, she never forgave the League for what she saw among them was a boys club stuffed up their own ass, completely unwilling to care for their own. Her sudden return to Free Worlds Space by hijacking a [[BattleTech Spacecraft#JumpShips|JumpShip]] made her a hero, and also gave her plenty of power and capital to begin slowly building a coalition of like-minded folks who were getting increasingly annoyed with how patriarchal and pompous the [[Inner Sphere]] was becoming, and finally when they could stand no more, she hijacked another group of JumpShips, this time with the express goal of getting the fuck out of dodge, and settled on the planet Canopus in the Periphery. She began luring planets on the fringes of the Free Worlds and Capellan space to eventually begin breaking away from their masters, and by the time the Magistracy was officially formed, they were 36 worlds strong.

Of course, that still meant they were very ripe for the conquering in comparison, so when Kossandra's grand-daughter Floral took the throne, she hatched upon what inevitably became the thing the Magistracy became famous/infamous for; extreme social freedom reform, that turned Canopus from "Annoying Upstarts" to "Light-years-wide Pleasure Palace". She also eased up from her grandmother's previous policies regarding men, which has ensured that the Magistracy has remained a popular and prosperous (for the most part) state in the galaxy.