Just got the pdf and after reading the excellent intro, i set myself to check for info about the Periphery. Sadly, we barely have any mention to the Periphery, but it is understandable, the Succession Wars were an almost IS thing...but then i got to the Peripheric States Deployment tables. Mein Gott...Raventhir`s Iron Hand going from 78% Strenght to 37%, the Taurian Guard from 71% to 16%, eack, a taurian merc unit in Dumassas going from 94% to 32%, all in almost 3 and a half decades. Either constant pirate/house raids and technological decline are a heck of a drug, or something more happened there.