**Arctic Concord** The Arctic Concord is a large polar power that had come to dominate a large share of the northern hemisphere with all matter of geoengineering and weather manipulation going on.  Indeed paraterraforming was the basis of a vast Siberian population among other things.  Most liked the many mountains and in general their focus was on trying to assert a new global stability from people who tolerated the Vanguard more just because they had proven low corruption records.  But they would also be quick to make grabs for many unification pacts that became known as the Arctic Concord.  They would be forced to stay to those latitudes by other factions, especially the [[Hymalites|Hymalites]] and their coalition of post-Vanguard arcology states.  The Arctic Concord also would manipulate auroras much to the annoyance of other societies in the area.  Their population is polarized because a large share despised what came of the Vanguard and generally got the wrong lessons of the Blue One over the AGI status, which mattered less than many think as the Blue One came from a human with the pathologies that the neural programming retained thanks to the black box nature of the tech and people generally not being comfortable with computer alteration of memories even in 2397.