The concordant is dead?
Long live Jay Shah!
they could kill you for that...
The concordant is currently a civilian (leopoldo franca)
upon his retirement, one of the members of the 8-member concordant council will take his place and civilian control will officially end, at the same moment military control of the planets officially end. Practically speaking, both stopped a long time ago.
Shah and his octegenarian associate pavlik tikhomirov have been forced into retirement, along with one admiral. Promotions are occuring and the concordant has announced his retirement within 5 years. Some of these promotions are aspiring younger officers, careerest, and (ostensibly anyway) loyal to the concordant and not the old world orders that have since decayed. The older members of the council fear that they won't have a shot at becoming the next concordant. At the same time, the border war between the Concordance and The neighboring "enlightened lords" of Ophiuchi is heating up, some say deliberately, as Franca may have manufactured a crisis in order to force a unity of his officers.
All this is to say that the time is ripe for a coup, and
you all may have a hand in how it goes down.