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The Mandate are a faction of Golgotha remnants that are still loyal to the tenets of the original Golgothan faction that destroyed the Llyrian Empire. The Outer Alliance destroyed the original faction, but it (the Golgotha faction) fractured into smaller ones like the Mandate and the Concordance. The Concordance is allied with the Unity Accords now (though it's a sketchy alliance), but the Mandate isn't and is still being evil and spooky in their own part of the galaxy, presumably waiting for the right time to reembark on a genocidal campaign.