Mopsus Coastal Culture

The Mopsus Coastal Culture was an early Terran salticid stem culture.

Origin
Most Mopsus Coastal beliefs came from the earliest versions of Terran cosmology. When a group of Mopsus left the Terran Mingle and formed its own organized state on the southeastern coast in about 200 PT, their beliefs developed independently of the inland culture, and independently of the other Mopsus ethnic group, which would go on to form the state of Vast Mopsus.

In about 400 PT, the formation of Helpis to the north created tension which eventually erupted into the Terran Coastal War. Once the Coastal Mopsus realized the strength of the Helpis military, and after witnessing its brutal power, they surrendered and came to an agreement, forming the semi-sovereign Mopsus Prefecture.

Values
Coastal Mopsus did not rely on gender divisions as strictly as the inland Terran cultures. Males were seen as valuable, as opposed to their perceived disposability in the inland cultures, but they were also seen as a resource and rarely allowed autonomy. Coastal Mopsus are the only known salticid culture to not further divide female spiders into other categories, and thus the only known salticid culture with a gender binary.

Current State
Mopsus Coastal Culture has largely been supplanted by both Portian and Helpis culture due to Portian colonization.