Post by aimway921 on Aug 11, 2019 3:07:41 GMT -5
PRE-IMPERIAL TIMES (? - 1500)
Originally there have been multiple nations in the current territories of the Empire. It is presumed that 3 of the first provinces - Tyvia, Lugania and Tavria, were once enslaved by an empire of old, which most likely spanned over the territories of modern Ida Koi, Tyvian Empire and Lusatia.
FORMATION OF THE EMPIRE (1510 - 1572)
An event known as the revolt of the 3 has happened sometime in 1510, as a result of which Tyvia, Lugania and Tavria became independent nations. To prevent being quickly recaptured, the 3 new nations have formed an alliance in 1511. By 1520, the Tyvian Alliance grew strong, and sought to expand - and thus an invasion of Kolska commenced, which was quickly annexed. Seeing the strength of the growing alliance, 3 nations of the Kraj - Pivkraina, Slavkraina and Povkraina have petitioned to join the alliance in 1565.
Several years later, in 1570, after long negotiations between the kings and queens of the alliance, on the fifteenth day of Sablien, the Tyvian Empire was born. Following the evergrowing presence in the North, 3 more nations - Estrania, Chornogornia and Velykodnia petitioned to join the Empire in 1572.
CONQUEST OF THE NORTH AND THE GREAT IMPERIAL WAR (1574 - 1595)
Threatened by the growing size of the Empire, 3 nations - Polatavia, Slavutych and Kaniv form and anti-imperial coalition. Offended by the gesture, the Empire lays claim on their territories in 1575. A year later the Pact sent an ultimatum to 2 currently neutral nations, Kolomojska and Lvivonia. They refuse the ultimatum. Upon hearing of this, the Empire immediately sends delegates to both nations, offering protectorate from the Pact - which was accepted.
In 1580 the Great Imperial War begun as the Pact acted on the refused ultimatum and invaded Kolomojska and Lvivonia, while the Empire acted on the protectorate and intervened. What followed were 15 years of bloody carnage that heavily drained the resources of everyone involved. The war ended in 1595 with the Empire's victory and annexation of all the nations of the Pact, and Kolomojska joined the Empire in the midst of the war. Lvivonia, however, elected to remain neutral after the war ended.
WAR OF THE NORTHERN REALMS (1603 -1615)
Despite the Empire's victory in the Great Imperial War, it has been weakened, and has been left vulnerable. This vulnerability has been exploited by another growing power in the Northern Realms - Lusatia. An invasion begun in 1603. Another long and bloody carnage, this time only with minor gains for both sides, and as the resources run low for both nations, a peace agreement is signed in 1615. Unlike a white peace, both sides have kept their gains. In addition, Lvivonia has elected to join the Empire, which now has firmly cemented it's dominance in the North.
CIVIL WAR AND REFORMATION OF THE KRAJ (1620 - 1640)
Once the post-war turmoil in the Empire has been settled, the Imperial Council has passed a law, which guaranteed equality for everyone - meaning slavery was now illegal. The problem, however, were the 3 nations of the Kraj, who relied heavily on their enslavement of the Faldic demihumans. In 1620 they openly rebelled, thus beginning a civil war.
What followed was, of course, more carnage. The Kraj's human population was heavily outnumbered by the slaves they owned, and once the word has reached the slaves, they themselves rebelled against their slavers. Over the next 5 years, the Kraj's native humans were almost extinct. By the end of the civil war, in 1625, the Imperial Council knew how this would look to outside nations if anyone ever found out.
Over the next 10 years a lot of work has been done to sweep this culling under the rug. The territories were reformed into a single nation - known today as Faldia - which was now ruled by the former slaves - the Faldic demihumans. All evidence of it being a human kingdom was disposed - bodies burned, entire cities razed and new, Faldic ones, built in their places... By the end of the decade, the new nation established itself, and became the new, reformed province of the Empire. Luckily, this has gone unnoticed due to the region being mostly isolated.
THE NEDIC CONQUEST (1635 - 1648)
A decade after the Civil War but while the Reformation of the Kraj was still quietly going on, The Imperial Army sent expeditions to the North - and what they found were islands, entirely populated by demihuman, who became known as Nedics. Thr Imperials first landed on Karjala, which was currently under siege from the neighboring Nedics from Hjalmarnfdornur. The Empire offered Karjala to join the Empire in return for it's help in defeating the invading foe.
In 1638, Hjalmarnfdornur fell to Imperial offensive, and the Nedic isolation was declared over. The Empire then sent delegates to 2 other Nedic nations, Honningsvag and Skaal. While negotiations at Skaal proved fruitless, Honnigsvag accepted to join the Empire in return for helping return some territory from Skaal. The Empire "generously" agreed, and used it as a reason to annex Skaal to include it into the Empire. After the new war ended in 1648, the Skaal's government was replaced by Honningsvag's, and both nations became full members of the Empire.
PROVINCIAL REFORM (1695)
Several decades later, after a few more minor conquests, the Imperial Council declared the Provincial Reform - giving each nation which is a province within the Empire a relatively high level of autonomy. In addition, these were the final borders of the Empire, which are upheld to this day.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1700's - 1800's)
As time marched on, so did technology. During the 18th Century, the Empire saw mass industrialization, which even further cemented the Empire's dominance in the Northern realms - it's industrial size was unmatched. It was also the time when the Empire began establishing and upholding relations with the outside nations other than Lusatia - including but not limited to Ida Koi to the West, Amali to the South and Rovuellia to the East.
FIRST STAOL WAR (1840-1844)
The first Staol meteors have hit Ida Koi. The Koians have discovered the vast potential of the resource, however they decided to keep this new precious power source to themselves. This, naturally, offended not only the Empire, but many other nations. In 1840 the Empire declared war on Ida Koi in pursuit of capturing the Staol mining sites. However, as more and more nations joined the war with the same goal, the Empire has realized that if it were to capture the Staol mines, they would be forced onto the defensive from the other nations. So a new plan was composed, under which Ida Koi would not be annexed. Instead, after the Empire sacked the Koian capital and forced them to sign a peace treaty, Ida Koi was now forced to engage in free trade of Staol.
SECOND STAOL WAR (1866-1869)
The new war for Staol broke out after Ida Koi decided to break the peace terms of the First Staol War. After long fighting between multiple nations, and the Empire once again leading the charge on the Koian capital, which this time, presumably to save lives on all sides, was given up without a fight, a new peace deal was signed, which now established the International Staol Trade Treaty, with the Empire becoming the first nation to become the member of the Treaty.
STAOL DEPRESSION AND THIRD STAOL WAR (1886-1897)
Following the turmoil of a civil war in Ida Koi, the trade of Staol was, once again, disrupted. The Empire knew that this would lead to a new war, and attempted to help Ida Koi by leasing many of it's factories to quicken the reopening of the trade. The Imperial Army, however, stood ready to enforce the trade, just in case.
In 1892, however, news have reached the Empire that Ida Koi was under attack from Lusatia. Understanding that the Lusatians might wish to capture the Staol mines, the Empire has decided to attempt to get there first - and on 22nd Stay 1892 invaded Ida Koi once again. The offensive started in Kesk Korella and Väike Korella. The two states were quickly wiped through, until the offensive came to a stanstil in winter at Ajad river, with the town of Neftezov laid under siege. Due to a heroic resistance from the defenders, the town was almost impossible to capture, so the Army settled from the winter. In spring 1893, it was decided to simply encircle the town and move on with the invasion, leaving only a few divisions to starve out the town and accept their surrender. The main spearhead moved forward, sweeping through Lõuna Koi and reaching the borders of the central Ida Koi state, where the offensive was once again halted in winter.
Meanwhile, in the summer of 1893, a new weapon was tested to try and break the resistance of Neftezov. The troops were issued with special masks to shield them from their own weapon. As the new mortar shells flew into the Koian positions, instead of exploding in large fireballs, they instead brought up immense clouds of green gas. Chlorine was the new weapon - it killed every living thing it got to - even animals and plants were not spared. After the gas has settled into the Koian entrenchments, they were all presumed dead, the and Imperial Army began to advance to secure the positions. What happened next, however, was beyond anyone's expectations - around a 100 Koians survived, and, coughing up streams of blood and chunks of their lungs, spent their last strength on a futile counterattack. This, which became known as The Attack of The Dead, was, while a tactical and strategic victory for the Empire, was an enormous moral defeat, as a mere company of half-dead soldiers on their last breath have routed almost half of an entire division of professional Imperial Stormtroopers. The attack was repeated the next day, with almost all but a couple of the defenders dying from their wounds, and the town was finally captured.
In the summer of 1894 the Empire made it's last offensive - which this time was halted by the Koians, who were now quickly recovering from the depression and their army growing both in size and quality, in just a few month. By late autumn 1894, the Empire was retreating from most of Lõuna Koi.
In early 1896 the Imperial Army was pushed out of Lõuna Koi, liberating the town Neftezov. With the Lusatian offensive failing as well, Tyvia decided to pull out of the war, and began a head-long retreat from both the Korella states. In 1897 a white peace treaty was signed, ending this, so far the longest and bloodiest, Staol War.
COMMUNIST UPRISINGS AND SECOND CIVIL WAR (1909 - 1917)
While the Empire enjoyed it's recent victory in the Third Staol War, things were not perfect, especially in the Eastern provinces. As automobiles were rapidly becoming Staol-powered, the demand for this resource started growing exponentially, and the cost began climbing up. As the cost of the main fuel climbed, so did the price of everything else. Within several years, many of the rural minor urban regions began to experience poverty. As time went on, push came to shove, new ideas began stirring around to take the wealth away from the still moderately rich urban areas.
With these radical left ideas left unchecked, some regions of Lvivonia, Kolomojska, Lugania, Slavutych and Poltavia declared themselves as a United Northern Socialist Republics (UNSR), led by a political entity calling itself the Northern Socialist Democratic Party (NSDAP).
The nations who got robbed of their territories is such a manner appealed to the Imperial Council, who has declared the UNSR an illigitimate state the occupies land claimed by the Empire, and declared war. Thus, on 28th of Stay 1914, the Second Imperial Civil War began.
The hurriedly-assembled Red Army was quickly defeated in open combat. The greatest and most heroic effort was done by the Lvivonian cavalry units, known as the Śwoleżery, how charged many times against the Communist positions and overrun them. However, remembering the lessons of the Third Staol War, the Communist forces began to dig in, and started to repel the cavalry charges. Then the infantry charges were stopped, and the Imperial Army had no choice but to dig in as well to break any enemy counter-attacks while they tried to crack the enemy defenses. Everything that helped crack the Neftezov defenses couple decades earlier, from heavy artillery to gas, has failed.
The war has also seen the use of new weaponry. Armored cars became quite common, faster machineguns were developed, and airplane saw military use - first as observers and later as attackers. But probably the most important one was the biggest breakthrough, which finally broke the stalemate.
On the 15th Bellien 1916, near the town of Vizime in Western Lvivonia, a large landship, propelled by tracks, rolled out of the morning fog onto the Communist positions. Several seconds after, about a dozen more followed, accompanied by thousands of infantry. Rifles, machine guns, even field artillery did not scrape the beasts. These new vehicles, code named "Tanks" to disguise their development from Communist spies, have sown panic in the Communist forces, who abandoned their trenches and attempted to make a run for it, but most got gunned down by the machine guns and cannons mounted on these tanks. Later down the line, in early 1917, a new, smaller, lighter and faster tank was developed, that utilized a gun mounted in a fully-rotating turret.
The new technology cracked down on the Communist resistance, and soon, on 8th Foa 1917, the war has ended with total capitulation of the UNSR and restoration of the territories within their states.
Further-more, a new, more efficient Staol engine was developed for all these new war beasts, which allowed for better performance while reducing fuel usage, which allowed the prices to stabilize again.