Phoenix Empire - Revision history

100thlurker at 20:07, 26 December 2015

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	[[File:Glory to the Phoenix!.jpeg\|thumb\|Imperial Standard-bearer]]		[[File:Glory to the Phoenix!.jpeg\|thumb\|Imperial Standard-bearer]]

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	! style="font-size:120%" colspan="2" \| '''Phoenix Empire'''		! style="font-size:120%" colspan="2" \| '''Phoenix Empire'''

100thlurker at 20:18, 8 August 2015

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	\| align="center" colspan="2" \| [~~insert anthem~~]		\| align="center" colspan="2" \| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnrMBldZvTo Ghale Phoenicia]
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100thlurker at 17:11, 2 August 2015

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	[[File:Glory to the Phoenix!.jpeg\|thumb\|]]		[[File:Glory to the Phoenix!.jpeg\|thumb\|Imperial Standard-bearer]]

	The '''Phoenix Dynasty''', also known as '''Simurghshahr''' or officially as the '''Phoenix Empire''', is a powerful sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to its central spatial position it connects every region of the Cloud; it shares a single long border with both [[the Jardin Republic]] and the Free Star League in the direction of the Magellanic stream and sits astride the Great Rift to antispinward. The Empire proper is comprised of more than a thousand star systems and hundreds of billions of subjects, by far the largest, most populous country in the galaxy.		The '''Phoenix Dynasty''', also known as '''Simurghshahr''' or officially as the '''Phoenix Empire''', is a powerful sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to its central spatial position it connects every region of the Cloud; it shares a single long border with both [[the Jardin Republic]] and the Free Star League in the direction of the Magellanic stream and sits astride the Great Rift to antispinward. The Empire proper is comprised of more than a thousand star systems and hundreds of billions of subjects, by far the largest, most populous country in the galaxy.
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	Emerging from the Jardin Wars, the twin services of the Imperial Navy and Army are the permanent standing military arm of the Phoenix Empire, which must never be confused with the Royal Starforce or the Imperial Guard. It principally directs its energies against the Jardin Republic, leaving the other strategic priorities it disdains as unimportant to Starforce and the Guard. A massive bureaucracy negotiates with the Estates General whose consent is essential for the various corvees and levies necessary to maintain its authorized strength. Ostensibly apolitical they are collectively one of the most powerful interests groups of the Empire at large, equal to any of the major houses.		Emerging from the Jardin Wars, the twin services of the Imperial Navy and Army are the permanent standing military arm of the Phoenix Empire, which must never be confused with the Royal Starforce or the Imperial Guard. It principally directs its energies against the Jardin Republic, leaving the other strategic priorities it disdains as unimportant to Starforce and the Guard. A massive bureaucracy negotiates with the Estates General whose consent is essential for the various corvees and levies necessary to maintain its authorized strength. Ostensibly apolitical they are collectively one of the most powerful interests groups of the Empire at large, equal to any of the major houses.

	:'''Imperial ~~Army~~'''		[[File:Grand Admiral.png\|thumb]]

			:'''Imperial Navy'''
	:*Star Patrol		:*Star Patrol
	:*Battlefleet		:*Battlefleet

100thlurker at 04:19, 1 August 2015

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	\| style="font-size:80%" align="center" colspan="1"\| ~~Royal~~ Standard		\| style="font-size:80%" align="center" colspan="1"\| Imperial Standard
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	===Rifter March===		===Rifter March===
	(Deliliac)		(Deliliac)
	~~==Estates General==~~
	*First Estate
	*Second Estate
	*Third Estate
	=Military & Security Organs=		=Military & Security Organs=
	==Imperial & Royal==		==Imperial & Royal==
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	Where the Imperial Navy and Army are the arms of the Empire as a collective whole, Starforce is meant to be the popular muster of the nobility as the private volunteer armies of the Royal Household. Ostensibly overseen somewhat loosely by the Household Registry and the Phoenix's appointed Marshal it is in practice a decentralized, highly irregular heterogeny of various units. The active strength of Starforce is constantly fluctuating as new formations are authorized and others folded up, transferred, or disbanded on a whim. As it provides the largest share by far of the Empire's Cavalry, unfairly or not, it has become strongly associated with the stereotype of adventurism and glory-seeking in former League Space and the Rift.		Where the Imperial Navy and Army are the arms of the Empire as a collective whole, Starforce is meant to be the popular muster of the nobility as the private volunteer armies of the Royal Household. Ostensibly overseen somewhat loosely by the Household Registry and the Phoenix's appointed Marshal it is in practice a decentralized, highly irregular heterogeny of various units. The active strength of Starforce is constantly fluctuating as new formations are authorized and others folded up, transferred, or disbanded on a whim. As it provides the largest share by far of the Empire's Cavalry, unfairly or not, it has become strongly associated with the stereotype of adventurism and glory-seeking in former League Space and the Rift.

	==~~House~~ Forces==		==Demesne Forces==
	==Doctrine==		==Doctrine==
	In the Empire there are two general design philosophies: the Ships of the Wall and the Cavalry. The former are solidly protected and bristling with long range firepower, the Battleships and Heavy Cruisers, who form the backbone of walls of battle with their dense overlapping fire. If they can be said to have a fault it is speed, for no Ship of the Wall has been mistaken as capable of rapid maneuver and a formation once broken often has little chance of reforming. No master of ships bothers to ask them to hunt, to chase - any act where celerity and audacity are chief amongst virtues.		In the Empire there are two general design philosophies: the Ships of the Wall and the Cavalry. The former are solidly protected and bristling with long range firepower, the Battleships and Heavy Cruisers, who form the backbone of walls of battle with their dense overlapping fire. If they can be said to have a fault it is speed, for no Ship of the Wall has been mistaken as capable of rapid maneuver and a formation once broken often has little chance of reforming. No master of ships bothers to ask them to hunt, to chase - any act where celerity and audacity are chief amongst virtues.

Lokar at 18:30, 22 July 2015

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			[[File:Glory to the Phoenix!.jpeg\|thumb\|]]

	The '''Phoenix Dynasty''', also known as '''Simurghshahr''' or officially as the '''Phoenix Empire''', is a powerful sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to its central spatial position it connects every region of the Cloud; it shares a single long border with both [[the Jardin Republic]] and the Free Star League in the direction of the Magellanic stream and sits astride the Great Rift to antispinward. The Empire proper is comprised of more than a thousand star systems and hundreds of billions of subjects, by far the largest, most populous country in the galaxy.		The '''Phoenix Dynasty''', also known as '''Simurghshahr''' or officially as the '''Phoenix Empire''', is a powerful sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to its central spatial position it connects every region of the Cloud; it shares a single long border with both [[the Jardin Republic]] and the Free Star League in the direction of the Magellanic stream and sits astride the Great Rift to antispinward. The Empire proper is comprised of more than a thousand star systems and hundreds of billions of subjects, by far the largest, most populous country in the galaxy.

100thlurker at 08:06, 15 July 2015

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	\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''First Phoenix Ascension''		\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''First Phoenix Ascension''
	\| 0 ~~A.E.~~		\| 0 AE
	\|- style="vertical-align:top;font-size:90%"		\|- style="vertical-align:top;font-size:90%"
	\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''Crises of the Third Millenium''		\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''Crises of the Third Millenium''
	\|		\| 2345 - 3014 AE
	\|- style="vertical-align:top;font-size:90%"		\|- style="vertical-align:top;font-size:90%"
	\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''Jardin War''		\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''Jardin War''
	\| ~~? A.E.~~ - 5322 ~~A.E.~~		\| 3000 - 5322 AE
	\|- style="vertical-align:top;font-size:90%"		\|- style="vertical-align:top;font-size:90%"
	\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''Phoenix Republican Uprising''		\| align="left" colspan="1" \| - ''Phoenix Republican Uprising''
	\| 5322 ~~A.E.~~		\| 5322 AE
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	The '''Phoenix Dynasty''', also known as '''Simurghshahr''' or officially as the '''Phoenix Empire''', is a powerful sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to its central spatial position it connects every region of the Cloud; it shares a single long border with both [[the Jardin Republic]] and the Free Star League ~~to spinward~~ and sits astride the Great Rift to antispinward. The Empire proper is comprised of more than a thousand star systems and hundreds of billions of subjects, by far the largest, most populous country in the galaxy.		The '''Phoenix Dynasty''', also known as '''Simurghshahr''' or officially as the '''Phoenix Empire''', is a powerful sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to its central spatial position it connects every region of the Cloud; it shares a single long border with both [[the Jardin Republic]] and the Free Star League in the direction of the Magellanic stream and sits astride the Great Rift to antispinward. The Empire proper is comprised of more than a thousand star systems and hundreds of billions of subjects, by far the largest, most populous country in the galaxy.

	~~Beginning~~ with the Starforge's arrival in the first century AE the Empire is the oldest civilization of the Cloud. With exclusive control over its arcane powers, the Dynasty ~~would retain~~ a popular legitimacy that was never seriously challenged across five millennia of continuous rule from the First Phoenix Ascension to the modern day. Over time the Dynasty threaded their ever-expanding empire with a network of stable wormholes unparalleled in breadth and scope, such that even the most distant peripheries of the Empire were more than a month's travel from the Starforge's final resting place over Luxor.		Founded with the Starforge's arrival in the first century AE the Empire is the oldest civilization of the Cloud. With exclusive control over its arcane powers, the Dynasty retained a popular legitimacy that was never seriously challenged across five millennia of continuous rule from the First Phoenix Ascension to the modern day. Over time the Dynasty threaded their ever-expanding empire with a network of stable wormholes unparalleled in breadth and scope, such that even the most distant peripheries of the Empire were more than a few month's travel from the Starforge's final resting place over Luxor.

	Early in the Empire's history, Phoenixes adopted the practice of elevating the founders of new colonies to special dignities, privileges, and entitlements to specific ~~independent~~ sovereignties. A general populace hungry for upward social mobility would seize on the process, catalyzing much of the Empire's explosive expansion. The process would eventually develop into the Patent of Nobility, which continues to encourage expansion and exploitation of fallow systems to this day.		Early in the Empire's history, Phoenixes adopted the practice of elevating the founders of new colonies to special dignities, privileges, and even entitlements to specific sovereignties. A general populace hungry for upward social mobility would seize on the process, catalyzing much of the Empire's explosive expansion. The process would eventually develop into the Patent of Nobility, which continues to encourage expansion and exploitation of fallow systems to this day.
	=Etymology=		=Etymology=
	=History=		=History=
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	=Government=		=Government=
	==Duchies==		==Duchies==
	:*Duchy of Starholm: (Revilla)		===Duchy of Starholm===
	:*Duchy of The New Colonies: (Al-Akbar)		(Revilla)
	:*Duchy of Vasudan: (Wo)		===Duchy of The New Colonies===
	:*Duchy of Armstrong: (Hawkwood)		(Al-Akbar)
	:*Rifter March: (Deliliac)		===Duchy of Vasudan===
			(Wo)
			===Duchy of Armstrong===
			(Hawkwood)
			===Rifter March===
			(Deliliac)
	==Estates General==		==Estates General==
	*First Estate		*First Estate

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	! style="font-size:120%" colspan="2" \| '''Phoenix Empire'''		! style="font-size:120%" colspan="2" \| '''Phoenix Empire'''
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	! align="left" colspan="1" \| Official language		! align="left" colspan="1" \| Official language
	\| ~~Imperial~~		\| Phoenician
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	\| ~~[?]~~ Church		\| Phoenix Church
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	! align="left" colspan="1" \| Demonym		! align="left" colspan="1" \| Demonym
	\| Imperial		\| Imperial, Phoenician
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	\| Thaler, Dirham		\| Thaler, Dirham, Regional Currencies
	\|}		\|}

	The ~~largest~~, ~~oldest~~, ~~and most~~ powerful state in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ~~it claims roots~~ in the first ~~colony ship to arrive in~~ the ~~LMC from~~ the ~~chaos~~ that was ~~consuming~~ the ~~old Earth Empire~~. ~~Its ability to generate~~ stable ~~interstellar~~ wormholes ~~via~~ the ~~ancient and arcane technology~~ of the ~~Star Forge has given it tremendous advantages in . The social mobility granted to those who found new colonies has fueled its historical expansionism across~~ the ~~Magellanic Cloud~~.		The '''Phoenix Dynasty''', also known as '''Simurghshahr''' or officially as the '''Phoenix Empire''', is a powerful sovereign state of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to its central spatial position it connects every region of the Cloud; it shares a single long border with both [[the Jardin Republic]] and the Free Star League to spinward and sits astride the Great Rift to antispinward. The Empire proper is comprised of more than a thousand star systems and hundreds of billions of subjects, by far the largest, most populous country in the galaxy.

			Beginning with the Starforge's arrival in the first century AE the Empire is the oldest civilization of the Cloud. With exclusive control over its arcane powers, the Dynasty would retain a popular legitimacy that was never seriously challenged across five millennia of continuous rule from the First Phoenix Ascension to the modern day. Over time the Dynasty threaded their ever-expanding empire with a network of stable wormholes unparalleled in breadth and scope, such that even the most distant peripheries of the Empire were more than a month's travel from the Starforge's final resting place over Luxor.

			Early in the Empire's history, Phoenixes adopted the practice of elevating the founders of new colonies to special dignities, privileges, and entitlements to specific independent sovereignties. A general populace hungry for upward social mobility would seize on the process, catalyzing much of the Empire's explosive expansion. The process would eventually develop into the Patent of Nobility, which continues to encourage expansion and exploitation of fallow systems to this day.
			=Etymology=
	=History=		=History=
	==Farzahd==		==Farzahd==
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	==Imperial & Royal==		==Imperial & Royal==
	===Imperial Navy & Army===		===Imperial Navy & Army===
	~~:'''Imperial Navy''' (The Fleet) - ''~~Emerging from the Jardin Wars, the Imperial Navy (and ~~its twin the~~ Army~~) is~~ the permanent standing military arm of the Empire, which must never be confused with the ~~Phoenix's~~ Starforce or the Imperial Guard. It principally directs its energies ~~at pushing~~ the ~~Red/Blue Line deeper into~~ Jardin ~~space~~, leaving the other ~~threats~~ it disdains as unimportant to Starforce and the Guard. ~~Its~~ massive bureaucracy negotiates with the ~~Grand Sejm~~ whose consent is essential for the various corvees and levies necessary to maintain its authorized strength. Ostensibly apolitical ~~it is~~ one of the most powerful interests groups of the Empire, ~~itself~~ equal to any of the major houses.		Emerging from the Jardin Wars, the twin services of the Imperial Navy and Army are the permanent standing military arm of the Phoenix Empire, which must never be confused with the Royal Starforce or the Imperial Guard. It principally directs its energies against the Jardin Republic, leaving the other strategic priorities it disdains as unimportant to Starforce and the Guard. A massive bureaucracy negotiates with the Estates General whose consent is essential for the various corvees and levies necessary to maintain its authorized strength. Ostensibly apolitical they are collectively one of the most powerful interests groups of the Empire at large, equal to any of the major houses.

			:'''Imperial Army'''
	:*Star Patrol		:*Star Patrol
	:*Battlefleet		:*Battlefleet
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	==Royal==		==Royal==
	===Imperial Guard===		===Imperial Guard===
	~~:'''Imperial Guard''' - ''~~Many institutions and protect the Phoenix in its various aspects. Of all of them the Imperial Guard alone cares only for the safety of the Phoenix the actual, ''living person'' and ~~their family~~. Not the Phoenix as its abstract body the state, nor its soul, nor its interests abroad, their only task is safety of the fragile human body ~~that is~~ the ~~Phoenix~~. They operate as the personal army of the Phoenix on the battlefield, as open inspectors, or as secret investigators if need be. Answering only to the Phoenix their powers are broad and nigh on unrestricted.''		Many institutions and protect the Phoenix in its various aspects. Of all of them the Imperial Guard alone cares only for the safety of the Phoenix the actual, ''living person'' and the members of the Royal House in purpose. Not the Phoenix as its abstract body the state, nor its soul, nor its interests abroad, their only task is safety of the fragile human body upon the throne. They operate as the personal army of the Phoenix on the battlefield, as open inspectors, or as secret investigators if need be. Answering only to the Phoenix their powers are broad and nigh on unrestricted.

	===Phoenix Starforce===		===Phoenix Starforce===
	~~:'''Phoenix Starforce''' - ''~~Where the Imperial Navy and Army are the arms of the Empire, Starforce is meant to be the popular muster of the nobility as the ~~Phoenix's~~ private volunteer ~~army~~. ~~Overseen~~ somewhat loosely by the Household Registry and the Phoenix's appointed Marshal, ~~its~~ strength is constantly fluctuating ~~and highly irregular~~ as new formations are ~~raised~~ and others disbanded. As it provides the largest share by far of the Empire's Cavalry ~~units~~, unfairly or not, it has become strongly associated with the stereotype of adventurism and glory-seeking in former League Space and the Rift.		Where the Imperial Navy and Army are the arms of the Empire as a collective whole, Starforce is meant to be the popular muster of the nobility as the private volunteer armies of the Royal Household. Ostensibly overseen somewhat loosely by the Household Registry and the Phoenix's appointed Marshal it is in practice a decentralized, highly irregular heterogeny of various units. The active strength of Starforce is constantly fluctuating as new formations are authorized and others folded up, transferred, or disbanded on a whim. As it provides the largest share by far of the Empire's Cavalry, unfairly or not, it has become strongly associated with the stereotype of adventurism and glory-seeking in former League Space and the Rift.

	==House Forces==		==House Forces==