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==Aurora Citrine Alloces Ovsol-Klystron==
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=Notes=
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[[File:Aurora.jpg|thumb|I wear this expression more often than not these days, it seems.]]
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==The High Court on Luxor==
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===About my name===
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Empress Miziuru-Saria Phoenicia-zel-Zarya I, The Phoenix Reborn
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''Aurora Citrine Alloces Ovsol-Klystron''
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:First Minister/Guard Commandant, Duke Angus Feril
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:Warlord of the Empire, Tahiminah Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle, Hero of Luxor
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:Her Majesty's Herald, Inspector William Victor de Brightstar
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:Fleet Admiral of the 1st Capital Fleet, Sir Haile Asakura al-Mihran
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:Guard Commodore Ariana Rahel Suzanne Nisaka Zervina
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:<s>Protector of the Crown, Sir Annette Bastillet D'Arbour Marissa Sasami Cristebelle I, Countess of Chateautmagne</s> (Left in disgrace)
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:<s>Representative to the Patriarch, Grand Cleric Aalia St. Cyr bint Turandokht al-Lasalle</s> (Stress "heart attack")
  
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What does this tell you about myself?  Like all nobility - yes, I can be addressed as ''Nari'' but I am also ''Captain'' - my name is multipart and meaningful.
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==The Court of the Phoenix in Flight==
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Hiroshi Phoenicia-zel-Zarya, The Uncrowned
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:Sir Aurora Alloces Citrine Ovsol-Klystron, Hero of Krill and Commander of the Blue Fleet
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:Sardar-Baivarapatish Ravshana Marika bint Yasmin al-Lasalle
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:Empress Sakura-Zel Phoenicia-zel-Zarya, Deposed Grand Duchess of Osakan Reach
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:Captain Michael Vanator, Commander of the Altair Dawn
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:The Dread Pirate Hrang, Scourge of Negal
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::Iolia, A poor, corrupted youth. :-(
  
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''Aurora'' is my given name.  That which shines brightly.
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==The Desmond Government on Haven==
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First Minister Jacques Desmond, Head of Government of the Jardin Republic
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:Irina Polikarpov, Desmond's Girl Friday
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Admiral Joachim Mornstein-Montfort, Commander of the Black Eagles, traitor to the Phoenix Empire
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:Commodore Prezan, Montfort's Girl Friday
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:Rifkon Tuk, token Rifter and all around science dude
  
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''Citrine'' is a reference to the golden-yellow eyes I had even as a newborn.
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=History=
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===[[Hunt for the Star Doom]]===
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*[[<>'s Way Ambush]]
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*[[Battle of Faraday's World]]
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*[[Negal Massacre]]
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*[[Raid on Refuge]]
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===[[Phoenix Republican Uprising]]===
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*[[Spring Mutinies]] <br>
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*[[Battle of Minrathas Starzone]] (Records of the Stellar Heroes)
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*[[Battle of Desolation Moon|Fifth Battle of Desolation Moon]] (Records of the Stellar Heroes)
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*[[Second Battle of Freya]] (Records of the Stellar Heroes/Haile & Ackermann Introduction)
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*[[Battle of Randall Prime]] (Records of the Stellar Heroes)
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*[[Third Battle of Bastion Starzone]] <br>
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*[[Battle of Hestia]] <br>
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*[[Battle of the Broken Kybelle]]
  
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''Alloces'' is derived from the family of my father, an intellectual from beyond the Great Wall.
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===Road to CoDominium===
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*[[Second Battle of Folken]]
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*[[High Knowledge Raid]]
  
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''Ovsol'' is my noble prefix, and it is noble indeed.  I hardly need to clarify that every title granted during a reign of an Emperor shares the same prefix and every Emperor's prefix is unique. But I can see you don't recognize mine. Is it one of those unusual ones that break this rule, such as those given to the survivors of the Siege of Bataria?  Say it out loud.  'Ovsol'.  'Of Sol'.  Sol, the star around which humans originated and all but abandoned in the Exodus.  Comprehension dawns, I'm sure.
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===Jardin Republic===
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*[[Battle of Rhein's Way]]
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*[[Elections of 5322 A.E.]]
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*[[Battle of XDeltaZero]]
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*[[Battle of the Aux Sable Starzone]]
  
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And finally ''Klystron'' is my surname.  Would you recognize any Klystrons, you ask?  Doubtful, unless you go into the history books and find the Galtz-Sonika Affair.  We have been one of the House Obscura for a long, long time.
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===Imperial-CoDominium Hostilities===
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*[[Third Battle of Folken]]
  
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===My Story===
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===Long War===
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When I was 11, my parents vanished.  The ship they were one dissapeared mid-jump with everyone onboard.  An event rare enough to make some minor headlines, but not so rare as to be unheard of.  At a stroke I was alone, the last Ovsol-Klystron.  I had relatives, an aunt and grandparents, but they were on my father's side - beyond the Great Wall.  While I did spend a third of a T-year on the far side of the Great Wall after my parent's dissapearance, this was not to be my home.  I was instead sent to school in Luxor, capital of a hundred worlds as an Emperor's Ward where I stayed for the next five years.  I have little to say about that time; I made few contacts and fewer friends.  I will grant that it was an education, if nothing else.  By age 16 it was clear that without a House or a patron I was faced with several choices; join the Fleet as an ensign and hope to one day claw my way up to some small rank, be a petty bureaucrat for a position that needed a title but little else, join the debutante scene and hope to snag someone with rank or money, join the clergy or simply flee back to the far side of the Great Wall.
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*[[Battle of XDeltaZero]]
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*[[Second Battle of Sweetwater]]
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*[[Battle of the Starforge]]
  
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I chose none of these.
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===Hrang's War on Jardin===
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*[[Battle of Rhein's Way]]
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*[[Battle of the Aux Sable Starzone]]
  
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The Klystrons had some wealth stashed away; savings and survivor's pension. That, plus my small stipend I recieved as a Ward was enough for the down payment on a (frankly usurious) mortagage; by age 17 I was the owner and sole proprietor of a cargo ship older than myself, the 413 Rampant Phoenix (a certain subset of Imperial shipping concerns have shockingly limited creativity). Hardly uncommon - many ships are owned by individuals, even if many more are owned by Houses or large commercian firms - but mine was a rare case indeed. As a noble, I could rightfully call myself not just Shipmaster, but ''Captain''.  A minor distinction, but an important one in a very specific way - as ''Captain'' I could bid on various shipment contracts for the Fleet, even ones to the front lines.  These were, of course, the most profitable and I was up to my eyeballs in debt.  All was well for five years, just me and as few crew as I could manage moving all manner of military supplies from reaction gasses to flowtanks to livestock to garrison troops (I paid out of pocket to have my ship cleaned after transporting livestock.  I paid out of pocket to have my ship cleaned ''twice'' after transporting garritroops - never again!).
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=Historical Timeline=
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==Myth & Legend (? A.D. to 1000 AE)==
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*The Celestial Spheres are discovered by the crew of the [].
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*The King leads the other six Celestial Spheres in a war against the Overculture. The AI-driven warships of the Overculture prove particularly vulnerable to their Song.  
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*Six enormous colony ships with the Celestial Spheres installed are constructed and launched in secret. Three head to the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds respectively.
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*Heavy Combat Unit (Long Range) ''Hrang'' sent in pursuit of the Arks, engaging the group
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*The Queen, Warlord, and Philosopher successfully fend off the ''Hrang''.
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==Dark Ages (0-1000 AE)==
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==3[] AE==
  
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It was on the eve of the 108th Gran Plemora, that greatest of all celebrations - save only coronations themselves - that marks the once-a-decade creation of another wormhole seed by the Star Forge when my life changed forever. I was transporting a shipment of interface fighters to Ultima Thule, passenger cabins taken up by Monsignor Santagio - an unusual priest who made regular trips through the sector and had found my unflinching atheism a challenge - and the sisters Lasalle - the two Fleet officers in charge of the interface fighters and who were a study in contrasts and sibling rivalries - when the message came through. Princess Zarya had been on an inspection tour and was returning to the capital for the Gran Plemora when reavers stuck her ship.  We were onboard the only ship less than a day's travel away.
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==52[] AE==
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*Guilter Offensive begins.
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*Imperial forces suffer catastrophic losses at the Battle of Three Princes. Prince Alzonio is the only survivor.
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===5222===
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*Fleet Admiral Philipe Le'Rienne reveals the purported Guilter Plot. Normal constitutional government is suspended under a state of emergency.
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*High Admiral Guilter is arrested at the front by Military Police on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the elected government. 
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==5223 AE==
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===March===
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*Coronation of Emperor Alzonio III.
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===April===
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*1 April 5223 - April Offensives begin across the Red-Blue Lines.
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*4 April 5223 Lord Fischer's ersatz 30th Fleet (nicknamed "Revenants" or "Zombie Fleet") attacks the Jardini [], initiating the Battle for Hubert's Folly.
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==5276 AE==
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*Joachim Benedikt Aemilius Mornstein-Montfort is born on Luxor.
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==5282 AE==
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*Political agitators attempt an overthrow of Imperial government but are successfully suppressed by security forces in the Esfahani Incident.
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*First Prince Sebastien seeks asylum in the Jardin Republic, fleeing from charges of High Treason.
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*A number of high noble families are punished in the aftermath of the Esfahani Incident, such as the Safavis.
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==5291 AE==
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*Imperial forces forced to retreat at the Third Gravette Encounter with heavy losses.
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==5292 AE==
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*Ravshana and Tahminah al-Lasalle are born on Sakastan.
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==5288 AE==
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William de Brightstar is born on Piedmont.
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==5306 AE==
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William de Brightstar becomes the student of Hector Bermudez-Wu.
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==5321 AE==
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===August===
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*Princess Aleida Saegusa Macbeth Phoenicia-zel-zarya is granted a commission as a Starforce General Officer of the XIX Royal Star Lancers, with permission to recruit from the Krillian March.
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===September===
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*Aleida Phoenicia-zel-zarya and the cadre of the XIX Royal Star Lancers, picked from Bannerguards, arrive at the Krill Sector.
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===November===
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*Insurgents on Faraday's World detonate a taboo Rifter-based Gravitic Weapon.
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*Black Brethren motherships ''Star Doom'' and ''Bastion'' infiltrate the [[Krillian March]].
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===December===
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*1 December 5322 - Winter's Fest begins
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*[[Hunt for the Star Doom]] begins when the ''Star Doom'' ambushes the Krillian March Demesne navy at the mouth of the Negal Starway.
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*''Stellar Conquistor'' and escorts defeated at the [[Battle of Faraday's World]], but not before closing the wormhole to Bastion. Cosmo Cannon salvaged from the wreck.
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*The ''Star Doom'' bombards the planet of Nergal from orbit, killing almost all of the planetary population in the Negal Massacre.  
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*Attempted assassination of Princess Aleida while the XIX Star Lancers are in transit to Refuge. She is rushed into emergency stasis.
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*All Black Brethren warships operating in the Krillian March accounted for after the [[Raid on Refuge]], ending the Krill Campaign.
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*XIX Star Lancers leave the Krill Sector for Luxor under orders from the Imperial Guard.
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==5322 AE==
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===January===
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*XIX Star Lancers and Imperial Navy 5th Fleet elements under Admiral Ellison Mugombe's command establish contact in backwater territories while in transit to and from the Krillian March.
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===February===
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*XIX Star Lancers arrive at the Capital District to be debriefed and turn over the Princess's stasis tank to the Imperial Catacombs.
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*XIX Star Lancers are disbanded, reformed as the 8492nd Starforce Combined Arms Brigade ''Miziuru's Own''. 
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*[[Spring Mutinies]], start of the [[Phoenix Republican Uprising]].
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*Trapped Imperial forces destroyed by a detachment of the Jardini 5th Fleet at the [[Battle of Randall Prime]]. (Records of the Stellar Heroes) 
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===March===
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*Black Brethren mount a series of destructive raids on the Rifter March in the style of the Nergal Massacre.
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===April===
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*6 April 5322 - [[Battle of Minrathas Starzone]] (Records of the Stellar Heroes)
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*Royal Starforce units covering for escaped war prisoners fend off an attack at the [[Battle of Desolation Moon|Fifth Battle of Desolation Moon]]. (Records of the Stellar Heroes)
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*Admiral "Miracle" Ackermann sends Imperial forces fleeing from the [] system at the [[Second Battle of Freya]]. (Records of the Stellar Heroes/Haile & Ackermann Introduction)
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*Knight-Commander Douglas's Taskforce leaves the Ventris Starzone on a secret mission.
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===May===
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*5 May 5322 - Combined Fleet under the Osakan Grand Duchess successfully breakout at [[Third Battle of Bastion Starzone]].
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*Miziuru-Saria's forces break concentrated Jardini and Phoenix Republican forces at [[Battle of Hestia]].
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*Imperial and Phoenix Revolutionary Army forces fight the [[Battle of the Broken Kybelle]], Miziuru-Saria takes the Phoenix Throne.
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*Notorious pirate Red Wally defeated at the [[Second Battle of Folken]] by the Blue Fleet and Royal Ventrian Starforce.
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*William de Brightstar is appointed Herald to Empress Miziuru-Saria and inducted into the Imperial Guard as an Inspector.
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*Rifter March lords launch first counterattacks over the Great Wall, Rift Crusade begins.
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===June===
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*Knight-Commander Douglas launches the [[High Knowledge Raid]]. Failing his primary objective he destroys High Knowledge station and flees.
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*Exarch Bhuutiliumina in command of the 5th Long Range LMC Expedition arrives in the Large Magellanic Cloud, provoking a battle with the Jardini garrison at the [[Battle of XDeltaZero]]. The Long War begins.
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===July===
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===August===
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===September===
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===October===
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*Imperial, SRA, and CoDominium fleet elements meet at the Kalymnos Incident. Start of Hiroshi's Revolt.
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*Attempted assassination of General Gadsen at the Constitutional Convention. SRA begins hunting La'Vienne Corporation assets in force.
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*Tahminah Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle given permission to raise the Imperial Army of the Frontiers.
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*7th Fleet ''Gardenia'' completes its rotation on the Lines.
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*General Gadsen carries Prince Hiroshi to the outer margins of the Rift Expanse.
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*Crusader leaders declare secession from the Phoenix Empire as the Kingdom of the Rift and swear fealty to King Hiroshi.
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*King Hiroshi assassinated. Imperial envoys are immediately rebuffed.
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*Fleet Admiral Clotilde Ackermann transfers to Home Fleet.
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===November===
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===December===
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*6 December 5322 - Imperial "Army of the Frontiers" uses a smuggled wormhole to initiate the [[Third Battle of Folken]], but is turned back when the Empress is incapacitated.
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*29 December 5322 - Co-Dominium leadership at Ventris receives word of the defeat at the Third Battle of Folken. Support for Piracy declared.
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*Aurora Alloces Citrine Ovsol-Klystron journeys to the Kingdom of the Rift.
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==5323 AE==
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===January===
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*5-17 January 5323 - Ur-Real Long Range LMC Expeditions 6 & 7 attack the Great Ark and the Starforge, prompting the battles of [[Second Battle of Sweetwater|Sweetwater]] and [[Battle of the Starforge|Starforge]]. Free Star League and Phoenician forces emerge victorious, though two Ur-Real Heavy Combat Units (Long Range) escape to the Rift Expanse. First sighting of the Obsidian Pharaoh.
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*15 January 5323 - Aurora is received at the SMS Mikado.
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===February===
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*14 February 5323 - Great Thing convened in the Kingdom of the Rift by the Regent-Queen to reconcile Rifters and Crusaders.
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*28 February 5323 - Transeisdzarian Commonwealth is officially ratified, Twin Shahzadas Ardeshir and Saki are born.
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==5324 AE==
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==5325 AE==
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==5326 AE==
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==5327 AE==
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===March===
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*After five years of work William de Brightstar passes a series of political reforms to Empire, mostly concerning noble-commoner relations, occupation and counter-insurgency. The "Brightstar Reforms" are well received both domestically and abroad.  For his efforts Brightstar is named First Minister of the Empire. 
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===November===
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*Tahmina Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle & William Victor de Brightstar are married in a lavish ceremony.
  
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The rest is, as they say, history.
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==5328 AE==
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===January===
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I had never expected to actually go to the Gran Plemora, but there I was.  My beat up transport limping into a parking orbit, portside cargo shell still torn open from where I'd rammed the reaver across its engine deck, surrounded by gleaming, gold-skinned ships of the Guard - a Crown Yacht, the princess having paid me honor for her rescue.
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===February===
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What comes next is ''legend''.
 
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===The Great Wall===
 
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It should not come as a surprise that an entity such as the Phoenix Empire has its eras of strength and eras of weakness.  It was during one of the latter - the 7th century - that raiders from beyond the Great Rift were striking with unprecedented range into the Empire, tying up a disproportionate amount of the Fleet to stymie with what were, in truth, pinpricks.  All this changed with the ascension of Emperor Khartu the Younger; the 72nd Gran Plemora was a decidedly military affair.  Khartu the Younger stunned many of the assembled nobles when he announced where the new wormhole was to go; directly from the star system of Reunion - the heart of the Fleet itself and a single wormhole transit from Luxor - to the very edge of Imperial space in the system that became known as Bastion, to be a bastion of civilization against the darkness beyond the Rift.  Aggressive raids across the Rift were coupled with massive static constructions, eventually erecting a wall of blast-cannons and hyperdetectors stretching across a hundred lights.
 
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Khartu the Younger never saw this come to completion, of course - he died under 'mysterious circumstances' less than two decades after coming to power.  It is likely however that if those who arranged these mysterious circumstances had been forewarned the identity of emperor who would come after him, they would have wished Khartu the Younger a long reign.  I speak, of course, of Martianis the Crusader, the 'Mad Emperor' who launched a half-dozen crusades against the heretic and deviant and most importantly, those who were not paying all their due taxes to the Throne.  Dozens of Great House Domains that had become all but independent by the late 6th century found themselves very much Imperial possessions by the end of the 7th.
 
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For his part, Martianis (who was completely sane his entire life) died peacefully in bed after a half-century in power.  His successor was Empress Oxianne who spent ''her'' reign reconsolidating the Empire and putting it on a course for the golden age of today.  As for those beyond the Great Wall?  The Rifters were able to evade the defenses, for a time, but eventually it became more trouble (often lethally) than any possible wealth.  And so they found other amusements.
 
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Today the route from Reunion to Bastion is still under Fleet authority, with a bare handful of ships passing daily.  The Great Wall sector is poor and Riftspace is even poorer (or so it is believed, anyhow . . .) and the Empire has seen fit to leave the Great Wall as a permanent border, its massive automated fortifications cold and silent.  On ''this'' side is Civilization, on the far side is genetic deviance, faithlessness and anarchy.  For their part, the Rifters trade some and smuggle some into the Empire
 
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===The Rifters and I===
 
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My father was my primary caregiver.  He was also a Rifter.  My mother called me 'her little rifter'.  Growing up on the edge of Imperial space and cocooned by a loving family I had no idea what this would mean in the future.  School as an Emperor's Ward was difficult.  I had attitudes and opinions and habits that weren't even frontier, some were downright ''foreign''.  '''Alien'''.  My first fumbling attempts to fit in with the others were failures and I soon learned that I would be left more alone if I were weird and antisocial instead of trying to be a good little Ward.  I paid just enough attention in the various classes for social graces to avoid administrative opprobium.
 
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Departing school and striking out on my own was liberating in ways that I cannot even describe.  No longer was I 'that Rifter'; I was simply another cog in the Empire's vast economy, albeit one with unusual looks and an archaic noble name.  But so long as the cargo I carried or the payments I owed arrived on time, no-one saw fit to complain.  I managed to return to my distant family several times, each time returning a little bit richer than I would be otherwise thanks to what I admit were less than entirely legitimate cargoes.
 
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Now?  I am to be a courtier, and not just any but a favorite of the Emperor.  Among the many, many things I am expected to do is dress up for balls.  I have barely worn anything save shipsuits for the past five years.  ''Rifter'' shipsuits.
 
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==The Sisters Lasalle==
 
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Sometimes one will be going about their business and from the blue the mind will be for a moment arrested by a queer thought: have I seen this before? What an eerie sensation! Our ancestors gave that moment a name, ''Déjà vu''. It comes from the ancient French, meaning literally ''already seen''. Our noble name LaSalle is of that language too. Fitting, for I imagine that my twin daughters - so alike that you could tell them apart only by the color of the ribbons they wear in their hair - inspire that sense of ''Déjà vu'', in the people they meet.
 
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''The thunder in my ears, the flicker of blackness at the edges of my vision.'' <br>
 
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''In my chair I am naked against space, stars all around. Not even the comfort of a planet below. The stars race crazily in my vision, like windblown snow''<br>
 
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''My sister, my family, they wonder how I can do this. Proper little Tahminah, why does she fly a dragoon of all things? Such a low class of fighting.'' <br>
 
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''There is no up, there is no down. There is only infinity. I am suspended between two points in the void. My ship and the enemy.'' <br>
 
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''To take into battle only yourself and your rude mechanical servants. To fight in atmosphere, without even the honour of seeing your opponent. Almost helpless against the large vessels of the enemy. An outmoded form of war, not fit for true noble spacers.'' <br>
 
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''I am not alone. No one else was foolish or qualified enough to come out here with me. Around me are my weapons, automated combat systems slaved to my fighter. One is ahead, two are behind. Fire reaches out from the reaver craft ahead. The lead drone dodges frantically then explodes. It dies to get me close. I jink, right, jink left, jammers filling space with electronic ghosts, decoys trailing away. DSM leave the racks and spiral ahead. I pour in behind them, angling my ship for the shot on pirate's forward turret.''<br>
 
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''They don't understand. They don't understand the feel of a fighter under you. Of knowing your life and your death are in your own hands. They wonder how good little Tahminah can do this. They should ask why she does anything.''<br>
 
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''I squeeze the firing stud. The fighter vibrates to the beat of the guns. "Enemy point defence destroyed! Phoenix, You're clear!"'' <br>
 
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''This is only part of my life where I am truly in control.'' <br>
 
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==Princess Aleida Pentavion Saegusa Astraempyrea zel Zarya==
 
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==Lieutenant William de Brightstar==
 

Latest revision as of 12:07, 1 January 2017

Notes

The High Court on Luxor

Empress Miziuru-Saria Phoenicia-zel-Zarya I, The Phoenix Reborn

First Minister/Guard Commandant, Duke Angus Feril
Warlord of the Empire, Tahiminah Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle, Hero of Luxor
Her Majesty's Herald, Inspector William Victor de Brightstar
Fleet Admiral of the 1st Capital Fleet, Sir Haile Asakura al-Mihran
Guard Commodore Ariana Rahel Suzanne Nisaka Zervina
Protector of the Crown, Sir Annette Bastillet D'Arbour Marissa Sasami Cristebelle I, Countess of Chateautmagne (Left in disgrace)
Representative to the Patriarch, Grand Cleric Aalia St. Cyr bint Turandokht al-Lasalle (Stress "heart attack")

The Court of the Phoenix in Flight

Hiroshi Phoenicia-zel-Zarya, The Uncrowned

Sir Aurora Alloces Citrine Ovsol-Klystron, Hero of Krill and Commander of the Blue Fleet
Sardar-Baivarapatish Ravshana Marika bint Yasmin al-Lasalle
Empress Sakura-Zel Phoenicia-zel-Zarya, Deposed Grand Duchess of Osakan Reach
Captain Michael Vanator, Commander of the Altair Dawn
The Dread Pirate Hrang, Scourge of Negal
Iolia, A poor, corrupted youth. :-(

The Desmond Government on Haven

First Minister Jacques Desmond, Head of Government of the Jardin Republic

Irina Polikarpov, Desmond's Girl Friday

Admiral Joachim Mornstein-Montfort, Commander of the Black Eagles, traitor to the Phoenix Empire

Commodore Prezan, Montfort's Girl Friday
Rifkon Tuk, token Rifter and all around science dude

History

Hunt for the Star Doom

Phoenix Republican Uprising

Road to CoDominium

Jardin Republic

Imperial-CoDominium Hostilities

Long War

Hrang's War on Jardin

Historical Timeline

Myth & Legend (? A.D. to 1000 AE)

  • The Celestial Spheres are discovered by the crew of the [].
  • The King leads the other six Celestial Spheres in a war against the Overculture. The AI-driven warships of the Overculture prove particularly vulnerable to their Song.
  • Six enormous colony ships with the Celestial Spheres installed are constructed and launched in secret. Three head to the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds respectively.
  • Heavy Combat Unit (Long Range) Hrang sent in pursuit of the Arks, engaging the group
  • The Queen, Warlord, and Philosopher successfully fend off the Hrang.

Dark Ages (0-1000 AE)

3[] AE

52[] AE

  • Guilter Offensive begins.
  • Imperial forces suffer catastrophic losses at the Battle of Three Princes. Prince Alzonio is the only survivor.

5222

  • Fleet Admiral Philipe Le'Rienne reveals the purported Guilter Plot. Normal constitutional government is suspended under a state of emergency.
  • High Admiral Guilter is arrested at the front by Military Police on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the elected government.

5223 AE

March

  • Coronation of Emperor Alzonio III.

April

  • 1 April 5223 - April Offensives begin across the Red-Blue Lines.
  • 4 April 5223 Lord Fischer's ersatz 30th Fleet (nicknamed "Revenants" or "Zombie Fleet") attacks the Jardini [], initiating the Battle for Hubert's Folly.

5276 AE

  • Joachim Benedikt Aemilius Mornstein-Montfort is born on Luxor.

5282 AE

  • Political agitators attempt an overthrow of Imperial government but are successfully suppressed by security forces in the Esfahani Incident.
  • First Prince Sebastien seeks asylum in the Jardin Republic, fleeing from charges of High Treason.
  • A number of high noble families are punished in the aftermath of the Esfahani Incident, such as the Safavis.

5291 AE

  • Imperial forces forced to retreat at the Third Gravette Encounter with heavy losses.

5292 AE

  • Ravshana and Tahminah al-Lasalle are born on Sakastan.

5288 AE

William de Brightstar is born on Piedmont.

5306 AE

William de Brightstar becomes the student of Hector Bermudez-Wu.

5321 AE

August

  • Princess Aleida Saegusa Macbeth Phoenicia-zel-zarya is granted a commission as a Starforce General Officer of the XIX Royal Star Lancers, with permission to recruit from the Krillian March.

September

  • Aleida Phoenicia-zel-zarya and the cadre of the XIX Royal Star Lancers, picked from Bannerguards, arrive at the Krill Sector.

November

  • Insurgents on Faraday's World detonate a taboo Rifter-based Gravitic Weapon.
  • Black Brethren motherships Star Doom and Bastion infiltrate the Krillian March.

December

  • 1 December 5322 - Winter's Fest begins
  • Hunt for the Star Doom begins when the Star Doom ambushes the Krillian March Demesne navy at the mouth of the Negal Starway.
  • Stellar Conquistor and escorts defeated at the Battle of Faraday's World, but not before closing the wormhole to Bastion. Cosmo Cannon salvaged from the wreck.
  • The Star Doom bombards the planet of Nergal from orbit, killing almost all of the planetary population in the Negal Massacre.
  • Attempted assassination of Princess Aleida while the XIX Star Lancers are in transit to Refuge. She is rushed into emergency stasis.
  • All Black Brethren warships operating in the Krillian March accounted for after the Raid on Refuge, ending the Krill Campaign.
  • XIX Star Lancers leave the Krill Sector for Luxor under orders from the Imperial Guard.

5322 AE

January

  • XIX Star Lancers and Imperial Navy 5th Fleet elements under Admiral Ellison Mugombe's command establish contact in backwater territories while in transit to and from the Krillian March.

February

  • XIX Star Lancers arrive at the Capital District to be debriefed and turn over the Princess's stasis tank to the Imperial Catacombs.
  • XIX Star Lancers are disbanded, reformed as the 8492nd Starforce Combined Arms Brigade Miziuru's Own.
  • Spring Mutinies, start of the Phoenix Republican Uprising.
  • Trapped Imperial forces destroyed by a detachment of the Jardini 5th Fleet at the Battle of Randall Prime. (Records of the Stellar Heroes)

March

  • Black Brethren mount a series of destructive raids on the Rifter March in the style of the Nergal Massacre.

April

  • 6 April 5322 - Battle of Minrathas Starzone (Records of the Stellar Heroes)
  • Royal Starforce units covering for escaped war prisoners fend off an attack at the Fifth Battle of Desolation Moon. (Records of the Stellar Heroes)
  • Admiral "Miracle" Ackermann sends Imperial forces fleeing from the [] system at the Second Battle of Freya. (Records of the Stellar Heroes/Haile & Ackermann Introduction)
  • Knight-Commander Douglas's Taskforce leaves the Ventris Starzone on a secret mission.

May

  • 5 May 5322 - Combined Fleet under the Osakan Grand Duchess successfully breakout at Third Battle of Bastion Starzone.
  • Miziuru-Saria's forces break concentrated Jardini and Phoenix Republican forces at Battle of Hestia.
  • Imperial and Phoenix Revolutionary Army forces fight the Battle of the Broken Kybelle, Miziuru-Saria takes the Phoenix Throne.
  • Notorious pirate Red Wally defeated at the Second Battle of Folken by the Blue Fleet and Royal Ventrian Starforce.
  • William de Brightstar is appointed Herald to Empress Miziuru-Saria and inducted into the Imperial Guard as an Inspector.
  • Rifter March lords launch first counterattacks over the Great Wall, Rift Crusade begins.

June

  • Knight-Commander Douglas launches the High Knowledge Raid. Failing his primary objective he destroys High Knowledge station and flees.
  • Exarch Bhuutiliumina in command of the 5th Long Range LMC Expedition arrives in the Large Magellanic Cloud, provoking a battle with the Jardini garrison at the Battle of XDeltaZero. The Long War begins.

July

August

September

October

  • Imperial, SRA, and CoDominium fleet elements meet at the Kalymnos Incident. Start of Hiroshi's Revolt.
  • Attempted assassination of General Gadsen at the Constitutional Convention. SRA begins hunting La'Vienne Corporation assets in force.
  • Tahminah Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle given permission to raise the Imperial Army of the Frontiers.
  • 7th Fleet Gardenia completes its rotation on the Lines.
  • General Gadsen carries Prince Hiroshi to the outer margins of the Rift Expanse.
  • Crusader leaders declare secession from the Phoenix Empire as the Kingdom of the Rift and swear fealty to King Hiroshi.
  • King Hiroshi assassinated. Imperial envoys are immediately rebuffed.
  • Fleet Admiral Clotilde Ackermann transfers to Home Fleet.

November

December

  • 6 December 5322 - Imperial "Army of the Frontiers" uses a smuggled wormhole to initiate the Third Battle of Folken, but is turned back when the Empress is incapacitated.
  • 29 December 5322 - Co-Dominium leadership at Ventris receives word of the defeat at the Third Battle of Folken. Support for Piracy declared.
  • Aurora Alloces Citrine Ovsol-Klystron journeys to the Kingdom of the Rift.

5323 AE

January

  • 5-17 January 5323 - Ur-Real Long Range LMC Expeditions 6 & 7 attack the Great Ark and the Starforge, prompting the battles of Sweetwater and Starforge. Free Star League and Phoenician forces emerge victorious, though two Ur-Real Heavy Combat Units (Long Range) escape to the Rift Expanse. First sighting of the Obsidian Pharaoh.
  • 15 January 5323 - Aurora is received at the SMS Mikado.

February

  • 14 February 5323 - Great Thing convened in the Kingdom of the Rift by the Regent-Queen to reconcile Rifters and Crusaders.
  • 28 February 5323 - Transeisdzarian Commonwealth is officially ratified, Twin Shahzadas Ardeshir and Saki are born.

5324 AE

5325 AE

5326 AE

5327 AE

March

  • After five years of work William de Brightstar passes a series of political reforms to Empire, mostly concerning noble-commoner relations, occupation and counter-insurgency. The "Brightstar Reforms" are well received both domestically and abroad. For his efforts Brightstar is named First Minister of the Empire.

November

  • Tahmina Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle & William Victor de Brightstar are married in a lavish ceremony.

5328 AE

January

February

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