Five Kingdoms (MMP)
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| Genre | Historical Drama |
| Written by | Edard Lokarius-Armorius Franj Borealis zar-Hind Henryk Wander |
| Directed by | Scotts ibn Mathais |
| Theme composer | Guarantor Silence Gravity |
| Opening theme | Cloud of Stars performed by Bailey Mackay |
| Ending theme | 1. Give Me Back a World at Peace performed by Phantom Peel Lama 2. Look to Spinward performed by Exavier Haik 3. Forlorn the Magellanic Stream performed by Brilliant Rightful Entroprise |
| No. of Episodes | 95 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Rohnd Tracer ovt-Shrike Joo Yinhwon |
| Running time | 45-120 minutes per episode |
| Production Company(s) | #Lords irCollective |
| Release | |
| Original release | Crosscloud Public Broadcasting Services G-Crest Media Network Space Broadcasting Association Sufficient Frequency Cooperative |
| Original run | November 6 6014 - December 601[] |
Five Kingdoms is a multinational historical drama multimedia presentation based on the events of the Five States period and the Ur-Real Invasions of the Large Magellanic Cloud produced by the #Lords irCollective. Directed by Scotts ibn Matthais the series had a budget of over a billion thalers and a production period of almost six years. Historical Recreation societies participated heavily , and some of the scenes were modeled directly on locations and surviving ships from the period. Extensive battle sequences such as the Second Battle of Sweetwater or the Sixth Battle of Luxor used live maneuvers and recorded data, even contemporary footage, to compose shots.
The first chapter release began on the 6th of November, 6014. Surprisingly for a Historical Drama of its scale the presentation focused on a relatively small cast of characters. It was well received and was an almost instant success across a number of viewer metrics, though the series courted significant controversy due to the unique portrayal of certain historical figures. The series would be honored by a number of high-profile awards and nominations over the course of its run.
The success of Five Kingdoms resulted in a slew of side materials such as Records of the Stellar Heroes.
Five Kingdoms Characters
Main Characters
- Tahminah Mina bint Yasmin al-Lasalle
- William Victor de Brightstar
- Aurora Alloces Citrine Ovsol-Klystron
- Michael Constantine Sabirov-Aragon
- Ravshana Marika bint Yasmin al-Lasalle
- Joachim Mornstein-Montfort
- Jacques Desmond
- Clotilde E. Ackermann
- Princess Aleida
- Angus Feril: Duke of Feril and Commandant of the Imperial Guard. He is almost single-mindedly aggressive in protecting what he believes to be the Empire's interests and punishing . It is later revealed that he is the true biological father of Mizuiru-Saria Phoenicia-zel-zarya.
- Sir Henry Martell
- Annette Bastillet D'Arbour Marissa Sasami Cristebelle I
- Van
- Sayuri Safavi
- Haile Asakura al-Mihran
- Ariana Rahel Suzanne Nisaka Zervina
Minor Characters
Phoenix Empire
- Aalia St. Cyr bint Turankdokht al-Lasalle: The . A saavy political operator. She helped raise the Lasalle twins and arranges the marriage of Tahminah and Ravshana to prominent figures of the Phoenix house, much to their surprise. Later it turns out she was deeply involved in Del Moya's plot to claim the throne and even poisoned her Niece. Mizuiri kills her after scanning her mind.
- Count Feda mi Negal: The short, frumpy overlord of Negal. He harbors deep anger toward the republican government of Refuge, which murdered his brother.
- Margrave Esteban Winters vi Krill: The aging and disinterested lord of the Krillian March.
- Baroness Vierrna vi Krill: The Margrave's heir and commanding admiral of his Demesne forces. She provides Montfort with information about phantom sensor signatures in the March and is killed in a Black Brethren ambush.
- Karmake Drell: The elected Planetary Administrator of Refuge. A handsome revolutionary who took a personal hand in the bloody overthrow of the feudal lords of Refuge. He handily defeats Ravshana al-Lasalle in a duel. When the Black Brethren raid on Refuge fails, he violently executes any of the Rifter pirates that fall into his hands.
- Primeant Bright Hope': The Rifter Trade Ambassador from the Constellation of New Possibilities who provides Aurora significant aid after gaining rights to Vargas Station in the Krillian March. She appears again to beg Aurora to protect the innocent from the disturbing violence of the Rift Crusade.
- Sir Jodn vz Mkera: The Imperial Army Theater Commander of the Krillian March, of the rank of General. His forces race with the XIX Royal Star Lancers to secure the damaged Star Doom.
- Roscoe Hillenholler: One of the chief admirals of the Imperial War Staff. He is rescued from the red armbands of the Phoenix Republican uprising by Tahminah and Brightstar and commands the Imperial Navy ships that manage to regroup at Osaka.
- Yasmin Victoria bint Turandokht al-Lasalle: Feudal lord of Sakastan and family head of the LaSalle clan, Tahminah and Ravshana's mother. She appears with Edmund at Luxor to question her daughter about the death of her sister Aalia.
- Eric Brightstar: William's [older or younger] brother.
Jardin Republic
Free Star League
- Agatha Horton:
- Judson Stoneman:
- Sidonia "Tearose" Terez: A pirate captain pressed into Gadsen's SRA.
- Vannevar Kennedy:
Transeisdzarian Commonwealth
Ibnas DuMont
CoDominium
The Blue Knight
Plot
| Chapter | Episodes | Release date | ||
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| Chapter premiere | Chapter finale | |||
| Prologue: Star Doom | 4 | November 6, 6014 | December 13, 6014 | |
| Interlude: Luxor | 2 | 18 December 6014 | 20 December 6014 | |
| Chapter 1: Heroes and Villains | 4 | January 8, 6015 | March 5, 6015 | |
| Interlude: Jardin and the Frontier | 2 | February 2, 6015 | March 13, 6015 | |
| Chapter 2: From the Ashes | 4 | March 19, 6015 | May 3, 6015 | |
| Interlude: | 2 | June 11, 6015 | July 10, 6015 | |
| Chapter 3: Portents | 6 | March 19, 6015 | May 3, 6015 | |
| Interlude: | 2 | June 11, 6015 | July 10, 6015 | |
| Chapter 4: | 6 | July 14, 6015 | , 6015 | |
Prologue: Star Doom
The Prologue covers the real events of the Krillian March,
| Episode | Title | Characters Involved |
| 01 | "Krill: 1" | Aleida, Aurora, Bastillet, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah, William |
| A half-rifter noble freighter captain, a dragoon officer escorting experimental designs, a hussar captain being conveyed to court martial, and an Imperial Guardsman together manage a daring rescue of the Eighth Princess from assassins.
December 31, 5320 A.E.: Aleida Saegusa MacBeth Phoenicia-zel-zarya the Eighth Princess with her entourage of personal retainers (Aurora, Bastillet, William, Ravshana, Tahminah) and the Imperial Guard Inspector Joachim Montfort attend a ball hosted by Margrave Esteban Winters vi Krill, the feudal overlord of the Krillian March. Two months earlier, the Princess had arrived in the region with a charter permitting her to raise a personal force of two divisions, titled the XIXth Royal Star Lancers, from the battle hardened provinces along the Great Rift. Local succession crises and minor insurrectionist turmoil in various systems around the March have continually delayed mobilization. Montfort meets the Baroness Vierrna vi Krill, the heir of the Margrave and Admiral of the Demesne forces, on the dance floor. [fill this in gee, I don't have a log of you whispering sweet nothings about phantom ships] Primeant Bright Hope, a Rifter ambassador from the Constellation of New Possibilities, seeks Aurora out to inquire into the situation regarding the Vargas Station. Ravshana seated next to Aurora lets slip that Aleida intends to support whoever can end the insurgency on Faraday as the inheritor of the station. The ball begins to go poorly when the Count of Negal and the Planetary Administrator of Refuge, Karmake Drell, get into a very public physical altercation. The Count is challenged to a duel by Drell as they are pulled apart. The affair of honor is brought to the attention of the Princess, who postpones the duel for tomorrow morning. Ravshana volunteers to be a champion and is called upon by the Count, only to be disappointed when Karmake Drell declines the use of champions. Instead she accepts his offer to act as his second. Aurora and the Primeant discuss how the Wall has inadvertently protected the people beyond the Rift from the violent customs of the Empire. Princess Aleida overhears their conversation and, curious, asks how Rifters resolve their own differences. The night soon take a further turn for the worse after Ravshana fobs her twin on Montfort. An irritated Baroness and Tahminah soon enter a verbal skirmish in which the dragoon officer comes the worse off. Tahminah takes a moment in private to regain her composure before demanding satisfaction but is dissuaded by William. Aurora, alarmed, asks Montfort what has gotten into everyone, prompting the exasperated Baroness to pull the Imperial Guardsman aside to her private study. When Ravshana learns of Tahminah's treatment at the hands of the Baroness she promptly charges after the retreating figure of the Baroness. Tahminah orders William to drug the Count, hoping to incapacitate him and protect him from the veteran Drell through her twin. He succeeds. Bastillet spots the hussar officer plowing through the crowd, including Aurora who attempts to stop her, and moves to discipline Ravshana for lese majeste. Ravshana and Bastillet are soon engaged in the second brawl of the evening, one that destroys almost an entire hall of art valued in the millions of thalers as collateral damage. Eventually Ravshana is tackled to the ground and arrested by security troops. Bastillet files away the security footage as potential blackmail and pays for the damage. The next morning Ravshana is released from detention for the duel, arriving in prison uniform. She is casually dispatched by the Planetary Administrator and is very nearly killed. While her twin recovers in a hospital, Tahminah charges William with finding various parts held up by the violence on Faraday's World by any means necessary. After some research he discovers that he can source essential systems from the Rifters through the Primeant Bright Hope and an old friend. He visits a convalescing Ravshana to ask for her to help in clinching the deal with his friend when the news arrives that the Baroness vi Krill was killed in a Rifter ambush. Four days earlier, Montfort and Aurora left Krill on the Imperial Guard Command Cruiser Varyns. Montfort attempts to investigate the smuggling of extremely illegal Rifter gravity weapons to Faraday's World with the help of Aurora's unique talents and knowledge. En route they encounter an unusual contact hiding behind a Jovian moon. When the Varyns attempts to pursue it it is revealed to be a massive mothership of Rifter design, vastly more powerful than anything in the Krillian March. Fortunately for Montfort and Aurora the Rifter warship settles for temporarily disabling the Varyn's engines before vanishing down the starways. They return to Krill to warn the Baroness of the threat just as her flotilla is ambushed and destroyed from the mouth of the Starways leading to Negal. Aurora's pleads Montfort to help her uncover the reasons for the incursion over the Wall using his authority as an Imperial Inspector, but he insists he must leave the March to brief reinforcements personally. | ||
| 02 | "Krill: 2" | Aleida, Aurora, Bastillet, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah, William |
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| 03 | "Krill: 2.5" | Aleida, Aurora, Bastillet, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah, William |
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| 04 | "Krill: 3" | Aleida, Aurora, Bastillet, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah, William |
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Interlude: Luxor
| Episode | Title | Characters Involved |
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| 05 | "Royal Woes" | Bastillet, Brightstar, Montfort, Tahminah |
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| 06 | "Everybody Lies" | Bastillet, Brightstar, Montfort, Tahminah |
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Chapter 1: Heroes and Villains
| Episode | Title | Characters Involved |
| 07 | "Loyalty" | Aurora, Bastillet, Brightstar, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah |
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| 08 | "Bravery" | Aurora, Bastillet, Brightstar, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah |
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| 09 | "Honesty" | Aurora, Bastillet, Brightstar, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah |
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| 10 | "Truth" | Aurora, Bastillet, Brightstar, Montfort, Ravshana, Tahminah |
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Interlude: Jardin and the Frontier
| Episode | Title | Characters Involved |
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| 11 | "Jardin" | Desmond, Montfort |
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| 12 | "The Frontier" | Aurora, Ravshana |
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Chapter 2: From the Ashes
| Episode | Title | Characters Involved |
| 13 | "To be True" | Bastillet, Brightstar, Tahminah |
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| 14 | "To Stand" | Bastillet, Brightstar, Tahminah |
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| 15 | "To Choose" | Bastillet, Brightstar, Tahminah |
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| 16 | "To Fight" | Bastillet, Brightstar, Tahminah |
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