The Free Interstellar Republic of the Fifth Dominion
The Free Interstellar Republic of the Fifth Dominion
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The Old World:
Planet Reach:
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Motto: “For Freedom, Liberty and the Rights of Man”
Anthem: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Located in: The War Administration Region
Capital: The Grand Citadel
Largest City: The Grand Citadel and Varnathox
Official Language: Imperial, English
Demonym: Dominionite, Imperial
Government: Federal Constitutional Republic
President:
- Phil Ziszas
Prime Minister
- Billy Turner
Legislature:
- Legislative Bill
Founding Document: The Rights of Man
Constitution: Constitution of the Fifth Dominion Republic
Military Organization:Fifth Dominion Defense Force
Area
Fifth Dominion Island (Home World): 31,750 km2
Planet Reach: 510,072,000 km2
Population
2011 (August) estimate: 488,000,000
Currency: cR
Date Format: dd-mm-yy (AU)
The Great Imperial Empire of God and the Servants of God and Its Nine Dominions, also called the Great Holy Imperial Empire and Its Nine Dominions, and occasionally the Extremely Pious Holy Empire, and mostly just the Empire or the Imperium was an Empire which stretched across 3 continents and conquered more than 33,000,000 km2 of land and had 9.25 billion people living under its banner.
The empire was formed by Talentus Arlocti in 205 BC, who gathered together the warring tribes of the Alamarri into one cohesive nation. He became the Emperor Tyrael Menethos I and he brought war and conquest into the neighbouring nation of Hiphopotomy, later called the First Dominion of the Empire, in 200 BC. Religion was feverishly enforced, and the worship of the Goddess Andrastinos was spread as far as the Eighth Dominion by 5 BC.
In 35 AD, under the reign of the glorious Paladin Xavier II, the religion was replaced by Catholicism. Over the next few centuries, the Empire attempted to locate the Romans, who, it had been told by wanderers, had crucified their Lord and Saviour. This search continued well into 1095 AD, and when the scouts reached Europe, they found not the Roman Empire, but a separated, warring Europe. It was here that the Citizens of the Imperium heard the Pope's speech on the Levant.
Excited by the speech, the scouts hurried back to the Empire. A Great Crusade had been called, and all Catholic nations would attmept to seize Jerusalem from the Islamic forces in the East. The Emperor at the time, Uriel Kommenos XII, ordered the Empire to march at once, the religious fervour inspired the troops, who had no idea of where they were headed. Unfortunately, due to the distance between the Empire and Christendom, the Imperial Army attacked the wrong nation. Even more unfortunately, this nation was a nation almost equal on terms of military power to the Imperium. The Great Host was stuck in a bloody stalemate with the rampaging Xal'Nathorr and with the Emperor himself leading the Host, things back home looked uncertain.
After many months of no news, the Empire started to fracture.
The Ninth Dominion, the closest to the Levant were converted to Islam and attacked the neighbouring Seventh Dominon. As the Empire's reserves mobilised against this rebellion, the Fourth Dominion turned its greedy eye on the Imperial Holy City of Varnathox. The Third Dominion moved to intercept, and the Imperial Home Guard, mistaking the Third Dominion as the Fourth Dominion's ally, attacked both. This seeming betrayal caused the Third Dominion to rebel, and by 1098, the whole Empire and its Dominions were in a massive civil war. The Fifth Dominion, a seemingly harmless backwater pledged allegiance to the Imperial Crown, and its Navy proved decisive in securing the Homeland's victory over the Rogue Dominions at the Battle of Varna River in early 1099.
However, Varnathox eventually fell to the Fourth Dominion, and the Ninth Dominion had completely crushed the Seventh, Eighth and Sixth Dominions. In 1099, the Emperor's Army returned, victorious to Varnathox, only to be ambushed by the forces of the Fourth. Uriel Kommenos was killed in the battle, and as he had no heir, the Crown was passed down to the small, but loyal island nation which had supported the Homeland in its darkest hours.
After almost a millenia of no progress in recovering the Empire's lands, the Fifth Dominion has moved most of its citizens and assets to the new planet, Reach.
In 2080, the last "Emperor," a ceremonial figurehead for the Committee of Artificial Intelligences, led an uprising against the Committee, establishing a Republic and disappearing into the shadows.....