*Imperial Marquesan World Factbook*
Basic Information:
Full Name of Nation:The Marquesan Imperium
Form of Government:Imperial; lifetime appointment by electoral convention
Major Industries:Defence Equipment, Energy, Marine Equipment, Shipping/Warehousing
Economy type:Feudal, regulation by Guilds
Empereur des Marquisiens:Félix La Trémoïlle (Felix I, Emperor of the Marquesans)
Primary Languages:French, Polynesian.
State-Supported Religions:Sacerdotium, Drekanity, Rakanism, Scandin Catholicism
Capital City:Nuku Hiva, Capital Island District
Historical Background:The name Marquesas comes from the francophone word marche, meaning "The Frontier" in reference to the sprawling wildernesses explored by early Marquesan seafarers. The collection of independent kingdoms which became known as The Marquesas began in a now-abandoned region referred to as Sondria; there, a collection of volcanic islands, jungles, mountains and hillcountries were ruled by local kings whose kingdoms grew to protect and provide for their local populations with increasingly liberal policies over time, leading to a high standard of living. Early adopters of seafaring, the Marquesan people sailed between islands in the Sea of Curacao and the Sea of Arrack as early as 3,000 BC, and by 1,500 BC had explored the majority of Sondria. Expanding to other regions, Marquesan settlement eventually included land holdings in Gholgoth. Greater Dienstad and Esvanovia, with long sea-lanes between them, connected first by massive sailing catamarans and then in the industrial revolution by steamship, the Marquesan people have maintained colonies and alliances in many countries and regions.
Over time, industrial trades such as stonemasons and shipbuilders developed guilds to train new skilled laborers and to certify work. These guilds grew to provide regulation and management as Marquesan industrial power grew in the 1600-1900 period, and still exist today, acting in many ways as labor unions which ensure fair treatment of workers, safety of workplaces, quality of workmanship and adherence to regulations regarding environmental impact, international treaties, etc. The Marquesan royalty (La Noblesse Marquises) grew in the medieval period to find strength in collectives which were consolidated in 1192 AD by the first Marshal de Marquises, Louis I. Louis I was known as the Shōgun of Kyushu and Kanto, the two peninsular regions of Marquesan Sondria, and as Le Roi de Rois in Marquesan Esvanovia.
The Tripartite Crown was held by every successive Empereur des Marquesiens for 823 years, until the Assassination of Shōgun Akane Hyuga I, daughter of Yuri II. Akane I ended in 2015, with a violent revolution took place, ending more than 800 years of peace. Resulting in the assassination of the Shōgun, Akane Hyuga I, the dynastic rule of the reclusive Shōguns ended. A bloody civil war took place following the assassination, finally resulting in the 2015 Bay of Tears Accord, signed in the Elder Republic of Erjunhuf. The government that replaced the monarchical Shogunate was a progressive libertarian Republic, known as the Meritocratic Union of Marquesan States, which brought peace to the warring Prefectures of the former Shōgunate. Peace was to be short-lived; the outbreak of nuclear war in Sondria forced the abandonment of the Marquesan homeland. The people settled in Marquesan Gholgoth, a snowy, rain-soaked area nearest the Kylarnatian home territory until the outbreak of The Kraven War in Gholgoth forced the Marquesan people to move once more, with many settling in Greater Dienstad's Marquesan-Arvolken Regency, and the majority settling in Esvanovia, where the primary home territories of other powerful trans-regional empires have come to settle.The Marquesan Empire Today:The Marquesan culture embraced planned cities and symmetrical defensive star-type fortifications early. Beginning in 1192, building a new city required the permission of the Marshale's planning commission, which performed a detailed site survey before construction could begin. Each city would center around the Ducal Palace grounds, which in the medieval period was always fortified and in the Renaissance was often a sprawling palace. While Marquesan royalty in modern times prefer more modest accommodations, the Ducal Palace is still the political center of every city, containing the city's college and, below ground, the central hub of the subway system which connects hubs beneath the Palace of the Margrave in each of three Arrondissements. Today, the Ducal Palace University in each city centers around the Palace containing the classrooms and facilities of the university, and an Orangerie, which produces the food which feeds the students of the University in a public space which also feeds any who come for care, who can receive personal hygiene, food, shelter, and job training at no cost.
Cities are laid out around the Ducal Palace in standard-size blocks according to a plan which permits some allowance for terrain like mountains, rivers, beaches, etc, but has always limited the placement of metropolitan districts until a survey could be conducted with Royal authority. Each Metropolitan District has three Arrondissements, containing a Palace of the Margrave. In antiquity, underground tunnels connected the Palaces of the Margraves with the Palace of the Duke, allowing messages to be conveyed in secret and in safety during a siege of the city itself. In modern times, these tunnels carry electric subway trains, which transfer inter-city traffic which arrives beneath the Ducal Palace to a hub which exits out onto the surface at the Margrave's Palace grounds. Today, the Palace of the Margrave is the justice center of the city, containing the headquarters of the city Maréchaussée, and the city courts.
Within each of the three Arrondissements, ten Cantonments (governed by a City Canton, appointed by the Margrave) provided in antiquity small outposts at which the city's knights could rest, resupply, exchange horses or equipment, and receive medical care. Today, the Palais de Cantonment, 30 in a complete Metropolitan District, is working space for roughly 1,000 professionals, including a hospital with 540 permanent staff, a Gendarmerie detachment of 150 patrol officers, 150 firefighters, and a government administrative office with a staff of roughly 190. The Palais de Cantonment takes up a roughly 4,500 square meter area in the center of each city block, around which is always built a large city park, which is always free and open to the residents of the canton, and which houses markets, zoological and botanical parks, etc. A 260-bed hospital also serves drug 40 rehab beds and the Marechal has 60 detention cells at each Cantonment, served by the patrol officers who office from each Palais de Cantonment.
In older cities, these facilities are built into older castles with as much respect to the original building as is possible, however in many younger cities, the Cantonments are built from the steel frames of shipping containers, as all Forces Marquises aux Armes posts are, designed to be modular, repeatable, and if necessary mobile, with each Palais de Cantonment in each city conforming to the same rectangular form with an open square in the center, with fifteen containers on each side, stacked six high. Parking for the cantonment's motorpool of vehicles is typically along the outer perimeter, with facilities for helicopters and VTOL tiltrotors on the rooftops of the cantonment, and the center of each cantonment being inherently mixed-use.
In cities with a Maréchaux de la Côte or Maréchaux de Rivière station, a Médecin de Combat Brigade Headquarters or Le Fleur Noir Inspectorate, one of the three Palais de Margrave will house these facilities, one will typically house the home of the Duke, and one will house the headquarters of the city's Gardiens du Régime detachment, which is the national Gendarmerie and the country's primary law enforcement agency. Beneath each Palais de Margrave, a subterranean transportation hub links to the other two hubs and to the inter-city connections beneath the Ducal Palace. Electric trains
Le Maréchaussée: 189 Districts, 12,500 personnel ea.
3 Arrondissements per District, 10 Cantons ea.
Palais de Cantonment: 1 per Canton, 30 per Metro
540 Hospital, 150 Patrol, 150 Fire, 190 Gov/Admin per
(15x15x6 -360x- Container Square - 67m L&W, 16m H)
- 260 Hospital & 40 Rehab Beds, 60 Detention Cells per
120x Castra.206RPQ - 10-Man Quarters
60x Castra.206RFH - Field Hospital
60x Castra.206LMC - Modular ConEx
60x Casta.206RRU - Refrigerated ConEx
15x Castra.206RFK - Field Kitchen
15x Castra.206RWR - Washroom
15x Castra.206RLF - Laundry Facility
10x Castra.206RCN - Commo Node
5x Castra.206RCC - C&C Bunker
Cantonment Motorpool:
66x SMV.7/4 "Habu" 4x4 Patrol Car - C2/S8
18x SMV.7/4 "Habu" 4x4 Ambulance - C2+2 Cas
12x WIC.31/8B "Gharial" 8x8 Ambulance - C3+6 Cas
12x Typhos-F - Fire/Water - C3/S4
9x Typhos-G - Fire/Foam - C3/S4
6x CDR.800 "Hermès" VIP Car - C2/P2
4x WIC.31/8C "Gharial" C&C - C3/O4
3x AWC.40C "Orcus" Breacher - C3/S3
2x CIR.60R2 "Corax" - C2/S6
Le Fleur Noir: 151,200 Operatives Total
16 Inspectorates, 9,450 Operatives Assigned per
When the Marquesans decided to embrace the railroad in 1790, primary city carriageways were replaced one-by-one by railroad loops. In 1837, electric trains began replacing steam lines, and as district power plants began being built in the 1880s, trains began connecting Marquesan cities with regional airports and seaports in a network which eventually reached every metropolitan district. Eventually, it became standard practice to lay out steel railroad lines while building out the boundaries of each new canton and arrondissement, easing the transportation of building materials. In 1964, the invention of high-speed welded rail began converting the railroads to the newer standard, and from 1969 onward, began connecting the capital cities of each Principality with a high-speed MagLev train system.
, leading to the majority of cities being laid out in standard-sized blocks of avenues leading inward to the city center, and boulevards serving as ring-roads traveling through each section across its width. Typical cities are laid out around a Ducal Palace and its surrounding manor grounds; this palace serves as the center of city government and many essential facilities such as military unit headquarters, justice system facilities (typically underground, often referred to as Oubliettes) and also hospitals, training facilities, in addition to the Ducal Orangerie which produces food both for the house of the Duke, but also to feed the city's hospitals and soup kitchens. The Ducal Palace grounds are typically hexagonal in shape; in older cities, a star fortification is common, however newer cities have often stunningly elaborate palaces in various styles, the newest of which were built in Beaux Arts style near the time of the city's founding. Marquesan cities are planned in standard, generally circular forms
A Marquesan city grows in organized, planned blocks leading in a spiral away from the Ducal Palace. Every city is built in three Arrondissements, each containing a central
When a new Arrondissement is built, a manor is built to contain the house of the Margrave, serving to administer the Arrondissement and most often housing a
Through the chaotic transition from Gholgoth to Esvanovia, the internationally-supported civilian government has found itself increasingly at-odds with the leading royal families who still own a huge percentage of the land and businesses in the country. With policies designed to redistribute wealth to the populace directly through taxation optimized to deplete royal cash reserves, the royal families began to refuse to pay their taxes until a resolution could be reached, eventually leading to the country's royal families stepping around the civil government to fund the country's institutions directly. In this deepening financial crisis, the outbreak of the Kraven War occurred in Gholgoth, leading to a mass evacuation of the Gothic Marquesan Zone, which began the 2023 Coup d'Etat. This document represents the Royal Government of the Second Marquesan Empire, its various components, and the country's armed services, in full detail.
National Defense Readiness Condition:
Blue - Nominal Readiness Condition. No Alerts.
Green - Enhanced Readiness Condition. DDR Alerted.
Brown - Actionable Condition Exists. FMA Alerted, DDR Deployed.
Orange - Active Combat Condition Exists. NDR Alerted, FMA Deployed.
Red - Major Threats. Nuclear Authorization Issued.
