BACKGROUND
The Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth barely survived an internal security crisis.
It had been grappling with a brutal insurgency for 14 years starting since 2010—but it was the last five years, 2019 to 2024, that brought the monarchy to the brink of collapse and the Crown perilously close to ruin.
The 2019 assassination of Lakan Alexander II, a young and promising monarch who ascended to the throne in 2016 after his father's abdication due to terminal lung cancer and then proceeded to lay bare the rot of corruption and put it to the torch, only for him to be consumed by the very fire he had ignited as he set the rot ablaze.
The contagion of COVID-19 in 2020, exacerbating the fragility that followed Alexander II's assassination.
The Mindanao-Sulu and Cagayan-Cordillera Crises from 2021 to 2024 tested the Royal Commonwealth's internal security apparatus to its limits, the crises respectively ended by ceasefires in May and April of 2024 after a fierce military campaign to vanquish the insurgent offensives and contain them into isolated pockets of resistance.
The economic downturn and stagnation that accompanied the internal security crisis of the past 14 years tested the nation's socioeconomic willpower to its limits.
The Succession Dispute between Jilliane, the second of Alexander I's five children, and her brother Alexander II's widow, the former Lakambini Elizabeth, who rose to the throne by virtue of Alexander II's last will designating her as his successor, cast upon the nation the shadow of a coup d'etat and civil war stemming from rumors of the military backing Jilliane, a Navy officer and one of their own, as the rightful successor and not her sister-in-law the then-incumbent Lakambini.
The Heartbreak Crisis, a crisis that saw criminal and terrorist elements directly attack a monarchy weakened by national and familial strife, and the Crown's dirty laundry bared for all to see.
However, in its darkest hour came allies from other realms, and from within the ranks of its scions came Gerard, the Avenger Prince; Jilliane, the Princess - and now Queen - of Steel, and the most unlikely of all: Elizabeth, now the Lakambini Emeritus, dubbed by the media as the Iron Widow. The monarchy provided a stalwart anchor for their people, their charge, during a period of national tribulation - and the people returned the favor with steadfast loyalty to the crown. The Crown emerged battered and shaken, but nonetheless triumphant and victorious.
The 5-year-long succession dispute between Elizabeth and Jilliane was resolved with the Succession Accords, effectively ratified and validated as the resolution to the Succession Crisis that has plagued the Palmyrian monarchy over the last five years.
The Crown has won the war within.
January 2025 was a month of endings and beginnings; with the death of Alexander I just after the strike of midnight on New Year's Day after an 8-year long battle with an aggressive lung cancer, the ascension of his eldest daughter Jilliane to the throne on the same day, his funeral and cremation at the 11th, and Jilliane's coronation on the 25th, new doors open for the monarchy as old ones close. The future of the monarchy stands fragile, shaken to the core, its future uncertain. History is full of examples of great monarchies brought down through their failure to separate personal indulgences and controversies from royal and patriotic duty, stricken down by their failure to distance their royal courts from the cutthroat nature of politics.
The Palmyrian Monarchy cannot afford to make the same mistake again.
And as the Royal Commonwealth began to lick its wounds and welcome the dawn of a new era of internal healing and reconciliation, an enemy came knocking at the gates, seething and foaming at the mouth as it followed the trail of blood that a wounded Royal Commonwealth hemorrhaged into the water.
Einheitswelt stood as among the many foreign powers that sought to topple over the Palmyrian monarchy, for a purpose of its own: to absorb the Palmyrian nation into its Unitarist fold, into the fold of International Socialism. Alas, its efforts to do so through subterfuge, by supporting communist insurgency and rebellion, failed - but as it sniffed the blood being hemorrhaged into the water by a badly-wounded nation, it judged the Royal Commonwealth weak enough for Unitarist conquest.
Nearly a month after Lakambini Jilliane's coronation, it launched a blockade of the Royal Commonwealth on the 25th of February, cutting it off from the Stetton-Macapulao Oceanic Zone to the west, and the Betton-Roqouiniel Oceanic Zone to the east—two oceanic zones that supplied it of the vital fossil fuels that helped keep the nation running amidst an internal security crisis, and would fuel the Royal Commonwealth's socio-economic recovery.
The Royal Commonwealth may be weakened, but its resolve for victory is undeniable, predicated upon one simple yet enduring maxim:
The Crown Must Win.
It had been grappling with a brutal insurgency for 14 years starting since 2010—but it was the last five years, 2019 to 2024, that brought the monarchy to the brink of collapse and the Crown perilously close to ruin.
The 2019 assassination of Lakan Alexander II, a young and promising monarch who ascended to the throne in 2016 after his father's abdication due to terminal lung cancer and then proceeded to lay bare the rot of corruption and put it to the torch, only for him to be consumed by the very fire he had ignited as he set the rot ablaze.
The contagion of COVID-19 in 2020, exacerbating the fragility that followed Alexander II's assassination.
The Mindanao-Sulu and Cagayan-Cordillera Crises from 2021 to 2024 tested the Royal Commonwealth's internal security apparatus to its limits, the crises respectively ended by ceasefires in May and April of 2024 after a fierce military campaign to vanquish the insurgent offensives and contain them into isolated pockets of resistance.
The economic downturn and stagnation that accompanied the internal security crisis of the past 14 years tested the nation's socioeconomic willpower to its limits.
The Succession Dispute between Jilliane, the second of Alexander I's five children, and her brother Alexander II's widow, the former Lakambini Elizabeth, who rose to the throne by virtue of Alexander II's last will designating her as his successor, cast upon the nation the shadow of a coup d'etat and civil war stemming from rumors of the military backing Jilliane, a Navy officer and one of their own, as the rightful successor and not her sister-in-law the then-incumbent Lakambini.
The Heartbreak Crisis, a crisis that saw criminal and terrorist elements directly attack a monarchy weakened by national and familial strife, and the Crown's dirty laundry bared for all to see.
However, in its darkest hour came allies from other realms, and from within the ranks of its scions came Gerard, the Avenger Prince; Jilliane, the Princess - and now Queen - of Steel, and the most unlikely of all: Elizabeth, now the Lakambini Emeritus, dubbed by the media as the Iron Widow. The monarchy provided a stalwart anchor for their people, their charge, during a period of national tribulation - and the people returned the favor with steadfast loyalty to the crown. The Crown emerged battered and shaken, but nonetheless triumphant and victorious.
The 5-year-long succession dispute between Elizabeth and Jilliane was resolved with the Succession Accords, effectively ratified and validated as the resolution to the Succession Crisis that has plagued the Palmyrian monarchy over the last five years.
The Crown has won the war within.
January 2025 was a month of endings and beginnings; with the death of Alexander I just after the strike of midnight on New Year's Day after an 8-year long battle with an aggressive lung cancer, the ascension of his eldest daughter Jilliane to the throne on the same day, his funeral and cremation at the 11th, and Jilliane's coronation on the 25th, new doors open for the monarchy as old ones close. The future of the monarchy stands fragile, shaken to the core, its future uncertain. History is full of examples of great monarchies brought down through their failure to separate personal indulgences and controversies from royal and patriotic duty, stricken down by their failure to distance their royal courts from the cutthroat nature of politics.
The Palmyrian Monarchy cannot afford to make the same mistake again.
And as the Royal Commonwealth began to lick its wounds and welcome the dawn of a new era of internal healing and reconciliation, an enemy came knocking at the gates, seething and foaming at the mouth as it followed the trail of blood that a wounded Royal Commonwealth hemorrhaged into the water.
Einheitswelt stood as among the many foreign powers that sought to topple over the Palmyrian monarchy, for a purpose of its own: to absorb the Palmyrian nation into its Unitarist fold, into the fold of International Socialism. Alas, its efforts to do so through subterfuge, by supporting communist insurgency and rebellion, failed - but as it sniffed the blood being hemorrhaged into the water by a badly-wounded nation, it judged the Royal Commonwealth weak enough for Unitarist conquest.
Nearly a month after Lakambini Jilliane's coronation, it launched a blockade of the Royal Commonwealth on the 25th of February, cutting it off from the Stetton-Macapulao Oceanic Zone to the west, and the Betton-Roqouiniel Oceanic Zone to the east—two oceanic zones that supplied it of the vital fossil fuels that helped keep the nation running amidst an internal security crisis, and would fuel the Royal Commonwealth's socio-economic recovery.
The Royal Commonwealth may be weakened, but its resolve for victory is undeniable, predicated upon one simple yet enduring maxim:
The Crown Must Win.
AREA OF OPERATIONS
Map of the Stetton-Macapulao and Betton-Roqoiuniel Oceanic Zones in The Levanora Vastness.
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The Stetton-Macapulao and Betton-Roqoiuniel Oceanic Plains are respectively located to the west and east of the archipelago of the Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth. Discovered and explored independently by Palmyrian and Amadorian oceanographers as early as the 1950s, they garnered interest when vast reserves of fossil fuels, alongside the presence of polymetallic nodules across their expanses, were discovered sometime during the 1960s.
At the height of Palmyrion's Disunion Era, only the Royal Confederation (the predecessor state to what would eventually become the Royal Commonwealth during the Reunion of 2000) could feasibly access and drill both Oceanic Plains for fossil fuels alongside the Ilethlean Isles (an official province of the Alfar Imperium of Amador), with bilateral fossil fuel exploration and drilling efforts conducted through Joint Exploration and Extraction Trusts between the Royal Commonwealth and the Ilethlean Isles.
The trusts stand strong to this day, even as the Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth was plunged into an internal security crisis which it eventually overcame and survived. Now, the Royal Commonwealth and the Alfar Imperium are together looking to expand to the realm of deep sea mining to harvest the mineral wealth contained in the polymetallic nodules that generously cover its expanse.
However Einheitswelt seeks to cut off the Royal Commonwealth from both sources of fossil fuels using a blockade, in an effort to deal the penultimate blow against a nation recovering from an internal security crisis - an act intended to weaken Palmyrion in preparation for an invasion to bring it into the Unitarist fold.
The Royal Commonwealth shall teach Einheitswelt a lesson in ambitious aggression:
Never start a fire you can't put out.
At the height of Palmyrion's Disunion Era, only the Royal Confederation (the predecessor state to what would eventually become the Royal Commonwealth during the Reunion of 2000) could feasibly access and drill both Oceanic Plains for fossil fuels alongside the Ilethlean Isles (an official province of the Alfar Imperium of Amador), with bilateral fossil fuel exploration and drilling efforts conducted through Joint Exploration and Extraction Trusts between the Royal Commonwealth and the Ilethlean Isles.
The trusts stand strong to this day, even as the Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth was plunged into an internal security crisis which it eventually overcame and survived. Now, the Royal Commonwealth and the Alfar Imperium are together looking to expand to the realm of deep sea mining to harvest the mineral wealth contained in the polymetallic nodules that generously cover its expanse.
However Einheitswelt seeks to cut off the Royal Commonwealth from both sources of fossil fuels using a blockade, in an effort to deal the penultimate blow against a nation recovering from an internal security crisis - an act intended to weaken Palmyrion in preparation for an invasion to bring it into the Unitarist fold.
The Royal Commonwealth shall teach Einheitswelt a lesson in ambitious aggression:
Never start a fire you can't put out.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
- I am the OP. My word is law.
- This RP is set in 2025, with the start date being 25 February 2025.
- MT only.
- No WMDs. For now.
- Keep it PG-13.
BELLIGERENTS
The Royal Palmyrian Commonwealth [Naval ORBAT]
- Novayan Commonwealth
- Free Kingdom of Allanea
- Alfar Imperium of Amador
- Marquesan Imperium
- Unitary Dictatorship of Thenesi
Armeesrepublik der Einheitswelt
NOTE: Prospectively RPed by War Command, a puppet of Aeyariss. Negotiation pending.
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