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Flag of the First Demiran Federation

Year is 2035, the 1st Demiran Federation is formed out of the old nations in the area:

-Kingdom of Rekken (House of Gulak)
-Autonomous Theocracy of Silver Walley (Rekkenian Vassal)
-Kingdom of Ruvenia (House of Stormberg)
-Fiefdom of Ameria (House of Kisu)
-Republic of Ömegä
-Perelevian Council of Landowners
One more nation, the Fiefdom of Demoria, was invited to join the Federation, but they refused to join due to the looming instability.

Map of the First Demiran Federation

The old monarchies are abolished and the region is unified under a single flag and four general parties are established:

-DP (Demiran Party) (Democratic)
-RRWP (Ruvenian Right-Wing Populists) (Fascist)
-RPP (Rekkenian People's Party) (Communist)
-RIG (Rekken Imperial Guard) (Militarist with Monarchist ambitions)

The Federation is lead from the city of Ganaf by DP who are in coalition with RRWP. RPP and RIG form the opposition with RPP having the largest support out of the four parties.

Flag of the Demiran People's Republic (left) and the Demiran Federation (right)

Year 2036. Allied with the RIG, the RPP with the lead of Reijo Molotow, the chairman of RPP, have staged a "defensive war" against the Demiran Federation publicly claiming via an emergency broadcast to have been attacked by the members of DP. In reality Molotow had shot the current standing president, Kalle Oja (DP). This triggers a civil war where initially the North is taken over by the Demiran People's Republic lead by the RPP and RIG while the south is controlled by the Demiran Federation.

The initial split of the Civil War

While the North was organizing it's troops, the south was organizing a new government. The Federation's leadership of DP was replaced with RRWP and due to the death of the Federal President Oja the party leader of RRWP, Matron Stormberg, was appointed as the new president of the Federation.

The civil war was ended by a series of decisive victories on sneak attacks against the Demiran defense posts and by a final grand assault by the north.
DP and RRWP were disbanded and generals and other leaders of the Federation were arrested and imprisoned.
Year 2037, the civil war is finally over and the Demiran People's Republic is officially formed under the lead of Reijo Molotow. The capital is kept in Ganaf and RPP is tasked to take care of the economics while the RIG is tasked with defense.

Flag of the People's Empire of Demira

Year 2037. After the Demiran Civil War the political climate of the nation begun destabilizing once more. RPP's lead weakened as more and more of the old DP and RRWP supporters turned to supporting RIG, who was promoting on returning to monarchy instead of having the communist regime. Due to a fear over a second civil war the RPP made a compromise with the RIG crowning the current leader, the chairman of RPP, Reijo Molotow as an Emperor to rule over the people. Effectively the only real change that were made were the change in the titles of the nation and it's leader. The nation of the Demiran People's Republic would from now on be known as the Rekkenian People's Empire of Demira.

After the coronation of Emperor Molotow I things would calm down for some time. Four years after the coronation in 2041 the Emperor, despite his old age of 87 years would have an heir with her 45 year old wife Katariina, a girl named Sievi Reijotar Eerika Molotow. Two years later, in 2043, Emperor Molotow I would pass away.

The flag of the Imperial Federation of Demira

Year 2043. After the death of Molotow I a new government was formed according to Demiran law of succession. As Empress Katarina was not related to his husband by blood and therefore was unfit to inherit the throne and Princess Sievi was still too young to do so, a temporary government was formed to lead the country temporarily.

The new government was formed by the RIG, who also serve as the bodyguards of the Imperial family and RPP.
The head of RIG, Otto Gulak, also known as the last King of Rekken, would hold the highest power in the government but would still be obligated to respond to the needs and requests of Katariina and Sievi and the requests of the other government members.
For now the Crown would rest on the Throne in the Royal Palace, Fort Imperia, Ganaf until the day Princess Sievi Reijotar Eerika Molotow would ready to lead the People's Empire as Empress Sievi I, the daughter of Emperor Molotow I and the Empress of the People's Empire.
Until that day the former Rekkenian People's Empire of Demira will be know as the Imperial Federation of Demira.

The Imperial Federation of Otto Gulak would go on to rule for the next eight years steadily losing popularity until a referendum by the people would decide to crown Princess Sievi as the Empress six years early at the age of 10.

Year 2051. The regency of the Imperial Federation has ended, the Federal President and Sievi's regent Otto Gualk has resigned and the new Empress, Sievi I, has been crowned. For a few more years the Empress would mostly study and play with her demiran desert cats while her mother, Katariina took care of the state. During this time a defense doctrine known as the "Molotow lines" was put in action. Large lines of strongholds with heavy artillery and anti-air nests were build along the border to protect the People's Empire from any invasions as there had been one rather catastrophic one during the regency. This would also be the time where the iconic AG-69 Medium Machine Rifle, DAA Kustaa Super-Heavy Railway Cannon and DAA Esper Tank Destroyer were developed and taken into use in active service of Rekken Imperial Guard.
Six years from her coronation, in 2054 Sievi I would begin her military service which every citizen completes and a year later in 2055 the People's Empire of Demira would be renamed to the Holy Imperiumi of Rekken and the capital moved to the old capital of the Rekkenian Kingdom, Demonnia, due to the pressure put on by the more religious leaders in the RIG and the priests of the Rekkenist church.

Flag of the Holy Imperiumi of Rekken

Year 2055. Due to the central position of the Rekkenian Holy Imperiumi, trade is starting to get highly promoted. Intercontinental trade-routes are established, internal infrastructure is vastly improved and RIG begins offering convoy escort services to those in need.

In the same year an expedition to a foreign strangely cold, unmapped nation of Icewindia is made.
The expedition group consist of:
- General Kaius Rautanyrkki- Leader of the expedition
- Corporal Pedro Sekomaa- Radio operator
- Leila Kisu- Biologist
- Eelis Asikainen- Cartographer
- Master Sergeant Filleri Spade- Survivalist and a cook
The expedition found the land to be ruled by an ice dragon known as Esolda, something suspiciously close to what ancient Rekkenist religious texts portray as the Goddess of Ice. The land is named to be the plain of the Ice god and the dragon, the goddess of Ice.

The next year on 2056 another expedition, this time to the Demiran Desert at the hearth of the Imperiumi is done. The expedition's goal was to investigate an old Qerri map of the desert. The expedition was lead by Empress Sievi I and with her she had Leila Kisu, Eelis Asikainen and Pedrdo Sekomaa from the expedition of the previous year.
The result of the expedition would be rather unexpected as it would end with the Empress falling unconscious on the desert after a flash of light after which the rest of the group would take her to a hospital. It was found out the Empress had gotten some sort of a "beneficial infection" in her left arm.

Empress Sievi I with the infected/cursed arm

For an outside viewer it would look like the arm was charred and cracked in spiraling patterns that would glow in yellow or orange. The arm would be very hot to touch and infection would slowly creep up the Empress' skin until it would completely take over her outer appearance making her hair stand up and dance in the rising heat and slowly burn while cracks of glowing light would be present all over her body. The infection would however retreat whenever she would be in contact with water. The more water there was, there more the infection would retreat, although it would never disappear completely, and stay in her left arm at all times. The infection would also cause largely increased regenerative abilities to the Empress making her wounds heal in matter of minutes no matter how large they were. This would be the most visible whenever the charred skin would retreat back into her arm as it would leave the previously charred and glowingly cracked areas on her body momentarily without skin that would grown back within a minute or two.

After a few days it would also become the belief that the infection was in fact a curse or a blessing as it seemed to have linked the Empress with an old dagger that would allow her, and only her to slow the time around her momentarily once a week and have a limited control over sand and heat in the immediate surroundings.

Years pass and on four years later, on 2060 Rekken would legalize same sex marriage and announce a project called "Overshine" which would take it's first steps in the Rekkenian space exploration "To boldly go where no Rekkenian has gone before". Three years later the first tests on orbit-capable rockets were made and a demiran desert cat called "Pallero" was sent to the orbit and back successfully. The next year on 2061 the first Rekkenians would visit space as a part of becoming the first orbital citizens and the nation of Hinookia would join the Overshine Project.
On the same year the Rekkenist church would see some changes as a Wolfinite Goddess, Lyca was officially recognized as a deity.
On the year 2062 Empress Sievi would propose to Karz Von Braun who would accept. The next five years would be peaceful.

On the 2068 the Imperiumi would see another great crisis- A revolution organized by no other than the old chairwoman of the Ruvenian Right-Wing Populists, Matron Stormberg who had escaped from a prison a couple of years back. She had been organizing the revolutionaries together with Otto Gulak who was previously Sievi's regent under a Demiran flag promising to bring with her the "Grand Federation of Demira".

The Initial split of the Demiran Revolution

Calling themselves the Prime Minister and the Federal President, Stormberg and Gulak took over the provinces of Ruvenia, Qerro and Perelevia in western Rekken. They would later push all the way to Demonnia where the war would turn into trench warfare. At the same time Sievi I got fooled into a meeting with Stormberg by a foreign nation. During the meeting Stormberg attempted to kill Sievi but ended up dying herself. Around the same time in St. Verimaa, Ruvenia the "President" of the "Grand Federation of Demira" died off of a heart attack leaving the rebellion without a competent leader. The rebels would surrender to the RIG forces soon after.
On 2070, after two years of war a peace was finally declared after which rebuilding began. It was around this time the religious symbols of nature, flow, stability, power and authority were removed from the Rekkenian flag and replaced with the old Rekkenian red and yellow pentagon and the "Holy" part was dropped from the name of the nation.

The flag of Imperiumi of Rekken

On 2078 the Overshine project would see it's first ambition completed as the Overshine space station was launched to the orbit with 15 Rekkenians and 5 Hinookians onboard. The mission was a success.

July, 2081. The Empress is pregnant. Even with her age of 40 years old Sievi would still be physically on her 20's due to the curse of her arm keeping her ever-young and healthy. A year later her twins would be born. The two girls were named Eerika Amelia Molotow and Rose Corta Von Braun.

On the year 2083 Nonadia would join the Overshine project now lead by the RSS (Rekkenian Space Society), who have begun planning and designing more modules for the space station, namely habitation and farming as it turned out potatoes can be grown aboard Overshine without dirt. The modules would be launched and successfully installed on the year 2090.

At the end of 2091 Empress Sievi would lose her left cursed arm and with it the admiration of many who held her in the position of a demigod due to her powers. This was officially due to a "failed assassination attempt" although in reality the assassin was specifically hired to get rid of her arm to end her curse and let her age. The person paying for such horrible actions was her own butler, Julius Jenkins, however this is not publicly known as it was a secret he managed to take with him to the grave.
Later on Empress Sievi got a mechanical replacement arm custom build by the Demiran Automails Company that had been established a few years back. In addition to functioning like a regular arm the metallic replacement had a internal machine gun with a belt-feeder under the arm's armor where the bicep would normally be.

Empress Sievi with her automail

During the next few years Rekken would mainly be peacefully defending the Rekkenist faith while Empress Sievi would begin to feel the consequences of her growing alcohol problem.
On the year 2101 Rose Von Braun would fill her father's shoes as an Empress of her father's Empire.
On the year 2108 the Duchess of Ömegä, Empress Sievi's mother, Katariina Molotow would die of old age at the age of 112. Princess Eerika Molotow would take her place.

On 2110 the northern region of Marinia collapsed opting the states on the area, Paravia, Paria, Miri Valley, Miria and Fokkenia, to join the Imperiumi.

The Map of the Imperiumi of Rekken after the northern expansion

Later on 2111 Empress Sievi I would be found dead in her quarters the cause of her dead being liver cirrhosis. She died at the age of 70, yet looking not a day older than 30. Her corpse was placed in the Red Tomb in a ritual funeral, just like her father so long ago with food, water and tools (as she was a mechanic alongside being an Empress) for a long time to accompany her in her final journey.

After the death of her mother, Princess Eerika was crowned Empress Eerika I of Rekken. In the beginning of her reign her policies seemed reasonable but after a trip to the island of Kamez her personality changed. She came back with a curse similar to what her mother had but stronger and without the binding of the dagger. Her personality became much more hostile and she begun mass persecution against Rekkenian minorities like the Demiri and the Qerri. As faith would have it yet another uprising began at the end of 2112. The Northern states formed an alliance against the Empress and the western stated formed their own as well. The Northern Pact of New Marinia would go on to eradicate the northern RIG forces while the western Demiran CDI (Common Defense Initiative) would take on what was in the west and eventually march to Demonnia after the death of Empress Eerika in a bloody battle against a Demiran underground resistance who were allied with the Demiran CDI.

The conflict ended 14 Feb 2114 with the defeat and dismantlement of the Rekkenian Imperiumi after which one by one the states left behind would fall and the people migrate South where the only state who decided to stay out of the original Demiran Federation, Demoria, would allow them to settle around under their protection and eventually form the Fiefdom Unificate of Rekken.

The Map of the Rekkenian Fiefdom Unificate

The Rekko-Demiran states of New Marinia, Demira Defence Council and the supervised states of Rekkenia and Ömegä in the north had all fallen in the years following the collapse and fragmentation of the Imperiumi. This had led most if not all of the people in the area to migrate southwards where new fiefdoms under the protection of the Demorian Grand Duchy, the only remaining Rekko-Demiran state, were formed. By the year 2122 the new fiefdoms had formed an union under the rule of Iron Fist Ilmari Kaleva of Demoria.

The union was known as the Rekkenian Fiefdom Unificate and consisted of:

-The Grand Duchy of Demoria
-Theocracy of Southern Silver walley
-Fiefdom of South-Ameria
-Fiefdom of South-Kamaraja
-Fiefdom of the Council of Perelevi
-Fiefdom of the Fokkean Order
-Duchy of New Rekkenia
-Duchy of Mirana
-Duchy of Parana
-Petty Kingdom of South-Ruvenia
-City State of Ömegän Uus-Ganaf
-and Duchy of the Overshine Space Station

In the summer months of the year 2122 it was realized the Demorian Defence Force (DDF) could not protect the borders of the whole Unificate alone and hence multiple regional militaries were formed to support the DDF. These militaries were the:

-DDF, Demorian Defense Forces - Securing the areas of Demoria, South-Ameria and South-Ruvenia
-KAF, Kamarajan Assault Force - Securing the areas of South-Kamaraja and Uus-Ganaf
-SO, The Shinist Order - Securing the areas of New Rekkenia and Southern Silver Walley
-PeMi, Perelevi Miliisi - Securing the area of the Perelev Council
-MOR, The Neo-Marinian Order - Securing the areas of the Fokkean Order, Parana and Mirana

Even though on paper these militaries were formed to support the DDF, in reality the militaries were a constant threat to each other, most notably so in the Shine City, the triple capital of New Rekkenia, Southern Silver Walley and South-Kamaraja, where constant clashes, sometimes even larger battles were fought between KAF and SO.

The Map of the Rekkenian Fiefdom Unificate

Even with the infighting within the Unificate the next couple of years would go well.
In summer 2124 a volunteer group known as Shine City Voluntary Works would begin gaining traction due to it's pushes towards improving the conditions in the growing slums of the Shine City. The group was lead by a lady known as Wilima Kamatotoro, a local butcher at the time.

In spring 2125 the Unificate attempted expanding east by demanding the neighbouring Megacorporation known as The hinookia corporation to join the Unificate due to defensive reasons. This would not work out however as the Hinookians managed to hold a diplomatic high ground.
Around the same time the Unificate would also begin pursuing improved diplomatic relations with the newly formed Akschoss Federation formed by the nations of Alingarch, Artaecus and the Lirana state of Dwarf land4. This was largely due to the AkFed's structural similarities to the Unificate.

In the autumn of 2125 the Queen of South-Ruvenia, Karita I, Qerri-Stormberg, in a diplomatic meeting with the Icewindian leader, Hemlock, would convince the man that she was leading the Unificate in attempt to gain foreign recognition for the coming year as she, much like another group in Shine City, was scheming to stage a coup within the Unificate. Around the same time the leadership of the DDF would gradually change to be dominantly Ruvenian and loyal to the South-Ruvenian Queen.
Meanwhile in Shine City the inner circles of Shine City Volunteer Works began arming themselves.

27.5.2127, the throne holders of the Unificate would attend an international gala in the city of Tau Volantis, Solingarch, The Akschoss Federation. The gala would go well enough but Queen Karita would return early starting a hostile takeover of the Unificate while the other leaders would be busy still attending the Gala. She would take over the areas of Demoria, South-Ruvenia, South-Ameria and Perelev Council, however upon advancing further south and into the western lands protected by the Shinist Order, their advance would slow considerably with the local military declaring a counter-revolution with the lead of "Wilima Kamatotoro", who would've come out as the cousin of the old Rekkenian Empress, Sievi I. Declared the new Empress of Rekken by the Shinist Order, Anita Molotow would rally a good portion of the western population to her side against the rest of the Unificate with the first order of business being subduing the Kamarajans on the Western border while defending against the Ruvenian assault which would not only be fighting the forces of Anita, but the southern parts of the Unificate too.

6.11.2127, the Rekkenian push into Kamaraja would slow considerably as the forces of the newly formed Rekken Imperial Guard would face the difficult to traverse swamps around the city of Perek fortified with the Artaecusian M8 tanks bought by the Kamarajan Assault Force a few years earlier. This would cause the assault to turn to a siege of the swamplands which in turn would cause the RIG to move their own armour South against the remnants of the original Unificate.

6.3.2128, the siege of Perek would end as the KAF would surrender due to the attrition getting unbearable. While the siege of Perek would've been ongoing the front down south would've moved further with the south losing land and the clashing front between the Rekkenians and the Ruvenians growing longer. As the Rekkenian tanks would see success on the southern Reijotar Desert with relatively low casualties and high enemy desertion rates, the Ruvenians in the East would take a costly victory on the eastern mountain range conquering the city of Perkeleenlinna.

The war would continue with a race to capture the southern port city and now capital of the Unificate, New Revon. Although the Unificate forces now supported by Basaran would see great defensive victories in the Pranga and Miri forests they could not stop the Rekkenian tanks from reaching New Revon. With New Revon under siege, the fight would be taken to the Ruvenians who would see a deadly blitz executed by the deserters of the capitulated KAF.
With the KAF-spearhead essentially cutting the Ruvenian line in half, the Rekkenians would realize their victory in the war after the Ruvenian Queen would officially surrender.

It would not be long after this the Rekkenians, pivoting to the past, would see yet another migration re-taking their lost possessions in their ancestral homeland around the Demiran desert.

Year 2129.

Late October the now reclaimed Imperiumi of Rekken would receive a request. Rose Von Braun, the daughter of Sievi I, would wish to visit her mother's grave in the Red Tomb, where Sievi, her parents Reijo and Katariina and many of the heroes of the red revolution were buried. This is a wish which would be granted to her. Mostly forgotten the tomb would not get many visitors, in fact ever since the coronation of Eerika I, the tomb would've been essentially abandoned. Upon entering however Rose would be shocked and confused as she would find masses of pizza boxes and empty beer cans in what was essentially a fully fleshed out apartment in the deeper part of the tomb, hidden from the public. She would not find the body of her mother leading her to hope that perhaps she would still be around, alas all she would find was her mother's old archinite-crystal powered automail and a workbench with spare nuts and bolts and a schematic for an experimental battery-powered automail arm dated far past Sievi's supposed death. She would also find an old pink Rekkenian tank with an archinite engine hooked up to the apartment's power grid. This she would recognize to be her mother's own design.

Although the blueprints would eventually find their way to the hands of the RIG who would burn them, Rose would keep the arm in hopes of finding her mother. Privately contacting Anita, Rose would find out of her mother's involvement in the Rekkenian underground resistance in Shine City before the migration back and of her current position and fake identity as the Duchess of Alffa, Reijotar Suomaa. Rose would eventually re-unite with her mother on 3.4.2030.

While all this would be unfolding, the Rekkenian high-throne would be collaborating with the Hinookians to re-work the power system of the Overshine space station in order to remove the station's dependency over the slowly depleting archinite storage. The plan would be to develop a new module system which would provide solar power to the station.

More to come...