[center][h1]THE AGE OF NATIONS[/h1][/center]

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[i]Congress of Nations, December 14th, 1814-January 1st, 1815[/i][/center]

The [b][color=red]Civitan Imperium[/color][/b] lived a short but fierce life. Faced against the [b]Combined Nations[/b], a myriad of regional and Great Powers, the Imperium pressed at the periphery with the snake of liberalism holding it's bloated, corrupt regime afloat. The conflict originated in the [b]Civitan Revolution[/b] (1799-1801), an equally short and brutal affair that saw the rise of liberalism and an open plebiscite that elected Titus Junius Cato first as it's Junior Consul. Within three months, the Senior Consul was dead--and Cato reigned as the [i]First Consul[/i]. His position gradually evolved, first to the [i]Consul of Greater Civitas[/i], and finally to the [i]First Citizen of the Civitan Imperium[/i].

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[i]First Consul of the Civitan Imperium, Titus Junius Cato, circa 1801[/i][/center]

Cato's first conquest was the [b]War of the Southlands[/b] ([i]1801[/i]). As [i]Junior Consul[/i], Cato led the Civitan XX Corps against the [b]Duchy of Mille[/b], who had long been supplying reactionary elements lingering in the wake of the Revolution. Added to the list of deplorables was the Saarturian monarch Sebastian X, the great ancestor of Civitan nobility whose family prided itself on Civitan independence. The war ended shy of four months, with the Civitan XX Corps galloping through the Saarturian mountains to destroy Sebastian's personal army, then turning to the west and defeating the Mille Royal Army fourteen days later. The [b]Treaty of Vieux[/b] saw an end to Saarturian independence.

The old borders (both political and social) are erased, and a new, egalitarian order is installed to replace them. Bleeding heart liberals and mercenaries from abroad flock to the new Greater Civitas, eager to fight alongside the Consul's rapidly growing (and well paid) army. For his aggression against his neighbours and his support for revolts all across the continent, foreign kingdoms now label Titus Junius Cato "The Great Tyrant" for the first time, and resolve to defeat him. Around this time, Cato gives his nation about facing the might of the [b]Combined Nations of the Continent[/b], which is the term the united coalition takes on.

The Tsardom, and all of its dozens of nations, declares war against the Republic of Greater Civitas. Before their collectively massive armies can be fully mobilized, however, the Great Tyrant invades western Vornehm, laying siege to the capital: Vorenheim. To slow the mobilization of the Tsardom's massive manpower, and incite chaos in his new enemy's lands, the Great Tyrant begins actively funding and arming revolutionary movements all across the Tsardom's many member-states. A number of the smaller kingdoms, unprepared for insurrection and with hated rulers to fuel them, fall, either to peasant revolt or to mercenaries loyal to Titus. In the chaos, most of the Tsardom's armies are sent to quell revolt, rather than to aid Vornehm. Most of what reinforcements actually arrive in Vornehm originate from a state outside of the Tsardom—an expeditionary force from Aontas, a kingdom opposed to the Great Tyrant, helps to break Vorenheim's siege.

Civitan naval might overtakes Vornehm's, taking command of the Smaragd Sea and thereby opening up Vornehm to new avenues of invasion. After the assassination of Aontas' Queen, Maria II, that kingdom's army is escorted back to their homeland by the Great Tyrant's fleet, essentially defeated. Aontas' Parliament then votes to reorganize itself as the Republic of Aontas, and sends a portion of its former force to join the Civitan army in battle in Vornehm. With the various situations in the eastern Tsardom only escalating, and little to no reinforcements arriving to aid their plight, Vorenheim falls. The Tsardom's forces retreat eastward in disarray, chased from their homes by Titus Junius Cato's might. Civitas firmly controls both land and sea. Again triumphant, the Consul of Greater Civitas declares the formation of another new state, now encompassing Vornehm as well, in a grand ceremony in fallen Vorenheim: the Civitan Imperium. Titus Junius Cato, of course, becomes the Civitan Imperium's First Citizen.

Azreka and Dallin intervene. The allied kingdoms, fearing for the future of their monarchies and terrified to have such a powerful foe at their border, declare war on the Civitan Imperium and begin to mobilize. Titus swiftly moves west, along with the rapidly deployable elites of his army, leaving the remainder of his force to slowly continue the eastward push into the Tsardom. Whilst Azreka and Dallin assemble a massive army in Livonia, some eight times the size of Titus' own escort, the Tyrant pounces. A fake messenger arrives in Livonia, informing the army there that the Imperium's navy has gone through the Gilbradian Strait and is launching a massive assault on Saxor, located far to the north-west, through the Merabou Bog. The commander of the army in Livonia buys the ploy, and rushes most of the force north-west, directly into the Merabou Bog, to reach Saxor as soon as possible. The much quicker Civitan army circumvents the forces left in Livonia and catches the main Azrekan army in the rear after they've entered the bog. In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, more than half of the gathered Azrekan force is either killed or wounded, and the rest flee deeper into the bog. More than a dozen Azrekan fall for every fallen Civitan. Titus then sabotages the roads leading to Livonia from the north and west, before retreating back into Civitas.

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[b][u]ORDERS FORM[/u][/b]
[code]- [b]Action 1[/b]
- [b]Action 2[/b]
- [b]Action 3[/b]
- [b]Naval Ship Assignment[/b]
- [[b]Demobilization[/b]] - [Mobilization]
- [b]Research Priorities[/b][/code]