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Romulus Nvorska
Goetz, Stavic Oblast ( District)
Cheka Safehouse

Romulus leaned on the railing of the country villa and ran a hand through his hair. He let out a long sigh as he looked out over the rolling hills that surrounded him. His breath hung in the cold air for a moment before a light breeze blew it out of sight, chilling Romulus to the core. With another long sigh he turned around and keyed the door control, being greeted by the rush of warm air from the house before walking in.
	The door led to a long doorless hallway with bare walls, darkening significantly as the exterior door closed behind him. A small light could be seen under the singular door at the end of the hallway, slightly illuminating the corridor. Romulus quickly made his way down the dark hallway before stopping in front of the door. The faint sound of gurgling could be heard just behind the door, prompting Romulus to smirk. 

“ They’re back at him again….” he said under his breath before keying the door control. The Door opened up into a large sound proofed room with an obvious two way mirror at the far end. Two men sat facing each other under the large fluorescent light strip hanging from the ceiling. Both men were hooded and in their underwear, fastened their their respective chairs with plastic zip ties. Two Hol stood over one of the hooded men, forcing his head against the back of the chair as they poured water over his face from a hose.  The hooded man struggled against his restraints as he was forcibly drowned, shaking the wooden chair as he struggled. The other man sobbed in unison with his companions muffled screams, unable to see what exactly was going on.

One of the Hol pulled away the hose and let the man’s head snap forward. Water drained from the mans face as he coughed up the remaining fluid in his lungs. 

“ Who’s the political officer with the Purple Hats?”  Romulus said calmly as he walked towards one of the men. “ Who……is the political officer in the Purple Hats….” he repeated in a mocking tone before ripping off the soaked man’s hood.

“ Do you know what you have done! We are Totalist citizens! Intelligence Officers…my government will crucify you and your family.” the man yelled

“ Is that right..” Romulus said with a chuckle “ Well I appreciate your zeal, but I don’t think you know whats going on here” he said kneeling down to the level of the Totalist agent. “ We know who you two are…..and we don’t care” Romulus quipped before leveling a pistol to the man’s chest. 

“ Fu….” the totals agent got out before the sound of the shot echoed around the room, spraying blood and bodily material behind him. The remaining hooded man let out a terrified scream and promptly pissed himself as the sound dissipated, struggling against the chair as he cried.

“ No…no…” one of the Hol said in a mocking tone as he laughed “ We must of got some of the wrong agents…” he continued in Bolčoi, “ They cry like women”.

Romulus laughed, turning towards the remaining totalist agent before ripping his hood off 

“ Who is the political officer with the Purple Hats?” 

Romulus said sternly, standing over the sobbing man. The Totalist continued to sob uncontrollably staring at his now dead friend slumped in the chair in front of him. 

“ WHO IS THE POLITICAL OFFICER!, UNLESS YOU WANT TO END UP LIKE YOUR FUCKING FRIEND SAY SOMETHING!!!” he yelled sticking the pistol in the man’s face. The agent went silent as he eyed the pistol, struggling to speak before finally breaking. 

“ Chekov…..Chekov Tzacska” the agent barely got out, prompting Romulus to smile. 

“ Good” Romulus said with a chuckle before raising the pistol to the agents forehead, promptly pulling the trigger.

Name of Nation: New Monarchy

Type of Government: The monarchy controls all matters of the state, but allows the citizenry to control their local governments. Each region has a elected leader that is the liaison between the royal family and the people. State policy has not changed since annexation by the Totalist State.

Leader(s): Holvar Juli Solonius Anzac
Queen: Gaia Novos Suden 
Queen Mother: Queen Vulpa Ameez Canakkle

Persons of Importance: 
--Prince Cato Aurelia Castus Anzac
-Princess Lucretia Totale Bella Anzac 

Species(s) and Demographics: The Monarchy is mostly made of the Hol with humans making up a small minority.

Religion Description and Demographics: The entirety of the Anzac-Canakkle Monarchy is made up of the Hol people who worship their monarchs like deities. As members of the royal family are born, they are deemed holy and worshipped by the people of the ACM ( Azac Canakkle Monarchy. As they age and control state matters, they are ordained saints by the people. There is no name for this region and it is mostly passive, not requiring any ceremonies or special rites. Citizens either worship the entire royal family, a certain member of the royal family or both. Some members of the royal family have specific names, gained either from battlefield accolades, humanitarian missions or Economic successes.

King Ganius Kleto Bactra Anzac ( Saint of War)
Queen Vulpa Ameez Canakkle ( Saint of Mercy)
Prince Holvar Juli Solonius Anzac ( Saint of Order)
Princess Lucretia Totale Bella Anzac ( Saint of Love)

Culture: Since the end of the Agonis Wars, society has made a change towards modernizing their lifestyle. Large public transportation systems were implemented in most cities, severely cutting the need for animal drawn transport. In the rural sectors of the monarchy, most remains unchanged and people go about their days just as they always have. 
	There is a distinct class system, yet class is not linked to wealth in any way. There are farmers that are wealthier then lords, and lords that are poor as some farmers. Your class represents your area of expertise in society. Everyone, except the immediate royal family and regional governors, have chosen their specialty in life. 	
	 There are three main classes of people; Lords, responsible for upholding law and order. Artisans, the creators of some good and service. The artisan class encompasses everyone from home builders to arms manufacturers, this also is the largest class in the dual monarchy. The last class is warrior, which encompasses everything from guards to elite military units. Few decide to stray from their parents chosen class, most businesses have been family owned since the beginning of the war. Having warred for the majority of recorded time, diplomacy is the focus for the monarchy. Royal diplomats are expert at conflict avoidance, resolution and negotiation. There is a small corps of royal diplomats that handle all matters of foreign affairs.

LANGUAGE: The Hol speak Bolčoi, pronounced bolshoy. To human ears it would sound like a slurred version of a slavic language, like Russian, Czech or Polish. The spoken language has many hard sh and ch sounds that are used to denote tense, gender and time. Most Hol in the urban regions are bi and even trilingual. The languages of the former Agonis system and the Totalists has firmly permeated Hol society. 

History:Prior to the Alliance, the Hol lived as a federation of loosely allied city states. Each had its own claim to territory based wealth, size and military prowess. The city of Laum, governed by the rich and politically ruthless Anzac family held the largest territory. The Anzac family or Anzaci to the Laumites, had already assimilated two other nation states before deciding to expand again, this time through conquest. Through large bribes to nobles, good pay and conscription the Anzaci gathered a massive army and conquered the known region. City states either assimilated, pledging allegiance to the Anzac family or were crushed by military action. This was not an isolated event however, as the Anzaci rose to power the Canakkle federation was being born. The Federation was a small group of closely tied city states that collectively governed the shared area. The Federation grew fast, and soon what was a collection of four city states turned into a nation of 20. 
With no knowledge of each other the new formed nation of Laumedies began conquering territory of the Canakkle federation. The response from the Canakk Federation was swift and devastating. The veteran army that had founded Laumedies was wiped out by the armies of 20 city states, an army containing both sons of the the emperor Jackal Gali Anzac. At first, the Canakk Federation had no idea what they had done, until the Laumites began burning their way through Federation territory. Entire cities were sieged and set ablaze by the now significantly larger Luamite army. Anyone who tried to flee the city was killed, man woman and child alike. It didn’t take long for the federation to gather their own armies to meet the Laumites, resulting in a month long frenzy of battles and skirmishes. When the battles ended, borders were drawn that would last for the next three centuries. At first both nations licked their wounds and strengthened. Fortifying borders, building infrastructure and spending a lot of time thinking, training and developing new ways to kill each other. A cold war was next, espionage, covert action and propaganda were the weapons of both nations for the next six years. It didn’t take long for the cold war to turn into a planet wide conflict, with Laum and federation forces doing battle on land and on the planets “great oceans”. This first world war lasted eight years and devastated the outer boundaries of each territory while the inner territories remained relatively untouched. Another cold war started while each nation rushed aid to their affected territories followed by a brief 10 year period of detente. For a moment the feeling of peace washed over the planet and there were rumors of cooperation and even integration amongst the territories. The Laumites, now tired from decades of constant fighting and espionage desperately wanted peace amongst the two nations. The war had lost favor in the royal courts and the noble families were close to revolution at the thought of another world war. To the Federation, the scorched earth campaign by Laumedies was still fresh in the minds of many and the leadership was eager for revenge. Using the guise of establishing trade routes, Federation forces clandestinely breached the border defenses and started the “Strum offensive”, strum meaning vengeance in the Canakk tongue. At first the Federation solidified their hold of the border region, cleverly cutting off towns as they inched forward. Rebels and soldiers were executed or imprisoned while civilian leaders were given the choice to either submit or die. Much to the surprise of the Federation, most cities chose to die, suffering months of sige before finally falling to the defenders. The Federation horribly misjudged conditions in Laumedies, The Anzaci were thought to be evil slave drivers, ruling the empire with an iron grip and swift hand. The truth was much different, many local leaders rarely saw their regional governors, who more often then not, were held in very high esteem by the populace. Quality of life nation wide was high and the people revered the royal family, some even thinking them divine. 
The Federation had taken almost a third of Laumedies before word got to the ruling generals in the capital. At first there was shock, anger and outrage at the depravity of their neighbors, such underhanded tactics were seen as undesirable by the leading generals of Laumedies. The people, still mourning the loss of both crown princes were quick to answer the call to arms, men joined armies and militias nation wide to combat this threat. Laumedies produces truly terrifying armies of professional soldiers and civilians like, dwarfing the army of the “Strum offensive”. Espionage was not new to the Laumites but never before had spies been used to this extent. Large and elaborate networks linked the besieged towns with the intelligence services, and soon resistances were formed in sieged cities to harass the federation forces from behind as “Magna Armada” or Queens army marched forward. It took a long and extremely bloody 50 years for the Laumites to regain their lost territory, devastating the already devastated border regions in the process. As their industrial revolution began, war was now mass produced and increased on a frightening scale. “The Great Oceans”, which was relatively peaceful before, now became bloody battlefield as steel replaced wooden fighting vessels. Large, inaccurate muskets gave way to frighteningly accurate bolt action weapons that completely changed the view of warfare. Cannons were replaced by field guns of various sizes and capability, turning once lush green fields into bogs of mud, tepid water and rotting bodies of the long deceased. A no-mans land was established, on the land borders between the two nations, and the war ground to a halt. large systems of trenches with large bunkers were established on either end. Advancing toward the border of either country meant certain death and constant artillery bombardments made soldiers lives hell. With the land war ground to a halt, the naval war intensified almost immediately. Large naval engagements and island hopping campaigns added to the bloody struggle for supremacy. For two centuries the two nations skirmished and fought at various intensities, taking their fight to the skies and finally space.
After nearly three hundred years of hostilities, two nations finally signed non aggression pacts, ending the war and destruction. The planet would be forever changed, muddy bogs, pulverized sections of turf and large cracks the crust were scattered around the planet. 30 percent of the planet was dead, completely destroyed from constant warfare. Half buried burnt out tanks dot the countryside, while the half submerged hulls of ships are common along the coast. Cooperation started immediately, the two nations adapted to peace quickly. The royal families intermarried and the two nations slowly blended together. The dual state of the Anzac-Canakkle Monarchy was formed 100 years after wars end. The “New Monarchy” was founded around the principles of diplomacy and conflict avoidance, so that another three centuries war can never happen. Not even a century after the Three Centuries war ended, the New Monarchy found themselves in another conflict thousands of miles away. The Legion fought a extended insurgency against the Agonis collective in Agonis space, which led to the Monarchy being pulled into the war. Although only helping in a minor capacity, this showed the young and growing nation what it needed to survive. The new technology allowed the Hol to seize the rest of their system and colonize its planets. 

TECHNOLOGY: Civilian technology has boomed since the Agonis Wars as looted technology found its way back to the monarchy. Advances in bio-augmentation and Cybernetics have taken the civilian populace by storm, both for its medical use and for its aesthetic value. Life expectancy risen from 200 to around 350 years and medical technology is continuing to advance rapidly.
	Military technology has always been a strength for the monarchy, constant fighting has resulted in a strong military machine. Weaponry ranges from magnetically accelerated kinetic projectiles to high powered energy weapons. 

Military:
A far cry from the “Legion” , the new “ Magna Armada” or Queens army is the pride and joy of the Azanc Canakkle Monarchy. 

Infantry:

-Shock Trooper (Shok Korps) : Marine in origin, these troops serve the same role as their Legion ancestors. They are designed to break through lines, exploit weaknesses, set ambushes, sabotage and operate like a guerrilla harassing force the need arises. 

- Occupation Trooper; (Okk Troop): Occupation troops usually have the stigma of being inferior to the Shok Korps, this could not be farther from the truth. Occupation troops deploy with heavy armor and artillery, along with a wide array of anti-air, anti-tank and anti-ship weaponry. Being the largest branch of the army, Okk Troop has units that are trained for a wide array peacekeeping and nation building missions.

Armor:
The armored warfare doctrine of the AC monarchy underwent a huge change during the Agonis wars. Tanks were primarily designed to support infantry pushes before the war. Tanks were slow, heavy and was designed to shoot high explosive payloads that wouldn’t pierce armor. The Monarchy also did not believe in multiple classes of tank, using IFVs and APCs for the lighter armored needs. The Agonis wars showed the importance of having multiple classes of tank on the battlefield, adding flexibility to the Army.

Cavalry Tank/ Light Tank:

Lightly armored and quick, this tank is meant to be a glass cannon. It boasts a deadly 125mm cannon capable of firing a wide variety of shells. The turret can compete with all but the heaviest tanks but it is lightly armored and can be destroyed or disabled by the lightest of anti tank weapons.

MBT/Battle Tank: 
The backbone of the Tank Korps, the T-90UM is the upgraded version of the classic Hol T-90. The UM has the standard 125mm turret but also has an added ATGM to increase the tank’s range.

Heavy Tank: 
The KV-2 is the heaviest tank ever produced by the Monarchy. Its twin turbine jet engines can propel the tank to frightening speeds for its size, at the cost of astronomical fuel. The twin 150mm cannons were originally designed as artillery pieces but have been optimized for long range tank killing. The thick armor is seen as invincible by some and has been documented taking horrible damage while still being able to function.

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