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Republic Of Aries

NEUTRAL

The Lord Commandant Andrey Radkov

Commandant of the Navy: Hannah Benton

Commandant of the Army: Aurelio Cardozo 

Commandant of the Interior: Hakon Steinsson 

Commandant of Exterior: Annabel Elliott

42% Terran
23% Reythasa
18%
12%
5%

The structure of government within Republic remains largely unchanged from that of the kingdom that preceded it.  In place of a king the Cabinet holds supreme executive authority and dictates policy by majority rule with the Lord Commandant acting as a first among equals and tie breaker.  There exists a token legislative branch in the Lower House which acts to represent constituent worlds, but lacks legitimate power beyond the authority to propose legislation.

Acting under the direct oversight of the Cabinet is the High Court, the head of a sprawling judicial branch.  Tasked to uphold the laws of the Cabinet and Lower House, the Courts range from minor municipal branches to tremendous planetary centers of justice.  Courts conduct trials where both the accused and accuser are brought before a single judge who both ascertains guilt and administers a sentence.  At a trials conclusion both sides have the option of either paying an appeal fee to escalate the case to a higher court or accepting the verdict.

The earliest predecessor of the Republic can be pinpointed as the Aries Expeditionary Force (AEF), an armed colonization fleet that was sent to the southern outer arm during the golden age of the Terran Empires expansion.  Finding themselves in a remarkably untouched area of the galaxy the AEF settled a tropical world that came to be known as Aries Prime before beginning an extensive survey of the region.  For a time it seemed the southern outer arm was totally uninhabited, a great boon given the violent resistance that had slowed the Empires expansion into and exploitation of the galaxy.  However, some eighty years after the arrival of the AEF in the outer arm Terran scouts encountered the Reythasa for the first time.  Primitive by the standards of even the most isolated and backward Terrans, the species had yet to even discover superluminal transit, instead relying on vast arc ships to slowly crawl through the cosmos.  Merely a year after first contact with the nearest Reythasa world the AEF would invade, confident that the primitives could be subdued without the assistance of the Imperial navy and army.  

The conquest of that single world would drag on for a decade.  Unknown to the AEF the Reythasa had previously encountered invaders, though who they once fought and why remains a mystery to this day.  The result was that even on this moderately developed xeno colony secret defenses waited for the ill prepared AEF warships, defenses clearly reverse engineered from some species far the Reythasa’s superior.  By the time AEF forces had secured that one world the Emperor had heard word of the ignominious military failure.  At once the outer arm filled with proper war fleets and military governors all eager to prove themselves capable of reversing the embarrassment that the AEF settlers had inflicted upon the Empire.

For the next six years a brutal conflict would see the unconnected Reythasa worlds subjugated, revealing for the first time the immense extent of the alien’s piecemeal territory.  While the Xenos would develop FTL on three separate occasions over the conquest, in the end the military of the Empire would overwhelm even their most ‘sophisticated’ reverse engineered technology.  In recognition of the second conquests eventual success its foremost leader, an Admiral named Artemis Fitzroy, was granted the territory to administer.

The Fitzroy family would rule the southern outer arm until the collapse of the Empire.  At the periphery of the Empire and already highly autonomous the Fitzroys would quickly declare their Aries Kingdom once the writing as on the wall.  An absolute monarchy with a token legislative body, the Aries Kingdom would align with the Human successor states.  Through its lenient treatment of Xenos the Kingdom became a hub for immigration, eventually resulting in aliens outnumbering their Terran counterparts.  Though lax compared to the policies in the Terran Federation and most other Human states Xenos remained second class citizens in the Aries Kingdom, but with their swelling number soon public discontent became untenable.  Provoked by Reythasa notables, mass protests broke out over the Kingdoms involvement in the endless succession wars.  Even further calls to end laws discriminating against non-Terrans became louder and louder.

Fearing a rebellion the Aries Kingdom cracked down brutally with the aid of nearby Terran states.  Protests ended in massacres and lenient treatment slowly turned to internment, billions were lorded over by starships threatening global devastation if they acted out.  As the crises came closer and closer to civil war and genocide key figures within the Aries military plotted to end the Fitzroy regime and restore the nation from the brink of anarchy.  After months of planning one bloody night saw thousands of monarchist figures and nobles killed off by their honor guards.  All but the youngest children of the royal family were imprisoned as the military purged itself and the bureaucracy of royalist influences. 

While a manhunt was launched for the last of the free Fitzroys the royal family’s position became tenuous as the new junta established itself as the Cabinet and declared the Aries Republic, ending the nation’s involvement in the succession wars.  Pressure to restore the family from the Terran Federation led to the remaining loyalists launching a failed operation to rescue the monarch.  The event backfired spectacularly and within the day all the captive royals were spaced in a national broadcast, deemed guilty of innumerable charges.

The new Aries Republic permitted the enlistment of Xenos into the military, their election to the Lower House, and effectively removed the bulk of repressive laws that had led the aliens to near mutiny.  Retained were rules prohibiting non-Terrans from holding officers ranks in the armed forces, effectively limiting any real Xeno influence in the nation while appearing to acquiesce to their demands.

Now a neutral state the Aries Republic faces pressure from all sides as the new government consolidates its iron rule.

Army:

Infantrymen:

Shock Troopers:

Heavy Mobile Support Unit:

LA-54 Risen Transport:

A-6 Ascendant Tank:

FF-12 Angel Air Supremacy Ship:

Navy:

Phanuel Class Transport:

Kushiel Class Destroyer:

Samael Class Cruiser:

Azrael Class Battle Cruiser:

Callista Fitzroy (19):
Once the youngest daughter of the royal family, Callista was merely twelve years old when she was cast out of her country.  At that tender age she witnessed the bulk of her family executed on one of many live feeds broadcast across the galaxy, an event that would spark an ever deepening hatred for those she views as responsible.  In particular her time in the care of the Terran Federation has seen that hate directed toward Xenos.  Seeing them as having provoked the coup, she harbours as much hate for them as she does for those who perpetrated it.  Somewhat insular Callista has busied herself with academia in her exile, proving to be reasonably adept at it.  Unlike her brother she sees the restoration of her family to the throne of Aries unlikely to the point of absurdity, a view which has resulted in her admittedly unskilled attempts to play the political game in the Federation largely being aimed at bettering her family’s position in it.

Theodore Fitzroy (23):
The second prince and third child in the royal family, Theodore was neither raised nor expected to be a ruler.  Having the title of King-in-exile thrust upon him by the loyalists that had escaped with him and his sister Theodore found himself both driven to meet their expectations and comforted by their rhetoric.  He has become fixated on the throne that rightfully belongs to him to the point that he fails to see how he could fail in taking it with even the slightest aid.  To him the people of Aries would rise up to support their rightful rulers, if only the Junta that have usurped his throne were disposed of.  In this way he has become resentful towards his hosts in the Terran Federation, seeing their reluctance to go to war on his behalf as cowardly and self-interested.  To Theodore any war would be a necessarily short affair.  Still he plays the games that he thinks he has to, though his grand and obvious gestures rarely gain him allies and often open him to manipulation.
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