Reorganisation in the East
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 Suren
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| Dāryuš Vištāspa
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The Reorganisation in the East (III.1748 AN – ) began as a political process in the provinces of the Raspur Khanate and the Suren Confederacy within the Imperial State of Constancia as a reaction to the historical processes of integration, it would also become the occasion for a certain level of contention between factions within the House of Osman and the House of Suren. Ultimately it would be revealed to have been the culmination of a high level conspiracy within the organs of the state to consolidate the fragmented government of the region.
Background
The process would begin in the third month of 1748 AN as Ardashir Bābakān-e Osman supplanted his father as Khan of Raspur via the expedient of a local coup. Having served as Grand Vizier of Raspur for long decades, and having finally manoeuvred his own son, Ardashir Alamgir Osman, into command of the 508th (Raspurid) Army, this was something he was able to achieve with only a moderate and proportionate amount of bloodshed, with all due deference shown to the person and property of those blessed with noble rank and sacred blood. Nonetheless, it was not possible for a son to bundle his father into an enforced retirement without some incivility - as a number of burning armoured vehicles and the strewn corpses of massacred eunuch guards at the base of the palatial ziggurat would readily attest. By 22.III.1748, Ardashir Bābakān-e Osman was sufficiently secure in his position to transfer the office of Grand Vizier into the custody of his daughter, Nazilla Ardashirdokht Osman. An appointment redolent of nepotism, undoubtedly, but the Khan was blessed with numerous progeny with which to buttress his newly inaugurated reign.
Watched closely from nearby Surenshahr, this momentary lapse of decorum in Raspur was seized upon by Ismail al-Osman as the opportune moment to put his own plans for the future of the region into effect.
Surenid mobilisation
Raspur assailed
Sudden betrayal, swift intervention
There was a school of thought which held that the decision to lease the combat air arm of the Surenid Forces of the Home Guard to the Honourable Air Corporation for the duration of Operation Aglaia was naught but an effort to neutralise a key advantage that the House of Suren enjoyed over the House of Osman during any contention. Whether any party to the conflict actually possessed such a measure of foresight is a matter of conjecture, however, the absence of those modern jet fighters, away patrolling futilely on the margins of Corum, would be keenly felt in short order.
A cessation of folly, a necessary rebalancing
Conclusions and consequences
In a rather Aguilarist move by elements of the Imperial Synklētos, a resolution dryly noting the recent events and expressing the sense and sentiment of the institution that Ēurānshahr remained under Constancian sovereignty was adopted a few days later. Given more time, legislation, surprisingly a rare Act of the Imperial Synkletos given Imperial Assent, instead of the usual Autokratorial Decree, also formalized and legalized Ēurānshahr as an entity under Constancian law.
