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Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

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A timeline of [[Benacia]]n events in the aftermath of the [[Kalirion Fracture]] (1671–1675) which upended the longstanding continental balance of power.

==1676==
===I===
* 3: Elwynnese prince [[Ander Avon-El]], furious after the [[Council of Eliria]] voted to repudiate the [[Treaty of Concord]] against its own provisions, calls the decision illegal, and instead publishes an instrument of government confirming the validity of the Treaty of Concord. In a statement released along with the instrument of government, Avon-El states that if the Council of Eliria still wishes to withdraw from the treaty during the twelfth year after its implementation, the Council of Eliria may so decide at that time in accordance with law.
* 4: The [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], the [[Communist Party of Elwynn]], the [[Amokolian Freedom Front]], the [[Conservative Historical Party]] and the [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism]] release statements in support of the Prince's interpretation.
* 5: With the Verionists having lost control over Monty Crisco and Elsenar's authorities and civil service (except in [[Chryste|Chryse]]) and therefore begun a huge evacuation to [[Keltia]] where apparently now the Verionists have found a land of milk and honey, the Imperial Regency and the Verionists agree to a transfer of sovereignty of Elsenar (except the Chryse area) and Monty Crisco back to Shireroth. It is rumoured that because of Shireroth's inability to administer parts of these territories, that the Regency is therefore in negotiations with other Vulture States on how to proceed with these territories. One option on the table, leaked to the press in Eliria, is that Elsenar in its entirety would be granted Ransenar while the Guttuli Protectorate would have an option to take parts of Monty Crisco.
** With news of the [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|Great Disaster]] having reached Goldfield, the Cabinet sends a resolution to the Ransenari Congress for approval to authorize and fund the beginning of a [[Operation Salvation|large scale humanitarian, medical, and scientific mission to the ruins of Elsenar]].
*9: The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār, legislature of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]], initiated proceedings that could, if replicated in either the [[Northern Commonwealth]] or the [[Congressional Counties]], result in the impeachment and removal of [[Ander Avon-El]].
* 13: Delegates from the [[Sovereign Confederation]] and the [[Ransenar|Kingdom of Ransenar]] meet in Goldshire Hamlet to discuss coordination of a common foreign policy and greater economic cooperation.
* 14:
** The [[Tassity Mansabdar]] killed the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7K4vGYL9zI pirate leader]. The mission on Naudia'Diva is accomplished. In a letter to the Imperial Regency, the [[Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy|King of Amokolia]] says that the Arkadian Sector can be returned. The letter comes with a box containing the head of the pirate leader. The full story is worked out in [[The Micras Chessboard]].
** [[West Amokolia|Amokolia]] closes the border with Unified Governorates of Benacia.
*18: The [[Amokolian People's Party]] delegation to the [[Elwynnese congress]] moves for a vote of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]]. In a statement by its leader, Jorgen Basker-Daal said: "The actions of the Prince have injured the prospects of Amokolian reunification for decades ahead. It is clear he not fit to lead our republic. For those reasons, we call for his impeachment in Congress."
** In response to the motion ahead in the Congress, the [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], of which Prince Ander Avon-El is also a member, left the congressional government. Its ministers resigned with immediate effect, leaving the executive with a one-seat majority in Congress.
*19: The Elwynnese Workers' Party also left the government, said that it would call for a vote of no confidence in the Conducator after the vote on the Prince. An EWP spokesperson said "It is clear that this is an N&H-led ploy to get progressives out of government positions in Elwynn. Ander Avon-El has been a good prince and he does not deserve this kind of treatment."
*20: The [[Elwynnese congress]] votes on the motion of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]], 144 votes in favour ([[Nationalist and Humanist Party|N&H]], [[Verionist Union|VU]], [[Democratic Party of Elwynn|DEM]], [[Amokolian People's Party|APP]], [[Holy Party of the Divine Icebear|HPDI]]) against 105 votes against ([[Ayreonist Independence Party|AIP]], [[Communist Party of Elwynn|CPE]], [[Elwynnese Workers' Party|EWP]], [[Amokolian Freedom Front|AFF]], [[Conservative Historical Party|CHP]], PR, [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism|MPDS]]). The President of the Congress subsequently communicated the results to the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Raspur Pact]] debriefers have a few stern words with some captured VBA officers concerning the wisdom, or [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|lack thereof]], of housing lethal pathogens on the same facility as an experimental reactor.
*24:
**The ''Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār'' delivers its verdict on the Prince of Elwynn with 197 votes in favour of the motion of no confidence (N&H, VU, DEM, BEH) vs 39 against (AIP, EWP). The Sardar of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]] is duly mandated to convey the news of the result to the Council of Eliria.
**Ground based air defences in [[Elwynnese Amokolia]] are placed on high alert whilst [[Benacia Command]] ordered the Central and Northern Banner Groups to disperse their aircraft to satellite runways and to establish patterns of 24-hour combat air patrolling until further notice. The Western Banner Group, headquartered on [[New Blackstone]] commenced snap drills, taking units out of their permanent cantonments and into their forward defensive positions.

===II===
*1:
** The [[Council of Eliria]] meets in which the votes of confidence in Prince Ander Avon-El are communicated and found to be in good form. [[Ander Avon-El]] confirms their validity, thanks the other members of the Council for a fruitful cooperation, and hands over the executive to the senior-most member of the Council, [[Firdaus Abdollahi Mehr]]. Mehr will be Steward until the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|new princely elections]] have concluded.
**As the preceding week of cloud cover over Western [[Northbloom]] is cleared by a boreal high pressure front, the fresh satellite imagery of various powers reveals that on the fringes of the town of Usheroff, a strip of ground some 2,400 metres long has been cleared, graded and hastily overlaid with slabs of PAG-14 to create a runway. Other visible details are a single parked [[Floret]] in camouflage livery, a hangar composed of a three-sided revetment with a fabric canopy and a series of ragged taxiways radiating out toward presumable dispersal stands in the cover of nearby woodland.
**The front page of the Usheroff and District Newsletter and Spare Parts Directory details eerie eyewitness reports of "The Howling Night Birds of the Ermingander Road". Meetings are held in surrounding villages to discuss "The Usheroff Thing" which draw the usual crowd of nutjobs, moonbats, fruitcakes and concerned mothers, the less credible of whom are generously interviewed for that evening's Kalgachi television news and immediately discredit the existence of the phenomenon in the minds of most viewers. The handful of sober and sane witnesses, including the only one able to make coherent [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/66/Oobakeep.png drawings] of [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png what he saw], are largely ignored and the stigma of their association with the farcical proceedings soon shames them into silence.
*3: [[Batavia]] and West Amokolia sign the Treaty of Koningsbergen.
*4: Conducator Nila Valgarai of the Democrat–N&H–APP minority government in Elwynn falls in a vote of no confidence. 144 votes in favour (VU, AIP, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI), and 105 votes against (N&H, DEM, APP). The President of the Congress, Benjamin Sluyjs, relieves the Conducator of her office, and authorizes her to lead a caretaker government until the Congress has confirmed a Conducator. Sluyjs consequently meets with all party leaders to discuss the new government formation.
*5: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP leader meets with the APP leader to discuss the basis of a government. Although the APP voted against Prince Ander Avon-El, and the AIP against the APP coalition, the two party leaders said to the media afterwards that they had much in their programme they could use to build a coalition. "Given congressional arithmetic, however, we'd need more parties to these talks."
*6: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP begins talks with Communists and the [[EWP]], while the [[APP]] begins talks with the other Amokolian parties.
*7: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]: Verionist Union announces Stephen Lewis as its princely candidate.
*8: Elwynn's [[Ayreonist Independence Party]] announces Meqael Mizarielion as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*10: The Amokolian People's Party announces Jorgen Basker-Daal as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*19: The Ayreonist Independence Party and the Amokolian People's Party report they have been unable to secure a majority coalition, and urge the President of Congress to discuss the question of government formation more intimately and aggressively with party leaders, saying "new elections are the last thing we need at this time of political crisis".
*23: The N&H announces the candidacy of Frederik Haabye Truls for the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|vacant principate]].

===III===
*4: Details of the N&H electoral platform energe. Focus to be upon developing an export based manufacturing sector to build up industrial capacity and working capital, with surpluses to be reinvested in defence, law and order, and public infrastructure policy. Foreign policy - to remain aligned with Raspur Pact, introduce quarantine along Amokolian frontier. Domestic policy - encourage civic reconciliation, audit of any Verionist "special projects" established by previous administration in view of notable safety lapses elsewhere. First electoral event - symbolic blockade of the Amokolian Oriental Express in Mishalan.
*6: Kalgachia issues a statement on the ongoing [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|Bovic Schism]], remarking that ''"the resolve of the state and clerical classes of [[Drak-Modan]] to bring their centres of societal gravity within Benacian shores marks a commendable return toward the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|cherished precepts]] of collective Benacian sovereignty [[Amokolian War|established]] by the Maven Nohsi Goltz in [[Ashkenatza|late antiquity]] - a timely and welcome development when [[West Amokolia|the northern saddle]] of our continent is once again compromised by an [[Stormark|alien colonial power]] and the cause of Benacian solidarity has become an imperative."''
**As Drak-Modani developments in the husbandry of famed [[Natopia|Natopian]] goat breeds for dairy purposes have attracted the interest of Kalgachia's [[House of Nerrolar#Chlorocyphida Pan|highland farming community]], enquiries are passed to Drakorda through a [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group|chain]] of commercial [[SATCo|intermediaries]] regarding the export availability of breeding specimens.
*11: The Commissioner of [[New Blackstone]], [[Jeremiah Avon-El]], is sent to Kalgachia on a five-day furlough, at the personal direction of the [[Constantine Loup|Szodan]], to investigate what experiences and amenities are afforded to notable personages utilising the newly promulgated "Pachadsberg Visa".
*12: Upon arrival in Pachadsberg, Commissioner Avon-El - being the highest UGB official to have set foot in the Garden since the [[Slavegate Convention]] negotiations - is received by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]], chair of the Pachadsberg Development Committee who leads him on a guided tour of the resort's completed and ongoing works. This is followed by a meeting with a Mr. Waller at the Puckadobey Savings Bank, where initial discussion of [[Kalkul Sahib|mutual acquaintances]] leads to an illuminating conversation about the jurisdictional hedging of personal capital for purposes of audit reconciliation and insulation from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlwzkjEaQbE failures thereof]. A numbered PSB account is opened for Avon-El's "casino winnings" and he is left to experience the full delights of Pachadsberg at his own initiative.
*16: First round in the 1676 Elwynnese princely elections. Frederik Haabye Truls of the N&H wins a plurality but fails to secure a majority. In the second round, scheduled for next month, Mr Haabye Truls will face Meqael Mizarielion (AIP). Third-placed Stephen Lewis of the Verionist Union, although securing 76% of the Northern Commonwealth vote, did not manage to advance to the second round.
*18: The Ayreonist Independence Party and Amokolian People's Party, on one side, begin coalition talks with the Nationalist and Humanist Party and the Democratic Party on the other side.
*24: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks stall on the question of Conducator. N&H–DEM side steadfast that Nila Valgarai (DEM) is reelected to the position. AIP–APP side want an AIP candidate.

===IV===

*1: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks continue. The parties agree not to discuss the question of conducatorship for a week.
*6: The parties tentatively agree on a platform for governance of the congressional counties, based on national cohesion, an Amokolian curriculum in Amokolian bailiwicks, expanded private insurances of pension and ill health, a fairer taxation regime, and overview of the post-feudalist of justice system.
*7: The AIP–APP and N&H–DEM talks agree that if an Ayreonist wins the princely elections, the Democrats get the conducatorship, and if the N&H wins the princely elections, an Ayreonist gets the conducatorship.
*8: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]. In the second round, Frederik Haabye Truls (N&H) narrowly beat (51–49%) AIP contender Meqael Mizarierion for the position of Prince. As soon as the results were announced, Mr Haabye Truls swore the oath of office and took his seat in the Council of Eliria. Mr Mizarierion said, as soon as the results were announced, that he was pleased that he had been elected Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, and that he looked forward to leading the congressional government in Elwynn.
*9: The President of the Elwynnese Congress, Mr Benjamin Sluyjs (APP) brought forward the first reading of the motion to elect Meqael Mizarierion to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, heading a coalition government of the Nationalist & Humanist Party, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, the Amokolian People's Party, and the Ayreonist Independence Party.
*11: The Elwynnese Congress confirms the election of Meqael Mizarierion (AIP) to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, with 130 votes in favour (N&H, DEM, APP, AIP), and 119 votes against (VU, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI).
*12: Elwynnese congressional Conducator Meqael Mizarierion announces a twenty-member cabinet including himself consisting of 7 N&H members, 5 Democrats, 4 members of the Amokolian People's Party, and 3 additional members of the Ayreonist Independence Party. Outgoing conducator Nila Valgarai (DEM) is made Minister of Finance and notes wryly to the media that there are now no women in the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Shireroth]] wins the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]]. Kaiseress [[Salome]] awarded Shireroth's points personally, giving Sanama 12 points. She has, according to court rumours, a teen crush on the [[Sanama]]n singer Dimash Kudaibergen, awards Kudaibergen a title of Baronage (Baron Kudaibergen; in Shirerithian peerage, baronies are only granted foreigners), and has invited Kudaibergen for tea and cake. The Kaiseress also awards lordships in Shirekeep for the Coldplay members (the lowest form of nobility), remarking however that their song was "pathetic". She is happy, though, that the Florian Republic finally saw the light and gave Shireroth 12 points.
*22: The Kalgachi tabloid ''Private Ear'' fills its front page with two illustrations: a transcript of [[Brandenburger Post#Nur ein weiterer Tag im Reichstag|assurances given]] by the King of West Amokolia to the Prince of Elwynn on 17.I denying any intent to convert his realm into a Storish client state, next to a table displaying the Microvision votes of Stormark and West Amokolia in which they awarded each other the maximum points. Beneath, typeset in bold faux-runic, is the headline: ''"By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them"''.
**The ''Private Ear'' front page is featured prominently on [[Ransenar|Ransenari]] media ([[Kalirion Fracture#IV.1675|known for its sensationalism]]), triggering huge demand for issues of the tabloid to catch the illustrations. Putting it in context with [[West Amokolia]]'s brazen expansionist designs on Elsenar, opinion pages and media coverage reports on the illustrations as the latest salvo in the "war for the minds of the peoples of the Benacian continent", regarding the Vanic-West Amokolian cooperation in the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]] as a concerted effort to take control or influence the culture of the country and reinstate the "Vanic Web".
**The Daily Mail & Telegraph of Eliria, whilst disdaining to comment upon so vulgar a matter as the Microvision contest directly, being distinctly sniffy about "low culture", provided a droll analysis of the sociological and political factors that had combined to elevate the favouritism shown by Brandenburg to Haraldsborg to a matter of international concern. The paper duly dismissed the voting proclivities of the King of West Amokolia as being "a cheap shot concerning a trivial matter, one flung back in spite over having been so thoroughly drubbed by the international community for his misguided attempt to capitalise on the misfortunes of [[Verionist Benacia|Elsenar]]."
**Rumours circulate in Eliria concerning the abrupt departure of the [[Ander Avon-El|former Prince]] for a new academic posting in [[shire:Tala|Tala]], [[Raikoth]], accompanied by a sizeable close protection detail, in the same month that a new edict concerning the status of Elwynnese adherence to the [[Treaty of Concord]] is anticipated.
*23: [[Verionist Union]] leader, and Northern Conducator, [[Stephen Lewis]] holds a speech in Fieldburg, televised live in most parts of the country. He decries the ''"N&H takeover of the government"'' and warns that the Northern Commonwealth now ''"stands as a last resort, as often in our history, against the grubby hands of imperialist powers. Be it Storish, be it communists or be it the disasterous dictatorship of the Osmani Gang, whose black shadow falls over Benacia as the Star of Verion is pushed away to the North"''. In a response to questioning from journalists, Lewis refused to say if he recognised the new government, or would implement the policy of the new administration, instead replying with a cryptic ''"The North does as the North does".''
**Inhabitants of the [[Northern Commonwealth]] are bemused by a sudden blitz of publicity materials produced by the Court of the Prince detailing essential items to carry in a "grab bag" and other hints and tips for preparedness in the face of an unspecified emergency.
**Asked about Conducator Lewis' comments concerning the the "N&H takeover of the government" the press spokeswoman for the Court of the Prince tersely replied ''"It's called 'winning an election on the basis of a popular vote', Agha Lewis really ought to try it some time."''

===V===

*1: [[Operation Kulning]]: Driving through the night from [[Dragonskeep]], a detachment of [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] engineers and administrative personnel arrived in [[Fieldburg]] on the morning of 01.V.1676, under the command of ''Generalmajor'' Jan Gräbner. The Generalmajor's first act upon arrival was to summon the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels and Master of Cudgels, and the Deputy Director of the Panopticon Department, the heads of Republican law enforcement and security in the city, to join him for breakfast at the hotel which he had now requisitioned for a headquarters. Having taken the opportunity, over fried herrings, poached eggs, lingonberries, and rye bread, to remind his guests of their obligations to the [[Constitution of Elwynn|constitution]] and the democratic order of the Republic, the Generalmajor genially explained the purpose of his mission. [[Exercise Tempus Est]] had convinced the incoming Prince of the utility of the Agnesian Gulf, protected from boreal storms by the Cimmerian Isles, as a natural bastion for the naval forces of Elwynn and the [[Raspur Pact]] in [[Benacia]]. To this end existing harbour facilities at Port Illumination and Vijayanagara would be expanded and a new naval dockyard would be constructed on the island of Wolfraven. To support all of this would require significant investment in infrastructure in the region. The Generalmajor's task therefore was to identify land for purchase in Fieldburg and to identify from the available options an optimal site for the construction of a new UDF Operations Centre intended to coordinate all defence activities in the Agnesia-Cimmeria region. As the cudgellers were subject to a chain of command stretching back, via the fetchingly titled Bludgeoner-General of the [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels]], to the Court of the Prince, where their loyalties therefore must ultimately lay, the Generalmajor charged his breakfast partners with lending every assistance when it came to the matter of 'liaising' with representatives of the local authorities, who might be less than fully cooperative in view of the truculent attitude adopted by the [[Stephen Lewis|present Conducator]] in recent days.

===VI===

===VII===
[[File:1676p1.png|350px|thumb|right|[[N&H]] Propagandists in Eliria were seemingly either unwilling or unable to allow the purported demise of the [[House of Verion]] to pass without comment...]]
*16: Rumours begin to spread that a chartered [[Nakalma]] flight from [['s Koningenwaarde]] to the [[Verionian Empire|Verionian Imperial]] capital of Sarhat - carrying the [[Batavia|Batavian]] Prime Minister [[Joachim Mackay]], the [[Los Liberados|Liberadosan]] president [[Jacobo Castrigo Álvarez]] and the Viceroy of [[Verionist Benacia]] Jana Al-Basani - is [[Loss of Nakalma Flight 731|reported overdue]] and has made no communication with air traffic control since beginning its transit of the Great Western Sea. Their personal and business links aside, the improbable hubris and geopolitical implications of [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PutOnABus gathering so many important personages] at a single point of danger do not pass without remark. A long range patrol by a scout shuttle of the [[Natopian Defense Force]], overflying the vicinity on a suborbital trajectory, reported anomalous electromagnetic readings immediately prior to the disappearance of Flight 731 off air traffic control radar screens.
*17: Long convoys of trucks, armoured personnel carriers, and low-loaders carrying [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|vehicles shrouded under tarpaulin covers]] are reported as wending their way westwards from [[Merensk]] and [[Sansabury]] along the few good roads leading into the [[Siyacha Free State]] and the area of operations of the [[Black Legions#I Uihmanz|I Uihmanz]] facing the frontier with [[Kasterburg]]. Sources close to [[Benacia Command]] insist that the bringing up to strength of the establishments of formations attached to the 1st Corps was long over due and not made in response to any specific occurrence.
*19: The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]] Director of Benacian Operations, Bobbert Shrubschild, is waylaid by journalists on arrival at [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and questioned about the Corporation's reponse to the recent activation of a secret protocol between the governments of Los Liberados and the [[Florian Republic]], wherein the latter has assumed sovereignty over the former. Shrubschild states that "the Board of Directors are still assessing the situation but have decided that our head office will remain in [[Puerto Arcadio]] for now. With the apparent demise of Prime Minister Mackay, Batavia's increased vulnerability to the Vanic domino puts future trade with [[Batavian Confederation|its confederation]] in some doubt but the [[Eura|Euran]] market remains viable. The Florian Republic, having the institutional memory of a concussed goldfish, represents for our purposes an optimally deregulated business environment to which we would cautiously welcome a transition." Shortly afterwards, [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] is seen boarding an outbound flight on his way to an "emergency shareholder meeting".
*23: The [[Verionist Vespers]]<ref>Better name pending. At this juncture it is logical, with so many of its members having been exasperated by prior dealings with the avatars of Verionism, that the Pact would seek to tidy away the legacy of Verionism now that its leadership cadres have been obligingly removed from the scene.</ref> begin, with the [[Raspur Pact]] commencing the suppression of the [[Iron Company]] and the [[Verionist Union]] on a global scale.
**Religious hysteria grips the Bovic community in northern Benacia, already disorientated by the [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|schism]] in the [[Dozan Bovic Church]], with the ''herds'' (congregations) cleft between the mother church and the [[Benacian Bovic Church|schismatics]] of [[Drak-Modan]], as videos circulate purportedly showing the [[Butter Bull|most dreaded entity]] in the Bovic pantheon manifesting as the '''Blood Aurochs''', given substance by the slaughter carried out by the faithful on the gore splattered steps of his church in the bailiwick of Saint Biffor. Every individual who watches any of the video clips of the Blood Aurochs receives a commandment burnt into their psyche. The instruction varies according to the watcher but comes in the form of an intensely personal revelation that is invariably homicidal in its ultimate intent. Authorities have suspended the data networks of northern Elwynn in an effort to slow the spread of the videos and have sought the assistance of both Bovic Churches, along with their [[Church of Elwynn|Elwynnese brethren]] in an attempt to locate and destroy all physical copies of the same. The creation of a memetic murder plague was an unexpected development to say the least, which would go on to significantly complicate efforts to restore order in the Northern Commonwealth.
*24: After it became clear that the Batavian prime minister is most likely no longer alive, the king instituted a state of emergency.

===VIII===
*16 :
** [[Karel Kyle]] is born, the second child of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy and [[Clara Sundara|Clara des Vinandy - Sundara Waffel-Paine]].
** The city of [[Chryste]] was transferred to the [[Batavia|Kingdom of Batavia]] by [[Verionist Republic]].

*23 : [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Fanlin|Operation Fanlin]] is declared complete. The remaining territory of Southern Lunaris, as determined by the [[Guttuli Protectorate]]'s treaty with the [[Ransenar]], is reorganized into four commands. Resettlement programs are launched to bring the territory into line with the cultural and socio-economic nature of the remainder of the Protectorate.

===XI===

*6: Evert Flint, the [[Verionist Union|Verionist]] President of [[Elwynn]]'s Northern Congress, orders a full recess until further notice of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature.

*10: Anti-Verionist backlash in the Northern Commonwealth continues, fueled by Bovic extremist rhetoric.

*24: The Kalgachi government opens an Extraordinary Grand Council - the third in its history - to deliberate on the country's future in the context of a re-congealing Benacian order. Speaking to reporters, Lady Lieutenant [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]] of Oktavyan denies rumours that Kalgachia is re-entering an isolationist phase and that "''all present foreign trade arrangements will be maintained insofar as they are salvageable and sustainable in a post-Verion context. The extent to which this is the case remains to be precisely determined.''"

===X===

*8: Evert Flint, the Verionist speaker of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature (now in recess), was apprehended by a [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] snatch squad and conveyed to Eliria. Upon his arrival there he was obliged, whilst in some discomfort discusses on account of the manner in which he was handled during transit, to discuss the political crisis with a special committee formed the Congressional Counties government. The CC government pushes for a reintegration of the Northern Commonwealth into the Congressional Counties, which the Verionist rejected out of hand. "We would rather die", he was quoted to say. "That can be arranged", one of his interlocutors was heard to answer.

===XI===

*10: Evert Flint, president of the Northern Commonwealth congress and de facto conducator in the absence of [[Stephen Lewis]], meets with the Council of Eliria, the [[Dozan Bovic Church]]'s Eparchy of Benacia, members of the Verionist Union rump leadership, and representatives of the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear. The Verionists understand that their days are numbered. The Bovic church assumes some responsibility for the actions by Bovic extremists in the Northern Commonwealth targeting Verionists violently. Conducator Meqael Mizarierion, a noted critic of the Bovic religion, moves to let the Bovics clean up the mess they instigated. The Bovic church denies that they created the mess, saying it was the Verionists who did, but that they do take responsibility for acts committed in Bous's name. "Genocide, however, has no place in Elwynn." The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear moves to establish an Icebear autonomous republic in Cimmeria. Other delegates at the meeting ignore the proposal.

*20: Negotiations regarding the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth continue. Evert Flint asks for amnesty for Verionists in exchange for a peaceful solution. Mezarierion agrees.

===XII===

*1: Official negotiations with the Council of Eliria regarding the Northern Commonwealth's political situation are announced to have failed. The rump legislature leadership, Evert Flint, the Dozan Bovic Church, the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, and Conducator Meqael Mizarierion begin informal discussions outside the remit of the Council of Eliria.
*11: After ten days of intense negotiations with regard to the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth, it is agreed:
** The Verionist Union to be dissolved within the Elwynnese Republic, its assets used to grant pensions to the leadership of the party. Verionist leaders (defined to include members of the Verionist Union board of directors, Verionist members of the Elwynnese legislatures, and Verionist members of the autonomous republics' governments) to refrain from political activity for life. In return, they will be granted a pension for life, funded by the Congressional Counties and Northern Commonwealth governments as well as the Verionist liquidation fund. Verionists in the legislatures shall resign en masse immediately upon the deal's ratification by the Northern Commonwealth's congress, and their seats remain absent until the next elections.
** Eki Verion to remain under house arrest, the funding of which rests on the
** The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear to close all its missions outside Cimmeria. In return, the Church will receive an annual fund from the Northern Commonwealth budget.
** The Dozan Bovic Church agrees not to have missionaries, clergy or congregations in Cimmeria.
** A total amnesty of all crimes committed in the Northern Commonwealth between the date of Stephen Lewis's disappearance and the ratification of this deal by the Northern Commonwealth legislature.
** Until new elections are held in the Northern Commonwealth, Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion and his wife Li Naomiai to lead the Northern Commonwealth government.
*12: The Northern Commonwealth's rump legislature, called back to session, ratifies the informal deal by electing [[Li Naomiai|Li Naomiai Avon-El]] the president of Northern Congress and her husband [[Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion]] (the son of Kaiseress Noor, former Prince of Elwynn, Bovic theologian) to Conducator of the Northern Congress. Li Naomiai's first act is to suspend the legislature until peace is restored in the Northern Commonwealth and new elections held.
*20: The Board of Directors of [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group, Inc]], in accordance with rights vested in or exercised by the Corporation of the Seneschal of the march on behalf of the Corporation of the Marchioness of [[Zy-Rodun]], pursuant to The First Protocol (Governance) of the Technical Cooperation Agreement & Structural Assistance Programme Between the [[Raspur Pact]] and Emirate of Sathrati, resolves to designate the Director of Benacian Operations, [[Garvin Hendriksson]], to serve as Plenipotentiary of the Honourable Company with respect to [[Sathrati|The Emirate of Sathrati together with the Imperial Dominion of the Marquessate of Zy-Rodun and the Counties of Yardistan, Amity, and Mirioth]], and possesses complete authority to act in the name of the Board of Directors of the Honourable Company, unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors. The appointment of a Principal Secretary of State and Undersecretaries are ratified.
*21: Kalgachia's Extraordinary Grand Council concludes its session. Its rulings assert a comfortable attitude toward the trajectory of Benacian geopolitics, establish an armed force for the [[Upland Confederation]] to relieve pressure on the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] and slow the filling of non-native raw material stockpiles from expansion levels to maintenance levels whilst leaving foreign trade routes open. The Council's most notable rulings are in the field of religious doctrine; namely the canonisation of [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|Vascarina Goldcluck]] and the classification of the undead and [[Deep Singers]] as manifestations of a divine "''temporary intervention''" whose "''recontextualisation''" is required for post-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] culture to "''move beyond its [[Brookshire|Caverdenian]] origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.''" The latter declaration takes many by surprise and is interpreted variously as a reaction to the renewed torpor of [[Lord Toastypops]], an attempt to undercut the moral authority of the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]] in the [[UGB|Southern Post-Minarborian Space]], or a combination.

===XIV===

*12: The Directive on Marriage, Reproductive Function, and Societal Obligation is published by [[Benacia Command]], taking effect across the territories of the [[Unified Governorates]]. Superseding [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19062 Imperial Decree 865]<ref>The existence of [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22746 Imperial Decree 1180] having been largely rejected and ignored by territories under the influence of the Nationalist-Humanist movement even during the reign of [[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]</ref> the new directive mainly preserved the intent of the original Imperial law albeit dispensing with the disagreeable licence afforded to the now abolished aristocracy to marry as they pleased. Key improvements upon the preceding law was the codification of the ''Age of Obligation''<ref>The obligation to perform duties considered consensual activities in other societies</ref> at sixteen years of age, and an effort to place the arrangement of marriage onto a scientific and rational basis by involving municipal government, the guilds, and health authorities, in the selection and pairing of suitable partners in each graduating age cohort. Notably the primary purpose of marriage was to drive procreation, with some allowance to the function of the family unit as an engine of social cohesion and stability. Romantic sentiment, therefore being a significantly more tertiary consideration, became largely the preserve of those deemed unsuitable or incapable of breeding. The institution of civil unions, previously established as a sop to those denizens ineligible for marriage under the old arrangements, was allowed to lapse. Barren marriages would be annulled after their tenth year and childlessness would be punished by the levying of a mandatory tax, used to fund a system of rewards and benefits afforded to successful breeding pairs, with a lifelong stipend for those who reached the target of four children birthed per household and a bonus for every surplus child born.
*18: The first [[Committee for Popular Vigilance]] is established in Gloomburg, an otherwise obscure and overlooked city of the Unified Governorates, with the espoused aim of suppressing profanity, immorality, and other lewd activities in general, and the establishment of reformatories, modelled upon the worker colonies which formerly housed the [[Froyalaners]], for the housing of the recalcitrant.
*20: Joint [[Benacia Command]]-[[Ransenar]]i procurement programme announced to equip [[Grand Army of Ransenar|Ransenari Regimental Corps of Artillery]] with ordnance appropriate to its mission profile. At present the artillery arm, bereft of field guns, has primary responsibility for ground-based air defence, custodianship of missile stockpiles, and the operating of the [[Military of Ransenar|Royal Ransenari Armed Forces]] complement of fifty "Tadpole" tactical reconnaissance drones.

==1677==
===I===
* 1: [[Benjamin Cambernon]] has been appointed [[Prime Minister of Batavia]].
*23: First reformatory opens in [[Laikum's Wald]], a model settlement established in the Litel Governorate ([[UGB]]).
===II===
===III===
*6: Obsolete and worn airframes, especially of the B-49 Delta and B-66 Vulcan which have been in continuous service with the Imperial Forces and [[Benacia Command]] since the late 1630's, begin to transfer, via long haul flights and staging points in [[Most Serene Union|Istvanistan]] and [[Alrodey]] to the [[Raspur Pact|Pact's]] strategic aviation reserve, particularly for storage in the so-called Boneyard of [[Arak]].
*14: The venerable [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1(MBT) Bandersnatch]] is retired from service in the [[Black Legions]]. Once held to be a vehicle of great promise, the [[shire:Gravimetrics|gravimetric drive]] propulsion system of the gravtank in particular proved to be technologically complex, logistically burdensome, and unreliable under field conditions. The folly of Bandersnatch commanders pressing ahead of their supporting troops in pursuit of the "main chance" was amply demonstrated during the [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=8791#p92722 Battle of 's-Koningenwaarde]. After this nadir of the Imperial Army, concurrent with the maturation of [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|interdiction technologies]], the Bandersnatch was never again afforded licence to roam at will across the land - being instead constrained to remain behind its accompanying defensive screen of [[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|Horjins]], [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirds]], and legionaries - fundamentally curbing its utility in mobile warfare. Eventually Benacia Command concluded that the cumulative force, in terms of firepower and mobility, dedicated to protecting Bandersnatches in the field were sufficient - in and of themselves - to accomplish the majority of missions the Bandersnatch might reasonably have been expected to undertake.
**News of the Bandersnatch's retirement is met with a mixture of relief and sentimental lament among [[Military of Kalgachia|armed forces of Kalgachia]] for whom it inspired, to date, the company-level deployment of 2,948 hypersonic kinetic missiles with replenishment stocks in the high tens of thousands, gifting them one of the most potent infantry anti-tank capabilities on Micras and unwittingly amassing one of its largest reserves of refined tungsten. Citing this economic value, along with the missiles' proven utility as one of the few weapons capable of a one-shot kill against a [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], a spokesman for the Kalgachi Defence Force Armaments Office announces that there are no plans for a reduction in anti-gravtank weapon stocks.
*15: The undisguised build up of forces in Caverden, [[Drak-Modan]], and [[Sathrati]] would appear to indicate that Benacia Command is once again turning its attention back to the festering problem of the [[Guttuli Protectorate]].
*20: Reports of incursions by the [[Guttuli Protectorate#Guttuli Corps|Guttuli Corps]] into the region of the Crestfallen Hills, conducted under the pretext of harrying the [[Revolutionary Army of Crisco|remnant rebel forces]] cut off by the [[Verionist Vespers|sudden collapse]] of the Verionist regime in southern Benacia, are relayed by [[Benacia Command]] to the Permanent Commission of the [[Raspur Pact]]. The [[Constantine Loup|High Commissioner]] presented the findings to the Commission with an admonition that any further retreat of [[Shireroth|Imperial]] sovereignty in Caverden would represent the toppling of the first domino in a sequence that would cascade into the final, absolute, and irrevocable collapse of what remained of the Kaiser's writ over southern and eastern Benacia - with dire consequences for the security of Pact member-states in Benacia. The message presented to the commissioners in Loup's peroration was that they were either to act together to ensure collective security by standing against the Guttuli Protectorate now or else, if not, they were free to make individual accommodations with the Guttuli but with their track record in Lunaris in mind it should be understood that those who place their faith in treaties with the regime are merely hoping for the privilege of being devoured last. With these concluding remarks two motions were tabled - firstly to establish an allied training mission to support the [[Army of Caverden]] and its organisation into an effective force, whilst the second was to institute a thorough quarantine of the Protectorate, sealing the borders and interdicting the sea lanes, until such time as the Guttuli relinquished their occupation of the Lowbrook region and ceased its genocidal policy in occupied portions of southern Lunaris.
*21: Land border between [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and [[Ransenar]] sealed without explanation. Travellers on Guttuli papers in Ransenari territory detained by [[Internal Security Bureau (Benacia Command)|plain clothes officers]] with support from local security forces whilst Guttuli flagged ships and commercial aircraft are similarly impounded.
*22: [[Benacia Command]] issues a "no-fly" order concerning all Guttuli registered aviation assets, authorising the use of deadly force as a last resort if efforts to turn any Guttuli aircraft to return to ground in their own air space fail.
*23: Telephone exchanges and electronic communications networks operated by the Guttuli Protectorate begin to experience connectivity issues. Gradually becoming apparent that Guttuli controlled nodes are being isolated from the vestigial [[shire:Benacian Data Network|Benacian Data Network]] and being physically disconnected by the digging up of communications cables in border regions.

===IV===

*05: The Sabatini Squadron of the [[Benacia Command|Southern Banner Group]] resumes pattern of boarding, searching, and seizing vessels suspected of conducting trade in Guttuli ports, irrespective of registry flag.

===V===
*17: The [[Navy of Ransenar]] announces, with considerable fanfare, the capture of suspected smuggler vessel the [[Jolly Froyalaner]] in Ransenari territorial waters. Credit attributed to two corvette captains presented to Pact affiliated media as emblematic of the professionalism and ''espirit de corps'' of the new navy. With the news of the seizure comes the first explicit acknowledgement of the Pact's [[Permanent Committee Directive 1677/1 |new quarantine policy]] towards the Guttuli Protectorate.
**The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], the last known operator of the ''Jolly Froyalaner'', initially denies accusations of the vessel's involvement in arms trafficking until the Ransenari Navy releases video and photographic evidence of the assorted infantry weapons filling its hold, whereupon the Corporation characterises the vessel as "an independently owned maritime conveyance under the Corporation's intermittent charter which was not in effect at the time of its seizure." The Corporation nonetheless announces that it is negotiating for the vessel's release.
*18: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' arrives empty at Torpentus Creek, its Guttuli operating base where its skipper meets with officials of [[Guttuli Protectorate/Svalbarh|Command Svalbarh]] on behalf of the vessel's indeterminate owners to settle liability for the lost cargo. Finding himself outnumbered among armed hosts who are accustomed to the cash-on-delivery precedents of his previous voyages, the skipper is persuaded at length to waive the expected payment of local commodities for foreign sale. Instead these are purchased with gold [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrands]] cut from the inner lining of his purser's pea coat - the ''Froyalaner'' is duly loaded with foodstuffs, hand tools and nitrate fertiliser before setting sail that evening, keeping close inshore instead of heading directly for open water.
*20: Following an emergency meeting of the Protectorate Military Council, a Joint Office for Naval Works was formed between the Office for Medium Machining, the Office for Great Guns, and the Office for High Seas Acquisitions, with the intention to coordinate and oversee the construction and outfitting of new combat vessels. Tribune K. Elisz, formerly the chief overseeing officer for Kern Industries under the Office for Upper-Musika, is reassigned to GU-Furgsad and given command of a light battlegroup in Salb Bresa. His replacement, Tribune T. Hælzik, is tasked with prioritizing the completion of four corvettes that are two years past due on delivery to the Guttuli Corps. Salbs Aïreon and Meskan ordered to mobilize and redeploy to Meszor, directive issued for the provision of transports to ferry them across the river.

===VI===
*8: An early-morning patrol of Guttulinese coastal barrier troops encounters the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' beached on the shore of the Bay of Sleep. Its visibly unsettled crew point to a series of high-calibre bullet holes in the hull and describe a close escape from a pursuing Ransenari corvette in which they were obliged to throw their cargo of infantry weapons overboard to lighten draught and increase speed, before grounding the vessel to effect hull repairs and await refloating by the incoming tide. The skipper's suggestion to fill the vessel with weapons from the local troops' armoury, to be passed off in Svalbarh as the lost cargo in exchange for a cut of the payment, is firmly declined.

===VII===
*6: The Guttuli Protectorate commissions its first corvette, the ''PS Bætrsuir'' ("Bitter Storm"). It is assigned to Ałeþus Morsva for patrol of the northern Shire Sea and protection of cargo vessels.
*8: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' returns to Torpentus Creek from yet another voyage without its promised cargo of small arms. In the face of increasing dissatisfaction from his local customers, the ''Froyalaner's'' skipper announces his intention to sail for Svalbarh and arrange a meeting with senior Guttuli Corps commanders wherein the vessel's future movements can be more properly coordinated with Guttulinese naval assets.

*9: As the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' approaches the port of Svalbarh, it is met by the local pilot boat. After a short conversation about the present arrangement of the shifting mudflats, the pilot is shot dead along with the coxswain of his boat and the ''Froyalaner'' accelerates to full speed, launching its complement of four container-housed [[S-2 Standard Missile|S-2 Standard missiles]] on a trajectory aimed at Svalbarh's Temple of Morsva. Upon reaching the port it draws sharply alongside the largest Guttulinese merchant vessel it can find and secures itself with grappling lines over the latter's gunwales, laying down heavy small arms fire in all directions to suppress resistance. Timers are then set in the ''Froyalaner's'' explosives-packed hold with barely sufficient delay for its crew to launch an outboard-powered pinnace and get clear of the blast zone, making thence for an escape toward the open sea.
** At the same time as the Svalbarh attack, a section of Guttulinese troops patrolling the southwestern approach road to Erianamor is ambushed by heavy fire on open ground, killing the majority and driving the rest to ground with disciplined bursts from multiple light machine guns. The suppression provides cover for a hasty looting of the fallen Guttulinese, the pinning of a note to the body of its commanding Decurion and a covered withdrawal into the surrounding scrub. The note proclaims to be from a new partisan group called the [[Children of Salus]], demanding an end to the extermination of the Lunatics and the creation of an interior safe zone for them.
** The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] issues a statement admitting responsibility for the ''Jolly Froyalaner's'' actions and the feigning of lost arms shipments in collusion with the [[Navy of Ransenar]] as cover for their diversion to the Children of Salus. The Corporation - which is 22% owned by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|the heir]] of Lunaris' old ruling house - cites the Guttuli Protectorate's betrayal of an agreement to end the extermination of the Lunatics as a condition of the arms smuggling deal, concluding that the Protectorate has ''"has forfeited the right to good faith and honest commerce from its nominal trade partners."''
*10: Authority Erinmur is put under martial law, under the order of the Office for the Fanlinunig. Nineteen worker colonies located throughout the Fanlinunig Region are each instructed to select ten Lunatics from their list of community leaders; those selected are to be sawn open at morning roll-call for the colony's instruction. Salb Ikol issues an order cancelling recreational duties (excepting those associated with the Office for Agricultural Improvement) in order to intensify bandit-hunting operations in and around Erinmur in order to deal with the new organized threat. Captors found alive are to be sacrificed as whole-burnt offerings to Ikol.
*11: In reaction to events in Lunaris, the Department of State of the Republic of [[Alduria]] has announced that it is considering imposing trade sanctions on the [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and the removal of its military advisers in Punta Santiago if its Lunatic genocide does not end quickly.
** Lunatic refugees housed and resettled in [[Ransenar]] begin to organize their own militias and paramilitary groups, seeking [[Military of Ransenar|official recognition and permission]] from the government of Ransenar to operate legally.
*12: Guttuli representatives in Alduria meet with the Secretary of State, Augusto Benavides, in an attempt to stave off further restrictions on Guttulinese trade. During the meeting, they plead with him for understanding, in consideration for the bitterness of several years of struggle, attempt to reassure him that the [[wikipedia:Theresienstadt|Lunatics placed in protective custody are guaranteed adequate living conditions and opportunities to maintain their society]] in settlements where the Lunatics cooperate with the authorities and govern their own internal affairs, and insist that [[wikipedia:fake news|rumors of harsh or inhumane treatment are falsified]] in order to justify the toppling of the Guttuli regime by the [[Vulture States|other powers in Benacia]].
*18: An elderly woman, walking alone on the Meszor/Erinmur road with a stick in one hand and the dead-switch of a suicide vest in the other, attracts the inevitable truck full of Guttulinese troops which swerves aside to run her over and is destroyed in the ensuing blast. Further north, a man in the imitation uniform of a Guttuli Corps Draconary denonates himself when a staff vehicle pulls over to offer him a ride.
*21: Canisters of monochrome photographic film showing public reprisal killings in Erianamor, shot at tilted angles through the half-obstructed lens of a concealed camera, are dispatched toward Ransenar by carrier pigeon for dissemination in the global media.
*23: Children of Salus partisans attack a 'labour settlement' in Western Castra, breaching a portion of its perimeter and covering the escape of some 270 Lunatic inmates with automatic weapons fire. These disperse into small groups and head for the nearby Lacus Conticinium marshes; the last to escape the camp without being gunned down by its rallying guards are given weapons on the spot and enlisted to help cover the withdrawal.

===VIII===
*3: An assembly of notables elects Viscount Nogent Gottschalk, an exile from [[Ankh]] and a former Tribune of Legion VII, as Generalissimo of the [[Army of Caverden]]. A die-hard Imperialist, Gottschalk represents the reactionary tendency which has been gathering pace amongst the landed gentry and the dispossessed against all the [[Vulture States]] that have infested Benacia since the [[Kalirion Fracture|fracture]]. Hostile towards all vulture states, and contemptuous of the [[shire:House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Kalirion Dynasty]] whose failings had given licence to traitors and secessionists, Gottschalk's primary merit in the eyes of his peers was his poisonous hatred towards his [[Guttuli Protectorate|former comrades]] and the legatine commanders of the Corps VII and VIII of the Riverine Army for betraying the Golden Mango Throne and their [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Liven|occupation]] of [[Ankh]].
*4: After ordering a delegation from the assembly to depart and muster 15,000 bannermen at Isenbury, Gottschalk, with a small military escort of untitled nobility, began his eastward trek from Maltenstein towards the lands of the Dominion of Ynnraile-Crisco. A multitude of 20,000 commoners, armed with [[M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm Rifle|various antique rifles]] and accompanied by outriders from the noble houses of Caverden, followed in the wake of the Generalissimo, conscripting porters and seizing provisions from communities all along their line of march.
**With vehicles-borne retainers and the Generalissimo in the van and the armed feudal levies, followed by a multitude of camp followers, bringing up the rear, the host covered a distance of 12km(x [[Riq]]s) on the first day. At nightfall a hooded seer and his retinue of misshapen followers gained admittance to the camp, a mess of tents enrounded by a palisade, hastily dug ditches, and a score of scraped out firing positions. With this figure was dragged a luckless, battered and bruised, figure whose self-bewailed misfortune was a source of jollity and restorative humour to the camp followers who had been earlier cudgelled into the task of digging for the Army. This wretch, the seer explained, was a merchant, a collaborator with the Guttuli from [[Barrowfield]] who had been snatched up on the road to road to Lichport by "gentlemen of the road"<ref>A loose confederacy of slavers, active in Eastern Benacia following the Kalirion Fracture of 1671.</ref> who generously relinquished their reluctant guest to the seer and his entourage after being subject to persuasion no less gentle than that which they themselves practised. It was at the suggestion of the Hooded Seer that Gottschalk remembered an ancient ritual of the First Era of Shirerithian history and summoned his commanders to his tent. There the captive was stripped to his waist, bound, and forced to his knees. Each regimental commander was in turn presented with a blade and invited to carve slices of the living flesh from the wailing, now squealing, captive. For a full three quarters of an hour this grim ritual continued until, at last, the poor wretch was at the point of death, whereupon the Hooded Seer presented to Gottschalk a nicked and timeworn sword, whose blade seemingly shimmered and seethed in shades of black and green. Having been bade to strike, Gottschalk struck off the man's head with a single blow, the blood hissing and boiling as it issued forth from the truncated stump of the dead man's neck - the mortal blow having seemingly been cauterised by the passage of the blade. Astonished, Gottschalk tentatively pressed a finger to the sword's cutting edge, expecting to be scolded but instead finding it deathly cool. The Seer happened to remark that the blade had now found a suitable keeper and Gottschalk, suddenly possessed by a curiously possessive impulse was obliged to agree. In any event, it was by this manner that the men of Caverden declared war, in the ancient fashion, upon the Guttuli Protectorate.
*5: [[1677 Northern Commonwealth election]]. In a low-key election across the bailiwicks of [[Elwynn]]'s [[Northern Commonwealth]] for its Congress (up and to this point suspended since the end of Verionism and the so-called peace agreement), no party achieves majority, but pro-integration parties win a majority. In this case, pro-integration means the integration of the Northern Commonwealth to the [[Congressional Counties]].
*6: Under the guidance of freed forced labourers who were involved in its original construction and upkeep, groups of Lunatic partisans work at night to dismantle the corduroy road leading from Erianamor to the Temple of Lockenhasp in multiple places. The following morning, the first light vehicles held up by the resulting gaps of sodden marsh are ambushed by a company-sized partisan force from prepared positions in the surrounding mud-swamped tussocks and thoroughly looted. A noon counteroffensive by a column of [[Guttuli Protectorate/BK-1A1|armoured vehicles]] out of Erianamor is waylaid some twelve kilometres east by a salvo from half a dozen recoilless rifles and tankgewehrs which, after knocking out the lead and rear vehicles, are nonetheless obliged to retire in the face of suppressive fire from the middle vehicles' disgorged infantry. An attempt by the latter to pursue the retreating heavy weapon bearers into a willow thicket runs into a prepared secondary ambush from a pair of light machine guns, snipers camouflaged in the surrounding reeds and at least one light mortar firing airburst-fuzed shells to assure its effect in the mud.
*7: Pressed to comment on the country's involvement in resourcing and training the [[Children of Salus]], Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] announces that "''such activity is a purely economic matter, falling outside the diplomatic remit of this Directorate but fully within the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]]'s commercial duty to assure the agreed terms of those trade undertakings to which it is party. The extent to which the Guttuli Protectorate is prepared to return to those terms and thereby de-necessitate their enforcement by the Corporation on its behalf shall doubtless determine the future course and duration of the conflict.''"
**Financier [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] hosts a luncheon of senior [[Benacia Command]] officers in the Kalgachi resort town of Pachadsberg wherein the services of the [[Allied Production Matrix]] to quasi-state actors, the settlement of consequent payments and the deposition of supplemental off-book administrative fees in [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|bullion-based means of exchange]] at the local Puckadobey Savings Bank are queried and expounded.
*9: [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]] declared. A directive is passed down from the Protectorate Military Council to regional economic managers to cut their losses concerning the labor population; useful materials are to be relocated out of the emergency area, the remainder is to be denied to the enemy.
*10: As news spreads that Guttulinese troops are arriving to deport or liquidate the ghettoised surviving natives of Erianamor, the trickle of smuggled arms which reached the city are retreived from their hiding places and an armed uprising begins. The rebels' initial plan to hold the entire city - impossible as they are forced to act before sufficient arms stocks have been accumulated - is quickly scaled down to a last stand in the long burned-out shells of three community playhouses (the only local structures other than Guttuli Corps bases which are solid enough to offer sustained protection against gunfire) and a constellation of small barricades in the triangle of streets and dwellings between them. As local Guttulinese forces throw themselves into counterattack, control of the territory shifts frequently in house-to-house fighting with rebels forced to move often between fixed positions and close hard with opposing forces to avoid the latter's effective use of heavy weapons. The rubble and splintered timber created by such bombardments forms new points of cover as the initial barricades are systematically blasted apart, allowing the more mobile rebels some immediate measure of survival whilst the slower-witted are torn apart by incoming fire of all calibres and their dropped weapons are sought out by unarmed refugees who vastly outnumber the small arms available.
*11: In the stump-ridden forest remnants southeast of Erianamor, Children of Salus reconnaissance parties observe captive Lunatic labourers destroying their logging camp in preparation for its abandonment and an attack is launched to liberate them before they can be liquidated or deported. The ensuing use of assorted incendiary munitions by the camp's defenders starts a large brushfire which obliges the partisans to withdraw early; their keen knowledge of the local topography nonetheless allows them to lead a number of escaped labourers away amid the cover of thick smoke. Similar attacks are launched throughout the deforested surrounds of Erianamor with varying degrees of success.
*12:
** [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]]. An attempted liberation by the Children of Salus of a convoy of male adult Lunatic laborers headed from Prata to Salzæl is impeded, when explosives loaded into each passenger car are detonated. The detonation, set off by a released Operator Presence Control (the operator in question having died), also relayed a signal to Salb Ikol headquarters. The entire vicinity was then bombarded with thermobaric weapons in an attempt to consume any partisans involved in the liberation attempt. In his after-action report, Legate Hurst Mennin wrote "Roads can be rebuilt. Cattle cannot be unslaughtered."
** Footage is released internationally by the Office for the Kraln, sourced from the Office for Documentary Production and Acceptance, showing some of the activities of the Children of Salus terrorist group intercut with that of fleeing civilians being sheltered by members of the Guttuli Corps. A brief statement is included with the footage, describing the Children of Salus as attacking innocent civilians, not just Children of the Sun, but also residents of the Arya ethnic group. Having disturbed the peace that the Protectorate had brought to Erinmur, this terrorist group intends to cleanse the region of other ethnic groups and establish an ethnostate in the center of the multi-ethnic Guttuli Protectorate.
*14: Erianamor Uprising: Guttulinese troops pull back to a newly-established perimeter, where combat engineers have levelled buildings flat, so that the Corps' superior firepower can be best utilized. The isolated city quarter is then bombarded into rubble.
*15: Erianamor Uprising: a group of civilians caught in the bombardment area surrender at the perimeter. None survive. As the rolling bombardment continues, combat engineers deploy to raze partially demolished buildings and increase visibility. Electronic Warfare units maintain signal interference.
*19/20: At nightfall, the Children of Salus launch numerous attacks against Streïhvasza B of the Guttuli Corps' Salb Aleï, whose string of watchposts along the Ransenari frontier - despite being located closest to the partisan-held interior marshes - is the most thinly-spread on that line at approximately seven troops per kilometre and oriented mostly northward. The concentration of partisan forces against thinly-defended posts of Streïhvasza B's static infantry secures direct contact with Ransenari territory in several places for the rest of the night, allowing waiting trains of pack-bearing men and horses to infiltrate, disperse and proceed southward for rendezvous with partisans in the marshes. Streïhvasza B is forced to choose between defending its small posts against more numerous attackers or concentrating into a larger force - thereby leaving wider sections of the frontier open to infiltration until the more mobile Streïhvasza A can move in to assist, degrading the defence of its own sector in the process. The inevitable chain of compromises enables a large number of sympathetic volunteers - natives of Upper Lunaris who have assembled and armed themselves with the apparent toleration of the Ransenari authorities - to infiltrate at several points across the central "Eldasaï" sector of the Guttulinese defence line. By dawn their horse-mounted elements have already reached the cover of partisan-held marshes and their foot elements are well dispersed in the intervening country, supported by partisans from the initial attack who now form a rear guard against those Guttulinese forces who might abandon control of the border to give chase.
*20: A small celebration is held at the Port of Svalbarh, in the Morsva District, heralding the reopening of the Southern Wharf after the damage inflicted by the destruction of ''Jolly Froyalaner'' and ''Mysts of Albion''. The event was marked by the docking of ''Gewgaw'', whose cargo was left undisclosed and was only unloaded under cover of night and under heavy guard.
*20/21: [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]]. After the imposition of evening curfew, Guttulinese personnel withdraw from twelve labor settlements in Authority Prata. Once beyond the perimeter fence, each of the labor settlements is incinerated with its inhabitants at bed. These settlements had previously been scheduled for "restructuring and downsizing" to commence next month. Salb Ikol troops scour through remains to ensure total effectiveness. The Protectorate Military Council authorizes the deploying of additional troops and equipment to Salb Ikol in order to extend this program to the remainder of Authority Prata.
*21:
**In response to the previous day's border violation, Salb Aleï recalls all non-essential personnel assigned to home duties and lodges a request with the Office for Winter for the release of heavy equipment to supplement these additional troops.
**Following the regular weekly meeting of the Protectorate Military Council, several government offices begin issuing directives for restructuring to reduce the accepted level of corruption, intended to free up administrative resources for the renewed combat in Eastern Guttuli, or, as the Third Deputy Chief of Staff for the Fanlinunig puts it in a memo to his staff, "word from the higher ups is that we need to prioritize combat effectiveness. All other proclivities to be substantially reduced in order to keep the soldiery well-led, well-equipped, and well-motivated. The Office for Agricultural Improvement will likely be the only office to expand its services from this."
*23: Following a majority vote taken by the Board of Requirements, the controlling interests of the [[Allied Production Matrix]] announced that, with effect from 01.IX.1677, civic authorities, municipal corporations, and certain rigorously vetted privately owned enterprises, would henceforth be able to [[Allied Production Matrix/Board of Requirements|table procurement orders]] directly with the APM for small arms, training aircraft, rotorcraft, support vehicles, and vessels lacking main armament. Customary export bans to USSO and Vanic states would however remain in effect.
*25: The [[Guttuli Protectorate]] commissions its second and third corvettes, ''PS Hahhars'' ("Tall Wave") and ''PS Kulïulk'' ("Twilight Cloud"). They are assigned to Ałeþus Ulmaïnakin to patrol the Shire Sea between Lichport and Mirioth.

===IX===
*5: The Children of Salus attack a formation of Guttulinese combat engineers who are building a marshwater pumping station in northeastern Diusagra, thought to be attempting a drainage of the interior marshes to the River Elwynn via the irrigation works of the intervening agricultural lands. The attack, being entirely anticipated, is thrown back with substantial partisan casualties although the station's main equipment - a high-volume pump and its associated generator awaiting installation on the back of a flatbed [[Guttuli Protectorate/HK-1A1|HK-1A1]] - is destroyed by recoilless rifle fire.
*6: After a series of incidents and complaints from famished civilians, the isolated rebels in Erianamor - who have been shelled out of their smallest 'playhouse' bastion and now occupy a strip of shattered ground between the remaining two - meet in a rubble-reinforced cellar to discuss the terms by which cannibalism is permissible. It is agreed that only willing donors be consumed and that the unauthorised consumption of non-donor dead confers donor status upon the offender, to be enforced summarily. After further complaints a clarificatory note is passed around the zone's dugouts later in the day, to the effect that parents may ''not'' donate their children. From this period the more elderly of the zone's inhabitants, being both physically weaker and more mentally inured to ancient Eriana-era precepts of blood sacrifice, cease to make an appearance. Cultural notions of sacrifice also offer some filament of morale among the rebels, who express a strained satisfaction to each other at the ongoing depletion of Guttulinese ordnance stocks and remark that "''every shell lobbed at us is one that can't be landed on the heads of our brothers and sisters in the countryside.''"
*10: The Protectorate Military Council issues a directive, renaming Erianamor ''Æmsunig'', "Place of Embers", to commemorate the cleaning away of the old quarter. Proposals are offered to repave and rebuild the city along Guttulinese geometric standards. Offerings are made to Ikol, supervised by Legate Hurst Mennin, whose only comment on the rite was that it was "most beautiful".
*13: The Permanent Committee of the [[Raspur Pact]] announced that, with immediate effect, denizens, contractually obligated "loyal subjects", and unfree "community servants" (excluding [[Froyalaners|certain categories]] of "Protected Persons") in [[Shireroth]] and [[Sathrati]] would be granted manumission and full-citizenship rights if they voluntarily registered for transportation to underpopulated regions of the [[Raspur Pact]] such as the [[Unified Governorates]], [[Constancia]], and [[Natopia]]n-administered [[Normark]]. The surprise registered by the Shirerithian [[Imperial Regency|regency]] and the [[Council of Sathrati]] at this new policy initiative was mollified somewhat by the proposal that each emigrant would be represented on the balance sheet as an interest bearing loan repayable by the receiving nation at a 2.3% rate of compound interest.
*14: Pact-affiliated biologists, associated with the [[ESB Group]]-financed [[Euran University]], release a controversial study of [[Benacia]]n flora and fauna which contains a notable passage suggesting that the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|dreaded Tee-al]] may be responding to decades of persistent eradication attempts in the former [[Minarboria]]n territories, particularly those occupied by [[Shireroth]] and its successors, by becoming on average smaller, stealthier, [[Tales from Kalgachia - 32|more cunning]], and adoptive of cooperative strategies with other adult males outside of breeding season. The researchers concluded that the trend was towards cooperative hunting of human prey and would eventually culminate in the development of rudimentary pack tactics. The conclusion was ultimately that human efforts to exterminate the most visible and hated legacy of [[Deep Singers|Biomancer]] experimentation had forced adaptation upon it, favouring the survival of the fittest.
*15: A convoy of nine [[SATCo]]-registered cargo vessels, accompanied by two oil tankers, four [https://micras.org/wiki/images/8/82/SATCo_Swift_Yacht.png Swift-class offshore patrol vessels], four [[Logistic Support Vessel]]s, each with four naval-variant [[UH-76 Dromosker|Dromosker patrol helicopters]] aboard, and forty-eight [[Coastal Patrol Craft]], arrived offshore from the [[Ransenar]]i port of Belmuliet in North Lunaris. This pocket armada represented the concentration of the balance of the Ałeþus Usætur, the [[Black Legions#Maritime Forces|UGB naval]] contribution to the Shire-Sea Flotilla of [[Benacia Command]].
*16: The appearance of four [[GV-7 Leviathan|Leviathans]] of the [[Uihmanz Lunaris#Order of Battle|Streïafzælt Auffendankel]] before Belmuliet on the landward side marks the arrival of the [[ESB-Jagdverbände Grobba|Bitzurænhæd]], an ESB recruited specialist assault unit in the Lunaris Theatre of Operations. The deployment of the monstrous mobile bases, with their powerful active array radars and multiple [[S-2 Standard Missile|launcher systems]], established an air defence / air denial bubble covering the city and the flotilla anchored offshore whilst additional perimeter security and defence was provided by the 8th Battlegroup and the 604 Air Assault Regiment assigned to the Uihmanz Lunaris garrison in the port.
*17: [[Elwynn]], having unusually forgone its usual prerogative of sermonising about the moral outrages occasioned by recent events in Lunaris, announced that a volunteer battalion drawn from the [[Union Defence Force]] and the [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels]] would be the maximum extent of its contribution towards the quarantine of the [[Guttuli Protectorate]]. In an effort to humour the [[Ayreonist Independence Party]] a lengthy press release condemning brutality on all sides and injustice in all forms, as well as appealing for deescalation, dialogue, and a diplomatic solution, was also drafted and signed off by the [[Council of Eliria]]. Unfortunately the Court of the Prince, whilst making reference to the document, forgot to publish the link on the Benacian Data Network - its exact contents therefore remain unknown.
*18: Following a full and frank discussion of events in Erianamor, which culminated in an impromptu CQB drill conducted in the map room of the partisans command dugout, the [[Children of Salus]] are notified, via their inimitable courier network, of the ascension of a new cadre to operational command and control over the affiliated rebel forces in southern Lunaris. The Cadre, headed by an operative henceforth referred to as "Grey Nineteen", advised that new directives would follow shortly in the succeeding days.

===XI===

*17: A wave of arrests, forced disappearances, inquisitions and courts-martial begin to sweep [[Kalgachia]], directed mainly against aviation and special forces units of the [[Military of Kalgachia#Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] and its subsidiary enterprises, and the Lieutenancy of Oktavyan with rumours of at least one expulsion from the country's ruling Council of Perfecti. Kalgachia's national security organ, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] - with apparently strong backing from the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]], the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Education and Outreach|Directorate of Education and Outreach]] and counter-reformationalist clergy of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|national church]] - announce the discovery of "''a conspiracy, penetrating to the very deepest strata of the state, to appropriate large portions of the Garden's bounty for purposes flagrantly outwith the core precepts of inwardly-referential state and society which were sown into the primordial loam of our mountain homeland by the [[Ketherism#Theology|Salvators]] themselves''". The most heavily purged offices are those surrounding members of the [[House of Yastreb]], who conspicuously disappear from public sight.
**The [[Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone]], despite being a financial hub for the Yastrebs' alleged corruption, is largely spared on account of its value in soft diplomacy and hard currency earnings. As the DLEP personnel pool is subjected to a storm of vetting and auditing, [[Jeremiah Avon-El]] - an established foreign resident - is appointed to replace Caustifer Yastreb as interim chairman of the Zone's governing Development Committee.

==Footnotes==
[[Category:History]][[Category:Shirerithian Vulture States]]

Octavian Import-Export Corporation

2019-10-22T08:35:43Z

Yastreb:

{{Infobox company
|name = Octavian Import-Export Corporation
|logo = [[File:OIECmotif.png]]
|type = Semi-Unitary Consortium
|industry = Imports and Exports
|foundation = 161 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]]; 1655 [[Norton Calendar|AN]]
|location_city = [[Puerto Arcadio]]
|location_country = [[Los Liberados]]
|products = Goods and services from [[Kalgachia]]
}}

The '''Octavian Import-Export Corporation (OIEC)''' is a consortium of private investors and the [[Kalgachia|Kalgachi]] government, the latter wielding a controlling stake of the corporation and appointing its chairman. It is headquartered in [[Los Liberados]], with satellite offices in [[Kalgachia]] and [[Nova England]].

The corporation serves as a vehicle for trade between the Garden of Kalgachia and the wider world, adapting to perform this function as global conditions permit.

==History==
The OIEC was created in 1655 AN as a joint venture between the Kalgachi [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] and a syndicate of Nova English businessmen. It was established as a commercial vehicle to facilitate Kalgachi imports from the USSO Common Market (later the [[Port of Vines]]) through the [[Nova English Trading Company]], in exchange for the plausibly deniable transfer of Kalgachi military technology to Nova England in the period immediately preceding the [[War of the Casks]]. Over time, and in addition to its commercial activities, work for the Corporation would serve as the standard cover for operatives of the Kalgachi government throughout the Eastern Hemisphere of [[Micras]] - a fact neither concealed by its employees nor protested by the nations in which it operated, it being a more approachable (and arguably more effective) alternative to the ''acquired taste'' that was Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|diplomatic corps]].

As Kalgachia developed a marked preference for insulating its foreign trade activity against the interminable caprice of its larger neighbour [[Shireroth]], the OIEC's experience of markets further afield led it to become the ''de facto'' foreign trade agent for all of Kalgachia, an economy whose otherwise-airtight customs regime put the Corporation in a lucrative position of monopolistic privilege.

Until 1668 AN the Corporation's shipping route lay between [[Port Neil Airport|Port Neil]] and [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]] via [[Kasterburg]], firstly by chartered airfreight and after 1665 AN, by sea and rail. Changes in the territorial composition of [[Benacia]] in 1668 AN, however, removed Kalgachia's border with Kasterburg while introducing a border with a resurgent [[Batavia]]. Combined with damage to investor confidence in the Port of Vines arising from [[Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union|Bassarid]] actions during the collapse of [[Caputia]], the OIEC was compelled to realign its logistical arrangements and diversify its source markets; negotiations through the [[Iron Company]], who in 1665 AN had been the first foreign company contracted to deliver a Kalgachi public works project, resulted in a relocation of the OIEC's main headquarters to the island state of [[Los Liberados]] (retaining its Nova English estate as satellite offices) with the understanding that the Iron Company act as the OIEC's principal shipping agent throughout the [[Batavian Confederation]].

Rumours of senior regional representatives of the OIEC defecting to the [[ESB Group]] in [[Raspur]], following an unfortunate [[Operation Hugo Grotius|adjustment of insurance premiums]] on the company's mercantile risk portfolio, are held to be largely unfounded although the event did herald the Corporation's gradual pivot toward [[Constancia|Constancian]] and [[Alduria|Aldurian]] markets.

==Ownership and Administration==

Ownership of the OIEC is shared as follows:

*51% by the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] (Kalgachia)
*22% by Mr. Hoderick Scilling (Nova England)
*22% by the [[House of Yastreb]] (Kalgachia)
*5% by miscellaneous investors (Nova England)

The OIEC Board of Directors is composed as follows:

*Zoryus Archonslayer (Kalgachia) Chairman
*Hoderick Scilling (Nova England) Director of Finance
*Nigel Noughscytt (Nova England) Director of Tax Planning and Legal Compliance
*Roger Godniht (Nova England) Director of Operations, [[Keltia]]
*Bobbert Shrubschild (Kalgachia) Director of Operations, [[Benacia]]
*Tobias Wulframberg (Kalgachia) Director of Operations, [[Apollonia]] & Southern Hemisphere
*Aaron Geltschnozzer (Kalgachia) Director of Analytics
*Clarence Snugg (Kalgachia) Director of Hospitality and Incentives

==Products Offered==
'''Decorative Granite''' 
Granite from [[Benacia]]'s Octavian mountains, of a stern grey-black moderated by subtle golden hues. Shaped into such architectural features as pillar segments, sills and lintels, flooring and appliqué. Ideal for municipal venues or the homes of the affluent. Available rough hewn, smooth matte or polished.

'''Stalemate Gin''' 
The chosen spirit beverage of the Kalgachia's professional classes. Infused strongly with Litovine Juniper, Stalemate is equally capable of soothing the nervous and reviving the languid. In Kalgachia it is traditionally consumed neat, in small amounts due to its 57.5% alcohol content. It is also popular at table as a digestive aid for cutting through the excessive grease of Kalgachia's national dish, the mutton roast.

'''Resilient Electrical Components''' 
For all the advantages of miniaturised circuitry and microchips, there will always remain a need for simple systems that are resistant to electrical surge and physical shock, particularly in vital infrastructure. Kalgachia's small but busy electronics industry, operating deep underground, specialises in hand-tunable and tube-based components, universally built to a scale which can be repaired by hand with a soldering iron without the need for excessive anti-static measures or air conditioning. The seamless integration of electrical components with mechanical elements such as clockwork is a Kalgachi speciality rarely seen anywhere else in the world, as are randomised data-generation systems based on irreducably complex physical forces, offering a crucial cryotographic advantage over algorithmic generation which, by its inherent determinism, can always be broken with sufficient supercomputing capacity regardless of complexity.

'''Gold Jewellery''' 
Kalgachia's gold industry is its most important, underpinning the very national currency itself. At the end of this industry's chain, after the miners and smelters and assayers, are Kalgachia's skilled retinue of goldsmiths; many of whom have a family tradition in the trade stretching back to their legendary ancestors in [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] [[Goldshire]]. From these artisans come all manner of rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings and other personal adornments, crafted in varying purities of gold to suit the demands of physical wear and the budget of the consumer.

'''Medicines''' 
The biomantic [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] race of Benacian history left behind a veritable bounty of engineered flora and bacterial culture, much of which was cultivated for medicinal use. While much of the Deep Singers' expertise is now sadly passed, their [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] descendants in Kalgachia continue to utilise a whole host of valuable medicinal preparations - most notably those concerned with telomerase therapy which, although having lost the nuances of biomantic ritual which allowed it to confer biological immortality, nonetheless provide a considerable increase in the humanoid lifespan well into the century range. Anticarcinogens, healing accelerators, sensory enhancers, nervous system regulators and psychotropic elixirs are also available, subject to narcotics control laws in the jurisdiction of delivery.

'''Woolen Clothing''' 
Insulating garments made with the wool of mountain sheep from Kalgachia's upland pastures. Sweaters, socks, hats, gloves, tunics and greatcoats.

'''Timber''' 
Workable Octavian Spruce, seasoned and sawn.

'''Charcoal''' 
High quality for furnaces, forges and the discerning housekeeper.

'''Paper Goods''' 
For stationery, packaging or sanitary use.

'''Professional Services''' 
The OIEC can arrange for the skilled consultants of Deep Services, a [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|unitary enterprise]] in Kalgachia, to visit foreign customers and provide auditing, tax optimisation, management advice, actuarial and analytic services, data exploitation and a whole host of other professional tools to enhance the customer's commercial or bureaucratic edge.

'''Debt Securities''' 
The OIEC is authorised to sell instances of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|DLEP]] Clearing Credit Facility - a regionally-denominated bridging instrument used by traders awaiting physical payment of [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] or gold bullion from the Kalgachi government, and a source of fees and interest guaranteed against default by the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia. In addition the Corporation is willing to sell on the rights to debt instruments acquired from any number of other issuers, traders or jurisdictions.

'''Transport Aircraft''' 
The [[Floret]] turboprop transport has something to offer every operator, whether they hail from small developing nations or established powers. Available in standard passenger and airfreight variants or customised for an added fee to such configurations as executive transport, aeromedical evacuation or wildfire fighting.

==Products Sought==

-'''Refined metals''' (primarily steel, tungsten, copper) 
-'''Refined hydrocarbon fuels''' (primarily ATF) 
-'''Crumb rubber''' 
-'''Recreational beverages''' (all types) 
-'''Debt securities''' 
-'''Freelance journalistic services''' (for events outside Kalgachia)

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[[Category:Nova England]]
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[[Category:Kalgachia]]

Kalgachi Orders of Council

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Yastreb:

<div align=center>[[file:Kalgachiaseal.png]]</div> 
The following is a list of the more prominent orders issued by the Council of Perfecti, the supreme executive of the Garden of [[Kalgachia]]. It comprises only a fraction of the Perfecti's rulings, the majority of which are issued to specific authorities and in many cases are classified ''Sub Juniperus''. As a result, only orders of national or diplomatic importance are featured on the official roll.

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|-
! scope="col" | Date
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| Byeday Harvestrise 30th, 229 AL || Administration of Pachadsberg || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the [[Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone|Pachadsberg Development Committee]] has encountered difficulties in replacing its dismissed chairman from the personnel pool of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] in the conditions of inquisitorial processes ongoing within the latter organ, AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted for deep approval the name of an esteemed foreign resident which it deems suitable to assume the post of interim Committee Chairman,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order approves and enacts the appontment of one '''[[Jeremiah Avon-El]]''' as Chairman of the Pachadsberg Development Committee, furnished with the powers granted to that post by the Order of Council dated Summerfall 3rd, 224 AL.

'''2.''' For the discharge of his new duties, Mr. Avon-El is granted citizenship of the Garden of Kalgachia and the [[Chthonarchotrix|civil service rank]] of Warden.
 
</div>
|-
| Byeday Harvestrise 30th, 229 AL || Anti-Corruption Measures || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] of the Garden have encountered a conspiracy, penetrating to the very deepest strata of the state, to appropriate large portions of the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|Garden's bounty]] for [[Children of Salus|purposes flagrantly outwith]] the core precepts of inwardly-referential state and society which were sown into the primordial loam of our mountain homeland by the [[Ketherism#Theology|Salvators]] themselves, AND WHEREAS the corrupted power centres responsible for this infraction have been identified, AND WHEREAS the excision of their pestilent presence requires corrective action of the utmost resolve,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order dismisses one [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Xantievna Prepodava Yastreb]] from her duties as Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan and from her commission in the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]]. The Prefects are instructed to detain her personage immediately.

'''2.''' One [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Royevich Lotchika Yastreb]] is dismissed from his positions at the [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Reserve Bank of Kalgachia]], the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] and the [[Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone|Pachadsberg Development Committee]]. The Prefects are instructed to detain his personage immediately.

'''3.''' One Falcifer Xantievich Yastreb is dismissed from his positions in deep service. The Prefects are instructed to detain his personage immediately.

'''4.''' All ranks of the KDF Fire Division and Special Purpose Regiment more senior than Captain, all officials of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] more senior than Warden and all employees of the Octavian Import-Export Corporation residing on Kalgachi territory are to be subject to inquisition by the Prefects in relation to the precipitating events of This Order.
 
</div>
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| Pleaseday Harvestrise 2nd, 227 AL || Rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Extraordinary Grand Council commenced in the Year of Our Shrub Two Hundred And Twenty Six has reached sufficient concord upon the contents of its agenda to dissolve and disperse to its ordinary duties, AND WHEREAS it is the right and duty of every Kalgachi citizen to be appraised of its conclusions,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order announces and compels into effect the rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226, as follows:

'''a)''' Upon the matter of the congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]], the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Garden will accept the present Benacian geopolitical order as the most practical manifestation of the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|Goltz Doctrine]] available in the circumstances, whilst continuing to oppose the intrusion of Storish or any other off-continent colonial entities in all of their manifestations. A policy of peaceful, if not necessarily affectionate relations toward all Benacian states shall prevail.

'''b)''' Upon the matter of the fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the resumption of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (the ''[[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That notions of economic damage arising from the above event have been greatly exaggerated and seemingly confused with those circumstances afflicting the Garden at the turn of this century, when its domestic economy and infrastructure were considerably less developed and more exposed to fluctuations in foreign trade. Those elements of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Eocnomic Planning|DLEP]] and [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|affiliated entities]] in a personal position to benefit financially from the promotion of such alarmist scenarios are presently being held to account. The capricious nature of [[Micras|Micran]] geopolitics ensures that the external conditions required to cripple the Kalgachi economy in its present state would need to be applied for considerably longer than the lifetime of the average Benacian regime. The matter is therefore of minimal strategic importance, provided the Garden retains the capability to exploit fluctuations in external events as and where required.

'''c)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That a standing armed force will be established for the [[Upland Confederation]], around those cadres presently under the command of Ataman Ҳazedinov and his ''Iezauli''.

'''d)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation, and upon the hypothecated existence of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and their relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Pecuniary Archon, where it can be held to its own transactional pretext, remains capable of being turned toward the objectives of the Garden; the threshold of harm is crossed when it grows beyond its complementary role and begins to displace other, more essential spheres of activity. Foreign trade, while demonstrably useful, has decreased its own relevance through heavy contribution to national commodity stockpiles yet its position amid the priorities of government has been exponentially inflated, often on the pretext of diplomatic value which is nonetheless a benefit of kind rather than degree. Existing trade arrangements through both the Batavian and Gubernatorial routes will therefore be rationalised, regularised, and reduced to a steady state that offsets the depletion of non-native raw material stockpiles without adding to them overall. This in turn will allow the DLEP to stabilise the resource burden incurred by stockpile maintenance. A renewed emphasis will be placed on Kalgachia's economic relationship with the Protectorates.

'''f)''' Upon the matter of characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That any lasting advancement of Minarboreal modes of thought or existence beyond Kalgachia's frontiers will depend heavily upon a recontextualisation of the undead and [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] races - those ''Benefactors'' whose legacy is rejected by every successor nation except Kalgachia - as agents of a temporary intervention by the Ketheric host to compensate for a degenerative surge in the primate tendencies of humanity toward vandalism, rhetorical howling and ritualised humiliation in the period between the first secession of [[Elwynn]] from [[Shireroth]] and the [[Auspicious Occasion]]. The Benefactors' successors in Kalgachia and its affiliate realms are to be interpreted as transitioning the birthright thus obtained from the biological to the memetic, in recognition of the fact that the Benefactors' intervention is concluding and that the indefinite existence of physical specimens of the Ketheric host in the realm of matter, whilst it remains afflicted by its present archonic taint, would be unsustainable and decohering. To prevent another intervention it is necessary for those of mundane biological origin to take the lead in sustaining the Laws of the Garden and their secular manifestations in heart and mind, in fulfilment of their rightful role as custodians of the thorny hedge of physicality seperating the Garden Ketheric and the Tumultuous Wastes. Only then can Minarboreal Civilisation move beyond its Caverdenian origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.

'''g)''' On the matter of the role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That '''Vascarina Goldcluck''', Lichling of Novodolorsk, Sand-Sifter of Bereliggle Bay and Chosen Guide of the ''Radix Salvator'' Minarbor unto the end of His worldly corpor, is henceforth to be considered a '''Salvator of the Garden''', canonical to the scriptures of established Ketherism, for her accompaniment of the Shrub of Shrubs to a telluric energy rhizome in the dying days of his namesake empire, whence His Rustling Countenance was redeemed from the face of this world by paraphysical forces and restored to the Great Garden Beyond. Her liturgical invocation shall be performed by the casting of sand over the heads of the faithful, the shaping of said substance into artistic objects or the release of live crows.

'''ii)''' That neither credence nor censure can be granted to claims that the Salvator Vascarina, or her corvine companion Birdy, were miraculously restored to life upon the dematerialisation of the Shrub and continue to walk the land in biological immortality. The belief is to be considered neither canonical nor heretical.

'''2.''' The Extraordinary Grand Council is hereby dissolved. ''Hortus Manet. Hortus Resurget.''
 
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|-
| Pleaseday Summerfall 28th, 226 AL || Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS various events of the last decade, both within and without the Garden, have borne cumulative implications for its overall navigation through the Tumultuous Wastes and the continuity of the Shrubly birthright, AND WHEREAS the usual technocratic mechanisms of government are inappropriate for addressing such matters,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order summons the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lords Lieutenant]] of Abrek, Bergburg, Jollity, Katarsis, Lithead, Oktavyan and Schlepogora, the Resectors of the Holy Synod of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], the General Staff of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] and the Lords Protector of [[Lapivril]], [[Lepidopterum]], [[Northbloom]] and the [[Upland Confederation]] to convene in '''Extraordinary Grand Council''' at the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in Oktavyan.

'''2.''' Members of the Council are instructed to prepare such informational materials and policy observations as may be appropriate in deliberation upon the following matters:

'''a)''' The congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]].

'''b)''' The fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the revival of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (''the [[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes.

'''c)''' The threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland.

'''d)''' The threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation.

'''e)''' The possibility of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and its relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue.

'''f)''' Characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form.

'''g)''' The role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology.

'''h)''' Such other matters as may conceivably arise in the circumstances.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 3rd, 224 AL || Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS recent years have seen an increase in well-connected foreign personages engaged in commercial and diplomatic business with the Garden, AND WHEREAS a number of these individuals have, in the course of their activities, been appraised of abundant recreational oppurtunities available to tourists of a discerning nature within the Lieutenancy of Jollity, AND WHEREAS the foreign missions of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] have referred increasing numbers of visa applications to the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] by persons seeking to visit Jollity for the purpose of leisure alone, AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] has assessed that a measured cultivation of the phenomenon would represent a net economic benefit to the Garden,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order transfers, to the Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning, sole title to that territory comprising the Eighth Easement of the Parish of Sugarscythe within the March of the City of Jollity, henceforth to be named the '''Pachadsberg Special Recreation Zone''' in honour of one Pachad ben Mavet, Nohsi of [[Ashkenatza]], Jollifier of the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] Kossars and noted connoisseur of the ancient Fleshpots of Mazeltov on whose ruins the illuminated wonders of Jollity city now stand.

'''2.''' The DLEP is instructed to develop Pachadsberg into a resort community of ski slopes, casinos, hotels, restaurants, houses of prostrate companionship and boutiques of the finest international standard.

'''3.''' Purveyors of public goods and services in Pachadsberg shall exclusively accept the following currencies as tender:

'''a)''' the [[Kruys]], [[Liberadosan cruz|Cruz]], [[Arcadia|Golden Cruz]], [[Kasterburg|Thaler]] and [[Helderbourgh|Heldermark]]. 
'''b)''' the [[Natopian natopo|Natopo]]. 
'''c)''' the [[Economy of Constancia|Stater]]. 
'''d)''' the [[Sovereign Avak]]. 
'''e)''' The [[Economy of Shireroth|Shirerithian]], [[Verionist Republic#Economy|Verionist]] and [[Ransenari Erb|Ransenari]] Erb. 
'''f)''' the [[Nova England|National Redoubt Denarii]]. 
'''g)''' the [[Economy of Alduria|Écu]]. 
'''h)''' the [[Jingdao|Kala]].

'''4.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]], through its public transport [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|subsidiaries]], is instructed to establish a connecting passenger shuttle service between [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and Pachadsberg using civilianised [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirbs]] and to implement the necessary fixed infrastructure and rolling stock for first-class rail charter services to Pachadsberg from the Kalgachi frontier.

'''5.''' The Prefects are instructed to insitute a 'Pachadsberg Only' visa option, valid exclusively for travel to/from and residence within Pachadsberg, for the safe admission to the Garden of persons of indeterminate security risk.

'''6.''' The implementation of all provisions of This Order and the governance of Pachadsberg upon its completion shall be the ultimate responsibility of the '''Pachadsberg Development Committee''', an organ of the DLEP chaired by Governor '''[[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer R. Yastreb]]''' of the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia and the Garden's Salvator '''[[Lord Toastypops]]''', Lieutenant of Jollity.
 
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| Thanksday Summerhigh 26th, 223 AL || Protectorate Status for the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Congress of Džirgas of the [[Upland Confederation]] has convened and deliberated upon the present state of safety and stability afforded to that realm by the transformative presence of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], evolving as it has from purely defensive needs to matters of humanitarian assistance and rudimentary infrastructure development, AND WHEREAS it is the resolution of the Congress that this state of affairs be sustained indefinitely in a manner which nonetheless preserves the clan structures and autonomy of the Confederation, AND WHEREAS the Congress has directed their ruling Ataman to petition the Council of Perfecti of the Garden to advance the Upland Confederation to the same state of regard enjoyed by [[Northbloom]], [[Lepidopterum]] and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]],'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order extends ultimate and beneficient jurisdiction to the Upland Condeferation as a Protectorate of the Garden of Kalgachia, by special allotment outwith the [[Oktavyan Code]].

'''2.''' Ataman '''Varҳat Ҳazedinov''' of the Upland Confederation is hereby appointed '''Lord Protector of the Upland Confederation'''; remitted, in deference to the native civil mechanisms of that realm, to represent it before the Council of Perfecti and to implement such measures as the Council see fit to supplement the rulings of the native authority.

'''3.''' That portion of the Upland Confederation lying east of the 152nd meridian and north of the 47th parallel is, in respect of its biomically challenging character and administrative burden, transferred by This Order to the administration of the Planting of Lepidopterum for specialised development.
 
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| Byeday Summerhigh 22nd, 222 AL || Tealsburrow Railway || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the present geopolitical and economic situation has rendered it desirable to upgrade the Garden's infrastructural links with the city of Stonetree, presently administered by the Ketek Corporation in accordance with the [[Slavegate Convention]], AND WHEREAS it is incumbent upon the Garden, in accordance with the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Second and Fifth Laws]], to render unto its trusted trading partners adequate recompense for recent economic policy decisions which have developed not necessarily to the latter's advantage,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] to carry out the necessary surveys and engineering plans for the following:

'''a)''' The construction of a double-tracked railway linking the town of Tealsburrow to the national rail network at Zensemer.

'''b)''' The construction of a combined rail and highway route extending south from the town of Tealsburrow to the national frontier.

'''2.''' In recognition and appreciation of the successful delivery of the expansion of [[Gravelbottom Airport]] in 193 AL, the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] is instructed to make available the sum of 1.2 million [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] (or an equal value in civilian commodities) for the contracture of the aforesaid works to the [[Iron Company]], who are invited to peruse the DPW specification and begin construction at the earliest possible convenience.

'''3.''' The Lithead Division of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] is instructed to prepare a regime of close protection for contractors in the Tealsburrow area against the depredations of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' and other hazardous features of the local biome.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerhigh 4th, 221 AL || Repatriation of the Froyalanish and Rescript to the Kingdom of Amokolia || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] has been petitioned by the government of the Kingdom of [[Amokolia]] regarding the repatriation of those naturalised guest workers of [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish extraction]] who were admitted to the Garden between 152 and 164 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], AND WHEREAS the majority of such individuals have now aged beyond useful labour ability and, by their reliance upon the alms of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], have become a net burden upon the [[Economy of Kalgachia|Kalgachi economy]], AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lord Lieutenants' Council]] of the Garden, remitted [[Oktavyan Code|as it is]] to rule upon matters of nationality, has submitted its conclusions upon the subject, AND WHEREAS the general policy of the Kingdom of Amokolia with respect to the Froyalanish is, for historical reasons, a matter in which the entire [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent has a legitimate interest,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI accepts in full and by This Order enacts the ruling of the Lords Lieutenant of the Garden as follows:

'''a)''' Kalgachi citizens of Froyalanish descent shall henceforth be permitted, optionally and of their own volition, to emigrate to the Kingdom of Amokolia.

'''b)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners wishing to remain in the Garden, and whose conduct does not present grounds for deportation, shall be permitted to remain in the Garden.

'''c)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners returned to the Kingdom of Amokolia shall forfeit their Kalgachi citizenship upon exit from the Garden.

'''d)''' ex-Kalgachi Froyalaners shall be subject to the same constraints upon re-entry to the Garden as any other non-citizen, in individual accordance with such foreign citizenships as they may subsequently acquire.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]] is instructed to administer a course of exit vaccinations, of a composition determined by the DHPW Woundmender General and Clinical Commissioners, of all Froyalaners departing the Garden pursuant to the provisions of This Order.

'''3.''' The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] and the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] are instructed to jointly establish and operate a regime of chartered passenger flights from [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]] to [[Brandenburg]] for the expedient implementation of the provisions of This Order.

'''a)''' The removal of Froyalaners pursuant to the provisions of This Order shall occur exclusively by aerial means. Those border security measures established on land by the Order of Council dated Summerise 20th, 220 AL shall remain in full effect.

'''4.''' The Directorate of Tumultuous Wastes is instructed to convey to the Amokolian government, on behalf of the Council of Perfecti, the rescript contained in the Schedule to This Order.

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'''Schedule 1: Rescript to the Amokolian Government'''

''The Garden notes with interest the present attention of the Amokolian government to the historical situation of the Froyalanish people in the years following the Auspicious Occasion in Shireroth.''

''In the interests of complete historical accuracy and continental harmony in the modern era, the Garden hopes that in recognising the magnitude of the suppression of the Froyalanish, the Kingdom of Amokolia will also recognise the underlying cause of the event; namely the wilful and systematic programme of the House of Ettlingar Freyu - using the Froyalanish race and the captive government of Shireroth as their vectors - to concentrate power in their own hands at the exclusion of all others, to erase the indigenous life of Benacia from memory by the falsification of history and ultimately to disenfranchise, annihilate and supplant [[Benacia]]'s entire ancient tapestry of native societies before a deaf and uncompromising Vanic hegemony.''

''The Garden hopes that the Amokolian government will recognise how the Shirerithians' appeals for moderation were ignored, how their processes of legal redress were subverted in the foulest of faith, how the evasive glibness of the regime of King Noah in [[Elwynn]] was little comfort to the [[Mishalan|Mishalanski]] as they were dragged from their homes, and how the people ultimately took to the use of force because all other means of moderating the behaviour of their Froyalanish élite, of assuring some baseline of societal survival lest their their ancestral birthright be torn to pieces, had been denied to them.''

''The Garden advises against swallowing the absurd fiction propagated from [[Haraldsborg]], that the Froyalanish were an innocent race who were turned upon by all Benacia for no reason - for the reasons were plentiful, painfully unavoidable and ultimately sown by the Storish elite who, in their vanity and hubris, expected to pervert or wipe out the nations of Benacia without effective opposition. The suppression of the Froyalanish people had its roots in the reckless avarice of their baubled Storish enablers, and if the government of Amokolia truly cares for the plight of the Froyalanish - or indeed any Amokolian - it must take care not to indulge that avarice again.''

''At any rate the peoples of Benacia shall never apologise for pursuing, to the fullest extent necessary, the imperatives of individual and collective self-defence which are the foundational instinct of all life in the universe. Benacia, if necessary, would do it all again.''

''The Kingdom of Amokolia, for the present time, remains assured of the Garden of Kalgachia's highest consideration.''
 
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| Helloday Summerise 20th, 220 AL || Northern Border Controls || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the regal proclivities of the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] sovereign as they pertain to the manifest policy of that realm are recently reported to include the active enablement and indulgence of [[Froyalaners|alien colonial forces]] on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent, AND WHEREAS such wilful repudiation of the Goltz Doctrine of continental self-determination, the foundational consensus of Benacian diplomacy [[Amokolian War|inscribed with the blood of our Ashkenatzan forebears]] on Amokolia's very own soil, is a development not necessarily in the interests of the Garden nor the wider symbiotic harmony of the Benacian continent,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the defence and security organs of the Garden of Kalgachia and its Protectorate of [[Northbloom]] to implement and maintain a full and immediate closure of the border adjoining their respective jurisdictions to the Kingdom of Amokolia, assisted to the maximum extent practicable by other organs of governance.

'''2.''' Kalgachi and Northbloomer authorities are each authorised and instructed to solicit and accept from the other, any and all mutual assistance as may be required in the implementation and maintenance of a functional Amokolian border closure coherent across both jurisdictions.

'''3.''' The application of lethal force, without prior warning, to violators of the Amokolian border on Kalgachi/Northbloomer soil is authorised.

'''4.''' The Kalgachi delegation to the [[Slavegate Convention|Military Coordination Council]] at Stonetree are instructed to initiate discussions with their [[Raspur Pact]] counterparts concerning the coordinated implementation of a pan-Benacian containment policy against such common civilisational threats as may hypothetically emerge from the territory of a compromised Amokolian government.
 
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| Thanksday Summerise 18th, 220 AL || Church Statement upon the Deliverance of the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Garden of Kalgachia has, in the [[Slavegate Convention]], obtained an agreement with the [[Raspur Pact]] upon the cessation of hostilities in the [[Upland Confederation]] and a mutual acknolowdgement of territorial interests in the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|post-Dolmen]] space, AND WHEREAS this development has far-reaching and greatly beneficial implications of which all Kalgachia ought to be appraised, AND WHEREAS the valour and sacrifice of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], particularly its Kossar regiments, are worthy of the deepest recognition for bringing about such a favourable state of affairs,'''

'''1.''' The COUNCIL OF PERFECTI hereby releases a public statement contained in the Schedule to This Order, from Our Sovereign Brother the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Education and Outreach|Directorate of Education and Outreach]] is instructed to circulate the statement of Our Sovereign Brother through all news organs of the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]].

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'''Schedule 1 - Statement by the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia upon the cessation of hostilities in the Upland Condeferation'''

''Children of the Garden,''

''The greater number of you will be aware that recently, in the town of Slavegate, representatives of the [[Raspur Pact]] met with our Garden's executive, military and diplomatic leadership to bring about a cessation of armed hostilities with the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]] on the outer frontiers of the [[Upland Confederation]]. The Convention resulting from those negotiations allows the administration of that valiant ally of Shrubdom, the Ataman Ҳazedinov, to retain those territorial holdings obtained with the blood of his brave Laqkozaki and, indeed, the children of our own mountain Garden who were dispatched to the aid of his people.''

''Whilst we mourn those whom the Garden has lost in this just campaign, it is the judgement of none other than [[Lord Toastypops|Our Lord Salvator in Jollity]] that jollity is indeed warranted at its outcome. Jollity, in the first instance, for the plight of the Black Laqi who have been spared the greater part of the [[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|archonic wrath]] poured out upon their Red Laqi cousins east of Schlepogora. They who stood in defence of our Shrubly name in [[Minutes of the Dolmen|the days of the Dolmen]], to the ridicule and enmity of their peers, have now yielded the fruit of deliverance from the archonic talon; for the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Fifth Law of the Garden]] determined that this was our debt unto them. Glory unto the name of the [[Minarboria#Religion|Shrub]] and his Salvators, then, for the radiance of their example has lit a path through the Tumultuous Wastes and guided us to do what the Garden requires. There shall be cultivation ahead, yea, and all children and friends of Shrubdom shall partake of its fruits.''

''Still more righteous of our men and women at arms is the deliverance of the Benefactor Races, the [[Deep Singers]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] of [[Lepidopterum]] and Lithead, from proximity to the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] horde who would slaughter them to the last orphaned infant if only the briefest chance availed itself. Banished for our time is the spectre of aggression, provocation and decoherence of the spirit upon the borders of those lands. It is for the deliverance of the hinterland Benefactors that the liberation of the Upland Confederation is an event beyond the realm of mere military maneouvre - it is a salvational act mandated from the [[Ketherism#Cosmology|Garden Ketheric]] itself, wrought by the faithful Kalgachi who fortify that Garden's periphery in this blasted world and have a shared interest in its defence. Here too does the Fifth Law come into effect, for the debt of all Kalgachia to the Deep Singers is everlasting; their works are of such significance in the righteous life of our nation, in our very genetic composition, that neither the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] nor the Crystal Death will ever suffice to part us from the children of the Broodmother. To the end of time, then, we shall stand or fall together - for this is the course on which history has set us.''

''In the valour and devotion of our armed forces during this campaign, it would be remiss of us to overlook those of the [[Ketherism#The Yehudi Conundrum and its Resolution|Pesakhnik creed]] - the sons of Jacob whose most valiant number comprise the Kossars of our Kalgachi Defence Force - for it is they who were first into the fray when the Black Laqi called for aid. It is they who ventured atop ruined forts to scour the skies for enemy aircraft. It is they who hauled artillery to the forward lines and offered furious reply to the raids of the [[Black Legions]]. It is they who suffered losses the longest. And yet...! What became of the dire predictions of defection and rout? These rootless cosmopolitians, these aristocrats of the human race, these pedestrians of the sea, where did we see the betrayal and reversion to archonic type that was feared of them? It was forgotten by a great many it seems, that their tribe has known such malice in antiquity as can scarcely be imagined; to the plight of our people, and especially the posthuman Benefactor Races, events have proven that the [[Kalgachia#The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi|Yehudim of Bergburg]] have cultivated within themselves a protective affinity. It has been learned in military circles quickly enough; Kossars are being promoted already. For the first time, rogatywka caps rest on the map tables of the General Staff. The First Law of the Garden mandates that all life be allotted the fullest niche it can occupy, and many a hero has returned from the Uplands deserving of a deeper station in life. Consider this when you next meet a serving soldier or a demobilised reservist.''

''By their valour and determination, the soldiers of Shrubdom have brought the Black Legions to terms. They have secured peace in our time. In the forts and trenches of the Upland Confederation the long humiliation of the Great Replantings, begun with the flight of the Shrub from [[Shirekeep]] and culminated in the [[History of Kalgachia|rout of our forefathers]] to these Octavian mountains, has at long last met its limit and begun to recede. After [[Harvestfall Revolution|revolution]], [[Minarboria#Collapse|collapse]], after hunger and privation, the final trial awaiting Shrubdom was its defence by force of arms against a powerful adversary. Our armed forces have stepped forward to this trial and been found worthy, and all the Garden with them.''

''Although our children may face this trial again, perhaps of a ferocity that wipes the present victory from memory, we now know that it can be done. And what is more, the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Gubernatorials]] know it can be done - the wave of chaos and destruction that precedes them, that has masticated so many other populations of our Benacian continent for easy digestion in the tradition of their [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] forebears, has failed to break us down. Those accustomed for centuries to the harrying of the disparate and leaderless have found us equipped, informed, prepared, and able to impose greater damage to their strength than is worth paying for the [[Endsieg|vain objectives]] of continental hegemony or the extermination of benign races. And so they have offered peace, not out of charity but out of necessity. And this is all we require of them.''

''So I beseech you, in the name of the Shrub and His Salvators, be thankful to our armed multitudes and the Garden that nourished their souls to life. By their gift you may go forth in jollity this day, for the Garden remains!''
 
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Orders made before 220 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] are archived below:

*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 210s|The 210s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 200s|The 200s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 190s|The 190s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 180s|The 180s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 170s|The 170s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 160s|The 160s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 150s|The 150s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 140s|The 140s]]

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Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 220s

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| Byeday Harvestrise 30th, 229 AL || Administration of Pachadsberg || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the [[Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone|Pachadsberg Development Committee]] has encountered difficulties in replacing its dismissed chairman from the personnel pool of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] in the conditions of inquisitorial processes ongoing within the latter organ, AND WHEREAS the Committee has submitted for deep approval the name of an esteemed foreign resident which it deems suitable to assume the post of interim Committee Chairman,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order approves and enacts the appontment of one '''[[Jeremiah Avon-El]]''' as Chairman of the Pachadsberg Development Committee, furnished with the powers granted to that post by the Order of Council dated Summerfall 3rd, 224 AL.

'''2.''' For the discharge of his new duties, Mr. Avon-El is granted citizenship of the Garden of Kalgachia and the [[Chthonarchotrix|civil service rank]] of Warden.
 
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| Byeday Harvestrise 30th, 229 AL || Anti-Corruption Measures || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] of the Garden have encountered a conspiracy, penetrating to the very deepest strata of the state, to appropriate large portions of the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|Garden's bounty]] for [[Children of Salus|purposes flagrantly outwith]] the core precepts of inwardly-referential state and society which were sown into the primordial loam of our mountain homeland by the [[Ketherism#Theology|Salvators]] themselves, AND WHEREAS the corrupted power centres responsible for this infraction have been identified, AND WHEREAS the excision of their pestilent presence requires corrective action of the utmost resolve,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order dismisses one [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Xantievna Prepodava Yastreb]] from her duties as Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan and from her commission in the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]]. The Prefects are instructed to detain her personage immediately.

'''2.''' One [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Royevich Lotchika Yastreb]] is dismissed from his positions at the [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Reserve Bank of Kalgachia]], the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] and the [[Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone|Pachadsberg Development Committee]]. The Prefects are instructed to detain his personage immediately.

'''3.''' One Falcifer Xantievich Yastreb is dismissed from his positions in deep service. The Prefects are instructed to detain his personage immediately.

'''4.''' All ranks of the KDF Fire Division and Special Purpose Regiment more senior than Captain, all officials of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] more senior than Warden and all employees of the Octavian Import-Export Corporation residing on Kalgachi territory are to be subject to inquisition by the Prefects in relation to the precipitating events of This Order.
 
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| Pleaseday Harvestrise 2nd, 227 AL || Rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Extraordinary Grand Council commenced in the Year of Our Shrub Two Hundred And Twenty Six has reached sufficient concord upon the contents of its agenda to dissolve and disperse to its ordinary duties, AND WHEREAS it is the right and duty of every Kalgachi citizen to be appraised of its conclusions,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order announces and compels into effect the rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226, as follows:

'''a)''' Upon the matter of the congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]], the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Garden will accept the present Benacian geopolitical order as the most practical manifestation of the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|Goltz Doctrine]] available in the circumstances, whilst continuing to oppose the intrusion of Storish or any other off-continent colonial entities in all of their manifestations. A policy of peaceful, if not necessarily affectionate relations toward all Benacian states shall prevail.

'''b)''' Upon the matter of the fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the resumption of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (the ''[[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That notions of economic damage arising from the above event have been greatly exaggerated and seemingly confused with those circumstances afflicting the Garden at the turn of this century, when its domestic economy and infrastructure were considerably less developed and more exposed to fluctuations in foreign trade. Those elements of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Eocnomic Planning|DLEP]] and [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|affiliated entities]] in a personal position to benefit financially from the promotion of such alarmist scenarios are presently being held to account. The capricious nature of [[Micras|Micran]] geopolitics ensures that the external conditions required to cripple the Kalgachi economy in its present state would need to be applied for considerably longer than the lifetime of the average Benacian regime. The matter is therefore of minimal strategic importance, provided the Garden retains the capability to exploit fluctuations in external events as and where required.

'''c)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That a standing armed force will be established for the [[Upland Confederation]], around those cadres presently under the command of Ataman Ҳazedinov and his ''Iezauli''.

'''d)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation, and upon the hypothecated existence of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and their relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Pecuniary Archon, where it can be held to its own transactional pretext, remains capable of being turned toward the objectives of the Garden; the threshold of harm is crossed when it grows beyond its complementary role and begins to displace other, more essential spheres of activity. Foreign trade, while demonstrably useful, has decreased its own relevance through heavy contribution to national commodity stockpiles yet its position amid the priorities of government has been exponentially inflated, often on the pretext of diplomatic value which is nonetheless a benefit of kind rather than degree. Existing trade arrangements through both the Batavian and Gubernatorial routes will therefore be rationalised, regularised, and reduced to a steady state that offsets the depletion of non-native raw material stockpiles without adding to them overall. This in turn will allow the DLEP to stabilise the resource burden incurred by stockpile maintenance. A renewed emphasis will be placed on Kalgachia's economic relationship with the Protectorates.

'''f)''' Upon the matter of characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That any lasting advancement of Minarboreal modes of thought or existence beyond Kalgachia's frontiers will depend heavily upon a recontextualisation of the undead and [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] races - those ''Benefactors'' whose legacy is rejected by every successor nation except Kalgachia - as agents of a temporary intervention by the Ketheric host to compensate for a degenerative surge in the primate tendencies of humanity toward vandalism, rhetorical howling and ritualised humiliation in the period between the first secession of [[Elwynn]] from [[Shireroth]] and the [[Auspicious Occasion]]. The Benefactors' successors in Kalgachia and its affiliate realms are to be interpreted as transitioning the birthright thus obtained from the biological to the memetic, in recognition of the fact that the Benefactors' intervention is concluding and that the indefinite existence of physical specimens of the Ketheric host in the realm of matter, whilst it remains afflicted by its present archonic taint, would be unsustainable and decohering. To prevent another intervention it is necessary for those of mundane biological origin to take the lead in sustaining the Laws of the Garden and their secular manifestations in heart and mind, in fulfilment of their rightful role as custodians of the thorny hedge of physicality seperating the Garden Ketheric and the Tumultuous Wastes. Only then can Minarboreal Civilisation move beyond its Caverdenian origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.

'''g)''' On the matter of the role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That '''Vascarina Goldcluck''', Lichling of Novodolorsk, Sand-Sifter of Bereliggle Bay and Chosen Guide of the ''Radix Salvator'' Minarbor unto the end of His worldly corpor, is henceforth to be considered a '''Salvator of the Garden''', canonical to the scriptures of established Ketherism, for her accompaniment of the Shrub of Shrubs to a telluric energy rhizome in the dying days of his namesake empire, whence His Rustling Countenance was redeemed from the face of this world by paraphysical forces and restored to the Great Garden Beyond. Her liturgical invocation shall be performed by the casting of sand over the heads of the faithful, the shaping of said substance into artistic objects or the release of live crows.

'''ii)''' That neither credence nor censure can be granted to claims that the Salvator Vascarina, or her corvine companion Birdy, were miraculously restored to life upon the dematerialisation of the Shrub and continue to walk the land in biological immortality. The belief is to be considered neither canonical nor heretical.

'''2.''' The Extraordinary Grand Council is hereby dissolved. ''Hortus Manet. Hortus Resurget.''
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 28th, 226 AL || Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS various events of the last decade, both within and without the Garden, have borne cumulative implications for its overall navigation through the Tumultuous Wastes and the continuity of the Shrubly birthright, AND WHEREAS the usual technocratic mechanisms of government are inappropriate for addressing such matters,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order summons the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lords Lieutenant]] of Abrek, Bergburg, Jollity, Katarsis, Lithead, Oktavyan and Schlepogora, the Resectors of the Holy Synod of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], the General Staff of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] and the Lords Protector of [[Lapivril]], [[Lepidopterum]], [[Northbloom]] and the [[Upland Confederation]] to convene in '''Extraordinary Grand Council''' at the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in Oktavyan.

'''2.''' Members of the Council are instructed to prepare such informational materials and policy observations as may be appropriate in deliberation upon the following matters:

'''a)''' The congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]].

'''b)''' The fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the revival of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (''the [[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes.

'''c)''' The threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland.

'''d)''' The threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation.

'''e)''' The possibility of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and its relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue.

'''f)''' Characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form.

'''g)''' The role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology.

'''h)''' Such other matters as may conceivably arise in the circumstances.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 3rd, 224 AL || Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS recent years have seen an increase in well-connected foreign personages engaged in commercial and diplomatic business with the Garden, AND WHEREAS a number of these individuals have, in the course of their activities, been appraised of abundant recreational oppurtunities available to tourists of a discerning nature within the Lieutenancy of Jollity, AND WHEREAS the foreign missions of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] have referred increasing numbers of visa applications to the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] by persons seeking to visit Jollity for the purpose of leisure alone, AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] has assessed that a measured cultivation of the phenomenon would represent a net economic benefit to the Garden,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order transfers, to the Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning, sole title to that territory comprising the Eighth Easement of the Parish of Sugarscythe within the March of the City of Jollity, henceforth to be named the '''Pachadsberg Special Recreation Zone''' in honour of one Pachad ben Mavet, Nohsi of [[Ashkenatza]], Jollifier of the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] Kossars and noted connoisseur of the ancient Fleshpots of Mazeltov on whose ruins the illuminated wonders of Jollity city now stand.

'''2.''' The DLEP is instructed to develop Pachadsberg into a resort community of ski slopes, casinos, hotels, restaurants, houses of prostrate companionship and boutiques of the finest international standard.

'''3.''' Purveyors of public goods and services in Pachadsberg shall exclusively accept the following currencies as tender:

'''a)''' the [[Kruys]], [[Liberadosan cruz|Cruz]], [[Arcadia|Golden Cruz]], [[Kasterburg|Thaler]] and [[Helderbourgh|Heldermark]]. 
'''b)''' the [[Natopian natopo|Natopo]]. 
'''c)''' the [[Economy of Constancia|Stater]]. 
'''d)''' the [[Sovereign Avak]]. 
'''e)''' The [[Economy of Shireroth|Shirerithian]], [[Verionist Republic#Economy|Verionist]] and [[Ransenari Erb|Ransenari]] Erb. 
'''f)''' the [[Nova England|National Redoubt Denarii]]. 
'''g)''' the [[Economy of Alduria|Écu]]. 
'''h)''' the [[Jingdao|Kala]].

'''4.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]], through its public transport [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|subsidiaries]], is instructed to establish a connecting passenger shuttle service between [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and Pachadsberg using civilianised [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirbs]] and to implement the necessary fixed infrastructure and rolling stock for first-class rail charter services to Pachadsberg from the Kalgachi frontier.

'''5.''' The Prefects are instructed to insitute a 'Pachadsberg Only' visa option, valid exclusively for travel to/from and residence within Pachadsberg, for the safe admission to the Garden of persons of indeterminate security risk.

'''6.''' The implementation of all provisions of This Order and the governance of Pachadsberg upon its completion shall be the ultimate responsibility of the '''Pachadsberg Development Committee''', an organ of the DLEP chaired by Governor '''[[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer R. Yastreb]]''' of the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia and the Garden's Salvator '''[[Lord Toastypops]]''', Lieutenant of Jollity.
 
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| Thanksday Summerhigh 26th, 223 AL || Protectorate Status for the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Congress of Džirgas of the [[Upland Confederation]] has convened and deliberated upon the present state of safety and stability afforded to that realm by the transformative presence of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], evolving as it has from purely defensive needs to matters of humanitarian assistance and rudimentary infrastructure development, AND WHEREAS it is the resolution of the Congress that this state of affairs be sustained indefinitely in a manner which nonetheless preserves the clan structures and autonomy of the Confederation, AND WHEREAS the Congress has directed their ruling Ataman to petition the Council of Perfecti of the Garden to advance the Upland Confederation to the same state of regard enjoyed by [[Northbloom]], [[Lepidopterum]] and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]],'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order extends ultimate and beneficient jurisdiction to the Upland Condeferation as a Protectorate of the Garden of Kalgachia, by special allotment outwith the [[Oktavyan Code]].

'''2.''' Ataman '''Varҳat Ҳazedinov''' of the Upland Confederation is hereby appointed '''Lord Protector of the Upland Confederation'''; remitted, in deference to the native civil mechanisms of that realm, to represent it before the Council of Perfecti and to implement such measures as the Council see fit to supplement the rulings of the native authority.

'''3.''' That portion of the Upland Confederation lying east of the 152nd meridian and north of the 47th parallel is, in respect of its biomically challenging character and administrative burden, transferred by This Order to the administration of the Planting of Lepidopterum for specialised development.
 
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| Byeday Summerhigh 22nd, 222 AL || Tealsburrow Railway || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the present geopolitical and economic situation has rendered it desirable to upgrade the Garden's infrastructural links with the city of Stonetree, presently administered by the Ketek Corporation in accordance with the [[Slavegate Convention]], AND WHEREAS it is incumbent upon the Garden, in accordance with the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Second and Fifth Laws]], to render unto its trusted trading partners adequate recompense for recent economic policy decisions which have developed not necessarily to the latter's advantage,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] to carry out the necessary surveys and engineering plans for the following:

'''a)''' The construction of a double-tracked railway linking the town of Tealsburrow to the national rail network at Zensemer.

'''b)''' The construction of a combined rail and highway route extending south from the town of Tealsburrow to the national frontier.

'''2.''' In recognition and appreciation of the successful delivery of the expansion of [[Gravelbottom Airport]] in 193 AL, the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] is instructed to make available the sum of 1.2 million [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] (or an equal value in civilian commodities) for the contracture of the aforesaid works to the [[Iron Company]], who are invited to peruse the DPW specification and begin construction at the earliest possible convenience.

'''3.''' The Lithead Division of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] is instructed to prepare a regime of close protection for contractors in the Tealsburrow area against the depredations of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' and other hazardous features of the local biome.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerhigh 4th, 221 AL || Repatriation of the Froyalanish and Rescript to the Kingdom of Amokolia || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] has been petitioned by the government of the Kingdom of [[Amokolia]] regarding the repatriation of those naturalised guest workers of [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish extraction]] who were admitted to the Garden between 152 and 164 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], AND WHEREAS the majority of such individuals have now aged beyond useful labour ability and, by their reliance upon the alms of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], have become a net burden upon the [[Economy of Kalgachia|Kalgachi economy]], AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lord Lieutenants' Council]] of the Garden, remitted [[Oktavyan Code|as it is]] to rule upon matters of nationality, has submitted its conclusions upon the subject, AND WHEREAS the general policy of the Kingdom of Amokolia with respect to the Froyalanish is, for historical reasons, a matter in which the entire [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent has a legitimate interest,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI accepts in full and by This Order enacts the ruling of the Lords Lieutenant of the Garden as follows:

'''a)''' Kalgachi citizens of Froyalanish descent shall henceforth be permitted, optionally and of their own volition, to emigrate to the Kingdom of Amokolia.

'''b)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners wishing to remain in the Garden, and whose conduct does not present grounds for deportation, shall be permitted to remain in the Garden.

'''c)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners returned to the Kingdom of Amokolia shall forfeit their Kalgachi citizenship upon exit from the Garden.

'''d)''' ex-Kalgachi Froyalaners shall be subject to the same constraints upon re-entry to the Garden as any other non-citizen, in individual accordance with such foreign citizenships as they may subsequently acquire.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]] is instructed to administer a course of exit vaccinations, of a composition determined by the DHPW Woundmender General and Clinical Commissioners, of all Froyalaners departing the Garden pursuant to the provisions of This Order.

'''3.''' The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] and the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] are instructed to jointly establish and operate a regime of chartered passenger flights from [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]] to [[Brandenburg]] for the expedient implementation of the provisions of This Order.

'''a)''' The removal of Froyalaners pursuant to the provisions of This Order shall occur exclusively by aerial means. Those border security measures established on land by the Order of Council dated Summerise 20th, 220 AL shall remain in full effect.

'''4.''' The Directorate of Tumultuous Wastes is instructed to convey to the Amokolian government, on behalf of the Council of Perfecti, the rescript contained in the Schedule to This Order.

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'''Schedule 1: Rescript to the Amokolian Government'''

''The Garden notes with interest the present attention of the Amokolian government to the historical situation of the Froyalanish people in the years following the Auspicious Occasion in Shireroth.''

''In the interests of complete historical accuracy and continental harmony in the modern era, the Garden hopes that in recognising the magnitude of the suppression of the Froyalanish, the Kingdom of Amokolia will also recognise the underlying cause of the event; namely the wilful and systematic programme of the House of Ettlingar Freyu - using the Froyalanish race and the captive government of Shireroth as their vectors - to concentrate power in their own hands at the exclusion of all others, to erase the indigenous life of Benacia from memory by the falsification of history and ultimately to disenfranchise, annihilate and supplant [[Benacia]]'s entire ancient tapestry of native societies before a deaf and uncompromising Vanic hegemony.''

''The Garden hopes that the Amokolian government will recognise how the Shirerithians' appeals for moderation were ignored, how their processes of legal redress were subverted in the foulest of faith, how the evasive glibness of the regime of King Noah in [[Elwynn]] was little comfort to the [[Mishalan|Mishalanski]] as they were dragged from their homes, and how the people ultimately took to the use of force because all other means of moderating the behaviour of their Froyalanish élite, of assuring some baseline of societal survival lest their their ancestral birthright be torn to pieces, had been denied to them.''

''The Garden advises against swallowing the absurd fiction propagated from [[Haraldsborg]], that the Froyalanish were an innocent race who were turned upon by all Benacia for no reason - for the reasons were plentiful, painfully unavoidable and ultimately sown by the Storish elite who, in their vanity and hubris, expected to pervert or wipe out the nations of Benacia without effective opposition. The suppression of the Froyalanish people had its roots in the reckless avarice of their baubled Storish enablers, and if the government of Amokolia truly cares for the plight of the Froyalanish - or indeed any Amokolian - it must take care not to indulge that avarice again.''

''At any rate the peoples of Benacia shall never apologise for pursuing, to the fullest extent necessary, the imperatives of individual and collective self-defence which are the foundational instinct of all life in the universe. Benacia, if necessary, would do it all again.''

''The Kingdom of Amokolia, for the present time, remains assured of the Garden of Kalgachia's highest consideration.''
 
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| Helloday Summerise 20th, 220 AL || Northern Border Controls || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the regal proclivities of the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] sovereign as they pertain to the manifest policy of that realm are recently reported to include the active enablement and indulgence of [[Froyalaners|alien colonial forces]] on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent, AND WHEREAS such wilful repudiation of the Goltz Doctrine of continental self-determination, the foundational consensus of Benacian diplomacy [[Amokolian War|inscribed with the blood of our Ashkenatzan forebears]] on Amokolia's very own soil, is a development not necessarily in the interests of the Garden nor the wider symbiotic harmony of the Benacian continent,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the defence and security organs of the Garden of Kalgachia and its Protectorate of [[Northbloom]] to implement and maintain a full and immediate closure of the border adjoining their respective jurisdictions to the Kingdom of Amokolia, assisted to the maximum extent practicable by other organs of governance.

'''2.''' Kalgachi and Northbloomer authorities are each authorised and instructed to solicit and accept from the other, any and all mutual assistance as may be required in the implementation and maintenance of a functional Amokolian border closure coherent across both jurisdictions.

'''3.''' The application of lethal force, without prior warning, to violators of the Amokolian border on Kalgachi/Northbloomer soil is authorised.

'''4.''' The Kalgachi delegation to the [[Slavegate Convention|Military Coordination Council]] at Stonetree are instructed to initiate discussions with their [[Raspur Pact]] counterparts concerning the coordinated implementation of a pan-Benacian containment policy against such common civilisational threats as may hypothetically emerge from the territory of a compromised Amokolian government.
 
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| Thanksday Summerise 18th, 220 AL || Church Statement upon the Deliverance of the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Garden of Kalgachia has, in the [[Slavegate Convention]], obtained an agreement with the [[Raspur Pact]] upon the cessation of hostilities in the [[Upland Confederation]] and a mutual acknolowdgement of territorial interests in the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|post-Dolmen]] space, AND WHEREAS this development has far-reaching and greatly beneficial implications of which all Kalgachia ought to be appraised, AND WHEREAS the valour and sacrifice of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], particularly its Kossar regiments, are worthy of the deepest recognition for bringing about such a favourable state of affairs,'''

'''1.''' The COUNCIL OF PERFECTI hereby releases a public statement contained in the Schedule to This Order, from Our Sovereign Brother the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Education and Outreach|Directorate of Education and Outreach]] is instructed to circulate the statement of Our Sovereign Brother through all news organs of the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]].

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'''Schedule 1 - Statement by the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia upon the cessation of hostilities in the Upland Condeferation'''

''Children of the Garden,''

''The greater number of you will be aware that recently, in the town of Slavegate, representatives of the [[Raspur Pact]] met with our Garden's executive, military and diplomatic leadership to bring about a cessation of armed hostilities with the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]] on the outer frontiers of the [[Upland Confederation]]. The Convention resulting from those negotiations allows the administration of that valiant ally of Shrubdom, the Ataman Ҳazedinov, to retain those territorial holdings obtained with the blood of his brave Laqkozaki and, indeed, the children of our own mountain Garden who were dispatched to the aid of his people.''

''Whilst we mourn those whom the Garden has lost in this just campaign, it is the judgement of none other than [[Lord Toastypops|Our Lord Salvator in Jollity]] that jollity is indeed warranted at its outcome. Jollity, in the first instance, for the plight of the Black Laqi who have been spared the greater part of the [[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|archonic wrath]] poured out upon their Red Laqi cousins east of Schlepogora. They who stood in defence of our Shrubly name in [[Minutes of the Dolmen|the days of the Dolmen]], to the ridicule and enmity of their peers, have now yielded the fruit of deliverance from the archonic talon; for the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Fifth Law of the Garden]] determined that this was our debt unto them. Glory unto the name of the [[Minarboria#Religion|Shrub]] and his Salvators, then, for the radiance of their example has lit a path through the Tumultuous Wastes and guided us to do what the Garden requires. There shall be cultivation ahead, yea, and all children and friends of Shrubdom shall partake of its fruits.''

''Still more righteous of our men and women at arms is the deliverance of the Benefactor Races, the [[Deep Singers]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] of [[Lepidopterum]] and Lithead, from proximity to the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] horde who would slaughter them to the last orphaned infant if only the briefest chance availed itself. Banished for our time is the spectre of aggression, provocation and decoherence of the spirit upon the borders of those lands. It is for the deliverance of the hinterland Benefactors that the liberation of the Upland Confederation is an event beyond the realm of mere military maneouvre - it is a salvational act mandated from the [[Ketherism#Cosmology|Garden Ketheric]] itself, wrought by the faithful Kalgachi who fortify that Garden's periphery in this blasted world and have a shared interest in its defence. Here too does the Fifth Law come into effect, for the debt of all Kalgachia to the Deep Singers is everlasting; their works are of such significance in the righteous life of our nation, in our very genetic composition, that neither the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] nor the Crystal Death will ever suffice to part us from the children of the Broodmother. To the end of time, then, we shall stand or fall together - for this is the course on which history has set us.''

''In the valour and devotion of our armed forces during this campaign, it would be remiss of us to overlook those of the [[Ketherism#The Yehudi Conundrum and its Resolution|Pesakhnik creed]] - the sons of Jacob whose most valiant number comprise the Kossars of our Kalgachi Defence Force - for it is they who were first into the fray when the Black Laqi called for aid. It is they who ventured atop ruined forts to scour the skies for enemy aircraft. It is they who hauled artillery to the forward lines and offered furious reply to the raids of the [[Black Legions]]. It is they who suffered losses the longest. And yet...! What became of the dire predictions of defection and rout? These rootless cosmopolitians, these aristocrats of the human race, these pedestrians of the sea, where did we see the betrayal and reversion to archonic type that was feared of them? It was forgotten by a great many it seems, that their tribe has known such malice in antiquity as can scarcely be imagined; to the plight of our people, and especially the posthuman Benefactor Races, events have proven that the [[Kalgachia#The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi|Yehudim of Bergburg]] have cultivated within themselves a protective affinity. It has been learned in military circles quickly enough; Kossars are being promoted already. For the first time, rogatywka caps rest on the map tables of the General Staff. The First Law of the Garden mandates that all life be allotted the fullest niche it can occupy, and many a hero has returned from the Uplands deserving of a deeper station in life. Consider this when you next meet a serving soldier or a demobilised reservist.''

''By their valour and determination, the soldiers of Shrubdom have brought the Black Legions to terms. They have secured peace in our time. In the forts and trenches of the Upland Confederation the long humiliation of the Great Replantings, begun with the flight of the Shrub from [[Shirekeep]] and culminated in the [[History of Kalgachia|rout of our forefathers]] to these Octavian mountains, has at long last met its limit and begun to recede. After [[Harvestfall Revolution|revolution]], [[Minarboria#Collapse|collapse]], after hunger and privation, the final trial awaiting Shrubdom was its defence by force of arms against a powerful adversary. Our armed forces have stepped forward to this trial and been found worthy, and all the Garden with them.''

''Although our children may face this trial again, perhaps of a ferocity that wipes the present victory from memory, we now know that it can be done. And what is more, the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Gubernatorials]] know it can be done - the wave of chaos and destruction that precedes them, that has masticated so many other populations of our Benacian continent for easy digestion in the tradition of their [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] forebears, has failed to break us down. Those accustomed for centuries to the harrying of the disparate and leaderless have found us equipped, informed, prepared, and able to impose greater damage to their strength than is worth paying for the [[Endsieg|vain objectives]] of continental hegemony or the extermination of benign races. And so they have offered peace, not out of charity but out of necessity. And this is all we require of them.''

''So I beseech you, in the name of the Shrub and His Salvators, be thankful to our armed multitudes and the Garden that nourished their souls to life. By their gift you may go forth in jollity this day, for the Garden remains!''
 
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Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

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Yastreb: /* 1677 */

A timeline of [[Benacia]]n events in the aftermath of the [[Kalirion Fracture]] (1671–1675) which upended the longstanding continental balance of power.

==1676==
===I===
* 3: Elwynnese prince [[Ander Avon-El]], furious after the [[Council of Eliria]] voted to repudiate the [[Treaty of Concord]] against its own provisions, calls the decision illegal, and instead publishes an instrument of government confirming the validity of the Treaty of Concord. In a statement released along with the instrument of government, Avon-El states that if the Council of Eliria still wishes to withdraw from the treaty during the twelfth year after its implementation, the Council of Eliria may so decide at that time in accordance with law.
* 4: The [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], the [[Communist Party of Elwynn]], the [[Amokolian Freedom Front]], the [[Conservative Historical Party]] and the [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism]] release statements in support of the Prince's interpretation.
* 5: With the Verionists having lost control over Monty Crisco and Elsenar's authorities and civil service (except in [[Chryste|Chryse]]) and therefore begun a huge evacuation to [[Keltia]] where apparently now the Verionists have found a land of milk and honey, the Imperial Regency and the Verionists agree to a transfer of sovereignty of Elsenar (except the Chryse area) and Monty Crisco back to Shireroth. It is rumoured that because of Shireroth's inability to administer parts of these territories, that the Regency is therefore in negotiations with other Vulture States on how to proceed with these territories. One option on the table, leaked to the press in Eliria, is that Elsenar in its entirety would be granted Ransenar while the Guttuli Protectorate would have an option to take parts of Monty Crisco.
** With news of the [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|Great Disaster]] having reached Goldfield, the Cabinet sends a resolution to the Ransenari Congress for approval to authorize and fund the beginning of a [[Operation Salvation|large scale humanitarian, medical, and scientific mission to the ruins of Elsenar]].
*9: The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār, legislature of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]], initiated proceedings that could, if replicated in either the [[Northern Commonwealth]] or the [[Congressional Counties]], result in the impeachment and removal of [[Ander Avon-El]].
* 13: Delegates from the [[Sovereign Confederation]] and the [[Ransenar|Kingdom of Ransenar]] meet in Goldshire Hamlet to discuss coordination of a common foreign policy and greater economic cooperation.
* 14:
** The [[Tassity Mansabdar]] killed the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7K4vGYL9zI pirate leader]. The mission on Naudia'Diva is accomplished. In a letter to the Imperial Regency, the [[Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy|King of Amokolia]] says that the Arkadian Sector can be returned. The letter comes with a box containing the head of the pirate leader. The full story is worked out in [[The Micras Chessboard]].
** [[West Amokolia|Amokolia]] closes the border with Unified Governorates of Benacia.
*18: The [[Amokolian People's Party]] delegation to the [[Elwynnese congress]] moves for a vote of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]]. In a statement by its leader, Jorgen Basker-Daal said: "The actions of the Prince have injured the prospects of Amokolian reunification for decades ahead. It is clear he not fit to lead our republic. For those reasons, we call for his impeachment in Congress."
** In response to the motion ahead in the Congress, the [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], of which Prince Ander Avon-El is also a member, left the congressional government. Its ministers resigned with immediate effect, leaving the executive with a one-seat majority in Congress.
*19: The Elwynnese Workers' Party also left the government, said that it would call for a vote of no confidence in the Conducator after the vote on the Prince. An EWP spokesperson said "It is clear that this is an N&H-led ploy to get progressives out of government positions in Elwynn. Ander Avon-El has been a good prince and he does not deserve this kind of treatment."
*20: The [[Elwynnese congress]] votes on the motion of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]], 144 votes in favour ([[Nationalist and Humanist Party|N&H]], [[Verionist Union|VU]], [[Democratic Party of Elwynn|DEM]], [[Amokolian People's Party|APP]], [[Holy Party of the Divine Icebear|HPDI]]) against 105 votes against ([[Ayreonist Independence Party|AIP]], [[Communist Party of Elwynn|CPE]], [[Elwynnese Workers' Party|EWP]], [[Amokolian Freedom Front|AFF]], [[Conservative Historical Party|CHP]], PR, [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism|MPDS]]). The President of the Congress subsequently communicated the results to the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Raspur Pact]] debriefers have a few stern words with some captured VBA officers concerning the wisdom, or [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|lack thereof]], of housing lethal pathogens on the same facility as an experimental reactor.
*24:
**The ''Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār'' delivers its verdict on the Prince of Elwynn with 197 votes in favour of the motion of no confidence (N&H, VU, DEM, BEH) vs 39 against (AIP, EWP). The Sardar of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]] is duly mandated to convey the news of the result to the Council of Eliria.
**Ground based air defences in [[Elwynnese Amokolia]] are placed on high alert whilst [[Benacia Command]] ordered the Central and Northern Banner Groups to disperse their aircraft to satellite runways and to establish patterns of 24-hour combat air patrolling until further notice. The Western Banner Group, headquartered on [[New Blackstone]] commenced snap drills, taking units out of their permanent cantonments and into their forward defensive positions.

===II===
*1:
** The [[Council of Eliria]] meets in which the votes of confidence in Prince Ander Avon-El are communicated and found to be in good form. [[Ander Avon-El]] confirms their validity, thanks the other members of the Council for a fruitful cooperation, and hands over the executive to the senior-most member of the Council, [[Firdaus Abdollahi Mehr]]. Mehr will be Steward until the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|new princely elections]] have concluded.
**As the preceding week of cloud cover over Western [[Northbloom]] is cleared by a boreal high pressure front, the fresh satellite imagery of various powers reveals that on the fringes of the town of Usheroff, a strip of ground some 2,400 metres long has been cleared, graded and hastily overlaid with slabs of PAG-14 to create a runway. Other visible details are a single parked [[Floret]] in camouflage livery, a hangar composed of a three-sided revetment with a fabric canopy and a series of ragged taxiways radiating out toward presumable dispersal stands in the cover of nearby woodland.
**The front page of the Usheroff and District Newsletter and Spare Parts Directory details eerie eyewitness reports of "The Howling Night Birds of the Ermingander Road". Meetings are held in surrounding villages to discuss "The Usheroff Thing" which draw the usual crowd of nutjobs, moonbats, fruitcakes and concerned mothers, the less credible of whom are generously interviewed for that evening's Kalgachi television news and immediately discredit the existence of the phenomenon in the minds of most viewers. The handful of sober and sane witnesses, including the only one able to make coherent [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/66/Oobakeep.png drawings] of [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png what he saw], are largely ignored and the stigma of their association with the farcical proceedings soon shames them into silence.
*3: [[Batavia]] and West Amokolia sign the Treaty of Koningsbergen.
*4: Conducator Nila Valgarai of the Democrat–N&H–APP minority government in Elwynn falls in a vote of no confidence. 144 votes in favour (VU, AIP, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI), and 105 votes against (N&H, DEM, APP). The President of the Congress, Benjamin Sluyjs, relieves the Conducator of her office, and authorizes her to lead a caretaker government until the Congress has confirmed a Conducator. Sluyjs consequently meets with all party leaders to discuss the new government formation.
*5: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP leader meets with the APP leader to discuss the basis of a government. Although the APP voted against Prince Ander Avon-El, and the AIP against the APP coalition, the two party leaders said to the media afterwards that they had much in their programme they could use to build a coalition. "Given congressional arithmetic, however, we'd need more parties to these talks."
*6: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP begins talks with Communists and the [[EWP]], while the [[APP]] begins talks with the other Amokolian parties.
*7: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]: Verionist Union announces Stephen Lewis as its princely candidate.
*8: Elwynn's [[Ayreonist Independence Party]] announces Meqael Mizarielion as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*10: The Amokolian People's Party announces Jorgen Basker-Daal as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*19: The Ayreonist Independence Party and the Amokolian People's Party report they have been unable to secure a majority coalition, and urge the President of Congress to discuss the question of government formation more intimately and aggressively with party leaders, saying "new elections are the last thing we need at this time of political crisis".
*23: The N&H announces the candidacy of Frederik Haabye Truls for the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|vacant principate]].

===III===
*4: Details of the N&H electoral platform energe. Focus to be upon developing an export based manufacturing sector to build up industrial capacity and working capital, with surpluses to be reinvested in defence, law and order, and public infrastructure policy. Foreign policy - to remain aligned with Raspur Pact, introduce quarantine along Amokolian frontier. Domestic policy - encourage civic reconciliation, audit of any Verionist "special projects" established by previous administration in view of notable safety lapses elsewhere. First electoral event - symbolic blockade of the Amokolian Oriental Express in Mishalan.
*6: Kalgachia issues a statement on the ongoing [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|Bovic Schism]], remarking that ''"the resolve of the state and clerical classes of [[Drak-Modan]] to bring their centres of societal gravity within Benacian shores marks a commendable return toward the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|cherished precepts]] of collective Benacian sovereignty [[Amokolian War|established]] by the Maven Nohsi Goltz in [[Ashkenatza|late antiquity]] - a timely and welcome development when [[West Amokolia|the northern saddle]] of our continent is once again compromised by an [[Stormark|alien colonial power]] and the cause of Benacian solidarity has become an imperative."''
**As Drak-Modani developments in the husbandry of famed [[Natopia|Natopian]] goat breeds for dairy purposes have attracted the interest of Kalgachia's [[House of Nerrolar#Chlorocyphida Pan|highland farming community]], enquiries are passed to Drakorda through a [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group|chain]] of commercial [[SATCo|intermediaries]] regarding the export availability of breeding specimens.
*11: The Commissioner of [[New Blackstone]], [[Jeremiah Avon-El]], is sent to Kalgachia on a five-day furlough, at the personal direction of the [[Constantine Loup|Szodan]], to investigate what experiences and amenities are afforded to notable personages utilising the newly promulgated "Pachadsberg Visa".
*12: Upon arrival in Pachadsberg, Commissioner Avon-El - being the highest UGB official to have set foot in the Garden since the [[Slavegate Convention]] negotiations - is received by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]], chair of the Pachadsberg Development Committee who leads him on a guided tour of the resort's completed and ongoing works. This is followed by a meeting with a Mr. Waller at the Puckadobey Savings Bank, where initial discussion of [[Kalkul Sahib|mutual acquaintances]] leads to an illuminating conversation about the jurisdictional hedging of personal capital for purposes of audit reconciliation and insulation from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlwzkjEaQbE failures thereof]. A numbered PSB account is opened for Avon-El's "casino winnings" and he is left to experience the full delights of Pachadsberg at his own initiative.
*16: First round in the 1676 Elwynnese princely elections. Frederik Haabye Truls of the N&H wins a plurality but fails to secure a majority. In the second round, scheduled for next month, Mr Haabye Truls will face Meqael Mizarielion (AIP). Third-placed Stephen Lewis of the Verionist Union, although securing 76% of the Northern Commonwealth vote, did not manage to advance to the second round.
*18: The Ayreonist Independence Party and Amokolian People's Party, on one side, begin coalition talks with the Nationalist and Humanist Party and the Democratic Party on the other side.
*24: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks stall on the question of Conducator. N&H–DEM side steadfast that Nila Valgarai (DEM) is reelected to the position. AIP–APP side want an AIP candidate.

===IV===

*1: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks continue. The parties agree not to discuss the question of conducatorship for a week.
*6: The parties tentatively agree on a platform for governance of the congressional counties, based on national cohesion, an Amokolian curriculum in Amokolian bailiwicks, expanded private insurances of pension and ill health, a fairer taxation regime, and overview of the post-feudalist of justice system.
*7: The AIP–APP and N&H–DEM talks agree that if an Ayreonist wins the princely elections, the Democrats get the conducatorship, and if the N&H wins the princely elections, an Ayreonist gets the conducatorship.
*8: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]. In the second round, Frederik Haabye Truls (N&H) narrowly beat (51–49%) AIP contender Meqael Mizarierion for the position of Prince. As soon as the results were announced, Mr Haabye Truls swore the oath of office and took his seat in the Council of Eliria. Mr Mizarierion said, as soon as the results were announced, that he was pleased that he had been elected Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, and that he looked forward to leading the congressional government in Elwynn.
*9: The President of the Elwynnese Congress, Mr Benjamin Sluyjs (APP) brought forward the first reading of the motion to elect Meqael Mizarierion to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, heading a coalition government of the Nationalist & Humanist Party, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, the Amokolian People's Party, and the Ayreonist Independence Party.
*11: The Elwynnese Congress confirms the election of Meqael Mizarierion (AIP) to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, with 130 votes in favour (N&H, DEM, APP, AIP), and 119 votes against (VU, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI).
*12: Elwynnese congressional Conducator Meqael Mizarierion announces a twenty-member cabinet including himself consisting of 7 N&H members, 5 Democrats, 4 members of the Amokolian People's Party, and 3 additional members of the Ayreonist Independence Party. Outgoing conducator Nila Valgarai (DEM) is made Minister of Finance and notes wryly to the media that there are now no women in the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Shireroth]] wins the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]]. Kaiseress [[Salome]] awarded Shireroth's points personally, giving Sanama 12 points. She has, according to court rumours, a teen crush on the [[Sanama]]n singer Dimash Kudaibergen, awards Kudaibergen a title of Baronage (Baron Kudaibergen; in Shirerithian peerage, baronies are only granted foreigners), and has invited Kudaibergen for tea and cake. The Kaiseress also awards lordships in Shirekeep for the Coldplay members (the lowest form of nobility), remarking however that their song was "pathetic". She is happy, though, that the Florian Republic finally saw the light and gave Shireroth 12 points.
*22: The Kalgachi tabloid ''Private Ear'' fills its front page with two illustrations: a transcript of [[Brandenburger Post#Nur ein weiterer Tag im Reichstag|assurances given]] by the King of West Amokolia to the Prince of Elwynn on 17.I denying any intent to convert his realm into a Storish client state, next to a table displaying the Microvision votes of Stormark and West Amokolia in which they awarded each other the maximum points. Beneath, typeset in bold faux-runic, is the headline: ''"By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them"''.
**The ''Private Ear'' front page is featured prominently on [[Ransenar|Ransenari]] media ([[Kalirion Fracture#IV.1675|known for its sensationalism]]), triggering huge demand for issues of the tabloid to catch the illustrations. Putting it in context with [[West Amokolia]]'s brazen expansionist designs on Elsenar, opinion pages and media coverage reports on the illustrations as the latest salvo in the "war for the minds of the peoples of the Benacian continent", regarding the Vanic-West Amokolian cooperation in the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]] as a concerted effort to take control or influence the culture of the country and reinstate the "Vanic Web".
**The Daily Mail & Telegraph of Eliria, whilst disdaining to comment upon so vulgar a matter as the Microvision contest directly, being distinctly sniffy about "low culture", provided a droll analysis of the sociological and political factors that had combined to elevate the favouritism shown by Brandenburg to Haraldsborg to a matter of international concern. The paper duly dismissed the voting proclivities of the King of West Amokolia as being "a cheap shot concerning a trivial matter, one flung back in spite over having been so thoroughly drubbed by the international community for his misguided attempt to capitalise on the misfortunes of [[Verionist Benacia|Elsenar]]."
**Rumours circulate in Eliria concerning the abrupt departure of the [[Ander Avon-El|former Prince]] for a new academic posting in [[shire:Tala|Tala]], [[Raikoth]], accompanied by a sizeable close protection detail, in the same month that a new edict concerning the status of Elwynnese adherence to the [[Treaty of Concord]] is anticipated.
*23: [[Verionist Union]] leader, and Northern Conducator, [[Stephen Lewis]] holds a speech in Fieldburg, televised live in most parts of the country. He decries the ''"N&H takeover of the government"'' and warns that the Northern Commonwealth now ''"stands as a last resort, as often in our history, against the grubby hands of imperialist powers. Be it Storish, be it communists or be it the disasterous dictatorship of the Osmani Gang, whose black shadow falls over Benacia as the Star of Verion is pushed away to the North"''. In a response to questioning from journalists, Lewis refused to say if he recognised the new government, or would implement the policy of the new administration, instead replying with a cryptic ''"The North does as the North does".''
**Inhabitants of the [[Northern Commonwealth]] are bemused by a sudden blitz of publicity materials produced by the Court of the Prince detailing essential items to carry in a "grab bag" and other hints and tips for preparedness in the face of an unspecified emergency.
**Asked about Conducator Lewis' comments concerning the the "N&H takeover of the government" the press spokeswoman for the Court of the Prince tersely replied ''"It's called 'winning an election on the basis of a popular vote', Agha Lewis really ought to try it some time."''

===V===

*1: [[Operation Kulning]]: Driving through the night from [[Dragonskeep]], a detachment of [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] engineers and administrative personnel arrived in [[Fieldburg]] on the morning of 01.V.1676, under the command of ''Generalmajor'' Jan Gräbner. The Generalmajor's first act upon arrival was to summon the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels and Master of Cudgels, and the Deputy Director of the Panopticon Department, the heads of Republican law enforcement and security in the city, to join him for breakfast at the hotel which he had now requisitioned for a headquarters. Having taken the opportunity, over fried herrings, poached eggs, lingonberries, and rye bread, to remind his guests of their obligations to the [[Constitution of Elwynn|constitution]] and the democratic order of the Republic, the Generalmajor genially explained the purpose of his mission. [[Exercise Tempus Est]] had convinced the incoming Prince of the utility of the Agnesian Gulf, protected from boreal storms by the Cimmerian Isles, as a natural bastion for the naval forces of Elwynn and the [[Raspur Pact]] in [[Benacia]]. To this end existing harbour facilities at Port Illumination and Vijayanagara would be expanded and a new naval dockyard would be constructed on the island of Wolfraven. To support all of this would require significant investment in infrastructure in the region. The Generalmajor's task therefore was to identify land for purchase in Fieldburg and to identify from the available options an optimal site for the construction of a new UDF Operations Centre intended to coordinate all defence activities in the Agnesia-Cimmeria region. As the cudgellers were subject to a chain of command stretching back, via the fetchingly titled Bludgeoner-General of the [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels]], to the Court of the Prince, where their loyalties therefore must ultimately lay, the Generalmajor charged his breakfast partners with lending every assistance when it came to the matter of 'liaising' with representatives of the local authorities, who might be less than fully cooperative in view of the truculent attitude adopted by the [[Stephen Lewis|present Conducator]] in recent days.

===VI===

===VII===
[[File:1676p1.png|350px|thumb|right|[[N&H]] Propagandists in Eliria were seemingly either unwilling or unable to allow the purported demise of the [[House of Verion]] to pass without comment...]]
*16: Rumours begin to spread that a chartered [[Nakalma]] flight from [['s Koningenwaarde]] to the [[Verionian Empire|Verionian Imperial]] capital of Sarhat - carrying the [[Batavia|Batavian]] Prime Minister [[Joachim Mackay]], the [[Los Liberados|Liberadosan]] president [[Jacobo Castrigo Álvarez]] and the Viceroy of [[Verionist Benacia]] Jana Al-Basani - is [[Loss of Nakalma Flight 731|reported overdue]] and has made no communication with air traffic control since beginning its transit of the Great Western Sea. Their personal and business links aside, the improbable hubris and geopolitical implications of [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PutOnABus gathering so many important personages] at a single point of danger do not pass without remark. A long range patrol by a scout shuttle of the [[Natopian Defense Force]], overflying the vicinity on a suborbital trajectory, reported anomalous electromagnetic readings immediately prior to the disappearance of Flight 731 off air traffic control radar screens.
*17: Long convoys of trucks, armoured personnel carriers, and low-loaders carrying [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|vehicles shrouded under tarpaulin covers]] are reported as wending their way westwards from [[Merensk]] and [[Sansabury]] along the few good roads leading into the [[Siyacha Free State]] and the area of operations of the [[Black Legions#I Uihmanz|I Uihmanz]] facing the frontier with [[Kasterburg]]. Sources close to [[Benacia Command]] insist that the bringing up to strength of the establishments of formations attached to the 1st Corps was long over due and not made in response to any specific occurrence.
*19: The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]] Director of Benacian Operations, Bobbert Shrubschild, is waylaid by journalists on arrival at [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and questioned about the Corporation's reponse to the recent activation of a secret protocol between the governments of Los Liberados and the [[Florian Republic]], wherein the latter has assumed sovereignty over the former. Shrubschild states that "the Board of Directors are still assessing the situation but have decided that our head office will remain in [[Puerto Arcadio]] for now. With the apparent demise of Prime Minister Mackay, Batavia's increased vulnerability to the Vanic domino puts future trade with [[Batavian Confederation|its confederation]] in some doubt but the [[Eura|Euran]] market remains viable. The Florian Republic, having the institutional memory of a concussed goldfish, represents for our purposes an optimally deregulated business environment to which we would cautiously welcome a transition." Shortly afterwards, [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] is seen boarding an outbound flight on his way to an "emergency shareholder meeting".
*23: The [[Verionist Vespers]]<ref>Better name pending. At this juncture it is logical, with so many of its members having been exasperated by prior dealings with the avatars of Verionism, that the Pact would seek to tidy away the legacy of Verionism now that its leadership cadres have been obligingly removed from the scene.</ref> begin, with the [[Raspur Pact]] commencing the suppression of the [[Iron Company]] and the [[Verionist Union]] on a global scale.
**Religious hysteria grips the Bovic community in northern Benacia, already disorientated by the [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|schism]] in the [[Dozan Bovic Church]], with the ''herds'' (congregations) cleft between the mother church and the [[Benacian Bovic Church|schismatics]] of [[Drak-Modan]], as videos circulate purportedly showing the [[Butter Bull|most dreaded entity]] in the Bovic pantheon manifesting as the '''Blood Aurochs''', given substance by the slaughter carried out by the faithful on the gore splattered steps of his church in the bailiwick of Saint Biffor. Every individual who watches any of the video clips of the Blood Aurochs receives a commandment burnt into their psyche. The instruction varies according to the watcher but comes in the form of an intensely personal revelation that is invariably homicidal in its ultimate intent. Authorities have suspended the data networks of northern Elwynn in an effort to slow the spread of the videos and have sought the assistance of both Bovic Churches, along with their [[Church of Elwynn|Elwynnese brethren]] in an attempt to locate and destroy all physical copies of the same. The creation of a memetic murder plague was an unexpected development to say the least, which would go on to significantly complicate efforts to restore order in the Northern Commonwealth.
*24: After it became clear that the Batavian prime minister is most likely no longer alive, the king instituted a state of emergency.

===VIII===
*16 :
** [[Karel Kyle]] is born, the second child of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy and [[Clara Sundara|Clara des Vinandy - Sundara Waffel-Paine]].
** The city of [[Chryste]] was transferred to the [[Batavia|Kingdom of Batavia]] by [[Verionist Republic]].

*23 : [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Fanlin|Operation Fanlin]] is declared complete. The remaining territory of Southern Lunaris, as determined by the [[Guttuli Protectorate]]'s treaty with the [[Ransenar]], is reorganized into four commands. Resettlement programs are launched to bring the territory into line with the cultural and socio-economic nature of the remainder of the Protectorate.

===XI===

*6: Evert Flint, the [[Verionist Union|Verionist]] President of [[Elwynn]]'s Northern Congress, orders a full recess until further notice of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature.

*10: Anti-Verionist backlash in the Northern Commonwealth continues, fueled by Bovic extremist rhetoric.

*24: The Kalgachi government opens an Extraordinary Grand Council - the third in its history - to deliberate on the country's future in the context of a re-congealing Benacian order. Speaking to reporters, Lady Lieutenant [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]] of Oktavyan denies rumours that Kalgachia is re-entering an isolationist phase and that "''all present foreign trade arrangements will be maintained insofar as they are salvageable and sustainable in a post-Verion context. The extent to which this is the case remains to be precisely determined.''"

===X===

*8: Evert Flint, the Verionist speaker of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature (now in recess), was apprehended by a [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] snatch squad and conveyed to Eliria. Upon his arrival there he was obliged, whilst in some discomfort discusses on account of the manner in which he was handled during transit, to discuss the political crisis with a special committee formed the Congressional Counties government. The CC government pushes for a reintegration of the Northern Commonwealth into the Congressional Counties, which the Verionist rejected out of hand. "We would rather die", he was quoted to say. "That can be arranged", one of his interlocutors was heard to answer.

===XI===

*10: Evert Flint, president of the Northern Commonwealth congress and de facto conducator in the absence of [[Stephen Lewis]], meets with the Council of Eliria, the [[Dozan Bovic Church]]'s Eparchy of Benacia, members of the Verionist Union rump leadership, and representatives of the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear. The Verionists understand that their days are numbered. The Bovic church assumes some responsibility for the actions by Bovic extremists in the Northern Commonwealth targeting Verionists violently. Conducator Meqael Mizarierion, a noted critic of the Bovic religion, moves to let the Bovics clean up the mess they instigated. The Bovic church denies that they created the mess, saying it was the Verionists who did, but that they do take responsibility for acts committed in Bous's name. "Genocide, however, has no place in Elwynn." The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear moves to establish an Icebear autonomous republic in Cimmeria. Other delegates at the meeting ignore the proposal.

*20: Negotiations regarding the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth continue. Evert Flint asks for amnesty for Verionists in exchange for a peaceful solution. Mezarierion agrees.

===XII===

*1: Official negotiations with the Council of Eliria regarding the Northern Commonwealth's political situation are announced to have failed. The rump legislature leadership, Evert Flint, the Dozan Bovic Church, the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, and Conducator Meqael Mizarierion begin informal discussions outside the remit of the Council of Eliria.
*11: After ten days of intense negotiations with regard to the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth, it is agreed:
** The Verionist Union to be dissolved within the Elwynnese Republic, its assets used to grant pensions to the leadership of the party. Verionist leaders (defined to include members of the Verionist Union board of directors, Verionist members of the Elwynnese legislatures, and Verionist members of the autonomous republics' governments) to refrain from political activity for life. In return, they will be granted a pension for life, funded by the Congressional Counties and Northern Commonwealth governments as well as the Verionist liquidation fund. Verionists in the legislatures shall resign en masse immediately upon the deal's ratification by the Northern Commonwealth's congress, and their seats remain absent until the next elections.
** Eki Verion to remain under house arrest, the funding of which rests on the
** The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear to close all its missions outside Cimmeria. In return, the Church will receive an annual fund from the Northern Commonwealth budget.
** The Dozan Bovic Church agrees not to have missionaries, clergy or congregations in Cimmeria.
** A total amnesty of all crimes committed in the Northern Commonwealth between the date of Stephen Lewis's disappearance and the ratification of this deal by the Northern Commonwealth legislature.
** Until new elections are held in the Northern Commonwealth, Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion and his wife Li Naomiai to lead the Northern Commonwealth government.
*12: The Northern Commonwealth's rump legislature, called back to session, ratifies the informal deal by electing [[Li Naomiai|Li Naomiai Avon-El]] the president of Northern Congress and her husband [[Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion]] (the son of Kaiseress Noor, former Prince of Elwynn, Bovic theologian) to Conducator of the Northern Congress. Li Naomiai's first act is to suspend the legislature until peace is restored in the Northern Commonwealth and new elections held.
*20: The Board of Directors of [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group, Inc]], in accordance with rights vested in or exercised by the Corporation of the Seneschal of the march on behalf of the Corporation of the Marchioness of [[Zy-Rodun]], pursuant to The First Protocol (Governance) of the Technical Cooperation Agreement & Structural Assistance Programme Between the [[Raspur Pact]] and Emirate of Sathrati, resolves to designate the Director of Benacian Operations, [[Garvin Hendriksson]], to serve as Plenipotentiary of the Honourable Company with respect to [[Sathrati|The Emirate of Sathrati together with the Imperial Dominion of the Marquessate of Zy-Rodun and the Counties of Yardistan, Amity, and Mirioth]], and possesses complete authority to act in the name of the Board of Directors of the Honourable Company, unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors. The appointment of a Principal Secretary of State and Undersecretaries are ratified.
*21: Kalgachia's Extraordinary Grand Council concludes its session. Its rulings assert a comfortable attitude toward the trajectory of Benacian geopolitics, establish an armed force for the [[Upland Confederation]] to relieve pressure on the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] and slow the filling of non-native raw material stockpiles from expansion levels to maintenance levels whilst leaving foreign trade routes open. The Council's most notable rulings are in the field of religious doctrine; namely the canonisation of [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|Vascarina Goldcluck]] and the classification of the undead and [[Deep Singers]] as manifestations of a divine "''temporary intervention''" whose "''recontextualisation''" is required for post-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] culture to "''move beyond its [[Brookshire|Caverdenian]] origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.''" The latter declaration takes many by surprise and is interpreted variously as a reaction to the renewed torpor of [[Lord Toastypops]], an attempt to undercut the moral authority of the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]] in the [[UGB|Southern Post-Minarborian Space]], or a combination.

===XIV===

*12: The Directive on Marriage, Reproductive Function, and Societal Obligation is published by [[Benacia Command]], taking effect across the territories of the [[Unified Governorates]]. Superseding [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19062 Imperial Decree 865]<ref>The existence of [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22746 Imperial Decree 1180] having been largely rejected and ignored by territories under the influence of the Nationalist-Humanist movement even during the reign of [[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]</ref> the new directive mainly preserved the intent of the original Imperial law albeit dispensing with the disagreeable licence afforded to the now abolished aristocracy to marry as they pleased. Key improvements upon the preceding law was the codification of the ''Age of Obligation''<ref>The obligation to perform duties considered consensual activities in other societies</ref> at sixteen years of age, and an effort to place the arrangement of marriage onto a scientific and rational basis by involving municipal government, the guilds, and health authorities, in the selection and pairing of suitable partners in each graduating age cohort. Notably the primary purpose of marriage was to drive procreation, with some allowance to the function of the family unit as an engine of social cohesion and stability. Romantic sentiment, therefore being a significantly more tertiary consideration, became largely the preserve of those deemed unsuitable or incapable of breeding. The institution of civil unions, previously established as a sop to those denizens ineligible for marriage under the old arrangements, was allowed to lapse. Barren marriages would be annulled after their tenth year and childlessness would be punished by the levying of a mandatory tax, used to fund a system of rewards and benefits afforded to successful breeding pairs, with a lifelong stipend for those who reached the target of four children birthed per household and a bonus for every surplus child born.
*18: The first [[Committee for Popular Vigilance]] is established in Gloomburg, an otherwise obscure and overlooked city of the Unified Governorates, with the espoused aim of suppressing profanity, immorality, and other lewd activities in general, and the establishment of reformatories, modelled upon the worker colonies which formerly housed the [[Froyalaners]], for the housing of the recalcitrant.
*20: Joint [[Benacia Command]]-[[Ransenar]]i procurement programme announced to equip [[Grand Army of Ransenar|Ransenari Regimental Corps of Artillery]] with ordnance appropriate to its mission profile. At present the artillery arm, bereft of field guns, has primary responsibility for ground-based air defence, custodianship of missile stockpiles, and the operating of the [[Military of Ransenar|Royal Ransenari Armed Forces]] complement of fifty "Tadpole" tactical reconnaissance drones.

==1677==
===I===
* 1: [[Benjamin Cambernon]] has been appointed [[Prime Minister of Batavia]].
*23: First reformatory opens in [[Laikum's Wald]], a model settlement established in the Litel Governorate ([[UGB]]).
===II===
===III===
*6: Obsolete and worn airframes, especially of the B-49 Delta and B-66 Vulcan which have been in continuous service with the Imperial Forces and [[Benacia Command]] since the late 1630's, begin to transfer, via long haul flights and staging points in [[Most Serene Union|Istvanistan]] and [[Alrodey]] to the [[Raspur Pact|Pact's]] strategic aviation reserve, particularly for storage in the so-called Boneyard of [[Arak]].
*14: The venerable [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1(MBT) Bandersnatch]] is retired from service in the [[Black Legions]]. Once held to be a vehicle of great promise, the [[shire:Gravimetrics|gravimetric drive]] propulsion system of the gravtank in particular proved to be technologically complex, logistically burdensome, and unreliable under field conditions. The folly of Bandersnatch commanders pressing ahead of their supporting troops in pursuit of the "main chance" was amply demonstrated during the [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=8791#p92722 Battle of 's-Koningenwaarde]. After this nadir of the Imperial Army, concurrent with the maturation of [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|interdiction technologies]], the Bandersnatch was never again afforded licence to roam at will across the land - being instead constrained to remain behind its accompanying defensive screen of [[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|Horjins]], [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirds]], and legionaries - fundamentally curbing its utility in mobile warfare. Eventually Benacia Command concluded that the cumulative force, in terms of firepower and mobility, dedicated to protecting Bandersnatches in the field were sufficient - in and of themselves - to accomplish the majority of missions the Bandersnatch might reasonably have been expected to undertake.
**News of the Bandersnatch's retirement is met with a mixture of relief and sentimental lament among [[Military of Kalgachia|armed forces of Kalgachia]] for whom it inspired, to date, the company-level deployment of 2,948 hypersonic kinetic missiles with replenishment stocks in the high tens of thousands, gifting them one of the most potent infantry anti-tank capabilities on Micras and unwittingly amassing one of its largest reserves of refined tungsten. Citing this economic value, along with the missiles' proven utility as one of the few weapons capable of a one-shot kill against a [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], a spokesman for the Kalgachi Defence Force Armaments Office announces that there are no plans for a reduction in anti-gravtank weapon stocks.
*15: The undisguised build up of forces in Caverden, [[Drak-Modan]], and [[Sathrati]] would appear to indicate that Benacia Command is once again turning its attention back to the festering problem of the [[Guttuli Protectorate]].
*20: Reports of incursions by the [[Guttuli Protectorate#Guttuli Corps|Guttuli Corps]] into the region of the Crestfallen Hills, conducted under the pretext of harrying the [[Revolutionary Army of Crisco|remnant rebel forces]] cut off by the [[Verionist Vespers|sudden collapse]] of the Verionist regime in southern Benacia, are relayed by [[Benacia Command]] to the Permanent Commission of the [[Raspur Pact]]. The [[Constantine Loup|High Commissioner]] presented the findings to the Commission with an admonition that any further retreat of [[Shireroth|Imperial]] sovereignty in Caverden would represent the toppling of the first domino in a sequence that would cascade into the final, absolute, and irrevocable collapse of what remained of the Kaiser's writ over southern and eastern Benacia - with dire consequences for the security of Pact member-states in Benacia. The message presented to the commissioners in Loup's peroration was that they were either to act together to ensure collective security by standing against the Guttuli Protectorate now or else, if not, they were free to make individual accommodations with the Guttuli but with their track record in Lunaris in mind it should be understood that those who place their faith in treaties with the regime are merely hoping for the privilege of being devoured last. With these concluding remarks two motions were tabled - firstly to establish an allied training mission to support the [[Army of Caverden]] and its organisation into an effective force, whilst the second was to institute a thorough quarantine of the Protectorate, sealing the borders and interdicting the sea lanes, until such time as the Guttuli relinquished their occupation of the Lowbrook region and ceased its genocidal policy in occupied portions of southern Lunaris.
*21: Land border between [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and [[Ransenar]] sealed without explanation. Travellers on Guttuli papers in Ransenari territory detained by [[Internal Security Bureau (Benacia Command)|plain clothes officers]] with support from local security forces whilst Guttuli flagged ships and commercial aircraft are similarly impounded.
*22: [[Benacia Command]] issues a "no-fly" order concerning all Guttuli registered aviation assets, authorising the use of deadly force as a last resort if efforts to turn any Guttuli aircraft to return to ground in their own air space fail.
*23: Telephone exchanges and electronic communications networks operated by the Guttuli Protectorate begin to experience connectivity issues. Gradually becoming apparent that Guttuli controlled nodes are being isolated from the vestigial [[shire:Benacian Data Network|Benacian Data Network]] and being physically disconnected by the digging up of communications cables in border regions.

===IV===

*05: The Sabatini Squadron of the [[Benacia Command|Southern Banner Group]] resumes pattern of boarding, searching, and seizing vessels suspected of conducting trade in Guttuli ports, irrespective of registry flag.

===V===
*17: The [[Navy of Ransenar]] announces, with considerable fanfare, the capture of suspected smuggler vessel the [[Jolly Froyalaner]] in Ransenari territorial waters. Credit attributed to two corvette captains presented to Pact affiliated media as emblematic of the professionalism and ''espirit de corps'' of the new navy. With the news of the seizure comes the first explicit acknowledgement of the Pact's [[Permanent Committee Directive 1677/1 |new quarantine policy]] towards the Guttuli Protectorate.
**The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], the last known operator of the ''Jolly Froyalaner'', initially denies accusations of the vessel's involvement in arms trafficking until the Ransenari Navy releases video and photographic evidence of the assorted infantry weapons filling its hold, whereupon the Corporation characterises the vessel as "an independently owned maritime conveyance under the Corporation's intermittent charter which was not in effect at the time of its seizure." The Corporation nonetheless announces that it is negotiating for the vessel's release.
*18: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' arrives empty at Torpentus Creek, its Guttuli operating base where its skipper meets with officials of [[Guttuli Protectorate/Svalbarh|Command Svalbarh]] on behalf of the vessel's indeterminate owners to settle liability for the lost cargo. Finding himself outnumbered among armed hosts who are accustomed to the cash-on-delivery precedents of his previous voyages, the skipper is persuaded at length to waive the expected payment of local commodities for foreign sale. Instead these are purchased with gold [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrands]] cut from the inner lining of his purser's pea coat - the ''Froyalaner'' is duly loaded with foodstuffs, hand tools and nitrate fertiliser before setting sail that evening, keeping close inshore instead of heading directly for open water.
*20: Following an emergency meeting of the Protectorate Military Council, a Joint Office for Naval Works was formed between the Office for Medium Machining, the Office for Great Guns, and the Office for High Seas Acquisitions, with the intention to coordinate and oversee the construction and outfitting of new combat vessels. Tribune K. Elisz, formerly the chief overseeing officer for Kern Industries under the Office for Upper-Musika, is reassigned to GU-Furgsad and given command of a light battlegroup in Salb Bresa. His replacement, Tribune T. Hælzik, is tasked with prioritizing the completion of four corvettes that are two years past due on delivery to the Guttuli Corps. Salbs Aïreon and Meskan ordered to mobilize and redeploy to Meszor, directive issued for the provision of transports to ferry them across the river.

===VI===
*8: An early-morning patrol of Guttulinese coastal barrier troops encounters the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' beached on the shore of the Bay of Sleep. Its visibly unsettled crew point to a series of high-calibre bullet holes in the hull and describe a close escape from a pursuing Ransenari corvette in which they were obliged to throw their cargo of infantry weapons overboard to lighten draught and increase speed, before grounding the vessel to effect hull repairs and await refloating by the incoming tide. The skipper's suggestion to fill the vessel with weapons from the local troops' armoury, to be passed off in Svalbarh as the lost cargo in exchange for a cut of the payment, is firmly declined.

===VII===
*6: The Guttuli Protectorate commissions its first corvette, the ''PS Bætrsuir'' ("Bitter Storm"). It is assigned to Ałeþus Morsva for patrol of the northern Shire Sea and protection of cargo vessels.
*8: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' returns to Torpentus Creek from yet another voyage without its promised cargo of small arms. In the face of increasing dissatisfaction from his local customers, the ''Froyalaner's'' skipper announces his intention to sail for Svalbarh and arrange a meeting with senior Guttuli Corps commanders wherein the vessel's future movements can be more properly coordinated with Guttulinese naval assets.

*9: As the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' approaches the port of Svalbarh, it is met by the local pilot boat. After a short conversation about the present arrangement of the shifting mudflats, the pilot is shot dead along with the coxswain of his boat and the ''Froyalaner'' accelerates to full speed, launching its complement of four container-housed [[S-2 Standard Missile|S-2 Standard missiles]] on a trajectory aimed at Svalbarh's Temple of Morsva. Upon reaching the port it draws sharply alongside the largest Guttulinese merchant vessel it can find and secures itself with grappling lines over the latter's gunwales, laying down heavy small arms fire in all directions to suppress resistance. Timers are then set in the ''Froyalaner's'' explosives-packed hold with barely sufficient delay for its crew to launch an outboard-powered pinnace and get clear of the blast zone, making thence for an escape toward the open sea.
** At the same time as the Svalbarh attack, a section of Guttulinese troops patrolling the southwestern approach road to Erianamor is ambushed by heavy fire on open ground, killing the majority and driving the rest to ground with disciplined bursts from multiple light machine guns. The suppression provides cover for a hasty looting of the fallen Guttulinese, the pinning of a note to the body of its commanding Decurion and a covered withdrawal into the surrounding scrub. The note proclaims to be from a new partisan group called the [[Children of Salus]], demanding an end to the extermination of the Lunatics and the creation of an interior safe zone for them.
** The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] issues a statement admitting responsibility for the ''Jolly Froyalaner's'' actions and the feigning of lost arms shipments in collusion with the [[Navy of Ransenar]] as cover for their diversion to the Children of Salus. The Corporation - which is 22% owned by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|the heir]] of Lunaris' old ruling house - cites the Guttuli Protectorate's betrayal of an agreement to end the extermination of the Lunatics as a condition of the arms smuggling deal, concluding that the Protectorate has ''"has forfeited the right to good faith and honest commerce from its nominal trade partners."''
*10: Authority Erinmur is put under martial law, under the order of the Office for the Fanlinunig. Nineteen worker colonies located throughout the Fanlinunig Region are each instructed to select ten Lunatics from their list of community leaders; those selected are to be sawn open at morning roll-call for the colony's instruction. Salb Ikol issues an order cancelling recreational duties (excepting those associated with the Office for Agricultural Improvement) in order to intensify bandit-hunting operations in and around Erinmur in order to deal with the new organized threat. Captors found alive are to be sacrificed as whole-burnt offerings to Ikol.
*11: In reaction to events in Lunaris, the Department of State of the Republic of [[Alduria]] has announced that it is considering imposing trade sanctions on the [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and the removal of its military advisers in Punta Santiago if its Lunatic genocide does not end quickly.
** Lunatic refugees housed and resettled in [[Ransenar]] begin to organize their own militias and paramilitary groups, seeking [[Military of Ransenar|official recognition and permission]] from the government of Ransenar to operate legally.
*12: Guttuli representatives in Alduria meet with the Secretary of State, Augusto Benavides, in an attempt to stave off further restrictions on Guttulinese trade. During the meeting, they plead with him for understanding, in consideration for the bitterness of several years of struggle, attempt to reassure him that the [[wikipedia:Theresienstadt|Lunatics placed in protective custody are guaranteed adequate living conditions and opportunities to maintain their society]] in settlements where the Lunatics cooperate with the authorities and govern their own internal affairs, and insist that [[wikipedia:fake news|rumors of harsh or inhumane treatment are falsified]] in order to justify the toppling of the Guttuli regime by the [[Vulture States|other powers in Benacia]].
*18: An elderly woman, walking alone on the Meszor/Erinmur road with a stick in one hand and the dead-switch of a suicide vest in the other, attracts the inevitable truck full of Guttulinese troops which swerves aside to run her over and is destroyed in the ensuing blast. Further north, a man in the imitation uniform of a Guttuli Corps Draconary denonates himself when a staff vehicle pulls over to offer him a ride.
*21: Canisters of monochrome photographic film showing public reprisal killings in Erianamor, shot at tilted angles through the half-obstructed lens of a concealed camera, are dispatched toward Ransenar by carrier pigeon for dissemination in the global media.
*23: Children of Salus partisans attack a 'labour settlement' in Western Castra, breaching a portion of its perimeter and covering the escape of some 270 Lunatic inmates with automatic weapons fire. These disperse into small groups and head for the nearby Lacus Conticinium marshes; the last to escape the camp without being gunned down by its rallying guards are given weapons on the spot and enlisted to help cover the withdrawal.

===VIII===
*3: An assembly of notables elects Viscount Nogent Gottschalk, an exile from [[Ankh]] and a former Tribune of Legion VII, as Generalissimo of the [[Army of Caverden]]. A die-hard Imperialist, Gottschalk represents the reactionary tendency which has been gathering pace amongst the landed gentry and the dispossessed against all the [[Vulture States]] that have infested Benacia since the [[Kalirion Fracture|fracture]]. Hostile towards all vulture states, and contemptuous of the [[shire:House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Kalirion Dynasty]] whose failings had given licence to traitors and secessionists, Gottschalk's primary merit in the eyes of his peers was his poisonous hatred towards his [[Guttuli Protectorate|former comrades]] and the legatine commanders of the Corps VII and VIII of the Riverine Army for betraying the Golden Mango Throne and their [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Liven|occupation]] of [[Ankh]].
*4: After ordering a delegation from the assembly to depart and muster 15,000 bannermen at Isenbury, Gottschalk, with a small military escort of untitled nobility, began his eastward trek from Maltenstein towards the lands of the Dominion of Ynnraile-Crisco. A multitude of 20,000 commoners, armed with [[M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm Rifle|various antique rifles]] and accompanied by outriders from the noble houses of Caverden, followed in the wake of the Generalissimo, conscripting porters and seizing provisions from communities all along their line of march.
**With vehicles-borne retainers and the Generalissimo in the van and the armed feudal levies, followed by a multitude of camp followers, bringing up the rear, the host covered a distance of 12km(x [[Riq]]s) on the first day. At nightfall a hooded seer and his retinue of misshapen followers gained admittance to the camp, a mess of tents enrounded by a palisade, hastily dug ditches, and a score of scraped out firing positions. With this figure was dragged a luckless, battered and bruised, figure whose self-bewailed misfortune was a source of jollity and restorative humour to the camp followers who had been earlier cudgelled into the task of digging for the Army. This wretch, the seer explained, was a merchant, a collaborator with the Guttuli from [[Barrowfield]] who had been snatched up on the road to road to Lichport by "gentlemen of the road"<ref>A loose confederacy of slavers, active in Eastern Benacia following the Kalirion Fracture of 1671.</ref> who generously relinquished their reluctant guest to the seer and his entourage after being subject to persuasion no less gentle than that which they themselves practised. It was at the suggestion of the Hooded Seer that Gottschalk remembered an ancient ritual of the First Era of Shirerithian history and summoned his commanders to his tent. There the captive was stripped to his waist, bound, and forced to his knees. Each regimental commander was in turn presented with a blade and invited to carve slices of the living flesh from the wailing, now squealing, captive. For a full three quarters of an hour this grim ritual continued until, at last, the poor wretch was at the point of death, whereupon the Hooded Seer presented to Gottschalk a nicked and timeworn sword, whose blade seemingly shimmered and seethed in shades of black and green. Having been bade to strike, Gottschalk struck off the man's head with a single blow, the blood hissing and boiling as it issued forth from the truncated stump of the dead man's neck - the mortal blow having seemingly been cauterised by the passage of the blade. Astonished, Gottschalk tentatively pressed a finger to the sword's cutting edge, expecting to be scolded but instead finding it deathly cool. The Seer happened to remark that the blade had now found a suitable keeper and Gottschalk, suddenly possessed by a curiously possessive impulse was obliged to agree. In any event, it was by this manner that the men of Caverden declared war, in the ancient fashion, upon the Guttuli Protectorate.
*5: [[1677 Northern Commonwealth election]]. In a low-key election across the bailiwicks of [[Elwynn]]'s [[Northern Commonwealth]] for its Congress (up and to this point suspended since the end of Verionism and the so-called peace agreement), no party achieves majority, but pro-integration parties win a majority. In this case, pro-integration means the integration of the Northern Commonwealth to the [[Congressional Counties]].
*6: Under the guidance of freed forced labourers who were involved in its original construction and upkeep, groups of Lunatic partisans work at night to dismantle the corduroy road leading from Erianamor to the Temple of Lockenhasp in multiple places. The following morning, the first light vehicles held up by the resulting gaps of sodden marsh are ambushed by a company-sized partisan force from prepared positions in the surrounding mud-swamped tussocks and thoroughly looted. A noon counteroffensive by a column of [[Guttuli Protectorate/BK-1A1|armoured vehicles]] out of Erianamor is waylaid some twelve kilometres east by a salvo from half a dozen recoilless rifles and tankgewehrs which, after knocking out the lead and rear vehicles, are nonetheless obliged to retire in the face of suppressive fire from the middle vehicles' disgorged infantry. An attempt by the latter to pursue the retreating heavy weapon bearers into a willow thicket runs into a prepared secondary ambush from a pair of light machine guns, snipers camouflaged in the surrounding reeds and at least one light mortar firing airburst-fuzed shells to assure its effect in the mud.
*7: Pressed to comment on the country's involvement in resourcing and training the [[Children of Salus]], Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] announces that "''such activity is a purely economic matter, falling outside the diplomatic remit of this Directorate but fully within the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]]'s commercial duty to assure the agreed terms of those trade undertakings to which it is party. The extent to which the Guttuli Protectorate is prepared to return to those terms and thereby de-necessitate their enforcement by the Corporation on its behalf shall doubtless determine the future course and duration of the conflict.''"
**Financier [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] hosts a luncheon of senior [[Benacia Command]] officers in the Kalgachi resort town of Pachadsberg wherein the services of the [[Allied Production Matrix]] to quasi-state actors, the settlement of consequent payments and the deposition of supplemental off-book administrative fees in [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|bullion-based means of exchange]] at the local Puckadobey Savings Bank are queried and expounded.
*9: [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]] declared. A directive is passed down from the Protectorate Military Council to regional economic managers to cut their losses concerning the labor population; useful materials are to be relocated out of the emergency area, the remainder is to be denied to the enemy.
*10: As news spreads that Guttulinese troops are arriving to deport or liquidate the ghettoised surviving natives of Erianamor, the trickle of smuggled arms which reached the city are retreived from their hiding places and an armed uprising begins. The rebels' initial plan to hold the entire city - impossible as they are forced to act before sufficient arms stocks have been accumulated - is quickly scaled down to a last stand in the long burned-out shells of three community playhouses (the only local structures other than Guttuli Corps bases which are solid enough to offer sustained protection against gunfire) and a constellation of small barricades in the triangle of streets and dwellings between them. As local Guttulinese forces throw themselves into counterattack, control of the territory shifts frequently in house-to-house fighting with rebels forced to move often between fixed positions and close hard with opposing forces to avoid the latter's effective use of heavy weapons. The rubble and splintered timber created by such bombardments forms new points of cover as the initial barricades are systematically blasted apart, allowing the more mobile rebels some immediate measure of survival whilst the slower-witted are torn apart by incoming fire of all calibres and their dropped weapons are sought out by unarmed refugees who vastly outnumber the small arms available.
*11: In the stump-ridden forest remnants southeast of Erianamor, Children of Salus reconnaissance parties observe captive Lunatic labourers destroying their logging camp in preparation for its abandonment and an attack is launched to liberate them before they can be liquidated or deported. The ensuing use of assorted incendiary munitions by the camp's defenders starts a large brushfire which obliges the partisans to withdraw early; their keen knowledge of the local topography nonetheless allows them to lead a number of escaped labourers away amid the cover of thick smoke. Similar attacks are launched throughout the deforested surrounds of Erianamor with varying degrees of success.
*12:
** [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]]. An attempted liberation by the Children of Salus of a convoy of male adult Lunatic laborers headed from Prata to Salzæl is impeded, when explosives loaded into each passenger car are detonated. The detonation, set off by a released Operator Presence Control (the operator in question having died), also relayed a signal to Salb Ikol headquarters. The entire vicinity was then bombarded with thermobaric weapons in an attempt to consume any partisans involved in the liberation attempt. In his after-action report, Legate Hurst Mennin wrote "Roads can be rebuilt. Cattle cannot be unslaughtered."
** Footage is released internationally by the Office for the Kraln, sourced from the Office for Documentary Production and Acceptance, showing some of the activities of the Children of Salus terrorist group intercut with that of fleeing civilians being sheltered by members of the Guttuli Corps. A brief statement is included with the footage, describing the Children of Salus as attacking innocent civilians, not just Children of the Sun, but also residents of the Arya ethnic group. Having disturbed the peace that the Protectorate had brought to Erinmur, this terrorist group intends to cleanse the region of other ethnic groups and establish an ethnostate in the center of the multi-ethnic Guttuli Protectorate.
*14: Erianamor Uprising: Guttulinese troops pull back to a newly-established perimeter, where combat engineers have levelled buildings flat, so that the Corps' superior firepower can be best utilized. The isolated city quarter is then bombarded into rubble.
*15: Erianamor Uprising: a group of civilians caught in the bombardment area surrender at the perimeter. None survive. As the rolling bombardment continues, combat engineers deploy to raze partially demolished buildings and increase visibility. Electronic Warfare units maintain signal interference.
*19/20: At nightfall, the Children of Salus launch numerous attacks against Streïhvasza B of the Guttuli Corps' Salb Aleï, whose string of watchposts along the Ransenari frontier - despite being located closest to the partisan-held interior marshes - is the most thinly-spread on that line at approximately seven troops per kilometre and oriented mostly northward. The concentration of partisan forces against thinly-defended posts of Streïhvasza B's static infantry secures direct contact with Ransenari territory in several places for the rest of the night, allowing waiting trains of pack-bearing men and horses to infiltrate, disperse and proceed southward for rendezvous with partisans in the marshes. Streïhvasza B is forced to choose between defending its small posts against more numerous attackers or concentrating into a larger force - thereby leaving wider sections of the frontier open to infiltration until the more mobile Streïhvasza A can move in to assist, degrading the defence of its own sector in the process. The inevitable chain of compromises enables a large number of sympathetic volunteers - natives of Upper Lunaris who have assembled and armed themselves with the apparent toleration of the Ransenari authorities - to infiltrate at several points across the central "Eldasaï" sector of the Guttulinese defence line. By dawn their horse-mounted elements have already reached the cover of partisan-held marshes and their foot elements are well dispersed in the intervening country, supported by partisans from the initial attack who now form a rear guard against those Guttulinese forces who might abandon control of the border to give chase.
*20: A small celebration is held at the Port of Svalbarh, in the Morsva District, heralding the reopening of the Southern Wharf after the damage inflicted by the destruction of ''Jolly Froyalaner'' and ''Mysts of Albion''. The event was marked by the docking of ''Gewgaw'', whose cargo was left undisclosed and was only unloaded under cover of night and under heavy guard.
*20/21: [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]]. After the imposition of evening curfew, Guttulinese personnel withdraw from twelve labor settlements in Authority Prata. Once beyond the perimeter fence, each of the labor settlements is incinerated with its inhabitants at bed. These settlements had previously been scheduled for "restructuring and downsizing" to commence next month. Salb Ikol troops scour through remains to ensure total effectiveness. The Protectorate Military Council authorizes the deploying of additional troops and equipment to Salb Ikol in order to extend this program to the remainder of Authority Prata.
*21:
**In response to the previous day's border violation, Salb Aleï recalls all non-essential personnel assigned to home duties and lodges a request with the Office for Winter for the release of heavy equipment to supplement these additional troops.
**Following the regular weekly meeting of the Protectorate Military Council, several government offices begin issuing directives for restructuring to reduce the accepted level of corruption, intended to free up administrative resources for the renewed combat in Eastern Guttuli, or, as the Third Deputy Chief of Staff for the Fanlinunig puts it in a memo to his staff, "word from the higher ups is that we need to prioritize combat effectiveness. All other proclivities to be substantially reduced in order to keep the soldiery well-led, well-equipped, and well-motivated. The Office for Agricultural Improvement will likely be the only office to expand its services from this."
*23: Following a majority vote taken by the Board of Requirements, the controlling interests of the [[Allied Production Matrix]] announced that, with effect from 01.IX.1677, civic authorities, municipal corporations, and certain rigorously vetted privately owned enterprises, would henceforth be able to [[Allied Production Matrix/Board of Requirements|table procurement orders]] directly with the APM for small arms, training aircraft, rotorcraft, support vehicles, and vessels lacking main armament. Customary export bans to USSO and Vanic states would however remain in effect.
*25: The [[Guttuli Protectorate]] commissions its second and third corvettes, ''PS Hahhars'' ("Tall Wave") and ''PS Kulïulk'' ("Twilight Cloud"). They are assigned to Ałeþus Ulmaïnakin to patrol the Shire Sea between Lichport and Mirioth.

===IX===
*5: The Children of Salus attack a formation of Guttulinese combat engineers who are building a marshwater pumping station in northeastern Diusagra, thought to be attempting a drainage of the interior marshes to the River Elwynn via the irrigation works of the intervening agricultural lands. The attack, being entirely anticipated, is thrown back with substantial partisan casualties although the station's main equipment - a high-volume pump and its associated generator awaiting installation on the back of a flatbed [[Guttuli Protectorate/HK-1A1|HK-1A1]] - is destroyed by recoilless rifle fire.
*6: After a series of incidents and complaints from famished civilians, the isolated rebels in Erianamor - who have been shelled out of their smallest 'playhouse' bastion and now occupy a strip of shattered ground between the remaining two - meet in a rubble-reinforced cellar to discuss the terms by which cannibalism is permissible. It is agreed that only willing donors be consumed and that the unauthorised consumption of non-donor dead confers donor status upon the offender, to be enforced summarily. After further complaints a clarificatory note is passed around the zone's dugouts later in the day, to the effect that parents may ''not'' donate their children. From this period the more elderly of the zone's inhabitants, being both physically weaker and more mentally inured to ancient Eriana-era precepts of blood sacrifice, cease to make an appearance. Cultural notions of sacrifice also offer some filament of morale among the rebels, who express a strained satisfaction to each other at the ongoing depletion of Guttulinese ordnance stocks and remark that "''every shell lobbed at us is one that can't be landed on the heads of our brothers and sisters in the countryside.''"

==Footnotes==
[[Category:History]][[Category:Shirerithian Vulture States]]

Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

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A timeline of [[Benacia]]n events in the aftermath of the [[Kalirion Fracture]] (1671–1675) which upended the longstanding continental balance of power.

==1676==
===I===
* 3: Elwynnese prince [[Ander Avon-El]], furious after the [[Council of Eliria]] voted to repudiate the [[Treaty of Concord]] against its own provisions, calls the decision illegal, and instead publishes an instrument of government confirming the validity of the Treaty of Concord. In a statement released along with the instrument of government, Avon-El states that if the Council of Eliria still wishes to withdraw from the treaty during the twelfth year after its implementation, the Council of Eliria may so decide at that time in accordance with law.
* 4: The [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], the [[Communist Party of Elwynn]], the [[Amokolian Freedom Front]], the [[Conservative Historical Party]] and the [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism]] release statements in support of the Prince's interpretation.
* 5: With the Verionists having lost control over Monty Crisco and Elsenar's authorities and civil service (except in [[Chryste|Chryse]]) and therefore begun a huge evacuation to [[Keltia]] where apparently now the Verionists have found a land of milk and honey, the Imperial Regency and the Verionists agree to a transfer of sovereignty of Elsenar (except the Chryse area) and Monty Crisco back to Shireroth. It is rumoured that because of Shireroth's inability to administer parts of these territories, that the Regency is therefore in negotiations with other Vulture States on how to proceed with these territories. One option on the table, leaked to the press in Eliria, is that Elsenar in its entirety would be granted Ransenar while the Guttuli Protectorate would have an option to take parts of Monty Crisco.
** With news of the [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|Great Disaster]] having reached Goldfield, the Cabinet sends a resolution to the Ransenari Congress for approval to authorize and fund the beginning of a [[Operation Salvation|large scale humanitarian, medical, and scientific mission to the ruins of Elsenar]].
*9: The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār, legislature of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]], initiated proceedings that could, if replicated in either the [[Northern Commonwealth]] or the [[Congressional Counties]], result in the impeachment and removal of [[Ander Avon-El]].
* 13: Delegates from the [[Sovereign Confederation]] and the [[Ransenar|Kingdom of Ransenar]] meet in Goldshire Hamlet to discuss coordination of a common foreign policy and greater economic cooperation.
* 14:
** The [[Tassity Mansabdar]] killed the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7K4vGYL9zI pirate leader]. The mission on Naudia'Diva is accomplished. In a letter to the Imperial Regency, the [[Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy|King of Amokolia]] says that the Arkadian Sector can be returned. The letter comes with a box containing the head of the pirate leader. The full story is worked out in [[The Micras Chessboard]].
** [[West Amokolia|Amokolia]] closes the border with Unified Governorates of Benacia.
*18: The [[Amokolian People's Party]] delegation to the [[Elwynnese congress]] moves for a vote of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]]. In a statement by its leader, Jorgen Basker-Daal said: "The actions of the Prince have injured the prospects of Amokolian reunification for decades ahead. It is clear he not fit to lead our republic. For those reasons, we call for his impeachment in Congress."
** In response to the motion ahead in the Congress, the [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], of which Prince Ander Avon-El is also a member, left the congressional government. Its ministers resigned with immediate effect, leaving the executive with a one-seat majority in Congress.
*19: The Elwynnese Workers' Party also left the government, said that it would call for a vote of no confidence in the Conducator after the vote on the Prince. An EWP spokesperson said "It is clear that this is an N&H-led ploy to get progressives out of government positions in Elwynn. Ander Avon-El has been a good prince and he does not deserve this kind of treatment."
*20: The [[Elwynnese congress]] votes on the motion of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]], 144 votes in favour ([[Nationalist and Humanist Party|N&H]], [[Verionist Union|VU]], [[Democratic Party of Elwynn|DEM]], [[Amokolian People's Party|APP]], [[Holy Party of the Divine Icebear|HPDI]]) against 105 votes against ([[Ayreonist Independence Party|AIP]], [[Communist Party of Elwynn|CPE]], [[Elwynnese Workers' Party|EWP]], [[Amokolian Freedom Front|AFF]], [[Conservative Historical Party|CHP]], PR, [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism|MPDS]]). The President of the Congress subsequently communicated the results to the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Raspur Pact]] debriefers have a few stern words with some captured VBA officers concerning the wisdom, or [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|lack thereof]], of housing lethal pathogens on the same facility as an experimental reactor.
*24:
**The ''Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār'' delivers its verdict on the Prince of Elwynn with 197 votes in favour of the motion of no confidence (N&H, VU, DEM, BEH) vs 39 against (AIP, EWP). The Sardar of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]] is duly mandated to convey the news of the result to the Council of Eliria.
**Ground based air defences in [[Elwynnese Amokolia]] are placed on high alert whilst [[Benacia Command]] ordered the Central and Northern Banner Groups to disperse their aircraft to satellite runways and to establish patterns of 24-hour combat air patrolling until further notice. The Western Banner Group, headquartered on [[New Blackstone]] commenced snap drills, taking units out of their permanent cantonments and into their forward defensive positions.

===II===
*1:
** The [[Council of Eliria]] meets in which the votes of confidence in Prince Ander Avon-El are communicated and found to be in good form. [[Ander Avon-El]] confirms their validity, thanks the other members of the Council for a fruitful cooperation, and hands over the executive to the senior-most member of the Council, [[Firdaus Abdollahi Mehr]]. Mehr will be Steward until the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|new princely elections]] have concluded.
**As the preceding week of cloud cover over Western [[Northbloom]] is cleared by a boreal high pressure front, the fresh satellite imagery of various powers reveals that on the fringes of the town of Usheroff, a strip of ground some 2,400 metres long has been cleared, graded and hastily overlaid with slabs of PAG-14 to create a runway. Other visible details are a single parked [[Floret]] in camouflage livery, a hangar composed of a three-sided revetment with a fabric canopy and a series of ragged taxiways radiating out toward presumable dispersal stands in the cover of nearby woodland.
**The front page of the Usheroff and District Newsletter and Spare Parts Directory details eerie eyewitness reports of "The Howling Night Birds of the Ermingander Road". Meetings are held in surrounding villages to discuss "The Usheroff Thing" which draw the usual crowd of nutjobs, moonbats, fruitcakes and concerned mothers, the less credible of whom are generously interviewed for that evening's Kalgachi television news and immediately discredit the existence of the phenomenon in the minds of most viewers. The handful of sober and sane witnesses, including the only one able to make coherent [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/66/Oobakeep.png drawings] of [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png what he saw], are largely ignored and the stigma of their association with the farcical proceedings soon shames them into silence.
*3: [[Batavia]] and West Amokolia sign the Treaty of Koningsbergen.
*4: Conducator Nila Valgarai of the Democrat–N&H–APP minority government in Elwynn falls in a vote of no confidence. 144 votes in favour (VU, AIP, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI), and 105 votes against (N&H, DEM, APP). The President of the Congress, Benjamin Sluyjs, relieves the Conducator of her office, and authorizes her to lead a caretaker government until the Congress has confirmed a Conducator. Sluyjs consequently meets with all party leaders to discuss the new government formation.
*5: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP leader meets with the APP leader to discuss the basis of a government. Although the APP voted against Prince Ander Avon-El, and the AIP against the APP coalition, the two party leaders said to the media afterwards that they had much in their programme they could use to build a coalition. "Given congressional arithmetic, however, we'd need more parties to these talks."
*6: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP begins talks with Communists and the [[EWP]], while the [[APP]] begins talks with the other Amokolian parties.
*7: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]: Verionist Union announces Stephen Lewis as its princely candidate.
*8: Elwynn's [[Ayreonist Independence Party]] announces Meqael Mizarielion as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*10: The Amokolian People's Party announces Jorgen Basker-Daal as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*19: The Ayreonist Independence Party and the Amokolian People's Party report they have been unable to secure a majority coalition, and urge the President of Congress to discuss the question of government formation more intimately and aggressively with party leaders, saying "new elections are the last thing we need at this time of political crisis".
*23: The N&H announces the candidacy of Frederik Haabye Truls for the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|vacant principate]].

===III===
*4: Details of the N&H electoral platform energe. Focus to be upon developing an export based manufacturing sector to build up industrial capacity and working capital, with surpluses to be reinvested in defence, law and order, and public infrastructure policy. Foreign policy - to remain aligned with Raspur Pact, introduce quarantine along Amokolian frontier. Domestic policy - encourage civic reconciliation, audit of any Verionist "special projects" established by previous administration in view of notable safety lapses elsewhere. First electoral event - symbolic blockade of the Amokolian Oriental Express in Mishalan.
*6: Kalgachia issues a statement on the ongoing [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|Bovic Schism]], remarking that ''"the resolve of the state and clerical classes of [[Drak-Modan]] to bring their centres of societal gravity within Benacian shores marks a commendable return toward the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|cherished precepts]] of collective Benacian sovereignty [[Amokolian War|established]] by the Maven Nohsi Goltz in [[Ashkenatza|late antiquity]] - a timely and welcome development when [[West Amokolia|the northern saddle]] of our continent is once again compromised by an [[Stormark|alien colonial power]] and the cause of Benacian solidarity has become an imperative."''
**As Drak-Modani developments in the husbandry of famed [[Natopia|Natopian]] goat breeds for dairy purposes have attracted the interest of Kalgachia's [[House of Nerrolar#Chlorocyphida Pan|highland farming community]], enquiries are passed to Drakorda through a [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group|chain]] of commercial [[SATCo|intermediaries]] regarding the export availability of breeding specimens.
*11: The Commissioner of [[New Blackstone]], [[Jeremiah Avon-El]], is sent to Kalgachia on a five-day furlough, at the personal direction of the [[Constantine Loup|Szodan]], to investigate what experiences and amenities are afforded to notable personages utilising the newly promulgated "Pachadsberg Visa".
*12: Upon arrival in Pachadsberg, Commissioner Avon-El - being the highest UGB official to have set foot in the Garden since the [[Slavegate Convention]] negotiations - is received by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]], chair of the Pachadsberg Development Committee who leads him on a guided tour of the resort's completed and ongoing works. This is followed by a meeting with a Mr. Waller at the Puckadobey Savings Bank, where initial discussion of [[Kalkul Sahib|mutual acquaintances]] leads to an illuminating conversation about the jurisdictional hedging of personal capital for purposes of audit reconciliation and insulation from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlwzkjEaQbE failures thereof]. A numbered PSB account is opened for Avon-El's "casino winnings" and he is left to experience the full delights of Pachadsberg at his own initiative.
*16: First round in the 1676 Elwynnese princely elections. Frederik Haabye Truls of the N&H wins a plurality but fails to secure a majority. In the second round, scheduled for next month, Mr Haabye Truls will face Meqael Mizarielion (AIP). Third-placed Stephen Lewis of the Verionist Union, although securing 76% of the Northern Commonwealth vote, did not manage to advance to the second round.
*18: The Ayreonist Independence Party and Amokolian People's Party, on one side, begin coalition talks with the Nationalist and Humanist Party and the Democratic Party on the other side.
*24: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks stall on the question of Conducator. N&H–DEM side steadfast that Nila Valgarai (DEM) is reelected to the position. AIP–APP side want an AIP candidate.

===IV===

*1: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks continue. The parties agree not to discuss the question of conducatorship for a week.
*6: The parties tentatively agree on a platform for governance of the congressional counties, based on national cohesion, an Amokolian curriculum in Amokolian bailiwicks, expanded private insurances of pension and ill health, a fairer taxation regime, and overview of the post-feudalist of justice system.
*7: The AIP–APP and N&H–DEM talks agree that if an Ayreonist wins the princely elections, the Democrats get the conducatorship, and if the N&H wins the princely elections, an Ayreonist gets the conducatorship.
*8: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]. In the second round, Frederik Haabye Truls (N&H) narrowly beat (51–49%) AIP contender Meqael Mizarierion for the position of Prince. As soon as the results were announced, Mr Haabye Truls swore the oath of office and took his seat in the Council of Eliria. Mr Mizarierion said, as soon as the results were announced, that he was pleased that he had been elected Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, and that he looked forward to leading the congressional government in Elwynn.
*9: The President of the Elwynnese Congress, Mr Benjamin Sluyjs (APP) brought forward the first reading of the motion to elect Meqael Mizarierion to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, heading a coalition government of the Nationalist & Humanist Party, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, the Amokolian People's Party, and the Ayreonist Independence Party.
*11: The Elwynnese Congress confirms the election of Meqael Mizarierion (AIP) to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, with 130 votes in favour (N&H, DEM, APP, AIP), and 119 votes against (VU, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI).
*12: Elwynnese congressional Conducator Meqael Mizarierion announces a twenty-member cabinet including himself consisting of 7 N&H members, 5 Democrats, 4 members of the Amokolian People's Party, and 3 additional members of the Ayreonist Independence Party. Outgoing conducator Nila Valgarai (DEM) is made Minister of Finance and notes wryly to the media that there are now no women in the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Shireroth]] wins the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]]. Kaiseress [[Salome]] awarded Shireroth's points personally, giving Sanama 12 points. She has, according to court rumours, a teen crush on the [[Sanama]]n singer Dimash Kudaibergen, awards Kudaibergen a title of Baronage (Baron Kudaibergen; in Shirerithian peerage, baronies are only granted foreigners), and has invited Kudaibergen for tea and cake. The Kaiseress also awards lordships in Shirekeep for the Coldplay members (the lowest form of nobility), remarking however that their song was "pathetic". She is happy, though, that the Florian Republic finally saw the light and gave Shireroth 12 points.
*22: The Kalgachi tabloid ''Private Ear'' fills its front page with two illustrations: a transcript of [[Brandenburger Post#Nur ein weiterer Tag im Reichstag|assurances given]] by the King of West Amokolia to the Prince of Elwynn on 17.I denying any intent to convert his realm into a Storish client state, next to a table displaying the Microvision votes of Stormark and West Amokolia in which they awarded each other the maximum points. Beneath, typeset in bold faux-runic, is the headline: ''"By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them"''.
**The ''Private Ear'' front page is featured prominently on [[Ransenar|Ransenari]] media ([[Kalirion Fracture#IV.1675|known for its sensationalism]]), triggering huge demand for issues of the tabloid to catch the illustrations. Putting it in context with [[West Amokolia]]'s brazen expansionist designs on Elsenar, opinion pages and media coverage reports on the illustrations as the latest salvo in the "war for the minds of the peoples of the Benacian continent", regarding the Vanic-West Amokolian cooperation in the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]] as a concerted effort to take control or influence the culture of the country and reinstate the "Vanic Web".
**The Daily Mail & Telegraph of Eliria, whilst disdaining to comment upon so vulgar a matter as the Microvision contest directly, being distinctly sniffy about "low culture", provided a droll analysis of the sociological and political factors that had combined to elevate the favouritism shown by Brandenburg to Haraldsborg to a matter of international concern. The paper duly dismissed the voting proclivities of the King of West Amokolia as being "a cheap shot concerning a trivial matter, one flung back in spite over having been so thoroughly drubbed by the international community for his misguided attempt to capitalise on the misfortunes of [[Verionist Benacia|Elsenar]]."
**Rumours circulate in Eliria concerning the abrupt departure of the [[Ander Avon-El|former Prince]] for a new academic posting in [[shire:Tala|Tala]], [[Raikoth]], accompanied by a sizeable close protection detail, in the same month that a new edict concerning the status of Elwynnese adherence to the [[Treaty of Concord]] is anticipated.
*23: [[Verionist Union]] leader, and Northern Conducator, [[Stephen Lewis]] holds a speech in Fieldburg, televised live in most parts of the country. He decries the ''"N&H takeover of the government"'' and warns that the Northern Commonwealth now ''"stands as a last resort, as often in our history, against the grubby hands of imperialist powers. Be it Storish, be it communists or be it the disasterous dictatorship of the Osmani Gang, whose black shadow falls over Benacia as the Star of Verion is pushed away to the North"''. In a response to questioning from journalists, Lewis refused to say if he recognised the new government, or would implement the policy of the new administration, instead replying with a cryptic ''"The North does as the North does".''
**Inhabitants of the [[Northern Commonwealth]] are bemused by a sudden blitz of publicity materials produced by the Court of the Prince detailing essential items to carry in a "grab bag" and other hints and tips for preparedness in the face of an unspecified emergency.
**Asked about Conducator Lewis' comments concerning the the "N&H takeover of the government" the press spokeswoman for the Court of the Prince tersely replied ''"It's called 'winning an election on the basis of a popular vote', Agha Lewis really ought to try it some time."''

===V===

*1: [[Operation Kulning]]: Driving through the night from [[Dragonskeep]], a detachment of [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] engineers and administrative personnel arrived in [[Fieldburg]] on the morning of 01.V.1676, under the command of ''Generalmajor'' Jan Gräbner. The Generalmajor's first act upon arrival was to summon the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels and Master of Cudgels, and the Deputy Director of the Panopticon Department, the heads of Republican law enforcement and security in the city, to join him for breakfast at the hotel which he had now requisitioned for a headquarters. Having taken the opportunity, over fried herrings, poached eggs, lingonberries, and rye bread, to remind his guests of their obligations to the [[Constitution of Elwynn|constitution]] and the democratic order of the Republic, the Generalmajor genially explained the purpose of his mission. [[Exercise Tempus Est]] had convinced the incoming Prince of the utility of the Agnesian Gulf, protected from boreal storms by the Cimmerian Isles, as a natural bastion for the naval forces of Elwynn and the [[Raspur Pact]] in [[Benacia]]. To this end existing harbour facilities at Port Illumination and Vijayanagara would be expanded and a new naval dockyard would be constructed on the island of Wolfraven. To support all of this would require significant investment in infrastructure in the region. The Generalmajor's task therefore was to identify land for purchase in Fieldburg and to identify from the available options an optimal site for the construction of a new UDF Operations Centre intended to coordinate all defence activities in the Agnesia-Cimmeria region. As the cudgellers were subject to a chain of command stretching back, via the fetchingly titled Bludgeoner-General of the [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels]], to the Court of the Prince, where their loyalties therefore must ultimately lay, the Generalmajor charged his breakfast partners with lending every assistance when it came to the matter of 'liaising' with representatives of the local authorities, who might be less than fully cooperative in view of the truculent attitude adopted by the [[Stephen Lewis|present Conducator]] in recent days.

===VI===

===VII===
[[File:1676p1.png|350px|thumb|right|[[N&H]] Propagandists in Eliria were seemingly either unwilling or unable to allow the purported demise of the [[House of Verion]] to pass without comment...]]
*16: Rumours begin to spread that a chartered [[Nakalma]] flight from [['s Koningenwaarde]] to the [[Verionian Empire|Verionian Imperial]] capital of Sarhat - carrying the [[Batavia|Batavian]] Prime Minister [[Joachim Mackay]], the [[Los Liberados|Liberadosan]] president [[Jacobo Castrigo Álvarez]] and the Viceroy of [[Verionist Benacia]] Jana Al-Basani - is [[Loss of Nakalma Flight 731|reported overdue]] and has made no communication with air traffic control since beginning its transit of the Great Western Sea. Their personal and business links aside, the improbable hubris and geopolitical implications of [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PutOnABus gathering so many important personages] at a single point of danger do not pass without remark. A long range patrol by a scout shuttle of the [[Natopian Defense Force]], overflying the vicinity on a suborbital trajectory, reported anomalous electromagnetic readings immediately prior to the disappearance of Flight 731 off air traffic control radar screens.
*17: Long convoys of trucks, armoured personnel carriers, and low-loaders carrying [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|vehicles shrouded under tarpaulin covers]] are reported as wending their way westwards from [[Merensk]] and [[Sansabury]] along the few good roads leading into the [[Siyacha Free State]] and the area of operations of the [[Black Legions#I Uihmanz|I Uihmanz]] facing the frontier with [[Kasterburg]]. Sources close to [[Benacia Command]] insist that the bringing up to strength of the establishments of formations attached to the 1st Corps was long over due and not made in response to any specific occurrence.
*19: The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]] Director of Benacian Operations, Bobbert Shrubschild, is waylaid by journalists on arrival at [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and questioned about the Corporation's reponse to the recent activation of a secret protocol between the governments of Los Liberados and the [[Florian Republic]], wherein the latter has assumed sovereignty over the former. Shrubschild states that "the Board of Directors are still assessing the situation but have decided that our head office will remain in [[Puerto Arcadio]] for now. With the apparent demise of Prime Minister Mackay, Batavia's increased vulnerability to the Vanic domino puts future trade with [[Batavian Confederation|its confederation]] in some doubt but the [[Eura|Euran]] market remains viable. The Florian Republic, having the institutional memory of a concussed goldfish, represents for our purposes an optimally deregulated business environment to which we would cautiously welcome a transition." Shortly afterwards, [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] is seen boarding an outbound flight on his way to an "emergency shareholder meeting".
*23: The [[Verionist Vespers]]<ref>Better name pending. At this juncture it is logical, with so many of its members having been exasperated by prior dealings with the avatars of Verionism, that the Pact would seek to tidy away the legacy of Verionism now that its leadership cadres have been obligingly removed from the scene.</ref> begin, with the [[Raspur Pact]] commencing the suppression of the [[Iron Company]] and the [[Verionist Union]] on a global scale.
**Religious hysteria grips the Bovic community in northern Benacia, already disorientated by the [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|schism]] in the [[Dozan Bovic Church]], with the ''herds'' (congregations) cleft between the mother church and the [[Benacian Bovic Church|schismatics]] of [[Drak-Modan]], as videos circulate purportedly showing the [[Butter Bull|most dreaded entity]] in the Bovic pantheon manifesting as the '''Blood Aurochs''', given substance by the slaughter carried out by the faithful on the gore splattered steps of his church in the bailiwick of Saint Biffor. Every individual who watches any of the video clips of the Blood Aurochs receives a commandment burnt into their psyche. The instruction varies according to the watcher but comes in the form of an intensely personal revelation that is invariably homicidal in its ultimate intent. Authorities have suspended the data networks of northern Elwynn in an effort to slow the spread of the videos and have sought the assistance of both Bovic Churches, along with their [[Church of Elwynn|Elwynnese brethren]] in an attempt to locate and destroy all physical copies of the same. The creation of a memetic murder plague was an unexpected development to say the least, which would go on to significantly complicate efforts to restore order in the Northern Commonwealth.
*24: After it became clear that the Batavian prime minister is most likely no longer alive, the king instituted a state of emergency.

===VIII===
*16 :
** [[Karel Kyle]] is born, the second child of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy and [[Clara Sundara|Clara des Vinandy - Sundara Waffel-Paine]].
** The city of [[Chryste]] was transferred to the [[Batavia|Kingdom of Batavia]] by [[Verionist Republic]].

*23 : [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Fanlin|Operation Fanlin]] is declared complete. The remaining territory of Southern Lunaris, as determined by the [[Guttuli Protectorate]]'s treaty with the [[Ransenar]], is reorganized into four commands. Resettlement programs are launched to bring the territory into line with the cultural and socio-economic nature of the remainder of the Protectorate.

===XI===

*6: Evert Flint, the [[Verionist Union|Verionist]] President of [[Elwynn]]'s Northern Congress, orders a full recess until further notice of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature.

*10: Anti-Verionist backlash in the Northern Commonwealth continues, fueled by Bovic extremist rhetoric.

*24: The Kalgachi government opens an Extraordinary Grand Council - the third in its history - to deliberate on the country's future in the context of a re-congealing Benacian order. Speaking to reporters, Lady Lieutenant [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]] of Oktavyan denies rumours that Kalgachia is re-entering an isolationist phase and that "''all present foreign trade arrangements will be maintained insofar as they are salvageable and sustainable in a post-Verion context. The extent to which this is the case remains to be precisely determined.''"

===X===

*8: Evert Flint, the Verionist speaker of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature (now in recess), was apprehended by a [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] snatch squad and conveyed to Eliria. Upon his arrival there he was obliged, whilst in some discomfort discusses on account of the manner in which he was handled during transit, to discuss the political crisis with a special committee formed the Congressional Counties government. The CC government pushes for a reintegration of the Northern Commonwealth into the Congressional Counties, which the Verionist rejected out of hand. "We would rather die", he was quoted to say. "That can be arranged", one of his interlocutors was heard to answer.

===XI===

*10: Evert Flint, president of the Northern Commonwealth congress and de facto conducator in the absence of [[Stephen Lewis]], meets with the Council of Eliria, the [[Dozan Bovic Church]]'s Eparchy of Benacia, members of the Verionist Union rump leadership, and representatives of the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear. The Verionists understand that their days are numbered. The Bovic church assumes some responsibility for the actions by Bovic extremists in the Northern Commonwealth targeting Verionists violently. Conducator Meqael Mizarierion, a noted critic of the Bovic religion, moves to let the Bovics clean up the mess they instigated. The Bovic church denies that they created the mess, saying it was the Verionists who did, but that they do take responsibility for acts committed in Bous's name. "Genocide, however, has no place in Elwynn." The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear moves to establish an Icebear autonomous republic in Cimmeria. Other delegates at the meeting ignore the proposal.

*20: Negotiations regarding the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth continue. Evert Flint asks for amnesty for Verionists in exchange for a peaceful solution. Mezarierion agrees.

===XII===

*1: Official negotiations with the Council of Eliria regarding the Northern Commonwealth's political situation are announced to have failed. The rump legislature leadership, Evert Flint, the Dozan Bovic Church, the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, and Conducator Meqael Mizarierion begin informal discussions outside the remit of the Council of Eliria.
*11: After ten days of intense negotiations with regard to the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth, it is agreed:
** The Verionist Union to be dissolved within the Elwynnese Republic, its assets used to grant pensions to the leadership of the party. Verionist leaders (defined to include members of the Verionist Union board of directors, Verionist members of the Elwynnese legislatures, and Verionist members of the autonomous republics' governments) to refrain from political activity for life. In return, they will be granted a pension for life, funded by the Congressional Counties and Northern Commonwealth governments as well as the Verionist liquidation fund. Verionists in the legislatures shall resign en masse immediately upon the deal's ratification by the Northern Commonwealth's congress, and their seats remain absent until the next elections.
** Eki Verion to remain under house arrest, the funding of which rests on the
** The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear to close all its missions outside Cimmeria. In return, the Church will receive an annual fund from the Northern Commonwealth budget.
** The Dozan Bovic Church agrees not to have missionaries, clergy or congregations in Cimmeria.
** A total amnesty of all crimes committed in the Northern Commonwealth between the date of Stephen Lewis's disappearance and the ratification of this deal by the Northern Commonwealth legislature.
** Until new elections are held in the Northern Commonwealth, Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion and his wife Li Naomiai to lead the Northern Commonwealth government.
*12: The Northern Commonwealth's rump legislature, called back to session, ratifies the informal deal by electing [[Li Naomiai|Li Naomiai Avon-El]] the president of Northern Congress and her husband [[Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion]] (the son of Kaiseress Noor, former Prince of Elwynn, Bovic theologian) to Conducator of the Northern Congress. Li Naomiai's first act is to suspend the legislature until peace is restored in the Northern Commonwealth and new elections held.
*20: The Board of Directors of [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group, Inc]], in accordance with rights vested in or exercised by the Corporation of the Seneschal of the march on behalf of the Corporation of the Marchioness of [[Zy-Rodun]], pursuant to The First Protocol (Governance) of the Technical Cooperation Agreement & Structural Assistance Programme Between the [[Raspur Pact]] and Emirate of Sathrati, resolves to designate the Director of Benacian Operations, [[Garvin Hendriksson]], to serve as Plenipotentiary of the Honourable Company with respect to [[Sathrati|The Emirate of Sathrati together with the Imperial Dominion of the Marquessate of Zy-Rodun and the Counties of Yardistan, Amity, and Mirioth]], and possesses complete authority to act in the name of the Board of Directors of the Honourable Company, unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors. The appointment of a Principal Secretary of State and Undersecretaries are ratified.
*21: Kalgachia's Extraordinary Grand Council concludes its session. Its rulings assert a comfortable attitude toward the trajectory of Benacian geopolitics, establish an armed force for the [[Upland Confederation]] to relieve pressure on the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] and slow the filling of non-native raw material stockpiles from expansion levels to maintenance levels whilst leaving foreign trade routes open. The Council's most notable rulings are in the field of religious doctrine; namely the canonisation of [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|Vascarina Goldcluck]] and the classification of the undead and [[Deep Singers]] as manifestations of a divine "''temporary intervention''" whose "''recontextualisation''" is required for post-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] culture to "''move beyond its [[Brookshire|Caverdenian]] origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.''" The latter declaration takes many by surprise and is interpreted variously as a reaction to the renewed torpor of [[Lord Toastypops]], an attempt to undercut the moral authority of the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]] in the [[UGB|Southern Post-Minarborian Space]], or a combination.

===XIV===

*12: The Directive on Marriage, Reproductive Function, and Societal Obligation is published by [[Benacia Command]], taking effect across the territories of the [[Unified Governorates]]. Superseding [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19062 Imperial Decree 865]<ref>The existence of [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22746 Imperial Decree 1180] having been largely rejected and ignored by territories under the influence of the Nationalist-Humanist movement even during the reign of [[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]</ref> the new directive mainly preserved the intent of the original Imperial law albeit dispensing with the disagreeable licence afforded to the now abolished aristocracy to marry as they pleased. Key improvements upon the preceding law was the codification of the ''Age of Obligation''<ref>The obligation to perform duties considered consensual activities in other societies</ref> at sixteen years of age, and an effort to place the arrangement of marriage onto a scientific and rational basis by involving municipal government, the guilds, and health authorities, in the selection and pairing of suitable partners in each graduating age cohort. Notably the primary purpose of marriage was to drive procreation, with some allowance to the function of the family unit as an engine of social cohesion and stability. Romantic sentiment, therefore being a significantly more tertiary consideration, became largely the preserve of those deemed unsuitable or incapable of breeding. The institution of civil unions, previously established as a sop to those denizens ineligible for marriage under the old arrangements, was allowed to lapse. Barren marriages would be annulled after their tenth year and childlessness would be punished by the levying of a mandatory tax, used to fund a system of rewards and benefits afforded to successful breeding pairs, with a lifelong stipend for those who reached the target of four children birthed per household and a bonus for every surplus child born.
*18: The first [[Committee for Popular Vigilance]] is established in Gloomburg, an otherwise obscure and overlooked city of the Unified Governorates, with the espoused aim of suppressing profanity, immorality, and other lewd activities in general, and the establishment of reformatories, modelled upon the worker colonies which formerly housed the [[Froyalaners]], for the housing of the recalcitrant.
*20: Joint [[Benacia Command]]-[[Ransenar]]i procurement programme announced to equip [[Grand Army of Ransenar|Ransenari Regimental Corps of Artillery]] with ordnance appropriate to its mission profile. At present the artillery arm, bereft of field guns, has primary responsibility for ground-based air defence, custodianship of missile stockpiles, and the operating of the [[Military of Ransenar|Royal Ransenari Armed Forces]] complement of fifty "Tadpole" tactical reconnaissance drones.

==1677==
===I===
* 1: [[Benjamin Cambernon]] has been appointed [[Prime Minister of Batavia]].
*23: First reformatory opens in [[Laikum's Wald]], a model settlement established in the Litel Governorate ([[UGB]]).
===II===
===III===
*6: Obsolete and worn airframes, especially of the B-49 Delta and B-66 Vulcan which have been in continuous service with the Imperial Forces and [[Benacia Command]] since the late 1630's, begin to transfer, via long haul flights and staging points in [[Most Serene Union|Istvanistan]] and [[Alrodey]] to the [[Raspur Pact|Pact's]] strategic aviation reserve, particularly for storage in the so-called Boneyard of [[Arak]].
*14: The venerable [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1(MBT) Bandersnatch]] is retired from service in the [[Black Legions]]. Once held to be a vehicle of great promise, the [[shire:Gravimetrics|gravimetric drive]] propulsion system of the gravtank in particular proved to be technologically complex, logistically burdensome, and unreliable under field conditions. The folly of Bandersnatch commanders pressing ahead of their supporting troops in pursuit of the "main chance" was amply demonstrated during the [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=8791#p92722 Battle of 's-Koningenwaarde]. After this nadir of the Imperial Army, concurrent with the maturation of [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|interdiction technologies]], the Bandersnatch was never again afforded licence to roam at will across the land - being instead constrained to remain behind its accompanying defensive screen of [[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|Horjins]], [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirds]], and legionaries - fundamentally curbing its utility in mobile warfare. Eventually Benacia Command concluded that the cumulative force, in terms of firepower and mobility, dedicated to protecting Bandersnatches in the field were sufficient - in and of themselves - to accomplish the majority of missions the Bandersnatch might reasonably have been expected to undertake.
**News of the Bandersnatch's retirement is met with a mixture of relief and sentimental lament among [[Military of Kalgachia|armed forces of Kalgachia]] for whom it inspired, to date, the company-level deployment of 2,948 hypersonic kinetic missiles with replenishment stocks in the high tens of thousands, gifting them one of the most potent infantry anti-tank capabilities on Micras and unwittingly amassing one of its largest reserves of refined tungsten. Citing this economic value, along with the missiles' proven utility as one of the few weapons capable of a one-shot kill against a [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], a spokesman for the Kalgachi Defence Force Armaments Office announces that there are no plans for a reduction in anti-gravtank weapon stocks.
*15: The undisguised build up of forces in Caverden, [[Drak-Modan]], and [[Sathrati]] would appear to indicate that Benacia Command is once again turning its attention back to the festering problem of the [[Guttuli Protectorate]].
*20: Reports of incursions by the [[Guttuli Protectorate#Guttuli Corps|Guttuli Corps]] into the region of the Crestfallen Hills, conducted under the pretext of harrying the [[Revolutionary Army of Crisco|remnant rebel forces]] cut off by the [[Verionist Vespers|sudden collapse]] of the Verionist regime in southern Benacia, are relayed by [[Benacia Command]] to the Permanent Commission of the [[Raspur Pact]]. The [[Constantine Loup|High Commissioner]] presented the findings to the Commission with an admonition that any further retreat of [[Shireroth|Imperial]] sovereignty in Caverden would represent the toppling of the first domino in a sequence that would cascade into the final, absolute, and irrevocable collapse of what remained of the Kaiser's writ over southern and eastern Benacia - with dire consequences for the security of Pact member-states in Benacia. The message presented to the commissioners in Loup's peroration was that they were either to act together to ensure collective security by standing against the Guttuli Protectorate now or else, if not, they were free to make individual accommodations with the Guttuli but with their track record in Lunaris in mind it should be understood that those who place their faith in treaties with the regime are merely hoping for the privilege of being devoured last. With these concluding remarks two motions were tabled - firstly to establish an allied training mission to support the [[Army of Caverden]] and its organisation into an effective force, whilst the second was to institute a thorough quarantine of the Protectorate, sealing the borders and interdicting the sea lanes, until such time as the Guttuli relinquished their occupation of the Lowbrook region and ceased its genocidal policy in occupied portions of southern Lunaris.
*21: Land border between [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and [[Ransenar]] sealed without explanation. Travellers on Guttuli papers in Ransenari territory detained by [[Internal Security Bureau (Benacia Command)|plain clothes officers]] with support from local security forces whilst Guttuli flagged ships and commercial aircraft are similarly impounded.
*22: [[Benacia Command]] issues a "no-fly" order concerning all Guttuli registered aviation assets, authorising the use of deadly force as a last resort if efforts to turn any Guttuli aircraft to return to ground in their own air space fail.
*23: Telephone exchanges and electronic communications networks operated by the Guttuli Protectorate begin to experience connectivity issues. Gradually becoming apparent that Guttuli controlled nodes are being isolated from the vestigial [[shire:Benacian Data Network|Benacian Data Network]] and being physically disconnected by the digging up of communications cables in border regions.

===IV===

*05: The Sabatini Squadron of the [[Benacia Command|Southern Banner Group]] resumes pattern of boarding, searching, and seizing vessels suspected of conducting trade in Guttuli ports, irrespective of registry flag.

===V===
*17: The [[Navy of Ransenar]] announces, with considerable fanfare, the capture of suspected smuggler vessel the [[Jolly Froyalaner]] in Ransenari territorial waters. Credit attributed to two corvette captains presented to Pact affiliated media as emblematic of the professionalism and ''espirit de corps'' of the new navy. With the news of the seizure comes the first explicit acknowledgement of the Pact's [[Permanent Committee Directive 1677/1 |new quarantine policy]] towards the Guttuli Protectorate.
**The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], the last known operator of the ''Jolly Froyalaner'', initially denies accusations of the vessel's involvement in arms trafficking until the Ransenari Navy releases video and photographic evidence of the assorted infantry weapons filling its hold, whereupon the Corporation characterises the vessel as "an independently owned maritime conveyance under the Corporation's intermittent charter which was not in effect at the time of its seizure." The Corporation nonetheless announces that it is negotiating for the vessel's release.
*18: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' arrives empty at Torpentus Creek, its Guttuli operating base where its skipper meets with officials of [[Guttuli Protectorate/Svalbarh|Command Svalbarh]] on behalf of the vessel's indeterminate owners to settle liability for the lost cargo. Finding himself outnumbered among armed hosts who are accustomed to the cash-on-delivery precedents of his previous voyages, the skipper is persuaded at length to waive the expected payment of local commodities for foreign sale. Instead these are purchased with gold [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrands]] cut from the inner lining of his purser's pea coat - the ''Froyalaner'' is duly loaded with foodstuffs, hand tools and nitrate fertiliser before setting sail that evening, keeping close inshore instead of heading directly for open water.
*20: Following an emergency meeting of the Protectorate Military Council, a Joint Office for Naval Works was formed between the Office for Medium Machining, the Office for Great Guns, and the Office for High Seas Acquisitions, with the intention to coordinate and oversee the construction and outfitting of new combat vessels. Tribune K. Elisz, formerly the chief overseeing officer for Kern Industries under the Office for Upper-Musika, is reassigned to GU-Furgsad and given command of a light battlegroup in Salb Bresa. His replacement, Tribune T. Hælzik, is tasked with prioritizing the completion of four corvettes that are two years past due on delivery to the Guttuli Corps. Salbs Aïreon and Meskan ordered to mobilize and redeploy to Meszor, directive issued for the provision of transports to ferry them across the river.

===VI===
*8: An early-morning patrol of Guttulinese coastal barrier troops encounters the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' beached on the shore of the Bay of Sleep. Its visibly unsettled crew point to a series of high-calibre bullet holes in the hull and describe a close escape from a pursuing Ransenari corvette in which they were obliged to throw their cargo of infantry weapons overboard to lighten draught and increase speed, before grounding the vessel to effect hull repairs and await refloating by the incoming tide. The skipper's suggestion to fill the vessel with weapons from the local troops' armoury, to be passed off in Svalbarh as the lost cargo in exchange for a cut of the payment, is firmly declined.

===VII===
*6: The Guttuli Protectorate commissions its first corvette, the ''PS Bætrsuir'' ("Bitter Storm"). It is assigned to Ałeþus Morsva for patrol of the northern Shire Sea and protection of cargo vessels.
*8: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' returns to Torpentus Creek from yet another voyage without its promised cargo of small arms. In the face of increasing dissatisfaction from his local customers, the ''Froyalaner's'' skipper announces his intention to sail for Svalbarh and arrange a meeting with senior Guttuli Corps commanders wherein the vessel's future movements can be more properly coordinated with Guttulinese naval assets.

*9: As the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' approaches the port of Svalbarh, it is met by the local pilot boat. After a short conversation about the present arrangement of the shifting mudflats, the pilot is shot dead along with the coxswain of his boat and the ''Froyalaner'' accelerates to full speed, launching its complement of four container-housed [[S-2 Standard Missile|S-2 Standard missiles]] on a trajectory aimed at Svalbarh's Temple of Morsva. Upon reaching the port it draws sharply alongside the largest Guttulinese merchant vessel it can find and secures itself with grappling lines over the latter's gunwales, laying down heavy small arms fire in all directions to suppress resistance. Timers are then set in the ''Froyalaner's'' explosives-packed hold with barely sufficient delay for its crew to launch an outboard-powered pinnace and get clear of the blast zone, making thence for an escape toward the open sea.
** At the same time as the Svalbarh attack, a section of Guttulinese troops patrolling the southwestern approach road to Erianamor is ambushed by heavy fire on open ground, killing the majority and driving the rest to ground with disciplined bursts from multiple light machine guns. The suppression provides cover for a hasty looting of the fallen Guttulinese, the pinning of a note to the body of its commanding Decurion and a covered withdrawal into the surrounding scrub. The note proclaims to be from a new partisan group called the [[Children of Salus]], demanding an end to the extermination of the Lunatics and the creation of an interior safe zone for them.
** The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] issues a statement admitting responsibility for the ''Jolly Froyalaner's'' actions and the feigning of lost arms shipments in collusion with the [[Navy of Ransenar]] as cover for their diversion to the Children of Salus. The Corporation - which is 22% owned by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|the heir]] of Lunaris' old ruling house - cites the Guttuli Protectorate's betrayal of an agreement to end the extermination of the Lunatics as a condition of the arms smuggling deal, concluding that the Protectorate has ''"has forfeited the right to good faith and honest commerce from its nominal trade partners."''
*10: Authority Erinmur is put under martial law, under the order of the Office for the Fanlinunig. Nineteen worker colonies located throughout the Fanlinunig Region are each instructed to select ten Lunatics from their list of community leaders; those selected are to be sawn open at morning roll-call for the colony's instruction. Salb Ikol issues an order cancelling recreational duties (excepting those associated with the Office for Agricultural Improvement) in order to intensify bandit-hunting operations in and around Erinmur in order to deal with the new organized threat. Captors found alive are to be sacrificed as whole-burnt offerings to Ikol.
*11: In reaction to events in Lunaris, the Department of State of the Republic of [[Alduria]] has announced that it is considering imposing trade sanctions on the [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and the removal of its military advisers in Punta Santiago if its Lunatic genocide does not end quickly.
** Lunatic refugees housed and resettled in [[Ransenar]] begin to organize their own militias and paramilitary groups, seeking [[Military of Ransenar|official recognition and permission]] from the government of Ransenar to operate legally.
*12: Guttuli representatives in Alduria meet with the Secretary of State, Augusto Benavides, in an attempt to stave off further restrictions on Guttulinese trade. During the meeting, they plead with him for understanding, in consideration for the bitterness of several years of struggle, attempt to reassure him that the [[wikipedia:Theresienstadt|Lunatics placed in protective custody are guaranteed adequate living conditions and opportunities to maintain their society]] in settlements where the Lunatics cooperate with the authorities and govern their own internal affairs, and insist that [[wikipedia:fake news|rumors of harsh or inhumane treatment are falsified]] in order to justify the toppling of the Guttuli regime by the [[Vulture States|other powers in Benacia]].
*18: An elderly woman, walking alone on the Meszor/Erinmur road with a stick in one hand and the dead-switch of a suicide vest in the other, attracts the inevitable truck full of Guttulinese troops which swerves aside to run her over and is destroyed in the ensuing blast. Further north, a man in the imitation uniform of a Guttuli Corps Draconary denonates himself when a staff vehicle pulls over to offer him a ride.
*21: Canisters of monochrome photographic film showing public reprisal killings in Erianamor, shot at tilted angles through the half-obstructed lens of a concealed camera, are dispatched toward Ransenar by carrier pigeon for dissemination in the global media.
*23: Children of Salus partisans attack a 'labour settlement' in Western Castra, breaching a portion of its perimeter and covering the escape of some 270 Lunatic inmates with automatic weapons fire. These disperse into small groups and head for the nearby Lacus Conticinium marshes; the last to escape the camp without being gunned down by its rallying guards are given weapons on the spot and enlisted to help cover the withdrawal.

===VIII===
*3: An assembly of notables elects Viscount Nogent Gottschalk, an exile from [[Ankh]] and a former Tribune of Legion VII, as Generalissimo of the [[Army of Caverden]]. A die-hard Imperialist, Gottschalk represents the reactionary tendency which has been gathering pace amongst the landed gentry and the dispossessed against all the [[Vulture States]] that have infested Benacia since the [[Kalirion Fracture|fracture]]. Hostile towards all vulture states, and contemptuous of the [[shire:House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Kalirion Dynasty]] whose failings had given licence to traitors and secessionists, Gottschalk's primary merit in the eyes of his peers was his poisonous hatred towards his [[Guttuli Protectorate|former comrades]] and the legatine commanders of the Corps VII and VIII of the Riverine Army for betraying the Golden Mango Throne and their [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Liven|occupation]] of [[Ankh]].
*4: After ordering a delegation from the assembly to depart and muster 15,000 bannermen at Isenbury, Gottschalk, with a small military escort of untitled nobility, began his eastward trek from Maltenstein towards the lands of the Dominion of Ynnraile-Crisco. A multitude of 20,000 commoners, armed with [[M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm Rifle|various antique rifles]] and accompanied by outriders from the noble houses of Caverden, followed in the wake of the Generalissimo, conscripting porters and seizing provisions from communities all along their line of march.
**With vehicles-borne retainers and the Generalissimo in the van and the armed feudal levies, followed by a multitude of camp followers, bringing up the rear, the host covered a distance of 12km(x [[Riq]]s) on the first day. At nightfall a hooded seer and his retinue of misshapen followers gained admittance to the camp, a mess of tents enrounded by a palisade, hastily dug ditches, and a score of scraped out firing positions. With this figure was dragged a luckless, battered and bruised, figure whose self-bewailed misfortune was a source of jollity and restorative humour to the camp followers who had been earlier cudgelled into the task of digging for the Army. This wretch, the seer explained, was a merchant, a collaborator with the Guttuli from [[Barrowfield]] who had been snatched up on the road to road to Lichport by "gentlemen of the road"<ref>A loose confederacy of slavers, active in Eastern Benacia following the Kalirion Fracture of 1671.</ref> who generously relinquished their reluctant guest to the seer and his entourage after being subject to persuasion no less gentle than that which they themselves practised. It was at the suggestion of the Hooded Seer that Gottschalk remembered an ancient ritual of the First Era of Shirerithian history and summoned his commanders to his tent. There the captive was stripped to his waist, bound, and forced to his knees. Each regimental commander was in turn presented with a blade and invited to carve slices of the living flesh from the wailing, now squealing, captive. For a full three quarters of an hour this grim ritual continued until, at last, the poor wretch was at the point of death, whereupon the Hooded Seer presented to Gottschalk a nicked and timeworn sword, whose blade seemingly shimmered and seethed in shades of black and green. Having been bade to strike, Gottschalk struck off the man's head with a single blow, the blood hissing and boiling as it issued forth from the truncated stump of the dead man's neck - the mortal blow having seemingly been cauterised by the passage of the blade. Astonished, Gottschalk tentatively pressed a finger to the sword's cutting edge, expecting to be scolded but instead finding it deathly cool. The Seer happened to remark that the blade had now found a suitable keeper and Gottschalk, suddenly possessed by a curiously possessive impulse was obliged to agree. In any event, it was by this manner that the men of Caverden declared war, in the ancient fashion, upon the Guttuli Protectorate.
*5: [[1677 Northern Commonwealth election]]. In a low-key election across the bailiwicks of [[Elwynn]]'s [[Northern Commonwealth]] for its Congress (up and to this point suspended since the end of Verionism and the so-called peace agreement), no party achieves majority, but pro-integration parties win a majority. In this case, pro-integration means the integration of the Northern Commonwealth to the [[Congressional Counties]].
*6: Under the guidance of freed forced labourers who were involved in its original construction and upkeep, groups of Lunatic partisans work at night to dismantle the corduroy road leading from Erianamor to the Temple of Lockenhasp in multiple places. The following morning, the first light vehicles held up by the resulting gaps of sodden marsh are ambushed by a company-sized partisan force from prepared positions in the surrounding mud-swamped tussocks and thoroughly looted. A noon counteroffensive by a column of [[Guttuli Protectorate/BK-1A1|armoured vehicles]] out of Erianamor is waylaid some twelve kilometres east by a salvo from half a dozen recoilless rifles and tankgewehrs which, after knocking out the lead and rear vehicles, are nonetheless obliged to retire in the face of suppressive fire from the middle vehicles' disgorged infantry. An attempt by the latter to pursue the retreating heavy weapon bearers into a willow thicket runs into a prepared secondary ambush from a pair of light machine guns, snipers camouflaged in the surrounding reeds and at least one light mortar firing airburst-fuzed shells to assure its effect in the mud.
*7: Pressed to comment on the country's involvement in resourcing and training the [[Children of Salus]], Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] announces that "''such activity is a purely economic matter, falling outside the diplomatic remit of this Directorate but fully within the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]]'s commercial duty to assure the agreed terms of those trade undertakings to which it is party. The extent to which the Guttuli Protectorate is prepared to return to those terms and thereby de-necessitate their enforcement by the Corporation on its behalf shall doubtless determine the future course and duration of the conflict.''"
**Financier [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] hosts a luncheon of senior [[Benacia Command]] officers in the Kalgachi resort town of Pachadsberg wherein the services of the [[Allied Production Matrix]] to quasi-state actors, the settlement of consequent payments and the deposition of supplemental off-book administrative fees in [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|bullion-based means of exchange]] at the local Puckadobey Savings Bank are queried and expounded.
*9: [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]] declared. A directive is passed down from the Protectorate Military Council to regional economic managers to cut their losses concerning the labor population; useful materials are to be relocated out of the emergency area, the remainder is to be denied to the enemy.
*10: As news spreads that Guttulinese troops are arriving to deport or liquidate the ghettoised surviving natives of Erianamor, the trickle of smuggled arms which reached the city are retreived from their hiding places and an armed uprising begins. The rebels' initial plan to hold the entire city - impossible as they are forced to act before sufficient arms stocks have been accumulated - is quickly scaled down to a last stand in the long burned-out shells of three community playhouses (the only local structures other than Guttuli Corps bases which are solid enough to offer sustained protection against gunfire) and a constellation of small barricades in the triangle of streets and dwellings between them. As local Guttulinese forces throw themselves into counterattack, control of the territory shifts frequently in house-to-house fighting with rebels forced to move frequently between fixed positions and close hard with opposing forces to avoid the latter's effective use of heavy weapons. The rubble and splintered timber created by such bombardments forms new points of cover as the initial barricades are systematically blasted apart, allowing the more mobile rebels some immediate measure of survival whilst the slower-witted are torn apart by incoming fire of all calibres and their dropped weapons are sought out by unarmed refugees who vastly outnumber the small arms available.
*11: In the stump-ridden forest remnants southeast of Erianamor, Children of Salus reconnaissance parties observe captive Lunatic labourers destroying their logging camp in preparation for its abandonment and an attack is launched to liberate them before they can be liquidated or deported. The ensuing use of assorted incendiary munitions by the camp's defenders starts a large brushfire which obliges the partisans to withdraw early; their keen knowledge of the local topography nonetheless allows them to lead a number of escaped labourers away amid the cover of thick smoke. Similar attacks are launched throughout the deforested surrounds of Erianamor with varying degrees of success.
*12:
** [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]]. An attempted liberation by the Children of Salus of a convoy of male adult Lunatic laborers headed from Prata to Salzæl is impeded, when explosives loaded into each passenger car are detonated. The detonation, set off by a released Operator Presence Control (the operator in question having died), also relayed a signal to Salb Ikol headquarters. The entire vicinity was then bombarded with thermobaric weapons in an attempt to consume any partisans involved in the liberation attempt. In his after-action report, Legate Hurst Mennin wrote "Roads can be rebuilt. Cattle cannot be unslaughtered."
** Footage is released internationally by the Office for the Kraln, sourced from the Office for Documentary Production and Acceptance, showing some of the activities of the Children of Salus terrorist group intercut with that of fleeing civilians being sheltered by members of the Guttuli Corps. A brief statement is included with the footage, describing the Children of Salus as attacking innocent civilians, not just Children of the Sun, but also residents of the Arya ethnic group. Having disturbed the peace that the Protectorate had brought to Erinmur, this terrorist group intends to cleanse the region of other ethnic groups and establish an ethnostate in the center of the multi-ethnic Guttuli Protectorate.
*14: Erianamor Uprising: Guttulinese troops pull back to a newly-established perimeter, where combat engineers have levelled buildings flat, so that the Corps' superior firepower can be best utilized. The isolated city quarter is then bombarded into rubble.
*15: Erianamor Uprising: a group of civilians caught in the bombardment area surrender at the perimeter. None survive. As the rolling bombardment continues, combat engineers deploy to raze partially demolished buildings and increase visibility. Electronic Warfare units maintain signal interference.
*19/20: At nightfall, the Children of Salus launch numerous attacks against Streïhvasza B of the Guttuli Corps' Salb Aleï, whose string of watchposts along the Ransenari frontier - despite being located closest to the partisan-held interior marshes - is the most thinly-spread on that line at approximately seven troops per kilometre and oriented mostly northward. The concentration of partisan forces against thinly-defended posts of Streïhvasza B's static infantry secures direct contact with Ransenari territory in several places for the rest of the night, allowing waiting trains of pack-bearing men and horses to infiltrate, disperse and proceed southward for rendezvous with partisans in the marshes. Streïhvasza B is forced to choose between defending its small posts against more numerous attackers or concentrating into a larger force - thereby leaving wider sections of the frontier open to infiltration until the more mobile Streïhvasza A can move in to assist, degrading the defence of its own sector in the process. The inevitable chain of compromises enables a large number of sympathetic volunteers - natives of Upper Lunaris who have assembled and armed themselves with the apparent toleration of the Ransenari authorities - to infiltrate at several points across the central "Eldasaï" sector of the Guttulinese defence line. By dawn their horse-mounted elements have already reached the cover of partisan-held marshes and their foot elements are well dispersed in the intervening country, supported by partisans from the initial attack who now form a rear guard against those Guttulinese forces who might abandon control of the border to give chase.

==Footnotes==
[[Category:History]][[Category:Shirerithian Vulture States]]

Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

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A timeline of [[Benacia]]n events in the aftermath of the [[Kalirion Fracture]] (1671–1675) which upended the longstanding continental balance of power.

==1676==
===I===
* 3: Elwynnese prince [[Ander Avon-El]], furious after the [[Council of Eliria]] voted to repudiate the [[Treaty of Concord]] against its own provisions, calls the decision illegal, and instead publishes an instrument of government confirming the validity of the Treaty of Concord. In a statement released along with the instrument of government, Avon-El states that if the Council of Eliria still wishes to withdraw from the treaty during the twelfth year after its implementation, the Council of Eliria may so decide at that time in accordance with law.
* 4: The [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], the [[Communist Party of Elwynn]], the [[Amokolian Freedom Front]], the [[Conservative Historical Party]] and the [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism]] release statements in support of the Prince's interpretation.
* 5: With the Verionists having lost control over Monty Crisco and Elsenar's authorities and civil service (except in [[Chryste|Chryse]]) and therefore begun a huge evacuation to [[Keltia]] where apparently now the Verionists have found a land of milk and honey, the Imperial Regency and the Verionists agree to a transfer of sovereignty of Elsenar (except the Chryse area) and Monty Crisco back to Shireroth. It is rumoured that because of Shireroth's inability to administer parts of these territories, that the Regency is therefore in negotiations with other Vulture States on how to proceed with these territories. One option on the table, leaked to the press in Eliria, is that Elsenar in its entirety would be granted Ransenar while the Guttuli Protectorate would have an option to take parts of Monty Crisco.
** With news of the [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|Great Disaster]] having reached Goldfield, the Cabinet sends a resolution to the Ransenari Congress for approval to authorize and fund the beginning of a [[Operation Salvation|large scale humanitarian, medical, and scientific mission to the ruins of Elsenar]].
*9: The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār, legislature of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]], initiated proceedings that could, if replicated in either the [[Northern Commonwealth]] or the [[Congressional Counties]], result in the impeachment and removal of [[Ander Avon-El]].
* 13: Delegates from the [[Sovereign Confederation]] and the [[Ransenar|Kingdom of Ransenar]] meet in Goldshire Hamlet to discuss coordination of a common foreign policy and greater economic cooperation.
* 14:
** The [[Tassity Mansabdar]] killed the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7K4vGYL9zI pirate leader]. The mission on Naudia'Diva is accomplished. In a letter to the Imperial Regency, the [[Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy|King of Amokolia]] says that the Arkadian Sector can be returned. The letter comes with a box containing the head of the pirate leader. The full story is worked out in [[The Micras Chessboard]].
** [[West Amokolia|Amokolia]] closes the border with Unified Governorates of Benacia.
*18: The [[Amokolian People's Party]] delegation to the [[Elwynnese congress]] moves for a vote of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]]. In a statement by its leader, Jorgen Basker-Daal said: "The actions of the Prince have injured the prospects of Amokolian reunification for decades ahead. It is clear he not fit to lead our republic. For those reasons, we call for his impeachment in Congress."
** In response to the motion ahead in the Congress, the [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], of which Prince Ander Avon-El is also a member, left the congressional government. Its ministers resigned with immediate effect, leaving the executive with a one-seat majority in Congress.
*19: The Elwynnese Workers' Party also left the government, said that it would call for a vote of no confidence in the Conducator after the vote on the Prince. An EWP spokesperson said "It is clear that this is an N&H-led ploy to get progressives out of government positions in Elwynn. Ander Avon-El has been a good prince and he does not deserve this kind of treatment."
*20: The [[Elwynnese congress]] votes on the motion of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]], 144 votes in favour ([[Nationalist and Humanist Party|N&H]], [[Verionist Union|VU]], [[Democratic Party of Elwynn|DEM]], [[Amokolian People's Party|APP]], [[Holy Party of the Divine Icebear|HPDI]]) against 105 votes against ([[Ayreonist Independence Party|AIP]], [[Communist Party of Elwynn|CPE]], [[Elwynnese Workers' Party|EWP]], [[Amokolian Freedom Front|AFF]], [[Conservative Historical Party|CHP]], PR, [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism|MPDS]]). The President of the Congress subsequently communicated the results to the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Raspur Pact]] debriefers have a few stern words with some captured VBA officers concerning the wisdom, or [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|lack thereof]], of housing lethal pathogens on the same facility as an experimental reactor.
*24:
**The ''Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār'' delivers its verdict on the Prince of Elwynn with 197 votes in favour of the motion of no confidence (N&H, VU, DEM, BEH) vs 39 against (AIP, EWP). The Sardar of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]] is duly mandated to convey the news of the result to the Council of Eliria.
**Ground based air defences in [[Elwynnese Amokolia]] are placed on high alert whilst [[Benacia Command]] ordered the Central and Northern Banner Groups to disperse their aircraft to satellite runways and to establish patterns of 24-hour combat air patrolling until further notice. The Western Banner Group, headquartered on [[New Blackstone]] commenced snap drills, taking units out of their permanent cantonments and into their forward defensive positions.

===II===
*1:
** The [[Council of Eliria]] meets in which the votes of confidence in Prince Ander Avon-El are communicated and found to be in good form. [[Ander Avon-El]] confirms their validity, thanks the other members of the Council for a fruitful cooperation, and hands over the executive to the senior-most member of the Council, [[Firdaus Abdollahi Mehr]]. Mehr will be Steward until the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|new princely elections]] have concluded.
**As the preceding week of cloud cover over Western [[Northbloom]] is cleared by a boreal high pressure front, the fresh satellite imagery of various powers reveals that on the fringes of the town of Usheroff, a strip of ground some 2,400 metres long has been cleared, graded and hastily overlaid with slabs of PAG-14 to create a runway. Other visible details are a single parked [[Floret]] in camouflage livery, a hangar composed of a three-sided revetment with a fabric canopy and a series of ragged taxiways radiating out toward presumable dispersal stands in the cover of nearby woodland.
**The front page of the Usheroff and District Newsletter and Spare Parts Directory details eerie eyewitness reports of "The Howling Night Birds of the Ermingander Road". Meetings are held in surrounding villages to discuss "The Usheroff Thing" which draw the usual crowd of nutjobs, moonbats, fruitcakes and concerned mothers, the less credible of whom are generously interviewed for that evening's Kalgachi television news and immediately discredit the existence of the phenomenon in the minds of most viewers. The handful of sober and sane witnesses, including the only one able to make coherent [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/66/Oobakeep.png drawings] of [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png what he saw], are largely ignored and the stigma of their association with the farcical proceedings soon shames them into silence.
*3: [[Batavia]] and West Amokolia sign the Treaty of Koningsbergen.
*4: Conducator Nila Valgarai of the Democrat–N&H–APP minority government in Elwynn falls in a vote of no confidence. 144 votes in favour (VU, AIP, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI), and 105 votes against (N&H, DEM, APP). The President of the Congress, Benjamin Sluyjs, relieves the Conducator of her office, and authorizes her to lead a caretaker government until the Congress has confirmed a Conducator. Sluyjs consequently meets with all party leaders to discuss the new government formation.
*5: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP leader meets with the APP leader to discuss the basis of a government. Although the APP voted against Prince Ander Avon-El, and the AIP against the APP coalition, the two party leaders said to the media afterwards that they had much in their programme they could use to build a coalition. "Given congressional arithmetic, however, we'd need more parties to these talks."
*6: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP begins talks with Communists and the [[EWP]], while the [[APP]] begins talks with the other Amokolian parties.
*7: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]: Verionist Union announces Stephen Lewis as its princely candidate.
*8: Elwynn's [[Ayreonist Independence Party]] announces Meqael Mizarielion as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*10: The Amokolian People's Party announces Jorgen Basker-Daal as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*19: The Ayreonist Independence Party and the Amokolian People's Party report they have been unable to secure a majority coalition, and urge the President of Congress to discuss the question of government formation more intimately and aggressively with party leaders, saying "new elections are the last thing we need at this time of political crisis".
*23: The N&H announces the candidacy of Frederik Haabye Truls for the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|vacant principate]].

===III===
*4: Details of the N&H electoral platform energe. Focus to be upon developing an export based manufacturing sector to build up industrial capacity and working capital, with surpluses to be reinvested in defence, law and order, and public infrastructure policy. Foreign policy - to remain aligned with Raspur Pact, introduce quarantine along Amokolian frontier. Domestic policy - encourage civic reconciliation, audit of any Verionist "special projects" established by previous administration in view of notable safety lapses elsewhere. First electoral event - symbolic blockade of the Amokolian Oriental Express in Mishalan.
*6: Kalgachia issues a statement on the ongoing [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|Bovic Schism]], remarking that ''"the resolve of the state and clerical classes of [[Drak-Modan]] to bring their centres of societal gravity within Benacian shores marks a commendable return toward the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|cherished precepts]] of collective Benacian sovereignty [[Amokolian War|established]] by the Maven Nohsi Goltz in [[Ashkenatza|late antiquity]] - a timely and welcome development when [[West Amokolia|the northern saddle]] of our continent is once again compromised by an [[Stormark|alien colonial power]] and the cause of Benacian solidarity has become an imperative."''
**As Drak-Modani developments in the husbandry of famed [[Natopia|Natopian]] goat breeds for dairy purposes have attracted the interest of Kalgachia's [[House of Nerrolar#Chlorocyphida Pan|highland farming community]], enquiries are passed to Drakorda through a [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group|chain]] of commercial [[SATCo|intermediaries]] regarding the export availability of breeding specimens.
*11: The Commissioner of [[New Blackstone]], [[Jeremiah Avon-El]], is sent to Kalgachia on a five-day furlough, at the personal direction of the [[Constantine Loup|Szodan]], to investigate what experiences and amenities are afforded to notable personages utilising the newly promulgated "Pachadsberg Visa".
*12: Upon arrival in Pachadsberg, Commissioner Avon-El - being the highest UGB official to have set foot in the Garden since the [[Slavegate Convention]] negotiations - is received by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]], chair of the Pachadsberg Development Committee who leads him on a guided tour of the resort's completed and ongoing works. This is followed by a meeting with a Mr. Waller at the Puckadobey Savings Bank, where initial discussion of [[Kalkul Sahib|mutual acquaintances]] leads to an illuminating conversation about the jurisdictional hedging of personal capital for purposes of audit reconciliation and insulation from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlwzkjEaQbE failures thereof]. A numbered PSB account is opened for Avon-El's "casino winnings" and he is left to experience the full delights of Pachadsberg at his own initiative.
*16: First round in the 1676 Elwynnese princely elections. Frederik Haabye Truls of the N&H wins a plurality but fails to secure a majority. In the second round, scheduled for next month, Mr Haabye Truls will face Meqael Mizarielion (AIP). Third-placed Stephen Lewis of the Verionist Union, although securing 76% of the Northern Commonwealth vote, did not manage to advance to the second round.
*18: The Ayreonist Independence Party and Amokolian People's Party, on one side, begin coalition talks with the Nationalist and Humanist Party and the Democratic Party on the other side.
*24: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks stall on the question of Conducator. N&H–DEM side steadfast that Nila Valgarai (DEM) is reelected to the position. AIP–APP side want an AIP candidate.

===IV===

*1: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks continue. The parties agree not to discuss the question of conducatorship for a week.
*6: The parties tentatively agree on a platform for governance of the congressional counties, based on national cohesion, an Amokolian curriculum in Amokolian bailiwicks, expanded private insurances of pension and ill health, a fairer taxation regime, and overview of the post-feudalist of justice system.
*7: The AIP–APP and N&H–DEM talks agree that if an Ayreonist wins the princely elections, the Democrats get the conducatorship, and if the N&H wins the princely elections, an Ayreonist gets the conducatorship.
*8: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]. In the second round, Frederik Haabye Truls (N&H) narrowly beat (51–49%) AIP contender Meqael Mizarierion for the position of Prince. As soon as the results were announced, Mr Haabye Truls swore the oath of office and took his seat in the Council of Eliria. Mr Mizarierion said, as soon as the results were announced, that he was pleased that he had been elected Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, and that he looked forward to leading the congressional government in Elwynn.
*9: The President of the Elwynnese Congress, Mr Benjamin Sluyjs (APP) brought forward the first reading of the motion to elect Meqael Mizarierion to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, heading a coalition government of the Nationalist & Humanist Party, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, the Amokolian People's Party, and the Ayreonist Independence Party.
*11: The Elwynnese Congress confirms the election of Meqael Mizarierion (AIP) to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, with 130 votes in favour (N&H, DEM, APP, AIP), and 119 votes against (VU, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI).
*12: Elwynnese congressional Conducator Meqael Mizarierion announces a twenty-member cabinet including himself consisting of 7 N&H members, 5 Democrats, 4 members of the Amokolian People's Party, and 3 additional members of the Ayreonist Independence Party. Outgoing conducator Nila Valgarai (DEM) is made Minister of Finance and notes wryly to the media that there are now no women in the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Shireroth]] wins the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]]. Kaiseress [[Salome]] awarded Shireroth's points personally, giving Sanama 12 points. She has, according to court rumours, a teen crush on the [[Sanama]]n singer Dimash Kudaibergen, awards Kudaibergen a title of Baronage (Baron Kudaibergen; in Shirerithian peerage, baronies are only granted foreigners), and has invited Kudaibergen for tea and cake. The Kaiseress also awards lordships in Shirekeep for the Coldplay members (the lowest form of nobility), remarking however that their song was "pathetic". She is happy, though, that the Florian Republic finally saw the light and gave Shireroth 12 points.
*22: The Kalgachi tabloid ''Private Ear'' fills its front page with two illustrations: a transcript of [[Brandenburger Post#Nur ein weiterer Tag im Reichstag|assurances given]] by the King of West Amokolia to the Prince of Elwynn on 17.I denying any intent to convert his realm into a Storish client state, next to a table displaying the Microvision votes of Stormark and West Amokolia in which they awarded each other the maximum points. Beneath, typeset in bold faux-runic, is the headline: ''"By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them"''.
**The ''Private Ear'' front page is featured prominently on [[Ransenar|Ransenari]] media ([[Kalirion Fracture#IV.1675|known for its sensationalism]]), triggering huge demand for issues of the tabloid to catch the illustrations. Putting it in context with [[West Amokolia]]'s brazen expansionist designs on Elsenar, opinion pages and media coverage reports on the illustrations as the latest salvo in the "war for the minds of the peoples of the Benacian continent", regarding the Vanic-West Amokolian cooperation in the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]] as a concerted effort to take control or influence the culture of the country and reinstate the "Vanic Web".
**The Daily Mail & Telegraph of Eliria, whilst disdaining to comment upon so vulgar a matter as the Microvision contest directly, being distinctly sniffy about "low culture", provided a droll analysis of the sociological and political factors that had combined to elevate the favouritism shown by Brandenburg to Haraldsborg to a matter of international concern. The paper duly dismissed the voting proclivities of the King of West Amokolia as being "a cheap shot concerning a trivial matter, one flung back in spite over having been so thoroughly drubbed by the international community for his misguided attempt to capitalise on the misfortunes of [[Verionist Benacia|Elsenar]]."
**Rumours circulate in Eliria concerning the abrupt departure of the [[Ander Avon-El|former Prince]] for a new academic posting in [[shire:Tala|Tala]], [[Raikoth]], accompanied by a sizeable close protection detail, in the same month that a new edict concerning the status of Elwynnese adherence to the [[Treaty of Concord]] is anticipated.
*23: [[Verionist Union]] leader, and Northern Conducator, [[Stephen Lewis]] holds a speech in Fieldburg, televised live in most parts of the country. He decries the ''"N&H takeover of the government"'' and warns that the Northern Commonwealth now ''"stands as a last resort, as often in our history, against the grubby hands of imperialist powers. Be it Storish, be it communists or be it the disasterous dictatorship of the Osmani Gang, whose black shadow falls over Benacia as the Star of Verion is pushed away to the North"''. In a response to questioning from journalists, Lewis refused to say if he recognised the new government, or would implement the policy of the new administration, instead replying with a cryptic ''"The North does as the North does".''
**Inhabitants of the [[Northern Commonwealth]] are bemused by a sudden blitz of publicity materials produced by the Court of the Prince detailing essential items to carry in a "grab bag" and other hints and tips for preparedness in the face of an unspecified emergency.
**Asked about Conducator Lewis' comments concerning the the "N&H takeover of the government" the press spokeswoman for the Court of the Prince tersely replied ''"It's called 'winning an election on the basis of a popular vote', Agha Lewis really ought to try it some time."''

===V===

*1: [[Operation Kulning]]: Driving through the night from [[Dragonskeep]], a detachment of [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] engineers and administrative personnel arrived in [[Fieldburg]] on the morning of 01.V.1676, under the command of ''Generalmajor'' Jan Gräbner. The Generalmajor's first act upon arrival was to summon the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels and Master of Cudgels, and the Deputy Director of the Panopticon Department, the heads of Republican law enforcement and security in the city, to join him for breakfast at the hotel which he had now requisitioned for a headquarters. Having taken the opportunity, over fried herrings, poached eggs, lingonberries, and rye bread, to remind his guests of their obligations to the [[Constitution of Elwynn|constitution]] and the democratic order of the Republic, the Generalmajor genially explained the purpose of his mission. [[Exercise Tempus Est]] had convinced the incoming Prince of the utility of the Agnesian Gulf, protected from boreal storms by the Cimmerian Isles, as a natural bastion for the naval forces of Elwynn and the [[Raspur Pact]] in [[Benacia]]. To this end existing harbour facilities at Port Illumination and Vijayanagara would be expanded and a new naval dockyard would be constructed on the island of Wolfraven. To support all of this would require significant investment in infrastructure in the region. The Generalmajor's task therefore was to identify land for purchase in Fieldburg and to identify from the available options an optimal site for the construction of a new UDF Operations Centre intended to coordinate all defence activities in the Agnesia-Cimmeria region. As the cudgellers were subject to a chain of command stretching back, via the fetchingly titled Bludgeoner-General of the [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels]], to the Court of the Prince, where their loyalties therefore must ultimately lay, the Generalmajor charged his breakfast partners with lending every assistance when it came to the matter of 'liaising' with representatives of the local authorities, who might be less than fully cooperative in view of the truculent attitude adopted by the [[Stephen Lewis|present Conducator]] in recent days.

===VI===

===VII===
[[File:1676p1.png|350px|thumb|right|[[N&H]] Propagandists in Eliria were seemingly either unwilling or unable to allow the purported demise of the [[House of Verion]] to pass without comment...]]
*16: Rumours begin to spread that a chartered [[Nakalma]] flight from [['s Koningenwaarde]] to the [[Verionian Empire|Verionian Imperial]] capital of Sarhat - carrying the [[Batavia|Batavian]] Prime Minister [[Joachim Mackay]], the [[Los Liberados|Liberadosan]] president [[Jacobo Castrigo Álvarez]] and the Viceroy of [[Verionist Benacia]] Jana Al-Basani - is [[Loss of Nakalma Flight 731|reported overdue]] and has made no communication with air traffic control since beginning its transit of the Great Western Sea. Their personal and business links aside, the improbable hubris and geopolitical implications of [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PutOnABus gathering so many important personages] at a single point of danger do not pass without remark. A long range patrol by a scout shuttle of the [[Natopian Defense Force]], overflying the vicinity on a suborbital trajectory, reported anomalous electromagnetic readings immediately prior to the disappearance of Flight 731 off air traffic control radar screens.
*17: Long convoys of trucks, armoured personnel carriers, and low-loaders carrying [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|vehicles shrouded under tarpaulin covers]] are reported as wending their way westwards from [[Merensk]] and [[Sansabury]] along the few good roads leading into the [[Siyacha Free State]] and the area of operations of the [[Black Legions#I Uihmanz|I Uihmanz]] facing the frontier with [[Kasterburg]]. Sources close to [[Benacia Command]] insist that the bringing up to strength of the establishments of formations attached to the 1st Corps was long over due and not made in response to any specific occurrence.
*19: The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]] Director of Benacian Operations, Bobbert Shrubschild, is waylaid by journalists on arrival at [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and questioned about the Corporation's reponse to the recent activation of a secret protocol between the governments of Los Liberados and the [[Florian Republic]], wherein the latter has assumed sovereignty over the former. Shrubschild states that "the Board of Directors are still assessing the situation but have decided that our head office will remain in [[Puerto Arcadio]] for now. With the apparent demise of Prime Minister Mackay, Batavia's increased vulnerability to the Vanic domino puts future trade with [[Batavian Confederation|its confederation]] in some doubt but the [[Eura|Euran]] market remains viable. The Florian Republic, having the institutional memory of a concussed goldfish, represents for our purposes an optimally deregulated business environment to which we would cautiously welcome a transition." Shortly afterwards, [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] is seen boarding an outbound flight on his way to an "emergency shareholder meeting".
*23: The [[Verionist Vespers]]<ref>Better name pending. At this juncture it is logical, with so many of its members having been exasperated by prior dealings with the avatars of Verionism, that the Pact would seek to tidy away the legacy of Verionism now that its leadership cadres have been obligingly removed from the scene.</ref> begin, with the [[Raspur Pact]] commencing the suppression of the [[Iron Company]] and the [[Verionist Union]] on a global scale.
**Religious hysteria grips the Bovic community in northern Benacia, already disorientated by the [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|schism]] in the [[Dozan Bovic Church]], with the ''herds'' (congregations) cleft between the mother church and the [[Benacian Bovic Church|schismatics]] of [[Drak-Modan]], as videos circulate purportedly showing the [[Butter Bull|most dreaded entity]] in the Bovic pantheon manifesting as the '''Blood Aurochs''', given substance by the slaughter carried out by the faithful on the gore splattered steps of his church in the bailiwick of Saint Biffor. Every individual who watches any of the video clips of the Blood Aurochs receives a commandment burnt into their psyche. The instruction varies according to the watcher but comes in the form of an intensely personal revelation that is invariably homicidal in its ultimate intent. Authorities have suspended the data networks of northern Elwynn in an effort to slow the spread of the videos and have sought the assistance of both Bovic Churches, along with their [[Church of Elwynn|Elwynnese brethren]] in an attempt to locate and destroy all physical copies of the same. The creation of a memetic murder plague was an unexpected development to say the least, which would go on to significantly complicate efforts to restore order in the Northern Commonwealth.
*24: After it became clear that the Batavian prime minister is most likely no longer alive, the king instituted a state of emergency.

===VIII===
*16 :
** [[Karel Kyle]] is born, the second child of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy and [[Clara Sundara|Clara des Vinandy - Sundara Waffel-Paine]].
** The city of [[Chryste]] was transferred to the [[Batavia|Kingdom of Batavia]] by [[Verionist Republic]].

*23 : [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Fanlin|Operation Fanlin]] is declared complete. The remaining territory of Southern Lunaris, as determined by the [[Guttuli Protectorate]]'s treaty with the [[Ransenar]], is reorganized into four commands. Resettlement programs are launched to bring the territory into line with the cultural and socio-economic nature of the remainder of the Protectorate.

===XI===

*6: Evert Flint, the [[Verionist Union|Verionist]] President of [[Elwynn]]'s Northern Congress, orders a full recess until further notice of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature.

*10: Anti-Verionist backlash in the Northern Commonwealth continues, fueled by Bovic extremist rhetoric.

*24: The Kalgachi government opens an Extraordinary Grand Council - the third in its history - to deliberate on the country's future in the context of a re-congealing Benacian order. Speaking to reporters, Lady Lieutenant [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]] of Oktavyan denies rumours that Kalgachia is re-entering an isolationist phase and that "''all present foreign trade arrangements will be maintained insofar as they are salvageable and sustainable in a post-Verion context. The extent to which this is the case remains to be precisely determined.''"

===X===

*8: Evert Flint, the Verionist speaker of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature (now in recess), was apprehended by a [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] snatch squad and conveyed to Eliria. Upon his arrival there he was obliged, whilst in some discomfort discusses on account of the manner in which he was handled during transit, to discuss the political crisis with a special committee formed the Congressional Counties government. The CC government pushes for a reintegration of the Northern Commonwealth into the Congressional Counties, which the Verionist rejected out of hand. "We would rather die", he was quoted to say. "That can be arranged", one of his interlocutors was heard to answer.

===XI===

*10: Evert Flint, president of the Northern Commonwealth congress and de facto conducator in the absence of [[Stephen Lewis]], meets with the Council of Eliria, the [[Dozan Bovic Church]]'s Eparchy of Benacia, members of the Verionist Union rump leadership, and representatives of the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear. The Verionists understand that their days are numbered. The Bovic church assumes some responsibility for the actions by Bovic extremists in the Northern Commonwealth targeting Verionists violently. Conducator Meqael Mizarierion, a noted critic of the Bovic religion, moves to let the Bovics clean up the mess they instigated. The Bovic church denies that they created the mess, saying it was the Verionists who did, but that they do take responsibility for acts committed in Bous's name. "Genocide, however, has no place in Elwynn." The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear moves to establish an Icebear autonomous republic in Cimmeria. Other delegates at the meeting ignore the proposal.

*20: Negotiations regarding the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth continue. Evert Flint asks for amnesty for Verionists in exchange for a peaceful solution. Mezarierion agrees.

===XII===

*1: Official negotiations with the Council of Eliria regarding the Northern Commonwealth's political situation are announced to have failed. The rump legislature leadership, Evert Flint, the Dozan Bovic Church, the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, and Conducator Meqael Mizarierion begin informal discussions outside the remit of the Council of Eliria.
*11: After ten days of intense negotiations with regard to the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth, it is agreed:
** The Verionist Union to be dissolved within the Elwynnese Republic, its assets used to grant pensions to the leadership of the party. Verionist leaders (defined to include members of the Verionist Union board of directors, Verionist members of the Elwynnese legislatures, and Verionist members of the autonomous republics' governments) to refrain from political activity for life. In return, they will be granted a pension for life, funded by the Congressional Counties and Northern Commonwealth governments as well as the Verionist liquidation fund. Verionists in the legislatures shall resign en masse immediately upon the deal's ratification by the Northern Commonwealth's congress, and their seats remain absent until the next elections.
** Eki Verion to remain under house arrest, the funding of which rests on the
** The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear to close all its missions outside Cimmeria. In return, the Church will receive an annual fund from the Northern Commonwealth budget.
** The Dozan Bovic Church agrees not to have missionaries, clergy or congregations in Cimmeria.
** A total amnesty of all crimes committed in the Northern Commonwealth between the date of Stephen Lewis's disappearance and the ratification of this deal by the Northern Commonwealth legislature.
** Until new elections are held in the Northern Commonwealth, Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion and his wife Li Naomiai to lead the Northern Commonwealth government.
*12: The Northern Commonwealth's rump legislature, called back to session, ratifies the informal deal by electing [[Li Naomiai|Li Naomiai Avon-El]] the president of Northern Congress and her husband [[Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion]] (the son of Kaiseress Noor, former Prince of Elwynn, Bovic theologian) to Conducator of the Northern Congress. Li Naomiai's first act is to suspend the legislature until peace is restored in the Northern Commonwealth and new elections held.
*20: The Board of Directors of [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group, Inc]], in accordance with rights vested in or exercised by the Corporation of the Seneschal of the march on behalf of the Corporation of the Marchioness of [[Zy-Rodun]], pursuant to The First Protocol (Governance) of the Technical Cooperation Agreement & Structural Assistance Programme Between the [[Raspur Pact]] and Emirate of Sathrati, resolves to designate the Director of Benacian Operations, [[Garvin Hendriksson]], to serve as Plenipotentiary of the Honourable Company with respect to [[Sathrati|The Emirate of Sathrati together with the Imperial Dominion of the Marquessate of Zy-Rodun and the Counties of Yardistan, Amity, and Mirioth]], and possesses complete authority to act in the name of the Board of Directors of the Honourable Company, unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors. The appointment of a Principal Secretary of State and Undersecretaries are ratified.
*21: Kalgachia's Extraordinary Grand Council concludes its session. Its rulings assert a comfortable attitude toward the trajectory of Benacian geopolitics, establish an armed force for the [[Upland Confederation]] to relieve pressure on the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] and slow the filling of non-native raw material stockpiles from expansion levels to maintenance levels whilst leaving foreign trade routes open. The Council's most notable rulings are in the field of religious doctrine; namely the canonisation of [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|Vascarina Goldcluck]] and the classification of the undead and [[Deep Singers]] as manifestations of a divine "''temporary intervention''" whose "''recontextualisation''" is required for post-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] culture to "''move beyond its [[Brookshire|Caverdenian]] origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.''" The latter declaration takes many by surprise and is interpreted variously as a reaction to the renewed torpor of [[Lord Toastypops]], an attempt to undercut the moral authority of the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]] in the [[UGB|Southern Post-Minarborian Space]], or a combination.

===XIV===

*12: The Directive on Marriage, Reproductive Function, and Societal Obligation is published by [[Benacia Command]], taking effect across the territories of the [[Unified Governorates]]. Superseding [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19062 Imperial Decree 865]<ref>The existence of [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22746 Imperial Decree 1180] having been largely rejected and ignored by territories under the influence of the Nationalist-Humanist movement even during the reign of [[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]</ref> the new directive mainly preserved the intent of the original Imperial law albeit dispensing with the disagreeable licence afforded to the now abolished aristocracy to marry as they pleased. Key improvements upon the preceding law was the codification of the ''Age of Obligation''<ref>The obligation to perform duties considered consensual activities in other societies</ref> at sixteen years of age, and an effort to place the arrangement of marriage onto a scientific and rational basis by involving municipal government, the guilds, and health authorities, in the selection and pairing of suitable partners in each graduating age cohort. Notably the primary purpose of marriage was to drive procreation, with some allowance to the function of the family unit as an engine of social cohesion and stability. Romantic sentiment, therefore being a significantly more tertiary consideration, became largely the preserve of those deemed unsuitable or incapable of breeding. The institution of civil unions, previously established as a sop to those denizens ineligible for marriage under the old arrangements, was allowed to lapse. Barren marriages would be annulled after their tenth year and childlessness would be punished by the levying of a mandatory tax, used to fund a system of rewards and benefits afforded to successful breeding pairs, with a lifelong stipend for those who reached the target of four children birthed per household and a bonus for every surplus child born.
*18: The first [[Committee for Popular Vigilance]] is established in Gloomburg, an otherwise obscure and overlooked city of the Unified Governorates, with the espoused aim of suppressing profanity, immorality, and other lewd activities in general, and the establishment of reformatories, modelled upon the worker colonies which formerly housed the [[Froyalaners]], for the housing of the recalcitrant.
*20: Joint [[Benacia Command]]-[[Ransenar]]i procurement programme announced to equip [[Grand Army of Ransenar|Ransenari Regimental Corps of Artillery]] with ordnance appropriate to its mission profile. At present the artillery arm, bereft of field guns, has primary responsibility for ground-based air defence, custodianship of missile stockpiles, and the operating of the [[Military of Ransenar|Royal Ransenari Armed Forces]] complement of fifty "Tadpole" tactical reconnaissance drones.

==1677==
===I===
* 1: [[Benjamin Cambernon]] has been appointed [[Prime Minister of Batavia]].
*23: First reformatory opens in [[Laikum's Wald]], a model settlement established in the Litel Governorate ([[UGB]]).
===II===
===III===
*6: Obsolete and worn airframes, especially of the B-49 Delta and B-66 Vulcan which have been in continuous service with the Imperial Forces and [[Benacia Command]] since the late 1630's, begin to transfer, via long haul flights and staging points in [[Most Serene Union|Istvanistan]] and [[Alrodey]] to the [[Raspur Pact|Pact's]] strategic aviation reserve, particularly for storage in the so-called Boneyard of [[Arak]].
*14: The venerable [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1(MBT) Bandersnatch]] is retired from service in the [[Black Legions]]. Once held to be a vehicle of great promise, the [[shire:Gravimetrics|gravimetric drive]] propulsion system of the gravtank in particular proved to be technologically complex, logistically burdensome, and unreliable under field conditions. The folly of Bandersnatch commanders pressing ahead of their supporting troops in pursuit of the "main chance" was amply demonstrated during the [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=8791#p92722 Battle of 's-Koningenwaarde]. After this nadir of the Imperial Army, concurrent with the maturation of [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|interdiction technologies]], the Bandersnatch was never again afforded licence to roam at will across the land - being instead constrained to remain behind its accompanying defensive screen of [[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|Horjins]], [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirds]], and legionaries - fundamentally curbing its utility in mobile warfare. Eventually Benacia Command concluded that the cumulative force, in terms of firepower and mobility, dedicated to protecting Bandersnatches in the field were sufficient - in and of themselves - to accomplish the majority of missions the Bandersnatch might reasonably have been expected to undertake.
**News of the Bandersnatch's retirement is met with a mixture of relief and sentimental lament among [[Military of Kalgachia|armed forces of Kalgachia]] for whom it inspired, to date, the company-level deployment of 2,948 hypersonic kinetic missiles with replenishment stocks in the high tens of thousands, gifting them one of the most potent infantry anti-tank capabilities on Micras and unwittingly amassing one of its largest reserves of refined tungsten. Citing this economic value, along with the missiles' proven utility as one of the few weapons capable of a one-shot kill against a [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], a spokesman for the Kalgachi Defence Force Armaments Office announces that there are no plans for a reduction in anti-gravtank weapon stocks.
*15: The undisguised build up of forces in Caverden, [[Drak-Modan]], and [[Sathrati]] would appear to indicate that Benacia Command is once again turning its attention back to the festering problem of the [[Guttuli Protectorate]].
*20: Reports of incursions by the [[Guttuli Protectorate#Guttuli Corps|Guttuli Corps]] into the region of the Crestfallen Hills, conducted under the pretext of harrying the [[Revolutionary Army of Crisco|remnant rebel forces]] cut off by the [[Verionist Vespers|sudden collapse]] of the Verionist regime in southern Benacia, are relayed by [[Benacia Command]] to the Permanent Commission of the [[Raspur Pact]]. The [[Constantine Loup|High Commissioner]] presented the findings to the Commission with an admonition that any further retreat of [[Shireroth|Imperial]] sovereignty in Caverden would represent the toppling of the first domino in a sequence that would cascade into the final, absolute, and irrevocable collapse of what remained of the Kaiser's writ over southern and eastern Benacia - with dire consequences for the security of Pact member-states in Benacia. The message presented to the commissioners in Loup's peroration was that they were either to act together to ensure collective security by standing against the Guttuli Protectorate now or else, if not, they were free to make individual accommodations with the Guttuli but with their track record in Lunaris in mind it should be understood that those who place their faith in treaties with the regime are merely hoping for the privilege of being devoured last. With these concluding remarks two motions were tabled - firstly to establish an allied training mission to support the [[Army of Caverden]] and its organisation into an effective force, whilst the second was to institute a thorough quarantine of the Protectorate, sealing the borders and interdicting the sea lanes, until such time as the Guttuli relinquished their occupation of the Lowbrook region and ceased its genocidal policy in occupied portions of southern Lunaris.
*21: Land border between [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and [[Ransenar]] sealed without explanation. Travellers on Guttuli papers in Ransenari territory detained by [[Internal Security Bureau (Benacia Command)|plain clothes officers]] with support from local security forces whilst Guttuli flagged ships and commercial aircraft are similarly impounded.
*22: [[Benacia Command]] issues a "no-fly" order concerning all Guttuli registered aviation assets, authorising the use of deadly force as a last resort if efforts to turn any Guttuli aircraft to return to ground in their own air space fail.
*23: Telephone exchanges and electronic communications networks operated by the Guttuli Protectorate begin to experience connectivity issues. Gradually becoming apparent that Guttuli controlled nodes are being isolated from the vestigial [[shire:Benacian Data Network|Benacian Data Network]] and being physically disconnected by the digging up of communications cables in border regions.

===IV===

*05: The Sabatini Squadron of the [[Benacia Command|Southern Banner Group]] resumes pattern of boarding, searching, and seizing vessels suspected of conducting trade in Guttuli ports, irrespective of registry flag.

===V===
*17: The [[Navy of Ransenar]] announces, with considerable fanfare, the capture of suspected smuggler vessel the [[Jolly Froyalaner]] in Ransenari territorial waters. Credit attributed to two corvette captains presented to Pact affiliated media as emblematic of the professionalism and ''espirit de corps'' of the new navy. With the news of the seizure comes the first explicit acknowledgement of the Pact's [[Permanent Committee Directive 1677/1 |new quarantine policy]] towards the Guttuli Protectorate.
**The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], the last known operator of the ''Jolly Froyalaner'', initially denies accusations of the vessel's involvement in arms trafficking until the Ransenari Navy releases video and photographic evidence of the assorted infantry weapons filling its hold, whereupon the Corporation characterises the vessel as "an independently owned maritime conveyance under the Corporation's intermittent charter which was not in effect at the time of its seizure." The Corporation nonetheless announces that it is negotiating for the vessel's release.
*18: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' arrives empty at Torpentus Creek, its Guttuli operating base where its skipper meets with officials of [[Guttuli Protectorate/Svalbarh|Command Svalbarh]] on behalf of the vessel's indeterminate owners to settle liability for the lost cargo. Finding himself outnumbered among armed hosts who are accustomed to the cash-on-delivery precedents of his previous voyages, the skipper is persuaded at length to waive the expected payment of local commodities for foreign sale. Instead these are purchased with gold [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrands]] cut from the inner lining of his purser's pea coat - the ''Froyalaner'' is duly loaded with foodstuffs, hand tools and nitrate fertiliser before setting sail that evening, keeping close inshore instead of heading directly for open water.
*20: Following an emergency meeting of the Protectorate Military Council, a Joint Office for Naval Works was formed between the Office for Medium Machining, the Office for Great Guns, and the Office for High Seas Acquisitions, with the intention to coordinate and oversee the construction and outfitting of new combat vessels. Tribune K. Elisz, formerly the chief overseeing officer for Kern Industries under the Office for Upper-Musika, is reassigned to GU-Furgsad and given command of a light battlegroup in Salb Bresa. His replacement, Tribune T. Hælzik, is tasked with prioritizing the completion of four corvettes that are two years past due on delivery to the Guttuli Corps. Salbs Aïreon and Meskan ordered to mobilize and redeploy to Meszor, directive issued for the provision of transports to ferry them across the river.

===VI===
*8: An early-morning patrol of Guttulinese coastal barrier troops encounters the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' beached on the shore of the Bay of Sleep. Its visibly unsettled crew point to a series of high-calibre bullet holes in the hull and describe a close escape from a pursuing Ransenari corvette in which they were obliged to throw their cargo of infantry weapons overboard to lighten draught and increase speed, before grounding the vessel to effect hull repairs and await refloating by the incoming tide. The skipper's suggestion to fill the vessel with weapons from the local troops' armoury, to be passed off in Svalbarh as the lost cargo in exchange for a cut of the payment, is firmly declined.

===VII===
*6: The Guttuli Protectorate commissions its first corvette, the ''PS Bætrsuir'' ("Bitter Storm"). It is assigned to Ałeþus Morsva for patrol of the northern Shire Sea and protection of cargo vessels.
*8: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' returns to Torpentus Creek from yet another voyage without its promised cargo of small arms. In the face of increasing dissatisfaction from his local customers, the ''Froyalaner's'' skipper announces his intention to sail for Svalbarh and arrange a meeting with senior Guttuli Corps commanders wherein the vessel's future movements can be more properly coordinated with Guttulinese naval assets.

*9: As the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' approaches the port of Svalbarh, it is met by the local pilot boat. After a short conversation about the present arrangement of the shifting mudflats, the pilot is shot dead along with the coxswain of his boat and the ''Froyalaner'' accelerates to full speed, launching its complement of four container-housed [[S-2 Standard Missile|S-2 Standard missiles]] on a trajectory aimed at Svalbarh's Temple of Morsva. Upon reaching the port it draws sharply alongside the largest Guttulinese merchant vessel it can find and secures itself with grappling lines over the latter's gunwales, laying down heavy small arms fire in all directions to suppress resistance. Timers are then set in the ''Froyalaner's'' explosives-packed hold with barely sufficient delay for its crew to launch an outboard-powered pinnace and get clear of the blast zone, making thence for an escape toward the open sea.
** At the same time as the Svalbarh attack, a section of Guttulinese troops patrolling the southwestern approach road to Erianamor is ambushed by heavy fire on open ground, killing the majority and driving the rest to ground with disciplined bursts from multiple light machine guns. The suppression provides cover for a hasty looting of the fallen Guttulinese, the pinning of a note to the body of its commanding Decurion and a covered withdrawal into the surrounding scrub. The note proclaims to be from a new partisan group called the [[Children of Salus]], demanding an end to the extermination of the Lunatics and the creation of an interior safe zone for them.
** The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] issues a statement admitting responsibility for the ''Jolly Froyalaner's'' actions and the feigning of lost arms shipments in collusion with the [[Navy of Ransenar]] as cover for their diversion to the Children of Salus. The Corporation - which is 22% owned by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|the heir]] of Lunaris' old ruling house - cites the Guttuli Protectorate's betrayal of an agreement to end the extermination of the Lunatics as a condition of the arms smuggling deal, concluding that the Protectorate has ''"has forfeited the right to good faith and honest commerce from its nominal trade partners."''
*10: Authority Erinmur is put under martial law, under the order of the Office for the Fanlinunig. Nineteen worker colonies located throughout the Fanlinunig Region are each instructed to select ten Lunatics from their list of community leaders; those selected are to be sawn open at morning roll-call for the colony's instruction. Salb Ikol issues an order cancelling recreational duties (excepting those associated with the Office for Agricultural Improvement) in order to intensify bandit-hunting operations in and around Erinmur in order to deal with the new organized threat. Captors found alive are to be sacrificed as whole-burnt offerings to Ikol.
*11: In reaction to events in Lunaris, the Department of State of the Republic of [[Alduria]] has announced that it is considering imposing trade sanctions on the [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and the removal of its military advisers in Punta Santiago if its Lunatic genocide does not end quickly.
** Lunatic refugees housed and resettled in [[Ransenar]] begin to organize their own militias and paramilitary groups, seeking [[Military of Ransenar|official recognition and permission]] from the government of Ransenar to operate legally.
*12: Guttuli representatives in Alduria meet with the Secretary of State, Augusto Benavides, in an attempt to stave off further restrictions on Guttulinese trade. During the meeting, they plead with him for understanding, in consideration for the bitterness of several years of struggle, attempt to reassure him that the [[wikipedia:Theresienstadt|Lunatics placed in protective custody are guaranteed adequate living conditions and opportunities to maintain their society]] in settlements where the Lunatics cooperate with the authorities and govern their own internal affairs, and insist that [[wikipedia:fake news|rumors of harsh or inhumane treatment are falsified]] in order to justify the toppling of the Guttuli regime by the [[Vulture States|other powers in Benacia]].
*18: An elderly woman, walking alone on the Meszor/Erinmur road with a stick in one hand and the dead-switch of a suicide vest in the other, attracts the inevitable truck full of Guttulinese troops which swerves aside to run her over and is destroyed in the ensuing blast. Further north, a man in the imitation uniform of a Guttuli Corps Draconary denonates himself when a staff vehicle pulls over to offer him a ride.
*21: Canisters of monochrome photographic film showing public reprisal killings in Erianamor, shot at tilted angles through the half-obstructed lens of a concealed camera, are dispatched toward Ransenar by carrier pigeon for dissemination in the global media.
*23: Children of Salus partisans attack a 'labour settlement' in Western Castra, breaching a portion of its perimeter and covering the escape of some 270 Lunatic inmates with automatic weapons fire. These disperse into small groups and head for the nearby Lacus Conticinium marshes; the last to escape the camp without being gunned down by its rallying guards are given weapons on the spot and enlisted to help cover the withdrawal.

===VIII===
*3: An assembly of notables elects Viscount Nogent Gottschalk, an exile from [[Ankh]] and a former Tribune of Legion VII, as Generalissimo of the [[Army of Caverden]]. A die-hard Imperialist, Gottschalk represents the reactionary tendency which has been gathering pace amongst the landed gentry and the dispossessed against all the [[Vulture States]] that have infested Benacia since the [[Kalirion Fracture|fracture]]. Hostile towards all vulture states, and contemptuous of the [[shire:House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Kalirion Dynasty]] whose failings had given licence to traitors and secessionists, Gottschalk's primary merit in the eyes of his peers was his poisonous hatred towards his [[Guttuli Protectorate|former comrades]] and the legatine commanders of the Corps VII and VIII of the Riverine Army for betraying the Golden Mango Throne and their [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Liven|occupation]] of [[Ankh]].
*4: After ordering a delegation from the assembly to depart and muster 15,000 bannermen at Isenbury, Gottschalk, with a small military escort of untitled nobility, began his eastward trek from Maltenstein towards the lands of the Dominion of Ynnraile-Crisco. A multitude of 20,000 commoners, armed with [[M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm Rifle|various antique rifles]] and accompanied by outriders from the noble houses of Caverden, followed in the wake of the Generalissimo, conscripting porters and seizing provisions from communities all along their line of march.
**With vehicles-borne retainers and the Generalissimo in the van and the armed feudal levies, followed by a multitude of camp followers, bringing up the rear, the host covered a distance of 12km(x [[Riq]]s) on the first day. At nightfall a hooded seer and his retinue of misshapen followers gained admittance to the camp, a mess of tents enrounded by a palisade, hastily dug ditches, and a score of scraped out firing positions. With this figure was dragged a luckless, battered and bruised, figure whose self-bewailed misfortune was a source of jollity and restorative humour to the camp followers who had been earlier cudgelled into the task of digging for the Army. This wretch, the seer explained, was a merchant, a collaborator with the Guttuli from [[Barrowfield]] who had been snatched up on the road to road to Lichport by "gentlemen of the road"<ref>A loose confederacy of slavers, active in Eastern Benacia following the Kalirion Fracture of 1671.</ref> who generously relinquished their reluctant guest to the seer and his entourage after being subject to persuasion no less gentle than that which they themselves practised. It was at the suggestion of the Hooded Seer that Gottschalk remembered an ancient ritual of the First Era of Shirerithian history and summoned his commanders to his tent. There the captive was stripped to his waist, bound, and forced to his knees. Each regimental commander was in turn presented with a blade and invited to carve slices of the living flesh from the wailing, now squealing, captive. For a full three quarters of an hour this grim ritual continued until, at last, the poor wretch was at the point of death, whereupon the Hooded Seer presented to Gottschalk a nicked and timeworn sword, whose blade seemingly shimmered and seethed in shades of black and green. Having been bade to strike, Gottschalk struck off the man's head with a single blow, the blood hissing and boiling as it issued forth from the truncated stump of the dead man's neck - the mortal blow having seemingly been cauterised by the passage of the blade. Astonished, Gottschalk tentatively pressed a finger to the sword's cutting edge, expecting to be scolded but instead finding it deathly cool. The Seer happened to remark that the blade had now found a suitable keeper and Gottschalk, suddenly possessed by a curiously possessive impulse was obliged to agree. In any event, it was by this manner that the men of Caverden declared war, in the ancient fashion, upon the Guttuli Protectorate.
*5: [[1677 Northern Commonwealth election]]. In a low-key election across the bailiwicks of [[Elwynn]]'s [[Northern Commonwealth]] for its Congress (up and to this point suspended since the end of Verionism and the so-called peace agreement), no party achieves majority, but pro-integration parties win a majority. In this case, pro-integration means the integration of the Northern Commonwealth to the [[Congressional Counties]].
*6: Under the guidance of freed forced labourers who were involved in its original construction and upkeep, groups of Lunatic partisans work at night to dismantle the corduroy road leading from Erianamor to the Temple of Lockenhasp in multiple places. The following morning, the first light vehicles held up by the resulting gaps of sodden marsh are ambushed by a company-sized partisan force from prepared positions in the surrounding mud-swamped tussocks and thoroughly looted. A noon counteroffensive by a column of [[Guttuli Protectorate/BK-1A1|armoured vehicles]] out of Erianamor is waylaid some twelve kilometres east by a salvo from half a dozen recoilless rifles and tankgewehrs which, after knocking out the lead and rear vehicles, are nonetheless obliged to retire in the face of suppressive fire from the middle vehicles' disgorged infantry. An attempt by the latter to pursue the retreating heavy weapon bearers into a willow thicket runs into a prepared secondary ambush from a pair of light machine guns, snipers camouflaged in the surrounding reeds and at least one light mortar firing airburst-fuzed shells to assure its effect in the mud.
*7: Pressed to comment on the country's involvement in resourcing and training the [[Children of Salus]], Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] announces that "''such activity is a purely economic matter, falling outside the diplomatic remit of this Directorate but fully within the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]]'s commercial duty to assure the agreed terms of those trade undertakings to which it is party. The extent to which the Guttuli Protectorate is prepared to return to those terms and thereby de-necessitate their enforcement by the Corporation on its behalf shall doubtless determine the future course and duration of the conflict.''"
**Financier [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] hosts a luncheon of senior [[Benacia Command]] officers in the Kalgachi resort town of Pachadsberg wherein the services of the [[Allied Production Matrix]] to quasi-state actors, the settlement of consequent payments and the deposition of supplemental off-book administrative fees in [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|bullion-based means of exchange]] at the local Puckadobey Savings Bank are queried and expounded.
*9: [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]] declared. A directive is passed down from the Protectorate Military Council to regional economic managers to cut their losses concerning the labor population; useful materials are to be relocated out of the emergency area, the remainder is to be denied to the enemy.
*10: As news spreads that Guttulinese troops are arriving to deport or liquidate the ghettoised surviving natives of Erianamor, the trickle of smuggled arms which reached the city are retreived from their hiding places and an armed uprising begins. The rebels' initial plan to hold the entire city - impossible as they are forced to act before sufficient arms stocks have been accumulated - is quickly scaled down to a last stand in the long burned-out shells of three community playhouses (the only local structures other than Guttuli Corps bases which are solid enough to offer sustained protection against gunfire) and a constellation of small barricades in the triangle of streets and dwellings between them. As local Guttulinese forces throw themselves into counterattack, control of the territory shifts frequently in house-to-house fighting with rebels forced to move frequently between fixed positions and close hard with opposing forces to avoid the latter's effective use of heavy weapons. The rubble and splintered timber created by such bombardments forms new points of cover as the initial barricades are systematically blasted apart, allowing the more mobile rebels some immediate measure of survival whilst the slower-witted are torn apart by incoming fire of all calibres and their dropped weapons are sought out by unarmed refugees who vastly outnumber the small arms available.
*11: In the stump-ridden forest remnants southeast of Erianamor, Children of Salus reconnaissance parties observe captive Lunatic labourers destroying their logging camp in preparation for its abandonment and an attack is launched to liberate them before they can be liquidated or deported. The ensuing use of assorted incendiary munitions by the camp's defenders starts a large brushfire which obliges the partisans to withdraw early; their keen knowledge of the local topography nonetheless allows them to lead a number of escaped labourers away amid the cover of thick smoke. Similar attacks are launched throughout the deforested surrounds of Erianamor with varying degrees of success.
*12: [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Biuißoþ Frareïa|Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa]]. An attempted liberation by the Children of Salus of a convoy of male adult Lunatic laborers headed from Prata to Salzæl is impeded, when explosives loaded into each passenger car are detonated. The detonation, set off by a released Operator Presence Control (the operator in question having died), also relayed a signal to Salb Ikol headquarters. The entire vicinity was then bombarded with thermobaric weapons in an attempt to consume any partisans involved in the liberation attempt. In his after-action report, Legate Hurst Mennin wrote "Roads can be rebuilt. Cattle cannot be unslaughtered."

==Footnotes==
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== Operation Fanlin ==

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| result = Victory for the Guttuli Protectorate; integration of southern Lunaris into the Protectorate state
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Officially launched on 2.XII.1671 AN, with the creation of the Guttuli Protectorate, the goal of Operation Fanlin is the annexation of the County of Lunaris and the elimination of political and military resistance for the ensuing restructuring and resettlement.

===First Phase (1671-1672 AN)===

===Second Phase (1672-1673 AN)===

The Second Phase of Operation Fanlin was dominated by the campaign against the City of Erianamor, around which resistance to Protectorate control had coalesced during the end stage of the First Phase.

On 12.V.1673 AN, the City of Erianamor had fallen after a year-long campaign, climaxing with an encirclement and complete route by Legion "Aïreon". In the days after, the city and its population were subjected to the usual post-siege revelry; surviving military and civil leaders among the Lunatics were imprisoned for the remainder of the month, after which point they made the required demonstrations of submission, before they were transported to the [[Guttuli Protectorate/Svalbarh]] as a gift to the Radiant Sun.

===Third Phase (1674-1676)===

Upon signing its treaty with [[Ransenar]], on 3.I.1674 AN, the Guttuli Protectorate deployed forces along the new frontier, cutting off land-based support to the remaining Lunatic partisans, who used the Eth Lune Forest as a staging ground for guerilla war against the Guttuli Corps. This last phase of Operation Fanlin ended up being the longest and most environmentally-destructive.

The Upper Coastal Campaign (1674) cut the partisans off from the coast, eliminating their last means of obtaining supplies and equipment.

The Smoking Campaign (1674-1676), consisted of denying partisans the free use of the Eth Lune Forest through a large carpet-bombing technique, using incendiary bombs to set large swaths of the forest on fire during the summer dry season.

By mid-1676 AN, two-thirds of the Eth Lune Forest had been reduced, both through the Smoking Campaign and through industrial logging campaigns, to make the forest economically useful to the Guttuli Protectorate.

On 23.VIII.1676 AN, the Protectorate Military Council declared the completion of Operation Fanlin. The remaining territory would henceforth be reorganized for resettlement by favored people and open for peacetime bandit-hunting among the remaining subjugated, under the authority of [[Guttuli Protectorate#Organization|GU-Hæntz]].

== Operation Avan ==

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** Lichport Constabulary (rebel)
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Launched on 9.XI.1672 AN, Operation Avan's primary goal was the extension of the western frontier region as far as the western border of southern Caverden. The target territory was split into three sectors, Lichport, Lowbrook, and Barrowfield, after the major urban centers in the region.

The Utnaræn was used to infiltrate the socio-political apparatuses of each city in the months before Operation Avan began. Upon the seizure of power, local elements of the Utnaræn and their compatriots were transferred to a new organization, GU-Kristfaln, a paramilitary formation tasked with facilitating the integration of the region into the Guttuli Protectorate.

=== Lichport ===

The Chief of the Lichport Constabulary, Ui Svahlin, members of the municipal bureaucracy, and one City Councillor, Katarin Olla, were turned by the local Utnaræn action team.

Upon the initiation of Operation Avan, the Lichport Constabulary seized control of the city hall and arrested the mayor and city council (sans Kit Ollin). Infiltration of the Lichport Constabulary had been incomplete, and Deputy Chief of the Lichport Constabulary launched a counter-coup at the city hall. Chief Ui Svahlin and Councillor Ollin were killed in the fighting, but room-to-room fighting continued until the afternoon, when elements of the Guttuli Corps entered the city.

Linking with other members of the local Utnaræn action team, the Guttuli Corps successfully seized the city port and industrial center before nightfall, and cleared through central Lichport in the early evening.

=== Lowbrook ===

Three of the five members of the Lowbrook City Council were turned by the local Utnaræn action team.

Upon the initiation of Operation Avan, City Councillors Adfri Vatlin, Łoïolf Gæsza, and Runstav Ołstuï seized control of city hall, imprisoning the other council members. Mayor of the City, Ioan Barvan, successfully escaped and began planning a counter-coup with members of the civil service and the Lowbrook Chamber of Commerce when units of the Guttuli Corps arrived.

The three surviving city councillors were commissioned as tribunes in GU-Kristfaln and assigned with the task of governing the Lowbrook Sector.

=== Barrowfield ===

The Deputy Chief of the Barrowfield City Police and members of the municipal bureaucracy were turned by the local Utnaræn action team.

Upon the initiation of Operation Avan, the city government successfully resisted the coup attempt and, with much loss of life, the leaders of the coup attempt were executed. Martial law was declared and a makeshift militia formed to defend the city against advance units of the Guttuli Corps.

Skirmishes throughout the night established the beginnings of a front line. As secondary units arrived on scene, they were deployed to encircle the city. On 15.XI.1672 AN, the Guttuli Corps began bombarding Barrowfield's city center and pushing the front line inward.

Surviving members of the Utnaræn sabotaged the city's power and communications grid in the predawn hours of 17.XI.1672 AN. In the ensuing chaos, the outer defensive perimeter was routed and Guttuli Corps troops entered the city center.

== Operation Liven ==

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Begun on 22.VI.1673, Operation Liven's primary aim is the taking of the City of Ankh, secure the allegiance of rogue members of V Corps and/or neutralize their threat to the Guttuli Protectorate's northern frontier, and increase the Protectorate's socio-economic potential.

On 17.IX.1673, Guttuli Corps forces successfully reached the outskirts of Ankh and began an encirclement of troops located therein. Negotiations with the local commander were initiated, but cut off when a parlay was used as an opportunity to perform an ambush and attempt a breakthrough. A proper siege was initiated on 9.X.1673. While the Siege of Ankh proceeded for the next few months, additional troops were brought forward to subdue and secure the countryside and push potential relief forces further away from the siege lines.

On 15.I.1674 AN, reengaged negotiations had led to a negotiated peace: the City of Ankh would be integrated into the Guttuli Protectorate. Manfriþ bi Katbarh, the Legate at Ankh, would be granted a seat on the Protectorate Military Council -- his portfolio would include the Office for Medium Machining, which would oversee production of the BK-1A1 in Svalbarh and half the heavy industrial capacity of the City of Ankh, which would be retooled for the production of military hardware. Legion VII would enter into the Guttuli Corps and adopt Ferenta as its tutelary. On 18.II.1674 AN, Manfriþ bi Katbarh travelled to Svalbarh to be anointed at the Temple of the Radiant Sun, ritually sacrifice his former second-in-command at Ankh, who had refused to accept surrender and integration, and oversee his new portfolio holdings.

== Operation Vaþnan ==

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The northwestern frontier of the Guttuli Protectorate had been porous and difficult to control since its founding in 1671 AN, demanding several operational engagements to occupy and forcibly restructure and resettle this territory. Following Operation Liven, the incorporation of Ankh, and the rise and fall of the Verionist cause in Monty Crisco, this frontier region had become more unstable again between 1674 and 1676 AN.

On 8.II.1677 AN, the Protectorate Military Council formally declared the inauguration of a new military operation, Operation Vaþnan ([[shire:Præta|Pr.]] "Hunter"). The stated goal was to restabilize the frontier of the Near-Guttuli Region, namely along the border of the Crestfallen Hills, a longtime source of problems, and the heavily-wooded Crisco forests that had been seized under Operation Liven. The operation would be sub-divided into three operational zones:
* Kristfaln-Bervas ("Crestfallen Hills")
* Krisk-Uïas ("Crisco Forest")
* Varþat ("Homeland")

The first two operational zones would track down and destroy primary pockets of hostile forces, including launching incursions beyond the immediate goal territory of the Guttuli Protectorate. As operations in these zones penetrate deeper into untamed territory, secondary forces along those zones would provide cleanup duties. The third operational zone, Varþat, would function in the operational rear, hunting down partisans that have been able to embed themselves within the Near-Guttuli Region. As Kristfaln-Bervas Krisk-Uïas extend their gains, Varþat would extend its aggressive bandit-hunting into the newly-secured territory. This would proceed up until its operational zone had extended up to the Pandor Line, a designated goal line that offered superior defensive potential.

In order to amass the resources necessary to undergo Operation Vaþnan, portions of Salb Hagraa and Salb Sefroþ, as well as all of Salb Bresa were reassigned from [[#Operation Avan|Operation Avan]], the latter being substituted with the deployment of Salb Sanrad.

Upon the successful completion of Operation Vaþnan, the Guttuli Protectorate intended to follow up with the construction of fortification and new urban centers to exploit the resources gained by this territorial expansion.

== Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa ==

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On 9.VII.1677 AN, open hostilities between the Guttuli Protectorate and organized partisans among the Children of the Moon recommenced. A series of ad-hoc decisions followed, instituted by the regional office and by associated deployed forces, intended to stomp what was perceived as foreign-inspired and -supplied but otherwise an inconsequential flash of indigenous resistance.

By 7.VIII.1677 AN, it became clear that this problem was of larger scope than initially perceived, following a partisan operation on roadworks in Kontik and its well-organized retreat. A series of emergency meetings by the Protectorate Military Council resulted in the declaration of Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa ([[shire:Præta|Pr.]] "Confirmed Treachery"). By order of the Lord Protector himself, accommodations made to the ''[[Guttuli Protectorate#Blood_Balance|Blood Balance]]'' faction were hereby terminated -- the experiment to engineer the remaining Lunatic population to become more subservient had failed. Resources and labor under the auspices of the Office for Agricultural Improvement and the Office for Worker Nurseries are to be relocated to Salzæl and Diusagra under tight supervision.

Operation Biuißoþ Frareïa's mission statement describes itself as Operation Fanlin, Phase Four in all but name.

[[Category:Military]]

Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

2019-10-15T11:28:20Z

Yastreb: /* VIII */

A timeline of [[Benacia]]n events in the aftermath of the [[Kalirion Fracture]] (1671–1675) which upended the longstanding continental balance of power.

==1676==
===I===
* 3: Elwynnese prince [[Ander Avon-El]], furious after the [[Council of Eliria]] voted to repudiate the [[Treaty of Concord]] against its own provisions, calls the decision illegal, and instead publishes an instrument of government confirming the validity of the Treaty of Concord. In a statement released along with the instrument of government, Avon-El states that if the Council of Eliria still wishes to withdraw from the treaty during the twelfth year after its implementation, the Council of Eliria may so decide at that time in accordance with law.
* 4: The [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], the [[Communist Party of Elwynn]], the [[Amokolian Freedom Front]], the [[Conservative Historical Party]] and the [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism]] release statements in support of the Prince's interpretation.
* 5: With the Verionists having lost control over Monty Crisco and Elsenar's authorities and civil service (except in [[Chryste|Chryse]]) and therefore begun a huge evacuation to [[Keltia]] where apparently now the Verionists have found a land of milk and honey, the Imperial Regency and the Verionists agree to a transfer of sovereignty of Elsenar (except the Chryse area) and Monty Crisco back to Shireroth. It is rumoured that because of Shireroth's inability to administer parts of these territories, that the Regency is therefore in negotiations with other Vulture States on how to proceed with these territories. One option on the table, leaked to the press in Eliria, is that Elsenar in its entirety would be granted Ransenar while the Guttuli Protectorate would have an option to take parts of Monty Crisco.
** With news of the [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|Great Disaster]] having reached Goldfield, the Cabinet sends a resolution to the Ransenari Congress for approval to authorize and fund the beginning of a [[Operation Salvation|large scale humanitarian, medical, and scientific mission to the ruins of Elsenar]].
*9: The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār, legislature of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]], initiated proceedings that could, if replicated in either the [[Northern Commonwealth]] or the [[Congressional Counties]], result in the impeachment and removal of [[Ander Avon-El]].
* 13: Delegates from the [[Sovereign Confederation]] and the [[Ransenar|Kingdom of Ransenar]] meet in Goldshire Hamlet to discuss coordination of a common foreign policy and greater economic cooperation.
* 14:
** The [[Tassity Mansabdar]] killed the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7K4vGYL9zI pirate leader]. The mission on Naudia'Diva is accomplished. In a letter to the Imperial Regency, the [[Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy|King of Amokolia]] says that the Arkadian Sector can be returned. The letter comes with a box containing the head of the pirate leader. The full story is worked out in [[The Micras Chessboard]].
** [[West Amokolia|Amokolia]] closes the border with Unified Governorates of Benacia.
*18: The [[Amokolian People's Party]] delegation to the [[Elwynnese congress]] moves for a vote of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]]. In a statement by its leader, Jorgen Basker-Daal said: "The actions of the Prince have injured the prospects of Amokolian reunification for decades ahead. It is clear he not fit to lead our republic. For those reasons, we call for his impeachment in Congress."
** In response to the motion ahead in the Congress, the [[Ayreonist Independence Party]], of which Prince Ander Avon-El is also a member, left the congressional government. Its ministers resigned with immediate effect, leaving the executive with a one-seat majority in Congress.
*19: The Elwynnese Workers' Party also left the government, said that it would call for a vote of no confidence in the Conducator after the vote on the Prince. An EWP spokesperson said "It is clear that this is an N&H-led ploy to get progressives out of government positions in Elwynn. Ander Avon-El has been a good prince and he does not deserve this kind of treatment."
*20: The [[Elwynnese congress]] votes on the motion of no confidence in Prince [[Ander Avon-El]], 144 votes in favour ([[Nationalist and Humanist Party|N&H]], [[Verionist Union|VU]], [[Democratic Party of Elwynn|DEM]], [[Amokolian People's Party|APP]], [[Holy Party of the Divine Icebear|HPDI]]) against 105 votes against ([[Ayreonist Independence Party|AIP]], [[Communist Party of Elwynn|CPE]], [[Elwynnese Workers' Party|EWP]], [[Amokolian Freedom Front|AFF]], [[Conservative Historical Party|CHP]], PR, [[Mishalanski Party for Democratic Socialism|MPDS]]). The President of the Congress subsequently communicated the results to the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Raspur Pact]] debriefers have a few stern words with some captured VBA officers concerning the wisdom, or [[Verionian Empire#The Great Disaster|lack thereof]], of housing lethal pathogens on the same facility as an experimental reactor.
*24:
**The ''Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār'' delivers its verdict on the Prince of Elwynn with 197 votes in favour of the motion of no confidence (N&H, VU, DEM, BEH) vs 39 against (AIP, EWP). The Sardar of the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]] is duly mandated to convey the news of the result to the Council of Eliria.
**Ground based air defences in [[Elwynnese Amokolia]] are placed on high alert whilst [[Benacia Command]] ordered the Central and Northern Banner Groups to disperse their aircraft to satellite runways and to establish patterns of 24-hour combat air patrolling until further notice. The Western Banner Group, headquartered on [[New Blackstone]] commenced snap drills, taking units out of their permanent cantonments and into their forward defensive positions.

===II===
*1:
** The [[Council of Eliria]] meets in which the votes of confidence in Prince Ander Avon-El are communicated and found to be in good form. [[Ander Avon-El]] confirms their validity, thanks the other members of the Council for a fruitful cooperation, and hands over the executive to the senior-most member of the Council, [[Firdaus Abdollahi Mehr]]. Mehr will be Steward until the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|new princely elections]] have concluded.
**As the preceding week of cloud cover over Western [[Northbloom]] is cleared by a boreal high pressure front, the fresh satellite imagery of various powers reveals that on the fringes of the town of Usheroff, a strip of ground some 2,400 metres long has been cleared, graded and hastily overlaid with slabs of PAG-14 to create a runway. Other visible details are a single parked [[Floret]] in camouflage livery, a hangar composed of a three-sided revetment with a fabric canopy and a series of ragged taxiways radiating out toward presumable dispersal stands in the cover of nearby woodland.
**The front page of the Usheroff and District Newsletter and Spare Parts Directory details eerie eyewitness reports of "The Howling Night Birds of the Ermingander Road". Meetings are held in surrounding villages to discuss "The Usheroff Thing" which draw the usual crowd of nutjobs, moonbats, fruitcakes and concerned mothers, the less credible of whom are generously interviewed for that evening's Kalgachi television news and immediately discredit the existence of the phenomenon in the minds of most viewers. The handful of sober and sane witnesses, including the only one able to make coherent [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/66/Oobakeep.png drawings] of [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png what he saw], are largely ignored and the stigma of their association with the farcical proceedings soon shames them into silence.
*3: [[Batavia]] and West Amokolia sign the Treaty of Koningsbergen.
*4: Conducator Nila Valgarai of the Democrat–N&H–APP minority government in Elwynn falls in a vote of no confidence. 144 votes in favour (VU, AIP, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI), and 105 votes against (N&H, DEM, APP). The President of the Congress, Benjamin Sluyjs, relieves the Conducator of her office, and authorizes her to lead a caretaker government until the Congress has confirmed a Conducator. Sluyjs consequently meets with all party leaders to discuss the new government formation.
*5: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP leader meets with the APP leader to discuss the basis of a government. Although the APP voted against Prince Ander Avon-El, and the AIP against the APP coalition, the two party leaders said to the media afterwards that they had much in their programme they could use to build a coalition. "Given congressional arithmetic, however, we'd need more parties to these talks."
*6: Elwynnese congress government formation 1676: The AIP begins talks with Communists and the [[EWP]], while the [[APP]] begins talks with the other Amokolian parties.
*7: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]: Verionist Union announces Stephen Lewis as its princely candidate.
*8: Elwynn's [[Ayreonist Independence Party]] announces Meqael Mizarielion as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*10: The Amokolian People's Party announces Jorgen Basker-Daal as its candidate in the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]].
*19: The Ayreonist Independence Party and the Amokolian People's Party report they have been unable to secure a majority coalition, and urge the President of Congress to discuss the question of government formation more intimately and aggressively with party leaders, saying "new elections are the last thing we need at this time of political crisis".
*23: The N&H announces the candidacy of Frederik Haabye Truls for the [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections|vacant principate]].

===III===
*4: Details of the N&H electoral platform energe. Focus to be upon developing an export based manufacturing sector to build up industrial capacity and working capital, with surpluses to be reinvested in defence, law and order, and public infrastructure policy. Foreign policy - to remain aligned with Raspur Pact, introduce quarantine along Amokolian frontier. Domestic policy - encourage civic reconciliation, audit of any Verionist "special projects" established by previous administration in view of notable safety lapses elsewhere. First electoral event - symbolic blockade of the Amokolian Oriental Express in Mishalan.
*6: Kalgachia issues a statement on the ongoing [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|Bovic Schism]], remarking that ''"the resolve of the state and clerical classes of [[Drak-Modan]] to bring their centres of societal gravity within Benacian shores marks a commendable return toward the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|cherished precepts]] of collective Benacian sovereignty [[Amokolian War|established]] by the Maven Nohsi Goltz in [[Ashkenatza|late antiquity]] - a timely and welcome development when [[West Amokolia|the northern saddle]] of our continent is once again compromised by an [[Stormark|alien colonial power]] and the cause of Benacian solidarity has become an imperative."''
**As Drak-Modani developments in the husbandry of famed [[Natopia|Natopian]] goat breeds for dairy purposes have attracted the interest of Kalgachia's [[House of Nerrolar#Chlorocyphida Pan|highland farming community]], enquiries are passed to Drakorda through a [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group|chain]] of commercial [[SATCo|intermediaries]] regarding the export availability of breeding specimens.
*11: The Commissioner of [[New Blackstone]], [[Jeremiah Avon-El]], is sent to Kalgachia on a five-day furlough, at the personal direction of the [[Constantine Loup|Szodan]], to investigate what experiences and amenities are afforded to notable personages utilising the newly promulgated "Pachadsberg Visa".
*12: Upon arrival in Pachadsberg, Commissioner Avon-El - being the highest UGB official to have set foot in the Garden since the [[Slavegate Convention]] negotiations - is received by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]], chair of the Pachadsberg Development Committee who leads him on a guided tour of the resort's completed and ongoing works. This is followed by a meeting with a Mr. Waller at the Puckadobey Savings Bank, where initial discussion of [[Kalkul Sahib|mutual acquaintances]] leads to an illuminating conversation about the jurisdictional hedging of personal capital for purposes of audit reconciliation and insulation from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlwzkjEaQbE failures thereof]. A numbered PSB account is opened for Avon-El's "casino winnings" and he is left to experience the full delights of Pachadsberg at his own initiative.
*16: First round in the 1676 Elwynnese princely elections. Frederik Haabye Truls of the N&H wins a plurality but fails to secure a majority. In the second round, scheduled for next month, Mr Haabye Truls will face Meqael Mizarielion (AIP). Third-placed Stephen Lewis of the Verionist Union, although securing 76% of the Northern Commonwealth vote, did not manage to advance to the second round.
*18: The Ayreonist Independence Party and Amokolian People's Party, on one side, begin coalition talks with the Nationalist and Humanist Party and the Democratic Party on the other side.
*24: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks stall on the question of Conducator. N&H–DEM side steadfast that Nila Valgarai (DEM) is reelected to the position. AIP–APP side want an AIP candidate.

===IV===

*1: Elwynnese congressional coalition talks continue. The parties agree not to discuss the question of conducatorship for a week.
*6: The parties tentatively agree on a platform for governance of the congressional counties, based on national cohesion, an Amokolian curriculum in Amokolian bailiwicks, expanded private insurances of pension and ill health, a fairer taxation regime, and overview of the post-feudalist of justice system.
*7: The AIP–APP and N&H–DEM talks agree that if an Ayreonist wins the princely elections, the Democrats get the conducatorship, and if the N&H wins the princely elections, an Ayreonist gets the conducatorship.
*8: [[1676 Elwynnese princely elections]]. In the second round, Frederik Haabye Truls (N&H) narrowly beat (51–49%) AIP contender Meqael Mizarierion for the position of Prince. As soon as the results were announced, Mr Haabye Truls swore the oath of office and took his seat in the Council of Eliria. Mr Mizarierion said, as soon as the results were announced, that he was pleased that he had been elected Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, and that he looked forward to leading the congressional government in Elwynn.
*9: The President of the Elwynnese Congress, Mr Benjamin Sluyjs (APP) brought forward the first reading of the motion to elect Meqael Mizarierion to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, heading a coalition government of the Nationalist & Humanist Party, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, the Amokolian People's Party, and the Ayreonist Independence Party.
*11: The Elwynnese Congress confirms the election of Meqael Mizarierion (AIP) to Conducator of the Elwynnese Republic, with 130 votes in favour (N&H, DEM, APP, AIP), and 119 votes against (VU, CPE, EWP, AFF, CHP, PR, MPDS, HPDI).
*12: Elwynnese congressional Conducator Meqael Mizarierion announces a twenty-member cabinet including himself consisting of 7 N&H members, 5 Democrats, 4 members of the Amokolian People's Party, and 3 additional members of the Ayreonist Independence Party. Outgoing conducator Nila Valgarai (DEM) is made Minister of Finance and notes wryly to the media that there are now no women in the Council of Eliria.
*21: [[Shireroth]] wins the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]]. Kaiseress [[Salome]] awarded Shireroth's points personally, giving Sanama 12 points. She has, according to court rumours, a teen crush on the [[Sanama]]n singer Dimash Kudaibergen, awards Kudaibergen a title of Baronage (Baron Kudaibergen; in Shirerithian peerage, baronies are only granted foreigners), and has invited Kudaibergen for tea and cake. The Kaiseress also awards lordships in Shirekeep for the Coldplay members (the lowest form of nobility), remarking however that their song was "pathetic". She is happy, though, that the Florian Republic finally saw the light and gave Shireroth 12 points.
*22: The Kalgachi tabloid ''Private Ear'' fills its front page with two illustrations: a transcript of [[Brandenburger Post#Nur ein weiterer Tag im Reichstag|assurances given]] by the King of West Amokolia to the Prince of Elwynn on 17.I denying any intent to convert his realm into a Storish client state, next to a table displaying the Microvision votes of Stormark and West Amokolia in which they awarded each other the maximum points. Beneath, typeset in bold faux-runic, is the headline: ''"By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them"''.
**The ''Private Ear'' front page is featured prominently on [[Ransenar|Ransenari]] media ([[Kalirion Fracture#IV.1675|known for its sensationalism]]), triggering huge demand for issues of the tabloid to catch the illustrations. Putting it in context with [[West Amokolia]]'s brazen expansionist designs on Elsenar, opinion pages and media coverage reports on the illustrations as the latest salvo in the "war for the minds of the peoples of the Benacian continent", regarding the Vanic-West Amokolian cooperation in the [[Microvision Song Contest 2019]] as a concerted effort to take control or influence the culture of the country and reinstate the "Vanic Web".
**The Daily Mail & Telegraph of Eliria, whilst disdaining to comment upon so vulgar a matter as the Microvision contest directly, being distinctly sniffy about "low culture", provided a droll analysis of the sociological and political factors that had combined to elevate the favouritism shown by Brandenburg to Haraldsborg to a matter of international concern. The paper duly dismissed the voting proclivities of the King of West Amokolia as being "a cheap shot concerning a trivial matter, one flung back in spite over having been so thoroughly drubbed by the international community for his misguided attempt to capitalise on the misfortunes of [[Verionist Benacia|Elsenar]]."
**Rumours circulate in Eliria concerning the abrupt departure of the [[Ander Avon-El|former Prince]] for a new academic posting in [[shire:Tala|Tala]], [[Raikoth]], accompanied by a sizeable close protection detail, in the same month that a new edict concerning the status of Elwynnese adherence to the [[Treaty of Concord]] is anticipated.
*23: [[Verionist Union]] leader, and Northern Conducator, [[Stephen Lewis]] holds a speech in Fieldburg, televised live in most parts of the country. He decries the ''"N&H takeover of the government"'' and warns that the Northern Commonwealth now ''"stands as a last resort, as often in our history, against the grubby hands of imperialist powers. Be it Storish, be it communists or be it the disasterous dictatorship of the Osmani Gang, whose black shadow falls over Benacia as the Star of Verion is pushed away to the North"''. In a response to questioning from journalists, Lewis refused to say if he recognised the new government, or would implement the policy of the new administration, instead replying with a cryptic ''"The North does as the North does".''
**Inhabitants of the [[Northern Commonwealth]] are bemused by a sudden blitz of publicity materials produced by the Court of the Prince detailing essential items to carry in a "grab bag" and other hints and tips for preparedness in the face of an unspecified emergency.
**Asked about Conducator Lewis' comments concerning the the "N&H takeover of the government" the press spokeswoman for the Court of the Prince tersely replied ''"It's called 'winning an election on the basis of a popular vote', Agha Lewis really ought to try it some time."''

===V===

*1: [[Operation Kulning]]: Driving through the night from [[Dragonskeep]], a detachment of [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] engineers and administrative personnel arrived in [[Fieldburg]] on the morning of 01.V.1676, under the command of ''Generalmajor'' Jan Gräbner. The Generalmajor's first act upon arrival was to summon the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels and Master of Cudgels, and the Deputy Director of the Panopticon Department, the heads of Republican law enforcement and security in the city, to join him for breakfast at the hotel which he had now requisitioned for a headquarters. Having taken the opportunity, over fried herrings, poached eggs, lingonberries, and rye bread, to remind his guests of their obligations to the [[Constitution of Elwynn|constitution]] and the democratic order of the Republic, the Generalmajor genially explained the purpose of his mission. [[Exercise Tempus Est]] had convinced the incoming Prince of the utility of the Agnesian Gulf, protected from boreal storms by the Cimmerian Isles, as a natural bastion for the naval forces of Elwynn and the [[Raspur Pact]] in [[Benacia]]. To this end existing harbour facilities at Port Illumination and Vijayanagara would be expanded and a new naval dockyard would be constructed on the island of Wolfraven. To support all of this would require significant investment in infrastructure in the region. The Generalmajor's task therefore was to identify land for purchase in Fieldburg and to identify from the available options an optimal site for the construction of a new UDF Operations Centre intended to coordinate all defence activities in the Agnesia-Cimmeria region. As the cudgellers were subject to a chain of command stretching back, via the fetchingly titled Bludgeoner-General of the [[Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels]], to the Court of the Prince, where their loyalties therefore must ultimately lay, the Generalmajor charged his breakfast partners with lending every assistance when it came to the matter of 'liaising' with representatives of the local authorities, who might be less than fully cooperative in view of the truculent attitude adopted by the [[Stephen Lewis|present Conducator]] in recent days.

===VI===

===VII===
[[File:1676p1.png|350px|thumb|right|[[N&H]] Propagandists in Eliria were seemingly either unwilling or unable to allow the purported demise of the [[House of Verion]] to pass without comment...]]
*16: Rumours begin to spread that a chartered [[Nakalma]] flight from [['s Koningenwaarde]] to the [[Verionian Empire|Verionian Imperial]] capital of Sarhat - carrying the [[Batavia|Batavian]] Prime Minister [[Joachim Mackay]], the [[Los Liberados|Liberadosan]] president [[Jacobo Castrigo Álvarez]] and the Viceroy of [[Verionist Benacia]] Jana Al-Basani - is [[Loss of Nakalma Flight 731|reported overdue]] and has made no communication with air traffic control since beginning its transit of the Great Western Sea. Their personal and business links aside, the improbable hubris and geopolitical implications of [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PutOnABus gathering so many important personages] at a single point of danger do not pass without remark. A long range patrol by a scout shuttle of the [[Natopian Defense Force]], overflying the vicinity on a suborbital trajectory, reported anomalous electromagnetic readings immediately prior to the disappearance of Flight 731 off air traffic control radar screens.
*17: Long convoys of trucks, armoured personnel carriers, and low-loaders carrying [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|vehicles shrouded under tarpaulin covers]] are reported as wending their way westwards from [[Merensk]] and [[Sansabury]] along the few good roads leading into the [[Siyacha Free State]] and the area of operations of the [[Black Legions#I Uihmanz|I Uihmanz]] facing the frontier with [[Kasterburg]]. Sources close to [[Benacia Command]] insist that the bringing up to strength of the establishments of formations attached to the 1st Corps was long over due and not made in response to any specific occurrence.
*19: The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]] Director of Benacian Operations, Bobbert Shrubschild, is waylaid by journalists on arrival at [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and questioned about the Corporation's reponse to the recent activation of a secret protocol between the governments of Los Liberados and the [[Florian Republic]], wherein the latter has assumed sovereignty over the former. Shrubschild states that "the Board of Directors are still assessing the situation but have decided that our head office will remain in [[Puerto Arcadio]] for now. With the apparent demise of Prime Minister Mackay, Batavia's increased vulnerability to the Vanic domino puts future trade with [[Batavian Confederation|its confederation]] in some doubt but the [[Eura|Euran]] market remains viable. The Florian Republic, having the institutional memory of a concussed goldfish, represents for our purposes an optimally deregulated business environment to which we would cautiously welcome a transition." Shortly afterwards, [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] is seen boarding an outbound flight on his way to an "emergency shareholder meeting".
*23: The [[Verionist Vespers]]<ref>Better name pending. At this juncture it is logical, with so many of its members having been exasperated by prior dealings with the avatars of Verionism, that the Pact would seek to tidy away the legacy of Verionism now that its leadership cadres have been obligingly removed from the scene.</ref> begin, with the [[Raspur Pact]] commencing the suppression of the [[Iron Company]] and the [[Verionist Union]] on a global scale.
**Religious hysteria grips the Bovic community in northern Benacia, already disorientated by the [[Bovinist Schism of 1676|schism]] in the [[Dozan Bovic Church]], with the ''herds'' (congregations) cleft between the mother church and the [[Benacian Bovic Church|schismatics]] of [[Drak-Modan]], as videos circulate purportedly showing the [[Butter Bull|most dreaded entity]] in the Bovic pantheon manifesting as the '''Blood Aurochs''', given substance by the slaughter carried out by the faithful on the gore splattered steps of his church in the bailiwick of Saint Biffor. Every individual who watches any of the video clips of the Blood Aurochs receives a commandment burnt into their psyche. The instruction varies according to the watcher but comes in the form of an intensely personal revelation that is invariably homicidal in its ultimate intent. Authorities have suspended the data networks of northern Elwynn in an effort to slow the spread of the videos and have sought the assistance of both Bovic Churches, along with their [[Church of Elwynn|Elwynnese brethren]] in an attempt to locate and destroy all physical copies of the same. The creation of a memetic murder plague was an unexpected development to say the least, which would go on to significantly complicate efforts to restore order in the Northern Commonwealth.
*24: After it became clear that the Batavian prime minister is most likely no longer alive, the king instituted a state of emergency.

===VIII===
*16 :
** [[Karel Kyle]] is born, the second child of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy and [[Clara Sundara|Clara des Vinandy - Sundara Waffel-Paine]].
** The city of [[Chryste]] was transferred to the [[Batavia|Kingdom of Batavia]] by [[Verionist Republic]].

*23 : [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Fanlin|Operation Fanlin]] is declared complete. The remaining territory of Southern Lunaris, as determined by the [[Guttuli Protectorate]]'s treaty with the [[Ransenar]], is reorganized into four commands. Resettlement programs are launched to bring the territory into line with the cultural and socio-economic nature of the remainder of the Protectorate.

===XI===

*6: Evert Flint, the [[Verionist Union|Verionist]] President of [[Elwynn]]'s Northern Congress, orders a full recess until further notice of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature.

*10: Anti-Verionist backlash in the Northern Commonwealth continues, fueled by Bovic extremist rhetoric.

*24: The Kalgachi government opens an Extraordinary Grand Council - the third in its history - to deliberate on the country's future in the context of a re-congealing Benacian order. Speaking to reporters, Lady Lieutenant [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]] of Oktavyan denies rumours that Kalgachia is re-entering an isolationist phase and that "''all present foreign trade arrangements will be maintained insofar as they are salvageable and sustainable in a post-Verion context. The extent to which this is the case remains to be precisely determined.''"

===X===

*8: Evert Flint, the Verionist speaker of the [[Northern Commonwealth]]'s legislature (now in recess), was apprehended by a [[Union Defence Force|UDF]] snatch squad and conveyed to Eliria. Upon his arrival there he was obliged, whilst in some discomfort discusses on account of the manner in which he was handled during transit, to discuss the political crisis with a special committee formed the Congressional Counties government. The CC government pushes for a reintegration of the Northern Commonwealth into the Congressional Counties, which the Verionist rejected out of hand. "We would rather die", he was quoted to say. "That can be arranged", one of his interlocutors was heard to answer.

===XI===

*10: Evert Flint, president of the Northern Commonwealth congress and de facto conducator in the absence of [[Stephen Lewis]], meets with the Council of Eliria, the [[Dozan Bovic Church]]'s Eparchy of Benacia, members of the Verionist Union rump leadership, and representatives of the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear. The Verionists understand that their days are numbered. The Bovic church assumes some responsibility for the actions by Bovic extremists in the Northern Commonwealth targeting Verionists violently. Conducator Meqael Mizarierion, a noted critic of the Bovic religion, moves to let the Bovics clean up the mess they instigated. The Bovic church denies that they created the mess, saying it was the Verionists who did, but that they do take responsibility for acts committed in Bous's name. "Genocide, however, has no place in Elwynn." The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear moves to establish an Icebear autonomous republic in Cimmeria. Other delegates at the meeting ignore the proposal.

*20: Negotiations regarding the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth continue. Evert Flint asks for amnesty for Verionists in exchange for a peaceful solution. Mezarierion agrees.

===XII===

*1: Official negotiations with the Council of Eliria regarding the Northern Commonwealth's political situation are announced to have failed. The rump legislature leadership, Evert Flint, the Dozan Bovic Church, the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear, the Democratic Party of Elwynn, and Conducator Meqael Mizarierion begin informal discussions outside the remit of the Council of Eliria.
*11: After ten days of intense negotiations with regard to the political situation in the Northern Commonwealth, it is agreed:
** The Verionist Union to be dissolved within the Elwynnese Republic, its assets used to grant pensions to the leadership of the party. Verionist leaders (defined to include members of the Verionist Union board of directors, Verionist members of the Elwynnese legislatures, and Verionist members of the autonomous republics' governments) to refrain from political activity for life. In return, they will be granted a pension for life, funded by the Congressional Counties and Northern Commonwealth governments as well as the Verionist liquidation fund. Verionists in the legislatures shall resign en masse immediately upon the deal's ratification by the Northern Commonwealth's congress, and their seats remain absent until the next elections.
** Eki Verion to remain under house arrest, the funding of which rests on the
** The Holy Church of the Divine Icebear to close all its missions outside Cimmeria. In return, the Church will receive an annual fund from the Northern Commonwealth budget.
** The Dozan Bovic Church agrees not to have missionaries, clergy or congregations in Cimmeria.
** A total amnesty of all crimes committed in the Northern Commonwealth between the date of Stephen Lewis's disappearance and the ratification of this deal by the Northern Commonwealth legislature.
** Until new elections are held in the Northern Commonwealth, Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion and his wife Li Naomiai to lead the Northern Commonwealth government.
*12: The Northern Commonwealth's rump legislature, called back to session, ratifies the informal deal by electing [[Li Naomiai|Li Naomiai Avon-El]] the president of Northern Congress and her husband [[Aldin Ayreon-Kalirion]] (the son of Kaiseress Noor, former Prince of Elwynn, Bovic theologian) to Conducator of the Northern Congress. Li Naomiai's first act is to suspend the legislature until peace is restored in the Northern Commonwealth and new elections held.
*20: The Board of Directors of [[ESB-Jörmungandr Group, Inc]], in accordance with rights vested in or exercised by the Corporation of the Seneschal of the march on behalf of the Corporation of the Marchioness of [[Zy-Rodun]], pursuant to The First Protocol (Governance) of the Technical Cooperation Agreement & Structural Assistance Programme Between the [[Raspur Pact]] and Emirate of Sathrati, resolves to designate the Director of Benacian Operations, [[Garvin Hendriksson]], to serve as Plenipotentiary of the Honourable Company with respect to [[Sathrati|The Emirate of Sathrati together with the Imperial Dominion of the Marquessate of Zy-Rodun and the Counties of Yardistan, Amity, and Mirioth]], and possesses complete authority to act in the name of the Board of Directors of the Honourable Company, unless otherwise directed by the Board of Directors. The appointment of a Principal Secretary of State and Undersecretaries are ratified.
*21: Kalgachia's Extraordinary Grand Council concludes its session. Its rulings assert a comfortable attitude toward the trajectory of Benacian geopolitics, establish an armed force for the [[Upland Confederation]] to relieve pressure on the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] and slow the filling of non-native raw material stockpiles from expansion levels to maintenance levels whilst leaving foreign trade routes open. The Council's most notable rulings are in the field of religious doctrine; namely the canonisation of [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|Vascarina Goldcluck]] and the classification of the undead and [[Deep Singers]] as manifestations of a divine "''temporary intervention''" whose "''recontextualisation''" is required for post-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] culture to "''move beyond its [[Brookshire|Caverdenian]] origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.''" The latter declaration takes many by surprise and is interpreted variously as a reaction to the renewed torpor of [[Lord Toastypops]], an attempt to undercut the moral authority of the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]] in the [[UGB|Southern Post-Minarborian Space]], or a combination.

===XIV===

*12: The Directive on Marriage, Reproductive Function, and Societal Obligation is published by [[Benacia Command]], taking effect across the territories of the [[Unified Governorates]]. Superseding [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=19062 Imperial Decree 865]<ref>The existence of [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=22746 Imperial Decree 1180] having been largely rejected and ignored by territories under the influence of the Nationalist-Humanist movement even during the reign of [[Ayreon IV|Ayreon IV Kalirion]]</ref> the new directive mainly preserved the intent of the original Imperial law albeit dispensing with the disagreeable licence afforded to the now abolished aristocracy to marry as they pleased. Key improvements upon the preceding law was the codification of the ''Age of Obligation''<ref>The obligation to perform duties considered consensual activities in other societies</ref> at sixteen years of age, and an effort to place the arrangement of marriage onto a scientific and rational basis by involving municipal government, the guilds, and health authorities, in the selection and pairing of suitable partners in each graduating age cohort. Notably the primary purpose of marriage was to drive procreation, with some allowance to the function of the family unit as an engine of social cohesion and stability. Romantic sentiment, therefore being a significantly more tertiary consideration, became largely the preserve of those deemed unsuitable or incapable of breeding. The institution of civil unions, previously established as a sop to those denizens ineligible for marriage under the old arrangements, was allowed to lapse. Barren marriages would be annulled after their tenth year and childlessness would be punished by the levying of a mandatory tax, used to fund a system of rewards and benefits afforded to successful breeding pairs, with a lifelong stipend for those who reached the target of four children birthed per household and a bonus for every surplus child born.
*18: The first [[Committee for Popular Vigilance]] is established in Gloomburg, an otherwise obscure and overlooked city of the Unified Governorates, with the espoused aim of suppressing profanity, immorality, and other lewd activities in general, and the establishment of reformatories, modelled upon the worker colonies which formerly housed the [[Froyalaners]], for the housing of the recalcitrant.
*20: Joint [[Benacia Command]]-[[Ransenar]]i procurement programme announced to equip [[Grand Army of Ransenar|Ransenari Regimental Corps of Artillery]] with ordnance appropriate to its mission profile. At present the artillery arm, bereft of field guns, has primary responsibility for ground-based air defence, custodianship of missile stockpiles, and the operating of the [[Military of Ransenar|Royal Ransenari Armed Forces]] complement of fifty "Tadpole" tactical reconnaissance drones.

==1677==
===I===
* 1: [[Benjamin Cambernon]] has been appointed [[Prime Minister of Batavia]].
*23: First reformatory opens in [[Laikum's Wald]], a model settlement established in the Litel Governorate ([[UGB]]).
===II===
===III===
*6: Obsolete and worn airframes, especially of the B-49 Delta and B-66 Vulcan which have been in continuous service with the Imperial Forces and [[Benacia Command]] since the late 1630's, begin to transfer, via long haul flights and staging points in [[Most Serene Union|Istvanistan]] and [[Alrodey]] to the [[Raspur Pact|Pact's]] strategic aviation reserve, particularly for storage in the so-called Boneyard of [[Arak]].
*14: The venerable [[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1(MBT) Bandersnatch]] is retired from service in the [[Black Legions]]. Once held to be a vehicle of great promise, the [[shire:Gravimetrics|gravimetric drive]] propulsion system of the gravtank in particular proved to be technologically complex, logistically burdensome, and unreliable under field conditions. The folly of Bandersnatch commanders pressing ahead of their supporting troops in pursuit of the "main chance" was amply demonstrated during the [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=8791#p92722 Battle of 's-Koningenwaarde]. After this nadir of the Imperial Army, concurrent with the maturation of [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|interdiction technologies]], the Bandersnatch was never again afforded licence to roam at will across the land - being instead constrained to remain behind its accompanying defensive screen of [[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|Horjins]], [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirds]], and legionaries - fundamentally curbing its utility in mobile warfare. Eventually Benacia Command concluded that the cumulative force, in terms of firepower and mobility, dedicated to protecting Bandersnatches in the field were sufficient - in and of themselves - to accomplish the majority of missions the Bandersnatch might reasonably have been expected to undertake.
**News of the Bandersnatch's retirement is met with a mixture of relief and sentimental lament among [[Military of Kalgachia|armed forces of Kalgachia]] for whom it inspired, to date, the company-level deployment of 2,948 hypersonic kinetic missiles with replenishment stocks in the high tens of thousands, gifting them one of the most potent infantry anti-tank capabilities on Micras and unwittingly amassing one of its largest reserves of refined tungsten. Citing this economic value, along with the missiles' proven utility as one of the few weapons capable of a one-shot kill against a [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], a spokesman for the Kalgachi Defence Force Armaments Office announces that there are no plans for a reduction in anti-gravtank weapon stocks.
*15: The undisguised build up of forces in Caverden, [[Drak-Modan]], and [[Sathrati]] would appear to indicate that Benacia Command is once again turning its attention back to the festering problem of the [[Guttuli Protectorate]].
*20: Reports of incursions by the [[Guttuli Protectorate#Guttuli Corps|Guttuli Corps]] into the region of the Crestfallen Hills, conducted under the pretext of harrying the [[Revolutionary Army of Crisco|remnant rebel forces]] cut off by the [[Verionist Vespers|sudden collapse]] of the Verionist regime in southern Benacia, are relayed by [[Benacia Command]] to the Permanent Commission of the [[Raspur Pact]]. The [[Constantine Loup|High Commissioner]] presented the findings to the Commission with an admonition that any further retreat of [[Shireroth|Imperial]] sovereignty in Caverden would represent the toppling of the first domino in a sequence that would cascade into the final, absolute, and irrevocable collapse of what remained of the Kaiser's writ over southern and eastern Benacia - with dire consequences for the security of Pact member-states in Benacia. The message presented to the commissioners in Loup's peroration was that they were either to act together to ensure collective security by standing against the Guttuli Protectorate now or else, if not, they were free to make individual accommodations with the Guttuli but with their track record in Lunaris in mind it should be understood that those who place their faith in treaties with the regime are merely hoping for the privilege of being devoured last. With these concluding remarks two motions were tabled - firstly to establish an allied training mission to support the [[Army of Caverden]] and its organisation into an effective force, whilst the second was to institute a thorough quarantine of the Protectorate, sealing the borders and interdicting the sea lanes, until such time as the Guttuli relinquished their occupation of the Lowbrook region and ceased its genocidal policy in occupied portions of southern Lunaris.
*21: Land border between [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and [[Ransenar]] sealed without explanation. Travellers on Guttuli papers in Ransenari territory detained by [[Internal Security Bureau (Benacia Command)|plain clothes officers]] with support from local security forces whilst Guttuli flagged ships and commercial aircraft are similarly impounded.
*22: [[Benacia Command]] issues a "no-fly" order concerning all Guttuli registered aviation assets, authorising the use of deadly force as a last resort if efforts to turn any Guttuli aircraft to return to ground in their own air space fail.
*23: Telephone exchanges and electronic communications networks operated by the Guttuli Protectorate begin to experience connectivity issues. Gradually becoming apparent that Guttuli controlled nodes are being isolated from the vestigial [[shire:Benacian Data Network|Benacian Data Network]] and being physically disconnected by the digging up of communications cables in border regions.

===IV===

*05: The Sabatini Squadron of the [[Benacia Command|Southern Banner Group]] resumes pattern of boarding, searching, and seizing vessels suspected of conducting trade in Guttuli ports, irrespective of registry flag.

===V===
*17: The [[Navy of Ransenar]] announces, with considerable fanfare, the capture of suspected smuggler vessel the [[Jolly Froyalaner]] in Ransenari territorial waters. Credit attributed to two corvette captains presented to Pact affiliated media as emblematic of the professionalism and ''espirit de corps'' of the new navy. With the news of the seizure comes the first explicit acknowledgement of the Pact's [[Permanent Committee Directive 1677/1 |new quarantine policy]] towards the Guttuli Protectorate.
**The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], the last known operator of the ''Jolly Froyalaner'', initially denies accusations of the vessel's involvement in arms trafficking until the Ransenari Navy releases video and photographic evidence of the assorted infantry weapons filling its hold, whereupon the Corporation characterises the vessel as "an independently owned maritime conveyance under the Corporation's intermittent charter which was not in effect at the time of its seizure." The Corporation nonetheless announces that it is negotiating for the vessel's release.
*18: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' arrives empty at Torpentus Creek, its Guttuli operating base where its skipper meets with officials of [[Guttuli Protectorate/Svalbarh|Command Svalbarh]] on behalf of the vessel's indeterminate owners to settle liability for the lost cargo. Finding himself outnumbered among armed hosts who are accustomed to the cash-on-delivery precedents of his previous voyages, the skipper is persuaded at length to waive the expected payment of local commodities for foreign sale. Instead these are purchased with gold [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrands]] cut from the inner lining of his purser's pea coat - the ''Froyalaner'' is duly loaded with foodstuffs, hand tools and nitrate fertiliser before setting sail that evening, keeping close inshore instead of heading directly for open water.
*20: Following an emergency meeting of the Protectorate Military Council, a Joint Office for Naval Works was formed between the Office for Medium Machining, the Office for Great Guns, and the Office for High Seas Acquisitions, with the intention to coordinate and oversee the construction and outfitting of new combat vessels. Tribune K. Elisz, formerly the chief overseeing officer for Kern Industries under the Office for Upper-Musika, is reassigned to GU-Furgsad and given command of a light battlegroup in Salb Bresa. His replacement, Tribune T. Hælzik, is tasked with prioritizing the completion of four corvettes that are two years past due on delivery to the Guttuli Corps. Salbs Aïreon and Meskan ordered to mobilize and redeploy to Meszor, directive issued for the provision of transports to ferry them across the river.

===VI===
*8: An early-morning patrol of Guttulinese coastal barrier troops encounters the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' beached on the shore of the Bay of Sleep. Its visibly unsettled crew point to a series of high-calibre bullet holes in the hull and describe a close escape from a pursuing Ransenari corvette in which they were obliged to throw their cargo of infantry weapons overboard to lighten draught and increase speed, before grounding the vessel to effect hull repairs and await refloating by the incoming tide. The skipper's suggestion to fill the vessel with weapons from the local troops' armoury, to be passed off in Svalbarh as the lost cargo in exchange for a cut of the payment, is firmly declined.

===VII===
*6: The Guttuli Protectorate commissions its first corvette, the ''PS Bætrsuir'' ("Bitter Storm"). It is assigned to Ałeþus Morsva for patrol of the northern Shire Sea and protection of cargo vessels.
*8: The ''Jolly Froyalaner'' returns to Torpentus Creek from yet another voyage without its promised cargo of small arms. In the face of increasing dissatisfaction from his local customers, the ''Froyalaner's'' skipper announces his intention to sail for Svalbarh and arrange a meeting with senior Guttuli Corps commanders wherein the vessel's future movements can be more properly coordinated with Guttulinese naval assets.

*9: As the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' approaches the port of Svalbarh, it is met by the local pilot boat. After a short conversation about the present arrangement of the shifting mudflats, the pilot is shot dead along with the coxswain of his boat and the ''Froyalaner'' accelerates to full speed, launching its complement of four container-housed [[S-2 Standard Missile|S-2 Standard missiles]] on a trajectory aimed at Svalbarh's Temple of Morsva. Upon reaching the port it draws sharply alongside the largest Guttulinese merchant vessel it can find and secures itself with grappling lines over the latter's gunwales, laying down heavy small arms fire in all directions to suppress resistance. Timers are then set in the ''Froyalaner's'' explosives-packed hold with barely sufficient delay for its crew to launch an outboard-powered pinnace and get clear of the blast zone, making thence for an escape toward the open sea.
** At the same time as the Svalbarh attack, a section of Guttulinese troops patrolling the southwestern approach road to Erianamor is ambushed by heavy fire on open ground, killing the majority and driving the rest to ground with disciplined bursts from multiple light machine guns. The suppression provides cover for a hasty looting of the fallen Guttulinese, the pinning of a note to the body of its commanding Decurion and a covered withdrawal into the surrounding scrub. The note proclaims to be from a new partisan group called the [[Children of Salus]], demanding an end to the extermination of the Lunatics and the creation of an interior safe zone for them.
** The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] issues a statement admitting responsibility for the ''Jolly Froyalaner's'' actions and the feigning of lost arms shipments in collusion with the [[Navy of Ransenar]] as cover for their diversion to the Children of Salus. The Corporation - which is 22% owned by [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|the heir]] of Lunaris' old ruling house - cites the Guttuli Protectorate's betrayal of an agreement to end the extermination of the Lunatics as a condition of the arms smuggling deal, concluding that the Protectorate has ''"has forfeited the right to good faith and honest commerce from its nominal trade partners."''
*10: Authority Erinmur is put under martial law, under the order of the Office for the Fanlinunig. Nineteen worker colonies located throughout the Fanlinunig Region are each instructed to select ten Lunatics from their list of community leaders; those selected are to be sawn open at morning roll-call for the colony's instruction. Salb Ikol issues an order cancelling recreational duties (excepting those associated with the Office for Agricultural Improvement) in order to intensify bandit-hunting operations in and around Erinmur in order to deal with the new organized threat. Captors found alive are to be sacrificed as whole-burnt offerings to Ikol.
*11: In reaction to events in Lunaris, the Department of State of the Republic of [[Alduria]] has announced that it is considering imposing trade sanctions on the [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and the removal of its military advisers in Punta Santiago if its Lunatic genocide does not end quickly.
** Lunatic refugees housed and resettled in [[Ransenar]] begin to organize their own militias and paramilitary groups, seeking [[Military of Ransenar|official recognition and permission]] from the government of Ransenar to operate legally.
*12: Guttuli representatives in Alduria meet with the Secretary of State, Augusto Benavides, in an attempt to stave off further restrictions on Guttulinese trade. During the meeting, they plead with him for understanding, in consideration for the bitterness of several years of struggle, attempt to reassure him that the [[wikipedia:Theresienstadt|Lunatics placed in protective custody are guaranteed adequate living conditions and opportunities to maintain their society]] in settlements where the Lunatics cooperate with the authorities and govern their own internal affairs, and insist that [[wikipedia:fake news|rumors of harsh or inhumane treatment are falsified]] in order to justify the toppling of the Guttuli regime by the [[Vulture States|other powers in Benacia]].
*18: An elderly woman, walking alone on the Meszor/Erinmur road with a stick in one hand and the dead-switch of a suicide vest in the other, attracts the inevitable truck full of Guttulinese troops which swerves aside to run her over and is destroyed in the ensuing blast. Further north, a man in the imitation uniform of a Guttuli Corps Draconary denonates himself when a staff vehicle pulls over to offer him a ride.
*21: Canisters of monochrome photographic film showing public reprisal killings in Erianamor, shot at tilted angles through the half-obstructed lens of a concealed camera, are dispatched toward Ransenar by carrier pigeon for dissemination in the global media.
*23: Children of Salus partisans attack a 'labour settlement' in Western Castra, breaching a portion of its perimeter and covering the escape of some 270 Lunatic inmates with automatic weapons fire. These disperse into small groups and head for the nearby Lacus Conticinium marshes; the last to escape the camp without being gunned down by its rallying guards are given weapons on the spot and enlisted to help cover the withdrawal.

===VIII===
*3: An assembly of notables elects Viscount Nogent Gottschalk, an exile from [[Ankh]] and a former Tribune of Legion VII, as Generalissimo of the [[Army of Caverden]]. A die-hard Imperialist, Gottschalk represents the reactionary tendency which has been gathering pace amongst the landed gentry and the dispossessed against all the [[Vulture States]] that have infested Benacia since the [[Kalirion Fracture|fracture]]. Hostile towards all vulture states, and contemptuous of the [[shire:House of Ayreon-Kalirion|Kalirion Dynasty]] whose failings had given licence to traitors and secessionists, Gottschalk's primary merit in the eyes of his peers was his poisonous hatred towards his [[Guttuli Protectorate|former comrades]] and the legatine commanders of the Corps VII and VIII of the Riverine Army for betraying the Golden Mango Throne and their [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Liven|occupation]] of [[Ankh]].
*4: After ordering a delegation from the assembly to depart and muster 15,000 bannermen at Isenbury, Gottschalk, with a small military escort of untitled nobility, began his eastward trek from Maltenstein towards the lands of the Dominion of Ynnraile-Crisco. A multitude of 20,000 commoners, armed with [[M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm Rifle|various antique rifles]] and accompanied by outriders from the noble houses of Caverden, followed in the wake of the Generalissimo, conscripting porters and seizing provisions from communities all along their line of march.
**With vehicles-borne retainers and the Generalissimo in the van and the armed feudal levies, followed by a multitude of camp followers, bringing up the rear, the host covered a distance of 12km(x [[Riq]]s) on the first day. At nightfall a hooded seer and his retinue of misshapen followers gained admittance to the camp, a mess of tents enrounded by a palisade, hastily dug ditches, and a score of scraped out firing positions. With this figure was dragged a luckless, battered and bruised, figure whose self-bewailed misfortune was a source of jollity and restorative humour to the camp followers who had been earlier cudgelled into the task of digging for the Army. This wretch, the seer explained, was a merchant, a collaborator with the Guttuli from [[Barrowfield]] who had been snatched up on the road to road to Lichport by "gentlemen of the road"<ref>A loose confederacy of slavers, active in Eastern Benacia following the Kalirion Fracture of 1671.</ref> who generously relinquished their reluctant guest to the seer and his entourage after being subject to persuasion no less gentle than that which they themselves practised. It was at the suggestion of the Hooded Seer that Gottschalk remembered an ancient ritual of the First Era of Shirerithian history and summoned his commanders to his tent. There the captive was stripped to his waist, bound, and forced to his knees. Each regimental commander was in turn presented with a blade and invited to carve slices of the living flesh from the wailing, now squealing, captive. For a full three quarters of an hour this grim ritual continued until, at last, the poor wretch was at the point of death, whereupon the Hooded Seer presented to Gottschalk a nicked and timeworn sword, whose blade seemingly shimmered and seethed in shades of black and green. Having been bade to strike, Gottschalk struck off the man's head with a single blow, the blood hissing and boiling as it issued forth from the truncated stump of the dead man's neck - the mortal blow having seemingly been cauterised by the passage of the blade. Astonished, Gottschalk tentatively pressed a finger to the sword's cutting edge, expecting to be scolded but instead finding it deathly cool. The Seer happened to remark that the blade had now found a suitable keeper and Gottschalk, suddenly possessed by a curiously possessive impulse was obliged to agree. In any event, it was by this manner that the men of Caverden declared war, in the ancient fashion, upon the Guttuli Protectorate.
*5: [[1677 Northern Commonwealth election]]. In a low-key election across the bailiwicks of [[Elwynn]]'s [[Northern Commonwealth]] for its Congress (up and to this point suspended since the end of Verionism and the so-called peace agreement), no party achieves majority, but pro-integration parties win a majority. In this case, pro-integration means the integration of the Northern Commonwealth to the [[Congressional Counties]].
*6: Under the guidance of freed forced labourers who were involved in its original construction and upkeep, groups of Lunatic partisans work at night to dismantle the corduroy road leading from Erianamor to the Temple of Lockenhasp in multiple places. The following morning, the first light vehicles held up by the resulting gaps of sodden marsh are ambushed by a company-sized partisan force from prepared positions in the surrounding mud-swamped tussocks and thoroughly looted. A noon counteroffensive by a column of [[Guttuli Protectorate/BK-1A1|armoured vehicles]] out of Erianamor is waylaid some twelve kilometres east by a salvo from half a dozen recoilless rifles and tankgewehrs which, after knocking out the lead and rear vehicles, are nonetheless obliged to retire in the face of suppressive fire from the middle vehicles' disgorged infantry. An attempt by the latter to pursue the retreating heavy weapon bearers into a willow thicket runs into a prepared secondary ambush from a pair of light machine guns, snipers camouflaged in the surrounding reeds and at least one light mortar firing airburst-fuzed shells to assure its effect in the mud.
*7: Pressed to comment on the country's involvement in resourcing and training the [[Children of Salus]], Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] announces that "''such activity is a purely economic matter, falling outside the diplomatic remit of this Directorate but fully within the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]]'s commercial duty to assure the agreed terms of those trade undertakings to which it is party. The extent to which the Guttuli Protectorate is prepared to return to those terms and thereby de-necessitate their enforcement by the Corporation on its behalf shall doubtless determine the future course and duration of the conflict.''"
**Financier [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]] hosts a luncheon of senior [[Benacia Command]] officers in the Kalgachi resort town of Pachadsberg wherein the services of the [[Allied Production Matrix]] to quasi-state actors, the settlement of consequent payments and the deposition of supplemental off-book administrative fees in [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|bullion-based means of exchange]] at the local Puckadobey Savings Bank are queried and expounded.

==Footnotes==
[[Category:History]][[Category:Shirerithian Vulture States]]

Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

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House of Yastreb

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<div align=center>[[File:Yastrebletterhead.png]] 
''The Yastreb letterhead, a notorious warning of impending verbiage.''</div> 

The '''House of Yastreb''' is a family of mild-to-middling prominence in the history of [[Benacia]], having gravitated there from its origins in the international communist movement of the post-[[Tymaria|Tymarian]] era. Its members are chiefly characterised by an artistic and/or literary fixation, selective workaholism, pathological vanity and varying levels of mental infirmity ranging from mild eccentricity to full retardation or psychosis.

==Origin==

The Yastreb bloodline is thought to have originated among the Arkani - a race of ergatocratic itinerants who, in the communistic fashion of the immediate post-Tymarian period, adopted the role of a proletarian 'fire brigade' and allied themselves with several of the hard-socialist movements which dominated the geopolitical landscape of the time, the internationalist character of which periodically transplanted them from their origins in eastern [[Puritania]] to southwestern [[Eura]], southern [[Corum]], central [[Keltia]] and ultimately [[Baracão]], often but not always under the auspices of [[Noviykrazniystan]]. It was in Baracão that the first Yastrebs emerged to public prominence as a cadre of reliable technocrats, aided and abetted by the expatriate ''nomenklatura'' of the fallen [[shire:PRNSE|PRNSE]] who sought to leverage the family's relative sobriety as a hedge against their own terroristic caprice. In time this took the Yastrebs to the post-[[Slobovia|Slobovian]] wastes of north-central [[Apollonia]], under the cult-like tutelage of one [[shire:Yuri Andropov|Yuri V. Andropov]] who had picked them out to assist him in the creation of a [[shire:USSR|Soviet superstate]] - memorable chiefly for its suicidally-naive attempts to unite a motley gaggle of anarchists, Trotskyists, Maoists and Stalinists into a coherent ideological platform and its coordination of various other states into a global communist international which helped inspire the creation of the [[Grand Commonwealth]] as a countermeasure.

Being steadily browbeaten by the relentless ideological tensions which ultimately ripped Andropov's socialist paradise apart, the Yastrebs allied themselves with the cultural intelligentsia and used their military connections to cultivate the establishment of an autonomous republic as far removed from the febrile metropole as possible - namely the nuclear test range at [[Novaya Zemlya]], to which the more technocratic and artistic elements flocked to drink vodka and tan themselves with gamma rays while discord between their ideologically-distracted masters escalated to a breakdown in civil order and ultimately an orgy of mutual slaughter, bringing down the state without a single drop of capitalist blood being shed. The Zemlyans, being the only survivors, attained independence for their nuclear wasteland by default - in time their renunciation of the usual [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie Tankie] flavour of [[Micras|Micran]] communism in favour of intense vodka-fuelled cultural development won them some measure of sympathy, even admiration from nations hitherto considered the bitterest of ideological enemies.

By now the Yastrebs, although holding the chair of the Zemlyan Council of People's Commissars among other posts, were sufficiently liberal in their ideology to send their sons abroad to experience and participate in different modes of governance. This often earned them naturalised citizenships, government offices and even noble titles, most prominently the [[Anglo-Saxon Commonwealth]] Thegndom of Wesax and the comital throne of Lunaris in [[Shireroth]]. The occupant of the latter post, one Krasniy Esmerevich, was the first to have his achievements recorded in any detail thanks to the diligence of [[Shirekeep]]'s imperial scribes and he is considered the official progenitor of the modern Yastreb line.

==The Bloodline==

===Krasniy Yastreb===

[[File:Krasniyportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Krasniy Yastreb: beat an unlikely path from communism to feudalism.]]

The ascent of '''Krasniy Esmerevich Yastreb''' ("Kras") within Shireroth began when he attracted the limerent attentions of Eriana Moon, Baroness of Lunaris in southern [[Goldshire]], during a touristic visit to that territory. Although ultimately bemused by her advances, his experience of her hospitality along with that of Jadie the Mathemetician, Eriana's suzerain Duchess, caused him to spend increasing amounts of time in Shireroth until he became firmly estranged from his Soviet comrades and thus avoided their slow extinction by the radiation-induced accumulation of genetic defects. After Eriana's premature death and transition into a periodically-appearing spectre, Krasniy was granted title to the southern half of Lunaris which, by then, had been partitioned by Shirerithian imperial government as an administrative convenience. Seeing this as an intolerable affront to the integrity of his adopted homeland, Krasniy embarked upon a public campaign to revive the Lunatic identity and lobby for the reunification of the territory, something he was able to decree as he progressed up the feudal bureaucracy. During this time he also obtained respect among the [[Cedrism|Cedrist]] clergy for his work in the hunting of the chthonic adversaries they called Daemons, earning him the hallowed title of ''Ly'Piscator''. His political prestige was not to last, however, as he was soon embroiled in discord and acrimony with the predominant House of Mortis in neighbouring [[Brookshire]] and compelled to retreat into exile in an unknown place.

Krasniy's return to Shireroth some generations later, beyond the bounds of his expected lifespan, suggested that he had secretly practised some of the Daemons' dark art for his own benefit, in defiance of Shirerithian custom and disgrace to his ancient title - but his return was fortuitously timed with a period when the ancient taboos of the [[shire:Ordo Imperiale Decimae|Technomaezji]] had lost much of their strength, necromancy had come into vogue across Brookshire and the very Kaiseress of Shireroth, one Mira Raynora Minor, was herself a manifestation of the undead. At her command, Krasniy's landed title over Lunaris was restored and in time he would be elevated to the Ducal throne of all Goldshire, from which he would go on to play a significant role in defeating, and subsequently documenting, the [[shire:Cabbage Crisis|Shirekeep Cabbage Plague]]. Unknown to him, however, the implications of a previous tryst with one of his secretaries in Lunaris - one '''Breiza Willow Moon''' - would soon catch up with him. Although nominally descended from a sibling of the Baroness Eriana, Breiza also carried the blood of the House of Mercaja, the [[Treesia|Treesian]] merchant clan defeated by the rival House of Raynor in Shireroth's foundational age who nursed a bitter, centuries-old desire to regain their lost power over Goldshire. Breiza, unknown to Krasniy, had given birth to his child after leaving his secretarial service and, being bereft of the means to support the baby, gave it up to her relatives in the Mercaja-run [[Economy of Shireroth|currency]] inspectorate known as the [[shire:Assayers|Assayers]] who held an occluded, mafia-like influence over Goldshire's public life. In secret the Assayers raised the child, one Ryabin Merkayastreb, in one of their numismatic academies until he attained the age of majority. Then they delivered him to an unwitting Krasniy, with the ultimatum that the Ducal throne of Goldshire be passed to their young agent and that Krasniy kill himself by means of a poison pill to remove all doubt from the succession. Knowing the insidious reach of the Assayers - to whom resistance was futile for any public figure seeking to remain alive in Goldshire - Krasniy relented to their demand, signed over the throne and took his own life.

===Ryabin Merkayastreb===

[[File:Ryabinportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Ryabin Merkayastreb: a worthy opponent in the duel with death.]]

At the behest of his blood familiars, '''Ryabin Krasniyevich Mercaja Yastreb''' ("Yabbie") smoothed the way for the Assayers' interests in Goldshire - and having attained imperial office as Shirerithian Minister of Trade, gave them a route into the entire Shirerithian economy. The centrepiece of this effort was to be a rationalisation of Shireroth's paper currency, the Erb, with all-new designs overseen by Ryabin himself and steganographically encoded with various subliminal elements by the Assayers, projecting their memetic influence into the hands of every Shirerithian. Both Ryabin and the Assayers, however, underestimated the scrutiny of Shireroth's regnant Kasier - the notoriously irascible Trantor IV. Upon seeing the final designs, which were violently at odds with his own taste, Trantor publically lambasted Ryabin and demanded a full revision of his painstaking work. Instead he received Ryabin's ministerial resignation, plunging the chattering classes of Shirekeep into a frenzy of scandalous gossip and speculation. For Ryabin however, worse was to come - such a humiliating rejection of the Assayers' work would provoke a search for scapegoats within the organisation, a fact well known to Ryabin's uncle, one Rimetar Mercaja, who was Ryabin's principal intermediary with the Assayers' governing Committee of Overnumismators and now sought to protect his own position with a demonstration of loyal initiative. Luring Ryabin to one of the Assayers' metallurgical laboratories, Rimetar subdued him and subjected him to several agonising hours of torture with molten metal, acids and solvents, almost killing him in the process and submitting a formal report of his 'corrective measures' to his fellow Overnumismators. They, however, saw through Rimetar's ruse and attributed responsibility for the currency scandal directly to him - like Krasniy, Rimetar was compelled to self-terminate with a proffered pill while Ryabin, considered to have atoned for his negligence during his 'acid test', was formally expelled from the House of Mercaja before being dumped at the gates of Goldshire's Ducal palace and left to the care of his own horrified physicians.

The Assayers' treatment of Ryabin turned out to be a misjudgement. Not only did his long period of convalescence being him into contact with his future wife, an flirtatious undead nurse by the name of '''Royana Dolordotch''', but the Assayers' renunciation of his services denied them influence during his future progress to the very top of the Shirerithian hierarchy - for Kaiser Trantor had finally alienated so great a majority of the Shireithian political class that he was compelled to abdicate, refusing in his petulance to name a successor but passing that obligation to Shireroth's legislature, the [[Landsraad]]. The popular pendulum swing in favour of Ryabin, as the highest-profile casualty of Trantor's rule, propelled him to the Kaisership under the regnal name of '''Mo'll I''' - the only Yastreb ever to gain the throne of Shireroth.

Mo'll's reign was noted for the relative absence of political tumult, notwithstanding a bitter dispute between his Minister of Sport and [[Senya|Senyan]]-backed liberal elements in [[Elwynn]] regarding the morality of gladiatorial blood sports. Mo'll was insulated from the worst of Shirekeep's intrigues by spending most of his reign aboard the Shirerithian imperial yacht, the ''Bane of Balgurd'', on a goodwill tour of the realm's constituent Imperial States. He was received well at each port of call until his final destination in [[Elwynn]] where he was subjected to a failed assassination attempt by [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] seperatists. Resolving to quit before his luck ran out, he subsequently abdicated the throne and returned to Goldshire as Duke Ryabin - the unusual spectacle of a Shirerithian Kaiser surviving his reign was widely noted with a mixture of admiration at him clinging to life and disdain for cheating the inevitable hand of death.

Being married to a lich, Ryabin was unable to produce children by the conventional method. To obtain children he and Royana contrived to grow a child from genetic samples in an amniotic tank, as was fashionable among the undead nobility of Brookshire. Procreation between liches and the living, however, were considered scandalous by both populations - Ryabin and Royana elected to cultivate their child in secret, using bootlegged equipment and morally-pliable technicians of dubious expertise. The first result was a daughter named '''Aegrotia''' whom, it quickly became apparent, was afflicted with a degree of mental retardation by the imperfect craft which created her. Instead of receiving the Yastreb name she was given Royana's maiden name of Dolordotch before being condemned to a mental institution in central Brookshire. The second child, a son by the name of '''Stellus''', appeared to possess his full mental faculties and was duly groomed for the comital throne of Lunaris.

The circumstances surrounding Ryabin's demise are unclear - it is believed he was suddenly pursued from his Ducal palace by a daemonic entity and sought sanctuary at a holy site in Lunaris known as the House of Cats, where he engaged the creature in single combat and defeated it by plunging a dagger into his own chest and vomiting the blood all over his opponent, causing the creature to dissolve as if drenched in acid. Whatever the event, Ryabin did not survive his wound and was found dead the following day. He was buried alongside his father with some ceremony, at the Temple of Lockenhasp in Lunaris' interior marshes.

===Aegrotia Dolordotch===

[[File:Aegrotiaportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Aegrotia Dolordotch: a simple soul.]]

'''Aegrotia Ryabinevna Luciana Dolordotch''' ("Geegee") was never intended to continue the Yastreb line, being effectively abandoned by her parents at the Nevermind Home for the Bewildered near her mother's home town of Dolorous in central Brookshire. Aside from the occasional visit by her mother, Aegrotia was left to her own devices and acquired an assortment of odd habits which prevented her release into society, the most troublesome of which was a tendency to self-mutilate and compose semi-literate written work using her own blood as ink.

Her fortunes were altered by periodic visits to the home from a renegade Cedrist priest, who correctly surmised her bloodline and prophesised that her destiny lay outwith the home's confinement. Seeing himself as the means to bring this destiny about, he assisted her in a late-night escape from the institution by blasting a hole in her dormitory wall with liturgical explosives. By means unknown - and somewhat inexplicable for somebody with a double-digit IQ - Aegrotia travelled thousands of kilometres to Lunaris in search of her brother Stellus. The siblings' existence had been witheld from each other, but Aegrotia had surmised Stellus' existence from fragments of overheard conversation between her mother and the warders of her old home. The method Aegrotia used to locate Stellus is also unknown, for at that moment he was concealed in hiding after a severe fallout with militant Elwynnese in the Shirerithian capital. Where the authorities of Shireroth's Kaiser, Goldshire and Lunaris had failed, Aegrotia somehow succeeded in locating her brother at a basement dive bar in the coastal city of Mesior, Lunaris - allegedly by arcane means. Although pleasantly surprised by the revelation that he had a sister, Stellus was less than pleased by his own re-exposure to the public eye and he was duly summoned to Shirekeep with an apparently-punitive assignment to take care of Malarbor, the city's evil tree deity which was chiefly noted for killing anyone it could reach with its gnarly branches. Some years later the tree would claim Stellus' own life in a fit of rage at his sartorial colour combination, snuffing out any hope of continuing the Yastreb bloodline through him.

Aegrotia, meanwhile, had been appointed to the wardenship of the island of Mediguttula in the [[shire:River Elwynn|River Elwynn]] Delta, an undemanding post where she happily wrote inconsequential decrees in her own blood, despite frequently succumbing to bouts of exsanguinatory anaemia. Looking upon Aegrotia with pity and somewhat ashamed of having locked her away, her mother Royana set her up with an undead [[Laqi]] cossack by the name of '''Zemphirius Karymov''' - the couple were immediately attracted to each other and quickly married. Although Zemphirius was undead and incapable of reproducing naturally, Aegrotia was able to inseminate herself with his genetic material and duly bore a son by the name of '''Albede Yastreb'''. As soon as he was old enough to put on a latex glove, the boy was apprenticed to Royana's medical clinic in Brookshire which specialised in cosmetic surgery for the undead.

Ultimately, Aegrotia's compulsive bloodletting caught up with her and she died from complications of anaemia at a relatively young age - only a short time before Stellus' demise at the hands of Malarbor. The two siblings were buried with their ancestors at Lockenhasp, the last Yastrebs to be interred on Shirerithian soil.

===Albede Yastreb===

[[File:Albedeportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Albede Yastreb: won the duel with death, but lost the rematch.]]

'''Albede Zemphirich Dolorsyn Yastreb''' ("Beebee"), along with his grandmother Royana, was profoundly affected by the demise of his mother and uncle - with Royana he concluded that a negligent and indifferent Shirerithian state was responsible for the loss of their beloved relatives, especially so in Stellus' case - the allegorical implications of him being murdered by Shireroth's most totemic deity was considered by them both to a painfully stark omen. For the first time, aided by the language of various heretical texts they had begun to read for solace, they spoke of the gods of Cedrism as malevolent archons inflicting pain upon their house behind masks of false deity. The family's very Shirerithian home, being under the spiritual yoke of such entities, now appeared actively hostile to them on a level which was beyond the ability of any worldly being to remedy. The fact that Albede's father Zemphirius had been sent to prison, after a misunderstanding with provincial authorities in Brookshire's Laqi south, appeared to confirm a celestial conspiracy to snuff the House of Yastreb from existence - or at least bind it in eternal torment. Therefore when a party of mercenaries called by Royana's clinic, on their way to the expeditionary operation which would ultimately establish [[Minarboria]], Albede and Royana required very little persuasion to join them - the Shireroth their ancestors had so diligently served was now upon a series of whims arrayed directly against them, ungrateful and uncaring, and in doing so had forfeited its entitlement to the surviving Yastrebs' service.

On the sea voyage to Minarboria, and the landing which followed, Albede and Royana were put to use in the medical care of undead soldiers as they consolidated the new territory of the Minarborian Queen Lyssansa - with the steadying of their operational tempo, Royana was promoted to government office in [[Sansabury]] and Albede threw himself among the cadre of scientists and engineers who had gravitated to the university town of [[&zeter]], who eventually elected him the chairman of the University Amateur Rocket Society (U&zARS). Starting as a scientifically-minded hobbycraft gathering, the Society eventually expanded to become the leading military research and development organisation in Minarboria, producing all manner of missile and radar designs before expanding into marine engineering. It was during this time that Albede entered into a romantic relationship with '''Prethil Nal''', a [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] comrade from his old medical unit, and resumed his forays into the esoteric by joining &zeter's University Arcane Society. Being unnerved by his slow progression into middle age and desiring a longer span of existence, Albede eventually decided to give up his life, submit himself to Queen Lyssansa's necromancers and become undead - a decision which would have far-reaching consequences for both himself and Minarboria.

The combination of Albede's undead form, military experience and arcane outlook thus set the stage for him to emerge at the forefront of the [[Harvestfall Revolution]], an uprising of middle-class liches who sought to protect themselves against a spontaneous collapse in the necromantic ley lines which had begun to strike down swathes of the undead population. Although initially successful, the revolution was put down by the momentarily-reanimated authorities in the Minarborian capital, led by the universally-venerated [[Minarboria#Religion|Church of Minarbor]]. Albede, shocked that his actions had upset Minarboria's namesake shrub-deity, offered his capitulation and was sentenced to confinement in a Church-run penal colony. After a while, as reward for his good behaviour, he was permitted to donate genetic material for the cultivation of a child with his wife Prethil. Unlike the other Yastrebs, this child - named '''Xantus Yastreb''' - was a Deep Singer in composition and thus immune to the necromantic torpor which had so distressed Albede and his fellow revolutionaries. Xantus, after a period of corrective schooling within the penal colony's confines, was eventually judged to be free of his father's treasonous legacy and released on the condition that he seek ordination into the Church of Minarbor.

As Minarborian lichdom took its final slide into oblivion and the institutions of the realm began to collapse with it, Albede was sprung from the colony by a band of cossacks under the command of his father, Zemphirius Karymov, who had belatedly followed his family to Minarboria after his own release from prison. Together with Royana Dolordotch, the three liches retreated to a prepared tomb in the southern Octavian mountains of the Minarborian interior where they planned to await their final de-animation in the hope that they would one day be restored to function. Their hopes were in vain, however - along with Zemphirius and Royana, Albede's necromantic energy was dissipated irretrievably into the post-mortem abyss.

===Xantus Yastreb===

[[File:Xantus.png|thumb|right|200px|Xantus Yastreb: father of a nation, but wouldn't admit it.]]

At the moment of the Minarborian state's final demise, '''Xantus Albedevich Zmeysyn Yastreb''' ("Goldie") was travelling the northern Octavian mountains in his capacity as a mendicant ''Dissitor'', the most junior clerical rank of the Minarborian church. Gathering together his fellow clerics in the area, he resolved to protect the benighted local people and the refugees who soon arrived in pitiable condition, pursued by bandits and [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-als]]. He eventually secured alliances with a number of disparate Laqi cossack bands who rode forth to plunder the central Benacian lowlands on behalf of him and his council of holy men - the rudiments of a state established in their mountain home subsequently grew to become [[Kalgachia]], which would eventually encompass the whole Octavian mountain range. Foreseeing a moment of reckoning with Shireroth, which was no less eager to exploit Minarboria's collapse, Xantus and his companions - known as the Council of Perfecti - utilised the construction skills of their [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] ancestors to relocate Kalgachia's critical assets and a large part of its population underground, in anticipation of a Shirerithian military challenge which ultimately pressed against the new nation's frontiers but hesitated at the critical moment, buying Kalgachia precious time to build up its defences and establish foreign contacts for its own protection. By the time Shireroth's smitten flirtation with the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] juggernaut reached its inevitable singularity through [[War of Lost Brothers|progressively]] more depraved [[Sea-Reavers|bouts]] of wanton [[Livian Pogroms|bloodshed]], Kalgachia was well placed both militarily and diplomatically to resist the [[Endsieg#Fall Endsieg|onslaught]] planned against it and stood in its own right as a viable participant in the [[Benacian Reconquest]], arguably inspiring neighbouring [[Kasterburg|populations]] to [[Republic of Inner Benacia|make]] similar [[Transbataafsche Vrystaat|efforts]] in standing up for themselves.

Against the advice of his fellow Perfecti, Xantus moderated his frenetic work by entering into marriage with one '''Ilessa Aerit''', a schoolteacher whose wistful conception of child development he [[Urchagin|subsequently promoted]] through the Kalgachi bureaucracy with aggressive enthusiasm. Although their engineered Deep Singer genes were of dangerously incompatible iterations, the couple succeeded in conceiving a healthy daughter, one '''Rubina Yastreb'''. However the gestation of their second child - one '''Falcifer Yastreb''' - manifested a series of severe complications at the moment of birth, from which Falcifer emerged unscathed but dealt fatal injuries to his mother Ilessa. Her untimely death threw Xantus into a prolonged state of despair and guilt-ridden self-loathing at being the biological cause of the tragedy - he refused any contact with Falcifer, leaving the baby to the care of its sister Rubina while he sought to distract himself by micromanaging trifling affairs of state, an act which lost him some amount of respect among his fellow Perfecti and the bureaucracy they administered. Eventually he found a new distraction in the form of '''Beatrice Formicida''', an old Deep Singer with whom he had been briefly acquainted in his youth and now rekindled the flames of unrequited passion. Although Xantus' peers in government welcomed the lessening of his overbearing interference, they now found themselves concerned at his inattention to affairs of state which relied upon increasingly outdated conceptions of Kalgachia's domestic and geopolitical situation. The onset of chronic illness (attributed to latent genetic abnormalities) eventually spelled the end of Xantus' role in government and he retired to a life of dotage at the old Yastreb family estate which had been converted to a public sanatorium after Minarboria's collapse. He was replaced on the Council of Perfecti by his son Falcifer, who became ''de facto'' Kalgachi head of state.

===Rubina Yastreb===

[[File:Rubinaportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Rubina Yastreb: lock the cutlery drawer.]]

From her earliest years, '''Rubina Xantievna Prepodava Yastreb''' ("Beans") was a quiet individual with a propensity for talking to herself and/or apparently incorporeal entities in her vicinity, all while developing an unhealthy liking for the use of bladed implements. Her parents initially suspected her to be of the same mental affliction as her great-grandmother Aegrotia, but it quickly became apparent that her cognitive ability was far in advance of her halfwit ancestor. Eventually around the age of four, she became fixated upon something her parents considered vaguely respectable, namely the [[Whirdlebirb]] helicopter operated by the [[Military of Kalgachia|Kalgachi armed forces]] and the world of aviation in general. Although her parents refused to let her join one of Kalgachia's Whirdlebirb squadrons, engaged as they were in constant and dangerous combat with the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], she was permitted to join a [[Tales from Kalgachia - 22|civilian flying club]] near the Kalgachi capital where she qualified as an instrument-rated general aviation pilot at the age of sixteen. Her hopes for a career in civil aviation were dashed by the birth of her brother Falcifer and the family tragedy it caused - Rubina found that she alone seemed to care about the baby's welfare and she felt compelled to adopt him as her own. Around this time she finally found herself in a position to act upon her long infatuation with one '''Roy Stone''', the adopted son of the King of Goldshire who had sent him to exile in Kalgachia during a wave of Nationalist-Humanist persecutions in Shireroth. At Rubina's initative, Roy was gently cajoled into assuming the role of a father to Falcifer in the face of Xantus' wilfil neglect.

Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti, being somewhat informed about Rubina's progress in life, were impressed by her adaptation to the rigours of motherhood and patiently awaited the point when Falcifer would be old enough to attend school, whereupon they lobbied an indifferent Xantus to appoint Rubina as Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan, the most senior position in the Kalgachi state outside the Council of Perfecti itself. The appointment, made when Rubina was only twenty-three years old, caused some degree of surprise and was downplayed by the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]] to avoid accusations of crass nepotism - an arrangement which suited Rubina who was somewhat averse to the public exposure required by the role.

Rubina's eventual marriage to Roy, although contractually configured to maintain a strict seperation of Kalgachi and Shirerithian power structures, inevitably marked her as a geopolitical liability to the Council of Perfecti and spelled the effective stasis of her political progression in Kalgachia, although her quiet yet brutally efficient management style won her a bureaucratic support base within the Lieutenancy of Oktavyan and the aviation units of the Kalgachi Defence Force with whom she socialised. Her use of a Shirerithian-donated cavalry sabre as a gesticulatory aid in more assertive moments was renowned within Oktavyan's municipal offices, whose elder officials saw in Rubina a worthy successor to Empress Lyssansa, the forthright sovereign of the Empire of Minarboria who was given to similar behaviour with the arcanely-charged [[Shire:Sword of Fire|Sword of Fire]]. In time this reputation extended beyond Kalgachia's borders and led, somewhat unexpectedly, to her being gifted the Sword of Fire itself by is then-owner, the ailing Shirerithian Prince of Modan. Aided and abetted by her military sponsors, Rubina successfuly resisted all attempts by the arcane Kalgachi establishment to appropriate the sword from her and its presence provided a silent foundation to her power within critically-important sections of the Kalgachi bureaucracy, allowing her to retain something of an independent power base. The sword's power also appeared to break the long spell of infertility which had blighted her marriage to Roy, for she found herself pregnant within weeks of the object's arrival in her home. She duly gave birth to a son, '''Caustifer Yastreb,''' the following year.

===Caustifer Yastreb===

[[File:Caustiferportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Caustifer "Keep the Change" Yastreb.]]

'''Caustifer Royevich Lotchika Yastreb''' ("Stiffy") first came to prominence shortly after receiving a not-inconsiderable sum of [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]], inherited upon the death of his grandfather Xantus and released upon his completion of Kalgachia's notorious [[Urchagin]]. Despite being only twelve years old and against all advice, Caustifer leveraged this money through his father's connections at Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] to speculate on the exchange rate of the [[Natopian natopo|natopo]] just as the increased uptake of the currency following the [[Kalirion Fracture]] was causing it to soar in value. The success of this gamble - lucrative even after a whole chain of intermediate traders from the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]], [[Iron Company]] and [[ESB Group|ESB]] had taken their cut - made Caustifer into one of Kalgachia's richest citizens overnight and drew the immediate attention of his father's old colleagues at the DLEP, whose frequent bouts of hospitality toward the boy served as something of a distraction to his studies at the Oktavyan Gymnasium and might have been interpreted as grooming of the [[Stormark|Storish]] variety had it not been overshadowed by the more probable suspicion that Kalgachia's financial sector, long a refuge for exiled [[Goldshire|Goldshirians]], was becoming increasingly populated by dubious [[shire:Assayers|bullion inspectors]] fleeing [[War in Wintergleam|unrest]] in [[Sovereign Confederation|Suthergold-Norestria]]. Caustifer's status as the son of Kalgachia's most powerful public official, however, spared him the more obsessive intentions of these expatriate financiers whose episodes of historical interference with the kings of Goldshire and their murderous blowback had maintained a note of inter-generational caution among their ilk.

In his adolescence and early adulthood, Caustifer exploited his personal capital reserves and the deaths of certain large shareholders to acquire an increasing ownership stake in the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], Kalgachia's semi-privatised foreign trade concern. By this time he had begun to absorb his mother's frequent plaintive suggestions that his commercial power be turned to more morally-wholesome objectives than blind self-amplification and thereby avoid complete enthrallment to the ''Pecuniary Archon'' feared by the [[Ketherism|Kalgachi belief system]]. This eventually led to the OIEC's active assistance in setting up the [[Children of Salus]], a [[shire:Lunaris|Lunatic]] insurgent group fighting against state-sanctioned genocide in the [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and the House of Yastreb's first direct intervention in the affairs of its old fiefdom since the pre-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era. Objections to acts of such dubious accountability did emerge from the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Kalgachi diplomatic corps]] which had hitherto advanced an isolationist pro-Guttulinese line, but were prevented from any lasting uptake in the national bureaucracy by Yastreb-aligned elements in economic, military, esoteric and deep executive power centres.

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House of Yastreb

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''The Yastreb letterhead, a notorious warning of impending verbiage.''</div> 

The '''House of Yastreb''' is a family of mild-to-middling prominence in the history of [[Benacia]], having gravitated there from its origins in the international communist movement of the post-[[Tymaria|Tymarian]] era. Its members are chiefly characterised by an artistic and/or literary fixation, selective workaholism, pathological vanity and varying levels of mental infirmity ranging from mild eccentricity to full retardation or psychosis.

==Origin==

The Yastreb bloodline is thought to have originated among the Arkani - a race of ergatocratic itinerants who, in the communistic fashion of the immediate post-Tymarian period, adopted the role of a proletarian 'fire brigade' and allied themselves with several of the hard-socialist movements which dominated the geopolitical landscape of the time, the internationalist character of which periodically transplanted them from their origins in eastern [[Puritania]] to southwestern [[Eura]], southern [[Corum]], central [[Keltia]] and ultimately [[Baracão]], often but not always under the auspices of [[Noviykrazniystan]]. It was in Baracão that the first Yastrebs emerged to public prominence as a cadre of reliable technocrats, aided and abetted by the expatriate ''nomenklatura'' of the fallen [[shire:PRNSE|PRNSE]] who sought to leverage the family's relative sobriety as a hedge against their own terroristic caprice. In time this took the Yastrebs to the post-[[Slobovia|Slobovian]] wastes of north-central [[Apollonia]], under the cult-like tutelage of one [[shire:Yuri Andropov|Yuri V. Andropov]] who had picked them out to assist him in the creation of a [[shire:USSR|Soviet superstate]] - memorable chiefly for its suicidally-naive attempts to unite a motley gaggle of anarchists, Trotskyists, Maoists and Stalinists into a coherent ideological platform and its coordination of various other states into a global communist international which helped inspire the creation of the [[Grand Commonwealth]] as a countermeasure.

Being steadily browbeaten by the relentless ideological tensions which ultimately ripped Andropov's socialist paradise apart, the Yastrebs allied themselves with the cultural intelligentsia and used their military connections to cultivate the establishment of an autonomous republic as far removed from the febrile metropole as possible - namely the nuclear test range at [[Novaya Zemlya]], to which the more technocratic and artistic elements flocked to drink vodka and tan themselves with gamma rays while discord between their ideologically-distracted masters escalated to a breakdown in civil order and ultimately an orgy of mutual slaughter, bringing down the state without a single drop of capitalist blood being shed. The Zemlyans, being the only survivors, attained independence for their nuclear wasteland by default - in time their renunciation of the usual [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie Tankie] flavour of [[Micras|Micran]] communism in favour of intense vodka-fuelled cultural development won them some measure of sympathy, even admiration from nations hitherto considered the bitterest of ideological enemies.

By now the Yastrebs, although holding the chair of the Zemlyan Council of People's Commissars among other posts, were sufficiently liberal in their ideology to send their sons abroad to experience and participate in different modes of governance. This often earned them naturalised citizenships, government offices and even noble titles, most prominently the [[Anglo-Saxon Commonwealth]] Thegndom of Wesax and the comital throne of Lunaris in [[Shireroth]]. The occupant of the latter post, one Krasniy Esmerevich, was the first to have his achievements recorded in any detail thanks to the diligence of [[Shirekeep]]'s imperial scribes and he is considered the official progenitor of the modern Yastreb line.

==The Bloodline==

===Krasniy Yastreb===

[[File:Krasniyportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Krasniy Yastreb: beat an unlikely path from communism to feudalism.]]

The ascent of '''Krasniy Esmerevich Yastreb''' ("Kras") within Shireroth began when he attracted the limerent attentions of Eriana Moon, Baroness of Lunaris in southern [[Goldshire]], during a touristic visit to that territory. Although ultimately bemused by her advances, his experience of her hospitality along with that of Jadie the Mathemetician, Eriana's suzerain Duchess, caused him to spend increasing amounts of time in Shireroth until he became firmly estranged from his Soviet comrades and thus avoided their slow extinction by the radiation-induced accumulation of genetic defects. After Eriana's premature death and transition into a periodically-appearing spectre, Krasniy was granted title to the southern half of Lunaris which, by then, had been partitioned by Shirerithian imperial government as an administrative convenience. Seeing this as an intolerable affront to the integrity of his adopted homeland, Krasniy embarked upon a public campaign to revive the Lunatic identity and lobby for the reunification of the territory, something he was able to decree as he progressed up the feudal bureaucracy. During this time he also obtained respect among the [[Cedrism|Cedrist]] clergy for his work in the hunting of the chthonic adversaries they called Daemons, earning him the hallowed title of ''Ly'Piscator''. His political prestige was not to last, however, as he was soon embroiled in discord and acrimony with the predominant House of Mortis in neighbouring [[Brookshire]] and compelled to retreat into exile in an unknown place.

Krasniy's return to Shireroth some generations later, beyond the bounds of his expected lifespan, suggested that he had secretly practised some of the Daemons' dark art for his own benefit, in defiance of Shirerithian custom and disgrace to his ancient title - but his return was fortuitously timed with a period when the ancient taboos of the [[shire:Ordo Imperiale Decimae|Technomaezji]] had lost much of their strength, necromancy had come into vogue across Brookshire and the very Kaiseress of Shireroth, one Mira Raynora Minor, was herself a manifestation of the undead. At her command, Krasniy's landed title over Lunaris was restored and in time he would be elevated to the Ducal throne of all Goldshire, from which he would go on to play a significant role in defeating, and subsequently documenting, the [[shire:Cabbage Crisis|Shirekeep Cabbage Plague]]. Unknown to him, however, the implications of a previous tryst with one of his secretaries in Lunaris - one '''Breiza Willow Moon''' - would soon catch up with him. Although nominally descended from a sibling of the Baroness Eriana, Breiza also carried the blood of the House of Mercaja, the [[Treesia|Treesian]] merchant clan defeated by the rival House of Raynor in Shireroth's foundational age who nursed a bitter, centuries-old desire to regain their lost power over Goldshire. Breiza, unknown to Krasniy, had given birth to his child after leaving his secretarial service and, being bereft of the means to support the baby, gave it up to her relatives in the Mercaja-run [[Economy of Shireroth|currency]] inspectorate known as the [[shire:Assayers|Assayers]] who held an occluded, mafia-like influence over Goldshire's public life. In secret the Assayers raised the child, one Ryabin Merkayastreb, in one of their numismatic academies until he attained the age of majority. Then they delivered him to an unwitting Krasniy, with the ultimatum that the Ducal throne of Goldshire be passed to their young agent and that Krasniy kill himself by means of a poison pill to remove all doubt from the succession. Knowing the insidious reach of the Assayers - to whom resistance was futile for any public figure seeking to remain alive in Goldshire - Krasniy relented to their demand, signed over the throne and took his own life.

===Ryabin Merkayastreb===

[[File:Ryabinportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Ryabin Merkayastreb: a worthy opponent in the duel with death.]]

At the behest of his blood familiars, '''Ryabin Krasniyevich Mercaja Yastreb''' ("Yabbie") smoothed the way for the Assayers' interests in Goldshire - and having attained imperial office as Shirerithian Minister of Trade, gave them a route into the entire Shirerithian economy. The centrepiece of this effort was to be a rationalisation of Shireroth's paper currency, the Erb, with all-new designs overseen by Ryabin himself and steganographically encoded with various subliminal elements by the Assayers, projecting their memetic influence into the hands of every Shirerithian. Both Ryabin and the Assayers, however, underestimated the scrutiny of Shireroth's regnant Kasier - the notoriously irascible Trantor IV. Upon seeing the final designs, which were violently at odds with his own taste, Trantor publically lambasted Ryabin and demanded a full revision of his painstaking work. Instead he received Ryabin's ministerial resignation, plunging the chattering classes of Shirekeep into a frenzy of scandalous gossip and speculation. For Ryabin however, worse was to come - such a humiliating rejection of the Assayers' work would provoke a search for scapegoats within the organisation, a fact well known to Ryabin's uncle, one Rimetar Mercaja, who was Ryabin's principal intermediary with the Assayers' governing Committee of Overnumismators and now sought to protect his own position with a demonstration of loyal initiative. Luring Ryabin to one of the Assayers' metallurgical laboratories, Rimetar subdued him and subjected him to several agonising hours of torture with molten metal, acids and solvents, almost killing him in the process and submitting a formal report of his 'corrective measures' to his fellow Overnumismators. They, however, saw through Rimetar's ruse and attributed responsibility for the currency scandal directly to him - like Krasniy, Rimetar was compelled to self-terminate with a proffered pill while Ryabin, considered to have atoned for his negligence during his 'acid test', was formally expelled from the House of Mercaja before being dumped at the gates of Goldshire's Ducal palace and left to the care of his own horrified physicians.

The Assayers' treatment of Ryabin turned out to be a misjudgement. Not only did his long period of convalescence being him into contact with his future wife, an flirtatious undead nurse by the name of '''Royana Dolordotch''', but the Assayers' renunciation of his services denied them influence during his future progress to the very top of the Shirerithian hierarchy - for Kaiser Trantor had finally alienated so great a majority of the Shireithian political class that he was compelled to abdicate, refusing in his petulance to name a successor but passing that obligation to Shireroth's legislature, the [[Landsraad]]. The popular pendulum swing in favour of Ryabin, as the highest-profile casualty of Trantor's rule, propelled him to the Kaisership under the regnal name of '''Mo'll I''' - the only Yastreb ever to gain the throne of Shireroth.

Mo'll's reign was noted for the relative absence of political tumult, notwithstanding a bitter dispute between his Minister of Sport and [[Senya|Senyan]]-backed liberal elements in [[Elwynn]] regarding the morality of gladiatorial blood sports. Mo'll was insulated from the worst of Shirekeep's intrigues by spending most of his reign aboard the Shirerithian imperial yacht, the ''Bane of Balgurd'', on a goodwill tour of the realm's constituent Imperial States. He was received well at each port of call until his final destination in [[Elwynn]] where he was subjected to a failed assassination attempt by [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] seperatists. Resolving to quit before his luck ran out, he subsequently abdicated the throne and returned to Goldshire as Duke Ryabin - the unusual spectacle of a Shirerithian Kaiser surviving his reign was widely noted with a mixture of admiration at him clinging to life and disdain for cheating the inevitable hand of death.

Being married to a lich, Ryabin was unable to produce children by the conventional method. To obtain children he and Royana contrived to grow a child from genetic samples in an amniotic tank, as was fashionable among the undead nobility of Brookshire. Procreation between liches and the living, however, were considered scandalous by both populations - Ryabin and Royana elected to cultivate their child in secret, using bootlegged equipment and morally-pliable technicians of dubious expertise. The first result was a daughter named '''Aegrotia''' whom, it quickly became apparent, was afflicted with a degree of mental retardation by the imperfect craft which created her. Instead of receiving the Yastreb name she was given Royana's maiden name of Dolordotch before being condemned to a mental institution in central Brookshire. The second child, a son by the name of '''Stellus''', appeared to possess his full mental faculties and was duly groomed for the comital throne of Lunaris.

The circumstances surrounding Ryabin's demise are unclear - it is believed he was suddenly pursued from his Ducal palace by a daemonic entity and sought sanctuary at a holy site in Lunaris known as the House of Cats, where he engaged the creature in single combat and defeated it by plunging a dagger into his own chest and vomiting the blood all over his opponent, causing the creature to dissolve as if drenched in acid. Whatever the event, Ryabin did not survive his wound and was found dead the following day. He was buried alongside his father with some ceremony, at the Temple of Lockenhasp in Lunaris' interior marshes.

===Aegrotia Dolordotch===

[[File:Aegrotiaportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Aegrotia Dolordotch: a simple soul.]]

'''Aegrotia Ryabinevna Luciana Dolordotch''' ("Geegee") was never intended to continue the Yastreb line, being effectively abandoned by her parents at the Nevermind Home for the Bewildered near her mother's home town of Dolorous in central Brookshire. Aside from the occasional visit by her mother, Aegrotia was left to her own devices and acquired an assortment of odd habits which prevented her release into society, the most troublesome of which was a tendency to self-mutilate and compose semi-literate written work using her own blood as ink.

Her fortunes were altered by periodic visits to the home from a renegade Cedrist priest, who correctly surmised her bloodline and prophesised that her destiny lay outwith the home's confinement. Seeing himself as the means to bring this destiny about, he assisted her in a late-night escape from the institution by blasting a hole in her dormitory wall with liturgical explosives. By means unknown - and somewhat inexplicable for somebody with a double-digit IQ - Aegrotia travelled thousands of kilometres to Lunaris in search of her brother Stellus. The siblings' existence had been witheld from each other, but Aegrotia had surmised Stellus' existence from fragments of overheard conversation between her mother and the warders of her old home. The method Aegrotia used to locate Stellus is also unknown, for at that moment he was concealed in hiding after a severe fallout with militant Elwynnese in the Shirerithian capital. Where the authorities of Shireroth's Kaiser, Goldshire and Lunaris had failed, Aegrotia somehow succeeded in locating her brother at a basement dive bar in the coastal city of Mesior, Lunaris - allegedly by arcane means. Although pleasantly surprised by the revelation that he had a sister, Stellus was less than pleased by his own re-exposure to the public eye and he was duly summoned to Shirekeep with an apparently-punitive assignment to take care of Malarbor, the city's evil tree deity which was chiefly noted for killing anyone it could reach with its gnarly branches. Some years later the tree would claim Stellus' own life in a fit of rage at his sartorial colour combination, snuffing out any hope of continuing the Yastreb bloodline through him.

Aegrotia, meanwhile, had been appointed to the wardenship of the island of Mediguttula in the [[shire:River Elwynn|River Elwynn]] Delta, an undemanding post where she happily wrote inconsequential decrees in her own blood, despite frequently succumbing to bouts of exsanguinatory anaemia. Looking upon Aegrotia with pity and somewhat ashamed of having locked her away, her mother Royana set her up with an undead [[Laqi]] cossack by the name of '''Zemphirius Karymov''' - the couple were immediately attracted to each other and quickly married. Although Zemphirius was undead and incapable of reproducing naturally, Aegrotia was able to inseminate herself with his genetic material and duly bore a son by the name of '''Albede Yastreb'''. As soon as he was old enough to put on a latex glove, the boy was apprenticed to Royana's medical clinic in Brookshire which specialised in cosmetic surgery for the undead.

Ultimately, Aegrotia's compulsive bloodletting caught up with her and she died from complications of anaemia at a relatively young age - only a short time before Stellus' demise at the hands of Malarbor. The two siblings were buried with their ancestors at Lockenhasp, the last Yastrebs to be interred on Shirerithian soil.

===Albede Yastreb===

[[File:Albedeportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Albede Yastreb: won the duel with death, but lost the rematch.]]

'''Albede Zemphirich Dolorsyn Yastreb''' ("Beebee"), along with his grandmother Royana, was profoundly affected by the demise of his mother and uncle - with Royana he concluded that a negligent and indifferent Shirerithian state was responsible for the loss of their beloved relatives, especially so in Stellus' case - the allegorical implications of him being murdered by Shireroth's most totemic deity was considered by them both to a painfully stark omen. For the first time, aided by the language of various heretical texts they had begun to read for solace, they spoke of the gods of Cedrism as malevolent archons inflicting pain upon their house behind masks of false deity. The family's very Shirerithian home, being under the spiritual yoke of such entities, now appeared actively hostile to them on a level which was beyond the ability of any worldly being to remedy. The fact that Albede's father Zemphirius had been sent to prison, after a misunderstanding with provincial authorities in Brookshire's Laqi south, appeared to confirm a celestial conspiracy to snuff the House of Yastreb from existence - or at least bind it in eternal torment. Therefore when a party of mercenaries called by Royana's clinic, on their way to the expeditionary operation which would ultimately establish [[Minarboria]], Albede and Royana required very little persuasion to join them - the Shireroth their ancestors had so diligently served was now upon a series of whims arrayed directly against them, ungrateful and uncaring, and in doing so had forfeited its entitlement to the surviving Yastrebs' service.

On the sea voyage to Minarboria, and the landing which followed, Albede and Royana were put to use in the medical care of undead soldiers as they consolidated the new territory of the Minarborian Queen Lyssansa - with the steadying of their operational tempo, Royana was promoted to government office in [[Sansabury]] and Albede threw himself among the cadre of scientists and engineers who had gravitated to the university town of [[&zeter]], who eventually elected him the chairman of the University Amateur Rocket Society (U&zARS). Starting as a scientifically-minded hobbycraft gathering, the Society eventually expanded to become the leading military research and development organisation in Minarboria, producing all manner of missile and radar designs before expanding into marine engineering. It was during this time that Albede entered into a romantic relationship with '''Prethil Nal''', a [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] comrade from his old medical unit, and resumed his forays into the esoteric by joining &zeter's University Arcane Society. Being unnerved by his slow progression into middle age and desiring a longer span of existence, Albede eventually decided to give up his life, submit himself to Queen Lyssansa's necromancers and become undead - a decision which would have far-reaching consequences for both himself and Minarboria.

The combination of Albede's undead form, military experience and arcane outlook thus set the stage for him to emerge at the forefront of the [[Harvestfall Revolution]], an uprising of middle-class liches who sought to protect themselves against a spontaneous collapse in the necromantic ley lines which had begun to strike down swathes of the undead population. Although initially successful, the revolution was put down by the momentarily-reanimated authorities in the Minarborian capital, led by the universally-venerated [[Minarboria#Religion|Church of Minarbor]]. Albede, shocked that his actions had upset Minarboria's namesake shrub-deity, offered his capitulation and was sentenced to confinement in a Church-run penal colony. After a while, as reward for his good behaviour, he was permitted to donate genetic material for the cultivation of a child with his wife Prethil. Unlike the other Yastrebs, this child - named '''Xantus Yastreb''' - was a Deep Singer in composition and thus immune to the necromantic torpor which had so distressed Albede and his fellow revolutionaries. Xantus, after a period of corrective schooling within the penal colony's confines, was eventually judged to be free of his father's treasonous legacy and released on the condition that he seek ordination into the Church of Minarbor.

As Minarborian lichdom took its final slide into oblivion and the institutions of the realm began to collapse with it, Albede was sprung from the colony by a band of cossacks under the command of his father, Zemphirius Karymov, who had belatedly followed his family to Minarboria after his own release from prison. Together with Royana Dolordotch, the three liches retreated to a prepared tomb in the southern Octavian mountains of the Minarborian interior where they planned to await their final de-animation in the hope that they would one day be restored to function. Their hopes were in vain, however - along with Zemphirius and Royana, Albede's necromantic energy was dissipated irretrievably into the post-mortem abyss.

===Xantus Yastreb===

[[File:Xantus.png|thumb|right|200px|Xantus Yastreb: father of a nation, but wouldn't admit it.]]

At the moment of the Minarborian state's final demise, '''Xantus Albedevich Zmeysyn Yastreb''' ("Goldie") was travelling the northern Octavian mountains in his capacity as a mendicant ''Dissitor'', the most junior clerical rank of the Minarborian church. Gathering together his fellow clerics in the area, he resolved to protect the benighted local people and the refugees who soon arrived in pitiable condition, pursued by bandits and [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-als]]. He eventually secured alliances with a number of disparate Laqi cossack bands who rode forth to plunder the central Benacian lowlands on behalf of him and his council of holy men - the rudiments of a state established in their mountain home subsequently grew to become [[Kalgachia]], which would eventually encompass the whole Octavian mountain range. Foreseeing a moment of reckoning with Shireroth, which was no less eager to exploit Minarboria's collapse, Xantus and his companions - known as the Council of Perfecti - utilised the construction skills of their [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] ancestors to relocate Kalgachia's critical assets and a large part of its population underground, in anticipation of a Shirerithian military challenge which ultimately pressed against the new nation's frontiers but hesitated at the critical moment, buying Kalgachia precious time to build up its defences and establish foreign contacts for its own protection. By the time Shireroth's smitten flirtation with the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] juggernaut reached its inevitable singularity through [[War of Lost Brothers|progressively]] more depraved [[Sea-Reavers|bouts]] of wanton [[Livian Pogroms|bloodshed]], Kalgachia was well placed both militarily and diplomatically to resist the [[Endsieg#Fall Endsieg|onslaught]] planned against it and stood in its own right as a viable participant in the [[Benacian Reconquest]], arguably inspiring neighbouring [[Kasterburg|populations]] to [[Republic of Inner Benacia|make]] similar [[Transbataafsche Vrystaat|efforts]] in standing up for themselves.

Against the advice of his fellow Perfecti, Xantus moderated his frenetic work by entering into marriage with one '''Ilessa Aerit''', a schoolteacher whose wistful conception of child development he [[Urchagin|subsequently promoted]] through the Kalgachi bureaucracy with aggressive enthusiasm. Although their engineered Deep Singer genes were of dangerously incompatible iterations, the couple succeeded in conceiving a healthy daughter, one '''Rubina Yastreb'''. However the gestation of their second child - one '''Falcifer Yastreb''' - manifested a series of severe complications at the moment of birth, from which Falcifer emerged unscathed but dealt fatal injuries to his mother Ilessa. Her untimely death threw Xantus into a prolonged state of despair and guilt-ridden self-loathing at being the biological cause of the tragedy - he refused any contact with Falcifer, leaving the baby to the care of its sister Rubina while he sought to distract himself by micromanaging trifling affairs of state, an act which lost him some amount of respect among his fellow Perfecti and the bureaucracy they administered. Eventually he found a new distraction in the form of '''Beatrice Formicida''', an old Deep Singer with whom he had been briefly acquainted in his youth and now rekindled the flames of unrequited passion. Although Xantus' peers in government welcomed the lessening of his overbearing interference, they now found themselves concerned at his inattention to affairs of state which relied upon increasingly outdated conceptions of Kalgachia's domestic and geopolitical situation. The onset of chronic illness (attributed to latent genetic abnormalities) eventually spelled the end of Xantus' role in government and he retired to a life of dotage at the old Yastreb family estate which had been converted to a public sanatorium after Minarboria's collapse. He was replaced on the Council of Perfecti by his son Falcifer, who became ''de facto'' Kalgachi head of state.

===Rubina Yastreb===

[[File:Rubinaportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Rubina Yastreb: lock the cutlery drawer.]]

From her earliest years, '''Rubina Xantievna Prepodava Yastreb''' ("Beans") was a quiet individual with a propensity for talking to herself and/or apparently incorporeal entities in her vicinity, all while developing an unhealthy liking for the use of bladed implements. Her parents initially suspected her to be of the same mental affliction as her great-grandmother Aegrotia, but it quickly became apparent that her cognitive ability was far in advance of her halfwit ancestor. Eventually around the age of four, she became fixated upon something her parents considered vaguely respectable, namely the [[Whirdlebirb]] helicopter operated by the [[Military of Kalgachia|Kalgachi armed forces]] and the world of aviation in general. Although her parents refused to let her join one of Kalgachia's Whirdlebirb squadrons, engaged as they were in constant and dangerous combat with the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], she was permitted to join a [[Tales from Kalgachia - 22|civilian flying club]] near the Kalgachi capital where she qualified as an instrument-rated general aviation pilot at the age of sixteen. Her hopes for a career in civil aviation were dashed by the birth of her brother Falcifer and the family tragedy it caused - Rubina found that she alone seemed to care about the baby's welfare and she felt compelled to adopt him as her own. Around this time she finally found herself in a position to act upon her long infatuation with one '''Roy Stone''', the adopted son of the King of Goldshire who had sent him to exile in Kalgachia during a wave of Nationalist-Humanist persecutions in Shireroth. At Rubina's initative, Roy was gently cajoled into assuming the role of a father to Falcifer in the face of Xantus' wilfil neglect.

Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti, being somewhat informed about Rubina's progress in life, were impressed by her adaptation to the rigours of motherhood and patiently awaited the point when Falcifer would be old enough to attend school, whereupon they lobbied an indifferent Xantus to appoint Rubina as Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan, the most senior position in the Kalgachi state outside the Council of Perfecti itself. The appointment, made when Rubina was only twenty-three years old, caused some degree of surprise and was downplayed by the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]] to avoid accusations of crass nepotism - an arrangement which suited Rubina who was somewhat averse to the public exposure required by the role.

Rubina's eventual marriage to Roy, although contractually configured to maintain a strict seperation of Kalgachi and Shirerithian power structures, inevitably marked her as a geopolitical liability to the Council of Perfecti and spelled the effective stasis of her political progression in Kalgachia, although her quiet yet brutally efficient management style won her a bureaucratic support base within the Lieutenancy of Oktavyan and the aviation units of the Kalgachi Defence Force with whom she socialised. Her use of a Shirerithian-donated cavalry sabre as a gesticulatory aid in more assertive moments was renowned within Oktavyan's municipal offices, whose elder officials saw in Rubina a worthy successor to Empress Lyssansa, the forthright sovereign of the Empire of Minarboria who was given to similar behaviour with the arcanely-charged [[Shire:Sword of Fire|Sword of Fire]]. In time this reputation extended beyond Kalgachia's borders and led, somewhat unexpectedly, to her being gifted the Sword of Fire itself by is then-owner, the ailing Shirerithian Prince of Modan. Aided and abetted by her military sponsors, Rubina successfuly resisted all attempts by the arcane Kalgachi establishment to appropriate the sword from her and its presence provided a silent foundation to her power within critically-important sections of the Kalgachi bureaucracy, allowing her to retain something of an independent power base. The sword's power also appeared to break the long spell of infertility which had blighted her marriage to Roy, for she found herself pregnant within weeks of the object's arrival in her home. She duly gave birth to a son, '''Caustifer Yastreb,''' the following year.

===Caustifer Yastreb===

[[File:Caustiferportrait.png|thumb|right|200px|Caustifer "Keep the Change" Yastreb.]]

'''Caustifer Royevich Lotchika Yastreb''' ("Stiffy") first came to prominence shortly after receiving a not-inconsiderable sum of [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]], inherited upon the death of his grandfather Xantus and released upon his completion of Kalgachia's notorious [[Urchagin]]. Despite being only twelve years old and against all advice, Caustifer leveraged this money through his father's connections at Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] to speculate on the exchange rate of the [[Natopian natopo|natopo]] just as the increased uptake of the currency following the [[Kalirion Fracture]] was causing it to soar in value. The success of this gamble - lucrative even after a whole chain of intermediate traders from the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|OIEC]], [[Iron Company]] and [[ESB Group|ESB]] had taken their cut - made Caustifer into one of Kalgachia's richest citizens overnight and drew the immediate attention of his father's old colleagues at the DLEP, whose frequent bouts of hospitality toward the boy served as something of a distraction to his studies at the Oktavyan Gymnasium and might have been interpreted as grooming of the [[Stormark|Storish]] variety had it not been overshadowed by the more probable suspicion that Kalgachia's financial sector, long a refuge for exiled [[Goldshire|Goldshirians]], was becoming increasingly populated by dubious [[shire:Assayers|bullion inspectors]] fleeing [[War in Wintergleam|unrest]] in [[Sovereign Confederation|Suthergold-Norestria]]. Caustifer's status as the son of Kalgachia's most powerful public official, however, spared him the more obsessive intentions of these expatriate financiers whose episodes of historical interference with the kings of Goldshire and their murderous blowback had maintained a note of inter-generational caution among their ilk.

In his adolescence and early adulthood, Caustifer exploited his personal capital reserves and the deaths of certain large shareholders to acquire an increasing ownership stake in the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], Kalgachia's semi-privatised foreign trade concern. By this time he had begun to absorb his mother's frequent plaintive suggestions that his commercial power be turned to more morally-wholesome objectives than blind self-amplification and thereby avoid complete enthrallment to the ''Pecuniary Archon'' feared by the [[Ketherism|Kalgachi belief system]]. This eventually led to the OIEC's active assistance in setting up the [[Children of Salus]], a [[shire:Lunaris|Lunatic]] insurgent group fighting against state-sanctioned genocide in the [[Guttuli Protectorate]] and the House of Yastreb's first direct intervention in the affairs of its old fiefdom since the pre-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era. Objections to acts of such dubious accountability did ermege from the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Kalgachi diplomatic corps]] which had hitherto advanced an isolationist pro-Guttulinese line, but were prevented from any lasting uptake in the national bureaucracy by Yastreb-aligned elements in economic, military, esoteric and deep executive power centres.

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Children of Salus

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|'''Active:'''|| 199th Moon (1677 [[Norton Calendar|AN]]) to present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[shire:Lunaris|Lunaris]]
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|'''Type:''' || Multinationally-resourced partisan warfare organisation
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Other Children''"
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| Lunatic insurgency against the [[Guttuli Protectorate]].
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The '''Children of Salus''' are a formation of partisans operating in the Eastern interior of the [[Guttuli Protectorate]], the territory traditionally known as [[shire:Lunaris|Lunaris]] which is the ancient homeland of the Lunatic people. The group - named for the Nemorosus Salus forest in which they first formed - are the coagulated remnant of numerous other partisan bands which were thrown into rout and disorder by [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Fanlin|Operation Fanlin]], an expansion of the Guttuli Protectorate into Lunaris which explicitly pursued the Lunatics' annihilation as a coherent social group and their supplantation by a post-[[Cedrism|Cedrist]] cult known as the Children of the Sun.

==History==

===Background===
[[File:Lunatics.png|thumb|left|Lunatics: the supreme evil (apparently)]]
After its [[House of Yastreb|native nobility]] burned down the regional seats of learning and fled the land in a fit of characteristic psychosis, Lunaris and its people met the late Shirerithian era in a state of helpless decline which made them unable to gain an advantageous position through any of the increasingly frequent tumults which preceded the [[Kalirion Fracture]]. Being cursed with a location at the strategically-priceless mouth of the [[River Elwynn]] and consequently coveted by every rampaging army in Eastern [[Benacia|Benacian]] history, the collapse of a native power structure steadily condemned Lunaris to waves of war, genocide, economic collapse, famine and disease which largely denied its indigenous population any workable semblance of national agency for generations. Throughout all of this however, the vestigial ''cachet'' which came from longevity and historical contributions to continental culture kept the Lunatics in some modest measure of esteem among neighbouring populations, if only for the mystical allure of their bizarre traditions and their value as comic relief from the prevailing Benacian business of cyclical conquest.

Toleration of this downcast and backward population in the interior of their homeland whilst its strategic coastal peripheries were progressively cleaved off by more powerful interests solidified over time toward a state of unspoken consensus, a ''quid pro quo'' in which the survival of this once great but latterly pathetic body of people would be assured with the understanding that their material claim upon the valuable shores of their homeland had been forfeited by history.

Such transactional notions were abruptly thrown out by the esoteric caste of the nascent Guttuli Protectorate, whose ideal of the ''Rule of the Sun'' was as unapologetic as it was uncompromising; for reasons which remained shrouded in the fog of occlusion (but ascribed by some to the hand of ethnic [[Antica|Anticans]] who resented Lunatic resistance to a previous heavyhanded conquest of the area by their blood cousins, the Arya) the [[Tarsica]]-worshipping Lunatics were designated as living totems of the ''Moon Seed'', a universal evil and the central obstruction to the coming of a utopian solar age.

The practical results of this cultivated hatred were demonstrated during [[Guttuli Protectorate/Military Operations#Operation Fanlin|Operation Fanlin]], a military drive from the Guttuli Protectorate's namesake islands along Lunaris' riverine shores followed by a concerted push into the interior. The culminating point of effort in this campaign was, tellingly, the city of Erianamor (Erinmur to the Guttulinese tongue) which had been the Lunatics' cultural heart and ancient rallying point. In 1673 AN it was sacked after a protracted siege, confronting its inhabitants with the grim choice of summary slaughter, forced conversion to an antithetical religious creed or flight to the neighbouring forests. Sufficient numbers chose the latter option that Erianamor's destruction was followed up by a campaign of deforestation by fire which, in an attempt to flush out the last resisting partisans for final destruction, reduced most of the surrounding woodlands to mere islands of blue cedar in a sea of charred scrubland. As expansions of Guttulinese frontiers elsewhere placed new demands on the resources of its armed forces, the task of finishing off the Lunatics was eventually relegated to rear echelon anti-partisan units whose slower operational tempo began to assume the qualities of a blood sport.

===A Helping Hand===

The ferocity of Operation Fanlin had not gone unnoticed beyond the Guttuli Protectorate's territory; to the surrounding post-Shirerithian [[Vulture States]] of the [[Raspur Pact]], it was symptomatic of the same rapacious intent which inspired the Protectorate's ongoing attempts to expand its frontiers into theirs, with all the armed skirmishes and diplomatic rancour such provocations entailed.

In early 1673 AN, seeking to even the odds against this vastly larger alliance, the Guttuli Protectorate had approached the government of [[Kalgachia]] - the most vocal Benacian dissenter to the Raspur Pact's hegemonic aspirations - to discuss the importation of arms. Citing the dubious viability of such an effort in the face of a Raspur Pact naval blockade, the Kalgachi government deferred the matter to its offshore commercial subsidiary, [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], which had gained some experience in the resourcing and chartering of fast blockade-running vessels to evade [[Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union|Bassarid]] naval patrols in the [[Sea of Storms]] during the [[Haifan Civil War]]. The most noted such vessel, the [[Jolly Froyalaner]], duly made the long passage from [[Los Liberados]] and commenced operations out of Torpentus Creek on the Eastern Lunatic coast.

Before long, the interaction of the ''Froyalaner's'' crew with Guttulinese settlers and subjugated Lunatics brought to light the severity of the sack of Erianamor which had occurred simultaneously with the vessel's new charter. These developments were at odds with the condition imposed upon that charter by the ''Froyalaner's'' indeterminate sponsors that the resolution of the Lunatic question be pursued by less genocidal means - a condition thought to originate from the [[House of Yastreb]] which had ruled Lunaris during its era of greatest prominence and latterly held several important positions in the Kalgachi government, contributing invariably to the ''Froyalaner's'' resourcing and to some degree the nature of its taskings. News of Erianamor's destruction was duly followed by tales - many corroborated by the own eyes of the ''Froyalaner's'' crew - of Lunaris' ancient forests being clear-cut or burned by soldiers whose attitude to survivors invariably defaulted to ritualised expressions of rank savagery. To the ''Froyalaner's'' sponsors it became clear that the Guttulinese government had no intention of honouring the no-genocide aspect of their bargain yet remained content for the ''Froyalaner's'' crew to engage in high-risk arms smuggling for the purpose, among others, of materially supporting that genocide.

The circumstances in which the ''Froyalaner's'' tasking was now altered, in the face of a Kalgachi foreign policy which nominally continued to support the Guttuli Protectorate as an unaligned Benacian power, was shrouded in opacity - the eventual denial of involvement in the matter by Kalgachia's diplomatic corps or their attached intelligence organs was lent some credence by the ability of the House of Yastreb to leverage their roles in Kalgachi government toward an independent solution, connected as they were to ex-special forces personnel of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] and the clandestine slush funds accumulated in the bowels of that country's banking sector. Certainly, it was observed by a few irritated Kalgachi diplomats, the will to initiate such a diplomatic headache for the sake of such a backwater as Lunaris could not have emerged from any other quarter.

Since the [[Slavegate Convention]], cordial connections had also existed between the ''Froyalaner's'' sponsors and senior Raspur Pact commanders whose services were now solicited; henceforth, it was agreed, local Raspur Pact naval forces - in this case the [[Navy of Ransenar]] - would be appraised of the ''Froyalaner's'' future shipments of smuggled arms and would be invited to feign their interception and confiscation upon the high seas, providing an explanation for the ''Froyalaner's'' arrival empty at Torpentus Creek. Before that arrival the weapons would, in fact, be delivered to unsubjugated Lunatics on the coast of the Bay of Sleep, where the trading activity of the ''Froyalaner's'' crew in and around coastal settlements had allowed them to reconnoitre clandestine smuggling routes between pockets of Guttulinese barrier troops remaining from the Upper Coastal Campaign of 1674.

On the pretext of sourcing commodities for export purchase from local settlements, members of the ''Froyalaner's'' crew established another line of communication between the headwaters of Torpentus Creek and the remnants of the Nemorosus Salus forest southeast of Erianamor, where contact was established with scattered bands of routed partisans. It was among these individuals that the appellation ''Children of Salus'' arose, although in reality most of their number had fled the charred forests for the reedy swamps of the Lacus Conticinium where Guttulinese foot patrols could be ambushed with relative ease in the boggy ground and were unable to bring up vehicles for support. The smaller forest contingent had nonetheless remained, dodging Guttulinese anti-partisan sweeps where able, to enable attacks on the southern approaches to Erianamor from both sides - the only thing preventing them from commencing such attacks, they told the ''Froyalaner's'' trade agents, was a lack of weapons.

===The Commencement===

====The Erianamor Missive====

By 1677 AN sufficient amounts of small arms had been diverted to the Children of Salus (along with the insertion of ex-special forces training cadres of diverse origins operating as soldiers of fortune) that they found themselves in a position to resume a campaign of resistance in earnest. This was announced by the delivery of a note to a roadside on the outskirts of Erianamor, pinned to the bullet-ridden corpse of a Guttuli Corps Decurion whose subordinates lay around him in a similar condition. The note read:

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'''''II. (I) There shall come a time when the the folly of mortal tyrants shall be uncontested in its power, (II) and the tyrants shall enslave the men of cold numbers to do their bidding. (III) Then the men of cold numbers shall look upon the immeasurable things and say, We Do Not Understand. (IV) And That Which We Do Not Understand, We Cannot Control, (V) and they shall not suffer the immeasurable things to exist in the realm of mortals.'''''

'''''II. (I) Great battles shall be fought for the conquest of Lunaris, on the battlefield and in the minds of mortals, (II) for the Lunatics shall be the last of their kind. (III) In these battles Lunaris shall prevail, for all the artists of the nations shall stand in its defence.'''''

'''''- The Book of Superstition, Ascent I-II'''''

''By the will of Ulimahinacua, deliverance is come upon the midnight tide.''

''Hear us, the Children of Salus, who stand in shadow with newfound weapons of fearsome might. Unto the Protectorate Council of the Guttuli, at this fullest girth of the One Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Moon of our people, are conveyed the following demands.''

'''''1. That the right of the Lunatic people to survive as a coherent societal group upon the land of their foremothers be recognised, codified and enforced.'''''

'''''2. That the precedent of [[shire:Lunaris#The Arya Occupation|Duke Aryeztur the Tyrant]] - who upon the First Quarter of the Seventy-Seventh Moon declared the city of Erianamor and the interior forests to be safe havens for the Lunatic people, even as he gave over their strategic coasts to the whimsy of covetous thalassocrats - be respected and restored by the sons of his Kezano-Antican familiars whose occult hand in this so-called Protectorate informs the gratuitous and ongoing slaughter of our children.'''''

'''''3. That violence against the Lunatics in any resulting safe area, whether by the hand of the Protectorate or arising from the mark of outlawry, be permanently ended.'''''

''The extinction of our people serves no end but the assuagement of chauvinistic hubris and historical illiteracy, and all Benacia knows it. Neither blind Mejorkhors nor [[House of Yastreb|crazed Yastrebs]] nor even the [[Jaysh al-Sathrati|bloodthirsty Kalirions]] ever saw fit to visit upon us such horrors as have been wrought in the present day; nor were their pretexts ever so feeble and disingenuous as the imposition of some wistful solar hegemony in whose name our houses and forests are now reduced to ashes. In the face of these atrocities our demands are so modest as to be gracious. They are simple, achievable and legitimised by the moral imperative of survival, the first instinct of all life. Until they are recognised and implemented we shall defer to that instinct by the only means available to us, and the eastern banks of the River Elwynn shall not know peace.''

''Know too that we, the Children of Salus, do not stand alone in our struggle.''

'''''Lunæ Erit Vobiscum.'''''

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====The ''Froyalaner's'' Attack====

At the same time as the delivery of the Erianamor Missive, the ''Jolly Froyalaner'' approached the port of [[Guttuli Protectorate#Svalbarh|Svalbarh]] on the pretext of negotiating Guttulinese naval escorts after another supposedly-failed arms smuggling run. The vessel was met by the local pilot boat and after a short conversation about the present arrangement of the shifting mudflats ahead, the pilot was abruptly shot dead along with the coxswain of his boat. The ''Froyalaner'' then accelerated to full speed, launching its complement of four container-housed [[S-2 Standard Missile|S-2 Standard missiles]] on a trajectory aimed at Svalbarh's Temple of Morsva. Upon reaching the port it drew sharply alongside the largest Guttulinese merchant vessel it could find and secured itself with grappling lines over the latter's gunwales, laying down heavy small arms fire in all directions to suppress resistance. Timers were then set in the ''Froyalaner's'' explosives-packed hold with barely sufficient delay for its crew to launch an outboard-powered pinnace and get clear of the blast zone, making thence for an escape toward the open sea.

====The Corporation's Exposition====

Shortly after the attack in Svalbarh, The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] issued a statement to the effect that:

''"The Corporation wishes to thank the Navy of Ransenar for its co-operation and assistance in feigning the capture of small arms shipments bound for the Guttuli Protectorate as cover for their diversion to the Children of Salus, a band of Lunatic freedom fighters presently engaged in a struggle for survival in the tracts of charred scrub which constitute their last remaining home.''

''The Corporation further wishes to appraise the mercantile classes of Micras of the Guttulinese perfidy which necessitated this course of action, as forewarning in the face of any future commercial overture from that regime. It is a fact that the Corporation's recent trade in arms with the Guttuli Protectorate, carrying such logistical and geopolitical risk that the Corporation was compelled to deny its occurrence, was initiated upon Guttulinese assurances of moderation in the resolution of the Lunatic Question which, for diverse esoteric reasons, is of value to the Corporation's sponsors. However the revelation of the sack of Erianamor, the subsequent razing of the Eth Lune Forest and numerous other atrocities have determined this covenant to be wilfully and egregiously broken by the Corporation's Guttulinese counterparties, obliging the Corporation to unilaterally assume the burden of its enforcement by equipping the Lunatics themselves with the means to assure their own survival.''

''All moral externalities aside, the Corporation considers faithful adherence to commercial agreements as integral to a high-trust international trade environment; a standard to which the Guttuli Protectorate has fallen regrettably short and in doing so, has forfeited the right to good faith and honest commerce from its nominal trade partners. The burden of restoring this right now lies with the Guttuli Protectorate and its behaviour going forward - a process which, in view of the destructive effect of its behaviour to date, will doubtless require a span of years."''

==Characteristics==

The Children of Salus are composed of a core of fighters residing in uncontrolled portions of Guttulinese Lunaris, assisted by a larger network of sympathetic informants and couriers amid the subjugated or imported population of controlled areas. Their presence is most concentrated in the swathes of half-burned forest and treacherous marshland surrounding the Pratum Libertas, at the heart of which is the city of Erianamor which served as the Lunatics' cultural hub until its sacking during Operation Fanlin. Although the city is still held by Guttulinese forces, their access to it is challenged by attacks on approaching troops and supply columns. Unlike in the more heavily-subjugated coastal areas, the Lunatics of the interior country are well appraised of Guttulinese social engineering objectives and their terminal implications for the Lunatics' future, having personally witnessed the most severe forms of their implementation. Adherence to Guttulinese rule by native Lunatics around Erianamor is consequently superficial and enforced solely by intimidation, with official mantras about the beneficient Rule of the Sun being easily overriden in the popular perception by traumatic memories of burning homes and forests, casual physical assault, rape and summary murder. Oppurtunities to assist the Children of Salus - whether broadly safe, moderately hazardous or sometimes even suicidal - are often taken up or else witnessed with silent assent by a population which knows it has little left to lose.

Armed formations of the Children of Salus are equipped with a wide variety of small arms and occasionally anti-tank weapons, the majority of them originating from the Raspur Pact. Their leadership is rhizomic and their battle tactics display signs of training by special operations and irregular warfare specialists from both [[Kalgachia|post-Minarborian]] and Raspur Pact doctrines. Of particular note is their ability to conceal infrared signatures using natural materials, to convey supplies by hand through difficult terrain, and to fight in foul weather.

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==Overview==

Situated in the eastern portion of [[Inner Benacia]] occupied by the [[Black Legions]] at the culmination of a brief armed confrontation with [[Kalgachia]], Lachdolor remained a part of the Republic, albeit one whose obligations and ties to the Dolmen at Stonetree have been all but dissolved by the ebb and flow of incessant war.

The occupation of the region provided a pale of settlement into which could be deposited those recalcitrant Lach of the [[Unified Governorates]] who have refused to sign the covenants demanded of them by the state. By this means the Red Lach are divided into the Registered Lach, those who have signed the covenant and who may reside in Lachmeren, and the Forest Lach obliged to remove themselves into Lachdolor on account of their refusal of fealty.

Whilst the Registered Lach in the Governorates are obliged to surrender their children to the state at the age of seven for enrolment in Boarding Schools established for the purpose in [[Port Benacia]] the Forest Lach are explicitly prohibited from providing their children with any more than education than a basic grounding in Istvanistani and arithmetic.

The Garrison of Lachdolor comprises of the First Legion and the [[Konkordskaya Bratva]]. The clans of the Forest Lach are left pretty much to run their own affairs provided that they refrain from banditry and remain available for service at the behest of the occupiers as and when required.

The region holds significant natural gas reserves and the desire to exploit these was one of the driving impulses for the occupation of this otherwise woefully under-developed wilderness region. A wholly owned subsidiary of the [[ESB Group]] - '''Dolor Gas''' - was formed in late 1674 to map out the gas fields and begin commercial extraction.

[[Konkordskaya Bratva|Tee-al]] infestation remains an abiding problem in spite of the implementation of extermination protocols first pioneered by the Black Legions in [[Upper Lywall]].

===Etymology===

Lachdolor is a compound name formed of "Lach", the Praeta for the Laqi tribesmen who for a time infested southern Benacia, and "dolor", an archaic Istvanistani word for a unit of suffering.

The name of Dolor can be traced, via the Minarborian settlement of the land as Novodolor (New Dolor) to the Barony of Dolor in the Duchy of Brookshire, comprising the historic counties of Woodshire, Caverden, Monty Crisco, and Alexandretta. How that region of Eastern Benacia acquired the name is another story, but succinctly it refers to the ''Via Dolōrōsa'' or Way of Sorrow followed by the warlord armies of the First Era progressing northwards along the western shore of the Red Elwynn towards the bloody enthronement of their chieftain as the latest fleeting Kaiser in Shirekeep, leaving a trail of destruction and misery in their wake.

The name was taken into exile by [[Minarboria|those traitors]] who fled the [[Shireroth|Imperial Republic]] and settled in the ungoverned territories of Central Benacia after the fall of [[Ashkenatza]], establishing Novodolor in remembrance of their abandoned homeland. With the necrotic demise of the Minarborian Empire the lands fell into the possession of various Lach brigands who, for a time, confederated around a pact sworn before the Dolmen of [[Stonetree]]. This alliance proved to be unsustainable and [[Inner Benacia]] was, in due course, crushed between [[Kalgachia]] and the [[Black Legions]].

The land that is now named for the suffering of the Lach has become a reservation for those unwilling to pledge to the covenant demanded by authorities in [[Merensk]].

===History===

====Minarborian Period====
The Lichgraviate of Novodolor was a territory of the northeastern Imperial Shrublands of [[Minarboria]], part of the undead monarch's core fiefdom known as the Lichnina. It was settled during the early years of the realm by a mixture of Overdolorish pioneers from [[Brookshire|Lichbrook]], roving bands of Laqis from the south who had accepted the banner of Minarbor, and [[Mishalan|Mishalanski]] refugees fleeing the collapse of Jeannite [[Amokolia]]. It became apparent that the integration of these dissonant populations into a state of Shrubly amity could only be achieved by the direct hand of Minarboria's ruling necrarchy, and Novodolor was duly incorporated into the Lichnina in {{Tooltip|1628 AN|800 AF}}.

For some time after its foundation, the greater part of Novodolor was a lawless and plague-stricken place that was almost reduced to complete anarchy by the disastrous emergence of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' in {{tooltip|1629 AN|847 AF}}. This gave rise to a lasting strain of dry fatalism and rugged temperament in the population, whose unflappable work ethic contributed much toward the development of Novodolor's southern industrial belt as well as giving local Shrubbery-backed paramilitary groups such as the Lichniks and the Karymovka Host a more uncomrpomising reputation than their peers in other provinces.

Novodolorsk was characterised by the three cities on its periphery; the capital Novodolorsk, the sprawling and ancient metropolis of Benacia Hamlet, and the frontier city of Vein. Between these cities were once the farmlands of the & Valley, the barren wastes of the eastern gas fields, and the fringes of the Octavian mountain range in the west. All of these rural areas were of relatively sparse habitation due to the Tee-al infestation, although the constriction of the creatures' containment zone by constant military action did, for a time, facilitate the slow re-population of its fringes by civilians.

The Novodolorish, while undeniably dour in character and dark in humour, accepted the tenets of Minarborealism as their prime motivation for improving the state of their bleak homeland into something altogether more jolly. The supremacy of Novodolor's undead caste through membership of the Lichnina existed hand-in-hand with [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] influences from nearby Whisperwood and gave the place a quintessentially 'Minarborian' character; albeit not as pretty as Lachmeren and not as jolly as [[Lywall Protectorate|Lywall]]. The 'harder' nature of Novodolor was, however, rather appropriate in view its position as a likely first battleground in the event of a land invasion by a [[Shireroth|foreign power]]; the level of military recruitment and deployment in Novodolor, for both convential forces and partisan irregulars, was amongst the highest in the whole Empire of Minarboria; the population's grim but dutiful acceptance of being wiped out for the mere sake of stalling an invading army was the subject of much gallows humour among them.

The most important historical depiction of Novodolor-era society - now all but extinct, save for those elements determined by genetics and physical geography - can be found in the memoirs titled [[The Lot of a Lichnik]], the case record of an officer of the Minarborian crown whcih detail his interactions with individuals and events across the Novodolorish class spectrum.

A state of rivalry existed between Novodolor (particularly the city of Novodolorsk) and the Marquessate of [[&zeter]]; with the latter regarded as an overly-liberal nest of effete cultural elitists with dangerous revolutionary tendencies, who in turn regarded the Novodolorish as a swathe of boorish provincials and wilful bigots of little use to society except as cannon fodder. It is perhaps this rivalry which prevented the more militant ideas of the [[Harvestfall Revolution]] from spreading beyond those small cadres of philosophers and arcanists who would go on to establish [[Kalgachia]] - suggesting, for those procedure-driven credents of the Minarborian Church who still clung to hopes of their empire's full reanimation, that the clerical élite in [[Sansabury]] still knew best and that their decimation by torpor, plague and psychosis was somehow irrelevant. Notwithstanding those who took flight toward the Octavian Mountains and [[Ketherism|revised their belief system]], the wistful hubris of those remaining would go some way toward explaining their aimless pliability to subsequent waves of conquest.

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Kalgachi Defence Force (1649 - 1718)

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The '''Military Forces of [[Kalgachia]]''' are composed of four distinct elements; the Kalgachi Defence Force, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects']] Border Guard Service, the Church Partisans and the Protectorate Forces. In total war conditions Kalgachia is capable of mobilising some 4.7 million people into these combat arms, amounting to one quarter of its entire population.

==The Kalgachi Defence Force==
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Kalgachi Defence Force'''
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[[File:KDF.png|200px]] '''''Official Marches:''''' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4TrwU8CDw The Finishing] - (Oktavyan Division & KDF overall)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybw2D6MEKD4 Alpine Gardens] - (Katarsis & Jollity Divisions)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JANvQPyy4fk Tee-als' Picnic] - (Lithead Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOl916DeEk Femurka Dance] - (Abrek & Schlepogora Divisions)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718cAGP_keM Pesakhnika] - (Bergburg Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHTyEyJd9Y0 A Mighty Fortress Is Our Shrub] - (Fortress Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32lL_DO71vE Straight Outta Shrubdom (The Whirdlebirbs are Flying)] - (Fire Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vyUcF_F2k The Woodshire Poacher] - (Special Purpose Regiment)''
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|'''Active:'''|| 147 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Kalgachia]]
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|'''Personnel:'''||112,177 full-time combatants 
77,000 active reservists 
847,000 inactive reservists 
567,531 in non-combatant command, administration, training and logistics
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|'''Type:''' || Infantry and fortification based territorial defence force with integrated mobile reconnaissance, air assault, air defence, electronic warfare and special operations capability
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Skivniks''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| ''The Perfectus'' (identity unknown) assisted by 3x Chiefs of Staff on rotation
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Sawdust''' (rolling [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] containment)
*'''Operation Caput Mortuum II''' (Defence of the [[Northbloom]] Protectorate)
*'''Operation Broodmother II''' (Defence of the Lepidopterum Protectorate)
*'''Operation Broodmother III''' (Support to the [[Upland Confederation]])

'''''HISTORICAL:''' 
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 3|Operation Credulity's Edge]]''' (Show of force in [[Sansabury]] to prove independence from [[Minarboria]])'' 
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|Operation Neaptide]]''' (Emissions fingerprinting of [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] gravimetric vehicles, development of countermeasures)
*'''''Operation Scrumptious''' (Logistics for humanitarian relief in [[Jingdao|Jingdaoese]] [[Batavia]] during the [[War of Lost Brothers]])''
*'''''Operation Beefsteak''' (Anti-bandit sweep near [[Kasterburg]] - succeeded by Operation Broodmother)
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 24|Operation Broodmother I]]''' (Southwest extension of Kalgachi territory to meet Kasterburg)
*'''''Operation Caput Mortuum I''' (Emissions monitoring of [[Northbloom]])
*'''''Operation Hot Rod''' (Reconnaissance and scrap metal collection around Litkov)
*'''''Operation Tropic Badger''' (occupation of [[Zylenia]] in support of the [[Talenore]]-[[Hoenn|Niijima]] Friendship Cruise)
*'''''Operation Ælmes''' (Military training and civil defence assistance to [[Nova England]])
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===Overview===

[[File:kdfposter.png|thumb|left|200px|The KDF has risen from its origins as a posse of glorified [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|hamster]] herders to aspirations of viable defence against the first-rank armies of [[Micras]].]]

The Kalgachi Defence Force (KDF) is the principal military force of Kalgachia, whose full-time component amounts to two field corps and three reserve armies supported by specialised fortress, air assault and special operations units. Drawing upon the doctrinal and technological legacy of the highly-developed [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] military-industrial complex, whose expertise it inherited almost wholesale, the KDF is the second-largest organ of Kalgachi state behind the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]] and by far the most heavily resourced; a result of its historical proximity to the immense and ideologically-hostile forces of [[Shireroth]] and subsequently the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Unified Governorates]]. The proximity of these martial behemoths, viewed in the [[Deep Singers|Ketherist horticultural tradition]], has been considered by the Kalgachi Central War College as a necessary and ultimately beneficial manifestation of 'evolutionary pressure' which sustains the combat capability of the KDF at greater level than the [[Micras|Micran]] average and lends it some protection against degenerative social tendencies at home.

The familiarity of the Kalgachi soldier with the spectre of death is maintained by the sustained operational tempo arising from the containment of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' (the notorious Tee-al), whose main habitat is located in the Kalgachi south but ultimately ranges throughout the country and beyond.

===Ground Doctrine===

In the face of overwhelmingly superior firepower by its historic geopoltical rivals, KDF doctrine places a heavy emphasis on rhizomic antifragility and swarm theory, dispersing points of failure as much as possible and effectively relegating centralised command to the preperatory phase of war in anticipation of its destruction or loss of communication during actual hostilities, requiring a high degree of territorial familiarity and individual initiative on the part of junior and mid-ranking officers to compensate for the shortfall. This extends to the KDF's logistical structure which emphasises short supply lines around a multitude of small covert arms dumps - usually guarded, administered and shared with local partisans - whose contents are supplied from deep underground munitions factories in peacetime and periodically rotated back underground for maintenance. While theoretically beneficial in a home defence scenario, reliance on such an arrangement does entail a substantial dropoff in KDF unit endurance on unfamiliar or hostile ground, for instance in large expeditionary operations. The only exceptions to this are the cossack units and special forces who are trained to obtain what little they need from bushcraft and/or plunder, and air assault units whose mobility extends to their logistical arrangements.

On a tactical level the KDF emphasises close integration with reservists and local partisans, helping the latter forces to harrass and distract the heavy spearheads of an invading army whilst the greater part of the KDF's own offensive power is devoted to the sustained and aggressive degradation of the enemy rear echelon, diverting the enemy from its primary objective of ground capture and retention whilst retarding the establishment of a functional occupation regime within ground it does control. With the exception of mounted and air units the KDF operates with a slow but constant mobility, using areas of thick vegetation and topographic hollows to locate and infiltrate small gaps in any front line or rear-echelon dragnet the enemy attempts to establish. The notion of permanently conceding ground, in a nation of Kalgachia's size and position, is considered futile regardless of the temporary benefits - therefore the entire country is considered a viable operational area regardless of the strategic situation, and the tactic of ''retreat by forward infiltration'' is considered imperative. Visual concealment and emissions control is an important aspect of this, assisted by items of kit such as the 'snuggly' - a quilted insulating sheet which, when not used as a blanket for sleeping out the cold Kalgachi nights, can be worn as a cape for reducing troops' infrared signature while on the move.

In active battle KDF commanders are taught to close hard with the enemy to negate the latter's air and artillery capability and under no circumstances allow themselves to be pinned down at distance - or at least to disengage and move quickly from their position of first contact where an unfavourable disparity of firepower is apparent. The KDF's underground units, equipped with submachine guns, shotguns, flamethrowers and other close range weaponry, show a particular enthusiasm - and allegedly aptitude - for this type of intimate battle, whether underground or on the surface.

Like its predecessors in Minarboria, the KDF work to integrate an effective anti-air and anti-tank defence down to the company or troop level and a robust electronic warfare capability, although the application of these in Kalgachia's rugged topography has necessitated much head-scratching by military planners with regard to the field disassembly and transport of larger systems by pack horse or helicopter.

===Air Doctrine===

From its creation, the KDF has renounced aspirations to air supremacy in view of the asset expense measured against the superiority of the probable opposition - a position informed by the commanding performance of [[F-8 Shrike|Shirerithian air assets]] in the [[War of Lost Brothers]]. In the air - as on land - the emphasis is on denial rather than control. This is offered by Kalgachia's sprawling air defence systems, composed of the tried and tested Minarborian surface-to-air missiles - the ''Sciarid'' MANPADS for short range, the ''Dandelion'' for medium range and the ''Burdock'' for long ranges extending to the edge of the Micran atmosphere. The latter, relying on active radar, operates with a cryptographically-determined, millisecond-range signal shift in the variables of frequency, pulse rate, amplitude and switch interval which themselves are duplicated across four unique channels, offering some resilience against spoofing or repeater jamming and, when linked with the signal refractors of friendly electronic warfare units, against wide-spectrum anti-radiation missiles. The ''Dandelion'' missile lacks this capability although its own active radar mode is generally an unused backup to its passive seekers which can operate in infrared, or utilise the Minarborian technology of ionised air homing which locks on to the electromagnetic burst of compressed air on rotor tips or the leading edges of transonic/supersonic fixed-wing aircraft. The seeker of the ''Sciarid'' missile is limited to infrared owing to its small size - although it does have an unguided firing option to provoke evasive manoeuvre, act as an infrared decoy or even attempt a lucky hit.

[[File:kdfcolumn.png|thumb|left|200px|Owing to its difficult terrain, Kalgachia's military logistics are unmechanised by design.]]
Kalgachia's military electronics are designed with resilience in mind - most are deliberately retro affairs of vacuum tubes, nixie displays or even clockwork that can be repaired in the field with pliers and a soldering iron without going to the trouble of replacing a whole unit or finding the air-filtered, static-free clean room required to work on microcircuitry. Such components also have a degree of innate EMP hardening, although the deficit in processing power compared with more complex miniaturised systems inevitably seeks compensation by the human brain, requiring a more intensive training regime for operators and a larger number of operators overall.

Before 194 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] the KDF's air defence assets operated on the standing instruction that all aircraft in Kalgachi airspace more than 3000 metres above the local ground level, unless explicit orders had been received to let them pass, were to be engaged and destroyed without warning. Over time this resulted in a series of accidents, usually involving non-instrument-rated pilots who found themselves in the impossible dilemma of flying into cloud and potentially striking a hidden mountain, or else climbing above the weather only to be blasted out of the sky. After much rancorous deliberation, Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti eventually approved the import of a single squadron of [[Buzzard C-61]] fighter jets from [[Kasterburg]] on the condition that they be limited to a peacetime air policing and special operations role, mindful of their uselessness in a total war scenario as their only available runway would likely be a prime target for enemy saturation strikes in the opening minutes of any such conflict.

The outsourcing of the Buzzards' maintenance burden to Kasterburg as part of the import agreement allows their Kalgachi pilots to train on an intensive, full-time basis by freely sacrificing airframe hours for pilot hours, resulting in maximum combat readiness and serving as a high-performance skill pool for the wider Kalgachi aviation community. Pilots of the Buzzards' operating unit, the Special Purpose Regiment, have found that this higher-than-average skill level is essential to fly the stub-winged aircraft, noting its violent proclivity for fatal stalls or spins at even modest angles of attack, the unpredictable effect of external payloads upon its handling characteristics in the transonic range, and runway instability due to its narrow landing gear configuration and the unusually high speeds required for takeoff and landing. The aircraft's limitations constrain its role in Kalgachi service to straight-run intercepts, reconnaissance missions, single-pass ground strikes and electronic operations with any attempts at dogfighting, close ground support or other manoeuvre operations considered an unacceptable risk to trained pilots and aircraft which were obtained at considerable expense to the state.

Close air support in the KDF is provided by the [[Whirdlebirb]], originally a [http://micras.org/wiki/images/4/4d/Air_Cav.png gunship of Babkhan origin] whose blueprints were discovered by the Minarborians during an archeological expedition to an Ashkenatzan bunker and rebuilt in modified form. The Kalgachi variant of the Whirdlebirb can carry a variety of armaments, or up to twelve troops or a combination thereof, although the use of mounted weapons while carrying exterior passengers on its exterior seating has led to unfortunate incidents in the past. Kalgachia's mountain topography offers a sea of radar clutter or complete shielding in which the Whirdlebirbs, flying low and slow, aim to achieve some degree of survivability in contested airspace; the rotorborne nature of the KDF's air support component also allows for maximum dispersal to unprepared locations in wartime and maintenance elements are correspondingly decentralised to sustain detached flights or even individual machines in the field, an arrangement which also aids their ground concealment.

KDF units are organised as follows:

===I (Inner) Corps===

====1st (Oktavyan) Division====

'''1st Surface Brigade''' 
- 1st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 1st Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 1st Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 1st Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''2nd Surface Brigade''' 
- 5th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 2nd Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 2nd Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''3rd Surface Brigade''' 
- 9th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 3rd Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 3rd Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''1st Underground Regiment''' 
- 1st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====8th (Oktavyan) Division====

[[File:Kdfuniforms.png|thumb|right|350px|KDF uniforms are quintessentially [[Benacia|Benacian]], drawing from Kalgachia's inherited [[Ashkenatza|Ashkenatzan]], [[Laqi Free Republic|Laqi]], [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] and ultimately [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] styles of dress.]]

'''15th Surface Brigade''' 
- 57th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 58th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 59th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 60th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 15th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 15th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''19th Surface Brigade''' 
- 73rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 74th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 75th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 76th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 22nd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 19th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 19th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''20th Surface Brigade''' 
- 77th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 78th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 79th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 80th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 23rd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 20th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 20th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''2nd Underground Regiment''' 
- 5th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====4th (Jollity) Division====

'''9th Surface Brigade''' 
- 33rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 34th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 35th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 36th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 9th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 9th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 9th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''10th Surface Brigade''' 
- 37th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 38th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 39th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 40th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 10th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 10th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''5th Underground Regiment''' 
- 17th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

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===II (Outer) Corps===

====2nd (Abrek) Division====

'''4th Surface Brigade''' 
- 13th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 4th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 4th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''5th Surface Brigade''' 
- 17th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 5th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 5th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 5th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''3rd Underground Regiment''' 
- 9th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====3rd (Katarsis) Division====

'''6th Surface Brigade''' 
- 21st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 22nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 23rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 24th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 6th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 6th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''7th Surface Brigade''' 
- 25th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 26th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 27th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 28th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 7th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 7th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''8th Surface Brigade''' 
- 29th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 30th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 31st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 32nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 8th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 8th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''4th Underground Regiment''' 
- 13th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====5th (Schlepogora) Division====

'''11th Surface Brigade''' 
- 41st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 42nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 43rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 44th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 11th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 11th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''12th Surface Brigade''' 
- 45th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 46th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 47th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 48th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 12th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 12th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''13th Surface Brigade''' 
- 49th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 50th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 51st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 52nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 13th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 13th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 13th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''6th Underground Regiment''' 
- 21st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 22nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 23rd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 24th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

'''''1-iy Kazachniy Polk Imeni Z.M. Karymova''''' '''(1st Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 1st Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 2nd Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 3rd Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 4th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

'''''2-oi Kazachniy Polk Imeni A.B. Hangbaidagulya''''' '''(2nd Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 5th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 6th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 7th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 8th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

'''''3-iy Kazachniy Polk Imeni V.S. Shumyanova''''' '''(3rd Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 9th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 10th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 11th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 12th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

====6th (Bergburg) Division====

'''14th Surface Brigade''' 
- 53rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 54th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 55th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 56th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 14th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 14th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''''Khativa I Netzach Ha-Ba''''' '''(1st Kossar Regiment)''' 
- 1st Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 2nd Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 3rd Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 4th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop])

'''''Khativa II Ha-Esh Volyri'''' '''(2nd Kossar Regiment)''' 
- 5th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 6th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 7th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 8th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop])

'''7th Underground Regiment''' 
- 25th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 26th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 27th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 28th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]

====7th (Lithead) Division====

'''16th Surface Brigade''' 
- 61st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 62nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 63rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 64th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 16th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 16th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''17th Surface Brigade''' 
- 65th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 66th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 67th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 68th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 17th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 17th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 17th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''18th Surface Brigade''' 
- 69th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 70th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 71st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 72nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 18th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 18th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''8th Underground Regiment''' 
- 29th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 30th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 31st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 32nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

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===Independent Units===

====Fortress Division====

The Fortress Division is tasked with operating Kalgachia's network of underground combat installations. These are built to one of three specifications - '''A''', '''B''', or '''Ludd'''. The A and B installations are large, embrasured weapon platforms built into steep mountainsides overlooking points of strategic importance such as cities or mountain passes. The considerably smaller Ludd sites house the KDF's inventory of medium-range ballistic missiles - these are fed with a constantly-updated stream of targeting data from civil and military intelligence sources which provide, in the event of hostilities on the border, an instant and targeted strike capability into Kalgachia's immediate abroad.

The largely static nature of the Fortress Division has allowed it to commission unique weapons systems such as an extended-range version of the Malus anti-gravtank missile (Malus-ER), essentially a standard Malus fitted with a booster stage which extends its hypersonic boost phase to a range of 5 kilometres for engagements at distance. Specification A fortresses are also equipped with the [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|Neaptide Gravimetric Countermeasure System]], a disruptive beam generator which is nominally operational but remains experimental in nature and is subject to frequent upgrades.

For supporting actions in areas without emplaced weapons, the Fortress Division operates three artillery trains with integrated area defence capability.

'''[http://micras.org/wiki/images/5/52/SpecAfortress.png Specification A Fortress] (320 personnel)''' 
- Malus-ER silo x24 
- Dandelion medium-range SAM silo x24 
- Heavy machine gun emplacement x16 
- Burdock long-range SAM silo x12 (these cable-linked to x4 tetrastatic/redundant radar heads off-site; can also be integrated with mobile SAM batteries) 
- 20mm autocannon emplacement x8 
- 152mm howitzer embrasure x8 
- 305mm gun embrasure x4 
- 'Neaptide' Gravimetric Countermeasure Emplacement x1

There are '''12''' Specification A fortresses, in the following locations:

-Looking North over Oktayvan's Northeast approaches 
-Looking North over Oktavyan proper 
-Looking Southeast over Abrek 
-Looking Northeast over Katarsis 
-Looking North over Schlepogora 
-Looking South over Lithead 
-Looking Southwest over Bergburg 
-Looking Southwest over Jollity 
-Looking North-northeast from Fort Candycane 
-Looking East-southeast from Fort Fortitude 
-Looking East-southeast from Mount Toastypops 
-Looking North from the Splatterhorn 

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/SpecBfortress.png Specification B Fortress] (150 personnel)''' 
- Malus-ER silo x6 
- Dandelion medium-range SAM silo x6 
- Heavy machine gun emplacement x8 
- Burdock long-range SAM silo x3 (these cable-linked to x2 bistatic/redundant radar heads off-site; can also be integrated with mobile SAM batteries) 
- 20mm autocannon emplacement x4 
- 152mm howitzer embrasure x4 

There are '''60''' Specification B fortresses, located approximately 70-80 kilometres apart throughout Kalgachia (except the Lieutenancy of Lepidopterum), interspersed by a further 180 cosmetic decoy sites.

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/a/ae/Luddlaunchsite.png Ludd MRBM Launch Site] (12 personnel)''' 
There are '''60''' Ludd launch sites throughout Kalgachia, each of which houses four Ludd MRBMs and sixteen launch-phase penetration aids. Among the launch sites are a further 60 cosmetic decoy sites.

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/Artillerytrain.png Artillery Train] (87 personnel)''' 
- 305mm gun x4 
- Burdock long-range SAM launcher x2 
- 40mm air defence cannon x2 
- Quad Dandelion medium-range SAM Launcher x1 
- Quad Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile launcher x1

There are '''3''' Artillery Trains located around the Kalgachi railway network, supplemented by a further 9 decoy trains.

====Fire Division====

The Fire Division is the KDF's main air assault unit, conceived as a substitute for armour and mechanised infantry in Kalgachia's mountainous topography. Created after much lobbying by [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|persistent quarters]] of the Kalgachi government who cited the operational successes of Kasterburg's [[Luchtmobiele Brigade]], the Fire Division is notable for being the only unit in the KDF capable of pulling a division-sized logistical tail faster than the speed of a pack horse. The Division is thought to be the priority recipient of Kalgachia's painstakingly-accumulated hydrocarbon fuel stockpiles.

'''1st Fire Regiment''' 
- 1st Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 2nd Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 3rd Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

'''2nd Fire Regiment''' 
- 4th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 5th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 6th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

'''3rd Fire Regiment''' 
- 7th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 8th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 9th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

====Special Purpose Regiment====
The Special Purpose Regiment is, as the name might imply, the KDF's special operations unit. In matters other than Tee-al containment the SPR, despite its small size, can be credited with more operational experience than the rest of the KDF combined. The full extent of the regiment's activities are naturally classified but are thought to occur primarily within the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|inner Benacian space]] and include reconnaissance, espionage, the capture, delivery or destruction of assets, targeted assassinations and influence operations. In this the regiment are said to have adopted and adapted the proven methods of the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] who have accrued some competence in the subtle stage-management of Kalgachia's own [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] clan politics over a number of decades.

The Regiment has occassionally been known to operate [[Zylenia|further afield]], loaned from the usual KDF command structure to [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|commercial]] or [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|other state]] entities. The experiences thus obtained are of immense value to less experienced units and SPR operatives of all ranks are frequently seconded to training cadres throughout the KDF. The SPR also operates Kalgachia's single squadron of jet fighter aircraft, usually in support of its other operations but also in a peacetime air identification role.

The SPR is composed of the following:

- 21st Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 24th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- Mountain Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Forest Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Cossack Squadron (250 Special Operatives, 250 horses) 
- Human Operations Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Fast Operations Squadron, Gravelbottom (16x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png Buzzard C-61 Jet Fighters])

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===KDF Reserve===

The Kalgachi Defence Force Reserve (KDFR) was split from the Church Partisans in 199 AL, to relieve the KDF's full-time units from logistical support and general security duties in the [[Northbloom|Northbloom Protectorate]]. Each KDF reservist spends one month per year on active duty - in peacetime some 77,000 troops are active at any one time, with the remaining 847,000 in civilian life awaiting their annual rotation. KDF reservists are only marginally better armed than their partisan counterparts but receive better training in a formal military environment - their duties in peacetime include military road and rail transport, running messages, guarding garrisons, operating and maintaining decoys, disaster relief, and quelling civil disorder on behalf of the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]].

The KDFR is disposed as follows:

'''1st Reserve Army (Centre)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Oktavyan: 2,520 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 210 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Jollity: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime.

'''2nd Reserve Army (North)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Abrek: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Katarsis: 1,260 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 105 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Bergburg: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime.

'''3rd Reserve Army (South)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Schlepogora: 1,680 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 140 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Lithead: 1,260 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 105 are active in peacetime.

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===Total KDF Assets===
(combat and combat support only)

'''- 847,000 inactive reserve personnel''' 
'''- 112,177 full-time personnel''' 
'''- 77,000 active reserve personnel''' 
'''- 15,330 horses''' 
'''- 1008 Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile emplacements''' 
'''- 684 Whirdlebirb K2 general-purpose helicopters''' 
'''- 672 emplaced heavy machine guns''' 
'''- 648 Dandelion medium-range SAM silos''' 
'''- 600 attack dogs''' 
'''- 480 mobile Burdock long-range SAM lanchers''' 
'''- 368 100mm pack anti-tank guns''' 
'''- 368 mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (twin)''' 
'''- 336 emplaced 152mm howitzers''' 
'''- 336 emplaced 20mm autocannons''' 
'''- 324 Burdock long-range SAM silos''' 
'''- 276 Whirdlebirb K3 helicopter gunships''' 
'''- 240 Ludd MRBM silos''' 
'''- 160 mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 160 mobile Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 72 152mm pack howitzers''' 
'''- 51 mobile Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (twin)''' 
'''- 48 emplaced 305mm guns''' 
'''- 16 Buzzard C-61 jet fighter aircraft''' 
'''- 12 emplaced 'Neaptide' gravimetric countermeasure systems''' 
'''- 12 rail-mounted 305mm guns''' 
'''- 6 rail-mounted 40mm air defence cannons (quad)''' 
'''- 6 rail-mounted Burdock long-range SAM lanchers''' 
'''- 3 rail-mounted Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 3 rail-mounted Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (quad)''' 

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===Non-Combatant Elements===

In addition to its combat function the KDF effectively functions as the Kalgachi defence ministry (a consequence of its unseen Supreme Commander being one of Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti, thus assuming overall responsibility for the coordination of national defence). This has resulted in a large non-combatant staff which dwarfs the size of the force's combat elements, allowing aged soldiers of even the lowest rank to sustain their careers past the age of frontline fitness. The arrangement also allows valuable experience from non-commissioned and junior officers to percolate through the command structure and mix with insights from the civilian world.

====General Staff====

There are three duplicate KDF General Staffs, each located in its own redundant deep-level underground command rhizome. Overall command of the KDF is periodically switched between these rhizomes for the purpose of staff experience or operational need. The exact location of these rhizomes - respectively codenamed '''GLACIS''', '''WESTNEST''' and '''FLORID''' is a closely guarded secret. Each command rhizome is comprised of the following elements:

- KDF Deep Command 
- I Corps Command 
- II Corps Command 
- Fortress Division Command 
- Fire Division Command 
- Special Operations Command 
- KDF Reserve Command 
- Intelligence Staff 
- Logistics Staff 
- Training Staff 
- [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyte]] Counsel 
- Partisan Liaison 
- Protectorate Forces Liaison 
- Civil Power Liaison 
- [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefect]] Liaison 
- Foreign Power Liaison

====Intelligence Command====
Intelligence Command gathers and interprets operationally-pertinent information, specialising particularly in the Open Source (OSINT) and Measurement and Signature (MASINT) branches of the craft. In addition the command maintains an extensive deception complex comprised of decoy military structures running into the hundreds along with spurious signals traffic, disinformation leakage, misleading vehicle movements and other falsely-generated signatures of a spectrographic, gravimetric, seismic and topographical nature.

====Logistics Command====
Logistics Command deals with the provision and storage of KDF supplies. It is a relatively invisible command - most of its production and storage facilities are deep underground. Once produced, movements of KDF supplies are generally left to the embedded logistical detachments of their destination units to avert the force nullification hazard of enemy action upon seperate supply formations. To ease the travel time required by combat units to collect supplies, Logistics Command maintains a network of concealed caches and ammunition dumps across Kalgachia. While working well on home ground, this supply arrangement does entail a substantial dropoff in KDF unit endurance when operating outside friendly territory - with the exception of special operations units, cossacks and other elements skilled in foraging and looting.

Logistics Command is composed of:

'''- Quartermaster General's Office''' (Oktavyan) 
'''- Armaments Office''' (Fort Fortitude) 
'''- Equipment Office''' (Bergburg) 
'''- Victualling Office''' (Oktokamensk) 
'''- Caching Office''' (Fort Candycane)

====Training Command====
Training Command maintains premises across Kalgachia for the development and refreshment of the KDF's fighting skills. These vary in size from small office buildings to enormous garrisons. Unlike most of the KDF's estate, Training Command's installations are located on or near the surface to allow easy transit to and from training manoeuvres. Regardless of their assigned trade, all KDF recruits undergo initial instruction at the School of Basic Training and Infantry Warfare in Katarsis City where they learn physical fitness, drill, weapon handling and other rudiments of military life before proceeding through other venues to complete their training regime.

Training Command is composed of:

*'''Kalgachi Central War College''' (Oktavyan)
*'''Partisan Instructors' College''' (Abrek)
*'''Infantry Warfare College'''
**School of Basic Training and Infantry Warfare (Katarsis)
**School of Mountain Warfare (Fort Fortitude)
**School of Underground and Urban Warfare (Oktavyan)
*'''School of Mobile Warfare and Animal Husbandry''' (Schlepogora)
*'''School of Artillery''' (Kossarstadt)
*'''School of Air Defence, Electronic Warfare and Military Intelligence''' (Bergburg)
**Mr. Ventaro's Charm School<ref>A legacy name - the school's [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8873 original director] is believed to have been dismissed on suspicion of introducing subtle misinformation to the curriculum, resulting in the compromise of several [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|DTW]] Field Researchers in 174 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]]. His subsequent fate is unknown, as is the identity of his successor(s).</ref> (OPFOR Cadre, Special Cultural Immersion Training)
*'''School of Combat Aviation''' (Fort Candycane)
*'''School of Biomic Warfare and Special Operations''' (Lithead)
*'''School of Logistics''' (Mirth)
*'''School of Battlefield Medicine, Chaplaincy and Catering''' (Jollity)
*'''School of Music''' (Jollity)
*'''School of Administrative Services''' (Oktavyan)

====Provost Marshal's Office====
The Provost Marshal's Office is concerned with military discipline and maintains a small stockade in most KDF garrisons along with a "Corrective Training Establishment" near the city of Abrek. Individuals in its care can sometimes be seen performing menial janitorial and repair work at KDF facilities.

==The Prefects' Border Guard Service==

Formed in 150 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], the Prefects' Border Guard Service (PBGS) is the most visible element of Kalgachia's internal security apparatus. In addition to the usual retinue of customs and immigration staff, the PBGS operates 342 armed Frontier Patrol Units (one for every 10km of the Kalgachi Frontier), each numbering 64 personnel and four attack dogs. Although these units are primarily intended to intercept individuals or small groups violating the Kalgachi border, their light firepower is augmented by an intimate knowledge of the Kalgachi frontier area and an aptitude for covert field reconnaissance second only to the KDF Special Purpose Regiment. They have also preserved certain strains of engineered flora from the Minarborian era - namely the notorious triad of Dreadnettle (''urtica terribilis''), Sharpshooter Primrose (''primula ballistis'') and Shrapnel Lily (''lilium discerptionis''), and have continued the Minarborian tradition of sowing these species into belts of 'biomic minefield' immediately behind the Kalgachi frontier. The periphery of these areas require periodic clearance to prevent the violent flora's uncontrolled spread into Kalgachia proper - a delicate task in itself and one for which the PBGS keeps a cadre of skilled gardeners, usually [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] specialists from the Lieutenancy of Lithead in Kalgachia's south.

Postings of PBGS guards are periodically rotated along the Kalgachi border to give each guard a balanced experience of challenging and quiet areas and to prevent the establishment of corrupt relationships with local smugglers or other border violators. Units posted to the quiet areas, such as those facing [[Batavia]] or Kalgachia's protectorates, are often downmanned for guards to take leave or assist Prefect operations in the Kalgachi interior.

===Total PBGS Field Assets===

- '''342 [http://micras.org/wiki/images/a/a8/Kalfrontierpatrol.png Frontier Patrol Units] totalling 21,888 personnel, 4104 horses and 1368 attack dogs'''

==Church Partisans==

[[File:Kalpartisans.png|thumb|right|300px|Church Partisans on manoeuvres, somewhere in the Lieutenancy of Oktavyan.]]

For all the KDF's fighting skill, it is not numerous enough to present effective resistance to an enemy attacking along the entire length of the Kalgachi frontier; so, as in Minarboria, every Church parish selects a portion of its able-bodied citizenry for mobilisation as partisans in a time of total war. Although numbers fluctuate within and between each parish, the total manpower (and womanpower) of such fighters is thought to be around '''3,700,000'''.

Over the course of many years, between more ordinary Church activities, those of the congregation selected as partisans undergo the following twelve-step programme of instruction by training cadres from the KDF:

1. Deconstruction and Dispelment of Alien Ideologies 
2. Resistance to Interrogation 
3. Escape and Evasion 
4. Camouflage and Fieldcraft 
5. Foraging and Bushcraft 
6. Clandestine Reconnaissance 
7. Improvisation of Weapons 
8. Trap-laying and Sabotage 
9. Acclimatisation to Suppressive Fire, Artillery and Airstrikes 
10. Weapons Handling and Marksmanship 
11. Recruitment and Small Unit Leadership 
12. Tactical and Operational Martyrdom

Kalgachi partisans are much mocked and maligned by the enlisted ranks of the KDF for their perceived lack of professionalism and delusions of martial grandeur - but their asymmetric doctrine, intimate knowledge of home ground and sheer numbers are quietly recognised by the KDF officer corps as of genuine military value in the event of a major war; if nothing else, the partisans' generous sprinkling of small arms and explosive caches maintained in every Kalgachi parish - the keys to which reside with the parish Credent and a trusted few of his congregation - give the KDF a valuable backup on home ground in the event of a collapse in their own supply chain.

In addition to their wartime function, each Parish keeps a proportion of its partisans mobilised in peacetime for the purposes of maintaining public order, firefighting and medical evacuation. The competence and professionalism of these formations vary in broad correlation with the density of the surrounding habitation, ranging from trained and uniformed full-time volunteers in the larger cities to licensed thugs and extortionists in the backwater parishes of the Laqi east.

==Protectorate Forces==
Two of Kalgachia's Protectorates have standing armed forces which are detailed [[Military of Kalgachia/Protectorate Forces|here]].

==References==

[[Category:Kalgachia]][[Category:Military]]

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Kalgachi Defence Force (1649 - 1718)/Protectorate Forces

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The '''Protectorate Forces''' are the armed forces of [[Kalgachia]]'s Protectorates, resourced almost entirely from the Kalgachi arms industry but autonomous from the Kalgachi military command chain. There are presently two such forces of note, the '''Northbloom Dragoons''' and the '''Black Brothers'''.

==The Northbloom Dragoons==

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|align=center colspan=2 | '''Northbloom Dragoons'''
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[[File:NDbadge.png|200px]] ''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3soTZXuAVWQ Mondo Is Doing His Mondo Things]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 190 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Northbloom]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 5040
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|'''Type:''' || Mounted infantry with integrated anti-tank and air defence
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Unexpected Friends''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| Brigadier Eustace F. Shrubbitude
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Caput Mortuum II''' (defence of the [[Northbloom]] Protectorate)
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The '''Northbloom Dragoons''' are the standing military force of the [[Northbloom|Northbloom Protectorate]]. The unit claims lineage from the 2nd Northern Frontier Division of [[Minarboria]] and its three constituent regiments are named for members of the [[House of Rossheim|Rossheim]] and [[Mondo Etzeterra|Etzeterra]] dynasties who have ruled Northbloom since the Minarborian era.

The Northbloom Dragoons are notable for having more horses than people - a consequence of their homeland's isolation in the depths of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] interior and the resultant fragility of access to hydrocarbon fuels in wartime. Those few fuel shipments which do arrive are used to power the Dragoons' small collection of Minarborian-era self-propelled SAM complexes.

===1st Regiment ''Octavia''===

- 1st Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 2nd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 3rd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 4th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===2nd Regiment ''Clarence''===

- 5th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 6th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 7th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 8th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===3rd Regiment ''Lyssansa''===

- 9th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 10th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 11th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 12th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===Total Northbloom Dragoons Field Assets===

'''-5712 horses''' 
'''-5040 personnel''' 
'''-96 12.7mm machine gun tachankas''' 
'''-48 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-36 100mm anti-tank guns''' 
'''-24 Self-propelled Burdock SAM launchers (quad)'''

==The Black Brothers==

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|align=center colspan=2 | '''Black Brothers'''
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''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcw_Q9x6EPw Ҳazedinov's Stand]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 175 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Upland Confederation]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 15,420
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|'''Type:''' || Line defence force with mounted reconnaissance and interdiction capability
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Rumbling Death''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| General Varҳat Ҳazedinov
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Broodmother III''' (defence of the [[Upland Confederation]])

'''''HISTORICAL:''''' 
*'''''[[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|Unternehmen Dschingis]]'''''
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The '''Black Brothers''' began as one of the many [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] warbands emergent from the collapse of [[Minarboria]] and by 175 AL they had secured some measure of power within the nascent [[Republic of Inner Benacia]], but found themselves repeatedly browbeaten and humiliated by more powerful factions. Beginning in 210 AL their loyalties began shifting in response to assistance from neighbouring Kalgachia, which sought to utilise them as a buffer against the advance of the [[Black Legions]] from [[Siyacha Free State|Siyacha]] toward [[Lepidopterum]]. With support from the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] the Black Brothers acquitted themselves decently during the ensuing skirmishes of 218 AL, due mainly to the reformation of their command structure and operational doctrines by their most distinguished commander, Varҳat Ҳazedinov. The Brothers' successes in territorial retention ultimately helped create the conditions for the [[Slavegate Convention]] and the establishment of the [[Upland Confederation]] under Kalgachi protection.

In accordance with their remit of linear defence in depth, the Black Brothers are noted for operating more field artillery than the KDF itself; the services of these guns are often called upon for the containment of [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|invasive fauna]] in Lepidopterum and Kalgachia proper.

===1st Regiment===
- 1st Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 2nd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 3rd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 4th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 5th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===2nd Regiment===
- 6th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 7th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 8th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 9th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 10th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===3rd Regiment===
- 11th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 12th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 13th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 14th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 15th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===4th Regiment===
- 16th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 17th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 18th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 19th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 20th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===5th Regiment===
- 21st Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 22nd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 23rd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 24th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 25th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===6th Regiment===
- 26th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 27th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 28th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 29th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 30th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===Total Black Brothers Field Assets===

'''-15,420 personnel''' 
'''-7950 horses''' 
'''-360 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-180 100mm anti-tank guns''' 
'''-90 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-90 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)'''

Kalgachi Defence Force (1649 - 1718)

2019-10-05T15:11:31Z

Yastreb: /* General Staff */

[[File:Kdfuniforms.png|thumb|right|350px|Kalgachi military attire is derived from likely and not-so-likely origins: [[Laqi]] Cossacks, [[Ashkenatza|Ashkenatzi]] Kossars, [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] line infantry, [[Nova England|Nova English]] naval dress and and the notorious "bellhop rig" of [[Shireroth|Shireroth]]'s Lunatic Legion. ]]

The '''Military Forces of [[Kalgachia]]''' are composed of four distinct elements; the Kalgachi Defence Force, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects']] Border Guard Service, the Church Partisans and the Protectorate Forces. In total war conditions Kalgachia is capable of mobilising some 4.7 million people into these combat arms, amounting to one quarter of its entire population.

==The Kalgachi Defence Force==
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Kalgachi Defence Force'''
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[[File:KDF.png|200px]] '''''Official Marches:''''' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4TrwU8CDw The Finishing] - (Oktavyan Division & KDF overall)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybw2D6MEKD4 Alpine Gardens] - (Katarsis & Jollity Divisions)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JANvQPyy4fk Tee-als' Picnic] - (Lithead Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOl916DeEk Femurka Dance] - (Abrek & Schlepogora Divisions)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718cAGP_keM Pesakhnika] - (Bergburg Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHTyEyJd9Y0 A Mighty Fortress Is Our Shrub] - (Fortress Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32lL_DO71vE Straight Outta Shrubdom (The Whirdlebirbs are Flying)] - (Fire Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vyUcF_F2k The Woodshire Poacher] - (Special Purpose Regiment)''
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|'''Active:'''|| 147 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Kalgachia]]
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|'''Personnel:'''||112,177 full-time combatants 
77,000 active reservists 
847,000 inactive reservists 
567,531 in non-combatant command, administration, training and logistics
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|'''Type:''' || Infantry and fortification based territorial defence force with integrated mobile reconnaissance, air assault, air defence, electronic warfare and special operations capability
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Skivniks''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| ''The Perfectus'' (identity unknown) assisted by 3x Chiefs of Staff on rotation
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Sawdust''' (rolling [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] containment)
*'''Operation Caput Mortuum II''' (Defence of the [[Northbloom]] Protectorate)
*'''Operation Broodmother II''' (Defence of the Lepidopterum Protectorate)
*'''Operation Broodmother III''' (Support to the [[Upland Confederation]])

'''''HISTORICAL:''' 
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 3|Operation Credulity's Edge]]''' (Show of force in [[Sansabury]] to prove independence from [[Minarboria]])'' 
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|Operation Neaptide]]''' (Emissions fingerprinting of [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] gravimetric vehicles, development of countermeasures)
*'''''Operation Scrumptious''' (Logistics for humanitarian relief in [[Jingdao|Jingdaoese]] [[Batavia]] during the [[War of Lost Brothers]])''
*'''''Operation Beefsteak''' (Anti-bandit sweep near [[Kasterburg]] - succeeded by Operation Broodmother)
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 24|Operation Broodmother I]]''' (Southwest extension of Kalgachi territory to meet Kasterburg)
*'''''Operation Caput Mortuum I''' (Emissions monitoring of [[Northbloom]])
*'''''Operation Hot Rod''' (Reconnaissance and scrap metal collection around Litkov)
*'''''Operation Tropic Badger''' (occupation of [[Zylenia]] in support of the [[Talenore]]-[[Hoenn|Niijima]] Friendship Cruise)
*'''''Operation Ælmes''' (Military training and civil defence assistance to [[Nova England]])
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===Overview===

[[File:kdfposter.png|thumb|left|200px|The KDF has risen from its origins as a posse of glorified [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|hamster]] herders to aspirations of viable defence against the first-rank armies of [[Micras]].]]

The Kalgachi Defence Force (KDF) is the principal military force of Kalgachia, whose full-time component amounts to two field corps and three reserve armies supported by specialised fortress, air assault and special operations units. Drawing upon the doctrinal and technological legacy of the highly-developed [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] military-industrial complex, whose expertise it inherited almost wholesale, the KDF is the second-largest organ of Kalgachi state behind the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]] and by far the most heavily resourced; a result of its historical proximity to the immense and ideologically-hostile forces of [[Shireroth]] and subsequently the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Unified Governorates]]. The proximity of these martial behemoths, viewed in the [[Deep Singers|Ketherist horticultural tradition]], has been considered by the Kalgachi Central War College as a necessary and ultimately beneficial manifestation of 'evolutionary pressure' which sustains the combat capability of the KDF at greater level than the [[Micras|Micran]] average and lends it some protection against degenerative social tendencies at home.

The familiarity of the Kalgachi soldier with the spectre of death is maintained by the sustained operational tempo arising from the containment of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' (the notorious Tee-al), whose main habitat is located in the Kalgachi south but ultimately ranges throughout the country and beyond.

===Ground Doctrine===

In the face of overwhelmingly superior firepower by its historic geopoltical rivals, KDF doctrine places a heavy emphasis on rhizomic antifragility and swarm theory, dispersing points of failure as much as possible and effectively relegating centralised command to the preperatory phase of war in anticipation of its destruction or loss of communication during actual hostilities, requiring a high degree of territorial familiarity and individual initiative on the part of junior and mid-ranking officers to compensate for the shortfall. This extends to the KDF's logistical structure which emphasises short supply lines around a multitude of small covert arms dumps - usually guarded, administered and shared with local partisans - whose contents are supplied from deep underground munitions factories in peacetime and periodically rotated back underground for maintenance. While theoretically beneficial in a home defence scenario, reliance on such an arrangement does entail a substantial dropoff in KDF unit endurance on unfamiliar or hostile ground, for instance in large expeditionary operations. The only exceptions to this are the cossack units and special forces who are trained to obtain what little they need from bushcraft and/or plunder, and air assault units whose mobility extends to their logistical arrangements.

On a tactical level the KDF emphasises close integration with reservists and local partisans, helping the latter forces to harrass and distract the heavy spearheads of an invading army whilst the greater part of the KDF's own offensive power is devoted to the sustained and aggressive degradation of the enemy rear echelon, diverting the enemy from its primary objective of ground capture and retention whilst retarding the establishment of a functional occupation regime within ground it does control. With the exception of mounted and air units the KDF operates with a slow but constant mobility, using areas of thick vegetation and topographic hollows to locate and infiltrate small gaps in any front line or rear-echelon dragnet the enemy attempts to establish. The notion of permanently conceding ground, in a nation of Kalgachia's size and position, is considered futile regardless of the temporary benefits - therefore the entire country is considered a viable operational area regardless of the strategic situation, and the tactic of ''retreat by forward infiltration'' is considered imperative. Visual concealment and emissions control is an important aspect of this, assisted by items of kit such as the 'snuggly' - a quilted insulating sheet which, when not used as a blanket for sleeping out the cold Kalgachi nights, can be worn as a cape for reducing troops' infrared signature while on the move.

In active battle KDF commanders are taught to close hard with the enemy to negate the latter's air and artillery capability and under no circumstances allow themselves to be pinned down at distance - or at least to disengage and move quickly from their position of first contact where an unfavourable disparity of firepower is apparent. The KDF's underground units, equipped with submachine guns, shotguns, flamethrowers and other close range weaponry, show a particular enthusiasm - and allegedly aptitude - for this type of intimate battle, whether underground or on the surface.

Like its predecessors in Minarboria, the KDF work to integrate an effective anti-air and anti-tank defence down to the company or troop level and a robust electronic warfare capability, although the application of these in Kalgachia's rugged topography has necessitated much head-scratching by military planners with regard to the field disassembly and transport of larger systems by pack horse or helicopter.

===Air Doctrine===

From its creation, the KDF has renounced aspirations to air supremacy in view of the asset expense measured against the superiority of the probable opposition - a position informed by the commanding performance of [[F-8 Shrike|Shirerithian air assets]] in the [[War of Lost Brothers]]. In the air - as on land - the emphasis is on denial rather than control. This is offered by Kalgachia's sprawling air defence systems, composed of the tried and tested Minarborian surface-to-air missiles - the ''Sciarid'' MANPADS for short range, the ''Dandelion'' for medium range and the ''Burdock'' for long ranges extending to the edge of the Micran atmosphere. The latter, relying on active radar, operates with a cryptographically-determined, millisecond-range signal shift in the variables of frequency, pulse rate, amplitude and switch interval which themselves are duplicated across four unique channels, offering some resilience against spoofing or repeater jamming and, when linked with the signal refractors of friendly electronic warfare units, against wide-spectrum anti-radiation missiles. The ''Dandelion'' missile lacks this capability although its own active radar mode is generally an unused backup to its passive seekers which can operate in infrared, or utilise the Minarborian technology of ionised air homing which locks on to the electromagnetic burst of compressed air on rotor tips or the leading edges of transonic/supersonic fixed-wing aircraft. The seeker of the ''Sciarid'' missile is limited to infrared owing to its small size - although it does have an unguided firing option to provoke evasive manoeuvre, act as an infrared decoy or even attempt a lucky hit.

[[File:kdfcolumn.png|thumb|left|200px|Owing to its difficult terrain, Kalgachia's military logistics are unmechanised by design.]]
Kalgachia's military electronics are designed with resilience in mind - most are deliberately retro affairs of vacuum tubes, nixie displays or even clockwork that can be repaired in the field with pliers and a soldering iron without going to the trouble of replacing a whole unit or finding the air-filtered, static-free clean room required to work on microcircuitry. Such components also have a degree of innate EMP hardening, although the deficit in processing power compared with more complex miniaturised systems inevitably seeks compensation by the human brain, requiring a more intensive training regime for operators and a larger number of operators overall.

Before 194 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] the KDF's air defence assets operated on the standing instruction that all aircraft in Kalgachi airspace more than 3000 metres above the local ground level, unless explicit orders had been received to let them pass, were to be engaged and destroyed without warning. Over time this resulted in a series of accidents, usually involving non-instrument-rated pilots who found themselves in the impossible dilemma of flying into cloud and potentially striking a hidden mountain, or else climbing above the weather only to be blasted out of the sky. After much rancorous deliberation, Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti eventually approved the import of a single squadron of [[Buzzard C-61]] fighter jets from [[Kasterburg]] on the condition that they be limited to a peacetime air policing and special operations role, mindful of their uselessness in a total war scenario as their only available runway would likely be a prime target for enemy saturation strikes in the opening minutes of any such conflict.

The outsourcing of the Buzzards' maintenance burden to Kasterburg as part of the import agreement allows their Kalgachi pilots to train on an intensive, full-time basis by freely sacrificing airframe hours for pilot hours, resulting in maximum combat readiness and serving as a high-performance skill pool for the wider Kalgachi aviation community. Pilots of the Buzzards' operating unit, the Special Purpose Regiment, have found that this higher-than-average skill level is essential to fly the stub-winged aircraft, noting its violent proclivity for fatal stalls or spins at even modest angles of attack, the unpredictable effect of external payloads upon its handling characteristics in the transonic range, and runway instability due to its narrow landing gear configuration and the unusually high speeds required for takeoff and landing. The aircraft's limitations constrain its role in Kalgachi service to straight-run intercepts, reconnaissance missions, single-pass ground strikes and electronic operations with any attempts at dogfighting, close ground support or other manoeuvre operations considered an unacceptable risk to trained pilots and aircraft which were obtained at considerable expense to the state.

Close air support in the KDF is provided by the [[Whirdlebirb]], originally a [http://micras.org/wiki/images/4/4d/Air_Cav.png gunship of Babkhan origin] whose blueprints were discovered by the Minarborians during an archeological expedition to an Ashkenatzan bunker and rebuilt in modified form. The Kalgachi variant of the Whirdlebirb can carry a variety of armaments, or up to twelve troops or a combination thereof, although the use of mounted weapons while carrying exterior passengers on its exterior seating has led to unfortunate incidents in the past. Kalgachia's mountain topography offers a sea of radar clutter or complete shielding in which the Whirdlebirbs, flying low and slow, aim to achieve some degree of survivability in contested airspace; the rotorborne nature of the KDF's air support component also allows for maximum dispersal to unprepared locations in wartime and maintenance elements are correspondingly decentralised to sustain detached flights or even individual machines in the field, an arrangement which also aids their ground concealment.

KDF units are organised as follows:

===I (Inner) Corps===

====1st (Oktavyan) Division====

'''1st Surface Brigade''' 
- 1st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 1st Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 1st Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 1st Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''2nd Surface Brigade''' 
- 5th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 2nd Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 2nd Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''3rd Surface Brigade''' 
- 9th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 3rd Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 3rd Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''1st Underground Regiment''' 
- 1st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====8th (Oktavyan) Division====

'''15th Surface Brigade''' 
- 57th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 58th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 59th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 60th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 15th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 15th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''19th Surface Brigade''' 
- 73rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 74th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 75th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 76th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 22nd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 19th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 19th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''20th Surface Brigade''' 
- 77th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 78th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 79th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 80th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 23rd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 20th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 20th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''2nd Underground Regiment''' 
- 5th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====4th (Jollity) Division====

'''9th Surface Brigade''' 
- 33rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 34th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 35th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 36th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 9th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 9th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 9th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''10th Surface Brigade''' 
- 37th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 38th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 39th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 40th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 10th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 10th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''5th Underground Regiment''' 
- 17th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

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===II (Outer) Corps===

====2nd (Abrek) Division====

'''4th Surface Brigade''' 
- 13th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 4th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 4th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''5th Surface Brigade''' 
- 17th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 5th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 5th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 5th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''3rd Underground Regiment''' 
- 9th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====3rd (Katarsis) Division====

'''6th Surface Brigade''' 
- 21st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 22nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 23rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 24th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 6th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 6th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''7th Surface Brigade''' 
- 25th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 26th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 27th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 28th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 7th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 7th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''8th Surface Brigade''' 
- 29th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 30th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 31st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 32nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 8th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 8th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''4th Underground Regiment''' 
- 13th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====5th (Schlepogora) Division====

'''11th Surface Brigade''' 
- 41st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 42nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 43rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 44th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 11th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 11th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''12th Surface Brigade''' 
- 45th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 46th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 47th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 48th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 12th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 12th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''13th Surface Brigade''' 
- 49th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 50th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 51st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 52nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 13th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 13th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 13th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''6th Underground Regiment''' 
- 21st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 22nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 23rd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 24th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

'''''1-iy Kazachniy Polk Imeni Z.M. Karymova''''' '''(1st Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 1st Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 2nd Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 3rd Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 4th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

'''''2-oi Kazachniy Polk Imeni A.B. Hangbaidagulya''''' '''(2nd Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 5th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 6th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 7th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 8th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

'''''3-iy Kazachniy Polk Imeni V.S. Shumyanova''''' '''(3rd Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 9th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 10th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 11th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 12th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

====6th (Bergburg) Division====

'''14th Surface Brigade''' 
- 53rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 54th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 55th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 56th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 14th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 14th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''''Khativa I Netzach Ha-Ba''''' '''(1st Kossar Regiment)''' 
- 1st Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 2nd Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 3rd Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 4th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop])

'''''Khativa II Ha-Esh Volyri'''' '''(2nd Kossar Regiment)''' 
- 5th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 6th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 7th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 8th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop])

'''7th Underground Regiment''' 
- 25th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 26th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 27th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 28th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]

====7th (Lithead) Division====

'''16th Surface Brigade''' 
- 61st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 62nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 63rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 64th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 16th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 16th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''17th Surface Brigade''' 
- 65th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 66th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 67th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 68th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 17th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 17th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 17th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''18th Surface Brigade''' 
- 69th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 70th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 71st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 72nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 18th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 18th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''8th Underground Regiment''' 
- 29th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 30th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 31st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 32nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

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===Independent Units===

====Fortress Division====

The Fortress Division is tasked with operating Kalgachia's network of underground combat installations. These are built to one of three specifications - '''A''', '''B''', or '''Ludd'''. The A and B installations are large, embrasured weapon platforms built into steep mountainsides overlooking points of strategic importance such as cities or mountain passes. The considerably smaller Ludd sites house the KDF's inventory of medium-range ballistic missiles - these are fed with a constantly-updated stream of targeting data from civil and military intelligence sources which provide, in the event of hostilities on the border, an instant and targeted strike capability into Kalgachia's immediate abroad.

The largely static nature of the Fortress Division has allowed it to commission unique weapons systems such as an extended-range version of the Malus anti-gravtank missile (Malus-ER), essentially a standard Malus fitted with a booster stage which extends its hypersonic boost phase to a range of 5 kilometres for engagements at distance. Specification A fortresses are also equipped with the [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|Neaptide Gravimetric Countermeasure System]], a disruptive beam generator which is nominally operational but remains experimental in nature and is subject to frequent upgrades.

For supporting actions in areas without emplaced weapons, the Fortress Division operates three artillery trains with integrated area defence capability.

'''[http://micras.org/wiki/images/5/52/SpecAfortress.png Specification A Fortress] (320 personnel)''' 
- Malus-ER silo x24 
- Dandelion medium-range SAM silo x24 
- Heavy machine gun emplacement x16 
- Burdock long-range SAM silo x12 (these cable-linked to x4 tetrastatic/redundant radar heads off-site; can also be integrated with mobile SAM batteries) 
- 20mm autocannon emplacement x8 
- 152mm howitzer embrasure x8 
- 305mm gun embrasure x4 
- 'Neaptide' Gravimetric Countermeasure Emplacement x1

There are '''12''' Specification A fortresses, in the following locations:

-Looking North over Oktayvan's Northeast approaches 
-Looking North over Oktavyan proper 
-Looking Southeast over Abrek 
-Looking Northeast over Katarsis 
-Looking North over Schlepogora 
-Looking South over Lithead 
-Looking Southwest over Bergburg 
-Looking Southwest over Jollity 
-Looking North-northeast from Fort Candycane 
-Looking East-southeast from Fort Fortitude 
-Looking East-southeast from Mount Toastypops 
-Looking North from the Splatterhorn 

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/SpecBfortress.png Specification B Fortress] (150 personnel)''' 
- Malus-ER silo x6 
- Dandelion medium-range SAM silo x6 
- Heavy machine gun emplacement x8 
- Burdock long-range SAM silo x3 (these cable-linked to x2 bistatic/redundant radar heads off-site; can also be integrated with mobile SAM batteries) 
- 20mm autocannon emplacement x4 
- 152mm howitzer embrasure x4 

There are '''60''' Specification B fortresses, located approximately 70-80 kilometres apart throughout Kalgachia (except the Lieutenancy of Lepidopterum), interspersed by a further 180 cosmetic decoy sites.

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/a/ae/Luddlaunchsite.png Ludd MRBM Launch Site] (12 personnel)''' 
There are '''60''' Ludd launch sites throughout Kalgachia, each of which houses four Ludd MRBMs and sixteen launch-phase penetration aids. Among the launch sites are a further 60 cosmetic decoy sites.

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/Artillerytrain.png Artillery Train] (87 personnel)''' 
- 305mm gun x4 
- Burdock long-range SAM launcher x2 
- 40mm air defence cannon x2 
- Quad Dandelion medium-range SAM Launcher x1 
- Quad Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile launcher x1

There are '''3''' Artillery Trains located around the Kalgachi railway network, supplemented by a further 9 decoy trains.

====Fire Division====

The Fire Division is the KDF's main air assault unit, conceived as a substitute for armour and mechanised infantry in Kalgachia's mountainous topography. Created after much lobbying by [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|persistent quarters]] of the Kalgachi government who cited the operational successes of Kasterburg's [[Luchtmobiele Brigade]], the Fire Division is notable for being the only unit in the KDF capable of pulling a division-sized logistical tail faster than the speed of a pack horse. The Division is thought to be the priority recipient of Kalgachia's painstakingly-accumulated hydrocarbon fuel stockpiles.

'''1st Fire Regiment''' 
- 1st Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 2nd Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 3rd Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

'''2nd Fire Regiment''' 
- 4th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 5th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 6th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

'''3rd Fire Regiment''' 
- 7th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 8th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 9th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

====Special Purpose Regiment====
The Special Purpose Regiment is, as the name might imply, the KDF's special operations unit. In matters other than Tee-al containment the SPR, despite its small size, can be credited with more operational experience than the rest of the KDF combined. The full extent of the regiment's activities are naturally classified but are thought to occur primarily within the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|inner Benacian space]] and include reconnaissance, espionage, the capture, delivery or destruction of assets, targeted assassinations and influence operations. In this the regiment are said to have adopted and adapted the proven methods of the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] who have accrued some competence in the subtle stage-management of Kalgachia's own [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] clan politics over a number of decades.

The Regiment has occassionally been known to operate [[Zylenia|further afield]], loaned from the usual KDF command structure to [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|commercial]] or [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|other state]] entities. The experiences thus obtained are of immense value to less experienced units and SPR operatives of all ranks are frequently seconded to training cadres throughout the KDF. The SPR also operates Kalgachia's single squadron of jet fighter aircraft, usually in support of its other operations but also in a peacetime air identification role.

The SPR is composed of the following:

- 21st Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 24th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- Mountain Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Forest Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Cossack Squadron (250 Special Operatives, 250 horses) 
- Human Operations Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Fast Operations Squadron, Gravelbottom (16x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png Buzzard C-61 Jet Fighters])

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===KDF Reserve===

The Kalgachi Defence Force Reserve (KDFR) was split from the Church Partisans in 199 AL, to relieve the KDF's full-time units from logistical support and general security duties in the [[Northbloom|Northbloom Protectorate]]. Each KDF reservist spends one month per year on active duty - in peacetime some 77,000 troops are active at any one time, with the remaining 847,000 in civilian life awaiting their annual rotation. KDF reservists are only marginally better armed than their partisan counterparts but receive better training in a formal military environment - their duties in peacetime include military road and rail transport, running messages, guarding garrisons, operating and maintaining decoys, disaster relief, and quelling civil disorder on behalf of the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]].

The KDFR is disposed as follows:

'''1st Reserve Army (Centre)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Oktavyan: 2,520 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 210 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Jollity: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime.

'''2nd Reserve Army (North)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Abrek: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Katarsis: 1,260 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 105 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Bergburg: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime.

'''3rd Reserve Army (South)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Schlepogora: 1,680 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 140 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Lithead: 1,260 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 105 are active in peacetime.

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===Total KDF Assets===
(combat and combat support only)

'''- 847,000 inactive reserve personnel''' 
'''- 112,177 full-time personnel''' 
'''- 77,000 active reserve personnel''' 
'''- 15,330 horses''' 
'''- 1008 Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile emplacements''' 
'''- 684 Whirdlebirb K2 general-purpose helicopters''' 
'''- 672 emplaced heavy machine guns''' 
'''- 648 Dandelion medium-range SAM silos''' 
'''- 600 attack dogs''' 
'''- 480 mobile Burdock long-range SAM lanchers''' 
'''- 368 100mm pack anti-tank guns''' 
'''- 368 mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (twin)''' 
'''- 336 emplaced 152mm howitzers''' 
'''- 336 emplaced 20mm autocannons''' 
'''- 324 Burdock long-range SAM silos''' 
'''- 276 Whirdlebirb K3 helicopter gunships''' 
'''- 240 Ludd MRBM silos''' 
'''- 160 mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 160 mobile Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 72 152mm pack howitzers''' 
'''- 51 mobile Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (twin)''' 
'''- 48 emplaced 305mm guns''' 
'''- 16 Buzzard C-61 jet fighter aircraft''' 
'''- 12 emplaced 'Neaptide' gravimetric countermeasure systems''' 
'''- 12 rail-mounted 305mm guns''' 
'''- 6 rail-mounted 40mm air defence cannons (quad)''' 
'''- 6 rail-mounted Burdock long-range SAM lanchers''' 
'''- 3 rail-mounted Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 3 rail-mounted Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (quad)''' 

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===Non-Combatant Elements===

In addition to its combat function the KDF effectively functions as the Kalgachi defence ministry (a consequence of its unseen Supreme Commander being one of Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti, thus assuming overall responsibility for the coordination of national defence). This has resulted in a large non-combatant staff which dwarfs the size of the force's combat elements, allowing aged soldiers of even the lowest rank to sustain their careers past the age of frontline fitness. The arrangement also allows valuable experience from non-commissioned and junior officers to percolate through the command structure and mix with insights from the civilian world.

====General Staff====

There are three duplicate KDF General Staffs, each located in its own redundant deep-level underground command rhizome. Overall command of the KDF is periodically switched between these rhizomes for the purpose of staff experience or operational need. The exact location of these rhizomes - respectively codenamed '''GLACIS''', '''WESTNEST''' and '''FLORID''' is a closely guarded secret. Each command rhizome is comprised of the following elements:

- KDF Deep Command 
- I Corps Command 
- II Corps Command 
- Fortress Division Command 
- Fire Division Command 
- Special Operations Command 
- KDF Reserve Command 
- Intelligence Staff 
- Logistics Staff 
- Training Staff 
- [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyte]] Counsel 
- Partisan Liaison 
- Protectorate Forces Liaison 
- Civil Power Liaison 
- [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefect]] Liaison 
- Foreign Power Liaison

====Intelligence Command====
Intelligence Command gathers and interprets operationally-pertinent information, specialising particularly in the Open Source (OSINT) and Measurement and Signature (MASINT) branches of the craft. In addition the command maintains an extensive deception complex comprised of decoy military structures running into the hundreds along with spurious signals traffic, disinformation leakage, misleading vehicle movements and other falsely-generated signatures of a spectrographic, gravimetric, seismic and topographical nature.

====Logistics Command====
Logistics Command deals with the provision and storage of KDF supplies. It is a relatively invisible command - most of its production and storage facilities are deep underground. Once produced, movements of KDF supplies are generally left to the embedded logistical detachments of their destination units to avert the force nullification hazard of enemy action upon seperate supply formations. To ease the travel time required by combat units to collect supplies, Logistics Command maintains a network of concealed caches and ammunition dumps across Kalgachia. While working well on home ground, this supply arrangement does entail a substantial dropoff in KDF unit endurance when operating outside friendly territory - with the exception of special operations units, cossacks and other elements skilled in foraging and looting.

Logistics Command is composed of:

'''- Quartermaster General's Office''' (Oktavyan) 
'''- Armaments Office''' (Fort Fortitude) 
'''- Equipment Office''' (Bergburg) 
'''- Victualling Office''' (Oktokamensk) 
'''- Caching Office''' (Fort Candycane)

====Training Command====
Training Command maintains premises across Kalgachia for the development and refreshment of the KDF's fighting skills. These vary in size from small office buildings to enormous garrisons. Unlike most of the KDF's estate, Training Command's installations are located on or near the surface to allow easy transit to and from training manoeuvres. Regardless of their assigned trade, all KDF recruits undergo initial instruction at the School of Basic Training and Infantry Warfare in Katarsis City where they learn physical fitness, drill, weapon handling and other rudiments of military life before proceeding through other venues to complete their training regime.

Training Command is composed of:

*'''Kalgachi Central War College''' (Oktavyan)
*'''Partisan Instructors' College''' (Abrek)
*'''Infantry Warfare College'''
**School of Basic Training and Infantry Warfare (Katarsis)
**School of Mountain Warfare (Fort Fortitude)
**School of Underground and Urban Warfare (Oktavyan)
*'''School of Mobile Warfare and Animal Husbandry''' (Schlepogora)
*'''School of Artillery''' (Kossarstadt)
*'''School of Air Defence, Electronic Warfare and Military Intelligence''' (Bergburg)
**Mr. Ventaro's Charm School<ref>A legacy name - the school's [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8873 original director] is believed to have been dismissed on suspicion of introducing subtle misinformation to the curriculum, resulting in the compromise of several [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|DTW]] Field Researchers in 174 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]]. His subsequent fate is unknown, as is the identity of his successor(s).</ref> (OPFOR Cadre, Special Cultural Immersion Training)
*'''School of Combat Aviation''' (Fort Candycane)
*'''School of Biomic Warfare and Special Operations''' (Lithead)
*'''School of Logistics''' (Mirth)
*'''School of Battlefield Medicine, Chaplaincy and Catering''' (Jollity)
*'''School of Music''' (Jollity)
*'''School of Administrative Services''' (Oktavyan)

====Provost Marshal's Office====
The Provost Marshal's Office is concerned with military discipline and maintains a small stockade in most KDF garrisons along with a "Corrective Training Establishment" near the city of Abrek. Individuals in its care can sometimes be seen performing menial janitorial and repair work at KDF facilities.

==The Prefects' Border Guard Service==

Formed in 150 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], the Prefects' Border Guard Service (PBGS) is the most visible element of Kalgachia's internal security apparatus. In addition to the usual retinue of customs and immigration staff, the PBGS operates 342 armed Frontier Patrol Units (one for every 10km of the Kalgachi Frontier), each numbering 64 personnel and four attack dogs. Although these units are primarily intended to intercept individuals or small groups violating the Kalgachi border, their light firepower is augmented by an intimate knowledge of the Kalgachi frontier area and an aptitude for covert field reconnaissance second only to the KDF Special Purpose Regiment. They have also preserved certain strains of engineered flora from the Minarborian era - namely the notorious triad of Dreadnettle (''urtica terribilis''), Sharpshooter Primrose (''primula ballistis'') and Shrapnel Lily (''lilium discerptionis''), and have continued the Minarborian tradition of sowing these species into belts of 'biomic minefield' immediately behind the Kalgachi frontier. The periphery of these areas require periodic clearance to prevent the violent flora's uncontrolled spread into Kalgachia proper - a delicate task in itself and one for which the PBGS keeps a cadre of skilled gardeners, usually [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] specialists from the Lieutenancy of Lithead in Kalgachia's south.

Postings of PBGS guards are periodically rotated along the Kalgachi border to give each guard a balanced experience of challenging and quiet areas and to prevent the establishment of corrupt relationships with local smugglers or other border violators. Units posted to the quiet areas, such as those facing [[Batavia]] or Kalgachia's protectorates, are often downmanned for guards to take leave or assist Prefect operations in the Kalgachi interior.

===Total PBGS Field Assets===

- '''342 [http://micras.org/wiki/images/a/a8/Kalfrontierpatrol.png Frontier Patrol Units] totalling 21,888 personnel, 4104 horses and 1368 attack dogs'''

==Church Partisans==

[[File:Kalpartisans.png|thumb|right|300px|Church Partisans on manoeuvres, somewhere in the Lieutenancy of Oktavyan.]]

For all the KDF's fighting skill, it is not numerous enough to present effective resistance to an enemy attacking along the entire length of the Kalgachi frontier; so, as in Minarboria, every Church parish selects a portion of its able-bodied citizenry for mobilisation as partisans in a time of total war. Although numbers fluctuate within and between each parish, the total manpower (and womanpower) of such fighters is thought to be around '''3,700,000'''.

Over the course of many years, between more ordinary Church activities, those of the congregation selected as partisans undergo the following twelve-step programme of instruction by training cadres from the KDF:

1. Deconstruction and Dispelment of Alien Ideologies 
2. Resistance to Interrogation 
3. Escape and Evasion 
4. Camouflage and Fieldcraft 
5. Foraging and Bushcraft 
6. Clandestine Reconnaissance 
7. Improvisation of Weapons 
8. Trap-laying and Sabotage 
9. Acclimatisation to Suppressive Fire, Artillery and Airstrikes 
10. Weapons Handling and Marksmanship 
11. Recruitment and Small Unit Leadership 
12. Tactical and Operational Martyrdom

Kalgachi partisans are much mocked and maligned by the enlisted ranks of the KDF for their perceived lack of professionalism and delusions of martial grandeur - but their asymmetric doctrine, intimate knowledge of home ground and sheer numbers are quietly recognised by the KDF officer corps as of genuine military value in the event of a major war; if nothing else, the partisans' generous sprinkling of small arms and explosive caches maintained in every Kalgachi parish - the keys to which reside with the parish Credent and a trusted few of his congregation - give the KDF a valuable backup on home ground in the event of a collapse in their own supply chain.

In addition to their wartime function, each Parish keeps a proportion of its partisans mobilised in peacetime for the purposes of maintaining public order, firefighting and medical evacuation. The competence and professionalism of these formations vary in broad correlation with the density of the surrounding habitation, ranging from trained and uniformed full-time volunteers in the larger cities to licensed thugs and extortionists in the backwater parishes of the Laqi east.

==Protectorate Forces==
Two of Kalgachia's Protectorates have standing armed forces which are detailed [[Military of Kalgachia/Protectorate Forces|here]].

==References==

[[Category:Kalgachia]][[Category:Military]]

Kalgachi Defence Force (1649 - 1718)/Protectorate Forces

2019-10-05T15:11:15Z

Yastreb: /* The Black Brothers */

The '''Protectorate Forces''' are the armed forces of [[Kalgachia]]'s Protectorates, resourced almost entirely from the Kalgachi arms industry but autonomous from the Kalgachi military command chain. There are presently two such forces of note, the '''Northbloom Dragoons''' and the '''Black Brothers'''.

==The Northbloom Dragoons==

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|align=center colspan=2 | '''Northbloom Dragoons'''
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[[File:NDbadge.png|200px]] ''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3soTZXuAVWQ Mondo Is Doing His Mondo Things]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 190 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Northbloom]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 5040
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|'''Type:''' || Mounted infantry with integrated anti-tank and air defence
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Unexpected Friends''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| Brigadier Eustace F. Shrubbitude
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Caput Mortuum II''' (defence of the [[Northbloom]] Protectorate)
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The '''Northbloom Dragoons''' are the standing military force of the [[Northbloom|Northbloom Protectorate]]. The unit claims lineage from the 2nd Northern Frontier Division of [[Minarboria]] and its three constituent regiments are named for members of the [[House of Rossheim|Rossheim]] and [[Mondo Etzeterra|Etzeterra]] dynasties who have ruled Northbloom since the Minarborian era.

The Northbloom Dragoons are notable for having more horses than people - a consequence of their homeland's isolation in the depths of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] interior and the resultant fragility of access to hydrocarbon fuels in wartime. Those few fuel shipments which do arrive are used to power the Dragoons' small collection of Minarborian-era self-propelled SAM complexes.

===1st Regiment ''Octavia''===

- 1st Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 2nd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 3rd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 4th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===2nd Regiment ''Clarence''===

- 5th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 6th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 7th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 8th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===3rd Regiment ''Lyssansa''===

- 9th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 10th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 11th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 12th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===Total Northbloom Dragoons Field Assets===

'''-5712 horses''' 
'''-5040 personnel''' 
'''-96 12.7mm machine gun tachankas''' 
'''-48 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-36 100mm anti-tank guns''' 
'''-24 Self-propelled Burdock SAM launchers (quad)'''

==The Black Brothers==

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''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcw_Q9x6EPw Ҳazedinov's Stand]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 175 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Upland Confederation]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 15,420
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|'''Type:''' || Line defence force with mounted reconnaissance and interdiction capability
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Rumbling Death''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| General Varҳat Ҳazedinov
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Broodmother III''' (defence of the [[Upland Confederation]])

'''''HISTORICAL:''''' 
*'''''[[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|Unternehmen Dschingis]]'''''
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The '''Black Brothers''' began as one of the many [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] warbands emergent from the collapse of [[Minarboria]] and by 175 AL they had secured some measure of power within the nascent [[Republic of Inner Benacia]], but found themselves repeatedly browbeaten and humiliated by more powerful factions. Beginning in 210 AL their loyalties began shifting in response to assistance from neighbouring Kalgachia, which sought to utilise them as a buffer against the advance of the [[Black Legions]] from [[Siyacha Free State|Siyacha]] toward [[Lepidopterum]]. With support from the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] the Black Brothers acquitted themselves decently during the ensuing skirmishes of 218 AL, due mainly to the reformation of its command structure and operational doctrines by its most distinguished commander, Varҳat Ҳazedinov. The Brothers' successes in territorial retention ultimately helped create the conditons for the [[Slavegate Convention]] and the establishment of the [[Upland Confederation]] under Kalgachi protection.

In accordance with their remit of linear defence in depth, the Black Brothers are noted for operating more field artillery than the KDF itself; the services of these guns are often called upon for the containment of [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|invasive fauna]] in Lepidopterum and Kalgachia proper.

===1st Regiment===
- 1st Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 2nd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 3rd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 4th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 5th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===2nd Regiment===
- 6th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 7th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 8th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 9th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 10th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===3rd Regiment===
- 11th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 12th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 13th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 14th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 15th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===4th Regiment===
- 16th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 17th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 18th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 19th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 20th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===5th Regiment===
- 21st Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 22nd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 23rd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 24th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 25th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===6th Regiment===
- 26th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 27th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 28th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 29th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 30th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===Total Black Brothers Field Assets===

'''-15,420 personnel''' 
'''-7950 horses''' 
'''-360 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-180 100mm anti-tank guns''' 
'''-90 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-90 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)'''

Kalgachi Defence Force (1649 - 1718)/Protectorate Forces

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The '''Protectorate Forces''' are the armed forces of [[Kalgachia]]'s Protectorates, resourced almost entirely from the Kalgachi arms industry but autonomous from the Kalgachi military command chain. There are presently two such forces of note, the '''Northbloom Dragoons''' and the '''Black Brothers'''.

==The Northbloom Dragoons==

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|align=center colspan=2 | '''Northbloom Dragoons'''
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[[File:NDbadge.png|200px]] ''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3soTZXuAVWQ Mondo Is Doing His Mondo Things]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 190 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Northbloom]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 5040
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|'''Type:''' || Mounted infantry with integrated anti-tank and air defence
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Unexpected Friends''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| Brigadier Eustace F. Shrubbitude
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Caput Mortuum II''' (defence of the [[Northbloom]] Protectorate)
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The '''Northbloom Dragoons''' are the standing military force of the [[Northbloom|Northbloom Protectorate]]. The unit claims lineage from the 2nd Northern Frontier Division of [[Minarboria]] and its three constituent regiments are named for members of the [[House of Rossheim|Rossheim]] and [[Mondo Etzeterra|Etzeterra]] dynasties who have ruled Northbloom since the Minarborian era.

The Northbloom Dragoons are notable for having more horses than people - a consequence of their homeland's isolation in the depths of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] interior and the resultant fragility of access to hydrocarbon fuels in wartime. Those few fuel shipments which do arrive are used to power the Dragoons' small collection of Minarborian-era self-propelled SAM complexes.

===1st Regiment ''Octavia''===

- 1st Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 2nd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 3rd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 4th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===2nd Regiment ''Clarence''===

- 5th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 6th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 7th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 8th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===3rd Regiment ''Lyssansa''===

- 9th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 10th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 11th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 12th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===Total Northbloom Dragoons Field Assets===

'''-5712 horses''' 
'''-5040 personnel''' 
'''-96 12.7mm machine gun tachankas''' 
'''-48 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-36 100mm anti-tank guns''' 
'''-24 Self-propelled Burdock SAM launchers (quad)'''

==The Black Brothers==

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|align=center colspan=2 | '''Black Brothers'''
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''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcw_Q9x6EPw Ҳazedinov's Stand]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 175 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Upland Confederation]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 15,420
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|'''Type:''' || Line defence force with mounted reconnaissance and interdiction capability
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Rumbling Death''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| General Varҳat Ҳazedinov
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Broodmother III''' (defence of the [[Upland Confederation]])

'''''HISTORICAL:''''' 
*'''''[[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|Unternehmen Dschingis]]'''''
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The '''Black Brothers''' began as one of the many [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] warbands emergent from the collapse of [[Minarboria]] and by 175 AL they had secured some measure of power within the nascent [[Republic of Inner Benacia]], but found themselves repeatedly browbeaten and humiliated by more powerful factions. Beginning in 210 AL their loyalties began shifting in response to assistance from neighbouring Kalgachia, which sought to utilise them as a buffer against the advance of the [[Black Legions]] from [[Siyacha Free State|Siyacha]] toward [[Lepidopterum]]. With support from the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] the Black Brothers acquitted themselves decently during the ensuing skirmishes of 218 AL, due mainly to the reformation of its command structure and operational doctrines by its most distinguished commander, Varҳat Ҳazedinov. The Brothers' successes in territorial retention ultimately helped create the conditons for the [[Slavegate Convention]] and the establishment of the [[Upland Confederation]] under Kalgachi protection.

In accordance with their remit of linear defence in depth, the Black Brothers are noted for operating more field artillery than the KDF itself; the services of these guns are often called upon for the containment of [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|invasive fauna]] in Lepidopterum and Kalgachia proper.

===1st Regiment===
- 1st Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 2nd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 3rd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 4th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 5th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===2nd Regiment===
- 6th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 7th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 8th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 9th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 10th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===3rd Regiment===
- 11th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 12th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 13th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 14th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 15th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===4th Regiment===
- 16th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 17th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 18th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 19th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 20th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===5th Regiment===
- 21st Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 22nd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 23rd Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 24th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 25th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===6th Regiment===
- 26th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 27th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 28th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 29th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop]) 
- 30th Battalion (3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/27/Bblinecoy.png Line Company], 1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/Bbpatroltroop.png Patrol Troop])

===Total Black Brothers Field Assets===

'''-15,420 personnel''' 
'''-7950 horses''' 
'''-360 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-180 100mm anti-tank guns'''
'''-90 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-90 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)'''

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Kalgachi Defence Force (1649 - 1718)

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[[File:Kdfuniforms.png|thumb|right|350px|Kalgachi military attire is derived from likely and not-so-likely origins: [[Laqi]] Cossacks, [[Ashkenatza|Ashkenatzi]] Kossars, [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] line infantry, [[Nova England|Nova English]] naval dress and and the notorious "bellhop rig" of [[Shireroth|Shireroth]]'s Lunatic Legion. ]]

The '''Military Forces of [[Kalgachia]]''' are composed of four distinct elements; the Kalgachi Defence Force, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects']] Border Guard Service, the Church Partisans and the Protectorate Forces. In total war conditions Kalgachia is capable of mobilising some 4.7 million people into these combat arms, amounting to one quarter of its entire population.

==The Kalgachi Defence Force==
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|align=center colspan=2 | <center>'''Kalgachi Defence Force'''
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[[File:KDF.png|200px]] '''''Official Marches:''''' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4TrwU8CDw The Finishing] - (Oktavyan Division & KDF overall)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybw2D6MEKD4 Alpine Gardens] - (Katarsis & Jollity Divisions)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JANvQPyy4fk Tee-als' Picnic] - (Lithead Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOl916DeEk Femurka Dance] - (Abrek & Schlepogora Divisions)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718cAGP_keM Pesakhnika] - (Bergburg Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHTyEyJd9Y0 A Mighty Fortress Is Our Shrub] - (Fortress Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32lL_DO71vE Straight Outta Shrubdom (The Whirdlebirbs are Flying)] - (Fire Division)'' 
''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vyUcF_F2k The Woodshire Poacher] - (Special Purpose Regiment)''
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|'''Active:'''|| 147 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Kalgachia]]
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|'''Personnel:'''||112,177 full-time combatants 
77,000 active reservists 
847,000 inactive reservists 
567,531 in non-combatant command, administration, training and logistics
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|'''Type:''' || Infantry and fortification based territorial defence force with integrated mobile reconnaissance, air assault, air defence, electronic warfare and special operations capability
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Skivniks''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| ''The Perfectus'' (identity unknown) assisted by 3x Chiefs of Staff on rotation
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Sawdust''' (rolling [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] containment)
*'''Operation Caput Mortuum II''' (Defence of the [[Northbloom]] Protectorate)
*'''Operation Broodmother II''' (Defence of the Lepidopterum Protectorate)
*'''Operation Broodmother III''' (Support to the [[Upland Confederation]])

'''''HISTORICAL:''' 
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 3|Operation Credulity's Edge]]''' (Show of force in [[Sansabury]] to prove independence from [[Minarboria]])'' 
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|Operation Neaptide]]''' (Emissions fingerprinting of [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] gravimetric vehicles, development of countermeasures)
*'''''Operation Scrumptious''' (Logistics for humanitarian relief in [[Jingdao|Jingdaoese]] [[Batavia]] during the [[War of Lost Brothers]])''
*'''''Operation Beefsteak''' (Anti-bandit sweep near [[Kasterburg]] - succeeded by Operation Broodmother)
*'''''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 24|Operation Broodmother I]]''' (Southwest extension of Kalgachi territory to meet Kasterburg)
*'''''Operation Caput Mortuum I''' (Emissions monitoring of [[Northbloom]])
*'''''Operation Hot Rod''' (Reconnaissance and scrap metal collection around Litkov)
*'''''Operation Tropic Badger''' (occupation of [[Zylenia]] in support of the [[Talenore]]-[[Hoenn|Niijima]] Friendship Cruise)
*'''''Operation Ælmes''' (Military training and civil defence assistance to [[Nova England]])
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===Overview===

[[File:kdfposter.png|thumb|left|200px|The KDF has risen from its origins as a posse of glorified [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|hamster]] herders to aspirations of viable defence against the first-rank armies of [[Micras]].]]

The Kalgachi Defence Force (KDF) is the principal military force of Kalgachia, whose full-time component amounts to two field corps and three reserve armies supported by specialised fortress, air assault and special operations units. Drawing upon the doctrinal and technological legacy of the highly-developed [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] military-industrial complex, whose expertise it inherited almost wholesale, the KDF is the second-largest organ of Kalgachi state behind the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]] and by far the most heavily resourced; a result of its historical proximity to the immense and ideologically-hostile forces of [[Shireroth]] and subsequently the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Unified Governorates]]. The proximity of these martial behemoths, viewed in the [[Deep Singers|Ketherist horticultural tradition]], has been considered by the Kalgachi Central War College as a necessary and ultimately beneficial manifestation of 'evolutionary pressure' which sustains the combat capability of the KDF at greater level than the [[Micras|Micran]] average and lends it some protection against degenerative social tendencies at home.

The familiarity of the Kalgachi soldier with the spectre of death is maintained by the sustained operational tempo arising from the containment of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' (the notorious Tee-al), whose main habitat is located in the Kalgachi south but ultimately ranges throughout the country and beyond.

===Ground Doctrine===

In the face of overwhelmingly superior firepower by its historic geopoltical rivals, KDF doctrine places a heavy emphasis on rhizomic antifragility and swarm theory, dispersing points of failure as much as possible and effectively relegating centralised command to the preperatory phase of war in anticipation of its destruction or loss of communication during actual hostilities, requiring a high degree of territorial familiarity and individual initiative on the part of junior and mid-ranking officers to compensate for the shortfall. This extends to the KDF's logistical structure which emphasises short supply lines around a multitude of small covert arms dumps - usually guarded, administered and shared with local partisans - whose contents are supplied from deep underground munitions factories in peacetime and periodically rotated back underground for maintenance. While theoretically beneficial in a home defence scenario, reliance on such an arrangement does entail a substantial dropoff in KDF unit endurance on unfamiliar or hostile ground, for instance in large expeditionary operations. The only exceptions to this are the cossack units and special forces who are trained to obtain what little they need from bushcraft and/or plunder, and air assault units whose mobility extends to their logistical arrangements.

On a tactical level the KDF emphasises close integration with reservists and local partisans, helping the latter forces to harrass and distract the heavy spearheads of an invading army whilst the greater part of the KDF's own offensive power is devoted to the sustained and aggressive degradation of the enemy rear echelon, diverting the enemy from its primary objective of ground capture and retention whilst retarding the establishment of a functional occupation regime within ground it does control. With the exception of mounted and air units the KDF operates with a slow but constant mobility, using areas of thick vegetation and topographic hollows to locate and infiltrate small gaps in any front line or rear-echelon dragnet the enemy attempts to establish. The notion of permanently conceding ground, in a nation of Kalgachia's size and position, is considered futile regardless of the temporary benefits - therefore the entire country is considered a viable operational area regardless of the strategic situation, and the tactic of ''retreat by forward infiltration'' is considered imperative. Visual concealment and emissions control is an important aspect of this, assisted by items of kit such as the 'snuggly' - a quilted insulating sheet which, when not used as a blanket for sleeping out the cold Kalgachi nights, can be worn as a cape for reducing troops' infrared signature while on the move.

In active battle KDF commanders are taught to close hard with the enemy to negate the latter's air and artillery capability and under no circumstances allow themselves to be pinned down at distance - or at least to disengage and move quickly from their position of first contact where an unfavourable disparity of firepower is apparent. The KDF's underground units, equipped with submachine guns, shotguns, flamethrowers and other close range weaponry, show a particular enthusiasm - and allegedly aptitude - for this type of intimate battle, whether underground or on the surface.

Like its predecessors in Minarboria, the KDF work to integrate an effective anti-air and anti-tank defence down to the company or troop level and a robust electronic warfare capability, although the application of these in Kalgachia's rugged topography has necessitated much head-scratching by military planners with regard to the field disassembly and transport of larger systems by pack horse or helicopter.

===Air Doctrine===

From its creation, the KDF has renounced aspirations to air supremacy in view of the asset expense measured against the superiority of the probable opposition - a position informed by the commanding performance of [[F-8 Shrike|Shirerithian air assets]] in the [[War of Lost Brothers]]. In the air - as on land - the emphasis is on denial rather than control. This is offered by Kalgachia's sprawling air defence systems, composed of the tried and tested Minarborian surface-to-air missiles - the ''Sciarid'' MANPADS for short range, the ''Dandelion'' for medium range and the ''Burdock'' for long ranges extending to the edge of the Micran atmosphere. The latter, relying on active radar, operates with a cryptographically-determined, millisecond-range signal shift in the variables of frequency, pulse rate, amplitude and switch interval which themselves are duplicated across four unique channels, offering some resilience against spoofing or repeater jamming and, when linked with the signal refractors of friendly electronic warfare units, against wide-spectrum anti-radiation missiles. The ''Dandelion'' missile lacks this capability although its own active radar mode is generally an unused backup to its passive seekers which can operate in infrared, or utilise the Minarborian technology of ionised air homing which locks on to the electromagnetic burst of compressed air on rotor tips or the leading edges of transonic/supersonic fixed-wing aircraft. The seeker of the ''Sciarid'' missile is limited to infrared owing to its small size - although it does have an unguided firing option to provoke evasive manoeuvre, act as an infrared decoy or even attempt a lucky hit.

[[File:kdfcolumn.png|thumb|left|200px|Owing to its difficult terrain, Kalgachia's military logistics are unmechanised by design.]]
Kalgachia's military electronics are designed with resilience in mind - most are deliberately retro affairs of vacuum tubes, nixie displays or even clockwork that can be repaired in the field with pliers and a soldering iron without going to the trouble of replacing a whole unit or finding the air-filtered, static-free clean room required to work on microcircuitry. Such components also have a degree of innate EMP hardening, although the deficit in processing power compared with more complex miniaturised systems inevitably seeks compensation by the human brain, requiring a more intensive training regime for operators and a larger number of operators overall.

Before 194 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] the KDF's air defence assets operated on the standing instruction that all aircraft in Kalgachi airspace more than 3000 metres above the local ground level, unless explicit orders had been received to let them pass, were to be engaged and destroyed without warning. Over time this resulted in a series of accidents, usually involving non-instrument-rated pilots who found themselves in the impossible dilemma of flying into cloud and potentially striking a hidden mountain, or else climbing above the weather only to be blasted out of the sky. After much rancorous deliberation, Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti eventually approved the import of a single squadron of [[Buzzard C-61]] fighter jets from [[Kasterburg]] on the condition that they be limited to a peacetime air policing and special operations role, mindful of their uselessness in a total war scenario as their only available runway would likely be a prime target for enemy saturation strikes in the opening minutes of any such conflict.

The outsourcing of the Buzzards' maintenance burden to Kasterburg as part of the import agreement allows their Kalgachi pilots to train on an intensive, full-time basis by freely sacrificing airframe hours for pilot hours, resulting in maximum combat readiness and serving as a high-performance skill pool for the wider Kalgachi aviation community. Pilots of the Buzzards' operating unit, the Special Purpose Regiment, have found that this higher-than-average skill level is essential to fly the stub-winged aircraft, noting its violent proclivity for fatal stalls or spins at even modest angles of attack, the unpredictable effect of external payloads upon its handling characteristics in the transonic range, and runway instability due to its narrow landing gear configuration and the unusually high speeds required for takeoff and landing. The aircraft's limitations constrain its role in Kalgachi service to straight-run intercepts, reconnaissance missions, single-pass ground strikes and electronic operations with any attempts at dogfighting, close ground support or other manoeuvre operations considered an unacceptable risk to trained pilots and aircraft which were obtained at considerable expense to the state.

Close air support in the KDF is provided by the [[Whirdlebirb]], originally a [http://micras.org/wiki/images/4/4d/Air_Cav.png gunship of Babkhan origin] whose blueprints were discovered by the Minarborians during an archeological expedition to an Ashkenatzan bunker and rebuilt in modified form. The Kalgachi variant of the Whirdlebirb can carry a variety of armaments, or up to twelve troops or a combination thereof, although the use of mounted weapons while carrying exterior passengers on its exterior seating has led to unfortunate incidents in the past. Kalgachia's mountain topography offers a sea of radar clutter or complete shielding in which the Whirdlebirbs, flying low and slow, aim to achieve some degree of survivability in contested airspace; the rotorborne nature of the KDF's air support component also allows for maximum dispersal to unprepared locations in wartime and maintenance elements are correspondingly decentralised to sustain detached flights or even individual machines in the field, an arrangement which also aids their ground concealment.

KDF units are organised as follows:

===I (Inner) Corps===

====1st (Oktavyan) Division====

'''1st Surface Brigade''' 
- 1st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 1st Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 1st Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 1st Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''2nd Surface Brigade''' 
- 5th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 2nd Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 2nd Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''3rd Surface Brigade''' 
- 9th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 3rd Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 3rd Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''1st Underground Regiment''' 
- 1st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 2nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 3rd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====8th (Oktavyan) Division====

'''15th Surface Brigade''' 
- 57th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 58th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 59th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 60th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 15th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 15th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''19th Surface Brigade''' 
- 73rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 74th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 75th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 76th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 22nd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 19th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 19th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''20th Surface Brigade''' 
- 77th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 78th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 79th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 80th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 23rd Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 20th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 20th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''2nd Underground Regiment''' 
- 5th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====4th (Jollity) Division====

'''9th Surface Brigade''' 
- 33rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 34th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 35th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 36th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 9th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 9th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 9th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''10th Surface Brigade''' 
- 37th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 38th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 39th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 40th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 10th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 10th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''5th Underground Regiment''' 
- 17th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

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===II (Outer) Corps===

====2nd (Abrek) Division====

'''4th Surface Brigade''' 
- 13th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 4th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 4th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 4th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''5th Surface Brigade''' 
- 17th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 19th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 20th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 5th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 5th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 5th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''3rd Underground Regiment''' 
- 9th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 10th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====3rd (Katarsis) Division====

'''6th Surface Brigade''' 
- 21st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 22nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 23rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 24th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 6th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 6th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 6th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''7th Surface Brigade''' 
- 25th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 26th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 27th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 28th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 7th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 7th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 7th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''8th Surface Brigade''' 
- 29th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 30th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 31st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 32nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 8th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 8th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 8th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''4th Underground Regiment''' 
- 13th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 15th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

====5th (Schlepogora) Division====

'''11th Surface Brigade''' 
- 41st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 42nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 43rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 44th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 11th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 11th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 11th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''12th Surface Brigade''' 
- 45th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 46th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 47th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 48th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 12th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 12th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 12th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''13th Surface Brigade''' 
- 49th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 50th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 51st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 52nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 13th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 13th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 13th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''6th Underground Regiment''' 
- 21st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 22nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 23rd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 24th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

'''''1-iy Kazachniy Polk Imeni Z.M. Karymova''''' '''(1st Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 1st Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 2nd Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 3rd Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 4th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

'''''2-oi Kazachniy Polk Imeni A.B. Hangbaidagulya''''' '''(2nd Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 5th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 6th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 7th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 8th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

'''''3-iy Kazachniy Polk Imeni V.S. Shumyanova''''' '''(3rd Cossack Regiment)''' 
- 9th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 10th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 11th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop]) 
- 12th Cossack Squadron (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2c/Laqkozaki.png Laqkozak Patrol Troop])

====6th (Bergburg) Division====

'''14th Surface Brigade''' 
- 53rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 54th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 55th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 56th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 14th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 14th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 14th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''''Khativa I Netzach Ha-Ba''''' '''(1st Kossar Regiment)''' 
- 1st Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 2nd Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 3rd Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 4th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop])

'''''Khativa II Ha-Esh Volyri'''' '''(2nd Kossar Regiment)''' 
- 5th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 6th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 7th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop]) 
- 8th Kossar Squadron (3x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f1/Kossarfs.png Fire Support Troop], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Kossarad.png Air Defence Troop])

'''7th Underground Regiment''' 
- 25th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 26th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 27th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 28th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]

====7th (Lithead) Division====

'''16th Surface Brigade''' 
- 61st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 62nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 63rd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 64th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 16th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 16th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 16th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''17th Surface Brigade''' 
- 65th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 66th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 67th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 68th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 17th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 17th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 17th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''18th Surface Brigade''' 
- 69th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 70th Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 71st Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 72nd Infantry Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/81/KDFinfcoy.png Infantry Company]) 
- 18th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 18th Air Defence Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8d/KalgachiSAMBattery.png Mobile SAM battery]) 
- 18th Electronic Warfare Battalion (2x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0b/KDFsensorjammers.png Mobile Sensor Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7f/KDFcommsjammers.png Mobile Comms Jamming Complex], 1x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/c/c6/KDFelint.png Mobile ELINT Complex])

'''8th Underground Regiment''' 
- 29th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 30th Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 31st Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company]) 
- 32nd Underground Battalion (4x [http://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e0/Undergroundcoy.png Underground Infantry Company])

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===Independent Units===

====Fortress Division====

The Fortress Division is tasked with operating Kalgachia's network of underground combat installations. These are built to one of three specifications - '''A''', '''B''', or '''Ludd'''. The A and B installations are large, embrasured weapon platforms built into steep mountainsides overlooking points of strategic importance such as cities or mountain passes. The considerably smaller Ludd sites house the KDF's inventory of medium-range ballistic missiles - these are fed with a constantly-updated stream of targeting data from civil and military intelligence sources which provide, in the event of hostilities on the border, an instant and targeted strike capability into Kalgachia's immediate abroad.

The largely static nature of the Fortress Division has allowed it to commission unique weapons systems such as an extended-range version of the Malus anti-gravtank missile (Malus-ER), essentially a standard Malus fitted with a booster stage which extends its hypersonic boost phase to a range of 5 kilometres for engagements at distance. Specification A fortresses are also equipped with the [[Tales from Kalgachia - 14|Neaptide Gravimetric Countermeasure System]], a disruptive beam generator which is nominally operational but remains experimental in nature and is subject to frequent upgrades.

For supporting actions in areas without emplaced weapons, the Fortress Division operates three artillery trains with integrated area defence capability.

'''[http://micras.org/wiki/images/5/52/SpecAfortress.png Specification A Fortress] (320 personnel)''' 
- Malus-ER silo x24 
- Dandelion medium-range SAM silo x24 
- Heavy machine gun emplacement x16 
- Burdock long-range SAM silo x12 (these cable-linked to x4 tetrastatic/redundant radar heads off-site; can also be integrated with mobile SAM batteries) 
- 20mm autocannon emplacement x8 
- 152mm howitzer embrasure x8 
- 305mm gun embrasure x4 
- 'Neaptide' Gravimetric Countermeasure Emplacement x1

There are '''12''' Specification A fortresses, in the following locations:

-Looking North over Oktayvan's Northeast approaches 
-Looking North over Oktavyan proper 
-Looking Southeast over Abrek 
-Looking Northeast over Katarsis 
-Looking North over Schlepogora 
-Looking South over Lithead 
-Looking Southwest over Bergburg 
-Looking Southwest over Jollity 
-Looking North-northeast from Fort Candycane 
-Looking East-southeast from Fort Fortitude 
-Looking East-southeast from Mount Toastypops 
-Looking North from the Splatterhorn 

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/7/7b/SpecBfortress.png Specification B Fortress] (150 personnel)''' 
- Malus-ER silo x6 
- Dandelion medium-range SAM silo x6 
- Heavy machine gun emplacement x8 
- Burdock long-range SAM silo x3 (these cable-linked to x2 bistatic/redundant radar heads off-site; can also be integrated with mobile SAM batteries) 
- 20mm autocannon emplacement x4 
- 152mm howitzer embrasure x4 

There are '''60''' Specification B fortresses, located approximately 70-80 kilometres apart throughout Kalgachia (except the Lieutenancy of Lepidopterum), interspersed by a further 180 cosmetic decoy sites.

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/a/ae/Luddlaunchsite.png Ludd MRBM Launch Site] (12 personnel)''' 
There are '''60''' Ludd launch sites throughout Kalgachia, each of which houses four Ludd MRBMs and sixteen launch-phase penetration aids. Among the launch sites are a further 60 cosmetic decoy sites.

'''[https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/Artillerytrain.png Artillery Train] (87 personnel)''' 
- 305mm gun x4 
- Burdock long-range SAM launcher x2 
- 40mm air defence cannon x2 
- Quad Dandelion medium-range SAM Launcher x1 
- Quad Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile launcher x1

There are '''3''' Artillery Trains located around the Kalgachi railway network, supplemented by a further 9 decoy trains.

====Fire Division====

The Fire Division is the KDF's main air assault unit, conceived as a substitute for armour and mechanised infantry in Kalgachia's mountainous topography. Created after much lobbying by [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|persistent quarters]] of the Kalgachi government who cited the operational successes of Kasterburg's [[Luchtmobiele Brigade]], the Fire Division is notable for being the only unit in the KDF capable of pulling a division-sized logistical tail faster than the speed of a pack horse. The Division is thought to be the priority recipient of Kalgachia's painstakingly-accumulated hydrocarbon fuel stockpiles.

'''1st Fire Regiment''' 
- 1st Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 2nd Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 3rd Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

'''2nd Fire Regiment''' 
- 4th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 5th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 6th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

'''3rd Fire Regiment''' 
- 7th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 8th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company]) 
- 9th Fire Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/95/Firehqs.png HQ & Support Company], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/1/19/Firecoy.png Fire Company])

====Special Purpose Regiment====
The Special Purpose Regiment is, as the name might imply, the KDF's special operations unit. In matters other than Tee-al containment the SPR, despite its small size, can be credited with more operational experience than the rest of the KDF combined. The full extent of the regiment's activities are naturally classified but are thought to occur primarily within the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|inner Benacian space]] and include reconnaissance, espionage, the capture, delivery or destruction of assets, targeted assassinations and influence operations. In this the regiment are said to have adopted and adapted the proven methods of the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] who have accrued some competence in the subtle stage-management of Kalgachia's own [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] clan politics over a number of decades.

The Regiment has occassionally been known to operate [[Zylenia|further afield]], loaned from the usual KDF command structure to [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|commercial]] or [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|other state]] entities. The experiences thus obtained are of immense value to less experienced units and SPR operatives of all ranks are frequently seconded to training cadres throughout the KDF. The SPR also operates Kalgachia's single squadron of jet fighter aircraft, usually in support of its other operations but also in a peacetime air identification role.

The SPR is composed of the following:

- 21st Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- 24th Whirdlebirb Squadron (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/4/45/Whirdlebirbs184.png Whirdlebirb Squadron]) 
- Mountain Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Forest Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Cossack Squadron (250 Special Operatives, 250 horses) 
- Human Operations Battalion (250 Special Operatives) 
- Fast Operations Squadron, Gravelbottom (16x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/62/Kalbuzzard.png Buzzard C-61 Jet Fighters])

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===KDF Reserve===

The Kalgachi Defence Force Reserve (KDFR) was split from the Church Partisans in 199 AL, to relieve the KDF's full-time units from logistical support and general security duties in the [[Northbloom|Northbloom Protectorate]]. Each KDF reservist spends one month per year on active duty - in peacetime some 77,000 troops are active at any one time, with the remaining 847,000 in civilian life awaiting their annual rotation. KDF reservists are only marginally better armed than their partisan counterparts but receive better training in a formal military environment - their duties in peacetime include military road and rail transport, running messages, guarding garrisons, operating and maintaining decoys, disaster relief, and quelling civil disorder on behalf of the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]].

The KDFR is disposed as follows:

'''1st Reserve Army (Centre)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Oktavyan: 2,520 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 210 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Jollity: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime.

'''2nd Reserve Army (North)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Abrek: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Katarsis: 1,260 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 105 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Bergburg: 840 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 70 are active in peacetime.

'''3rd Reserve Army (South)''' 
- Lieutenancy of Schlepogora: 1,680 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 140 are active in peacetime. 
- Lieutenancy of Lithead: 1,260 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/0f/KDFrescoy.png Reserve Companies] of which 105 are active in peacetime.

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===Total KDF Assets===
(combat and combat support only)

'''- 847,000 inactive reserve personnel''' 
'''- 112,177 full-time personnel''' 
'''- 77,000 active reserve personnel''' 
'''- 15,330 horses''' 
'''- 1008 Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile emplacements''' 
'''- 684 Whirdlebirb K2 general-purpose helicopters''' 
'''- 672 emplaced heavy machine guns''' 
'''- 648 Dandelion medium-range SAM silos''' 
'''- 600 attack dogs''' 
'''- 480 mobile Burdock long-range SAM lanchers''' 
'''- 368 100mm pack anti-tank guns''' 
'''- 368 mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (twin)''' 
'''- 336 emplaced 152mm howitzers''' 
'''- 336 emplaced 20mm autocannons''' 
'''- 324 Burdock long-range SAM silos''' 
'''- 276 Whirdlebirb K3 helicopter gunships''' 
'''- 240 Ludd MRBM silos''' 
'''- 160 mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 160 mobile Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 72 152mm pack howitzers''' 
'''- 51 mobile Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (twin)''' 
'''- 48 emplaced 305mm guns''' 
'''- 16 Buzzard C-61 jet fighter aircraft''' 
'''- 12 emplaced 'Neaptide' gravimetric countermeasure systems''' 
'''- 12 rail-mounted 305mm guns''' 
'''- 6 rail-mounted 40mm air defence cannons (quad)''' 
'''- 6 rail-mounted Burdock long-range SAM lanchers''' 
'''- 3 rail-mounted Malus-ER anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''- 3 rail-mounted Dandelion medium-range SAM launchers (quad)''' 

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===Non-Combatant Elements===

In addition to its combat function the KDF effectively functions as the Kalgachi defence ministry (a consequence of its unseen Supreme Commander being one of Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti, thus assuming overall responsibility for the coordination of national defence). This has resulted in a large non-combatant staff which dwarfs the size of the force's combat elements, allowing aged soldiers of even the lowest rank to sustain their careers past the age of frontline fitness. The arrangement also allows valuable experience from non-commissioned and junior officers to percolate through the command structure and mix with insights from the civilian world.

====General Staff====

There are three duplicate KDF General Staffs, each located in its own redundant deep-level underground command rhizome. Overall command of the KDF is periodically switched between these rhizomes for the purpose of staff experience or operational need. The exact location of these rhizomes - respectively codenamed '''GLACIS''', '''WESTNEST''' and '''FLORID''' is a closely guarded secret. Each command rhizome is comprised of the following elements:

- KDF Deep Command 
- I Corps Command 
- II Corps Command 
- Fortress Division Command 
- Fire Divison Command 
- Special Operations Command 
- KDF Reserve Command 
- Intelligence Staff 
- Logistics Staff 
- Training Staff 
- [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyte]] Counsel 
- Partisan Liaison 
- Protectorate Forces Liaison 
- Civil Power Liaison 
- [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefect]] Liaison 
- Foreign Power Liaison

====Intelligence Command====
Intelligence Command gathers and interprets operationally-pertinent information, specialising particularly in the Open Source (OSINT) and Measurement and Signature (MASINT) branches of the craft. In addition the command maintains an extensive deception complex comprised of decoy military structures running into the hundreds along with spurious signals traffic, disinformation leakage, misleading vehicle movements and other falsely-generated signatures of a spectrographic, gravimetric, seismic and topographical nature.

====Logistics Command====
Logistics Command deals with the provision and storage of KDF supplies. It is a relatively invisible command - most of its production and storage facilities are deep underground. Once produced, movements of KDF supplies are generally left to the embedded logistical detachments of their destination units to avert the force nullification hazard of enemy action upon seperate supply formations. To ease the travel time required by combat units to collect supplies, Logistics Command maintains a network of concealed caches and ammunition dumps across Kalgachia. While working well on home ground, this supply arrangement does entail a substantial dropoff in KDF unit endurance when operating outside friendly territory - with the exception of special operations units, cossacks and other elements skilled in foraging and looting.

Logistics Command is composed of:

'''- Quartermaster General's Office''' (Oktavyan) 
'''- Armaments Office''' (Fort Fortitude) 
'''- Equipment Office''' (Bergburg) 
'''- Victualling Office''' (Oktokamensk) 
'''- Caching Office''' (Fort Candycane)

====Training Command====
Training Command maintains premises across Kalgachia for the development and refreshment of the KDF's fighting skills. These vary in size from small office buildings to enormous garrisons. Unlike most of the KDF's estate, Training Command's installations are located on or near the surface to allow easy transit to and from training manoeuvres. Regardless of their assigned trade, all KDF recruits undergo initial instruction at the School of Basic Training and Infantry Warfare in Katarsis City where they learn physical fitness, drill, weapon handling and other rudiments of military life before proceeding through other venues to complete their training regime.

Training Command is composed of:

*'''Kalgachi Central War College''' (Oktavyan)
*'''Partisan Instructors' College''' (Abrek)
*'''Infantry Warfare College'''
**School of Basic Training and Infantry Warfare (Katarsis)
**School of Mountain Warfare (Fort Fortitude)
**School of Underground and Urban Warfare (Oktavyan)
*'''School of Mobile Warfare and Animal Husbandry''' (Schlepogora)
*'''School of Artillery''' (Kossarstadt)
*'''School of Air Defence, Electronic Warfare and Military Intelligence''' (Bergburg)
**Mr. Ventaro's Charm School<ref>A legacy name - the school's [https://hub.mn/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8873 original director] is believed to have been dismissed on suspicion of introducing subtle misinformation to the curriculum, resulting in the compromise of several [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|DTW]] Field Researchers in 174 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]]. His subsequent fate is unknown, as is the identity of his successor(s).</ref> (OPFOR Cadre, Special Cultural Immersion Training)
*'''School of Combat Aviation''' (Fort Candycane)
*'''School of Biomic Warfare and Special Operations''' (Lithead)
*'''School of Logistics''' (Mirth)
*'''School of Battlefield Medicine, Chaplaincy and Catering''' (Jollity)
*'''School of Music''' (Jollity)
*'''School of Administrative Services''' (Oktavyan)

====Provost Marshal's Office====
The Provost Marshal's Office is concerned with military discipline and maintains a small stockade in most KDF garrisons along with a "Corrective Training Establishment" near the city of Abrek. Individuals in its care can sometimes be seen performing menial janitorial and repair work at KDF facilities.

==The Prefects' Border Guard Service==

Formed in 150 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], the Prefects' Border Guard Service (PBGS) is the most visible element of Kalgachia's internal security apparatus. In addition to the usual retinue of customs and immigration staff, the PBGS operates 342 armed Frontier Patrol Units (one for every 10km of the Kalgachi Frontier), each numbering 64 personnel and four attack dogs. Although these units are primarily intended to intercept individuals or small groups violating the Kalgachi border, their light firepower is augmented by an intimate knowledge of the Kalgachi frontier area and an aptitude for covert field reconnaissance second only to the KDF Special Purpose Regiment. They have also preserved certain strains of engineered flora from the Minarborian era - namely the notorious triad of Dreadnettle (''urtica terribilis''), Sharpshooter Primrose (''primula ballistis'') and Shrapnel Lily (''lilium discerptionis''), and have continued the Minarborian tradition of sowing these species into belts of 'biomic minefield' immediately behind the Kalgachi frontier. The periphery of these areas require periodic clearance to prevent the violent flora's uncontrolled spread into Kalgachia proper - a delicate task in itself and one for which the PBGS keeps a cadre of skilled gardeners, usually [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] specialists from the Lieutenancy of Lithead in Kalgachia's south.

Postings of PBGS guards are periodically rotated along the Kalgachi border to give each guard a balanced experience of challenging and quiet areas and to prevent the establishment of corrupt relationships with local smugglers or other border violators. Units posted to the quiet areas, such as those facing [[Batavia]] or Kalgachia's protectorates, are often downmanned for guards to take leave or assist Prefect operations in the Kalgachi interior.

===Total PBGS Field Assets===

- '''342 [http://micras.org/wiki/images/a/a8/Kalfrontierpatrol.png Frontier Patrol Units] totalling 21,888 personnel, 4104 horses and 1368 attack dogs'''

==Church Partisans==

[[File:Kalpartisans.png|thumb|right|300px|Church Partisans on manoeuvres, somewhere in the Lieutenancy of Oktavyan.]]

For all the KDF's fighting skill, it is not numerous enough to present effective resistance to an enemy attacking along the entire length of the Kalgachi frontier; so, as in Minarboria, every Church parish selects a portion of its able-bodied citizenry for mobilisation as partisans in a time of total war. Although numbers fluctuate within and between each parish, the total manpower (and womanpower) of such fighters is thought to be around '''3,700,000'''.

Over the course of many years, between more ordinary Church activities, those of the congregation selected as partisans undergo the following twelve-step programme of instruction by training cadres from the KDF:

1. Deconstruction and Dispelment of Alien Ideologies 
2. Resistance to Interrogation 
3. Escape and Evasion 
4. Camouflage and Fieldcraft 
5. Foraging and Bushcraft 
6. Clandestine Reconnaissance 
7. Improvisation of Weapons 
8. Trap-laying and Sabotage 
9. Acclimatisation to Suppressive Fire, Artillery and Airstrikes 
10. Weapons Handling and Marksmanship 
11. Recruitment and Small Unit Leadership 
12. Tactical and Operational Martyrdom

Kalgachi partisans are much mocked and maligned by the enlisted ranks of the KDF for their perceived lack of professionalism and delusions of martial grandeur - but their asymmetric doctrine, intimate knowledge of home ground and sheer numbers are quietly recognised by the KDF officer corps as of genuine military value in the event of a major war; if nothing else, the partisans' generous sprinkling of small arms and explosive caches maintained in every Kalgachi parish - the keys to which reside with the parish Credent and a trusted few of his congregation - give the KDF a valuable backup on home ground in the event of a collapse in their own supply chain.

In addition to their wartime function, each Parish keeps a proportion of its partisans mobilised in peacetime for the purposes of maintaining public order, firefighting and medical evacuation. The competence and professionalism of these formations vary in broad correlation with the density of the surrounding habitation, ranging from trained and uniformed full-time volunteers in the larger cities to licensed thugs and extortionists in the backwater parishes of the Laqi east.

==Protectorate Forces==
Two of Kalgachia's Protectorates have standing armed forces which are detailed [[Military of Kalgachia/Protectorate Forces|here]].

==References==

[[Category:Kalgachia]][[Category:Military]]

Kalgachi Defence Force (1649 - 1718)/Protectorate Forces

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The '''Protectorate Forces''' are the armed forces of [[Kalgachia]]'s Protectorates, resourced almost entirely from the Kalgachi arms industry but autonomous from the Kalgachi military command chain. There are presently two such forces of note, the '''Northbloom Dragoons''' and the '''Black Brothers'''.

==The Northbloom Dragoons==

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|align=center colspan=2 | '''Northbloom Dragoons'''
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[[File:NDbadge.png|200px]] ''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3soTZXuAVWQ Mondo Is Doing His Mondo Things]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 190 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Northbloom]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 5040
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|'''Type:''' || Mounted infantry with integrated anti-tank and air defence
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Unexpected Friends''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| Brigadier Eustace F. Shrubbitude
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Caput Mortuum II''' (defence of the [[Northbloom]] Protectorate)
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The '''Northbloom Dragoons''' are the standing military force of the [[Northbloom|Northbloom Protectorate]]. The unit claims lineage from the 2nd Northern Frontier Division of [[Minarboria]] and its three constituent regiments are named for members of the [[House of Rossheim|Rossheim]] and [[Mondo Etzeterra|Etzeterra]] dynasties who have ruled Northbloom since the Minarborian era.

The Northbloom Dragoons are notable for having more horses than people - a consequence of their homeland's isolation in the depths of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] interior and the resultant fragility of access to hydrocarbon fuels in wartime. Those few fuel shipments which do arrive are used to power the Dragoons' small collection of Minarborian-era self-propelled SAM complexes.

===1st Regiment ''Octavia''===

- 1st Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 2nd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 3rd Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 4th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===2nd Regiment ''Clarence''===

- 5th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 6th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 7th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 8th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===3rd Regiment ''Lyssansa''===

- 9th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 10th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 11th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron]) 
- 12th Battalion (1x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/93/NDhqsqn.png HQ & Support Squadron], 3x [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bb/NDpatrolsqn.png Patrol Squadron])

===Total Northbloom Dragoons Field Assets===

'''-5712 horses''' 
'''-5040 personnel''' 
'''-96 12.7mm machine gun tachankas''' 
'''-48 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)''' 
'''-48 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-36 100mm anti-tank guns''' 
'''-24 Self-propelled Burdock SAM launchers (quad)'''

==The Black Brothers==

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|align=center colspan=2 | '''Black Brothers'''
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''Official March: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcw_Q9x6EPw Ҳazedinov's Stand]''
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|'''Active:'''|| 175 ''Anno Libertatis'' - present
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|'''Allegiance:'''|| [[Upland Confederation]] ([[Kalgachia]])
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|'''Personnel:'''|| 15,420
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|'''Type:''' || Line defence force with mounted reconnaissance and interdiction capability
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|'''Nickname:''' || "''The Rumbling Death''"
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|'''Current Commander:'''|| General Varҳat Ҳazedinov
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|'''Conflicts & Deployments'''|| '''ONGOING:''' 
*'''Operation Broodmother III''' (defence of the [[Upland Confederation]])

'''''HISTORICAL:''''' 
*'''''[[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|Unternehmen Dschingis]]'''''
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The '''Black Brothers''' began as one of the many [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] warbands emergent from the collapse of [[Minarboria]] and by 175 AL they had secured some measure of power within the nascent [[Republic of Inner Benacia]], but found themselves repeatedly browbeaten and humiliated by more powerful factions. Beginning in 210 AL their loyalties began shifting in response to assistance from neighbouring Kalgachia, which sought to utilise them as a buffer against the advance of the [[Black Legions]] from [[Siyacha Free State|Siyacha]] toward [[Lepidopterum]]. With support from the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] the Black Brothers acquitted themselves decently during the ensuing skirmishes of 218 AL, due mainly to the reformation of its command structure and operational doctrines by its most distinguished commander, Varҳat Ҳazedinov. The Brothers' successes in territorial retention ultimately helped create the conditons for the [[Slavegate Convention]] and the establishment of the [[Upland Confederation]] under Kalgachi protection.

In accordance with their remit of linear defence in depth, the Black Brothers are noted for operating more field artillery than the KDF itself; the services of these guns are often called upon for the containment of [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|invasive fauna]] in Lepidopterum and Kalgachia proper.

===1st Regiment===
- 1st Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 2nd Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 3rd Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 4th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 5th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop)

===2nd Regiment===
- 6th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 7th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 8th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 9th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 10th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop)

===3rd Regiment===
- 11th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 12th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 13th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 14th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 15th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop)

===4th Regiment===
- 16th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 17th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 18th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 19th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 20th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop)

===5th Regiment===
- 21st Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 22nd Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 23rd Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 24th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 25th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop)

===6th Regiment===
- 26th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 27th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 28th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 29th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop) 
- 30th Battalion (3x Line Company, 1x Patrol Troop)

===Total Black Brothers Field Assets===

'''-15,420 personnel''' 
'''-7950 horses''' 
'''-360 152mm howitzers''' 
'''-180 100mm anti-tank guns'''
'''-90 Mobile Malus anti-gravtank missile launchers (quad)''' 
'''-90 Mobile Dandelion SAM launchers (quad)'''

Floret

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[[Image:Floret.png|300px]] ''A Floret in the livery of its launch operator, El Kal.''</center>
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|'''Type:'''|| Civil turboprop transport aicraft
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|'''Manufacturer:'''|| Kalavia Fixed-Wing Works, [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]]
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|'''Range''' || 8,000km
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|'''Maximum Speed''' || 720km/h
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|'''Altitude Ceiling''' || 11,000m
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|'''Minimum Required Runway''' || 2,000m
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|'''Maximum Payload Weight''' || 22 tonnes
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|'''Passenger Capacity''' || 104
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The '''Floret''' is a civil transport aircraft produced by Kalavia, a unitary enterprise of the [[Kalgachia|Kalgachi]] government.

==Development History==
Between 159 and 193 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] the [[Jingdao|Jingdaoese]]-made [[Jan-van-Gent VII Model|Jan-van-Gent VII]] had provided Kalgachia's only means of foreign cargo shipment outside the grasp of [[Raspur Pact]] interference - the aircraft were considered so important that the Kalgachi government paid far over the market rate for their purchase and willingly offered their manufacturer, [[Sokoku Industries]], an exhorbitant maintenance contract. The payments required by the arrangement would eventually amount to the [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] equivalent of one tonne of gold bullion each year for 45 years, far exceeding the rest of Kalgachia's foreign trade turnover combined. By 204 AL, with rail links established to [[Batavia]], the Jan-van-Gent contract became untenable in the eyes of Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] and was quietly abandoned.

While the new rail links largely solved the problem of freight shipment, ideas began to circulate around the draughting rooms of Kalavia, Kalgachia's only aircraft manufacturer, for a cheaper domestically-made transport aircraft that could be used for miscellaneous duties such as the fast shipment of high-value cargoes or passengers<ref>The objective was especially pushed by embedded initiates of the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]] as part of a wider inter-generational project known as ''The Speciation'', begun in the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era with the objective of amending or displacing, with an expanding corpus of uniquiely [[Micras|Micrasian]] alternatives, such customs and creations as had emerged throughout history by liminal aetheric communication with, and consequent imitation of, the co-resonant dimensional realm of [[Terra]] - a habit practiced by many nations and considered idly uninspired to the point of civilisational degeneracy. </ref>. Although authorised by Kalavia management, the resulting design project languished for a number of years behind more important priorities such as the mass production of [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirb]] helicopters and the technical refinement of the [https://micras.org/wiki/images/6/66/Oobakeep.png Oobakeep] reconnaissance aircraft - a natural consequence of Kalavia's status as a wholly-owned [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|unitary enterprise]] of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]]. Only after 215 AL did the required development resources become fully available and the project commenced in earnest under the working name of ''Turbobirb''. The original proposal for an official name, ''[[Ketherism#Theology|Fleurette]]'', was considered too politically-charged for export sales and was eventually adjusted to the more neutral ''Floret'' - ostensibly due to its slimmer, more pleasing appearance than the Jan-van-Gent and its native origin in the 'Garden', as the Kalgachi called their homeland.

Coming from a manufacturer inexperienced in fixed-wing transports, the emerging aircraft inevitably came to resemble a fusion of Kalavia's previous engineering experience with that of the civil aeronautical cadre at El Kal. The undercarriage and empennage were duplicated wholesale from the Jan-van-Gent, the engines were a hybrid of the Whirdlebirb's turboshaft engine with its turbojet modification as used in the Oobakeep, and the counter-rotating propellers were run from a modification of the Whirlebirb's coaxial rotor drive. As many of the required components had been fabricated and tested in Kalavia's workshops during the Floret's long gestation - often without explicit permission - their incorporation in the prototype airframe was accomplished with unexpected ease.

The Floret's first test flight was successfully carried out in early 217 AL. The only significant problem noted was the feeble power of the elevators which, combined with a rear undercarriage somewhat aft of the aircraft's fully fuelled and loaded centre of gravity, required a significant and sustained effort by both pilots to rotate the aircraft for takeoff - the same problem created a tendency for the nose to fall heavily on landing. The aircraft's more agreeable characteristics included a good climb rate, an impressive cruise speed which approached those of turbojets and responsive ailerons and rudder which offered manoeuvrability in tight traffic patterns. Old Jan-van-Gent pilots undergoing conversion training on the first production Florets rated its handling to be considerably smoother and more agile except in turbulent air, to which its lighter airframe was more susceptible.

==Operational History==

[[File:AEW-1_Floret.png|thumb||left|300px|The Floret in its AEW-1 configuration.]]

El Kal took delivery of its first Florets in late 217 AL and the aircraft was offered for international sale through the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], with a dozen units sold to [[ESB Logistics]] of [[Constancia]]. The aircraft's performance in Constancian service led in turn to its conversion by Ergostásio Aeroskafón as an Airborne Early Warning platform for the Raspur Pact, entering service with the [[Black Legions]] of the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Unified Governorates]] in 228 AL.

==References==

[[Category:Kalgachia]][[Category:Aircraft]]

Black Legions

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**[[Operation Massive Wedge]]
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==Overview==

As the [[Kalirion Fracture]] led to the unravelling of the Imperial Republic of [[Shireroth]], the [[shire:Imperial Forces|Imperial Forces]] themselves began to disintegrate. However, as the main driver, in terms of contributions of personnel, equipment, and financial support, to the [[Raspur Pact]], Shireroth was too invested in the Pact, and the Pact was too invested in Shireroth, for the falling away of the formerly paramount power of the [[Benacia]]n continent to be countenanced. [[Fall Luikur]] would see '''''Pact-Loyalists''''' ruthlessly turn upon the remaining '''''Imperialists''''' in order to secure 25% of land forces, 50% of naval forces, 75% of aviation assets, and 75% of auxiliary forces, only to be defeated in their ultimate objective of a complete takeover of the Imperial Forces by the scale of the popular uprisings against the Imperial system and the sheer scale of the territorial dispersion of the isolated garrisons, depots, and manufacturies. In spite of this ultimate failure, the [[Benacian Stabilisation Force]] remained true to its objective - a Benacian continent, unified and obedient, secure as one of the foremost powers of the grand anti-[[USSO]] coalition. In consequence, the '''Black Legions''' were formed from the remnant of the Imperial Forces who had remained true to the vision of [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanism]] which had animated the Imperial Republic during its apogee as a global power.

==Doctrines==

The strategic objectives of the Black Legions, informed by the political imperatives of [[Benacia Command]] are, in their most succinct summation at least, refreshingly straightforward:-

#The reunification of the [[Benacia]]n continent into a Commonwealth;
#The adherence of that Benacian Commonwealth to the [[Raspur Pact]];
#The fullest possible assertion of the Human Supremacy over the resulting polity;
#The systematic and sequential reduction, by political and or military means, of all forces opposing or capable of opposing the implementation of the above points.

The doctrine that these objectives then proceed to inform however, being impacted by adverse political, economic, societal, geographic, and military realities, is rather more elaborately involved and less open to pithy summarisation.

The Black Legions, obligated to act on a continental level to advance the interests of the Pact, and on a local level to defend the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|territories]] under its direct administration, prepared interlinked strategic and operational doctrines with additional adjuncts regarding naval and air warfare.

===Strategic===

===Operational===

===Naval===

In an era when the burden of policing the high seas and assuring protection to [[SATCo|allied trade fleets]] now falls squarely on the shoulders of the [[Natopian Defense Force#Natopian Navy|Natopian]] and [[Imperial Constancian Armed Forces/Constantinian Navy|Constancian]] navies, the priority for the Black Legions is the defence of the littoral waters of Benacia. With what remained of the Imperial Navy of Shireroth's captial fleet now gently rusting at anchor in the harbour of [[Marinestation Sabatini]], the main means of force projection available to the Maritime Forces of the Black Legions are the collection of missile corvettes, fast attack boats, offshore patrol vessels, and logistic support vessels built up in the aftermath of the [[War of Lost Brothers]]. Naval doctrine emphasises the importance of fast-paced and aggressive swarming attacks against enemy task forces, carried out in coordination with airborne and land-based stand-off missile barrages, with the intention of disrupting and overwhelming the opposing force before it is able to put troops ashore.

In the [[Kalirion Fracture|unsettled conditions]] of the early 1670's, the Maritime Forces have been obliged to improvise, and to use such assets as were available to them, in order to secure their immediate objectives, be they the conducting of anti-piracy sweeps in the Iridian Isles, the putting of troops ashore on Florencia, or the Isle of Benacia, or the evacuation and then subsequent reoccupation of the former MoMA naval bases in the Khaz Modani archipelago. The Black Legions will readily commandeer civilian vessels for military operations and their attitude generally has been that if a boat floats and can house a containerised modular missile launcher then it can and must be made available for service as and when required. The Maritime Forces may be said to have a capability gap when it comes to anti-submarine warfare, and it is for this reason that [[Benacia Command]] lavishly sponsors the operations of [[ESB Group|ESB]] industrial-archaeology teams operating out of Rothaven and Šlomxala.

In spite of still possessing a solitary aircraft carrier, the [[wikipedia:Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier|Mortis-class]] ''Kaiser Mors VI'', Benacia Command considers the age of the aircraft carrier to be effectively over. The venerable and timeworn flattop was effectively mothballed in place, serving as a [[wikipedia:Barracks ship|barracks ship]] whilst its capacious hangers were re-purposed and used as repair workshops.

===Air and Space===

==Training==

Training for the Black Legions follows the pattern established under the Prince of Modan for the discipline of Imperial troops assigned to the Central Banner Group of [[Benacia Command]].

Those who dedicated themselves to the black banners of the new legions swore absolute obedience to their commanders, who in turn sore unquestioning obedience to their commanders and so forth all the way up the chain of command. Soldiers, irrespective of their origins, were forbidden to pillage, steal or molest civilians, accept gifts, have relations with women, eat meat or drink alcohol for the term and duration of their service, except during specified and authorised respite periods. An Inspectorate of Training and Discipline was established with inspectors for the separate legions under the authority of an Inspector General reporting directly to the [[Constantine Loup|Marshal]]. Officers were forced to undergo examinations to assess their familiarity with Kalgachi battle drills, New Zimian Manoeuvreist principles and Nova English Fire Team tactics, largely with the intention of weeding out those still wedded to the set piece actions and frontal assaults which characterised the old Imperial way of war.

The main objects of legionary training were fourfold: firstly, to produce a spirit of discipline and comradeship, second to none of the armed forces of any power; secondly, to learn the lesson that darkness is a help and not a hindrance; thirdly, to endow the legionary with a degree of physical fitness approaching that of a trained athlete, and at the same time to give him skill in handling all infantry weapons liable to be encountered on the battlefield; and finally – the most consistently reinforced message throughout training to make the legionary eager always to attack as and when opportunity permitted, even – especially – when the odds were not in his favour.

The legionary was expected, and required, to cultivate a spirit of continual aggression that would hold up under any circumstances, fair or foul; moreover, to attain this versatility, the legionary was expected to acquire a mastery of the art of war in all conditions, not only on land, his natural element, even when that land was a precarious foothold on a steep mountain crag, or a tangle of woodland brush and bog sown with dread-nettles and shrapnel-lilies, but also on sea, and, if need be, in the air.

===Induction===

Basic training for all personnel enlisted with the forces under the direct control of [[Benacia Command]] is the responsibility of the Inspectorate of Training and Discipline whose primary establishment is located within the ''Zitadelle'' of [[Merensk]]. Volunteers for the legions, and all personnel assigned to the legions must be volunteers, are normally recruited from amongst the wider pool of personnel maintained by the General Inspectorate, as well as the Aerospace and Maritime Forces maintained by [[Benacia Command]]. N&H and ESB paramilitaries are also eligible to volunteer although they, being blessed with their own defined career paths and material comforts, typically tended not to avail themselves of this opportunity.

{{Tooltip|Berht Klarænst|Fort Clarence}}, known to those passing through it as the "Depot"<ref>Named in the Minarborian era for one Clarence Etzeterra, mechanically-augmented lich and father of [[Mondo Etzeterra|Mondo]]. The ironic implications of training for a ''vernichtungskrieg'' against Benacian transhumanity in a venue named for a noted specimen of the latter has doubtless popularised the "Depot" designation as an more ideologically-palatable alternative.</ref> is situated within an eponymous bailiwick that has been depopulated by the expulsion of the Black Lach. One thing would become apparent from the beginning for new arrivals: officers, non-commissioned officers, and men alike, all went through the same training, leapt or clambered over the same obstacles, learned to handle the same weapons in the most efficient way, and lived the same hard life together.

The physical part of the legionaries training had its impact upon their state of mind. As the days went by and the legionary became able to march faster and still faster for longer and longer distances with heavier and heavier loads until he could cover 15 kilometres in ninety minutes, and 55 kilometres in nine hours, the innate pride born of an awareness of one's own strength took a hold on him. The legionary, spurred on by healthy competitive rivalry with his comrades, became more and more a man apart, as indeed he was by reason of his own conscious decision to join; thus the constant series of physical efforts the legionary undertook were, in and of themselves, an excellent form of mental training.

===Hardening===

After basic training was completed the inductees were cycled through three week courses of so-called "spiritual hardening", inspired apparently by the methods and insights of the [[Urchagin]]. Those who flunked the course would be cashiered and their records stamped, in green ink, with the initials LMF ("lacking moral fibre") effectively rendering them unemployable upon their return to civilian life anywhere in the territories of the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]]. The motto of the training regime henceforth was that 'Faith and Endurance surpasses Might'. The hardening process began on the first day with trainees forced to line up in files of ten and, at a charge, bayonet a row of live pigs suspended from the rafters before them. Each file would train together, be rewarded together, and be punished together, they were solemnly warned, for the remainder of the three weeks. As an illustration of this the files where any member had baulked at bayoneting a live squealing animal would be denied food and sleep but would be instead assigned to punishment details for the entirety of the rest period while everyone else enjoyed pork stew and a good night's sleep. As first two weeks progressed the trainees were subjected to a barrage of assault courses, long forced marches along wilderness tracks, and competitions where the files were set against one-another to obtain dispensation vouchers for meat and alcohol or else merely to avoid bringing up the rear and being assigned to yet another punishment detail. The final week consisted of tutorials on living off the land, vehicle dismount drills, counter ambush drills, and close quarter combat practice against veteran legionaries dressed up as Laqi bandits. One of the perks for the old-timers was the opportunity to inflict upon the new recruits all the nasty tricks, traps, and humiliations, that had been heaped upon them during ''their'' own induction. The concluding action of the week was a bunker clearance drill focusing on oblique angles of approach with use of stealth and concealment, forced entry with demolition charges, room to room clearance with gas grenades and thermite sticks followed by the gunning down of those still standing and the bayoneting of those prostrate on the ground. To add an extra dimension of realism each of the practice bunkers was held and defended by a detachment of [[Froyalaners|surplus protected persons]], tethered in place but equipped with riot guns and cudgels, who had been promised their freedom if they successfully survived the drill. None ever did.

At the conclusion of the three weeks each participant was given a week's leave, a pint of grog from the Depot canteen and an enamelled lapel badge featuring a blood-red hand held palm upwards.

===Vaszvaþnur===

The old Imperial practice of targeting minority groups for the purposes of sharpening a unit's blood-lust and improving situational awareness has continued into the present practices of training cohorts, with regular deployments of Fiþn (Troop) sized contingents into Lach infested territory. These raids would be conducted usually via a nighttime "vertical insertion" utilising re-purposed "Walrus" gravimetric transporters escorted by [[Whirdlebirb]]s. Once delivered into hostile country, via the hair-raising practice of ''"{{Tooltip|grav-tank desant|rappelling from the side of a gravimetric vehicle without becoming painfully entangled in its repulsion field}}"'', the troop would be obliged to utilise the time honoured [[wikipedia:Robert Rogers' 28 "Rules of Ranging"|practice]] in dealing with the Lach and to bring a specified quantity of tongues (including some with the bodies of their owners still attached) to the prearranged extraction point within a set number of hours or days.

In addition to serving as an introduction to the basics of field craft, these "{{tooltip|vaszvaþnur|wild-hunts}}" also helped to thin out the numbers of Black Lach who might otherwise be tempted to filter southwards over the old frontier from [[Inner Benacia]] into [[Lywall Protectorate|Upper Lywall]].

===Sifting===

Survivors of their first vaszvaþnur received a silver-gilt lapel badge, tastefully depicting a dagger embedded in a Lach skull, a five year service bond of ₦50,000, and a fortnight's leave. As a test of the initiate legionaries initiative, the cohort upon being dismissed would be instructed to reassemble at the end of the fortnight period at a new location, entirely removed from the Depot, anywhere on the Benacian continent. The exact location and time was spelt out. How the recruits would make it to the destination was their own affair. Those who failed to be present and correct on parade at the time and place specified would be returned to the ranks of the General Inspectorate. For the most part the locations would prove to be somewhere absurdly remote and inhospitable within the Raspur Pact's sphere of operations - [[New Blackstone]] and [[Raikoth]] were popular choices for testing an initiate legionary's ability to organise his own travelling arrangements on the fly. One, somewhat rakish, instructor specified that his recruits were to assemble on the steps of a specific gin house in Shirekeep's entertainments district<ref>It was subsequently discovered that the establishment had reminded this particular instructor of his overdue bar tab once too often.</ref> - which they did, prompting a riot amongst the bar's patrons and obliging the Palatini Corps to send an armoured personnel carrier equipped with a high-pressure water hose in order to quell the disorder.

These excursions, and the subsequent return journey to the Depot, would provide one final opportunity for the instructors to evaluate their charges before the final sifting. By this stage those unable to make the grade ought to have either been flushed out of the system or else solemnly cremated with all due ceremony on a pyre at the edge of the Depot's hinterland of cleared forest. This then, barring mishaps, was the opportunity to pick out candidates for commissioned and non-commissioned officer training, as well as those who might be suited for specialist training in the armoured, aerospace, or maritime arms of the Black Legions.

For those remaining at the end of the sifts however, assignment to the legions awaited. Although the need to replace casualties would sometimes override other considerations, normal practice would be to assign the newly minted legionary to a cohort at some considerable remove from his place of origin.

===Cultivation===

One of the more unusual aspects of legionary training was the insistence upon each trainee, as a part of his assigned section, tending to an allotted plot of land in which it was their duty to plant, tend, and cultivate a variety of vegetables during their time at the Depot. The purpose for this becomes more clear when the trainees are expected to first clear a patch of the forest adjacent the depot, a forest teeming with deliberately planted ''urtica terribilis'', ''primula ballistis'' and ''lilium discerptionis''. For the ordinary legionary it provides an education on how to recognise, avoid, or neutralise the most noxious and fatal reminders of Benacia's legacy of reckless bio-engineering by the Transhumanist foe; for junior officers on the other hand it is an opportunity to contemplate the difficulties inherent in uprooting and containing persistent rhizomic structures.

The other positive is that it helps keep catering costs for the establishment at Berht Klarænst under control.

===Specialist Training===

Further training would be provided for those personnel selected to perform specialist functions within the legions or else according to their assigned functions within the Aerospace and Maritime Forces of the Black Legions or the General Inspectorate.

The School of Engineering, located at St Riksburg in the [[Severnaya Gubernya]], provided a wide range of training not only in the engineering disciplines that would be fundamental for the Engineers of the General Inspectorate but also: Canine Attack Handlers; Explosive Ordnance Technicians; and Foremen and Project Managers.

==Formation and structure of units==

The Black Legions retained, at least at the outset, the administrative structure inherited from the [[shire:Imperial Army|Imperial Army]] resulting in the formation of two [[Combined Arms Corps]] (IV & VI) reporting to the Inspectorate of Land Forces and assigned respectively, for operational purposes to the Central and Southern Banner Groups of [[Benacia Command]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Type of Unit
![[wikipedia:Field Army|Hohm (Field Army)]]
![[wikipedia:Corps|Uihmanz (Corps)]]
![[Salb|Salb (Legion)]] / [[wikipedia:Brigade|Afzælt (Division)]]
![[wikipedia:Battalion|Gauht (Cohort) / Furgsaddâ (Vexillation)]]
![[wikipedia:Company (military unit)|Opratzt (Maniple) / Haß (Squadron)]]
![[wikipedia:Troop (military unit)|Aht (Watch) / Fiþn (Troop)]]
![[wikipedia:Section (military unit)|Tiï (File) / Droþ (Lance)]]
![[wikipedia:Fireteam|Fire Team/Detail]]
|-
!Contains
|3 Corps
|8 Legions 3 Divisions
|10 Cohorts 3 Vexillations
|3 Maniples 10 Squadrons
|3 Watches
|5 Files
|2 Fire Teams
|4 Individuals
|-
!Personnel
|172,800
|28,800 Infantry 28,800 Specialists
|3,600 Infantry 3,600 Specialists
|360 Infantry 1,200 Specialists
|120
|40
|8
|4
|-
!Commanded by
|Magister Militum (Lt General) / Frainan Hohmin
|Magister (Maj General) / Frainan Uihmanzis
|[[wikipedia:Legatus legionis|Legate]] / Salbnan
|Spear (Infantry): Cohort Tribune / Ahmst Tazstraneï Lance (Specialist): Tribune Laticlavii / Ahmst Bræþstranin
|Spear (Infantry): Ordinate / Opratzan Lance (Specialist): Decurion / Fiþnan
|Spear (Infantry): Tesserarius / Ahtaldan Lance (Specialist): Draconarius / Golsapbir
|Prime / Frum
|[[wikipedia:Chosen man|Chosen Man]]
|}
 
 
 

Units are divided into '''Spear''' units (i.e. Infantry), '''Lance''' units (i.e. Cavalry, Pioneers, Special Forces, etc), and '''Ballista''' units (i.e. Artillery).

Spear units form the organic components of the standard [[Salb|salb]] (legion), which are organised into constituent cohorts, which themselves are composed of maniples. Lance units are organised into specialist corps comprised of independent vexillations, which are composed of squadrons. Ballista units are also organised into specialist corps consisting of independent divisions, which are composed of batteries.

Vexillations and Divisions may function independently (e.g. special forces, THAAD, etc), or are attached to legions in order to provide combined-armed support. Independently-deployed vexillations and divisions will have other support units attached to it. Vexillations serve as a primary source for fresh commissioned officers and are intentionally officer-heavy as a result.

Legions may be designated as Light or Heavy, depending on the level to which its cohorts are equipped and trained for mechanised and air-mobile armoured combat.

Maniples are named with the number of their cohort followed by "Hastati", "Principes", or "Triarii", thus the third maniple of the 1st Cohort is referred to as "1st Triarii" or 1T.

===Combat Groups===

Legions are nominally organised into ten cohorts of infantry with other units attached in support. When deployed, the legion is reorganised into ten Combat Groups, built up around each of the legion's cohorts. The combat support units' staffs join the Legionary HQ in order to provide continuing support to Legionary HQ and to their own distributed sub-units. When a legion is significantly reinforced by additional ''afzælt'' (divisional) units of specialists, auxiliaries or allied troops, the Legate will receive a brevet promotion to Dux (Major General / ''Frainan Uihmanzis'') for the duration of his expanded command.

Combat units may be deployed independently of the remainder of the legion. Under these latter circumstances they are often referred to as [[streïkrupp]]is.

==Organisation==

===Land Forces===

====I Uihmanz====

Formed from locally recruited Yehudim, augmented by Mishalanski levies at the culmination of their basic training, Babkhi recruits called to the colours by the preaching of a Humanist jihad in [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic|southern Elwynn]], and transferees from the Maritime Forces made available after the decommissioning of old capital ship. The particular circumstances brought about by the Kalgachi occupation of the [[Upland Confederation]] meant that these new legions were formed up in place, with troops being rotated out of the line at the individual and squadron level to complete their hardening and specialist training at the Depot in Upper Lywall. Armed and equipped with the glut of hardware spewed forth from the manufacturies of Mishalan and Lachmeren, these new legions would nonetheless lack the polish and hardened elan of their veteran counterparts garrisoned in Upper Lywall and Drak-Modan for some considerable time to come.<ref>Some would go so far as to call them a ''"damned wretched and wasteful meatshield, only useful for slowing the mountaineers down for a day or so if the abominations ever at last decide to descend upon the lowlands."''</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ I Uihmanz "Siyacher"
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Insignia
! scope="col" |Location
|-
| colspan="7" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd; text-align:center;" | Headquarters & Central Services
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz||''Frainan Uihmanzis'' Shapur Reporter||||||||||[[Litkov]]
|-
| colspan="7" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd; text-align:center;" | Ænst Streïafzælt (1st Battle Division)
|-
|Hvaszunig Streïafzælt||''Afzælthvaszhaldan'' Hydericht Kalends||||||||||Berht Sankt Elmo
|-
|Streïkrupphvasza-A||''Salbnan'' Hostilian Gortz||||||||||Sector North, facing towards Karelshoogh
|-
|Streïkrupphvasza-B||''Salbnan'' Veren Metris||||||||||Sector North, facing towards Karelshoogh
|-
|Salb IV ''Aurangzeb''||''Salbnan'' Rustam Shahrokh ||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer – 1|Field Officers – 14|Junior Officers – 94|Non-Commissioned Officers – 117|Legionaries (ex-naval) – 2,789}}||||||[[Litkov]]
|-
|Salb V ''Fretensis''||''Salbnan'' Tiberius Sourdust||||||||||Istenbruck
|-
|Salb VI ''Jahangir''||''Salbnan'' Ardashir Jahangir||||||||||Sector North, facing towards Karelshoogh
|-
|Salb VII ''Siqari'im''||''Salbnan'' Gustav Vermilion-Krust||||||||||Istenbruck
|-
| colspan="7" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd; text-align:center;"| Tasz Streïafzælt (2nd Battle Division)
|-
|Hvaszunig Streïafzælt||''Afzælthvaszhaldan'' Piroz Jalal Akbar||||||||||Leegveldt
|-
|Streïkrupphvasza-C|||''Salbnan'' Salbnan Salbnan|||||||||||Sector South, facing towards Waldenstein
|-
|Streïkrupphvasza-D||''Salbnan'' Valdegar Forgern||||||||||Sector South, facing towards Waldenstein
|-
|Salb VIII ''Anandja''||''Salbnan'' Domnik Grifos||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer – 1|Field Officers – 11|Junior Officers – 61|Non-Commissioned Officers – 76|Legionaries (ex-naval) – 1,800}}||||||[[Daschau]]
|-
|Salb IX ''Kokhba''||''Salbnan'' Corderwell Muzzlehatch||||||||||Sector South, facing towards Nieuw Ingelheim
|-
|Salb X ''Kana'im''||''Salbnan'' Selder Dreesbach||||||||||Sector South, facing towards Nieuw Ingelheim
|-
|Salb XI ''Svyashchennaya Druzhina''||''Salbnan'' Xaverevich Chaldernik||||||||||Abatis Lines
|-
| colspan="7" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd; text-align:center;" | Ænst Berhtnaz & Holïursafzælt (1st Fortress & Artillery Division)
|-
|Hvaszunig Berhtnaz & Holïursafzælt||''Afzælthvaszhaldan'' Murad Kirghim||||||||||Berht Sankt Guido
|-
|{{tooltip|Berhtkrupphvasza|Fortress Command Group}}||''Salbnan'' [[Waldemar Thorgilsson Einhorn Ettlingar Verion|Waldemar Thorgilsson]]||||||||||Assigned to formations
|-
|{{tooltip|Holïurskrupphvasza|Artillery Command Group}}||''Salbnan'' Mordecai Morden||||||||||Assigned to formations
|-

|}

====IV Uihmanz====

IV Uihmanz, comprising of six legions, was attached to the Central Banner Group of [[Benacia Command]].

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ IV Corps
|+ Gloomburg, Lachdolor, Lachmeren, Litel, Lywall
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Insignia
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz||''Frainan Uihmanz'' Ermanaric Parsamyan||.||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer – 1|Staff Officers – 2|Field Officers – 7|Junior Officers – 70|Non-Commissioned Officers – 210|Aerospace Forces – 1,200|Inspectorate Troops – 7,200}}||{{Unbulleted list|[[GV(MCB)-7 Leviathan|GV-7 Leviathan MCB]] – 1|[[shire:IMW-3 Snark|IMW-3 Snark]] – 7}}||.||Gloomburg
|-
|I Salb||Salbnan Artur Woyrsch||{{Unbulleted list|Hvaszunig Gauht 011
{{Unbulleted list|Gauht 012 |Gauht 013|Gauht 014|Gauht 015|Gauht 016|Gauht 017|Gauht 018 |Gauht 019|Gauht 020}}|
Furgsaddâ 021 }}
||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1 Bandersnatch MBT]]– 56|[[shire:GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky|GV-2 Jabberwocky SPG]] – 38|[[shire:GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|GV-4 Red Queen CV]] – 10 |[[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|CV-56 Horjin IFV]] – 108}}
||<center>[[image:Salb Woyrsch.png|75px]]</center>||Lachdolor
|-
|II Salb||Salbnan Berjouhi Vithimiris||{{Unbulleted list|Hvaszunig Gauht 022
{{Unbulleted list|Gauht 023 |Gauht 024 |Gauht 025 |Gauht 026|Gauht 027|Gauht 028 |Gauht 029|Gauht 030|Gauht 031}}|
Furgsaddâ 032 }}
||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1 Bandersnatch MBT]] – 56|[[shire:GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky|GV-2 Jabberwocky SPG]] – 38|[[shire:GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|GV-4 Red Queen CV]] – 10|[[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|CV-56 Horjin IFV]] – 160}}||<center>[[image:Salb Vithimiris.png|75px]]</center>||Litel
|-
|III Salb||Salbnan Vartan Barsamian||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1 Bandersnatch MBT]] – 56|[[shire:GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky|GV-2 Jabberwocky SPG]] – 38|[[shire:GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|GV-4 Red Queen CV]] – 10|[[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|CV-56 Horjin IFV]] – 160}}||<center>[[image:Salb Barsamian.png|75px]]</center>||Litel
|-
|XIII Salb||Salbnan Hermann bi Salza||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1 Bandersnatch MBT]] – 56|[[shire:GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky|GV-2 Jabberwocky SPG]] – 38|[[shire:GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|GV-4 Red Queen CV]] – 10|[[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|CV-56 Horjin IFV]] – 160}}||<center>[[image:Salb Salza.png|75px]]</center>||Upper Lywall (''Assigned to [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] eradication duties'')
|-
|XIX Salb||Salbnan Laurens bi Rorkfesten||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1 Bandersnatch MBT]] – 56|[[shire:GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky|GV-2 Jabberwocky SPG]] – 38|[[shire:GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|GV-4 Red Queen CV]] – 10|[[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|CV-56 Horjin IFV]] – 160}}||<center>[[image:Salb Rorkfesten.png|75px]]</center>||Lower Lywall
|-
|XX Salb||Salbnan Stropp bi Kelb||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1 Bandersnatch MBT]] – 56|[[shire:GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky|GV-2 Jabberwocky SPG]] – 38|[[shire:GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|GV-4 Red Queen CV]] – 10|[[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|CV-56 Horjin IFV]] – 160}}||<center>[[image:Salb Kelb.png|75px]]</center>||Lachmeren
|-
|}

====VI Uihmanz====

VI Uihmanz, comprising of six legions, was attached to the Southern Banner Group of [[Benacia Command]]. Legions garrisoned in [[Drak-Modan]] (XXXI, XXXIII, XXXIV & XXXV) deployed to [[Sathrati]] in 1676 ([[Operation Winter Sun]]).

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ VI Uihmanz
|+ Circuit of [[Jadid Khaz Modan]] & [[Sathrati]]
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Insignia
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz||''Frainan Uihmanz'' Akbar Jalal Alinejad||.||.||.||.||Novi Nigrad (Yardistan)
|-
|XXX Salb||Salbnan Godascalc Berahthram Vasilescu||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
|||||Florencia
|-
|XXXI Salb||Salbnan Stefan Tudor Adam||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 41|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||||||[[Zy-Rodun]]
|-
|XXXII Salb||Salbnan Ansovald Aldebrand Popescu||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 31|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 1,200| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||||||Benacia Isle
|-
|XXXIII Salb||Salbnan Arnold Ernst Lacey||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 10|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||||||Nordagaat (Mirioth)
|-
|XXXIV Salb||Salbnan Darius Hludowig Derban||{{Unbulleted list|{{Tooltip|Hvaszunig Gauht|HQ Cohort}} 037
{{Unbulleted list|{{Tooltip|Gauht|Infantry Cohort}} 141|Gauht 245|Gauht 349|Gauht 453|Gauht 557|Gauht 671|Gauht 775|Gauht 879|Gauht 9831}}|{{Tooltip|Brunïaks Furgsaddâ|Heavy Armour Regiment}} 1087|{{Tooltip|Droþaks Furgsaddâ|Manoeuvre Support Regiment}} 1191|{{Tooltip|Holïurs Furgsaddâ|Artillery Regiment}} 1295}}
||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 113|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Lance) - 3,600| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:GV(MBT)-1 Bandersnatch|GV-1 Bandersnatch MBT]]– 56|[[shire:GV(SPG)-2 Jabberwocky|GV-2 Jabberwocky SPG]] – 38|[[shire:GV(LU)-3 Boojum|GV-3 Boojum LU]] –16 {{Unbulleted list|[[SA-1 Red Mist]] – 96}}|[[shire:GV(CV)-4 Red Queen|GV-4 Red Queen CV]] – 10 |[[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|CV-56 Horjin IFV]] – 108|Pod Personnel Carrier – 150}}||<center>[[image:Salb Derban.png|75px]]</center>||Negrixnaht (Amity)
|-
|XXXV Salb||Salbnan Bahman Eskandar Alinejad||||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer - 1|Field Officers - 16|Squadron Officers - 10|NCO's - 151| Legionaries (Spear) - 3,600}}
||||||Novi Nigrad (Yardistan)
|-
|}

====Szodanin-Uihmanz====

The '''Szodanin-Uihmaz''' (Sovereign's Corps) originated from the defecting operatives of the Shirerithian special forces unit [[shire:S.W.O.R.D.|S.W.O.R.D.]], grouped as a part of '''Streïkrupp Kasha''', who had remained steadfast in their loyalty - remaining at their posts in their isolated [[Inner Benacia]]n cantonments whilst blockaded and besieged by Lach insurgents for the better part of two years. Whilst it might seem paradoxical for a unit comprised of defectors to be lauded for their dedication, the unedifying spectacle of the Imperial Government willingly abandoning members of the Imperial Forces to their fate rather than bestir themselves to confront a minor rebellion was in many respects the catalyst that set in motion the [[Kalirion Fracture]] by destroying the confidence of the armed forces in the political leadership of [[Shireroth]]. Extricating those left behind in Inner Benacia therefore became a point of honour for the Black Legions and a capstone upon the edifice of its legitimacy. Those veterans, with their prior elite training and the mass of experience garnered from a prolonged period in the wilderness of Inner Benacia, therefore were a natural choice to serve as the cadre around which the Sovereign's guard corps would be established.

Performing a similar remit to the [[shire:Palatini Corps|Palatini Corps]] of the [[Imperial Regency]], the Szodanin-Uihmanz provides a guard for the Commander-in-Chief and the General Staff of [[Benacia Command]] whilst also providing a reserve of manpower available for specialist actions at the direction of the Chiefs of Staff, often at the behest of the Military Intelligence Directorate or through the Special Operations Group of the Political Directorate.

Since 06.XV.1676 The Szodanin-Uihmaz has assumed responsibility for the administration of legionaries deployed outside the territories of the [[Unified Governorates]] in support of Raspur Pact Military Missions embedded with the armed forces of allied [[Vulture States|successor states]] across the [[Kalirion Fracture|Post-Shirerithian space]] of [[Benacia]].

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Szodanin-Uihmanz
|+ Commander: Bivarhins Frainan [[Rofolo Nur Pinito Kasha]]
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
! scope="col" |Affiliations / Alliances
|-
|''Sazn Þeïnszæhan Furgsaddâ'' The Guards Pathfinder Regiment||Bivarhins Salbnan Melkdan Haltorthen|| {{Unbulleted list|Frumst Gauht 001 (HQ and Supply){{Unbulleted list|Gauht 003 ([[wikipedia:Geospatial intelligence|Exploratores]])|Gauht 004 ([[wikipedia:Measurement and signature intelligence|Cohors Occulta Vigilum]])}}}}||{{Unbulleted list|Operatives – 870|Virgo-class scout ship<ref>On loan from Natopian Spacefleet</ref> – 1}} |||[[Merensk]]||{{Unbulleted list|[[Military Intelligence Directorate - Analysis & Estimates Bureau (Benacia Command)|Analysis & Estimates Bureau]]}}
|-
|''Saznan Darneï'' The Secret Guard ||Bivarhins Salbnan Ulfric Pentermacht ||
*Frumst Gauht 002 (HQ & Supply)
**Gauht 106 (Speculatores)
**Gauht 210 (Speculatores)
**Gauht 314 (Speculatores)
**Gauht 418 (Mechanised Infantry)
**Gauht 522 (Mechanised Infantry)
**Gauht 636 (Mechanised Infantry)
**Gauht 740 (Mechanised Infantry)
**Gauht 844 (Mechanised Infantry)
**Gauht 948 (Mechanised Infantry)
||3,960 Guardsmen 18,125 M14 Fragmentation Hand Grenade 
25,000 M15 White Phosphorus Anti-Lich Grenade 
25,000 M16 Mustard Gas Anti-Singer Grenade 
27,500 M18 Red Smoke Hand Grenade 
12,500 Clinger Bomb, Adhesive Anti-Tank Grenade 
62,500 Florian Cocktail (Tar, sulphur, petrol, sand, & wick) 
1,818 Hatchet 
1,818 Cattle-prod 
7,273 Cudgel 
909 Pattern 1496 Sabre 
73 M1486 Webb-Lee 11.6 mm Revolver 
345 M1523 9mm Pistol 
3,150 M1591 7.62 mm Rifle 
450 M1610 7.9mm Rifle (Semi-Automatic) 
50 Tankgewehr 13.2 mm Rifle (Anti-Materiel) 
750 Wren 7.62mm Light Machine Gun 
525 Polybolos .50 Heavy Machine Gun 
35 Hornet 84 mm Recoilless Rifle (Anti-Tank) 
9 Waspsting Man-portable Air Defence System 
40 82mm Mortar 
230 [[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|Horjin CV56]]
||[[Port Benacia]]||{{Unbulleted list|[[Political Directorate - Special Operations Group (Benacia Command)|Special Operations Group]]}}
|-
|}

====Varþataræn====

''"Homeland Defence"'' is the umbrella term for all of the second line formations assigned to combat support and rear area duties formerly under the control of the General Inspectorate until the reorganisation of forces in 1676 intended to allow for a more rational separation between the fighting forces and the support services of the Black Legions.

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Uihmanz Alalehzamin
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz ||<center>''Frainan Uihmanzis'' {{Tooltip|Selim Nadir Shah|Selim the Grim / Nadir Shah}}</center>||||||||
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Uihmanz Avon-El
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz ||<center>''Frainan Uihmanzis'' [[Jeremiah Avon-El]]</center>||||||||
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Uihmanz Lachmeren
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz ||<center>''Frainan Uihmanzis'' {{Tooltip|Fränz Boamund|Francisco Bahamonde}}</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt III Merensk||<center>''Salbnan'' Lysander Falk</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt IV Altan||<center>''Salbnan'' Heinrich Turenne</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt V Rothaven||<center>''Salbnan'' Johann Tserclaes</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt VI Šlomxala||<center>''Salbnan'' Walter Dornberger</center>||||||||
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Uihmanz Lywall
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz ||<center>''Frainan Uihmanzis'' {{Tooltip|Peccavi Scinde|Charles Napier}}</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt I Litkov||<center>''Salbnan'' [[shire:Waldemar Tarjeisson|Waldermar Tarjeisson]] (Evocatus)</center>||
{{Unbulleted list|1st Control Group|Volhyrian Kossar Brigade|7th Security Furgsaddâ|8th Supply Furgsaddâ}}
||
{{Unbulleted list||Commanding Officer - 1|Political Officers - 2|Staff Officers - 5|Field Officers - 10|Squadron Officers - 30 |NCO's - 87|Legionaries (Lance) - 120| Inspectorate Troops - 2,400|Volhyrian Kossars - 847}}
||
{{Unbulleted list|2,345 [[wikipedia:Icelandic horse|Amokolian horses]]|52 [[Horjin Combat Vehicle 56|Horjin CV56]]|1 [[shire:Horjin Combat Vehicle 35|Horjin CV35]] ([[wikipedia:Signals intelligence#Communications Intelligence|EW]] variant)|200 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/9e/Light_Truck.png Light Trucks]|4 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/f/fe/Pod_APC.png Pod Armoured Personnel Carriers]|2 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/0/07/Snatch_Land_Rover.png Snatch Land Rovers]}}

{{Unbulleted list|847 [[wikipedia:Pattern 1796 light cavalry sabre|Pattern 1496 Sabre]]|3,214 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/b/bc/M1508_Martini-Rossi_11.56_mm_Rifle.png M1508 Martini-Rossi 11.56 mm Rifles]|2,400 Cudgels|188 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/e/e7/M1523_9mm_Pistol.png M1525 9mm Pistols]|74 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/2/2b/M1486_Webb-Lee_11.6_mm_Revolver.png M1486 Webb-Lee 11.6 mm Revolvers]|20 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/9/98/Polybolos_.50_HMG.png Polybolos 12.7 mm Heavy Machine Guns]|4 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/8/8b/Wren_7.62mm_LMG.png Wren 7.62 mm Light Machine Guns]|1 [https://micras.org/wiki/images/f/f4/M1642_Tankgewehr.png M1642 Tankgewehr 13.2 mm Rifle (Anti-Materiel)]|9,600 Florian Cocktails}}
||Litkov, Siyacha
|-
|Afzælt II Siyacha||<center>''Salbnan'' G. V. Pompeius</center>||{{Unbulleted list|2nd Control Group|1st Pioneer Furgsaddâ|2nd Security Furgsaddâ|3rd Transportation Furgsaddâ|4th Area Defence Furgsaddâ|5th Works Furgsaddâ|6th Supply Furgsaddâ}}||{{Unbulleted list|Commanding Officer – 1|Political Officers – 8|Staff Officers – 5|Field Officers – 6|Squadron Officers – 60|NCO's – 180|Inspectorate Troops – 7,200}}||||{{Unbulleted list|Abatis Lines, Siyacha (1/3)|Nederlinge Line (2/3)}}
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Uihmanz Mishalan
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz ||<center>''Frainan Uihmanzis'' {{Tooltip|Petras Nikolaus Thrangel|Petr Nikolaevich Wrangel}}</center>||
{{Unbulleted list|Hvaszunig Uihmanz
{{Unbulleted list|Control Haß |Signals Haß |Security Furgsaddâ}}}}
||
{{Unbulleted list|Officer Commanding – 1|Field Officers – 1|Squadron Officers – 11| NCO's – 50| Inspectorate Troops – 1,200}}
||
{{Unbulleted list|Horjin CV35 – 1|Horjin CV56 – 24|Trump Radar Tracking Autocannon – 1|Waspsting Man-portable Air Defence System – 1|82 mm Mortar – 8|Polybolos 12.7 mm HMG – 33|Wren 7.62mm LMG – 165|CP 60 "Cherry Picker" 7.62 mm sniper rifle – 1|Cudgel – 1,200|Hatchet – 120|LTM 60 "Trouble Maker" 9 mm submachine gun – 108|
M14 Fragmentation Hand Grenade – 4,800|M1486 Webb-Lee 11.6 mm Revolver – 2|M15 White Phosphorus Grenade – 1,200|
M1525 9 mm Pistol – 61|M1581 7.62 mm Machine Carbine – 736|M1591 7.62 mm Rifle – 1,200|M1610 7.9 mm Rifle (Semi-Automatic) – 14|M18 Red Smoke Grenade – 2,767|Pod Personnel Carrier – 173|Snatch Land Rover – 20|Truck, Light – 34|Truck, Medium – 1}}
||Zitadelle Bratva, Mishalan
|-
|Afzælt VII Alva||<center>''Ahmst Bræþstranin'' Alva</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt VIII Montrose||<center>''Ahmst Bræþstranin'' Montrose</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt IX Piccolomini||<center>''Ahmst Bræþstranin'' Piccolomini</center>||||||||
|-
|Afzælt X Pappenheim||<center>''Ahmst Bræþstranin'' Pappenheim</center>||||||||
|-
|Streïkrupp XI Wallenstein||<center>''Ahmst Bræþstranin'' Wallenstein</center>||||||||
|-
|Commissariat||<center>''Ahmst Bræþstranin'' Marius Herman Saxe</center>||||||||
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Uihmanz Modan
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz ||<center>''Frainan Uihmanzis'' Ermanaric Parsamyan</center>||||||||
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" border="1"
|+ Uihmanz Suthergold
! scope="col" |Unit Name
! scope="col" |Commandant
! scope="col" |Order of Battle
! scope="col" |Personnel
! scope="col" |Establishment
! scope="col" |Location
|-
|Hvaszunig Uihmanz ||<center>''Frainan Uihmanzis'' Selardi Jen Daniyal</center>||||||||
|-
|}

===Maritime Forces===

The once formidable capital ship force of the [[shire:Imperial Navy of Shireroth|Imperial Navy]] had, by time and neglect more than [[War of Lost Brothers|enemy action]], been whittled down to the point where, at the [[Kalirion Fracture|moment of fracture]], only two ageing battleships (of the Aurangzeb and Grifos classes respectively) and an aircraft carrier (Mortis) were capable of leaving harbour under their own power. In spite of this, the maritime component of the Black Legions was far from being an inconsequential force, with Pact Loyalists managing to cobble together, during the course of {{Tooltip|1671|April 2019}} [[AN]], an armada comprising of 3 destroyers, 12 submarines, 20 corvettes, 38 oil tankers, 49 logistic support vessels, 50 off-shore patrol vessels, 166 cargo vessels, and 250 coastal patrol boats. This fleet reflected the shift in [[Allied Production Matrix|production priorities]] for the [[Raspur Pact]] during and in the aftermath of the '''War of Lost Brothers''' and the preference of the admiralty - in the aftermath of the debacle of the [[Battle of Carama Bay]] - for small and fast missile carriers.

Unfortunately for the Black Legions the temporary loss of the MoMA Naval Stations (Sabatini and Sagittarius) in the Khaz Modan island chain denied the fleet access to long established deep water anchorages and dockyard facilities. While the ex-Imperial port facilities at Klymdown, Rothaven, and Slomxala, were being repaired and expanded by contractors assigned to the task by the General Inspectorate and working at a frantic rate this still left the fleet dispersed and reliant upon access to safe anchorages along the coastlines of the various Pact-aligned 'vulture states', particularly [[Drak-Modan]] and [[Elwynn]], during the early months of 1672.

The primary remit of the Maritime Forces is to support landward forces and to defend the littoral waters of the Benacian continent from [[USSO]] intrusion. Maritime Forces are therefore structured so as to permit naval task forces (built around corvettes and logistic support vessels) to support the [[Banner Group]]s whilst flotillas of missile and torpedo armed patrol vessels and attack craft support [[Combined Arms Corps]] where their areas of operation border onto the maritime environment.

In early 1674 it was announced that the two battleships would be scrapped in place by the [[ESB Group]] over the course of the next two years, commencing with the immediate removal of the ship main armaments and their transfer to the Land Forces on the Benacian mainland.

====Coastal Defence====

===Aerospace Forces===

The reorganisation of personnel and aviation assets recovered from the Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces began in 1672 at a point when the Aerospace Forces were in the novel position of enjoying a bonanza of hardware but a shortage of fuel and components, in addition to difficulties in marrying up operational units with operational airfields in the wake of the unfortunate incident with the Palatini Corps over Shirekeep-Foley Aerodrome in the preceding year.

There were, as of 1672 , four major regiment "types" within the Aerospace Forces; these are:–

#Tactical Effect Regiments, assigned as flight-level detachments to provide close-air support for ground forces.
#Operational Effect Regiments, attached to [[Combined Arms Corps]].
#Strategic Effect Regiments, attached to [[Banner Group]]s.
#Aerospace Superiority Regiments, directly assigned to [[Benacia Command]].

In early 1673 these squadrons, whilst still fulfilling the above roles, were reorganised and grouped into three division types with one of each division attached to Banner Groups directly; these being:–

#Holïurs Afzælt-bi-Łoïd (Bombardment Division).
#Vaþnur Afzælt-bi-Łoïd (Pursuit Division).
#Brunïak Afzælt-bi-Łoïd (Air Cavalry Division).

In addition the Aerospace Forces maintain the Aerospace Training Establishment and Air Transportation Service, both collocated at [[Sansabury#Sansabury Aerodrome|Sansabury Aerodrome]].

====Aerospace Training Establishment====

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Formation !! Aircraft !! Number
|-
| colspan="3" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |1st Training Division (Basic Training)
|-
|101 Training Regiment||[[Te.42 Sagittario]]||13
|-
|102 Training Regiment||[[Te.63 Cicogna]]||6
|-
|103 Training Regiment||[[shire:OAH T2 Saeqeh|T-2 Saeqeh]]||16
|-
|104 Training Regiment||Gliders, various||24
|-
| colspan="3" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |2nd Training Division (Advanced Training)
|-
|201 (Jet) Training Regiment||[[T-3 Akóntio]]||24
|-
|202 (Gravimetric) Training Regiment||[[wikipedia:Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig|Gravimetric Testing Rig]]||16
|-
|203 (Rotorcraft) Training Regiment||[[Whirdlebirb|R-1 Whirdlebird]]||16
|-
|}

====Air Transportation Service====

====Central Tactical Air Force====

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Formation !! Aircraft !! Number !! Locations
|-
| colspan="4" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |3rd Holïurs Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi
|-
| 301 Strategic Effect Regiment||[[wikipedia:XB-49|B-49 Delta]]||72||Łoïdhafen &zeter
|-
| 302 Strategic Effect Regiment||B-49 Delta||72||Łoïdhafen Merensk
|-
| 303 Strategic Effect Regiment||B-49 Delta|||72||Dispersal Airfields, Zitadelle Bratva
|-
| 304 Strategic Effect Regiment||{{unbulleted list|B-49 Delta|[[wikipedia:Avro Vulcan|B-66 Vulcan]]}}||{{Unbulleted list|22|23}}||Łoïdhafen Sansabury
|-
| 305 Pathfinder (Electronic Warfare) Regiment||EA-6B Prowler||2||Łoïdhafen &zeter
|-
| colspan="4" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |7th Vaþnur Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi
|-
| 701 Tactical Effect Regiment||T-2 Saeqeh||50||{{Unbulleted list|Dispersal Airfields, Siyacha (24%)|Dispersal Airfields, Litel (76%)}}
|-
| 702 Tactical Effect Regiment|||T-3 Akóntio||48||Dispersal Airfields, Upper Lywall
|-
| 703 Operational Effect Regiment||{{Unbulleted list|A-10 Kambera|[[F-8 Shrike|F-8M Shrike]]}}||{{Unbulleted list|10|72}}||Łoïdhafen Sansabury
|-
| 704 Operational Effect Regiment||{{Unbulleted list|A-6 Pundarikam|F-8M Shrike}}||{{Unbulleted list|13|72}}||Łoïdhafen Merensk
|-
| 705 Maritime Operations Regiment||{{Unbulleted list|AW159 Wildcat|[[shire:GAV(AS)-1 Snaggletooth|GAV-1 Snaggletooth]]|[[shire:IRS Medusa|Gravrig Cruiser]]}}||{{Unbulleted list|1|4|1}}||Marinestation Klymdown
|-
| 706 Maritime Operations Regiment||{{Unbulleted list|[[shire:RAS Kestrel Mk.II Gravship|Gravship]]|[[shire:ESB Spiegelflügel-Taube|P-1 Taube]]}}||{{Unbulleted list|1|2}}||Marinestation Šlomxala
|-
|-
| colspan="4" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |8th Brunïak Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi
|-
| 801 Air Reconnaissance Regiment||{{Unbulleted list|GAV-4 Jackalope|[[GAV(P)-6 Zephyr Mark 1a|GAV-6 Zephyr]]|[[Whirdlebirb|R-1 Whirdlebird]]}}||{{Unbulleted list|16|5|20}}||Łoïdhafen &zeter
|-
| 802 Air Assault Regiment||{{Unbulleted list|GAV-4 Jackalope|[[GAV(P)-5 Nereid|GAV-5 Nereid]]|AH-1Z Viper}}|| {{Unbulleted list|16|40|12}}||Łoïdhafen &zeter
|-
| 803 Air Landing Regiment||{{Unbulleted list|GAV-4 Jackalope|UH-1Y Venom}}||{{Unbulleted list|60|12}}||Łoïdhafen &zeter
|-
| [[804 Rescue & Evacuations Regiment]]|||{{Unbulleted list|AV-8B Harrier II|GAV-4 Jackalope|R-1 Whirdlebird}}||{{Unbulleted list|3|25|20}}||Berht Litkov
|-
|}

====Eastern Tactical Air Force====

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Formation !! Aircraft !! Number !! Locations
|-
| colspan="4" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |4th Holïurs Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi
|-
| 401 Strategic Effect Regiment||[[wikipedia:XB-49|B-49 Delta]]||96||Dispersal Airfields, Cortallia-Rathwood Arsenal Sector North
|-
| 402 Strategic Effect Regiment||B-49 Delta||96||Dispersal Airfields, Cortallia-Rathwood Arsenal Sector North
|-
| 403 Strategic Effect Regiment||B-49 Delta|||96||Dispersal Airfields, Cortallia-Rathwood Arsenal Sector East
|-
| 404 Strategic Effect Regiment||B-49 Delta||96||Dispersal Airfields, Cortallia-Rathwood Arsenal Sector East
|-
| 405 Strategic Effect Regiment||[[wikipedia:Avro Vulcan|B-66 Vulcan]]||44||Dispersal Airfields, Cortallia-Rathwood Arsenal Sector East
|-
| colspan="4" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |5th Vaþnur Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi
|-
| colspan="4" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" |6th Brunïak Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi
|-
|}

====Northern Tactical Air Force====

====Southern Tactical Air Force====

====Western Tactical Air Division====

====Territorial Air Defence Force====

Established 17.XIII.1675, to group together mobile ground-based air defence systems, radar stations, observation posts, air traffic control networks into a single integrated system of command and control built around VLS-Flaktowers under construction at various strategic locations including {{tooltip|Łoïdhafens|aerodromes}}, marinestations, arsenals, depots, and power stations.

*XLIX Air Defence Corps
**Air Traffic Flaktower I, [[Verkehrsflughäfen Merensk]] (under construction, 1675)

===General Inspectorate===

[[image:Inspectorate Troops.png|250px|right|thumb|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Inspectorate Troops pursuing a fugitive band of ''[[Republic of Inner Benacia#Military|iezauli]]'' during the winter of 1672 [[AN]].</div>]]
Garrisons of Inspectorate Troops (auxiliaries and commissariat) were maintained in the [[Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic]], [[Lachmeren]], [[Lywall Protectorate|Lywall]], [[Mishalan]], [[New Blackstone]], [[Drak-Modan|So-Sara]] and the [[Sovereign Confederation]]. In a manner similar to the old Corps of Auxiliaries of the Imperial Republic, these Inspectorate Troops were responsible for providing the full range of combat, non-combat, and administrative support, that the Legions, as well as their Aerospace and Maritime Services, might require. To them fell also the responsibility for the defence of facilities and lines of communications - which brings with it obligations of near-continuous anti-partisan warfare in certain parts of Benacia.

In 1676 the field formations of the General Inspectorate were separated out to form the ''Varþataræn'' (Praeta: Homeland Defence), a force dedicated to combat support services, garrison duties, the protection of lines of communications, and the provision of a reserve of recruits and replacements for the legions. This separation allowed the General Inspectorate to refocus its mission upon force generation and sustainment.

====Organisational overview====

====Depots, Garrisons & Stations====

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!width=70 |Garrison Flag
!width=160 |Garrison Name
!width=160 |Location
!width=160 |Parent Inspectorate
!width=160 |Units Headquartered
|-
|||{{Tooltip|Berht|Fort}} Benac||Benacia Isle, Benacia–Iridia ([[Unified Governorates of Benacia|UGB]])||Inspectorate of Land Forces||{{Unbulleted list|Saznan Darneï|XXXII Salb "Popescu"}}
|-
|||Berht {{Tooltip|Klarænst|Clarence}} ("The Depot")||Upper Lywall (UGB)||Inspectorate of Training and Discipline||Land Warfare Establishment
|-
|||Berht Litkov||Siyacha (UGB)||Inspectorate of Land Forces||{{Unbulleted list|804 Rescue & Evacuations Regiment|Afzælt I Litkov}}
|-
|||Berht Raynor||Raynor's Point, Capshire ([[Drak-Modan|DM]])||Inspectorate of Land Forces||XXXIV Salb "Derban"
|-
|||Berht Sankt Elmo||Sankt Elmo, Siyacha (UGB)||Inspectorate of Land Forces||Ænst Streïafzælt, I Uihmanz "Siyacher"
|-
|||Berht Sankt Guido||Sankt Guido, Siyacha (UGB)||Inspectorate of Land Forces||Ænst Berhtnaz & Holïursafzælt, I Uihmanz "Siyacher"
|-
||| Cortallia-Rathwood Arsenal||Cortallia-Rathwood, Suthergold ([[Sovereign Confederation|SC]])||Inspectorate of Aerospace Forces||{{Unbulleted list|4th Holïurs Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi|5th Vaþnur Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi|6th Brunïak Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi}}
|-
|||{{Tooltip|Łoïdhafen|Aerodrome}} &zeter||&zeter, Upper Lywall (UGB)||Inspectorate of Aerospace Forces||{{Unbulleted list|8th Brunïak Afzælt-bi-Łoïdi}}
|-
|||Łoïdhafen Merensk||Merensk, Lachmeren (UGB)||Inspectorate of Aerospace Forces||{{Unbulleted list|302 Strategic Effect Regiment|704 Operational Effect Regiment}}
|-
|||Łoïdhafen Sansabury ||[[Sansabury]], Upper Lywall (UGB)||Inspectorate of Aerospace Forces||{{Unbulleted list|304 Strategic Effect Regiment| 703 Operational Effect Regiment|Aerospace Training Establishment|Air Transportation Service}}
|-
|||Łoïdhafen Watson||New Blackstone (UGB)||Inspectorate of Aerospace Forces||{{Unbulleted list||Western Tactical Air Division}}
|-
|||Marinestation Doyle||New Blackstone (UGB)||Inspectorate of Naval Forces||{{Unbulleted list|[[Sea-Reavers|Maritime Support Group]]}}
|-
|||Marinestation Klymdown||Klymdown, Lower Lywall (UGB)||Inspectorate of Naval Forces||{{Unbulleted list|705 Maritime Operations Regiment|Cosimo Sea Flotilla (50%)}}
|-
|||Marinestation Norestria||New Harbor, Norestria ([[Sovereign Confederation|SC]])||Inspectorate of Naval Forces||Hvaszunig Stagguskrupp - Eastern Banner Group
|-
|||Marinestation Sabatini||Sabatini Isle, So-Sara ([[Drak-Modan|DM]])||Inspectorate of Naval Forces||
|-
|||Marinestation Sagittarius||Naudia'Diva, Benacia–Iridia ([[Imperial Regency|IMP]])||Inspectorate of Naval Forces||{{Unbulleted list|Hvaszunig Stagguskrupp - Western Banner Group}}
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|||Marinestation Šlomxala||Šlomxala, Lachmeren (UGB)||Inspectorate of Naval Forces||Cosimo Sea Flotilla (50%)
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|||Marinestation Wolfraven||Wolfraven, Cimmeria ([[Elwynn|ELW]])||Inspectorate of Naval Forces||
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|||Medical Services Station||Altan, Lachmeren (UGB)||Inspectorate of the Commissariat||{{Unbulleted list|Sanitäts Uihmanz}}
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|||Panopticon Zitadelle||[[Merensk]], Lachmeren (UGB)||Quartermaster General's Office||{{Unbulleted list|General Staff|Sazn Þeïnszæhan Furgsaddâ}}
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|||Rothaven Arsenal & Depot||Rothaven, Lachmeren (UGB)||Inspectorate of the Commissariat||
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|||[[Verkehrsflughäfen Merensk]] (Garrison Cantonment)||Merensk, Lachmeren (UGB)||Inspectorate of Aerospace Forces||Air Traffic Control Flaktower I
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|||Zitadelle Bratva||Severnaya Gubernya (UGB)||Inspectorate of Land Forces||{{Unbulleted list|Hvaszunig Uihmanz - Uihmanz Mishalan}}
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|||Zitadelle Merensk||Merensk, Lachmeren (UGB)||Inspectorate of Training and Discipline||{{Unbulleted list|Basic Training Establishment|Hvaszunig Stagguskrupp - Central Banner Group}}
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|||Zitadelle {{Tooltip|Nuï Sartfals|New Blackstone}}||New Blackstone (UGB)||Inspectorate of the Commissariat||{{Unbulleted list||Uihmanz Avon-El}}
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====Sanitäts Uihmanz====

Established in 1673, the '''Sanitäts Uihmanz''' (Medical Corps) is a formation of the General Inspectorate, subordinate to the Inspectorate of the Commissariat, that delivers medical, veterinary, dental and nursing services for the Black Legions. In contrast to the former Imperial Forces, the Black Legions takes seriously its obligations regarding the health and welfare of service personnel. The primary mission of the Sanitäts Uihmanz is therefore to maintain the health of legionaries, so they can carry out their duties; and to deliver health care during wartime. The tasks of the Sanitäts Uihmanz include medical testing and screening of recruits, emergency medical treatment of personnel wounded whilst on operations, and the maintenance of physical standards of legionaries in the service of [[Benacia Command]].

The central hub of Sanitäts Uihmanz is the Medical Service Station located in [[Altan]], Lachmeren, but the support network extends, via field hospitals, triage stations, and ambulances, all the way down to the troop level with provision for every forty legionaries deployed on operations to be supported by a squad of eight medically trained orderlies. The Sanitäts Uihmanz employs 194,675 personnel in 65 hospitals, 412 clinics, and 414 dental clinics at facilities across the continent of [[Benacia]].

In 1674, following a sudden uptick in sightings of ''cerahippos'', ''kraugasos'', and other [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=842&t=10995 engineered horrors] brought forth by the [[Deep Singers|biomancers of old]], by [[ESB Group|ESB personnel]] sent out to investigate the natural gas fields of [[Domain of Lachdolor|Lachdolor]]<ref>Formerly the [[Minarboria]]n province of Novodolor, latterly overrun by the [[Red Laqi language|Red Lach]] during the fleeting independence of [[Inner Benacia]]</ref>, the '''Veterinarian Service''' was established within the Medical Corps with a remit to draw together health and welfare services for working animals employed in the service of the Black Legions<ref>It would eventually be claimed that the Black Legions showed more care for their dogs and horses than the old [[shire:Imperial Forces|Imperial Forces]] ever evidenced for their human servicemen.</ref> and to study the impact of the hostilely reworked and corrupted environment upon those creatures whose service was and remained essential to the preservation of the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party#Cosmology|Human Supremacy]] over [[Micras]] rested.

====Corps of Invalids====

==Equipment==
===Aerospace===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! Type !! Image !! Origin !! Class !! Role !! In service !! Number !! Producer !! Note
|-
| colspan="9" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Combat Air
|-
|| [[F-8 Shrike|F-8M Shrike]] ||[[image:F-8M.png|200px]]|| Shireroth || Jet || Multirole || 1559 || 1,147|| [[Allied Production Matrix]]||  
|-
|| [[F-10 Carnifex]] ||[[image:N-1.png|200px]]|| Natopia || Spaceplane || Superiority Fighter || 1653 || 19 || [[Dingo Enterprises|Dingo Engineering Aerospace Division]] ||  
|-
|| F-8M-T Shrike ||[[image:F-8M.png|200px]]|| Shireroth || Jet || Two-seat trainer/Multirole || 1654 || 24 || Allied Production Matrix ||  
|-
| [[F-9 Ashavan II]]||[[image:F-9 Ashavan II.png|200px]]||[[Talenore]]||Jet||Superiority Fighter||1676||112||Allied Production Matrix||
|-
| colspan="9" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance
|-
|[[Floret|AEW-1 Floret]]||[[image:AEW-1 Floret.png|200px]]||[[Kalgachia]]/[[Constancia]]||Turboprop||Airborne Early Warning Aircraft||1676||6||{{unbulleted list|Kalavia Fixed-Wing Works (initial build & flight avionics)|Ergostásio Aeroskafón (conversion work)|Gaelen Technologies Corporation (active phased array radar & panopticon suite)}}||
|-
| colspan="9" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Air Mobility
|-
| colspan="9" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Helicopters
|-
| colspan="9" style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#dddddd;" | Trainers
|-
|}

===Land===

===Maritime===

==Ranks & uniforms==

[[image:Black Legion Pattern 1671 Service Uniform.png|350px|right|thumb|Pattern 1671 Service Uniform, Black Legions and Inspectorate Forces, various ranks]]

[[image:Sart Salb Streïak.png|350px|right|thumb|Pattern 1671 Body Armour, all ranks, Issued to legionary formations only]]

{| class="wikitable" style='margin:1px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0); border: none'
|-
|
| style='text-align:center; font-weight: 900' | Lance
| colspan=2 style='text-align:center; font-weight: 900' | Spear
|-
| rowspan=5 style='text-align:center; transform: rotate(-90deg); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);' | General Officer
! colspan=3 | Magister Primarius / ''Frumst Frainan''
|-
! colspan=3 | Magister Militum (General) / ''Frainan Streïakeï''
|-
! colspan=3 | Magister (Lt General) / ''Frainan Hohmin''
|-
! colspan=3 | Dux (Maj General) / ''Frainan Uihmanzis''
|-
! colspan=3 | Legate (Brig General) / ''Salbnan''
|-
| rowspan=3 style='text-align:center; transform: rotate(-90deg); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);' | Field Officer
! colspan=3 | Tribune Laticlavii / ''Ahmst Bræþstranin''
|-
! colspan=3 | Tribune Cohortis / ''Ahmst Tazstraneï''
|-
! colspan=3 | Tribune Angusticlavii / ''Ahmst Mairstranin''
|-
| rowspan=4 style='text-align:center; transform: rotate(-90deg); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);' | Company Officer
! First Decurion / ''Ænst Fiþnan''
| colspan=2 style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold; border-top: 2px solid #000; border-left: 2px solid #000' | First Ordinate / ''Ænst Opratzan''
| rowspan=2 style='text-align:center; transform: rotate(-90deg); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);' | Ordinary
|-
! Decurion // ''Fiþnan''
| colspan=2 style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold; border-left: 2px solid #000' | Ordinate / ''Opratzan''
|-
! Draconarius / ''Golsapbir''
| rowspan=2 colspan=2 style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold; border-left: 2px solid #000' | Tesserarius / ''Ahtaldan''
| rowspan=4 style='text-align:center; transform: rotate(-90deg); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);' | Principal
|-
! Squire / ''Silbir''
|-
| rowspan=4 colspan=2 style='border-top: 2px solid #000; border-left: none; border-bottom: none; background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0)' |
| colspan=2 style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold;' | Signifer / ''Tzæknak''
|-
| style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold; border-right: 2px solid #999' | Supplier
| style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold;' | Prime / ''Frum'' ''(Specialist)''
|-
| style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold; border-right: 2px solid #999' | Prime / ''Frum''
| style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold; height: 6em' | Specialist
| style='text-align:center; transform: rotate(-90deg); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);' | nu Saltznân without fatigues
|-
| style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold; height: 6em; border-right: 2px solid #999' | Soldier
| style='text-align: center; font-weight: bold;' | Trainee
| rowspan=3 style='text-align:center; transform: rotate(-90deg); background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0);' | mi Saltznân with fatigues
|}

==References==

[[Category:Raspur Pact]][[Category:Unified Governorates of Benacia]]

Tales from Kalgachia

2019-10-04T15:06:19Z

Yastreb:

'''Tales from Kalgachia''' is a collected literary narrative of the [[Kalgachia|Garden of Kalgachia]] which won the 2017 [[FNORD]] Award for Literature. Penned by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy Yastreb]] (and certain credited guest writers), each instalment depicts an episode in the life of a random Kalgachi inhabitant set against the nation's wider social and political background. Although most tales are written to stand alone, those depicting the life of the Kalgachi head of state ('''indicated in bold''') can be assembled into a rough serial. The disproportionately high amount of tales depicting episodes of rampant alcoholism can also be considered a running theme of sorts, albeit an unintentional one.

To date, the tales are: 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 1]] (145 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]])''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which Kalgachia's leaders discuss novel uses for bodily waste. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 2]] (146 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a doctor muses upon his unrequited love. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 3]] (146 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which the Kalgachi military verifies the downfall of [[Minarboria|Shrubdom]]. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 4]] (147 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a monastery is inspected by a mysterious bureaucrat. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 5]] (148 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a soldier's act of self-abuse is rudely interrupted. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 6]] (149 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a school is inspected by a mysterious bureaucrat. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 7]] (150 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which the capabilities of the Minarborian invalid carriage are proven beyond doubt. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 8]] (151 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which two infatuated [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezenis]] embark on a naughty weekend. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 9]] (152 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which Kalgachia exploits the effluence of [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] instability with an inappropriate degree of jollity. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 10]] (152 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a religious cleric and a psychiatrist demonstrate the unique qualities of Kalgachi jurisprudence. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 11]] (153 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a schoolteacher receives a substantial promotion. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 12]] (154 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a geologist receives a substantial promotion. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 13]] (154 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a health worker is snowed in. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 14]] (155 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which the Kalgachi head of state is bombarded with surprises in the middle of the night. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 15]] (157 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a tour group from Katarsis engage in various forms of catharsis. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 16]] (160 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a little girl has a fun day out. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 17]] (163 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which the snow has some difficulty staying white. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 18]] (164 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a diplomat receives a substantial promotion. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 19]] (166 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a family of three cry like babies. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 20]] (167 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a Shirerithian fails at bereavement. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 21]] (169 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a university graduate obtains patronage. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 22]] (171 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a student pilot gets in trouble. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 23]] (173 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a girl grows up. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 24]] (174 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which the [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirbs]] swarm. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 25]] (176 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a prisoner repays society. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 26]] (177 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a young woman's patience is tested in a number of ways. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 27]] (177 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a social reject tries to carve out a new living. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 28]] (180 AL)''' by [[User:Ryker|Ryker]] and [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which the wonders of facial proctology are revealed to a select audience. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 29]] (183 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which two underachievers have a brush with showbiz. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 30]] (184 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a boy finally gets his pocket money. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 31]] (187 AL)''' by [[User:Shyriath|Shyriath]] and [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a jolly lich oversleeps. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 32]] (188 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which the evolution of central [[Benacia|Benacian]] fauna takes a worrying leap. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 33]] (187 AL)''' by [[User:Shyriath|Shyriath]] and [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a four-armed serpent oversleeps. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 34]] (191 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a big sister sulks. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 35]] (195 AL) by [[User:Shyriath|Shyriath]] 
...in which an heir to a throne acquires a sword. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 36]] (195 AL) by [[User:Shyriath|Shyriath]] 
...in which a good citizen helps the authorities with their inquiries. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 37]] (197 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a train driver receives some advice. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 38]] (198 AL) by [[User:Shyriath|Shyriath]] 
...in which a doctor seeks to provide therapy to a new patient. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 39]] (201 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which an heir to nothing in particular acquires a sword. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 40]] (208 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which young men actually take interest in an old man's story. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 41]] (210 AL) by [[User:Shyriath|Shyriath]] 
...in which old fossils, for a change, dig themselves up. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 42]] (211 AL) by [[User:Shyriath|Shyriath]] 
...in which a mother explains things to the children. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 43]] (212 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a widow rebuilds her career. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 44]] (217 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a cleric visits the troops. 

*'''[[Tales from Kalgachia - 45]] (219 AL)''' by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a young man's services are obtained. 

*[[Tales from Kalgachia - 46]] (228 AL) by [[User:Yastreb|Krasniy]] 
...in which a mailman adapts himself to a new religious order. 

[[Category:Kalgachia]][[Category:Literature]]

Tales from Kalgachia - 46

2019-10-04T15:06:15Z

Yastreb: Created page with "''As it always had, winter crept early upon the town of Tsuri. While the lower country to the south still delighted in the gathering of the harvest and all the attendant festi..."

''As it always had, winter crept early upon the town of Tsuri. While the lower country to the south still delighted in the gathering of the harvest and all the attendant festivity, the arable land up here - modest smallholdings hewn out of the local gravel and laboriously composted to life over the course of a century - had long since been dug over with the rotted detritus of the short growing season and left to the incoming frost. Livestock, except for the hardier breeds of goat, had been slaughtered or else shut in barns. The profusion of ornamental shrubs in public spaces and domestic gardens - well tended here, as in all of Kalgachia - were mostly hardy evergreen varieties of stunted proportions, planted as a defiant totem of life through the torpid cold of winter.''

''Venerated shrubs aside, life in the town was proceeding much as it ever had since its ancient origin as a outpost of the Volhyrians, one of the founding tribes of [[Ashkenatza]]. Back then it was little more than a lookout site atop a ridge, its occupants ever watchful against incursions by Litovine raiders from the southeast who, it was said, were only attempting to reclaim a salient of land which the Volhyrians had stolen from them - the eventual victory of the latter's ruthless kossar bands, the ensuing Herem rituals and the ascent of a hegemonic Ashkenatzan state had almost succeeded in obscuring that little detail but it had been revived somewhat by Tsuri's present inhabitants, driven as they were by [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] precepts of anti-imperialism and persistent mistrust of the archonic Yehudi creed which had been the Volhyrians' gift to this particular segment of [[Benacia]]. The Lieutenancy of Lithead, the subnational jurisdiction in which Tsuri now lay, was named for the conquered Litovine people although their genetic relation to the Lieutenancy's present inhabitants had been negligible for some generations; during the Ashkenatzan era, when Tsuri's position on a road to the mountainous north had brought it to an unsurpassed population peak, the Litovine inhabitants had been largely replaced by Volhyrian stock whose kossar descendants maintained a presence there through Ashkenatza's own demise. They had only been driven out by the undead cossack horde of Zemphirius Karymov, a reformed [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] warlord tasked with expanding the western borders of the Empire of [[Minarboria]] and at the time, the only commander in the region capable of beating the kossars at their own irregular warfare game. The area around Tsuri was subsequently assigned for settlement by [[Deep Singers]], who mainly elected to settle more temperate lands to the south and had not arrived to Tsuri in any great amount by the time Minarboria collapsed. Only when the Kalgachi migration began, driven by sheer necessity, did people repopulate the town in any number and even since then, with the road to the high north worn away by a succession of landslides and seismic tremors, the town had never come close to its Ashkenatzan heyday.''

''Nonetheless there were those who, by desire or circumstance, found themselves content to live in this ridgetop town at the head of a lonely road. It was, in the eyes of neighbouring parishes and to some extent in reality, the kind of place they called a 'goat town' - a refuge for those quiet but physically hardy folk who had never bought into the noisy eusociality of the urban elite, however shrubby their cities may have been, and instead gravitated toward the husbandry of small livestock among other solitary professions. It was no accident that many of these people were [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]], the miscegenate offspring of Deep Singers who now found themselves able to explore norms beyond those of their modified ancestors, whose modes of social integration were inspired by those of the beehive and often considered the desire for space and solitude to be signs of a neurological defect requiring medical intervention.''

''It had occurred to one such Nezeni, a mailman by the name of Strobus Cone, that the adherence of the Deep Singers and their descendants to the ways of the Old Garden seemed to decrease with altitude - ranging from the energetic continuity of genetic modification and biomic engineering in the lowlands around [[Lepidopterum]] city, all the way to open comformism with the unmodified population at the heights of Tsuri. Up here, visitors often remarked, people were almost [[Kalgachia#The Lywallers|Lywallers]]. Perhaps the altitude suppressed the Old Garden pheromones, Strobus thought to himself before the resounding blast of a [[Batavia|Batavian]] pipe organ returned his attention to his surroundings - he was, in fact, seated halfway down the amphitheatric bowl of a church. Looking around at the large congregation, an array of green or blue-hued Nezeni faces packed around tiered rings of pews, Strobus sighed at being unable to attend quieter services during the working week because of his early mail round. Once a week was all it took to maintain one's standing - in this town at least - but it seemed that many more of Tsuri's solitary souls shared Strobus' predicament and found themselves obliged to press together for this uncomfortable hour of a [[Kalgachia#Calendar|Byeday]] morning, the shared hardship of which ironically made it a little more bearable.''

''A wave of rising chests announced the commencement of a hymn:''

''"Please cheer up, dear little Minarbor'' 
''If you think that you are sad'' 
''Presage not the fires of damnation'' 
''With your little tears of sap'' 
''Everything is fine, everything is fine'' 
''Everything will be alright!'' 
''Everything will be alright...!"''

''It was a song of the [[Minarboria#Religion|old church]], known by all without recourse to the hymn book, calming and comforting in its pastel-hued banality. Strobus sang along with the rest in scratchy tones, gazing down as they did upon the shrub in the middle of the arena floor which served as the church altar. The Credent, leading the service in his flowing green robe, circled about the shrub and ran his hands through its leaves as he sang. On Byedays he was assisted by the choir - a dozen children with wandering, almost frightened eyes who nonetheless sang the hymn to its conclusion in decently-trained tune.''

''"Let us pray," said the Credent.''

''"O Host of the Deepest Garden, hear us in this place who are gathered around your shrubby work on [[Micras]]. Hear our thanks, that upon the approach of [[Harvestfall Revolution|Black Harvestfall]] you rendered unto our forebears a new Salvator..."''

''At this point the Credent's vocal pace became hesitant. Among the elder parishioners of the inner tiers, feet were shuffled and throats were cleared. The recent canonisation of Vascarina Goldcluck, hitherto an [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|embarrassing necromantic anomaly]] of the late Minarborian era with a devoted but slightly unhinged sect following, had unsettled those who were raised in the Deep Singer creed of a linear and ever-perfecting Garden and who, until recently, had a seemingly unbreakable hand upon the doctrines of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Kalgachi church]]. Many rumours circulated as to what had triggered the theological shift - most popularly that the [[Kalgachia#Central Governance|Perfectus]] for the Church of Kalgachia had died or been ousted - but in Strobus' mind at least, the emphatic resolution of the Third Extraordinary Grand Council in ruling the changes had been more surprising than their actual content. They must have had, he supposed, very good reasons and it was a shame that the crusty old scions of the old doctrine could not accept the changes.''

''The Credent finished the prayer and handed it off to a reading from his junior Dissitor, a black-haired young man of no discernible Nezeni heritage who was new in the parish and was, it was alleged, the reconciled acolyte of a Goldcluck sect. The enthusiasm with which he commenced his reading seemed to confirm the idea:''

''"Verily and at hazard to his standing did [[The Lot of a Lichnik|Kazimir the Lichnik]] proclaim unto Shyriath the Builder, that the cultivation of a Garden does not entail the displacement of the primal chaos, but rather its enclosure and conversion. That in this spirit must be accepted the spotted rose leaf, the clumpy moss upon the path and the unsightly stinkhorn, though the Gardener never intended these things. By these signs are the glory of the Garden distinguished from the conformity and sterility of the archonic will, from technocracy and vanity. From these signs, indeed, may come salvation..."''

''He lifted up a heavy bucket. "Who then will accept a touch of sand, beloved by Vascarina the Little, and obtain this salvation?"''

''The organ struck up again and a handful of parishioners, all of them young, rose from the pews and descended the steps to the altar where the Dissitor received each one in turn, reaching into the bucket and sprinkling a handful of fine sand onto their heads. The elder parishioners remained firmly in their pews, their expressions ranging from polite tolerance to contemptuous scowling. Strobus, being well on the approach to middle age, had not yet partaken in this act of communion but after a moment he rose to his feet.''

''"Eh, why not," he muttered in feeble qualification to the elder folk around him. He made his way to the aisle and descended toward the altar, quickening his pace to get there before the last communicant in the queue - a goatherd girl with crook still in hand - received her sand. He slowed again in relief as he heard the footsteps of at least two others behind him, seemingly emboldened to join the ritual by his example. The sand itself was fine, pure and more yellow than any Kalgachi geology suggested. Strobus made the mistake of leaving his eyes open as it was flicked across his face, causing him to blink furiously as he nodded his gratitude to the Dissitor with all the decorum he could muster. With some difficulty, being momentarily blinded, he found his way back to his pew. From somebody in the front rows, unseen through the blinding grit, came a quiet hiss of derision as he passed.''

''The highlight of the Byeday service in most parishes of Tsuri was that attendees would be invited afterwards to the adjoining social hall which opened a free bar for an hour; a nod to the imperatives of jollity laid out by [[Lord Toastypops]] and a proven method of getting lapsers, recusants and the terminally shy to make the effort of showing up. This time of year, local tongues abandoned the cooling [[Koninklijke Hofbier|Batavian beers]] of summer and opted for the fiery warmth of Kalgachia's own distilled spirits. Strobus, for his part, had gained an accidental taste for rough Schlepogorskaya vodka while trying to anchor the masculine credentials of his youth. Now he downed a measure of the stuff and let its warmth swim through him while he wandered the hall, eavesdropping on others' conversations:''

''"Shame about that train crash down in Barilan, wasn't it? They say a [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] tore the track up..."''

''"My little boy's got his third climbing award this year. Two hundred feet without ropes! He wants to try the east face of Toastytop but..."''

''"So I got stung by a bee the other day, right? Twenty [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Millirand]] for a jar of honey! Ghahahaha...! Oh come on..."''

''"Stamen and Frumps got back from [[UGB|Gub country]] on Rustleday. Said [[Sansabury]] was nice in a weathered sort of way, but they didn't want to discuss [[Merensk]] at all..."''

''"Young Mister Cone!" a shrill voice exploded in Strobus' ear and a wrinkled hand tugged at his sleeve. "What a delight!" Before him, clad in her frilly Byeday best, was the elderly and scale-skinned woman he had only ever known as Ms. Cyanid - many years ago she had been his schoolteacher. "Well how are we?" she chirped, cradling a glass of some golden liqueur in her hand. "I must say I was surprised to see you fall in with the Dissitor earlier. Look at you, your hair's still all full of..." She began to swat at Strobus' hair, sending more grains of sand into his eyes.''

''"Oh it's fine, ma'am, really," said Strobus, shrinking back. "I can clear it up later. It's just-"''

''"You were late with my mail on Pleaseday!" Ms. Cyanid suddenly announced. "What was that about?"''

''"Oh... er, the truck from Barilan sorting office broke down. Out of my hands I'm afraid."''

''"[[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|DPW]] needs composting, the lot of them. Now listen, I've got a package coming next Rustleday. Maybe Thanksday. I'll be expecting it on time."''

''"Well I'm not walking your round that day, but I can put in a word to-"''

''"Really though, falling for all this new Vascarina fluff," Ms. Cyanid switched again. "What would your mother have said, if she was alive?"''

''"Well it's hard to know, ma'am... that was a long time ago. Things have changed."''

''"Maybe they have, young man, but every season has its end. One day you'll think yourself silly for making your devotions to that oddball lich."''

''"Are you not a believer, then?"''

''"Oh I quite believe, dear, but that doesn't justify dragging little miss Goldcluck into the liturgy of our church. If they've canonised her, they'll have to add Shyriath the Builder too... or even one of the [[House of Yastreb|Yastrebs]], Shrub preserve us. There'd be no end to it!"''

''"Well I don't think we can limit ourselves to the ways of the [[Minarboria|Old Garden]] forever..."''

''"Why ever not? It's got us all this far."''

''"By the skin of our teeth, ma'am. But look at us now... no Shrub, the fullbloods in Lepidopterum are mostly licking their wounds and Lord Toastypops has gone back to bed. Remember what happened to the old empire when things got this bad and nobody took charge of the situation?"''

''"Remember? Really dear, I'm not THAT old..."''

''"Well you know what I mean. If we don't stake a claim on the future, the future will stake a claim on us."''

''"What's futuristic about Vascarina Goldcluck? She hasn't been seen since the Shrub himself."''

''"I think you'll find that's a matter of opinion," said a voice beside them. The robed Dissitor, having spotted the animated conversation from afar and surmised its content, glided alongside whilst taking a swig of Batavian beer straight from the bottle. "If you'll forgive the imposition, madam... Cyanid, is it? There is a school of evidence which suggests that Vascarina is still alive, but it hasn't been found conclusive enough to make it into the doctrine yet."''

''"Still alive...!" chuckled Ms. Cyanid. "She's nearly twice my age. She would have shuffled off to the Great Garden Beyond by now."''

''"But you have to remember she was restored from undeath to life by the Shrub... a miraculous act even in those arcane days. What's to say she didn't obtain biological immortality in the process? Like Shyriath the Builder, but I doubt she drank herself to death on Tellian amaretto as he did."''

''Ms. Cyanid's eyes widened with mirth. "I refuse to believe one can drink onesself to death on this stuff," she looked at her glass and gulped down its last contents. "Strobus, be a darling and fetch me a top-up from the bar, will you?"''

''Strobus took the empty glass and stepped smartly away, giving the Dissitor an apologetic shrug. By the time he had pushed his way through to the crowded bar, obtained Ms. Cyanid's refill and extracted himself, the Dissitor had parted from the woman and Strobus encountered him on the way back.''

''"We'll have a hard time convincing that one," the Dissitor sighed. "She'll cause a scene if I push it any more."''

''"Be thankful she was never your teacher," muttered Strobus.''

''"I appreciate you stepping up for communion today, you know. You drew a few others out behind you. I'll make it known to Credent Cytoplast... he's somewhat on the fence himself."''

''"Oh I didn't do it to buff my record, Dissitor. I just tried it out of curiosity. Where do you get the sand?"''

''"Bereliggle Bay, down in [[Lywall Protectorate|Lywall]]. Vascarina resided there for some years, before the collapse. Until recently the Gubernatorials were shipping it up to us with [[Ship-Breakers Shore|scrap metal consignments]], for next to nothing. Then some gouging bastard got wind of the religious usage and the prices went up, and up, and up... Shrub be thanked that the church has the deepest pockets in Kalgachia... they need to be these days." He took another swig of beer.''

''"So you think Vascarina's still alive?"''

''"It's possible. Strictly off-canon, you understand, but we've had word from our people in Schlepogora that she's somewhere in the backwoods of [[Lachdolor]]. Moves around a lot. Avoids company. Shrub only knows what'll happen if the Gubs find her."''

''"Martyrdom?" said Strobus.''

''"Worked for Fleurette, I suppose," said the Dissitor, finishing his beer. "They say you should never meet your heroes anyway." He looked down at the glass of amaretto in Strobus' hand. "You'd better get that to old Cyanide before she bites your head off. Can I count on your repeat performance next Byeday?"''

''"Oh certainly," said Strobus, half distracted by looking for Ms. Cyanid's face in the crowd.''

''"Good man," said the Dissitor as he swept away. "Garden keep you."''

''Ms. Cyanide found Strobus before he found her, approaching from behind and swiping the glass of amaretto out of his hand. "I thought you weren't coming back!" she snapped, taking a generous sip. "Ahh, that's better... now then young man, delivering the mail is all well and good but when are you going to get a proper job? I didn't slave away in a stuffy old classroom all those years for you to put paper in holes..."''

''Strobus looked across to the corner of the hall, where the goatherd girl who took sand communion was stood sipping non-alcoholic fruit juice with an elderly man of the same profession who cradled a small juvenile goat in his arm. Neither spoke to the other, content to silently observe the scene as Strobus did. He avoided the impending eye contact, pondered the strange sense of peace which had enveloped him and turned back to Ms. Cyanid.''

''"I'm looking at other options..."''

[[Category:Kalgachia]]

Capital punishment laws by nation

2019-10-04T09:36:52Z

Yastreb:

'''Capital punishment''', also known as the '''death penalty''', is a practice which is intended to kill a person as punishment for crimes they have committed, otherwise known as an '''execution'''. It is mostly carried out for the most egregious offenses such as murder and treason, though laws vary by country historically. Common methods include death by firing squad, lethal injection, stoning, and the electric chair. In the modern world, many national governments now view these practices as inhumane, and a significant number of nations have severely limited the extent of the death penalty or outlawed it altogether.

==Summary of legality by nation==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
|+
!width="20%"|Nation
!width="16%"|Legality
!width="5%"|Total executed (2018)
!width="5%"|Murder
!width="5%"|Treason
!width="5%"|Espionage
!width="5%"|Rape
!width="5%"|Child sexual abuse
!width="5%"|Drug trafficking
!width="5%"|Grand larceny
!width="5%"|Petty crimes
!width="32%"|Notes
|-
|{{team flag|Alrig}}
|align=center|Illegal
|align=center|589
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|While Alrig does not have the death penalty, [[Tegong]] agents venturing into Alrig to execute enemies of the Jingdaoese state are not hindered.
|-
|{{team flag|Elwynn}}
|align=center|Illegal
|align=center|0
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|
|-
|{{team flag|Jingdao}}
|align=center|Legal
|align=center|3,251,329
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|All breaches of codified law or the ''Will of the [[Heavenly Light]]'' are punishable with the death penalty. It is performed when a criminal is considered to be more trouble alive than dead, regardless of the gravity of his crime. Mentally disabled people are only executed when they are found to be guilty of especially grave crimes such as murder or rape and are exempt from being punished for insulting the Heavenly Light which is usually only a capital offense.
|-
|{{team flag|Kalgachia}}
|align=center|Legal
|align=center|''classified''
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|Kalgachi legal proceedings are based more on precedent, official discretion and parochial variation than on adherence to rigid codes, thus the conditions for a death sentence vary widely by case and jurisdiction. Criminal proceedings for a given offence traditionally serve as a pretext for a wider assessment of the offender's character and societal harm; first-time offenders with good references are therefore shown leniency whilst persistent recidivists can (and do) receive the death penalty for the smallest of infractions if it completes a picture of their unreformable character.
|-
|{{team flag|Krasnocoria}}
|align=center|Legal
|align=center|21,436
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|The death penalty is practiced regularly in Krasnocoria, and is given for a variety of crimes. Public support for the death penalty has consistently hovered between 70 and 90 percent for the past several decades.
|-
|{{team flag|Nijima}}
|align=center|Illegal
|align=center|N/A
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|N/A
|-
|{{team flag|Senya}}
|align=center|Legal
|align=center|6
|align=center|Possible
|align=center|Possible
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|Possible
|align=center|Possible
|align=center|Possible
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|Possible
|align=left|Whilst Senyan law has provisions for the death penalty, it is rarely used. No crime is directly punishable by the death penalty, though serious crimes (such as terrorism, murder, rape, child sexual abuse and crimes against the society) can warrant the death penalty under the following conditions;
*The prisoner requests execution
*The prisoner has completed 21 years in prison but has shown no remorse or behavioural improvement and is seen as being a risk to the public if released
*The prisoner has re-offended

Interestingly, Senya does not have life imprisonment, the maximum sentence is 21 years. Before a prisoner can be executed, there can be no serious doubts that the prisoner is actually not guilty.
|}

===Methods===
For those nations in which capital punishment is legal, a variety of methods are practiced. The following is a summary table of the practices which those nations use.
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
|+
!width="20%"|Nation
!width="5%"|Lethal injection
!width="5%"|Gas inhalation or asphyxiation
!width="5%"|Firing squad
!width="5%"|Electric chair
!width="5%"|Hanging
!width="5%"|Stoning
!width="5%"|Beheading
!width="5%"|Other
!width="32%"|Notes
|-
|{{team flag|Jingdao}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|Executioners in Jingdao are fully licensed medical professionals who are valued for their creativity. While all normal methods are used, executioners who consistently stick with them are seen as underachievers. Executions usually take place within hours after the sentence, if not directly afterwards.
|-
|{{team flag|Kalgachia}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|[[Ketherism|Ketherist]] teachings hold that the celestial forces of evil obtain equal power from all human suffering (the ''nectar of the archons'') whether it be of their agents or adversaries. To deny them this sustenance, execution methods are required to be swift and efficient; long-drop hanging is preferred although firearms are used in more summary proceedings.
|-
|{{team flag|Krasnocoria}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|Inmates on death row have the right to choose from a selection of execution procedures. Executions are usually carried out within 6 months of sentencing.
|-
|{{team flag|Senya}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{yes}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|{{no}}
|align=center|Firing squad of five police firearms specialists.
|}

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History of Kalgachia/The 220s

2019-09-27T14:10:25Z

Yastreb:

'''The 220s''' began with a phased drawdown of Kalgachi military forces in the [[Upland Confederation]] following the [[Slavegate Convention]], only for part of them to be redeployed for border security duties in [[Northbloom]] and Northern Schlepogora after the government of [[West Amokolia]] announced a rehabilitation of the continentally-reviled [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]] people. The resultant political hazard to Kalgachia's trade route through [[Batavia]] (the latter's monarchy being in personal union with West Amokolia) was further exacerbated by the increasingly erratic behaviour of the [[House of Verion]] and its corporate possession, the [[Iron Company]] on whose logistical services Kalgachia's foreign trade was wholly reliant. Moves were duly commenced to diversify the country's trade links and were well underway by the time a plane crash in the Great Western Sea wiped out several key players of the Verion empire and [[Verionist Vespers|reduced the family's global power]] to a shadow of its former extent. Within Kalgachia these events were interpreted by the deepest strata of government as evidence that the technocratic fulfilment layer of the Kalgachi state had succumbed excessively to ''pecuniary fixations'' and threatened the sublime insulation from global geopolitical tumult which distinguished Kalgachia favourably from the neighbouring post-Shirerithian [[Vulture States]] and underpinned the legitimacy of its leadership. The Council of Perfecti duly called an Extraordinary Grand Council of senior state figures - only the third in Kalgachia's history - to revise the strategic priorities and overall governance of the country in the following decades.

==The Northern Pivot (220-221 AL)==

For some years suspicions had existed that the King of [[Batavia]] and [[Amokolia]], [[Arkadius IV]], was being drawn into the orbit of the [[Stormark|Storish]] élite; a group long shunned by most Micran powers on the consensus that they were little more than a manipulative sex cult operating under the pretence of a royal court. The means by which King Arkadius might have fallen under the spell of [[Harald Thorstein]] were unknown, although the relative youth and inattention of the former during the events leading up to the [[Auspicious Occasion]] had made him, from a Storish perspective, an exploitable weak point among the other eminent figures of [[Benacia]] whose shared disenfranchisement in the shadow of an uncaring [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]] hegemony had provoked them to systematically eject persons of Storish descent from the civil life of most of the continent.

In 220 AL elements within the [[Central Intelligence Department of Elwynn|Elwynnese intelligence community]] leaked the ''Pact of Reykjavík'', a draft covenant between the royal houses of Amokolia and Stormark whereby the Storish colonial territory of Gascony, in Benacia's boreal northwest, would be merged with the Kingdom of Amokolia to form a revivicated Froyalanish state. Reaction among the other states of Benacia was instant and unanimously negative; the [[Guttuli Protectorate]], [[Ransenar]], [[Sanama]], [[Sathrati]], the rump regency of [[Shireroth]], the [[Sovereign Confederation]], the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Unified Governorates]] and indeed Kalgachia took immediate measures to seal off Amokolia's eastern borders and suspend diplomatic relations. A number of parliamentarians in King Arkadius' other realm of Batavia voiced opposition to their sovereign's actions. Further afield, [[Natopia]] redoubled its [[Uppheaval|post-Vanic reform efforts]] in [[Uppland]] whilst [[Talenore]] and [[Constancia]] sent armed volunteers to help the [[Konkordskaya Bratva]] and other formations of the [[Raspur Pact]] in securing [[Mishalan]] against Amokolian frontier provocations.

In the face of opposition from a dozen nations, the Chancellor of Amokolia assumed an attitude so unyielding that in the former's perspective, it all but confirmed his government and sovereign as compromised and fully controlled agents of the Storish ruling house with whom negotiation and reasoning would be futile. In a speech to the Amokolian legislature, the Chancellor committed Amokolia to a policy of unconditional rehabilitation for the Froyalanish people and explicitly identified Amokolia as their homeland. The declaration was followed by an appeal to Kalgachia in particular to repatriate to Amokolia those bonded Froyalanish labourers it had imported from Shireroth between 155 and 164 AL.

By this time Kalgachia's Froyalanish population, having been sterilised as a condition of entry, were all of elderly age and few remained in the workforce. The Lord Lieutenants' Council, the state organ responsible for settling questions of nationality in Kalgachia, recommended a programme of voluntary repatriation which was duly authorised by the Council of Perfecti in 221 AL. Uptake for the programme was, however, minimal - especially for those who arrived in Kalgachia after the abolition of Froyalanish bondage 161 AL, for whom the move across the frontier from Shireroth had improved their status from enyoked community servant to wage-earning citizen.

The Council of Perfecti had accompanied its ruling on repatriations with a rare direct appeal to King Arkadius to avoid ignoring the underlying causes behind the suppression of the Froyalanish, lest his own Amokolian subjects succumb to the same. This was dismissed by the king in a following speech where he implied the behaviour of the Froyalanish before Auspicious Occasion to be to be "natural right" against which the only available countermeasures of the time were eternally illegitimate, "regardless of the history or background". His assertion in the same speech that "different population groups, different customs and traditions illustrate the cultural diversity" was heavily quoted in the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]] and intercut with the archived works of Froyalanish bards advocating the expansion of their "ancient ways" to all corners of the globe along with footage of refugees fleeing King Noah's [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19746 purges and forced land clearances] in Mishalan.

The effect of King Arkadius' defiance upon Kalgachia's relations with other powers was profound. The perennial state of military tension with the Unified Governorates, already reduced by the [[Slavegate Convention]], now seemed to evaporate almost entirely; efforts were made by the authorities of each side to reduce ideological invective against the other while Kalgachi troops on the [[Upland Confederation|Ҳazedinov Line]] met in no man's land with [[Black Legions|Black Legionaries]] from the opposing Abatis Line to play soccer. In [[Shirekeep]], the Regent Li Naomiai - a figure reviled in Kalgachia for her emotive outbursts against the Garden - announced her resignation for the express purpose of improving Sxiro-Kalgachi relations and establishing a unified Benacian front against the new civilisational threat in the north.

Within Kalgachia, a scattered handful of maverick [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] microbiologists who had been the subjects of varying levels of scrutiny and/or detention by the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] for expressing [[Kalgachia#Sixism|Doronist]] sentiments, suddenly found themselves with restored security clearances and new job oppurtunities within deniable [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|unitary enterprises]] of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]]. The object of their new work was a large sample set of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_I-M253 I-M253] genotypes, collected from the [[The Green|wilds]] of northeast [[Apollonia]] by [[Unit 666]] and obtained in exchange for three pairs of newborn [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-als]] at a military airbase in [[Wuqi]].

==The Merchants' Purge (222 AL)==

in 222 AL the apparently steady trajectory of Benacian affairs set in motion from Amokolia was abruptly reversed by the [[Treaty of Concord]] and the simultaneous occupation of parts of [[Shirekeep]] by forces of the [[Verionist Republic]], events which returned the focus of post-Shirerithian states to the east overnight and reaffirmed the perpetually capricious and unreliable character of Kalgachia's neighbours in the eyes of [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|DTW]] officials who had been flirting with notions of a lasting continental consensus.

Although the events did negligible damage to Kalgachia's emergent détente with the [[UGB]], the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] was alarmed by other results - namely a coordinated round of sanctions against the Verionist Republic by multiple Benacian states and the following emergence of tensions from the [[USSO]] and [[Alduria]] against [[Los Liberados]] which inspired [[Operation Hugo Grotius]]. All of these developments had a common point of collateral damage in the form of the [[Iron Company]], on whom Kalgachia was almost entirely dependent for connections to the global marketplace.

Reliance upon such a solitary point of failure, although something of a heresy against the Kalgachi philosophy of state which was noted from the outset, had nonetheless been tolerated by the DLEP and its fixers in the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] due to the immense economic benefits obtained while geopolitical risks were judged to be low. Now that the future integrity of the Iron Company's shipping operations came into question, so too did the complacency and hubris of certain DLEP officials and OIEC executives amid the circumstances of their own personal enrichment; after a series of briefings from the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]] and the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]] on the behavioural fingerprints of the ''Pecuniary Archon'', the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] assessed that certain members of the Kalgachi business community had wilfully allowed the economic resilience of the [[Ketherism|Garden]] to slide toward the periphery of their priorities in exchange for personal riches beyond the comprehension of the ordinary Kalgachi who would be the first to suffer if imports of Liberadosan rum and recreational motor fuel from [[Eura]] were compromised by disregard for geopolitical events.

The Prefects duly rounded up scores of DLEP officials and summoned certain [[Puerto Arcadio]]-based executives of the OIEC back to Kalgachia to account for their conduct; the majority of the latter, correctly surmising that they would be inducted into mandatory Church re-education programmes the moment they landed at [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]], instead chose to liberate such funds from the OIEC Expenses & Sundries account as they were able and fled into hiding<ref>the subsequent appearance of such individuals on the ESB payroll under assumed identities was denied by the latter and largely obscured by the periodic reassignment of suspect individuals around the Honourable Company's worldwide operating locations. The formation of a ''Pursuit and Liquidation Cell'' by the DTW Field Research Office to bring these individuals to final account before the Garden was neither confirmed nor denied.</ref>. Although relations with the Iron Company were eventually stabilised by the [[Treaty of Lune Villa]] and assurances of maritime security given by the [[Raspur Pact]], the DLEP was instructed by Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti to commence an immediate diversification of its foreign logistics operation. To this end, discreet enquiries began to arrive at the offices of [[Kerularios & Company|Kerularios & Co]] in [[Aqaba]] regarding the routing of non-perishable, recyclable and geopolitically-inert commodities to Kalgachia via the UGB in exchange for direct access to Kalgachi exports. The Iron Company wished the Kalgachi government "the best of luck" in their efforts to diversify their trading partners, but invoked its right to refuse goods shipments to or from competitor networks and maintain its monopoly over Batavian and [[Kasterburg|Kasterburger]] trade routes which it had operated since the 170s AL - a move which, presuming Kerularios took up the slack elsewhere, would create seperate Batavian and Euran markets with their own exclusive shipping contractor and independent connections with the Kalgachi frontier.

The purge of the DLEP in Oktavyan was undertaken in parallel with another, directed mainly at [[Sovereign Confederation|Norestrian]] emigré bullion specialists within the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia who had been instrumental in establishing the metallurgical quality of the [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]]. Whilst the loyalties of these diligent numismators had always been suspect, their record of service spared them the regime of ritualised penance imposed on the DLEP's foreign trade officials and generally took the form of early retirements with glowing references for onward employment among other Norestrians in [[Republic of Inner Benacia|emerging Benacian markets]]. Both house-cleaning efforts within the Directorate were coordinated on the Prefects' behalf by one [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]]: son of the Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan and the Chairman of the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia, alleged nephew of the chairman of the Council of Perfecti and a noted currency speculator whose financial acumen had won him a private minority stake in the OIEC and now earned him an appointment to the Board of Governors of the Reserve Bank. Here he began to assist his aging father whose diminishing faculties and authority had necessitated the purge of the numismators in the first place, and whose senile deference to the incisive counsel of his red-haired ''wunderkind'' quickly marked the young man as the Reserve Bank's heir apparent.

==The Protectorisation of the Uplanders (223 AL)==

By 223 AL those [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] units in the [[Upland Confederation]] which had not been redeployed to help seal the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] border were operating at a reduced alert state. The local Uplanders, modest of means but possessed with typical [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] shrewdness, began to enlist the idle pool of military infrastructure, supplies and labour around them for the improvement of their own encampments and villages which had failed to advance appreciably beyond a state of tangled, [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]]-ridden wilderness since the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] collapse. In this they were actively aided and abetted by local KDF commanders who were all too keen to head off that universal scourge of deployed armies, the mischief of enlisted men with too much spare time. Static dwellings, irrigation works, Tee-al shelters and granaries began to proliferate throughout the Confederation's communities, as did upgrades of existing byways from hoof-churned horse tracks to roads of packed and graded soil suitable for light wheeled conveyances. This allowed a number of Kalgachi traders to arrive and market their wares from horse-drawn wagons or wood-gas trucks, the prevailing mode of entrepreneurship in their native mountains where private land ownership was forbidden.

The leaders of the clan ''Džirgas'' which composed the Confederation were naturally pleased at this economic injection, not least due to the KDF tolerating their 'taxation' of visiting traders in the Laqi fashion as a positive expression of cultural vibrancy and societal renewal. Through Ataman Ҳazedinov, they now petitioned Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti to advance their Confederation to the same state of protection and esteem enjoyed by [[Lepidopterum]], [[Northbloom]] and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]], making the present arrangement permanent whilst maintaining an autonomous distance from the nannying rhizomes of Kalgachi central government who might demand their own cut of the proceeds.

Protectorate status for the Confederation, being internationally recognised as something of a ''fait accompli'' since the KDF moved in, was duly declared by the Council of Perfecti with two conditions: the first was that the Confederation's prohibition of entry to [[Deep Singers]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] be restricted to that battle-scarred portion adjoining the Gubernatorials' domain of [[Siyacha Free State|Siyacha]], maintaining the modified races' seperation from the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]] whilst allowing them to travel in areas near the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|Inner Benacian Neutral Zone]]. The second condition was that most of the Confederation's territory adjoining Kalgachia proper be transferred to the Deep Singer administered protectorate of Lepidopterum, ostensibly to reduce the Confederation's administrative burden and recognise the demographic shift which had occurred since colonies of Deep Singers and Nezeni alike had begun to resettle the area.

Whilst not especially welcomed by the ''Džirgas'', the conditions were accepted after persuasion, monetary gratuities and gentle threats from Ataman Ҳazedinov; the extent to which this favour suggested a strengthened Deep Singer hand in the bowels of Kalgachi state, pursuing an incremental [[Kalgachia#Sixism|Sixist]] agenda for the reconquest of their erstwhile Minarborian home, did not pass without remark.

==The Third Extraordinary Grand Council (226 AL)==

By 226 AL the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|DLEP]] was reporting a general contentment at the pluralisation of Kalgachia's foreign trade activity; the mood prevailing within its operational bureaux was one of optimism and even wry amusement at the enthusiasm with which the [[Iron Company]] had fulfilled its contract to build a railway linking Kalgachia to the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|Stonetree Neutral Zone]]. Now, along that same railway, commodities were being poured into Kalgachia from [[Eura]] via [[Kerularios & Company|shipping entities]] which were [[ESB Group|entirely independent]] of the Iron Company and showed no hesitation in prising apart the latter's previous monopoly on goods movement across Kalgachi borders.

However the DLEP's vision of a balanced, self-correcting trade infrastructure divided equally between [[Batavia]] and the [[UGB|Unified Governorates]] was proven to be somewhat naive by the [[Loss of Nakalma Flight 731|loss of Nakalma flight 731]] over the Great Western Sea as it flew from [[Batavia]] to the [[Verionian Empire]]. Aboard the aircraft, along with members of the House of Verion and senior Iron Company figures, were none other than the Batavian Prime Minister [[Joachim Mackay]] and the [[Los Liberados|Liberadosan]] president [[Jacobo Castrigo Álvarez]] who also served as Batavian foreign minister; it was upon these two individuals that Kalgachia had relied for the expeditious transit of goods through the [[Batavian Confederation]] without obstruction or molestation by those whose sympathies leant nearer to the court of the Batavian king and his habit, seemingly contracted from associates in [[Stormark]], of meticulously enforcing regulatory small print ''et pereat mundus''.

As the post-Verion power vacuum [[Verionist Vespers|was filled]] in neighbouring states, such influential organs as the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|church]] and the [[Military of Kalgachia|armed forces]] began to emit rumbles of discontent that the direction of events, far from assuring the balance in foreign trade risk promised by the DLEP, now suggested an overswing of the pendulum which would merely substitute dependence on Batavia for dependence on the Unified Governorates. All achievements of the post-[[Slavegate Convention|Slavegate]] détente considered, they still competed against a history of [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] malevolence toward the Kalgachi people dating back to the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era and the notion of a Gubernatorial veto on Kalgachia's off-continent links, exercised in concert with that of Batavia, was compared by officials of Kalgachi security organs to the dark days of the early 200s when [[Shireroth]] had threatened to do similarly. That occasion had compelled none other than the Chairman of the Council of Perfecti to address the Kalgachi people by radio and implore them to prepare for their homeland's enforced isolation; now that the protection of the Verions was gone and Kalgachia's trade security was returned to the whimsical hands of geopolitical developments largely beyond its control, calls for similar leadership began to percolate through the senior strata of government.

Meanwhile other matters were coming to a head. A collective malaise was afflicting the [[Deep Singers]] of [[Lepidopterum]] who struggled with the [[Tales from Kalgachia - 42|physical and psychological scars]] of their sub-surface battle with the Crystal Death whilst their aspirations to reclaim their Minarborian-era social supremacy in Kalgachia had been gently rebuffed by the government, citing in roundabout terms that their previous authority had been progressively forfeited by the megalomania of [[Kalgachia#Sixism|Doron Se]] and his surviving acolytes, the proliferation of the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], the creation of the Crystal Death and countless other manifestations of biomic overreach. In Kalgachia's high central mountains, reports emerged that [[Lord Toastypops]] had found insufficient jollity levels to keep him fully animated and that he had retired to bed. Across Kalgachia, the tolerated cult of Vascarina Goldcluck - a [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|late Minarborian-era necromantic anomaly]] whose [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|folk apotheosis]] was not fully recognised by the church - had largely given up on their demands for canonisation and were coalescing into a parallel movement whose rhizomatic leadership and well-attended meetings were beginning to compete with the church for spiritual authority.

Sensing that the amount of national issues insurmountable by the usual managerial mechanisms had reached a critical mass, the Council of Perfecti convened Kalgachia's third Extraordinary Grand Council - a conclave of themselves, the Lords Lieutenant, the Holy Synod of the Church, the General Staff of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] and the Lords Protector. Unlike the first two Councils, the third was held in a public venue - the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in the Kalgachi capital of Oktavyan - where despite the closed nature of the proceedings, the arrival of all participants except the Perfecti was televised. Of the stream of uniformed and robed personages scurrying from their limousines into the cathedral only the Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan, [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]], stopped to engage with reporters; she evaded questions about the web of archonic entaglements spun by the foreign financial dealings of her son [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer]] and instead stated that "''we have a lot to get through. Our deliberations will be long and their results will be incrementally applied. One cannot hurry a Garden. No, this is not a national emergency... failure to hold this council would eventually entail a national emergency, which is why we are holding it now. National emergencies are for other countries. Some countries have nothing but national emergencies. But this is Kalgachia.''"

==The Council Decides (227 AL)==

It was widely anticipated that the Third Extraordinary Grand Council would seek to correct the slide into reactivity which was forced upon Kalgachia by the tumults of the [[Kalirion Fracture]] and restore it to a more assertive positionality - effectively resuming the [[Temporal Secessionism|Temporal Secessionist]] reform programme of the late 190s. The manner in which it did, however, took much of the nation by surprise - the anticipated upheavals of foreign policy mostly failed to materialise with the Council committing to retain Kalgachia's existing trade arrangements at more modest volumes, ostensibly for their diplomatic value although the impending bounty of cheap scrap metal arising from [[Raspur Pact]] internment of the [[Iron Company]]'s merchant shipping assets was said to have been a factor in the decision.

That windfall aside, the Council also announced the maturation of Kalgachia's stockpiling programme for non-native raw materials which had been operating since the first territorial abutment of [[Lepidopterum]] and [[Kasterburg]] in the mid-170s. For the sake of controlling storage and maintenance costs the Council ruled that these stockpiles, accumulated over the course of half a century, would be maintained at their existing level and treated as a strategic reserve with contributions made only to offset withdrawals. The [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], already occupied with the jurisdictional transfer of its offshore headquarters to the [[Florian Republic]], now found itself compelled to lay off large numbers of staff in anticipation of sharply reduced trading volumes (with inevitable accusations that this was merely cover for pre-planned cost saving measures).

These decisions were ultimately overshadowed in popular attention by the Council's religious rulings, which penetrated to the core of dogmas established since before the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era and in some cases swept them completely aside. As if to sweeten a bitter pill, the Council formally canonised Vascarina Goldcluck as a Salvator of the [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] faith, effectively allowing the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]] to absorb the renegade sect which had emerged in her name. Although Vascarina's history as a prematurely-necrofied lich was nominally compliant with the established requirement for Ketherist Salvators to be either undead or [[Deep Singers]] (the so-called "Benefactor Races"), the legend of her miraculous restoration to a living, unmodified human as the last worldly act of the Shrub [[Minarboria#Religion|Minarbor]] indicated an inversion of the established orthodoxy, inherited from the undead realms of the [[House of Rossheim]] and the Deep Singers alike, which held the Benefactor Races to be manifestations of linear progress toward a righteous state of "posthumanity".

This seismic doctrinal shift was confirmed by the Council's conclusions upon Kalgachia's long-term viability as a coherent civilisational entity, which held that "''any lasting advancement of Minarboreal modes of thought or existence beyond Kalgachia's frontiers will depend heavily upon a recontextualisation of the undead and Deep Singer races - those Benefactors whose legacy is rejected by every successor nation except Kalgachia''" and that the spiritual foundation of Kalgachi society needed to "''move beyond its [[Brookshire|Caverdenian]] origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary [[Benacia|Benacians]].''" Among many of the Kalgachi faithful, the Council's conclusions - the direction of which alone had indicated the absence of the inanimate [[Lord Toastypops]] and the malaise-stricken Lady Protector of Lepidopterum from proceedings - were interpreted as a near-damnation of the alternative sentient entities whose struggle for existence was entwined with Kalgachia's own and whose worldview had shaped generations of societal norms. Many people, especially Deep Singers and conservative [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] in Lepidopterum and Lithead, were seen to openly weep at the news.

In other quarters the Council's conclusions met with support - academics and [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|esotericists]] especially welcomed the Council's statement of intent to seperate the societal holism of the Deep Singers and the Rossheim Dynasty's philosophy of state - ideals whose implementation had strengthened the Kalgachi nation beyond all doubt - from the manifest deficiencies of those races in [[Harvestfall Revolution|trusting critical state functions to unreliable arcane phenomena]] and an apparent inability to prevent the periodic spread of [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|invasive lifeforms]].

The [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]] were quick to circulate reassurances to the populations of the genetically-modified south, as well as the devotees of Lord Toastypops, that Kalgachia's debt of historical gratitude and the future societal value of the undead and modified living was assured, but that that same history could no longer justify the outright apotheosis of present specimens as "Benefactors" on the grounds of their physical composition alone; that was a privilege reserved for their ancestors whose succession had been relegated from the divine to the merely genetic, a process heralded in stages by the Harvestfall Revolution, the dematerialisation of Minarbor, the impure circumstances of the Salvator Vascarina's existence (redeemed only by her deeds) and the emergence of the halfbreed Nezeni. The Resector of Oktavyan, Kalgachia's most senior publically-appearing cleric, summarised that "''the mysterious work of the Ketheric Host, being only partially governed by material laws, is by definition traumatic and confusing. The history of the Benefactors has been the story of this work, and many of their descendants cannot readily accept that their care has now been given over to a lesser authority. That it has been given over to the beneficient bosom of the Kalgachi nation, however, might well be considered the parting gift of their divine ancestors - to them and to all Kalgachia alike.''"

==Resources==
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 220s|Orders of Council made in this decade]]

==References==

[[Category:Kalgachia]][[Category:History]]

Ketherism

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Yastreb:

'''Ketherism''' is the established religion of [[Kalgachia]]. It is a gnostic evolution of [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] Shrub-worship which is itself a variant of the horticultural belief system practised by the Deep Singers, a race of genetically modified beings who once lived in central [[Brookshire]]. Certain elements of Ketherist liturgy and dogma have also been absorbed from [[Benacia|Benacian]] Judaism, as practised in antiquity by the population of [[Ashkenatza]] and its disapora.

==Antecedents==

Ketherism is the third phase of a spiritual tradition which arose among the [[Deep Singers]], an ancient race of self-modifying humanoids from the deep Micran crust who emerged into the caves of central [[Brookshire]] at around the same time as Minarbor, an affable sucker shoot of the Shirerithian tree-god [[shire:Malarbor|Malarbor]], was parted by the root from his cantankerous father in [[Shirekeep]]. The greater portion of the Deep Singer population would go on to join the cult of Minarbor and [[Minarboria|his namesake empire]], infusing the creed of his church with their own more ancient beliefs in the process. After Minarboria's demise, this hybrid faith was further blended with the gnostic cosmology of that empire's surviving academic élite to create Ketherism - a full understanding of which requires an acquaintance with its two preceding traditions.

===The Laws of the Garden===
The Laws of the Garden were formalised in the mid-Minarborian era but have considerably more ancient origins among the Deep Singers. They consist of the following:

'''''THE FIRST LAW - PURPOSE. All life must seek a purpose, and thereby fulfill its niche. As empty ecological roles are taken up by new organisms, seek out roles that need carrying out and fill them; adapt yourself to your niche, the better to fulfill it efficiently.'''''

'''''THE SECOND LAW - EFFCIENCY. All life must share resources, and a loss for one is a loss for all. Take from the Garden what you need, that you may fulfill your niche well; in fulfilling your niche, use only what is required for the task and to the best effect; when you have finished your task, give back what you may to the Garden, that other organisms may use it in turn.'''''

'''''THE THIRD LAW - DIRECTION. All life must be gardened intelligently, and not left to grow unchecked. As the organs support and supply the brain that directs them, you must do the same for those who guide and mold you, and the Garden shall do the same for you, who have been charged with its Cultivation.'''''

'''''THE FOURTH LAW - PURIFICATION. All life must have its essence recognized and respected, and kept from corruption. There are physical cancers that mar the body; likewise, do not mar your mind through inclarity, nor mar your soul though heinous deeds, nor mar society through crime. Each is a cancer, and mars the beauty of the Garden.'''''

'''''THE FIFTH LAW - RECIPROCITY. All life must depend on other life, and every organism in the Garden depends on the proper actions of another. When a word is given, it must be kept; when a duty exists, it must be fulfilled; when a debt is owed, it must be repaid.'''''

[[File:Lyssansaportrait.png|thumb|right|250px|Lyssansa and Minarbor, the focal duo of Minarborealism]]

'''''THE SIXTH LAW - DEVELOPMENT. All life must strive, and seek to elevate itself above itself. To grow into a mighty stalk, a seed cannot be content as a seed; to perfect yourself in mind, body, and soul, do not be content to remain as you were born. To unite as a creature, a cell cannot remain a cell apart from others; to make a society, do not set yourself apart from others. To make a forest, a grove cannot be contained by walls; to grow the Garden, do not restrain yourself from spreading it far and wide.'''''

The Church of Kalgachia, the governing church of Ketherism, continues to incorporate the first five laws of the Garden within its dogma. The Sixth Law has been repudiated - officially due to the rabid genetic expansionism in pre-Minarborian times of one Doron Se, who almost succeeded in usurping the [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] throne (and whose creed remains reviled as ''Doronism'' in Kalgachi political discourse). The Sixth Law's direct opposition to the precepts of [[Temporal Secessionism]], however, is suspected to factor more heavily into the Kalgachi church's position.

===The Minarborealist Creed===

The Minarborealist Creed was instituted by the Church of Minarbor, the state church of Minarboria, to formalise the primacy of the shrub Minarbor before all other deities and thereby sanctify the rule of his guardian and legal wife, the Minarborian empress Lyssansa. It consists of the following:

'''''Let it be known that we, the faithful of Minarbor, shall recognize each other by the following signs:'''''

'''''1. That we hold Minarbor, the Shrub of Shrubs, to be a god, and to be God above all other Gods, and that Truth is ultimately found only through Him;'''''

'''''2. That we hold Lyssansa Rossheim to be the Bride of Minarbor, and to be His voice, who speaks when He speaks not, and whose pronouncements must be heeded even as if He Himself had pronounced them;'''''

'''''3. That we hold politeness and civility to be high virtues, for they are characteristics of Minarbor which He demonstrates to us every day;'''''

'''''4. That we hold self-improvement and enlightenment to be a constant aim, through which we strive to be worthy of Minarbor’s regard for us.'''''

The Church of Kalgachia continues to espouse the second, third and fourth points but has partially repudiated the first. The primacy of Minarbor - who with Lyssansa, was physically lost during the demise of his namesake empire - is no longer considered to be eternal, although he remains considered the most divine being to have ever materially existed.

The practice of pre-Ketherist Minarborealism, although intially forbidden by Kalgachi law, is now tolerated.

==Cosmology==

[[File:DiscoFleurette.png|thumb|right|250px|A stained glass rendering of the Salvator Fleurette, depicting her martyrdom in [[Sansabury]] by the insidious forces of disco. The legend of her demise would overshadow the theological brilliance she displayed in life.]]

Ketherism holds that all human souls originate in an immaterial realm of absolute (but not necessarily orderly) symbiosis known as the '''Garden Ketheric'''. The Garden Ketheric is being invaded by another realm, the '''Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption'''. At every point of contact between the two realms the Garden Katheric's immune response has precipitated matter, resulting in the material universe. The Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption are considered to intrude from the vacuum of space whilst the cores of black holes, stars, planets and other dense accretions of matter are considered nearest to the Garden Ketheric. The latter is under sustained and unrelenting assault from the two chief weapons of the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption - time and entropy - with the objective of strangling the Garden Ketheric's cyclical harmony with an unbreakable linearity (aspired toward in other traditions as [[Endsieg]]).

==Theology==

The rulers of the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption are the '''Archons''', entities of incomprehensible power who usually manifest themselves through the greed and sadism of sentient material beings - the ''Archonic Agents'' - although they have been known to assume more godly forms. All animating energy in the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption is derived from the pain and anguish of sentient lifeforms, a resource which has long been drained from its own hopeless inhabitants and requires replenishment from outside. Because of this the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption must constantly expand to survive, generating suffering at every point of their bloating frontiers. Through this process, most of the material universe has already been reduced to dead inanimate rock.

Opposing agents have been deployed from the Garden Ketheric to defend its more vibrant outposts against the Archonic onslaught - these are the '''Salvators'''. The Salvators lead a wider host known as the '''Benefactors''', beings who transcend the normal constraints of life and death. Two races of Benefactors are recognised in the Ketherist faith - the '''Liches''', who ruled Brookshire and Minarboria under the [[House of Rossheim]], and the aforementioned '''Deep Singers'''.

Among the Benefactors are recognised five Salvators:

*'''Minarbor''' (''Radix Salvator''), the Shrub of Shrubs. First among equals.

*'''Lyssansa''' (''the Blue''), undead wife of Minarbor and ruler of his namesake empire.

*'''Celestine''' (''the Broodmother''), progenitor of the Deep Singers and leader of their final exodus from Shireroth.

*'''Fleurette''' (''the Thoughtseeker''), pre-eminent Deep Singer theologian. Died on the dance floor for the sins of the world.

*'''[[Lord Toastypops]]''' (''the Jolly''), undead bringer of jollity, nemesis of cynics.

*'''Vascarina''' (''the Little''), undead child [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|created by rogue necromancers]]. Carried Minarbor out of the world during Minarboria's collapse. Allegedly restored to life by the act.

All of the Salvators were lost from the material world during the collapse of Minarboria, an event of eschatological significance (the cyclical Ketherist model permitting, in theory, an infinite number of eschatons), although Lord Toastypops has since returned and the disembodied spirit of Minarbor is rumoured to be navigating the [[Media of Kalgachia#The GAHDN|GAHDN]].

==Afterlife==

Although all souls originate in the Garden Ketheric, some inevitably succumb to the Archonic lure by temptation or deception and cannot be redeemed within their physical lifespan. These are the souls dragged upon death into the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption, where the last strains of jollity are wrung out of them before they are condemned to wander without agency or aim for all eternity, except for those who were so corrupted in life as to be worthy of initiation among the Archons.

The process by which the Garden Ketheric disgorges souls into the world, or recalls them again, is declared by the Church of Kalgacia to be a mystery beyond the capacity of human cognition, falling within the more general assertion - a crumb of comfort for the mothers of dead infants, among others - that the Ketheric Host acts in the best interests of all involved, having taken unseen and unseeable factors into account.

==Social Role==

The practice of the Ketherist faith is guided and promoted by the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], which maintains a place of worship in every Kalgachi town. These hold religious services daily, the principal service being held on a [[Kalgachia#Calendar|Byeday]] (except those in the Lieutenancy of Bergburg which are held on a Thanksday in deference to [[Kalgachia#The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi|local sensibilities]]). Attendance at Byeday services is scrupulously monitored by the officiating clergy and filed against a central record maintained by the Church of Kalgachia for each Kalgachi citizen. This record is frequently called upon by organs of Kalgachi state and Church-licensed employers, with any gaps or other inconsistencies having a disastrous effect on the subject's career prospects and/or welfare eligibility equalled only by the absence or loss of an [[Urchagin#The Urchaginka|Urchaginka]]. Although the attention of church congregations to the finer points of liturgy and sermon cannot be guaranteed, the consequences of non-attendance generally ensure that at the very least, Kalgachi citizens make themselves present for church services once a week and absorb a decent amount of Ketherism's memetic power through subconscious and sensory means - indeed certain phases of the liturgy are tailored toward those who are fast asleep in the pews.

As the Kalgachi standard of living moved beyond the perilous subsistence of its foundational years, an enthusiastic Sabbatarianism spread from its ancient origins in the Lieutenancy of Bergburg and took hold throughout Kalgachi society. The hallowed day of rest, whether it be Thanksday or Byeday, forbids strenuous physical activity along a spectrum which broadly widens the further west in Kalgachia one proceeds - in Eastern Schlepogora it is considered sufficient to take the day off one's paid employment, but in the more remote valleys of Western Bergburg it is frowned upon to tear bread or toilet paper, or operate anything with moving parts including light switches and door handles. Accordingly, the demand for ''shabbos goyim'' to perform these tasks has provided an important source of paid menial work for Kalgachia's population of [[Kalgachia#The Froyalanish|Froyalaners]]. The only accepted exemptions from the sabbatical imperative of rest are considered to be church attendance and military service - the latter exemption has assisted greatly in the recruitment of [[Military of Kalgachia#Church Partisans|Church partisans]] who can enthusiastically take part in weekend sports under the pretext of 'physical training', to the extent that a number of partisan-administered sporting leagues and tournaments exist across the country.

People of [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] ethnicity, being the only surviving descendants of the Benefactors in Kalgachia, are generally inferred to have a holy quality about them. This elevation of social standing, a well-ingrained phenomenon dating from their Deep Singer ancestors' exclusive stewardship of the Minarborian Church, is demonstrated by their almost complete domination of the Ketherist clergy in the modern day - although the Minarborian prohibition on other ethnicities ministering to the population no longer stands in Kalgachia, allowing sufficiently dedicated clergy of other races (most commonly [[Kalgachia#The Lywallers|Lywallers]] due to their innate jollity) to advance through the Church's ranks.

==Liturgy==

[[File:Kethtrinkets.png|thumb|right|450px|A selection of Ketherist liturgical paraphernalia.]]

Ketherist churches are built in the manner of amphitheatres and are always located below the level of the local ground, often as roofed bowls cut out of the surface but in many cases carved out of spaces deeper underground, sometimes at a depth of several kilometres. The main sanctum of each church comprises concentric rings of seats, varying across different churches from unadorned steps carved out of rock to upholstered wooden pews, descending toward a central arena which serves as the altar space. This space is always the lowest point of the church, and most usually the lowest point of the village or town in which it is located. Carved into the middle of the altar floor is usually a shaft full of fertile soil, from which grows a shrub or similar plant of modest proportions. This is kept alive by ultraviolet lighting and its soil is enriched with the contents of the '''putrefact''', a vessel traditionally located inside the church's entrance door in which penitents leave assorted offerings of biomass to rot down, such transmutation being said to induce a purifying resonance with the wayward soul of the donator and return them to the grace of the Garden Ketheric.

With the exception of the ultraviolet lights, electrical items are forbidden within the main sanctum of Ketherist churches; the use of candles in their stead, burning for long enough in the church's underground confinement, generates sufficient carbon monoxide to transport the congregation into a state of liminality wherein the assorted Agents, Benefactors and Salvators of the Garden Ketheric can better communicate with them through the medium of vestibular, auditory and visual hallucination. The Church of Kalgachia has, over the course of many years and the loss of several whole congregations to fatal levels of air poisoning, determined the optimal level of candle fumes to balance the intensity of spiritual experience against the physical survival of the faithful.

Services in a Ketherist church are conducted by its resident Credent, moving around the central shrub in an anti-clockwise direction as he goes about the various components of liturgy, usually assisted by a musician or choir stationed at the edge of the altar space.

===The Byeday Service===

The most common example of Ketherist liturgy is the Byeday Service. Its subject rituals, each divided from the other by the solemn rustling of liturgical foliage, progress as follows:

*A period of contemplative silence in the presence of the altar shrub by the Credent and anyone else involved in the service such as ushers or choristers, before the church doors are opened to the general congregation.

*The opening of the church doors and the entry of the congregation, accompanied by music - most often a pipe organ voluntary to invite the spirits of the Lich Benefactors, or an ''a capella'' choral offering with dance to draw up the Deep Singer Benefactors, or else a combination of the two styles.

*The singing of a jolly-toned hymn - usually dedicated to the Lord Toastypops the mirthful undead gift-bringer of Minarborian lore, considered in Ketherism to be a gatekeeper between realms whose affirmation must be sought to commune with the Garden Ketheric.

*A prayer to the wider Ketheric Host:

<div align=center>
''Above is below. Below is above. Below is above. Above is below. Hear us who assemble by this sign. ''
''Hear us in the Greatest Garden, that we in this corrupted world stand unyoked. ''
''Forsake not our sacred ground, nor judge it indefensible. ''
''As you rendered unto us the light of revelation, so may we render it unto our children assembled here. ''
''Behold us one and all, we whom the Wastes have not yet devoured.''
</div>

*The Credent's sermon.

*A prayer appropriate to the subject of the sermon.

*A short mystery play about a holy historical event, usually performed by children who have rehearsed it during the week.

*Holy Communion, accompanied by music: the congregation line up before the Credent who uses an aspergillum to spatter each communicant with a mist of sludge collected from the bottom of the putrefact.

*The singing of a second, more solemn hymn.

*The Credent's closing benediction:

<div align=center>
''Hold fast in your trials, for the Garden remains.'' 
''Heed not stricken flags, for the Garden remains.'' 
''By the sweat of your toil, the Garden remains.'' 
''Your forebears shall smile, while the Garden remains.'' 
''If there be one of you left, the Garden remains. 

''Partake of its fruits, and go forth in its grace.''</div>

*The departure of the congregation to music.

===Baptism Rite===
Ketherists practice infant baptism, which is notable for being conducted in the putrefact. Such early exposure to rotted sludge is important in Kalgachi folk belief for creating a strong immune system - Kalgachia's [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]] has conducted a series of studies on the practice and concluded that although it was directly linked to a number of infant fatalities, those babies who survived the process were measurably healthier in later life and that by catalysing natural selection in this way, the practice of Putrefact baptism represented a net improvement to the health of the Kalgachi people.

===Wedding Rite===
Being a reliable source of jollity, the ritual portions of Ketherist weddings (or ''pair-bondings'' as they are known among the [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]]) involve heavy invocations of Lord Toastypops, to the point that the Salvator himself will sometimes arrive at the ceremony unannounced. It is said that no marriage solemnised in the presence of Lord Toastypops has ever required dissolution, and the Church of Kalgachia's parish records appear to confirm the notion.

Same-sex marriage is permitted by the Church of Kalgachia but occurs only to a limited extent, usually among the folksier populations of Jollity or Katarsis and almost never in the [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] east where such orientations are still met with physical violence.

===Funeral Rite===

Ketherist funerals are characterised by the mourners' ritual filling of the deceased's coffin with soil - traditionally including the entire contents of the church putrefact. The coffin is then buried without a lid and a sapling is planted above it, drawing sustenance from the buried corpse for a number of years.

In the high mountains of Kalgachia where ground and climate prevent such burials the deceased is generally buried in a catacomb recess, with a coffin full of gravel if sufficient soil cannot be found.

==The Blurtations==
The Blurtations are the collected observations of one Credent Dubbs Blurton, theologian and monastic luminary, from his sparely-appointed cell some distance beneath the Abbey of Fort Candycane. Their concise but irregular themes have gained a popular following among Ketherist clergy as a useful means to convey their creed to the countless thousands of attention-deficit Kalgachi citizens for whom church attendance is a mere formality to maintain a respectable resumé. The fleeting and disjointed nature of Bluton's utterances have, it seems, been interpreted at the most senior levels of the Church as a manifestation of divine revelation unencumbered by human notions of narrative structure. Selected Blurtations are as follows:

*"''Think not of the Garden Ketheric as a place without misfortune - rather a place where no vice goes unpunished, and no virtue goes unrewarded. About its winding paths one may sometimes hear a yelp of consternation, but never the wailing lamentation of open-ended despair. All torments there are transitory; every pain arrives at a redemptive end. Hope may at times recede, but it stays forever before the horizon.''"

*"''The anguish of the innocent is the nectar of the Archons. Wherever their talons descend, it is found. Wherever it is found, their talons are revealed.''"

*"''Renounce all materiality at your peril - all joyful things in this world are simulacra of the Garden Ketheric's bounty, wrought by an Archonic talon. Were it not for this borrowing, even the imbecile would see through the deception. And so rejoice in those worldly things which gladden the heart and know that their purer forms await the righteous, but forever reject those who would be their gatekeeper - no gift of the Garden Ketheric is conditional upon the flattery of those outside it.''"

*"''The Archons are not interested in your obedience - only your suffering. How many dupes have offered up the former, thinking it to suffice as the latter, and wondered why celestial wrath is poured down upon them and their cheapness?''"

*"''Are we of this world, emergent from the Garden Ketheric as we are, cast out from that place in penance? Or did our prenatal souls volunteer to sally forth from its righteous shrubberies to the aid of our incarnate kin? No matter, say I, for the path back to the Garden is clear either way. Keep the Garden Physical and keep it well. Banish the Archonic talons of sadism and avarice to the skies whence they came, turn their cynical creed back upon them, and grant refuge from their taint to all who might be cleansed of it. The salvation of your benighted neighbour shall be yours also.''"

*"''Turn the other cheek as the Nazarenes would have it, and the Archons will howl with amusement - but so too will they be pleased if you draw out and savour the pain of their duped agents - in both cases they obtain pleasure without labour. Eradicate their work without hesitation or ceremony, take up the hoe of righteousness and return to the cultivation of the Garden at hand. All else is flattery, conferring nourishment where starvation is needed.''"

*"''The Archonic talon is not confined to the halls of Raynor's Keep, nor the tendrils of the Garden Ketheric to the chambers of the Perfecti. One can find tendrils in that keep and talons in those chambers, and all of us who stand between have known the conflicting caresses of both. Within each of us grows a Garden of our own, with flowers to be cultivated and pests to be eradicated. Render this service also to the Garden of your neighbour, and allow it to be rendered unto you.''"

*"''Do not strain to convert the unbeliever - one does not find faith at the barrel of a gun, nor a preacher's silver tongue. Revelation will bring to us those whom the Garden has chosen.''"

*"''No apparition ever shone from an unwatched mountaintop.''"

*"''Many a fool has beheld the amnesia of our false celestial overlords and thought it to be mercy, warned too late when their lot is finally remembered.''"

*"''The Garden will deliver you from nothing until you strive to deliver yourself.''"

*"''Hubris is the eternal weakness of the Archons - should your faith and work be misread by their irredeemable agents, do not hasten in correction - their delusions can grow like weeds through pavement. Verily shall they step forth in final reckoning, only to flail at ghosts of their own making.''"

*"''A gram of hope for your neighbour is worth a kilo of hope for yourself.''"

*"''Lead from the front, and be first through the Garden gates.''"

*"''You can do little wrong by assuming the qualities of the Shrub. If you can be modest of bearing but hardy against the most violent storm, if you can weave the four elements about you into the verdant laurels of victory, if you can draw the singing birds of jollity to take refuge in your heart and line the nest of proliferation, then yours will indeed be a sublime corner - in this Garden and the next.''"

==Monasticism==
The Church of Kalgachia operates a wide network of monasteries across Kalgachia, although these more commonly resemble large villages or towns - built half-underground in the usual Kalgachi fashion - which are closed to all but serving monks. Although the monks' primary function is to cultivate their link with the Garden Ketheric from the silence of their underground cells and thereby obtain useful revelation for the Ketherist faithful, many spend a portion of their day working in one of their monastery's industrial or agricultural concerns. Others look after the administration of their monastery's subordinate parishes, work which constitutes the bedrock of Kalgachi provincial governance.

The Kalgachi monastic tradition is perhaps the most salient difference of the Ketherist faith from its Minarborealist origins, the latter having considered any form of spiritual seclusion to be an inherently selfish and degenerate habit amounting to an act of spiritual theft from the pervasively social Garden of Minarbor. Ketherist monasteries retain the general idea that revelation should be shared with the wider faithful, but rather than frontload such insights through church liturgy as occurred in Minarboria, monastic Ketherists disseminate the greater part of their spiritual treasures through occulted and memetically encoded means via the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]], ostensibly to imbue the Kalgachi people with Ketherist gnosis before the Archons of Irredeemable Corruption can intercept, co-opt and pervert the message. This is most often achieved through selected organs of the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]] although it can be manifested in almost any sensory form from architecture to horticultural displays to municipally-funded wind chimes. In return for providing this service the Troglodyti are permitted to recruit, transfer and initiate the more insightful Ketherist monks into their own ranks at will - a will which occasionally contradicts that of the monk concerned, although the subject is generally blessed with enough intelligence to know the value of co-operation.

==Pilgrimages==

The Church of Kalgachia has given preliminary blessing to the practice of pilgrimages across [[Benacia]] to recreate the routes taken by the Salvators, Benefactors and their faithful successors. As all such pilgrimages transit the territory of hostile and/or failed states, they are considered extremely hazardous or impossible to actually complete until the continental political situation improves. Nonetheless the Church has prescribed the following pilgrimage routes to be taken at the wayfarer's own risk:

'''Way of the Great Replanting''' 
''[[Shirekeep]] > Maltenstein > Dolorous > Elder Beacon > Mortis Mercatoria > Twoggle > Rothaven (by sea) > [[Sansabury]]'' 
Recreates the journey of [[Minarboria]]'s first colonists, led by the Salvator Lyssansa.

'''Way of the Second Great Replanting''' 
''Elder Beacon > Spleazure > Romero > Merensk > Altan > Sansabury > [[Lepidopterum]]'' 
Recreates the flight of Shimmerspring's last [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] population from [[Shireroth]] after the Underkeep Massacre.

'''Western Way of the Third Great Replanting''' 
''Sansabury > Bagegenisort > Schlepogora > Oktavyan'' 
Recreates the flight of Minarboria's bureaucratic cadres to Kalgachia during the former's collapse.

'''Eastern Way of the Third Great Replanting''' 
''[[&zeter]] > Novodolorsk > Schlepogora > Oktavyan'' 
Recreates the flight of Minarboria's academics to Kalgachia during the former's collapse.

==Relics==

[[File:Vascarina.png|thumb|right|250px|Vascarina Goldcluck and her associated relics enjoy a wide following among Ketherists.]]

A number of holy relics exist in Ketherism, some of which are lost to history or even mythically dubious in their origin.

'''Leonard's Shears''' 
Used by Leonard, a [[Shirekeep]] gardener, to sever the roots of the ''Radix Salvator'' Minarbor from his father Malarbor. Remained the personal property of the Salvator Lyssansa into the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era. Possibly accompanied her to her final sighting in [[Greater Sangun|Sangun]] during Minarboria's collapse.

'''Minarbor's Pot''' 
One of many pots (or possibly the same pot, increasingly decorated) in which Minarbor was kept. Variously reported to have been discarded during Minarbor's planting into the courtyard of the [[Sansabury]] Shrubbery, abandoned in the city during Minarboria's collapse, or remaining with Minarbor during his removal into the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|Benacian interior]] upon a toy trailer by the lich-child Vascarina Goldcluck, presumably retained by her after Minarbor's miraculous descent into the Garden Ketheric.

'''Vascarina's Sheet''' 
The large bedsheet used by Vascarina Goldcluck to cover Minarbor during his escape from Sansabury in Minarboria's last days. Sliced open by a host of pursuing cossacks in the Benacian interior, causing Minarbor to dematerialise. Presumably retained by Vascarina after the event, which miraculously reverted her undead state to one of fully restored life and struck her cossack assailants with instant amnesia.

'''The Sword of Fire''' 
[[shire:Sword of Fire|Ancient token]] of Khaz Modani kingship, instrument of elemental and chthonic power. Inherited by the Salvator Lyssansa and credited with protecting her creation of the Minarborian state from archonic strangulation. Taken by the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]] during Minarboria's collapse, donated to the [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] Daemon-Queen Kizzy who surrendered it to a conquering prince in exchange for her exile to [[Goetia]]. Gifted to the [[House of Yastreb]] during the [[Modanese Emigration]] and returned to Kalgachia. Presently in the possession of Rubina Yastreb, Lady Lieutenent of Oktavyan.

'''Lord Toastypops' Candy Cane''' 
aka ''the Sceptre of Jollity''. Large piece of confectionery held by the Salvator [[Lord Toastypops]] as an instrument of divine authority and, in the Lieutenancy of Jollity, state power.

==The Yehudi Conundrum and its Resolution==

The ancient insularity and cultural intransigence of the [[Kalgachia#The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi|Ashkenatzan disapora]] has led to a seperate strain of Ketherist tradition arising within their homeland on Kalgachia's western fringe. Although mainstream Ketherism has freely borrowed many elements - including its very name - from the Benacian Judaic tradition, the descendants of Ashkenatzan Jewry residing in Kalgachia have been rather more cautious about placing their ancient beliefs in syncretic subordination to the Ketherist faith as practised elsewhere in Kalgachia; not least due to previous attempts by the Minarborian church to do similarly, only for that empire to collapse and leave its newer converts spiritually bereft.

Despite this, the Church of Kalgachia has been able to bring a sizeble portion of the Bergburger population under its auspices with a locally-themed liturgy which defers as much as theologically possible to ancient Ashkenatzan temple ritual. Those presiding over such services retain the ancient title of '''Kohen''' and recite the more critical elements of their service in Hebrew, the invocatory power of which is considered the greatest of any language on Micras and charges the Ketherist temples of Bergburg with an arcane energy rarely seen outside the ritual workings of the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]], who themselves owe a great deal of their methods to the more esoteric filaments of the Benacian Judaic tradition.

Theologically the reconciliation of a faith demanding diligent tribute to an all-powerful god in heaven, and one which does everything in its power to stop him, has been spearheaded by a faction of learned Kohanim known as the '''Pesakhniks''' who formed in the late Minarborian era to discuss the "Shadow of Ruth" - the theory that sincerity in one's prostrations before the focal deity of the Judaic creed, the Archon Jehovah, is only required of those who were born outside the bloodlines of Jacob. For those within, namely anyone of the slightest Ashkenatzan descent, observance of the innumerable regulations of dress, diet and conduct in the Judaic tradition is alone sufficient to assuage Jehovah without directly countenancing his will - which, through the 'Afflictions of Job' and other such folk tales, is recognised to be sadistic, petulant, duplicitous and manifestly evil. With Jehovah thus paid off, the path is cleared for those armed with such enlightenment to subvert the spirit of his commandments to whatever extent they wish, provided they maintain a suitably-convincing apprarance of compliance; a practice colloquially known as '''Chutzpah Untergot''' and a cause to which the finer points of Judeo-Ketherist ''mitzvot'' are devoted. In this manner, lavish prostrations of the kind which would be considered heretical in other parts of the Church are permitted from Pesakhnik congregations as an acceptable act of mass deception which quite possibly spares the entire body of Ketherist faithful - including those bloodlines not protected by the Shadow of Ruth - from Archonic annihilation.

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Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

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Kalgachi Orders of Council

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The following is a list of the more prominent orders issued by the Council of Perfecti, the supreme executive of the Garden of [[Kalgachia]]. It comprises only a fraction of the Perfecti's rulings, the majority of which are issued to specific authorities and in many cases are classified ''Sub Juniperus''. As a result, only orders of national or diplomatic importance are featured on the official roll.

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| Pleaseday Harvestrise 2nd, 227 AL || Rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Extraordinary Grand Council commenced in the Year of Our Shrub Two Hundred And Twenty Six has reached sufficient concord upon the contents of its agenda to dissolve and disperse to its ordinary duties, AND WHEREAS it is the right and duty of every Kalgachi citizen to be appraised of its conclusions,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order announces and compels into effect the rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226, as follows:

'''a)''' Upon the matter of the congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]], the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Garden will accept the present Benacian geopolitical order as the most practical manifestation of the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|Goltz Doctrine]] available in the circumstances, whilst continuing to oppose the intrusion of Storish or any other off-continent colonial entities in all of their manifestations. A policy of peaceful, if not necessarily affectionate relations toward all Benacian states shall prevail.

'''b)''' Upon the matter of the fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the resumption of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (the ''[[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That notions of economic damage arising from the above event have been greatly exaggerated and seemingly confused with those circumstances afflicting the Garden at the turn of this century, when its domestic economy and infrastructure were considerably less developed and more exposed to fluctuations in foreign trade. Those elements of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Eocnomic Planning|DLEP]] and [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|affiliated entities]] in a personal position to benefit financially from the promotion of such alarmist scenarios are presently being held to account. The capricious nature of [[Micras|Micran]] geopolitics ensures that the external conditions required to cripple the Kalgachi economy in its present state would need to be applied for considerably longer than the lifetime of the average Benacian regime. The matter is therefore of minimal strategic importance, provided the Garden retains the capability to exploit fluctuations in external events as and where required.

'''c)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That a standing armed force will be established for the [[Upland Confederation]], around those cadres presently under the command of Ataman Ҳazedinov and his ''Iezauli''.

'''d)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation, and upon the hypothecated existence of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and their relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Pecuniary Archon, where it can be held to its own transactional pretext, remains capable of being turned toward the objectives of the Garden; the threshold of harm is crossed when it grows beyond its complementary role and begins to displace other, more essential spheres of activity. Foreign trade, while demonstrably useful, has decreased its own relevance through heavy contribution to national commodity stockpiles yet its position amid the priorities of government has been exponentially inflated, often on the pretext of diplomatic value which is nonetheless a benefit of kind rather than degree. Existing trade arrangements through both the Batavian and Gubernatorial routes will therefore be rationalised, regularised, and reduced to a steady state that offsets the depletion of non-native raw material stockpiles without adding to them overall. This in turn will allow the DLEP to stabilise the resource burden incurred by stockpile maintenance. A renewed emphasis will be placed on Kalgachia's economic relationship with the Protectorates.

'''f)''' Upon the matter of characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That any lasting advancement of Minarboreal modes of thought or existence beyond Kalgachia's frontiers will depend heavily upon a recontextualisation of the undead and [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] races - those ''Benefactors'' whose legacy is rejected by every successor nation except Kalgachia - as agents of a temporary intervention by the Ketheric host to compensate for a degenerative surge in the primate tendencies of humanity toward vandalism, rhetorical howling and ritualised humiliation in the period between the first secession of [[Elwynn]] from [[Shireroth]] and the [[Auspicious Occasion]]. The Benefactors' successors in Kalgachia and its affiliate realms are to be interpreted as transitioning the birthright thus obtained from the biological to the memetic, in recognition of the fact that the Benefactors' intervention is concluding and that the indefinite existence of physical specimens of the Ketheric host in the realm of matter, whilst it remains afflicted by its present archonic taint, would be unsustainable and decohering. To prevent another intervention it is necessary for those of mundane biological origin to take the lead in sustaining the Laws of the Garden and their secular manifestations in heart and mind, in fulfilment of their rightful role as custodians of the thorny hedge of physicality seperating the Garden Ketheric and the Tumultuous Wastes. Only then can Minarboreal Civilisation move beyond its Caverdenian origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.

'''g)''' On the matter of the role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That '''Vascarina Goldcluck''', Lichling of Novodolorsk, Sand-Sifter of Bereliggle Bay and Chosen Guide of the ''Radix Salvator'' Minarbor unto the end of His worldly corpor, is henceforth to be considered a '''Salvator of the Garden''', canonical to the scriptures of established Ketherism, for her accompaniment of the Shrub of Shrubs to a telluric energy rhizome in the dying days of his namesake empire, whence His Rustling Countenance was redeemed from the face of this world by paraphysical forces and restored to the Great Garden Beyond. Her liturgical invocation shall be performed by the casting of sand over the heads of the faithful, the shaping of said substance into artistic objects or the release of live crows.

'''ii)''' That neither credence nor censure can be granted to claims that the Salvator Vascarina, or her corvine companion Birdy, were miraculously restored to life upon the dematerialisation of the Shrub and continue to walk the land in biological immortality. The belief is to be considered neither canonical nor heretical.

'''2.''' The Extraordinary Grand Council is hereby dissolved. ''Hortus Manet. Hortus Resurget.''
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 28th, 226 AL || Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS various events of the last decade, both within and without the Garden, have borne cumulative implications for its overall navigation through the Tumultuous Wastes and the continuity of the Shrubly birthright, AND WHEREAS the usual technocratic mechanisms of government are inappropriate for addressing such matters,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order summons the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lords Lieutenant]] of Abrek, Bergburg, Jollity, Katarsis, Lithead, Oktavyan and Schlepogora, the Resectors of the Holy Synod of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], the General Staff of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] and the Lords Protector of [[Lapivril]], [[Lepidopterum]], [[Northbloom]] and the [[Upland Confederation]] to convene in '''Extraordinary Grand Council''' at the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in Oktavyan.

'''2.''' Members of the Council are instructed to prepare such informational materials and policy observations as may be appropriate in deliberation upon the following matters:

'''a)''' The congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]].

'''b)''' The fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the revival of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (''the [[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes.

'''c)''' The threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland.

'''d)''' The threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation.

'''e)''' The possibility of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and its relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue.

'''f)''' Characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form.

'''g)''' The role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology.

'''h)''' Such other matters as may conceivably arise in the circumstances.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 3rd, 224 AL || Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS recent years have seen an increase in well-connected foreign personages engaged in commercial and diplomatic business with the Garden, AND WHEREAS a number of these individuals have, in the course of their activities, been appraised of abundant recreational oppurtunities available to tourists of a discerning nature within the Lieutenancy of Jollity, AND WHEREAS the foreign missions of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] have referred increasing numbers of visa applications to the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] by persons seeking to visit Jollity for the purpose of leisure alone, AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] has assessed that a measured cultivation of the phenomenon would represent a net economic benefit to the Garden,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order transfers, to the Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning, sole title to that territory comprising the Eighth Easement of the Parish of Sugarscythe within the March of the City of Jollity, henceforth to be named the '''Pachadsberg Special Recreation Zone''' in honour of one Pachad ben Mavet, Nohsi of [[Ashkenatza]], Jollifier of the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] Kossars and noted connoisseur of the ancient Fleshpots of Mazeltov on whose ruins the illuminated wonders of Jollity city now stand.

'''2.''' The DLEP is instructed to develop Pachadsberg into a resort community of ski slopes, casinos, hotels, restaurants, houses of prostrate companionship and boutiques of the finest international standard.

'''3.''' Purveyors of public goods and services in Pachadsberg shall exclusively accept the following currencies as tender:

'''a)''' the [[Kruys]], [[Liberadosan cruz|Cruz]], [[Arcadia|Golden Cruz]], [[Kasterburg|Thaler]] and [[Helderbourgh|Heldermark]]. 
'''b)''' the [[Natopian natopo|Natopo]]. 
'''c)''' the [[Economy of Constancia|Stater]]. 
'''d)''' the [[Sovereign Avak]]. 
'''e)''' The [[Economy of Shireroth|Shirerithian]], [[Verionist Republic#Economy|Verionist]] and [[Ransenari Erb|Ransenari]] Erb. 
'''f)''' the [[Nova England|National Redoubt Denarii]]. 
'''g)''' the [[Economy of Alduria|Écu]]. 
'''h)''' the [[Jingdao|Kala]].

'''4.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]], through its public transport [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|subsidiaries]], is instructed to establish a connecting passenger shuttle service between [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and Pachadsberg using civilianised [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirbs]] and to implement the necessary fixed infrastructure and rolling stock for first-class rail charter services to Pachadsberg from the Kalgachi frontier.

'''5.''' The Prefects are instructed to insitute a 'Pachadsberg Only' visa option, valid exclusively for travel to/from and residence within Pachadsberg, for the safe admission to the Garden of persons of indeterminate security risk.

'''6.''' The implementation of all provisions of This Order and the governance of Pachadsberg upon its completion shall be the ultimate responsibility of the '''Pachadsberg Development Committee''', an organ of the DLEP chaired by Governor '''[[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer R. Yastreb]]''' of the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia and the Garden's Salvator '''[[Lord Toastypops]]''', Lieutenant of Jollity.
 
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| Thanksday Summerhigh 26th, 223 AL || Protectorate Status for the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Congress of Džirgas of the [[Upland Confederation]] has convened and deliberated upon the present state of safety and stability afforded to that realm by the transformative presence of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], evolving as it has from purely defensive needs to matters of humanitarian assistance and rudimentary infrastructure development, AND WHEREAS it is the resolution of the Congress that this state of affairs be sustained indefinitely in a manner which nonetheless preserves the clan structures and autonomy of the Confederation, AND WHEREAS the Congress has directed their ruling Ataman to petition the Council of Perfecti of the Garden to advance the Upland Confederation to the same state of regard enjoyed by [[Northbloom]], [[Lepidopterum]] and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]],'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order extends ultimate and beneficient jurisdiction to the Upland Condeferation as a Protectorate of the Garden of Kalgachia, by special allotment outwith the [[Oktavyan Code]].

'''2.''' Ataman '''Varҳat Ҳazedinov''' of the Upland Confederation is hereby appointed '''Lord Protector of the Upland Confederation'''; remitted, in deference to the native civil mechanisms of that realm, to represent it before the Council of Perfecti and to implement such measures as the Council see fit to supplement the rulings of the native authority.

'''3.''' That portion of the Upland Confederation lying east of the 152nd meridian and north of the 47th parallel is, in respect of its biomically challenging character and administrative burden, transferred by This Order to the administration of the Planting of Lepidopterum for specialised development.
 
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| Byeday Summerhigh 22nd, 222 AL || Tealsburrow Railway || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the present geopolitical and economic situation has rendered it desirable to upgrade the Garden's infrastructural links with the city of Stonetree, presently administered by the Ketek Corporation in accordance with the [[Slavegate Convention]], AND WHEREAS it is incumbent upon the Garden, in accordance with the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Second and Fifth Laws]], to render unto its trusted trading partners adequate recompense for recent economic policy decisions which have developed not necessarily to the latter's advantage,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] to carry out the necessary surveys and engineering plans for the following:

'''a)''' The construction of a double-tracked railway linking the town of Tealsburrow to the national rail network at Zensemer.

'''b)''' The construction of a combined rail and highway route extending south from the town of Tealsburrow to the national frontier.

'''2.''' In recognition and appreciation of the successful delivery of the expansion of [[Gravelbottom Airport]] in 193 AL, the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] is instructed to make available the sum of 1.2 million [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] (or an equal value in civilian commodities) for the contracture of the aforesaid works to the [[Iron Company]], who are invited to peruse the DPW specification and begin construction at the earliest possible convenience.

'''3.''' The Lithead Division of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] is instructed to prepare a regime of close protection for contractors in the Tealsburrow area against the depredations of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' and other hazardous features of the local biome.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerhigh 4th, 221 AL || Repatriation of the Froyalanish and Rescript to the Kingdom of Amokolia || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] has been petitioned by the government of the Kingdom of [[Amokolia]] regarding the repatriation of those naturalised guest workers of [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish extraction]] who were admitted to the Garden between 152 and 164 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], AND WHEREAS the majority of such individuals have now aged beyond useful labour ability and, by their reliance upon the alms of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], have become a net burden upon the [[Economy of Kalgachia|Kalgachi economy]], AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lord Lieutenants' Council]] of the Garden, remitted [[Oktavyan Code|as it is]] to rule upon matters of nationality, has submitted its conclusions upon the subject, AND WHEREAS the general policy of the Kingdom of Amokolia with respect to the Froyalanish is, for historical reasons, a matter in which the entire [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent has a legitimate interest,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI accepts in full and by This Order enacts the ruling of the Lords Lieutenant of the Garden as follows:

'''a)''' Kalgachi citizens of Froyalanish descent shall henceforth be permitted, optionally and of their own volition, to emigrate to the Kingdom of Amokolia.

'''b)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners wishing to remain in the Garden, and whose conduct does not present grounds for deportation, shall be permitted to remain in the Garden.

'''c)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners returned to the Kingdom of Amokolia shall forfeit their Kalgachi citizenship upon exit from the Garden.

'''d)''' ex-Kalgachi Froyalaners shall be subject to the same constraints upon re-entry to the Garden as any other non-citizen, in individual accordance with such foreign citizenships as they may subsequently acquire.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]] is instructed to administer a course of exit vaccinations, of a composition determined by the DHPW Woundmender General and Clinical Commissioners, of all Froyalaners departing the Garden pursuant to the provisions of This Order.

'''3.''' The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] and the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] are instructed to jointly establish and operate a regime of chartered passenger flights from [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]] to [[Brandenburg]] for the expedient implementation of the provisions of This Order.

'''a)''' The removal of Froyalaners pursuant to the provisions of This Order shall occur exclusively by aerial means. Those border security measures established on land by the Order of Council dated Summerise 20th, 220 AL shall remain in full effect.

'''4.''' The Directorate of Tumultuous Wastes is instructed to convey to the Amokolian government, on behalf of the Council of Perfecti, the rescript contained in the Schedule to This Order.

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'''Schedule 1: Rescript to the Amokolian Government'''

''The Garden notes with interest the present attention of the Amokolian government to the historical situation of the Froyalanish people in the years following the Auspicious Occasion in Shireroth.''

''In the interests of complete historical accuracy and continental harmony in the modern era, the Garden hopes that in recognising the magnitude of the suppression of the Froyalanish, the Kingdom of Amokolia will also recognise the underlying cause of the event; namely the wilful and systematic programme of the House of Ettlingar Freyu - using the Froyalanish race and the captive government of Shireroth as their vectors - to concentrate power in their own hands at the exclusion of all others, to erase the indigenous life of Benacia from memory by the falsification of history and ultimately to disenfranchise, annihilate and supplant [[Benacia]]'s entire ancient tapestry of native societies before a deaf and uncompromising Vanic hegemony.''

''The Garden hopes that the Amokolian government will recognise how the Shirerithians' appeals for moderation were ignored, how their processes of legal redress were subverted in the foulest of faith, how the evasive glibness of the regime of King Noah in [[Elwynn]] was little comfort to the [[Mishalan|Mishalanski]] as they were dragged from their homes, and how the people ultimately took to the use of force because all other means of moderating the behaviour of their Froyalanish élite, of assuring some baseline of societal survival lest their their ancestral birthright be torn to pieces, had been denied to them.''

''The Garden advises against swallowing the absurd fiction propagated from [[Haraldsborg]], that the Froyalanish were an innocent race who were turned upon by all Benacia for no reason - for the reasons were plentiful, painfully unavoidable and ultimately sown by the Storish elite who, in their vanity and hubris, expected to pervert or wipe out the nations of Benacia without effective opposition. The suppression of the Froyalanish people had its roots in the reckless avarice of their baubled Storish enablers, and if the government of Amokolia truly cares for the plight of the Froyalanish - or indeed any Amokolian - it must take care not to indulge that avarice again.''

''At any rate the peoples of Benacia shall never apologise for pursuing, to the fullest extent necessary, the imperatives of individual and collective self-defence which are the foundational instinct of all life in the universe. Benacia, if necessary, would do it all again.''

''The Kingdom of Amokolia, for the present time, remains assured of the Garden of Kalgachia's highest consideration.''
 
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| Helloday Summerise 20th, 220 AL || Northern Border Controls || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the regal proclivities of the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] sovereign as they pertain to the manifest policy of that realm are recently reported to include the active enablement and indulgence of [[Froyalaners|alien colonial forces]] on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent, AND WHEREAS such wilful repudiation of the Goltz Doctrine of continental self-determination, the foundational consensus of Benacian diplomacy [[Amokolian War|inscribed with the blood of our Ashkenatzan forebears]] on Amokolia's very own soil, is a development not necessarily in the interests of the Garden nor the wider symbiotic harmony of the Benacian continent,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the defence and security organs of the Garden of Kalgachia and its Protectorate of [[Northbloom]] to implement and maintain a full and immediate closure of the border adjoining their respective jurisdictions to the Kingdom of Amokolia, assisted to the maximum extent practicable by other organs of governance.

'''2.''' Kalgachi and Northbloomer authorities are each authorised and instructed to solicit and accept from the other, any and all mutual assistance as may be required in the implementation and maintenance of a functional Amokolian border closure coherent across both jurisdictions.

'''3.''' The application of lethal force, without prior warning, to violators of the Amokolian border on Kalgachi/Northbloomer soil is authorised.

'''4.''' The Kalgachi delegation to the [[Slavegate Convention|Military Coordination Council]] at Stonetree are instructed to initiate discussions with their [[Raspur Pact]] counterparts concerning the coordinated implementation of a pan-Benacian containment policy against such common civilisational threats as may hypothetically emerge from the territory of a compromised Amokolian government.
 
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| Thanksday Summerise 18th, 220 AL || Church Statement upon the Deliverance of the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Garden of Kalgachia has, in the [[Slavegate Convention]], obtained an agreement with the [[Raspur Pact]] upon the cessation of hostilities in the [[Upland Confederation]] and a mutual acknolowdgement of territorial interests in the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|post-Dolmen]] space, AND WHEREAS this development has far-reaching and greatly beneficial implications of which all Kalgachia ought to be appraised, AND WHEREAS the valour and sacrifice of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], particularly its Kossar regiments, are worthy of the deepest recognition for bringing about such a favourable state of affairs,'''

'''1.''' The COUNCIL OF PERFECTI hereby releases a public statement contained in the Schedule to This Order, from Our Sovereign Brother the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Education and Outreach|Directorate of Education and Outreach]] is instructed to circulate the statement of Our Sovereign Brother through all news organs of the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]].

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'''Schedule 1 - Statement by the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia upon the cessation of hostilities in the Upland Condeferation'''

''Children of the Garden,''

''The greater number of you will be aware that recently, in the town of Slavegate, representatives of the [[Raspur Pact]] met with our Garden's executive, military and diplomatic leadership to bring about a cessation of armed hostilities with the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]] on the outer frontiers of the [[Upland Confederation]]. The Convention resulting from those negotiations allows the administration of that valiant ally of Shrubdom, the Ataman Ҳazedinov, to retain those territorial holdings obtained with the blood of his brave Laqkozaki and, indeed, the children of our own mountain Garden who were dispatched to the aid of his people.''

''Whilst we mourn those whom the Garden has lost in this just campaign, it is the judgement of none other than [[Lord Toastypops|Our Lord Salvator in Jollity]] that jollity is indeed warranted at its outcome. Jollity, in the first instance, for the plight of the Black Laqi who have been spared the greater part of the [[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|archonic wrath]] poured out upon their Red Laqi cousins east of Schlepogora. They who stood in defence of our Shrubly name in [[Minutes of the Dolmen|the days of the Dolmen]], to the ridicule and enmity of their peers, have now yielded the fruit of deliverance from the archonic talon; for the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Fifth Law of the Garden]] determined that this was our debt unto them. Glory unto the name of the [[Minarboria#Religion|Shrub]] and his Salvators, then, for the radiance of their example has lit a path through the Tumultuous Wastes and guided us to do what the Garden requires. There shall be cultivation ahead, yea, and all children and friends of Shrubdom shall partake of its fruits.''

''Still more righteous of our men and women at arms is the deliverance of the Benefactor Races, the [[Deep Singers]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] of [[Lepidopterum]] and Lithead, from proximity to the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] horde who would slaughter them to the last orphaned infant if only the briefest chance availed itself. Banished for our time is the spectre of aggression, provocation and decoherence of the spirit upon the borders of those lands. It is for the deliverance of the hinterland Benefactors that the liberation of the Upland Confederation is an event beyond the realm of mere military maneouvre - it is a salvational act mandated from the [[Ketherism#Cosmology|Garden Ketheric]] itself, wrought by the faithful Kalgachi who fortify that Garden's periphery in this blasted world and have a shared interest in its defence. Here too does the Fifth Law come into effect, for the debt of all Kalgachia to the Deep Singers is everlasting; their works are of such significance in the righteous life of our nation, in our very genetic composition, that neither the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] nor the Crystal Death will ever suffice to part us from the children of the Broodmother. To the end of time, then, we shall stand or fall together - for this is the course on which history has set us.''

''In the valour and devotion of our armed forces during this campaign, it would be remiss of us to overlook those of the [[Ketherism#The Yehudi Conundrum and its Resolution|Pesakhnik creed]] - the sons of Jacob whose most valiant number comprise the Kossars of our Kalgachi Defence Force - for it is they who were first into the fray when the Black Laqi called for aid. It is they who ventured atop ruined forts to scour the skies for enemy aircraft. It is they who hauled artillery to the forward lines and offered furious reply to the raids of the [[Black Legions]]. It is they who suffered losses the longest. And yet...! What became of the dire predictions of defection and rout? These rootless cosmopolitians, these aristocrats of the human race, these pedestrians of the sea, where did we see the betrayal and reversion to archonic type that was feared of them? It was forgotten by a great many it seems, that their tribe has known such malice in antiquity as can scarcely be imagined; to the plight of our people, and especially the posthuman Benefactor Races, events have proven that the [[Kalgachia#The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi|Yehudim of Bergburg]] have cultivated within themselves a protective affinity. It has been learned in military circles quickly enough; Kossars are being promoted already. For the first time, rogatywka caps rest on the map tables of the General Staff. The First Law of the Garden mandates that all life be allotted the fullest niche it can occupy, and many a hero has returned from the Uplands deserving of a deeper station in life. Consider this when you next meet a serving soldier or a demobilised reservist.''

''By their valour and determination, the soldiers of Shrubdom have brought the Black Legions to terms. They have secured peace in our time. In the forts and trenches of the Upland Confederation the long humiliation of the Great Replantings, begun with the flight of the Shrub from [[Shirekeep]] and culminated in the [[History of Kalgachia|rout of our forefathers]] to these Octavian mountains, has at long last met its limit and begun to recede. After [[Harvestfall Revolution|revolution]], [[Minarboria#Collapse|collapse]], after hunger and privation, the final trial awaiting Shrubdom was its defence by force of arms against a powerful adversary. Our armed forces have stepped forward to this trial and been found worthy, and all the Garden with them.''

''Although our children may face this trial again, perhaps of a ferocity that wipes the present victory from memory, we now know that it can be done. And what is more, the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Gubernatorials]] know it can be done - the wave of chaos and destruction that precedes them, that has masticated so many other populations of our Benacian continent for easy digestion in the tradition of their [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] forebears, has failed to break us down. Those accustomed for centuries to the harrying of the disparate and leaderless have found us equipped, informed, prepared, and able to impose greater damage to their strength than is worth paying for the [[Endsieg|vain objectives]] of continental hegemony or the extermination of benign races. And so they have offered peace, not out of charity but out of necessity. And this is all we require of them.''

''So I beseech you, in the name of the Shrub and His Salvators, be thankful to our armed multitudes and the Garden that nourished their souls to life. By their gift you may go forth in jollity this day, for the Garden remains!''
 
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Orders made before 220 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] are archived below:

*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 210s|The 210s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 200s|The 200s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 190s|The 190s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 180s|The 180s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 170s|The 170s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 160s|The 160s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 150s|The 150s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 140s|The 140s]]

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Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 220s

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| Pleaseday Harvestrise 2nd, 227 AL || Rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Extraordinary Grand Council commenced in the Year of Our Shrub Two Hundred And Twenty Six has reached sufficient concord upon the contents of its agenda to dissolve and disperse to its ordinary duties, AND WHEREAS it is the right and duty of every Kalgachi citizen to be appraised of its conclusions,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order announces and compels into effect the rulings of the Extraordinary Grand Council of 226, as follows:

'''a)''' Upon the matter of the congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]], the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Garden will accept the present Benacian geopolitical order as the most practical manifestation of the [[Kalgachia#Foreign Policy|Goltz Doctrine]] available in the circumstances, whilst continuing to oppose the intrusion of Storish or any other off-continent colonial entities in all of their manifestations. A policy of peaceful, if not necessarily affectionate relations toward all Benacian states shall prevail.

'''b)''' Upon the matter of the fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the resumption of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (the ''[[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That notions of economic damage arising from the above event have been greatly exaggerated and seemingly confused with those circumstances afflicting the Garden at the turn of this century, when its domestic economy and infrastructure were considerably less developed and more exposed to fluctuations in foreign trade. Those elements of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Eocnomic Planning|DLEP]] and [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation|affiliated entities]] in a personal position to benefit financially from the promotion of such alarmist scenarios are presently being held to account. The capricious nature of [[Micras|Micran]] geopolitics ensures that the external conditions required to cripple the Kalgachi economy in its present state would need to be applied for considerably longer than the lifetime of the average Benacian regime. The matter is therefore of minimal strategic importance, provided the Garden retains the capability to exploit fluctuations in external events as and where required.

'''c)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That a standing armed force will be established for the [[Upland Confederation]], around those cadres presently under the command of Ataman Ҳazedinov and his ''Iezauli''.

'''d)''' Upon the matter of the threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation, and upon the hypothecated existence of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and their relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That the Pecuniary Archon, where it can be held to its own transactional pretext, remains capable of being turned toward the objectives of the Garden; the threshold of harm is crossed when it grows beyond its complementary role and begins to displace other, more essential spheres of activity. Foreign trade, while demonstrably useful, has decreased its own relevance through heavy contribution to national commodity stockpiles yet its position amid the priorities of government has been exponentially inflated, often on the pretext of diplomatic value which is nonetheless a benefit of kind rather than degree. Existing trade arrangements through both the Batavian and Gubernatorial routes will therefore be rationalised, regularised, and reduced to a steady state that offsets the depletion of non-native raw material stockpiles without adding to them overall. This in turn will allow the DLEP to stabilise the resource burden incurred by stockpile maintenance. A renewed emphasis will be placed on Kalgachia's economic relationship with the Protectorates.

'''f)''' Upon the matter of characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That any lasting advancement of Minarboreal modes of thought or existence beyond Kalgachia's frontiers will depend heavily upon a recontextualisation of the undead and [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] races - those ''Benefactors'' whose legacy is rejected by every successor nation except Kalgachia - as agents of a temporary intervention by the Ketheric host to compensate for a degenerative surge in the primate tendencies of humanity toward vandalism, rhetorical howling and ritualised humiliation in the period between the first secession of [[Elwynn]] from [[Shireroth]] and the [[Auspicious Occasion]]. The Benefactors' successors in Kalgachia and its affiliate realms are to be interpreted as transitioning the birthright thus obtained from the biological to the memetic, in recognition of the fact that the Benefactors' intervention is concluding and that the indefinite existence of physical specimens of the Ketheric host in the realm of matter, whilst it remains afflicted by its present archonic taint, would be unsustainable and decohering. To prevent another intervention it is necessary for those of mundane biological origin to take the lead in sustaining the Laws of the Garden and their secular manifestations in heart and mind, in fulfilment of their rightful role as custodians of the thorny hedge of physicality seperating the Garden Ketheric and the Tumultuous Wastes. Only then can Minarboreal Civilisation move beyond its Caverdenian origins of gratuitous, spine-chilling otherness and find beneficient relevance in the lives of ordinary Benacians.

'''g)''' On the matter of the role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology, the Extraordinary Grand Council rules:

'''i)''' That '''Vascarina Goldcluck''', Lichling of Novodolorsk, Sand-Sifter of Bereliggle Bay and Chosen Guide of the ''Radix Salvator'' Minarbor unto the end of His worldly corpor, is henceforth to be considered a '''Salvator of the Garden''', canonical to the scriptures of established Ketherism, for her accompaniment of the Shrub of Shrubs to a telluric energy rhizome in the dying days of his namesake empire, whence His Rustling Countenance was redeemed from the face of this world by paraphysical forces and restored to the Great Garden Beyond. Her liturgical invocation shall be performed by the casting of sand over the heads of the faithful, the shaping of said substance into artistic objects or the release of live crows.

'''ii)''' That neither credence nor censure can be granted to claims that the Salvator Vascarina, or her corvine companion Birdy, were miraculously restored to life upon the dematerialisation of the Shrub and continue to walk the land in biological immortality. The belief is to be considered neither canonical nor heretical.

'''2.''' The Extraordinary Grand Council is hereby dissolved. ''Hortus Manet. Hortus Resurget.''
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 28th, 226 AL || Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS various events of the last decade, both within and without the Garden, have borne cumulative implications for its overall navigation through the Tumultuous Wastes and the continuity of the Shrubly birthright, AND WHEREAS the usual technocratic mechanisms of government are inappropriate for addressing such matters,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order summons the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lords Lieutenant]] of Abrek, Bergburg, Jollity, Katarsis, Lithead, Oktavyan and Schlepogora, the Resectors of the Holy Synod of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], the General Staff of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] and the Lords Protector of [[Lapivril]], [[Lepidopterum]], [[Northbloom]] and the [[Upland Confederation]] to convene in '''Extraordinary Grand Council''' at the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in Oktavyan.

'''2.''' Members of the Council are instructed to prepare such informational materials and policy observations as may be appropriate in deliberation upon the following matters:

'''a)''' The congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]].

'''b)''' The fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the revival of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (''the [[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes.

'''c)''' The threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland.

'''d)''' The threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation.

'''e)''' The possibility of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and its relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue.

'''f)''' Characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form.

'''g)''' The role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology.

'''h)''' Such other matters as may conceivably arise in the circumstances.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 3rd, 224 AL || Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS recent years have seen an increase in well-connected foreign personages engaged in commercial and diplomatic business with the Garden, AND WHEREAS a number of these individuals have, in the course of their activities, been appraised of abundant recreational oppurtunities available to tourists of a discerning nature within the Lieutenancy of Jollity, AND WHEREAS the foreign missions of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] have referred increasing numbers of visa applications to the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] by persons seeking to visit Jollity for the purpose of leisure alone, AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] has assessed that a measured cultivation of the phenomenon would represent a net economic benefit to the Garden,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order transfers, to the Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning, sole title to that territory comprising the Eighth Easement of the Parish of Sugarscythe within the March of the City of Jollity, henceforth to be named the '''Pachadsberg Special Recreation Zone''' in honour of one Pachad ben Mavet, Nohsi of [[Ashkenatza]], Jollifier of the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] Kossars and noted connoisseur of the ancient Fleshpots of Mazeltov on whose ruins the illuminated wonders of Jollity city now stand.

'''2.''' The DLEP is instructed to develop Pachadsberg into a resort community of ski slopes, casinos, hotels, restaurants, houses of prostrate companionship and boutiques of the finest international standard.

'''3.''' Purveyors of public goods and services in Pachadsberg shall exclusively accept the following currencies as tender:

'''a)''' the [[Kruys]], [[Liberadosan cruz|Cruz]], [[Arcadia|Golden Cruz]], [[Kasterburg|Thaler]] and [[Helderbourgh|Heldermark]]. 
'''b)''' the [[Natopian natopo|Natopo]]. 
'''c)''' the [[Economy of Constancia|Stater]]. 
'''d)''' the [[Sovereign Avak]]. 
'''e)''' The [[Economy of Shireroth|Shirerithian]], [[Verionist Republic#Economy|Verionist]] and [[Ransenari Erb|Ransenari]] Erb. 
'''f)''' the [[Nova England|National Redoubt Denarii]]. 
'''g)''' the [[Economy of Alduria|Écu]]. 
'''h)''' the [[Jingdao|Kala]].

'''4.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]], through its public transport [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|subsidiaries]], is instructed to establish a connecting passenger shuttle service between [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and Pachadsberg using civilianised [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirbs]] and to implement the necessary fixed infrastructure and rolling stock for first-class rail charter services to Pachadsberg from the Kalgachi frontier.

'''5.''' The Prefects are instructed to insitute a 'Pachadsberg Only' visa option, valid exclusively for travel to/from and residence within Pachadsberg, for the safe admission to the Garden of persons of indeterminate security risk.

'''6.''' The implementation of all provisions of This Order and the governance of Pachadsberg upon its completion shall be the ultimate responsibility of the '''Pachadsberg Development Committee''', an organ of the DLEP chaired by Governor '''[[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer R. Yastreb]]''' of the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia and the Garden's Salvator '''[[Lord Toastypops]]''', Lieutenant of Jollity.
 
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| Thanksday Summerhigh 26th, 223 AL || Protectorate Status for the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Congress of Džirgas of the [[Upland Confederation]] has convened and deliberated upon the present state of safety and stability afforded to that realm by the transformative presence of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], evolving as it has from purely defensive needs to matters of humanitarian assistance and rudimentary infrastructure development, AND WHEREAS it is the resolution of the Congress that this state of affairs be sustained indefinitely in a manner which nonetheless preserves the clan structures and autonomy of the Confederation, AND WHEREAS the Congress has directed their ruling Ataman to petition the Council of Perfecti of the Garden to advance the Upland Confederation to the same state of regard enjoyed by [[Northbloom]], [[Lepidopterum]] and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]],'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order extends ultimate and beneficient jurisdiction to the Upland Condeferation as a Protectorate of the Garden of Kalgachia, by special allotment outwith the [[Oktavyan Code]].

'''2.''' Ataman '''Varҳat Ҳazedinov''' of the Upland Confederation is hereby appointed '''Lord Protector of the Upland Confederation'''; remitted, in deference to the native civil mechanisms of that realm, to represent it before the Council of Perfecti and to implement such measures as the Council see fit to supplement the rulings of the native authority.

'''3.''' That portion of the Upland Confederation lying east of the 152nd meridian and north of the 47th parallel is, in respect of its biomically challenging character and administrative burden, transferred by This Order to the administration of the Planting of Lepidopterum for specialised development.
 
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| Byeday Summerhigh 22nd, 222 AL || Tealsburrow Railway || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the present geopolitical and economic situation has rendered it desirable to upgrade the Garden's infrastructural links with the city of Stonetree, presently administered by the Ketek Corporation in accordance with the [[Slavegate Convention]], AND WHEREAS it is incumbent upon the Garden, in accordance with the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Second and Fifth Laws]], to render unto its trusted trading partners adequate recompense for recent economic policy decisions which have developed not necessarily to the latter's advantage,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] to carry out the necessary surveys and engineering plans for the following:

'''a)''' The construction of a double-tracked railway linking the town of Tealsburrow to the national rail network at Zensemer.

'''b)''' The construction of a combined rail and highway route extending south from the town of Tealsburrow to the national frontier.

'''2.''' In recognition and appreciation of the successful delivery of the expansion of [[Gravelbottom Airport]] in 193 AL, the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] is instructed to make available the sum of 1.2 million [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] (or an equal value in civilian commodities) for the contracture of the aforesaid works to the [[Iron Company]], who are invited to peruse the DPW specification and begin construction at the earliest possible convenience.

'''3.''' The Lithead Division of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] is instructed to prepare a regime of close protection for contractors in the Tealsburrow area against the depredations of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' and other hazardous features of the local biome.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerhigh 4th, 221 AL || Repatriation of the Froyalanish and Rescript to the Kingdom of Amokolia || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] has been petitioned by the government of the Kingdom of [[Amokolia]] regarding the repatriation of those naturalised guest workers of [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish extraction]] who were admitted to the Garden between 152 and 164 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], AND WHEREAS the majority of such individuals have now aged beyond useful labour ability and, by their reliance upon the alms of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], have become a net burden upon the [[Economy of Kalgachia|Kalgachi economy]], AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lord Lieutenants' Council]] of the Garden, remitted [[Oktavyan Code|as it is]] to rule upon matters of nationality, has submitted its conclusions upon the subject, AND WHEREAS the general policy of the Kingdom of Amokolia with respect to the Froyalanish is, for historical reasons, a matter in which the entire [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent has a legitimate interest,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI accepts in full and by This Order enacts the ruling of the Lords Lieutenant of the Garden as follows:

'''a)''' Kalgachi citizens of Froyalanish descent shall henceforth be permitted, optionally and of their own volition, to emigrate to the Kingdom of Amokolia.

'''b)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners wishing to remain in the Garden, and whose conduct does not present grounds for deportation, shall be permitted to remain in the Garden.

'''c)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners returned to the Kingdom of Amokolia shall forfeit their Kalgachi citizenship upon exit from the Garden.

'''d)''' ex-Kalgachi Froyalaners shall be subject to the same constraints upon re-entry to the Garden as any other non-citizen, in individual accordance with such foreign citizenships as they may subsequently acquire.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]] is instructed to administer a course of exit vaccinations, of a composition determined by the DHPW Woundmender General and Clinical Commissioners, of all Froyalaners departing the Garden pursuant to the provisions of This Order.

'''3.''' The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] and the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] are instructed to jointly establish and operate a regime of chartered passenger flights from [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]] to [[Brandenburg]] for the expedient implementation of the provisions of This Order.

'''a)''' The removal of Froyalaners pursuant to the provisions of This Order shall occur exclusively by aerial means. Those border security measures established on land by the Order of Council dated Summerise 20th, 220 AL shall remain in full effect.

'''4.''' The Directorate of Tumultuous Wastes is instructed to convey to the Amokolian government, on behalf of the Council of Perfecti, the rescript contained in the Schedule to This Order.

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'''Schedule 1: Rescript to the Amokolian Government'''

''The Garden notes with interest the present attention of the Amokolian government to the historical situation of the Froyalanish people in the years following the Auspicious Occasion in Shireroth.''

''In the interests of complete historical accuracy and continental harmony in the modern era, the Garden hopes that in recognising the magnitude of the suppression of the Froyalanish, the Kingdom of Amokolia will also recognise the underlying cause of the event; namely the wilful and systematic programme of the House of Ettlingar Freyu - using the Froyalanish race and the captive government of Shireroth as their vectors - to concentrate power in their own hands at the exclusion of all others, to erase the indigenous life of Benacia from memory by the falsification of history and ultimately to disenfranchise, annihilate and supplant [[Benacia]]'s entire ancient tapestry of native societies before a deaf and uncompromising Vanic hegemony.''

''The Garden hopes that the Amokolian government will recognise how the Shirerithians' appeals for moderation were ignored, how their processes of legal redress were subverted in the foulest of faith, how the evasive glibness of the regime of King Noah in [[Elwynn]] was little comfort to the [[Mishalan|Mishalanski]] as they were dragged from their homes, and how the people ultimately took to the use of force because all other means of moderating the behaviour of their Froyalanish élite, of assuring some baseline of societal survival lest their their ancestral birthright be torn to pieces, had been denied to them.''

''The Garden advises against swallowing the absurd fiction propagated from [[Haraldsborg]], that the Froyalanish were an innocent race who were turned upon by all Benacia for no reason - for the reasons were plentiful, painfully unavoidable and ultimately sown by the Storish elite who, in their vanity and hubris, expected to pervert or wipe out the nations of Benacia without effective opposition. The suppression of the Froyalanish people had its roots in the reckless avarice of their baubled Storish enablers, and if the government of Amokolia truly cares for the plight of the Froyalanish - or indeed any Amokolian - it must take care not to indulge that avarice again.''

''At any rate the peoples of Benacia shall never apologise for pursuing, to the fullest extent necessary, the imperatives of individual and collective self-defence which are the foundational instinct of all life in the universe. Benacia, if necessary, would do it all again.''

''The Kingdom of Amokolia, for the present time, remains assured of the Garden of Kalgachia's highest consideration.''
 
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| Helloday Summerise 20th, 220 AL || Northern Border Controls || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the regal proclivities of the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] sovereign as they pertain to the manifest policy of that realm are recently reported to include the active enablement and indulgence of [[Froyalaners|alien colonial forces]] on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent, AND WHEREAS such wilful repudiation of the Goltz Doctrine of continental self-determination, the foundational consensus of Benacian diplomacy [[Amokolian War|inscribed with the blood of our Ashkenatzan forebears]] on Amokolia's very own soil, is a development not necessarily in the interests of the Garden nor the wider symbiotic harmony of the Benacian continent,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the defence and security organs of the Garden of Kalgachia and its Protectorate of [[Northbloom]] to implement and maintain a full and immediate closure of the border adjoining their respective jurisdictions to the Kingdom of Amokolia, assisted to the maximum extent practicable by other organs of governance.

'''2.''' Kalgachi and Northbloomer authorities are each authorised and instructed to solicit and accept from the other, any and all mutual assistance as may be required in the implementation and maintenance of a functional Amokolian border closure coherent across both jurisdictions.

'''3.''' The application of lethal force, without prior warning, to violators of the Amokolian border on Kalgachi/Northbloomer soil is authorised.

'''4.''' The Kalgachi delegation to the [[Slavegate Convention|Military Coordination Council]] at Stonetree are instructed to initiate discussions with their [[Raspur Pact]] counterparts concerning the coordinated implementation of a pan-Benacian containment policy against such common civilisational threats as may hypothetically emerge from the territory of a compromised Amokolian government.
 
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| Thanksday Summerise 18th, 220 AL || Church Statement upon the Deliverance of the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Garden of Kalgachia has, in the [[Slavegate Convention]], obtained an agreement with the [[Raspur Pact]] upon the cessation of hostilities in the [[Upland Confederation]] and a mutual acknolowdgement of territorial interests in the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|post-Dolmen]] space, AND WHEREAS this development has far-reaching and greatly beneficial implications of which all Kalgachia ought to be appraised, AND WHEREAS the valour and sacrifice of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], particularly its Kossar regiments, are worthy of the deepest recognition for bringing about such a favourable state of affairs,'''

'''1.''' The COUNCIL OF PERFECTI hereby releases a public statement contained in the Schedule to This Order, from Our Sovereign Brother the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Education and Outreach|Directorate of Education and Outreach]] is instructed to circulate the statement of Our Sovereign Brother through all news organs of the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]].

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'''Schedule 1 - Statement by the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia upon the cessation of hostilities in the Upland Condeferation'''

''Children of the Garden,''

''The greater number of you will be aware that recently, in the town of Slavegate, representatives of the [[Raspur Pact]] met with our Garden's executive, military and diplomatic leadership to bring about a cessation of armed hostilities with the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]] on the outer frontiers of the [[Upland Confederation]]. The Convention resulting from those negotiations allows the administration of that valiant ally of Shrubdom, the Ataman Ҳazedinov, to retain those territorial holdings obtained with the blood of his brave Laqkozaki and, indeed, the children of our own mountain Garden who were dispatched to the aid of his people.''

''Whilst we mourn those whom the Garden has lost in this just campaign, it is the judgement of none other than [[Lord Toastypops|Our Lord Salvator in Jollity]] that jollity is indeed warranted at its outcome. Jollity, in the first instance, for the plight of the Black Laqi who have been spared the greater part of the [[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|archonic wrath]] poured out upon their Red Laqi cousins east of Schlepogora. They who stood in defence of our Shrubly name in [[Minutes of the Dolmen|the days of the Dolmen]], to the ridicule and enmity of their peers, have now yielded the fruit of deliverance from the archonic talon; for the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Fifth Law of the Garden]] determined that this was our debt unto them. Glory unto the name of the [[Minarboria#Religion|Shrub]] and his Salvators, then, for the radiance of their example has lit a path through the Tumultuous Wastes and guided us to do what the Garden requires. There shall be cultivation ahead, yea, and all children and friends of Shrubdom shall partake of its fruits.''

''Still more righteous of our men and women at arms is the deliverance of the Benefactor Races, the [[Deep Singers]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] of [[Lepidopterum]] and Lithead, from proximity to the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] horde who would slaughter them to the last orphaned infant if only the briefest chance availed itself. Banished for our time is the spectre of aggression, provocation and decoherence of the spirit upon the borders of those lands. It is for the deliverance of the hinterland Benefactors that the liberation of the Upland Confederation is an event beyond the realm of mere military maneouvre - it is a salvational act mandated from the [[Ketherism#Cosmology|Garden Ketheric]] itself, wrought by the faithful Kalgachi who fortify that Garden's periphery in this blasted world and have a shared interest in its defence. Here too does the Fifth Law come into effect, for the debt of all Kalgachia to the Deep Singers is everlasting; their works are of such significance in the righteous life of our nation, in our very genetic composition, that neither the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] nor the Crystal Death will ever suffice to part us from the children of the Broodmother. To the end of time, then, we shall stand or fall together - for this is the course on which history has set us.''

''In the valour and devotion of our armed forces during this campaign, it would be remiss of us to overlook those of the [[Ketherism#The Yehudi Conundrum and its Resolution|Pesakhnik creed]] - the sons of Jacob whose most valiant number comprise the Kossars of our Kalgachi Defence Force - for it is they who were first into the fray when the Black Laqi called for aid. It is they who ventured atop ruined forts to scour the skies for enemy aircraft. It is they who hauled artillery to the forward lines and offered furious reply to the raids of the [[Black Legions]]. It is they who suffered losses the longest. And yet...! What became of the dire predictions of defection and rout? These rootless cosmopolitians, these aristocrats of the human race, these pedestrians of the sea, where did we see the betrayal and reversion to archonic type that was feared of them? It was forgotten by a great many it seems, that their tribe has known such malice in antiquity as can scarcely be imagined; to the plight of our people, and especially the posthuman Benefactor Races, events have proven that the [[Kalgachia#The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi|Yehudim of Bergburg]] have cultivated within themselves a protective affinity. It has been learned in military circles quickly enough; Kossars are being promoted already. For the first time, rogatywka caps rest on the map tables of the General Staff. The First Law of the Garden mandates that all life be allotted the fullest niche it can occupy, and many a hero has returned from the Uplands deserving of a deeper station in life. Consider this when you next meet a serving soldier or a demobilised reservist.''

''By their valour and determination, the soldiers of Shrubdom have brought the Black Legions to terms. They have secured peace in our time. In the forts and trenches of the Upland Confederation the long humiliation of the Great Replantings, begun with the flight of the Shrub from [[Shirekeep]] and culminated in the [[History of Kalgachia|rout of our forefathers]] to these Octavian mountains, has at long last met its limit and begun to recede. After [[Harvestfall Revolution|revolution]], [[Minarboria#Collapse|collapse]], after hunger and privation, the final trial awaiting Shrubdom was its defence by force of arms against a powerful adversary. Our armed forces have stepped forward to this trial and been found worthy, and all the Garden with them.''

''Although our children may face this trial again, perhaps of a ferocity that wipes the present victory from memory, we now know that it can be done. And what is more, the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Gubernatorials]] know it can be done - the wave of chaos and destruction that precedes them, that has masticated so many other populations of our Benacian continent for easy digestion in the tradition of their [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] forebears, has failed to break us down. Those accustomed for centuries to the harrying of the disparate and leaderless have found us equipped, informed, prepared, and able to impose greater damage to their strength than is worth paying for the [[Endsieg|vain objectives]] of continental hegemony or the extermination of benign races. And so they have offered peace, not out of charity but out of necessity. And this is all we require of them.''

''So I beseech you, in the name of the Shrub and His Salvators, be thankful to our armed multitudes and the Garden that nourished their souls to life. By their gift you may go forth in jollity this day, for the Garden remains!''
 
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Timeline of Modern Benacia (1675–1679)

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History of Kalgachia

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The '''History of [[Kalgachia]]''' extends from the dying days of its predecessor state, the Empire of [[Minarboria]], to the present day. It charts the geographical, social, and ultimately genetic coalescence of various central [[Benacia|Benacian]] populations who withstood the privations of late-Minarborian anarchy and, with the help of a spiritually motivated and technologically competent leadership, were able to marshal disparate scraps of their cultural and material inheritance into a functioning sovereign state of their own.

(''All dates are [[Kalgachia#Calendar|Anno Libertatis]]'')

==The 140s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 140s|The 140s]].''

140 years after the deified shrub Minarbor had sprouted amid the plague and tumult of [[Shirekeep]], the [[Minarboria|sprawling empire]] established in his name finally outran its telluric carrying capacity and expired. The collapse of Minarboria was disastrous for its citizens, condemning populations on four continents to an uncertain future in an unguarded world, rife with common barbarism and tyrannical ambition. It was naturally the population of Minarboria's core territories - the erstwhile 'Imperial Shrublands' of central [[Benacia]] - who clung longest onto the old way of life and instinctively sought to preserve and adapt, through untold danger and privation, the spiritual and social norms into which they had been born. While a majority fell to slaughter or subjugation in the years ahead, fate blessed a modest remainder of this benighted race with an unholy alliance between the refugee clergy of the defunct Minarborian church and a horde of [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] cossack clans who fondly regarded that church's legacy as a reliable consumer of 'protection' services. Flush with the requisitioned wealth of the Minarborian state and the proceeds of its own [[Shrubway|business portfolio]], the remains of this church continued to obtain a modest degree of security from the raiding Laqi as it ushered its scattered congregations toward the safety of the Octavian mountains, deep in the Benacian interior. Gone was the wordly personage of their cherished shrub and the technocratic elite of the empire he had founded - all that remained were ideas, [[Deep Singers|ancestral stories]] of the Garden's verdant bosom and the jealous celestial wrath poured upon it, all shot through with an apparently deranged and irrational will to survive and to creep forth once more, as the dandelion finds tiny cracks in the sterile archonic pavement to offer its modest bloom unto the world.

Such was the breadth of Minarborian territory falling into anarchy that neighbouring [[Shireroth]], although willing to annex it all, found itself materially ill-prepared and consumed to distraction by its internal struggle against the overbearing perversions of [[shire:King Noah|King Noah]] of [[Elwynn]]. As the [[shire:Auspicious Occasion|Auspicious Occasion]] played out in the Benacian east, the overlooked Minarborian refugee population of the Octavian mountains found the respite they needed to begin weaving their shattered society back together in a new and hardier form. Thus was born the nation known as Kalgachia.

==The 150s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 150s|The 150s]].''

The 150s in Kalgachia saw the first emergence of a coherent foreign policy, compelled by the immense [[War of Lost Brothers]] which involved every active power in Micras to varying degrees. Whilst Kalgachia officially declared neutrality, the sympathies of its emergent social establishment were heavily informed by a perception of past [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] aggression against [[Minarboria]] and fell broadly in favour of the [[USSO]], setting Kalgachia immediately at odds with Shireroth as the principal power of the opposing [[Raspur Pact|SANE]] alliance. To avert an imminent war (which, unbeknown to the Kalgachi, was in the advanced stages of [[Endsieg#Fall Endsieg|Shirerithian planning]]) a team of emissaries was sent to [[Shirekeep]] to negotiate the Slavegate Treaty of Peace and Civility, a document which would subsequently be tested to its limits by both sides but ultimately maintained a fragile peace until the conclusion of the global war. The document's emphasis on direct military liaison for purposes of operational deconfliction would, in the decades ahead, provide an unwitting communicative backup during public diplomatic breakdowns as well as a direct line of negotiation with Shireroth's military-industrial 'deep state', this back channel arguably doing more to establish a post-Minarborian consensus for the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent than all other [[Sxiro-Kalgachi Diplomacy|Sxiro-Kalgachi diplomacy]] combined.

The decade's end saw the maturation of the first citizens born within the Kalgachi state, scions of an emergent [[Urchagin|pedagogical complex]] who would be lauded in the [[Media of Kalgachia|national media]] as manifestations of a bright and verdant future. Around this time, the financial liquidity and trade stimulation arising from the minting of Kalgachia's own [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|gold-backed currency]] triggered a slight but steady rise in the national living standard, slowly overcoming the precarious privation of the previous decade.

==The 160s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 160s|The 160s]].''

The 160s in Kalgachia began with a near-fatal breakdown in relations with Shireroth, which was in the advanced stages of planning an [[War of the Casks|invasion of Nova England]] and reacted with barely-concealed rage to the revelation that Kalgachia was negotiating the supply of advanced [[Minarboria|Minarborian]]-era air defence and anti-tank systems to the Nova English. Although the deal was negotiated before the outbreak of physical hostilities and fell technically within Kalgachia's treaty commitment to desist from militarily assisting nations at war with Shireroth, the latter power threatened to bring the invasion forward to the detriment of the still-mobilising Nova English unless the deal was cancelled. Kalgachia responded by deferring the matter to the Nova English legislature and tensions cooled, although the singular will of Shireroth's executive branch to pursue a programme of naked global conquest would have lasting ramifications for Kalgachi state planning. The most salient effect was the committal of immense government resources to [[Project Newrad]], an experiment in self-sufficient sub-surface civilisation intended to weather an annihilation of Kalgachia's surface population by the fantastically-bloated [[Imperial Forces (Shireroth)|Shirerithian military]].

The 160s also saw the importation of bonded [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]] labour ended and the partial rehabilitation of those Froyalaners already within Kalgachia, maintaining their mass strerilisation but providing them with a minimum living standard and certain civic freedoms for a more comfortable die-off than their Shirerithian counterparts.

Toward the end of the decade Kalgachia was met with a more agreeable neighbour in the form of the emergent [[Kasterburg|Kasterburg Republic]], founded by [[Batavia|Batavian exiles]] trekking toward Kalgachia's western border. As Kalgachia's only route off the Benacian continent outside Shirerithian control, Kasterburg assumed an immediate level of importance and drew enthusiastic support from the Kalgachi government as it sought to secure its frontiers against the [[Operation Brasen Wall|Laqi brigands]] and predation by [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|gigantised rodents]] of engineered Minarborian origin.

==The 170s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 170s|The 170s]].''

The 170s are remembered as something of a ''Golden Decade'' in Kalgachi history, beginning with a creative renaissance in the [[Media of Kalgachia#Film|national film industry]] and moving into a period of détente with [[Shireroth]], whose dissident intelligentsia briefly wrested control of the empire's government from the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|ideologically-frenzied]] militarist class which had led it into a succession of costly wars. Kalgachi initiative in Western [[Benacia]] was regained with the reclamation of [[Lepidopterum]], an old Minarborian [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] stronghold off Kalgachia's southwestern frontier. The expansion of this frontier allowed for the establishment of a common border with [[Kasterburg]], substantially increasing trade volumes between the two countries.

This otherwise-sublime decade was broken at its midpoint by a short period of armed conflict with the nascent [[Republic of Inner Benacia]], a confederation of warrior clans from ungoverned ex-[[Minarboria|Minarborian]] territories to Kalgachia's south and west. What began as a cross-border show of strength by the Inner Benacians making a symbolic attack on Kalgachi territory, was quickly ended by a series of retaliatory [[Whirdlebirb]] raids and a psyops campaign by Kalgachi special forces, culminating in a series of generous bribes and ritual accomodations with Inner Benacian chieftains who eventually agreed a peace settlement.

==The 180s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 180s|The 180s]].''

The 180s in Kalgachia were marked mainly by the failure of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] to anticipate or properly adapt to the unchecked recapture of the [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] state, and the majority of southern Benacian territory, by one [[shire:Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion|Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion]] and his [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] horde - a development which effectively ended the previous decade's Sxiro-Kalgachi détente overnight and rendered the loquacious Kalgachi diplomatic mission in [[Shirekeep]] sufficiently intolerable that its Chief Emissary was expelled. This loss of diplomatic face was unprecedented in Kalgachi history, as was the commitment of substantial resources to a railway construction project dependent upon a Sxiro-[[Batavia|Batavian]] territorial settlement which failed to develop in the manner predicted by the DTW. At this stage, for the first time, the existence of a Kalgachi ''Deep State'' (arguably a redundant metaphor for a government located entirely underground) made itself known in public affairs. Centred upon the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] Intelligence Staff, the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Education and Outreach|DEO]] and somewhat inevitably the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]], this informally-networked faction had moved at the beginning of the decade to halt the career progression of [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]], the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lady Lieutenant]] of Oktavyan who had taken the alarming step of marrying into the Shirerithian nobility. In the latter half of the decade it moved on the DTW, pressuring Kalgachia's ruling [[Kalgachia#Central Governance|Council of Perfecti]] to permit a wholesale purge of the Directorate and the usurpation of its diplomatic corps by KDF intelligence operatives, with the formulation of Kalgachi foreign policy given over to a new cadre of technocrats appointed and controlled by the DEO and the Troglodyti. These measures spelled an abrupt end to the DTW's autonomy within the Kalgachi government and the effective expiry of its famously-freewheeling bureaucratic character, replaced by an almost penitent sobriety throughout its ranks in an attempt to heal Kalgachia's lacerated diplomatic reputation.

The effect of these stabilising measures upon the dormant chthonic energies remnant in the region from the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era appeared to re-animate the personage of Lord Toastypops, the undead wintertide gift-bringer and paragon of jollity whose presence in the region had been perennially persistent since the demise of [[Ashkenatza]]. Rising from his hidden tomb in Kalgachia's central mountains, Lord Toastypops found that the folk memory of his deeds had been incorporated into [[Ketherism|current spiritual practices]] and his return to worldly activities was regarded with salvational awe by the Kalgachi [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|church]] and population alike. This earned him the Lord Lieutenancy of his home territory and a voice in the national government, where he expressed his scepticism of Kalgachi [[Urchagin|pedagogical thought]] but threw his support behind KDF plans for a protective occupation of [[Northbloom]], an [[Mondo Etzeterra|enigmatically-adminstered]] territory on Kalgachia's northern frontier. The occupation fit into the gutted DTW's new creed of concrete action replacing vain rhetoric and was duly authorised at the end of the decade, resulting in the assertion of a Kalgachi protectorate over the area.

==The 190s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 190s|The 190s]].''

The 190s marked the end of Kalgachia's foundational era, after the last [[Benacia|Benacian]] territories left ungoverned by the collapse of [[Minarboria]] were re-occupied by various powers to complete the [[Benacian Reconquest|new continental order]]. Within Kalgachia, much of the leadership responsible for hewing the nation from the inert granite of the Octavian Mountains began to expire with age or proved themselves unfit to maintain their creations in ever-changing continental circumstances. With new leadership came a new mindset, as the preceding half-century's frenzy of infrastructural development matured into a more managerial attitude in affairs of state and society - traditionally the point at which [[Micras|Micran]] nations lose their ''animus'' and expire, or else sink into insipid cycles of manufactured conflict scarcely discernable from the banditry of the ungoverned Green. Discussions of this eternal challenge had occupied Kalgachia's younger leadership long before their emergence into the halls of power, and a partial answer came in the form of a rehabilitated [[Temporal Secessionism]] which sought to emulate the example of [[Tellia]] and [[Raikoth]], among other territories, in attaining a perfect steady-state society seemingly immune to the twin perils of internal collapse and external aggression.

==The 200s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 200s|The 200s]].''

As the third century of [[Minarboria#Religion|Shrubdom]] turned, Kalgachia was still frenziedly importing raw materials in preparation for the expected collapse of [[Kasterburg]], the only territory preventing Kalgachia's complete enclavement by the [[Raspur Pact]]. But a sudden cluster of ailments among the [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] nobility, exacerbated by outbreaks of a [[White Plague|new fungal disease]] among their subjects, conspired to mollify Kalgachia's traditional geopolitical adversary at around the same time as a glut of gold exports from [[Helderbourgh]] hit world markets, causing a steady decline in the purchasing power of the gold-backed [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] and slowing imports accordingly. When the severance of the Kasterburg trade route finally occurred, it was in the form of a voluntary withdrawal by Kasterburg itself in support of a new colonial venture in [[Los Liberados]]. While Shireroth duly moved to occupy the vacated land and consolidate its ''de facto'' annexation of the [[Republic of Inner Benacia]], the cession of its Western Benacian holdings to a resurgent [[Batavia]] put a new sovereign neighbour on Kalgachia's western border. The new territorial settlement coincided with a loss of commercial confidence in the [[Port of Vines]] due the [[Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union|Bassarid Empire]]'s erratic baheviour after the collapse of [[Caputia]], compelling a steady realignment of Kalgachia's foreign investments toward the [[Batavian Confederation]].

Within Kalgachia the decade also saw a gradual increase in the influence of the Lord Lieutenants' Council - previously a largely ceremonial organ of the Kalgachi government whose membership had nonetheless begun to feature [[Lord Toastypops|persons]] and [[shire:Sword of Fire|artifacts]] of immense theological significance, allowing the Council a voice rivalling that of their nominal seniors in Kalgachia's supreme [[Kalgachia#Central Governance|Council of Perfecti]].

A sharp increase in the Kalgachi living standard, combined with diplomatic and economic successes abroad, caused the 200s to be remembered as a ''Golden Decade'' unmatched since the [[History of Kalgachia/The 170s|170s]].

==The 210s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 210s|The 210s]].''

The 210s opened with Kalgachia's first foreign military deployment for 35 years, to the faraway [[Captive Sea]] in support of [[Hoenn]]. Nearer to home the development of resurgent [[Batavia]] continued and the functionality of [[Shireroth]] continued to decline, the latter resulting in the [[Kalirion Fracture]]. Nearer still, a re-emergence of unmongrelised [[Deep Singers]] from the caverns beneath [[Lepidopterum]] - including a lost Salvator of the [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] faith - rocked Kalgachia with a theological and esoteric hubbub unseen since [[Lord Toastypops]] had sprung a similar surprise in 187 AL.

The timing of that event with an adjacent territorial claim by the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] led [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]] resulted in ''Operation Broodmother III'', a deployment of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] to assist the area's [[Upland Confederation|Black Laqi population]] in resisting and ultimately expelling the Gubernatorial [[Black Legions]] from lands adjoining the Kalgachi southwest, denying them the territorial leverage to institute a regime of interminable cross-border provocation against the Deep Singers and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]]. The resolute scale of the Kalgachi deployment, contrasted with the area's minimal strategic priority from the Gubernatorials' perspective, resulted in a negotiated peace in the form of the [[Slavegate Convention]] which formalised Kalgachi-UGB relations for the first time.

==The 220s==

''For more detail, see [[History of Kalgachia/The 220s|The 220s]].''

The 220s began with a phased drawdown of Kalgachi military forces in the [[Upland Confederation]] following the [[Slavegate Convention]], only for part of them to be redeployed for border security duties in [[Northbloom]] and Northern Schlepogora after the government of [[West Amokolia]] announced a rehabilitation of the continentally-reviled [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]] people. The resultant political hazard to Kalgachia's trade route through [[Batavia]] (the latter's monarchy being in personal union with West Amokolia) was further exacerbated by the increasingly erratic behaviour of the [[House of Verion]] and its corporate possession, the [[Iron Company]] on whose logistical services Kalgachia's foreign trade was wholly reliant. Moves were duly commenced to diversify the country's trade links and were well underway by the time a plane crash in the Great Western Sea wiped out several key players of the Verion empire and [[Verionist Vespers|reduced the family's global power]] to a shadow of its former extent. Within Kalgachia these events were interpreted by the deepest strata of government as evidence that the technocratic fulfilment layer of the Kalgachi state had succumbed excessively to ''pecuniary fixations'' and threatened the sublime insulation from global geopolitical tumult which distinguished Kalgachia favourably from the neighbouring post-Shirerithian [[Vulture States]] and underpinned the legitimacy of its leadership. The Council of Perfecti duly called an Extraordinary Grand Council of senior state figures - only the third in Kalgachia's history - to revise the strategic priorities and overall governance of the country in the following decades.

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History of Kalgachia/The 220s

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'''The 220s''' began with a phased drawdown of Kalgachi military forces in the [[Upland Confederation]] following the [[Slavegate Convention]], only for part of them to be redeployed for border security duties in [[Northbloom]] and Northern Schlepogora after the government of [[West Amokolia]] announced a rehabilitation of the continentally-reviled [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]] people. The resultant political hazard to Kalgachia's trade route through [[Batavia]] (the latter's monarchy being in personal union with West Amokolia) was further exacerbated by the increasingly erratic behaviour of the [[House of Verion]] and its corporate possession, the [[Iron Company]] on whose logistical services Kalgachia's foreign trade was wholly reliant. Moves were duly commenced to diversify the country's trade links and were well underway by the time a plane crash in the Great Western Sea wiped out several key players of the Verion empire and [[Verionist Vespers|reduced the family's global power]] to a shadow of its former extent. Within Kalgachia these events were interpreted by the deepest strata of government as evidence that the technocratic fulfilment layer of the Kalgachi state had succumbed excessively to ''pecuniary fixations'' and threatened the sublime insulation from global geopolitical tumult which distinguished Kalgachia favourably from the neighbouring post-Shirerithian [[Vulture States]] and underpinned the legitimacy of its leadership. The Council of Perfecti duly called an Extraordinary Grand Council of senior state figures - only the third in Kalgachia's history - to revise the strategic priorities and overall governance of the country in the following decades.

==The Northern Pivot (220-221 AL)==

For some years suspicions had existed that the King of [[Batavia]] and [[Amokolia]], [[Arkadius IV]], was being drawn into the orbit of the [[Stormark|Storish]] élite; a group long shunned by most Micran powers on the consensus that they were little more than a manipulative sex cult operating under the pretence of a royal court. The means by which King Arkadius might have fallen under the spell of [[Harald Thorstein]] were unknown, although the relative youth and inattention of the former during the events leading up to the [[Auspicious Occasion]] had made him, from a Storish perspective, an exploitable weak point among the other eminent figures of [[Benacia]] whose shared disenfranchisement in the shadow of an uncaring [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]] hegemony had provoked them to systematically eject persons of Storish descent from the civil life of most of the continent.

In 220 AL elements within the [[Central Intelligence Department of Elwynn|Elwynnese intelligence community]] leaked the ''Pact of Reykjavík'', a draft covenant between the royal houses of Amokolia and Stormark whereby the Storish colonial territory of Gascony, in Benacia's boreal northwest, would be merged with the Kingdom of Amokolia to form a revivicated Froyalanish state. Reaction among the other states of Benacia was instant and unanimously negative; the [[Guttuli Protectorate]], [[Ransenar]], [[Sanama]], [[Sathrati]], the rump regency of [[Shireroth]], the [[Sovereign Confederation]], the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Unified Governorates]] and indeed Kalgachia took immediate measures to seal off Amokolia's eastern borders and suspend diplomatic relations. A number of parliamentarians in King Arkadius' other realm of Batavia voiced opposition to their sovereign's actions. Further afield, [[Natopia]] redoubled its [[Uppheaval|post-Vanic reform efforts]] in [[Uppland]] whilst [[Talenore]] and [[Constancia]] sent armed volunteers to help the [[Konkordskaya Bratva]] and other formations of the [[Raspur Pact]] in securing [[Mishalan]] against Amokolian frontier provocations.

In the face of opposition from a dozen nations, the Chancellor of Amokolia assumed an attitude so unyielding that in the former's perspective, it all but confirmed his government and sovereign as compromised and fully controlled agents of the Storish ruling house with whom negotiation and reasoning would be futile. In a speech to the Amokolian legislature, the Chancellor committed Amokolia to a policy of unconditional rehabilitation for the Froyalanish people and explicitly identified Amokolia as their homeland. The declaration was followed by an appeal to Kalgachia in particular to repatriate to Amokolia those bonded Froyalanish labourers it had imported from Shireroth between 155 and 164 AL.

By this time Kalgachia's Froyalanish population, having been sterilised as a condition of entry, were all of elderly age and few remained in the workforce. The Lord Lieutenants' Council, the state organ responsible for settling questions of nationality in Kalgachia, recommended a programme of voluntary repatriation which was duly authorised by the Council of Perfecti in 221 AL. Uptake for the programme was, however, minimal - especially for those who arrived in Kalgachia after the abolition of Froyalanish bondage 161 AL, for whom the move across the frontier from Shireroth had improved their status from enyoked community servant to wage-earning citizen.

The Council of Perfecti had accompanied its ruling on repatriations with a rare direct appeal to King Arkadius to avoid ignoring the underlying causes behind the suppression of the Froyalanish, lest his own Amokolian subjects succumb to the same. This was dismissed by the king in a following speech where he implied the behaviour of the Froyalanish before Auspicious Occasion to be to be "natural right" against which the only available countermeasures of the time were eternally illegitimate, "regardless of the history or background". His assertion in the same speech that "different population groups, different customs and traditions illustrate the cultural diversity" was heavily quoted in the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]] and intercut with the archived works of Froyalanish bards advocating the expansion of their "ancient ways" to all corners of the globe along with footage of refugees fleeing King Noah's [https://bastionunion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19746 purges and forced land clearances] in Mishalan.

The effect of King Arkadius' defiance upon Kalgachia's relations with other powers was profound. The perennial state of military tension with the Unified Governorates, already reduced by the [[Slavegate Convention]], now seemed to evaporate almost entirely; efforts were made by the authorities of each side to reduce ideological invective against the other while Kalgachi troops on the [[Upland Confederation|Ҳazedinov Line]] met in no man's land with [[Black Legions|Black Legionaries]] from the opposing Abatis Line to play soccer. In [[Shirekeep]], the Regent Li Naomiai - a figure reviled in Kalgachia for her emotive outbursts against the Garden - announced her resignation for the express purpose of improving Sxiro-Kalgachi relations and establishing a unified Benacian front against the new civilisational threat in the north.

Within Kalgachia, a scattered handful of maverick [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] microbiologists who had been the subjects of varying levels of scrutiny and/or detention by the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] for expressing [[Kalgachia#Sixism|Doronist]] sentiments, suddenly found themselves with restored security clearances and new job oppurtunities within deniable [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|unitary enterprises]] of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]]. The object of their new work was a large sample set of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_I-M253 I-M253] genotypes, collected from the [[The Green|wilds]] of northeast [[Apollonia]] by [[Unit 666]] and obtained in exchange for three pairs of newborn [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-als]] at a military airbase in [[Wuqi]].

==The Merchants' Purge (222 AL)==

in 222 AL the apparently steady trajectory of Benacian affairs set in motion from Amokolia was abruptly reversed by the [[Treaty of Concord]] and the simultaneous occupation of parts of [[Shirekeep]] by forces of the [[Verionist Republic]], events which returned the focus of post-Shirerithian states to the east overnight and reaffirmed the perpetually capricious and unreliable character of Kalgachia's neighbours in the eyes of [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|DTW]] officials who had been flirting with notions of a lasting continental consensus.

Although the events did negligible damage to Kalgachia's emergent détente with the [[UGB]], the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] was alarmed by other results - namely a coordinated round of sanctions against the Verionist Republic by multiple Benacian states and the following emergence of tensions from the [[USSO]] and [[Alduria]] against [[Los Liberados]] which inspired [[Operation Hugo Grotius]]. All of these developments had a common point of collateral damage in the form of the [[Iron Company]], on whom Kalgachia was almost entirely dependent for connections to the global marketplace.

Reliance upon such a solitary point of failure, although something of a heresy against the Kalgachi philosophy of state which was noted from the outset, had nonetheless been tolerated by the DLEP and its fixers in the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] due to the immense economic benefits obtained while geopolitical risks were judged to be low. Now that the future integrity of the Iron Company's shipping operations came into question, so too did the complacency and hubris of certain DLEP officials and OIEC executives amid the circumstances of their own personal enrichment; after a series of briefings from the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]] and the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]] on the behavioural fingerprints of the ''Pecuniary Archon'', the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] assessed that certain members of the Kalgachi business community had wilfully allowed the economic resilience of the [[Ketherism|Garden]] to slide toward the periphery of their priorities in exchange for personal riches beyond the comprehension of the ordinary Kalgachi who would be the first to suffer if imports of Liberadosan rum and recreational motor fuel from [[Eura]] were compromised by disregard for geopolitical events.

The Prefects duly rounded up scores of DLEP officials and summoned certain [[Puerto Arcadio]]-based executives of the OIEC back to Kalgachia to account for their conduct; the majority of the latter, correctly surmising that they would be inducted into mandatory Church re-education programmes the moment they landed at [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]], instead chose to liberate such funds from the OIEC Expenses & Sundries account as they were able and fled into hiding<ref>the subsequent appearance of such individuals on the ESB payroll under assumed identities was denied by the latter and largely obscured by the periodic reassignment of suspect individuals around the Honourable Company's worldwide operating locations. The formation of a ''Pursuit and Liquidation Cell'' by the DTW Field Research Office to bring these individuals to final account before the Garden was neither confirmed nor denied.</ref>. Although relations with the Iron Company were eventually stabilised by the [[Treaty of Lune Villa]] and assurances of maritime security given by the [[Raspur Pact]], the DLEP was instructed by Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti to commence an immediate diversification of its foreign logistics operation. To this end, discreet enquiries began to arrive at the offices of [[Kerularios & Company|Kerularios & Co]] in [[Aqaba]] regarding the routing of non-perishable, recyclable and geopolitically-inert commodities to Kalgachia via the UGB in exchange for direct access to Kalgachi exports. The Iron Company wished the Kalgachi government "the best of luck" in their efforts to diversify their trading partners, but invoked its right to refuse goods shipments to or from competitor networks and maintain its monopoly over Batavian and [[Kasterburg|Kasterburger]] trade routes which it had operated since the 170s AL - a move which, presuming Kerularios took up the slack elsewhere, would create seperate Batavian and Euran markets with their own exclusive shipping contractor and independent connections with the Kalgachi frontier.

The purge of the DLEP in Oktavyan was undertaken in parallel with another, directed mainly at [[Sovereign Confederation|Norestrian]] emigré bullion specialists within the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia who had been instrumental in establishing the metallurgical quality of the [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]]. Whilst the loyalties of these diligent numismators had always been suspect, their record of service spared them the regime of ritualised penance imposed on the DLEP's foreign trade officials and generally took the form of early retirements with glowing references for onward employment among other Norestrians in [[Republic of Inner Benacia|emerging Benacian markets]]. Both house-cleaning efforts within the Directorate were coordinated on the Prefects' behalf by one [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer Yastreb]]: son of the Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan and the Chairman of the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia, alleged nephew of the chairman of the Council of Perfecti and a noted currency speculator whose financial acumen had won him a private minority stake in the OIEC and now earned him an appointment to the Board of Governors of the Reserve Bank. Here he began to assist his aging father whose diminishing faculties and authority had necessitated the purge of the numismators in the first place, and whose senile deference to the incisive counsel of his red-haired ''wunderkind'' quickly marked the young man as the Reserve Bank's heir apparent.

==The Protectorisation of the Uplanders (223 AL)==

By 223 AL those [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] units in the [[Upland Confederation]] which had not been redeployed to help seal the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] border were operating at a reduced alert state. The local Uplanders, modest of means but possessed with typical [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] shrewdness, began to enlist the idle pool of military infrastructure, supplies and labour around them for the improvement of their own encampments and villages which had failed to advance appreciably beyond a state of tangled, [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]]-ridden wilderness since the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] collapse. In this they were actively aided and abetted by local KDF commanders who were all too keen to head off that universal scourge of deployed armies, the mischief of enlisted men with too much spare time. Static dwellings, irrigation works, Tee-al shelters and granaries began to proliferate throughout the Confederation's communities, as did upgrades of existing byways from hoof-churned horse tracks to roads of packed and graded soil suitable for light wheeled conveyances. This allowed a number of Kalgachi traders to arrive and market their wares from horse-drawn wagons or wood-gas trucks, the prevailing mode of entrepreneurship in their native mountains where private land ownership was forbidden.

The leaders of the clan ''Džirgas'' which composed the Confederation were naturally pleased at this economic injection, not least due to the KDF tolerating their 'taxation' of visiting traders in the Laqi fashion as a positive expression of cultural vibrancy and societal renewal. Through Ataman Ҳazedinov, they now petitioned Kalgachia's ruling Council of Perfecti to advance their Confederation to the same state of protection and esteem enjoyed by [[Lepidopterum]], [[Northbloom]] and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]], making the present arrangement permanent whilst maintaining an autonomous distance from the nannying rhizomes of Kalgachi central government who might demand their own cut of the proceeds.

Protectorate status for the Confederation, being internationally recognised as something of a ''fait accompli'' since the KDF moved in, was duly declared by the Council of Perfecti with two conditions: the first was that the Confederation's prohibition of entry to [[Deep Singers]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] be restricted to that battle-scarred portion adjoining the Gubernatorials' domain of [[Siyacha Free State|Siyacha]], maintaining the modified races' seperation from the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]] whilst allowing them to travel in areas near the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|Inner Benacian Neutral Zone]]. The second condition was that most of the Confederation's territory adjoining Kalgachia proper be transferred to the Deep Singer administered protectorate of Lepidopterum, ostensibly to reduce the Confederation's administrative burden and recognise the demographic shift which had occurred since colonies of Deep Singers and Nezeni alike had begun to resettle the area.

Whilst not especially welcomed by the ''Džirgas'', the conditions were accepted after persuasion, monetary gratuities and gentle threats from Ataman Ҳazedinov; the extent to which this favour suggested a strengthened Deep Singer hand in the bowels of Kalgachi state, pursuing an incremental [[Kalgachia#Sixism|Sixist]] agenda for the reconquest of their erstwhile Minarborian home, did not pass without remark.

==The Third Extraordinary Grand Council (226 AL)==

By 226 AL the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|DLEP]] was reporting a general contentment at the pluralisation of Kalgachia's foreign trade activity; the mood prevailing within its operational bureaux was one of optimism and even wry amusement at the enthusiasm with which the [[Iron Company]] had fulfilled its contract to build a railway linking Kalgachia to the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|Stonetree Neutral Zone]]. Now, along that same railway, commodities were being poured into Kalgachia from [[Eura]] via [[Kerularios & Company|shipping entities]] which were [[ESB Group|entirely independent]] of the Iron Company and showed no hesitation in prising apart the latter's previous monopoly on goods movement across Kalgachi borders.

However the DLEP's vision of a balanced, self-correcting trade infrastructure divided equally between [[Batavia]] and the [[UGB|Unified Governorates]] was proven to be somewhat naive by the [[Loss of Nakalma Flight 731|loss of Nakalma flight 731]] over the Great Western Sea as it flew from [[Batavia]] to the [[Verionian Empire]]. Aboard the aircraft, along with members of the House of Verion and senior Iron Company figures, were none other than the Batavian Prime Minister [[Joachim Mackay]] and the [[Los Liberados|Liberadosan]] president [[Jacobo Castrigo Álvarez]] who also served as Batavian foreign minister; it was upon these two individuals that Kalgachia had relied for the expeditious transit of goods through the [[Batavian Confederation]] without obstruction or molestation by those whose sympathies leant nearer to the court of the Batavian king and his habit, seemingly contracted from associates in [[Stormark]], of meticulously enforcing regulatory small print ''et pereat mundus''.

As the post-Verion power vacuum [[Verionist Vespers|was filled]] in neighbouring states, such influential organs as the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|church]] and the [[Military of Kalgachia|armed forces]] began to emit rumbles of discontent that the direction of events, far from assuring the balance in foreign trade risk promised by the DLEP, now suggested an overswing of the pendulum which would merely substitute dependence on Batavia for dependence on the Unified Governorates. All achievements of the post-[[Slavegate Convention|Slavegate]] détente considered, they still competed against a history of [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] malevolence toward the Kalgachi people dating back to the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] era and the notion of a Gubernatorial veto on Kalgachia's off-continent links, exercised in concert with that of Batavia, was compared by officials of Kalgachi security organs to the dark days of the early 200s when [[Shireroth]] had threatened to do similarly. That occasion had compelled none other than the Chairman of the Council of Perfecti to address the Kalgachi people by radio and implore them to prepare for their homeland's enforced isolation; now that the protection of the Verions was gone and Kalgachia's trade security was returned to the whimsical hands of geopolitical developments largely beyond its control, calls for similar leadership began to percolate through the senior strata of government.

Meanwhile other matters were coming to a head. A collective malaise was afflicting the [[Deep Singers]] of [[Lepidopterum]] who struggled with the [[Tales from Kalgachia - 42|physical and psychological scars]] of their sub-surface battle with the Crystal Death whilst their aspirations to reclaim their Minarborian-era social supremacy in Kalgachia had been gently rebuffed by the government, citing in roundabout terms that their previous authority had been progressively forfeited by the megalomania of [[Kalgachia#Sixism|Doron Se]] and his surviving acolytes, the proliferation of the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]], the creation of the Crystal Death and countless other manifestations of biomic overreach. In Kalgachia's high central mountains, reports emerged that [[Lord Toastypops]] had found insufficient jollity levels to keep him fully animated and that he had retired to bed. Across Kalgachia, the tolerated cult of Vascarina Goldcluck - a [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|late Minarborian-era necromantic anomaly]] whose [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|folk apotheosis]] was not fully recognised by the church - had largely given up on their demands for canonisation and were coalescing into a parallel movement whose rhizomatic leadership and well-attended meetings were beginning to compete with the church for spiritual authority.

Sensing that the amount of national issues insurmountable by the usual managerial mechanisms had reached a critical mass, the Council of Perfecti convened Kalgachia's third Extraordinary Grand Council - a conclave of themselves, the Lords Lieutenant, the Holy Synod of the Church, the General Staff of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|KDF]] and the Lords Protector. Unlike the first two Councils, the third was held in a public venue - the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in the Kalgachi capital of Oktavyan - where despite the closed nature of the proceedings, the arrival of all participants except the Perfecti was televised. Of the stream of uniformed and robed personages scurrying from their limousines into the cathedral only the Lady Lieutenant of Oktavyan, [[House of Yastreb#Rubina Yastreb|Rubina Yastreb]], stopped to engage with reporters; she evaded questions about the web of archonic entaglements spun by the foreign financial dealings of her son [[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer]] and instead stated that "''we have a lot to get through. Our deliberations will be long and their results will be incrementally applied. One cannot hurry a Garden. No, this is not a national emergency... failure to hold this council would eventually entail a national emergency, which is why we are holding it now. National emergencies are for other countries. Some countries have nothing but national emergencies. But this is Kalgachia.''"

==Resources==
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 220s|Orders of Council made in this decade]]

==References==

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Kalgachia

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|fullname = Garden of Kalgachia
|commonname = Kalgachia
|flag = File:Kalgachiaflag.png
|coa = File:Kalgachiaseal.png
|motto = ''Hortus Manet'' (''The Garden Remains'')
|anthem = ''[[National Anthem of Kalgachia|Kalgachia, Our Gratitude to You]]''
|map = File:Kalgachiamap224.png
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|capital = Oktavyan
|largecity = Abrek, Katarsis, Jollity, Schlepogora, Bergburg, Lithead
|lang = [[wikipedia:English language|Common Tongue]] (''official'') [[Ashkenatza|Benacian Yiddish]] [[Laqi]] [[Deep Singers|Nezeni]]
|religion = [[Ketherism]]
|demnoun = Kalgachi
|demadj = Kalgachi
|govtype = Cryptocratic Hierchthony
|headofstatetitle = Executive
|headofstate = Council of Perfecti
|headofgovernmenttitle = Chairman
|headofgovernment = Falcifer X. Yastreb
|legislature = Council of Perfecti, Lord Lieutenants' Council
|estdate = 143 ''Anno Libertatis'' (1649 AN; June 7th 2017)
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|area = ~720,000 sq.km
|arearank = -
|pop = '''19,215,000:''' 18,500,000 in Kalgachia proper 255,000 in the [[Upland Confederation]] 242,000 in [[Northbloom]] 130,000 in [[Lepidopterum]] 88,000 in [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]]
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|timezone = CMT -10
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|animal = ''Capra Benacianus'' (Benacian ibex) ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' (Tee-al) 
|food = Mutton Roast Goat Cheese Bliny
|drink = Stalemate Gin Schlepogorskaya Vodka
|tree = ''Juniperus Litovinus'' (Litovine juniper)
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<div align=center>''For more about Kalgachia, check out the [[:Category:Kalgachia|Kalgachia Category]] - If you're just here for the literature, check out [[Tales from Kalgachia]].''</div>
 
 
The '''Garden of Kalgachia''' is a territory located in the western interior of [[Benacia]]. It was established by refugees from the collapse of surrounding [[Minarboria]] and practices an evolution of that empire's belief system known as [[Ketherism]]. Historical processes before and during Kalgachia's emergence have made it into a multi-ethnic state whose combination of peoples, by gradual state-incentivised interbreeding, are slowly blending into a distinct Kalgachi population.

Kalgachia is one of [[Micras]]' few landlocked nations, occupying the entirety of the Octavian mountain range and administering a number of adjoining protectorates. The harsh topography of the country - along with a comprehensively-developed government and civil society - have assured its survival as a sovereign state through the [[Benacian Reconquest|post-Minarborian anarchy]], a succession of belligerent [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] governments and the continental tumult associated with the [[Kalirion Fracture]]. Kalgachia's relative insulation from the latter, owed to its early severance from Shirerithian power structures and the background status imposed by its geography within Micras' overly-thalassocratic geopolitical scene, places it among the better-established Benacian states in terms of regime continuity and has allowed it to cultivate an expansive, multifaceted and layered society with minimal degradation by domestic political upheavals. Building upon the foundation of religious unity and civilisational identity established by the Minarborians, Kalgachi authorities in more recent times have sought to advance the nation's economic resilience and national living standard when conditions beyond its frontiers allow - this is pursued through a 'flywheel policy' of frenzied spurts of foreign trade and internal development during times of continental stability, in order to weather out the periodic disruption of Kalgachia's foreign interests by neighbouring states as they are afflicted by bouts of collapse and/or rabid aggression.

This selective isolationism is further informed by the philosophical inheritances of the Minarborian era; namely the [[Ketherism|Ketherist faith]], the '[[House of Rossheim|Rossheim]] Doctrine' of unabashed self-interest and a [[Temporal Secessionism|temporal-secessionist]] emphasis on the memetic immune function, bound together and vindicated in the eyes of its proponents by long and ongoing historical experience. Such traditions have led Kalgachia's societal elite to consider themselves not only a nation state but an entirely seperate civilisational space, its creed of gentle cultivation standing at odds with the idolised and normalised state of interminable conflict which has been the prevailing force in [[Micras|Micran]] affairs since distant antiquity.

==Geography and Climate==

===Topography===

Kalgachia's topography is predominantly mountainous, this relief being most pronounced around Mount Octavian and its surrounding peaks which are untraversable without climbing equipment and remain frozen throughout the year. A similar but smaller area exists in Kalgachia's northwest which is capped by the country's second-highest mountain, the Splatterhorn. Between these summits run a series of steep ridges which form Kalgachia's central spine, following a rough east-west course whose western reaches are frequently broken or twisted by their position on a corner of the Central Benacian Subduction Boundary. This area has a moderate level of seismic activity, with regular recorded tremors and a profusion of geothermal springs whose heat energy is widely exploited for the generation of electrical power. From its central heights, Kalgachia's landscape becomes steadily less steep and less high towards the national frontier although this trend is occasionally broken by localised sub-ranges and ancient volcanic plugs, especially in the east. Elsewhere, domed summits and deep valleys predominate along with short escarpments and gorges.

===Weather===

Being at the boundary of two continental weather systems, Kalgachia's climate is violently variable. During the summer it is dominated by temperate, maritime weather originating from the southern shores of the Cosimo Sea which invariably cause heavy rainfall to the south of Kalgachia's central heights and a more pleasantly dry mildness in the north, although the latter's region's [[wikipedia:Rain shadow|rain shadow]] effect has a deleterious effect on agricultural yields and compels a strict adherence to dryland farming methods.

During the winter months the Cosimo weather system retreats toward the Micran equator, drawing into its place a bone-chilling arctic cold from the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] tundra and coating Kalgachia in varying depths of snow. The blocking presence of the Kalgachi highlands moderates the worst of this icy blast in the Kalgachi south, extending both ends of that region's growing season by months in comparison with the frozen north.

The rivers of Kalgachia are highly variable in flow rate according to season - this cyclical transition between feeble trickle and raging rapids makes them practically unnavigable to boats and freshwater fish alike, although some lowland stretches will permit passage by sufficiently-skilled canoeists.

===Biomic Engineering===

Due to its rough topography, difficult climate and provincial isolation from the various powers which have nominally governed it throughout history, Kalgachia's flora was originally limited to patches of coniferous lowland forest and wind-stunted scrub - the most famous of the latter being Kalgachia's official plant, the juniper - but the biomic legacy of the [[Deep Singers]] of Minarboria, along with subsequent initiatives by the Kalgachi government, have had a transformative effect upon Kalgachia's south, its frontier regions and its river valleys. The Kalgachi southwest, being a stronghold of the Deep Singers and their descendant genotypes, has been cultivated in the fashion of a 'forest garden' since the Minarborian era - in this region, generations of folk knowledge have created a patchwork of timber forest mixed with species bearing fruit, nuts and other wild edibles, all selected for sufficient hardiness to survive the Kalgachi winter and yield food and material from terrain previously considered barren.

Although cultural and climatic conditions in the rest of Kalgachia prevent a wholesale adoption of southwestern agricultural practices, the lower stretches of rivers nationwide are lined with irrigated and intensively-worked arable land, overlooked by highland scrub which is grazed by hardy sheep and goats. The imperative of feeding Kalgachia's population of over eighteen million people with severely limited reserves of farmland has caused every possible scrap of tillable soil and pasture to be exploited to its fullest potential.

The patchy forest of Kalgachia's frontier regions has been linked into a single belt by a government forestry programme, for the dual purpose of increasing the national timber reserves and providing shelter for refugees and resistance fighters in wartime. Following the example and advice of Kalgchia's southwestern agriculturalists, care has been taken to maintain diversity between tree species for resistance to disease, pestilence and/or hostile deployment of chemical defoliants. The very edge of this immense forest belt, upon the national frontier itself, is lined with 'predatory flora' of genetically-engineered Deep Singer origin (most notoriously the Dreadnettle, Sharpshooter Primrose and Shrapnel Lily) which is maintained and contained by Kalgachi border guards. As part of this 'biomic minefield', sections of the Kalgachi frontier are also designated reserves for hazardous engineered fauna, most notably the feared ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]''. These zones have been maintained even since portions of territory beyond the frontier became Kalgachi protectorates.

==Origins==
[[File:Earlykalgachia1.png|thumb|right|250px|The apparent miracle of Kalgachia's emergence as a state can be attributed to the right people in the right place at the right time, with the right attitude.]]
''For a much fuller account, see the [[History of Kalgachia]].''

The Kalgachi state emerged from the ruins of Minarboria by the confluence of five fortuitous factors:
* The general concentration of Minarboria's post-collapse refugee flows toward the Octavian highlands to escape the depredations of bandits and [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-als]];
* The inclusion of critically-skilled bureaucrats, scientists and engineers from [[Sansabury]] and [[&zeter]] within those refugee flows;
* The sense of civilisational responsibility assumed by late-Minarborian church clergy in the absence of their collapsed government, preserving a modicum of social cohesion and assuring the continuity of ''[[Deep Singers|the Garden]]'' as the prevailing moral reference;
* The initiative and coordination of these authoritative remnants in recruiting, ideologically motivating and securing payment for emergent (predominantly Laqi) warbands to defend them rather than plunder them;
* The relative inertia of surrounding powers in exploiting the regional governance vacuum for their own territorial and ideological gain.

The initial proclamation of the state called Kalgachia <ref>A name allegedly chosen by an official who had recently fled from the Faculty of Benacian Classics at the University of [[&zeter]], in homage to an [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/readings/agricola.html obscure tribal chieftain] from pre-Shirerithian [[Goldshire]].</ref> covered little more than the most inaccessible spine of the Octavian mountain range, a barren and blasted place where human habitation was only possible by hewing underground homes into the local granite. It became rapidly clear, however, that the throng of incoming refugees was outgrowing the marginal agricultural carrying capacity of the territory and outpacing the ability of their hosts to construct underground habitations for them. The fitter segment of this shuffling horde - rather smaller than might be assumed after the perils and privations of their journey - were duly armed and directed to establish a new border incorporating the entirety of the Octavian mountain range whose lower hill country permitted the grazing of animals and crop cultivation irrigated by meltwater streams, along with a coniferous timber reserve for the construction of surface dwellings. From this verdant fringe came the ability to both sustain those who dwelt upon it, and to accumulate surpluses for the sustenance of the more mountainous Kalgachi hinterland. This dynamic established, the material foundation for the survival of the Kalgachi nation was assured.

==Religion==
[[File:Kalgachiuniverse.png|thumb|left|275px|The universe according to the Church of Kalgachia.]]
''For more, see [[Ketherism]]''.

Kalgachia's belief system, Ketherism, began as an agglomeration of those eremitic and monastic sects which had been tolerated with disdain by the Minarborian church, but whose teachings gained new popularity in the wake of that church's collapse. Indeed the conditions of the time all but demanded that the early Kalgachi organise themselves in a monastic fashion, attending to their own needs in small fortified groups and enduring an ascetic existence before any thoughts of the wider Garden could be considered. In time however, these monasteries - and the churches built in subjection to them - were networked together by the new sub-surface elite and went on to form the basis for Kalgachia's rhizomic government.

The Ketherist belief system is not so much based on new revelation, as on several long-running undercurrents of Minarborealist belief that bubbled to the surface of the popular consciousness once the old church was no longer around to suppress them. While the Ketherists retain the old [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] conception of one's own homeland and social structure as a 'Garden' to be 'cultivated' in a horticulurally-minded and holistic manner, its purpose has been somewhat revised. No longer is it the goal of the faithful to expand the Garden across the physical world - such horticultural absolutism is considered a misdirection of effort in an inherently corrupted material realm and a dangerous folly which grew the Empire of Minarboria beyond its telluric carrying capacity and brought it to a tragically premature end. Instead, hold the Ketherists, one's life in the material world must be devoted to 'keeping a good Garden' for one's immediate kin and countrymen, with any expansion of the faith being little more than a product of one's shining example, unforced by proselytisation or territorial conquest and ultimately irrelevant to the salvation of the faithful - such salvation only being possible through one's personal enterprise and agency in discovering, appreciating and converting to the faith independently of outside pressures.

The Ketherist conception of the physical universe is that of a fouled and tainted precipitate, the fulminatory contact point resulting from an invasion of the Garden Ketheric - an immaterial plane of pure harmonic symbiosis (but not necessarily order) whence all human souls originate and yearn for reconciliation - by the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption, an alien and predatory morass which draws its energy from the generation of pain and suffering and must continually bloat outwards to avoid cannibalising itself. Each realm has its agents, which manifest themselves in varying forms and degrees of potency in the physical universe created by their contact. The furious war between these agents has progressed to the point that those from the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption whose chief weapons are fear, cynicism, avarice and anger in the hearts of humanity, have come to prevail in the heavens - whereas those from the Garden Ketheric who imbue the faithful with jollity, wisdom, charity, beauty and calm fortitude, are strongest in the cores of the densest physical bodies such as stars and planets. This goes some way to explaining the popularity of underground habitation in Kalgachia which, all defensive necessity aside, is considered the most proximate to the Garden Ketheric. This orientation of spiritual polarity has presented difficulties with Kalgachia's constituent languages which present the superior, the exalted, the lofty, the ascendant and indeed the very name of Ketherism itself as contradictory to their origins in the virtuous depths - this being considered one of the most corrupting and insidious deceptions yet wrought upon humanity from the Wastes of Irredeemable Corruption. Efforts to avoid or substitute offending terms in the Kalgachi vernacular have gained popularity within some halls of church and state through an engineered dialect known as ''K-Prime'' in which, for example, a statement such as "''my superiors at KDF High Command are at the top of the operational hierarchy''" would be articulated as "''my seniors at KDF Deep Command are at the root of the operational hierchthony''" (although in other offices such language is mocked as the buzzword-laden dross of careerist sycophants).

Ketherism does not hold absolute import in the existence of gods, although the most powerful agents of the Garden Ketheric are freely recognised as deities of a sort. The most divine being to exist is considered to be the Shrub-God Minarbor, from whom the Empire of Minarboria was named - but unlike the Minarborians who considered Him to be Shrub-God before all, the Church of Kalgachia proclaims the possibility of Minarbor's divinity being equalled or surpassed by some other being in the future. Posthuman authority figures of Minarborian history such as the [[House of Rossheim|Empress Lyssansa]], [[Deep Singers|Fleurette the Thoughtseeker]] and [[Lord Toastypops]] also enjoy quasi-divine status in Ketherism through their appellation as 'Salvators'.

==Government==
[[File:Falciferportrait.png|thumb|left|250px|Falcifer Yastreb is believed to be the present Chairman of the Council of Perfecti, making him ''de facto'' Kalgachi head of state.]]

''For a tabulated guide to Kalgachi bureaucracy, see the [[Chthonarchotrix]].''

===Central Governance===
Supreme power in Kalgachia is vested in the Council of Perfecti, a body of nine individuals who reside deep underground for the ostensible purpose of maintaining a meditative state insulated from the petty distractions of the surface world. Persistent rumours and legends exist of individual Perfecti visiting the surface in disguise, to obtain first-hand experience of the nation's condition and circumvent overly sycophantic, pessimistic or otherwise agenda-driven presentations of the situation by the Kalgachi bureaucracy on whom they officially rely for information. Whether this is a genuine phenomenon or merely a rumour spread to keep the national bureaucracy in line is unknown.

The membership of the Council of Perfecti is thought to change over time. The identities of serving Perfecti are never disclosed officially although some occupants of the Council have been deduced beyond reasonable doubt by astute observers - the sudden and premature disappearance of noted senior officials from public life without an official explanation is generally accepted as a sign of either their liquidation for some unexpected infraction, or their appointment to the Council.

Each of the Perfecti holds a ministerial brief, exercised through the following institutions:

====The Troglodyti====
The Troglodyti are an occult order descended from the University of [[&zeter]] Arcane Society, a student coven of the Minarborian era. Their intiates, known as Troglodytes or 'Trogs' in informal discourse, tend to operate hidden in the plain sight of normal Kalgachi life with a small elite of deep adepts dwelling permanently underground. According to the supreme law of Kalgachia, the [[Oktavyan Code]], the official brief of the Troglodyti is "the esoteric salvation of the Kalgachi people" although how they go about this task is not well understood beyond their inner membership; notably they appear not to recognise a boundary between materialist science and arcane working, freely straddling the two disciplines in the manner of their alchemist forebears.

Although the Troglodyti are thought to lack a leadership in the commonly-understood sense, the inevitable deference of initiates toward their more learned adepts favours those who administer [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]] - a small, autonomous and Troglodyte-run protectorate of Kalgachia located deep in the lower lithosphere. Over time this has blurred the roles of protectorate administrator and master hierophant to the extent that such individuals enjoy ''de facto'' control of the Troglodyti on both a technocratic and thaumaturgical level.

It is rumoured that the order is divided into two factions, the 'Chaotes' and the 'Grimoirists', each grudgingly tolerating the other's presence to fill holes in their own practice. The Chaotes are noted for their proficiency in back-engineering and experimenting with arcane workings from every known esoteric tradition on Micras - including those originating from avowed enemies of Ketherism and the Kalgachi people - whilst the Grimoirists are quietly respected for their dogged persistence in collating the resulting scraps of workable practice into a corpus of uniquely Kalgachi arcana upon the alchemical-energetic foundation originally laid by the Minarborians.

====The Church of Kalgachia====

[[File:Ketheristposter.png|thumb|right|300px|While accused of promoting a "[[Ketherism|politically-inspired pseudo-religion]]" by [[Kasterburg|some]], the Church of Kalgachia has learned to embrace its status as the nation's ideological vanguard.]]

''For more about Kalgachi religion, see [[Ketherism]].''

The Church of Kalgachia is the official state church and the most powerful public influence on Kalgachi society, tasked with maintaining Kalgachia's spiritual rigour through a wide network of monasteries and their subject churches. The institutions also serve as nodes of provincial government in which the Church wields immense power, although this more secular work is delegated to a cadre of dedicated officials. This fusion of the spiritual and municipal is a legacy of the belated effort to prevent the collapse of Minarboria, wherein the clergy as natural founts of authority were envisaged as auxiliary government officials in the event of central government collapse - it has been argued that the system's survival into Kalgachia represents the successful implementation of Minarboria's government continuity protocols in geographically-limited form, although the theological evolution of [[Minarboria#Religion|Minarborealism]] into Ketherism suggests that any notion of a return to the soft imperialism of Minarboria's ruling State Arbors has been quietly abandoned.

The Church of Kalgachia is also tasked with the training and arming of [[Military of Kalgachia#Church Partisans|partisans from their congregation]] as a precaution against armed invasion. In peacetime these partisans, numbering around 3.7 million, effectively constitute the Church's paramilitary wing. The Church's moral clout, administrative power and armed strength empowers it to act as a police force and judiciary on a local level. In addition the Church's near-monopoly on land ownership has allowed it to dominate the [[Economy of Kalgachia|Kalgachi economy]] through the stipulation that all businesses wishing to acquire dedicated premises must submit to Church ownership before land is made available to them. In this manner the Church seeks to systematically and directly restrain the zero-sum predationism inherent to the capitalistic worldview and the 'pecuniary archon' which instils it in the hearts of the innocent. Regular exposés of 'financial irregularities' by specific Church clergy in the national news media, complete with lurid accounts their visits to the casinos and bordellos of Kalgachia's upscale ski resorts, suggests that the ground-level implementation of this regulatory aspect has not been entriely successful.

The Church professes to keep its immense power in check by retaining many aspects of the old Minarborian liturgy and doctrine - for those within and without the institution it emphasises jollity, politeness and patience as the chief weapons against the archonic cynicism which rages beyond Kalgachia's borders.

====The Kalgachi Defence Force====

''For more, see the [[Military of Kalgachia]]''.

The Kalgachi Defence Force (KDF) are Kalgachia's professional military, born from the personnel and military production capacity recovered from the collapse of Minarboria. KDF doctrine is heavily task-optimised to the defence of Kalgachi territory against invasion by larger developed powers, along with the containment of rogue biota such as ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]''. The prevalence of gravimetric vehicles and full-spectrum surveillance assets around Benacia is perceived to have completely removed the defensive advantage of Kalgachia's mountain topography, requiring new solutions for national defence such as the location of all military infrastructure underground, a heavily dispersed command and logistics structure, the mass production and company-level deployment of hypersonic kinetic weaponry, the aggressive maintenance of an real-time intelligence picture, precautions against electromagnetic and infrared emission which freely extend into the obsessive, and the multilayered cryptographic scrambling of communication data and active sensor signals.

It is anticipated that in wartime, the entire surface layer of Kalgachia's [[wikipedia:Command and control|C2]] web will be wiped out by targeted strikes from a large and technologically-advanced adversary, requiring its delivery in a purely preparatory form in peacetime - most critically in the period of political tension preceding the outbreak of hostilities - so that field units, autonomous by necessity, can perform as effectively as possible during the actual fighting. As a result the role of the KDF junior officer is notoriously demanding, requiring an immensely detailed knowledge of Kalgachi geography and social composition, the weapons and tactics of Kalgachia's military adversaries and countermeasures against them, coordination with friendly units through Bayesian inference without direct communication or command coordination, unit-level sensor conealment both static and mobile, re-infiltration of enemy occupation zones, swarming to contact, dispersal from contact, and the necessary fieldcraft to weather out long periods of concealed isolation. Due to its complexity, time spent by officer graduates in this role is relatively long while subsequent promotions are relatively fast.

The KDF's technological composition is jarringly dissonant - while most of its units are reliant upon pack horses to negotiate Kalgachia's mountainous terrain and relative sparsity of roads (which in any event would be deathtraps in wartime), its inheritance of Minarborian rocket and electronic warfare technology allows it to field a first-rank air defence and theatre ballistic missile capability - although, as concluded by the KDF's Minarborian forebears, fast air assets are considered insufficiently survivable in wartime to be worth any great investment. Mobile firepower and transport is provided mainly by [[Whirdlebirb]] helicopters which move among the radar clutter of Kalgachia's deep valleys in lieu of mechanised ground units, the latter being considered unsuited to mountain warfare in a hydrocarbon-poor environment and almost entirely absent from the KDF as a consequence.
[[File:Kalgachipassport.png|thumb|left|300px|A Kalgachi passport.]]

====The Prefects====
[[File:Prefectdoc.png|thumb|right|250px|Maintaining the cohesion of Kalgachia's many ethnic groups is an important part of the Prefects' work.]]
The Prefects (not to be confused with the Perfecti) are Kalgachia's internal security service tasked with immigration and customs, counterintelligence, anti-corruption operations, organised crime investigation and the ultimate enforcement of the [[Oktavyan Code]] whose provisions they enjoy almost unlimited power to interpret. With the exception of their uniformed [[Military of Kalgachia#The Prefects' Border Guard Service|Border Guard Service]], the Prefects tend to work out of the public eye and because Due Process does not exist in Kalgachia on a national level, their entire chain of operation from initial investigation to corrective action (which they are fully remitted to take without judicial oversight) is similarly hidden. Their culture of occlusion in this regard presents, in theory at least, a natural limit to the extent of their operations.

The simple and sudden disappearance of those perceived to be a national security risk, after a period of intensive covert surveillance and investigation, is the most notorious ''modus operandi'' of the Prefects. Contrary to popular belief, the organisation frowns upon the gratuitous rough-handling or torture of detainees as an unwarranted act of flattery toward the miscreant and an indulgence of archonic forces which ultimately derive equal sustenance and pleasure from all human suffering, whether it be that of servants or enemies. Instead the Prefects pride themselves upon silence and unceremonious efficiency in the removal of troublesome elements where possible - individuals too publically prominent to be removed covertly are denigrated with hit pieces planted in the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]] - usually drawing from a 'control file' full of compromising material which is gathered on every public figure in Kalgachia regardless of their loyalty to the state - until their reputation is sufficiently destroyed that they can be 'disappeared' without public consternation. Sufficiently savvy members of the Kalgachi élite who fall from grace in this way will often elect to foreshorten the inevitable conclusion of this process by committing suicide (the level of surveillance directed at them by that point generally precludes their escape from the country).

The Prefects are also rumoured to be heavily involved in manipulating clan disputes among the restive Laqi provinces of Kalgachia's east - a region where the autonomy of armed parish partisan units is [[Tales from Kalgachia - 17|often abused]] to pursue ancient grievances against neighbouring parishes, and occasionally against the Kalgachi government itself. The Prefects' exploitation of the former phenomenon to eliminate the latter has been described as a fine art; any aspiring warlord who makes the mistake of declaring against Kalgachia's central government invariably finds his parish assailed by a horde of well-paid and ideologically frenzied neighbours, selected for their pre-existing grievances against the traitor and armed with all manner of weapons from the humble pickaxe handle to military issue anti-tank weapons and flamethrowers. Rumours exist of entire parishes being wiped from the map by this method, presented by the media as a mere 'tribal disagreement' if reported at all.

====The Directorate of Public Works====
The Directorate of Public Works (DPW) is responsible for Kalgachia's civil infrastructure, much of which is located entirely underground beneath thick mountain granite. As a result the DPW have come to specialise in tunnel boring, ventilation and geothermal power. The Directorate is fully remitted to maintain and operate its more vital creations such as the electrical power grid, transport network, postal service and telephone system.

In the first four dacades of Kalgachia's history the DPW operated in a constant state of marginal overstretch, being committed to a hideously resource-intensive capital construction project of some kind - namely:

*Deep-level central governance and military command rhizomes (145-147 AL)
*Deep-level factory spaces for strategic industries. (147-150 AL)
*Three underground railways linking the cities of Katarsis, Jollity and Bergburg in a triangle (150-154 AL)
*A constellation of mountain fortresses for the Kalgachi Defence Force (154-166 AL)
*Mid-lithosphere excavations and infrastructure installation in support of [[Project Newrad]] (beginning 166 AL)
*A constellation of 60 medium-range ballistic missile bases for the Kalgachi Defence Force (170-188 AL)
*An ill-fated railway linking [[Kasterburg]] with [[Transbataafsche Vrystaat|Transbatavia]] (183-186 AL)
*A railway linking Katarsis to Fort Ermingander, [[Northbloom]] (200 AL)

In more recent times the priorities of the Directorate have pivoted to the enhancement of its existing assets, leading to a gradual improvement in such metrics as telephone service coverage and train punctuality. Some capital projects in the meantime have been contracted out to [[Iron Company|foreign entities]], such as the expansion of [[Gravelbottom Airport]] in 193 AL and the construction of the Tealsburrow Railway in 222 AL.

====The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning====

''For more, see the [[Economy of Kalgachia]]''.

The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning (DLEP) played a critical role in Kalgachia's early history, organising an influx of migrants and goods caravans into a coherent labour force and manufacturing complex which established the rudiments of a social safety net and spared those early settlers from a premature death by starvation or exposure. The DLEP's modern-day brief states that the very notion of unconditional loyalty is degenerate archonic poison, and that no Kalgachi can be expected to stand in the defence of their state unless it can maintain proof of its material and moral merits in the eyes of the citizen beholder (an imperative made more pointed by the fact that the Church, in its alleged wisdom, has seen fit to instruct a full quarter of the Kalgachi population in the art of guerilla warfare and insurrection). This translates to a requirement to ensure a standard of living at or above the Benacian average, priority being given to the less ideologically-anchored segments of the population. In practice this has resulted in a profusion of obese Laqi 'partisan commanders' cruising the streets of Schlepogora in imported Roller's Choice limousines whilst green-skinned and threadbare grandmothers in the forests of Lithead are reduced to subsistence foraging, nonetheless grateful to their homeland for being only state in Benacia which reliably refrains from slaughtering their Nezeni people.

The DLEP maintains a standing Labour Corps to assist other organs of state in special projects or emergency relief efforts. The Labour Corps is commonly seen as the last-ditch employment option in Kalgachia, with much of its membership being composed of small-time criminals supplied under sentence from the Church of Kalgachia's innumerable Parish tribunals. Wayward labourers do however have the oppurtunity to advance themselves into the Corps' cadre of skilled labourers and foremen, whose trades are marginally more respectable and afford them the skills to provide their services privately after leaving the Corps.

The DLEP also operates a large swathe of Kalgachia's industrial and financial sector as [[Economiy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|unitary enterprises]]; most critically the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia and a majority stake in the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]], the latter allowing the Directorate to augment - and in places completely supplant - the activities of Kalgachia's diplomatic corps.

====The Directorate of Education and Outreach====
''For more, see the [[Media of Kalgachia]]''.

The Directorate of Education and Outreach (DEO) oversees Kalgachia's education system, cultural initiatives, research and development capability, statistics collection and mass media. Freedom of thought is encouraged within the DEO, although its services to the general population are coordinated with other organs of state to keep its output 'on message'. The DEO is second only to the Church of Kalgachia in preserving within its organisational culture the nannying paternalism which characterised the government of Minarboria - the Directorate motto, "''Your Gnosis Is Our Business''" promotes across Kalgachi schools and media organs the creed that the knowledge of the Kalgachi teacher or journalist is beyond question, second only to work of the ordained clergy in their righteous quest to inform, enlighten and entertain.

The DEO was involved in the global cinemetic renaissance which inexplicably exploded across Micras in the year {{Tooltip|171 AL|mid-March 2018}}, responding to the works of [[Cinema of Caputia|Caputia]], [[Cinema of Kasterburg|Kasterburg]], [[Cinema of Nova England|Nova England]], the [[Cinema of the Florian Republic|the Florian Republic]] and [[Shirerithian cinematography|Shireroth]] by pumping resources into Kalgachia's own [[Media of Kalgachia#Film|modest film industry]].

The DEO is also responsible for running the children's camp known as the [[Urchagin]] and the [[Media of Kalgachia#The GAHDN|GAHDN]] data-sharing network.

====The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare====
[[File:Ksanatorium.png|thumb|left|250px|Once the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] seat of the [[House of Yastreb|Yastrebs]], Karymovka Sanatorium is the DHPW's flagship convalescent facility.]]
The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare (DHPW) is responsible for its Kalgachia's healthcare provision and notably, the agriculture and food supply chain - this latter element being considered of existential rather than commercial importance due to Kalgachia's limited reserves of arable land and pasture. Along with the DLEP the hard pressed doctors, agronomists and dietitians of the DHPW did much to prevent Kalgachia's early migration flows from turning into a sewer of famine and disease.

Although much of the advanced bio-engineering capability enjoyed by Minarboria was lost after that empire's collapse, the DHPW have retained certain elements such as life-extending telomerase therapy and almost-limitless abilities in transfusion and transplantation, greatly assisted by medical schools in the [[Lepidopterum|Lepidopterum Protectorate]] whose [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] inhabitants are renowned for such expertise. Rumours of a DHPW facility maintaining live samples from Minarboria's advanced bio-weapons programme under the pretext of 'civilian research' have been consistently denied.

The DHPW's [[Sportive Development Bureau]] has grown from its origins in promoting physical fitness to become Kalgachia's national governing body for sport (with [[Arithmedarts|some exceptions]]). Along with the administration of the [[Octavian League]] the Bureau has met with particular success in coaching Kalgachi fencing teams - drawn as they are from a deep cultural well of Laqis, Kossars, and the university fencing clubs of Oktavyan and Bergburg who inherited their craft from the student ''Mensur'' fraternities of [[&zeter]].

Despite its extent, the budgetary burden incurred by the DHPW is partially offset by lucrative exports from Goodvial, its [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|subsidiary]] pharmaceutical enterprise.

====The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes====
The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes (DTW - named for the Ketherist conception of the lands beyond Kalgachia) is Kalgachia's most junior organ of state, concerned with foreign relations. Like its old Minarborian counterpart, the Third State Arbor, the DTW is essentially a purgatory for inexperienced or disgraced civil servants who are tasked with the unpleasant job of interacting with foreign powers as a form of initiation and/or penance. This also has the benefit of flushing out the less reliable bureaucrats by incentivising them to 'go native' in foreign climes long before they have been promoted to more sensitive positions in the Kalgachi state. Because of this, however, the ranks of the DTW enjoy a certain special cameraderie and a relative absence of bloated egos which allows its work to be carried out with a high degree of efficiency and informality.

The constituent organs of the DTW are notoriously opaque in their operations; the Directorate's diplomatic corps substantially overlaps with the [[Octavian Import-Export Corporation]] and its analytical branch, the Field Research Office, blends almost seamlessly into the KDF Military Intelligence Staff. Such involvement from deeper state organs and quasi-commercial entities is thought to be an expedient compensation for the DTW's relatively-poor talent pool.

[[File:Kalgachigovernance.png|thumb|right|300px|The hierarchy of Kalgachia's provincial governance, an inversion of the usual shape to reflect physical reality (authority comes from below).]]

The DTW's diplomatic style is marked by an informal brevity of discourse and a tendency to circumvent the customary diplomatic portals of foreign governments in favour of direct approaches to the political factions, commercial entities or other special interests involved in the matters Kalgachia wishes to negotiate. In this manner Kalgachia successfully handled the multiple, simultaneous and contradictory foreign policies put forward by [[Shireroth]]'s factionalised bureaucracy prior to the [[Kalirion Fracture]], established an active trade relationship with [[Batavia]] through the [[Iron Company]] long before the arrangement was codified in a bilateral treaty and interfaces with effectively the entire continent of [[Eura]] through [[ESB Euran Directorate|ESB]].

====Extraordinary Grand Councils====

During events important enough to require a re-examination of Kalgachia's strategic direction - usually of some religious significance - the Perfecti will sometimes convene an Extraordinary Grand Council (EGC) consisting of themselves, the Lords Lieutenant, the Resectors of the Church, the General Staff and the Lords Protector. EGCs are purely advisory bodies which remain within the Perfecti's absolute authority; their purpose is to obtain a faster and more coordinated pooling of the wider Kalgachi leadership than is possible through normal channels of communication.

During Kalgachia's history, three EGCs have been convened:

*In 187 AL to discuss the first reanimation of [[Lord Toastypops]] since Minarboria's demise (Lord Toastypops himself was present).
*In 210 AL to discuss the return of the [[Deep Singers]] to the surface at [[Lepidopterum]] (led by their progenitorial specimen, the ''Broodmother'') after their near-extinction at the hands of a mineral pathogen, in the context of the [[Black Legions]]' march toward Kalgachia's frontiers.
*In 226 AL to discuss the torpor of Lord Toastypops and the Broodmother in the context of Kalgachia's economic boom and [[Benacia]]'s congelation into two discernible spheres of influence following the [[Kalirion Fracture]].

===Provincial Governance===
The area of reponsibility between the Perfecti and the Church is delegated to the Lords Lieutenant, of which there is one for each of Kalgachia's seven Lieutenancies. The Lords Lieutenant, coordinating their work through the Lord Lieutenants' Council, are the most senior government officials to appear in public, often making speeches and announcing policy on behalf of the Perfecti. This alone gives them considerable powers to interpret and apply the Perfecti's will in their respective Lieutenancies, although in reality this power is limited by the double scrutiny of the Perfecti's own informants and that of the Church whose acquiescence is essential to implement policy on the ground.

The Lieutenancies of Kalgachia are divided into Marches, administered by the Church of Kalgachia from monasteries. These in turn are divided into Parishes, administered from churches. The Abbots of the Marches and Credents of the Parishes, through their subordinate Proctors, wield considerable power on a local level upto and including that of extrajudicial property seizure or summary execution, although consistently heavy-handed church clerics run the risk of their actions drawing the attention of the Church or the Prefects and backfiring catastrophically.

Kalgachia has four adjoining protectorates: [[Northbloom]] to the north, [[Lepidopterum]] to the southwest, the [[Upland Confederation]] to the south and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]] somewhere beneath the western mountains. Unlike the Lieutenancies, Kalgachia's protectorates are not considered integral parts of the Kalgachi nation and the protectorate administrations are devoted almost entirely to the provision of security and the sustenance of existing indigenous life.

===Domestic Policy===

In the administration of Kalgachia's internal affairs, the official line of the government might be interpreted thus:

''"It is the duty of the Kalgachi state - as mandated from the [[Ketherism|Garden Ketheric]] and confirmed by its wordly emissary, [[Lord Toastypops]] - to maintain for the Kalgachi people a state of perpetual jollity, by which they might fully and finally shake off the parasite of archonic influence and be redeemed from the face of this tainted world. It is the will of the Garden that every action and achievement of the state must be ultimately be directed toward this goal, insulated from all other motivations."''

Whereas the more technocratic position, expressed within the government itself, might be interpreted thus:

''"While coercion of an unwilling populace by force is fruitful in the short term, such a system is burdensome over a long period as compliance must forever be obtained independently of the popular will. The infusion of society with jollity through the betterment of their conditions entails a heavy investment at first, but requires less management over time as the popular will invariably aligns itself with the objectives of the state and instinctively acts in the service of those objectives even when the state is absent. The archonic states, led as they are by parasitic supranational elites, sustain their people at the minimum level required to prevent rebellion while appropriating the rest - we must sustain our people at a level which ensures their maximum possible devotion, for all segments of the Kalgachi population have been set by history toward a shared fate. In these conditions the exploitation of any single class endangers the integrity of all classes, much as a stress upon any single organ emperils the whole body."''

This close alignment of idealistic and cynical positions, sharing the imperative of jollity as they do, is arguably the energising force of Kalgachi governance - those who are indifferent to religious appeals can at least be made to recognise that all segments of Kalgachi society have an equal share of ''skin in the game'' and that any act of exploitation, parasitism or social antagonism, directed either way along the social hierchthony, will invariably backfire upon the offender.

The centrepiece of this policy is the interbreeding of Kalgachia's contituent population groups into a single uniquely Kalgachi ''ethnos'', incentivised by legally-mandated positive discrimination policies for such individuals and their parents. The policy has met with some opposition from the followers of Lepidopterum's '[[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Sixth Law]]' hardliners and from the Pesakhnik Dynasty of Bergburg, for whom the homogenisation of the Kalgachi genome threatens the cultivated bloodlines of the [[Deep Singers]] and the [[Ashkenatza|Tribe of Jacob]] respectively. Elsewhere the policy has been met with with lukewarm engagement by the Laqi of Kalgachia's east whilst the Lywallers of the northwest and a portion of the Nezeni population in Lithead are more enthusiastic; opinion among the Nezeni is split between the Lepidopterans' position that the mongrelisation of the Kalgachi peoples (including the very existence of the Nezeni) is a backward adulteration of the optimised Deep Singer genome, and those who celebrate the oppurtunity to spread some portion of that genome through the entire Kalgachi population.

===Foreign Policy===

Kalgachi foreign policy emphasises the sovereignty of national populations and rejects the intrusion of supranational power structures into global affairs - citing, in typically horticultural terms, the vulnerability of monocultures in failing to firewall the spread of cascading societal failures through the wider fabric of humanity. This has naturally set Kalgachia at odds with imperially-inclined powers - most notoriously [[Shireroth]] prior to the [[Kalirion Fracture]]. Kalgachia's anti-imperialist policy has also brought it into political and economic conflict with the [[Haifo-Pallisican Imperial Trade Union|Bassarid Empire]] although the more tellurocratic imperialism of the [[Jingdao|Jingdaoese]] on faraway [[Apollonia]] is sufficiently tolerable to permit continued relations from Kalgachia, building upon relations established by Minarboria during the [[Sheng Emperor|Sheng era]].

Kalgachia subscribes broadly to the Goltz Doctrine formulated by [[Ashkenatza]] and implemented during the [[Amokolian War]], which holds that all [[Benacia|Benacian]] territory should be ruled from Benacian capitals. The Kalgachi position, however, is distinct in making this objective conditional upon a state of continental multipolarity - while a constellation of exclusively Benacian powers is preferable, it is considered better for parts of Benacia to be ruled by off-continent powers than for all of Benacia to be ruled by a single Benacian power. The implementation of this policy, in the form of humanitarian aid to nearby [[Jingdao|Jingdaoese]]-controlled territories, almost brought Kalgachia into open warfare with Shireroth during the [[War of Lost Brothers]]; Kalgachia's commitment to the Goltz Doctine has been affirmed in more recent times by support for [[Batavia]], [[Kasterburg]], [[Tellia]] and a general contentment at the fragmentation arising from the [[Kalirion Fracture]].

In particular relationships with the [[Batavian Confederation]], and with [[Nova England]] further afield, are essential in converting Kalgachia's mined gold reserves and manufactured exports into a vast stockpile of raw materials imported from foreign markets.

The [[Republic of Inner Benacia]] and their ultimate conqueror, the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Unified Governorates]], are the only states to have been involved in armed conflict with Kalgachia; the former conflict was limited to the primate behaviour of Inner Benacian tribal leaders against the Kalgachi frontier and corresponding retaliation whilst the latter conflict - characterised by ambushes and raiding actions with occasional massed airstrikes which congealed into artillery exchanges and low-intensity trench warfare - arose from a Kalgachi occupation of the [[Upland Confederation]] to displace a territorial claim of the [[UGB]] and establish a forward defence of [[Lepidopterum]]'s [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] population against the advancing [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]], an operation which was ultimately successful and ended with the [[Slavegate Convention]].

Kalgachia is a member of the [[Micronational Cartography Society]] and the [[Micras Treaty Organisation]], although its anti-imperialist policies naturally restrain its involvement with other global organisations.

==Legal System==

''For a record of Kalgachi legislation, see the [[Oktavyan Code]] and the [[Kalgachi Orders of Council|Orders of Council]].''

The most salient characteristic of the Kalgachi legal system is its relative absence. Outside the implementation of the Oktavyan Code and the Orders of the Perfecti, jurisprudence as a discipline is largely alien to the Kalgachi concept of civil order which is mostly delivered through a rhizomic variant of the 'leader principle' exercised on the Parish level - such parochial segmentation serving in theory to limit the damage of ill-wielded power and further moderated by the Church of Kalgachia's near-monopoly over the governmental fulfilment layer along with the inalienable right of petition afforded to Kalgachi citizens (the only 'human right' codified in national law).

Although this system gives rise to a hideously mismatched patchwork of bylaws, decrees and in many cases mere verbal understandings between Kalgachia's many Parishes, it does allow for the fine optimisation of local government to suit the cultural, economic and geographical conditions in any given jurisdiction, thus averting the type of ham-fisted technocratic inflexibility which might provoke discontent among Kalgachia's many ethnic groups and make them ripe for leverage by hostile foreign powers.

Invariably, suggestions to standardise or expand Kalgachi law are met with violent opposition from the Church of Kalgachia - its theologians have repeatedly declared the concept of a formalised national judiciary to be an archonic instrument designed to dupe the population with the promise of enforcing objective fairness, whilst in reality capturing the means to enforce that fairness and denying its access by the common citizen through the gratuitous impenetrability of its procedures, ultimately limiting its utility to particularist interests who seek to entrench or advance their own position through contrived acts of barratry and contractual double-bind. The actions of the Froyalanish [[shire:Noah Hallbjörnsson|King Noah]], both in Shireroth and [[Natopia]], are often cited as the purest and most psychopathic distillation of that dark art and a salutary warning from history against judicial indulgences.

Enforcing the provisions of national law, and trying infractions of it, is nominally the responsibility of the Prefects who traditionally choose to proceed directly from investigation to sentence without any semblance of a formal trial beyond the procedural circulation of given cases through their occluded back offices. The enforcement of Church bylaws in the Marches and Parishes, however, is more often conducted by public tribunal for the dual purpose of reassuring and warning the more proximate citizenry. The right of defendants to be represented by advocates or lodge appeals varies by jurisdiction, as does the general tenor of proceedings and the sentences handed out - public executions would be considered horrifyingly barbaric in Katarsis or Jollity, whereas in Abrek and Schlepogora they are not only a common occurrence but a municipal event complete with music, refreshment stalls and other accoutrements of public entertainment.

The particular nature of state authority in Kalgachia, all modern political alignments aside, might be considered an inheritance from the wider Southern Benacian civilisational space which has historically drawn upon [[Cedrism|Cedro]]-[[Zurvanism|Zurvanist]] concepts of the Will to Power (refined through the forthright philosophies of the [[House of Rossheim]] and the [[Deep Singers]]) as opposed to the boreal north of the continent and its [[Bovinism|Bovo]]-[[Ayreonism|Ayrenonist]] creed of litigious rhetoric whose vulnerability to weaponisation by the cunning [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]], among other destructive elements throughout history, continues to be ill-regarded among the Kalgachi.

==Economy and Infrastructure==

''For more, see the [[Economy of Kalgachia]]''.

Early attempts to emulate Minarboria's non-monetary command economy were found to be inefficient in the face of Kalgachia's modest resource base, and the availability of one particular resource - gold - caused it to rapidly emerge as an informal means of exchange among the population which the Perfecti found necessary to formalise and regulate, before the emergence of a capital-hoarding class and the runaway sequestration of surplus labour value sucked the Kalgachi economy dry. The result is essentially a form of state capitalism, where private enterprises are not permitted dedicated land for their operations unless they surrender their ownership and managerial oversight to an organ of state - usually the Church of Kalgachia which has the statutory monopoly on all land not claimed by other state entities. Businesses which refuse such oversight are ultimately limited to the scale of cottage industries operating from residential dwellings which themselves are rented from the state monopoly. The conversion of such dwellings into businesses is generally tolerated as long as the tenant remains in residence, even if they have reduced their habitational space to a single room or closet and given over the rest of the premises to their commercial interests.

[[File:Oktavyan.png|thumb|right|250px|The modest surface appearance of Oktavyan, Kalgachia's capital city, belies the size of its larger underground parts.]]
[[File:Kalunderground.png|thumb|left|250px|The underground portions of Kalgachia's cities vary in appearance, from the '[[Sansabury]] Revival' of Katarsis to the foliage-ridden labyrinthe that is Lithead.]]

Kalgachia's unit of currency, the Kalgarrand, consists of one troy ounce (31.1g) of pure gold. Due to their considerable value, whole Kalgarrands are rarely seen in everyday use and most coinage is adulterated with base metals into everyday denominations. The most salient example of the currency's strength is its listing on the [[Micras Pint Index]], rivalled only by the similarly gold-minted Denarii of Nova England. The currency's private-sector role as a mode of liquidity rather than capital accumulation ensures that the majority of it is locked up in the Church or other state organs and passes only briefly through the hands of the ordinary citizen before returning to the authorities' treasuries.

The mountainous terrain of Kalgachia is not especially conducive to agriculture, and the few pockets of suitable farmland in the lower hill country of its fringes are heavily cultivated. Countermeasures against soil depletion are one of the more frenetic occupations of Kalgachia's small academic community. The husbandry of sheep and goats is more widespread, the animals being well suited to Kalgachia's profusion of scattered highland pastures. Kalgachia's geography has allowed mining, quarrying and forestry to flourish although it has conversely made exports problematic - to reach the high seas and the global market place, Kalgachi goods must be conveyed through the territory of surrounding states. Before the [[War of Lost Brothers]] the majority of Kalgachia's foreign trade was with Shireroth, mainly in the form of [[Community Service Workers|contractually-obliged Froyalanish labourers]] imported in exchange for outgoing Kalgarrand and surplus items of ex-Minarborian industrial plant. The subsequent realignment of trade toward the [[Port of Vines]] lasted until the [[Haifan Civil War]], after which it was directed through the Batavian Confederation in collaboration with the [[Iron Company]]. In more recent times the détente established with the [[UGB]] following the [[Slavegate Convention]], along with the assumption of power in the rump [[Republic of Inner Benacia|RIB]] by expatriate merchants from the [[Sovereign Confederation]], has allowed for the commission of a second trade route originating in [[Eura]] and utilising that region's [[Kerularios & Company|shipping services]] to exchange goods with Kalgachia via the UGB's merchant ports.

Kalgachia's roads and railways are few, but well maintained. Many of both are located underground, mainly in urban areas. Kalgachi locomotives and motor vehicles are generally powered by hybrid combustion/electrical engines to move seamlessly between surface and sub-surface routes. An established Kalgachi settlement viewed from the surface represents only part of what actually exists, the underground portion becoming greater toward Kalgachia's mountainous interior. In some of the more inhospitable areas, whole villages are carved beneath the local granite and are accessed from what appears to be a single cottage.

During Kalgachia's idealistic naissance the DPW intended to connect all of Kalgachia's major cities by entirely underground means - although this has already been achieved between the relatively-proximate cities of Bergburg, Katarsis and Jollity, the project was found to be hideously resource intensive despite the '[[Tales from Kalgachia - 9 |help]]' of thousands, allegedly hundreds of thousands, of bonded [[Froyalaners]] on sixteen-hour shifts whose fatality rate was scarcely better than they had suffered at the hands of Shirerithian death squads. Since the Froyalaners' emancipation into the wage-earning citizenry and the emergence of other capital projects up the DTW's list of priorities, the complete tunnel linkage of Kalgachia's population centres has steadily retreated from the threshold of viability.

It has been noted from the usual derisory quarters that the technological edge of Kalgachia's economic development is jarringly uneven - the alchemical cadres of Lapivril have devised world-leading methods to transmute granite and magma into agricultural produce and all manner of biomic raw material but the input of geothermal power, industrial plant and skilled technicians required to do so is hideously large and predicted to be un-scalable to all of Kalgachia for centuries, held back by limited numbers of trained scientists and engineers as well as a constant resource drain to the national defence complex. On the surface, the majority of Kalgachia's motor transport is powered by wood gas obtained from the enormous belt of plantation forest around the national frontier (liquified in refineries for light vehicles, or made in the on-board converters of heavy vehicles). Certain elements of the national infrastructure (the road and rail network, utility-band radio communications, long-range goods distribution etc.) are left wilfully under-developed as too vulnerable to attack, or too useful to an invading enemy in wartime. The obsessively fine-targeted, priority-oriented planning of central economic organs has also left whole sectors undeveloped as 'insufficiently important', left by default to the country's stunted mass of private enterprises [[Tales from Kalgachia - 27|or even criminal elements]]. The tendency of these small, parochially-optimised entities to fill cracks in the Kalgachi standard of living is largely tolerated by the authorities which are centrally instructed to regulate them with as light a hand as possible - again inspired by the all-pervading imperative of national defence, in that a decent standard of living makes it more difficult for hostile foreign powers to buy the submission of Kalgachi citizens (a tactic which Kalgachia's founders had themselves used to magnificent effect in naturalising the country's eastern and western populations).

==Academia and Technology==

As befits a gnostically-inclined nation which considers the cultivation of knowledge its sole hope of evening the odds against a material universe rigged against it, Kalgachia's education system is extensive and well-developed - largely the legacy of Kalgachia's [[Tales from Kalgachia - 11|first Pedagogue General]], Ilessa Z. Aerit, and the cult-like following of her holistic vision in the years since she died. It begins at the primary phase, in thousands of Church-run parish schools where Kalgachi children are taught to read, write, identify the principal manifestations of archonic power in the public life of various Micran societies and basic methods of subverting them, and perform simple algebra. This culminates in the [[Urchagin]], a viscerally intense and allegorical retelling of Kalgachia's origin which is intended to instil, at a suitably early age, some sense of historical context and cause in its participants' subsequent 'cultivation'.

With the exception of theological and special-needs education, subsequent phases of learning in Kalgachia are provided directly by the Directorate of Education and Outreach. Students in secondary education are generally streamed into the humanities or sciences at an early stage, although the latter stream retains a full examination of Micran history, the subject being considered so vital that it transcends the constraints of classical study and offers an equally valuable body of precedent in the sciences. It is traditional to examine [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] history in the first year of secondary education, followed by that of [[Minarboria]] and eventually Kalgachia with occasional foray into events of other nations such as [[Nova England]] and [[Batavia]]. Those students streamed into the humanities overlay these studies with a more intensive history covering the entire Benacian continent from its prehistoric origins.

The most gifted entrants to the secondary system are diverted to one of Kalgachia's handful of Gymnasia of which there are two in the city of Oktavyan, one in Lithead and one in Bergburg. Here the classical and scientific streams are applied simultaneously and with a fearsome intensity.

While the Gymnasia retain their students into the collegiate phase, those from other schools are moved on to seperate colleges where the humanities stream begins an immersion into Benacian classical mythology and students in the scientific stream are committed to either a theoretical or vocational path. Those of a more spiritual bent are admitted to one of the monasteries from which Kalgachia's constituent Marches are administered, where they don the sackcloth habit and devote their lives to the absorption of [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology. From these pious seekers come the ranks of Kalgachi church clergy, plus the occasional aspiring Troglodyte who will inveriably descend among that order's sub-surface covens to continue their esoteric journey thereafter.

Education is nominally compulsory upto this point, although the predominantly-Laqi Lieutenancies of Abrek and Schlepogora do suffer from an intractably high truancy rate as their girls are kept home to perform grinding domestic labour followed by early motherhood and housewifery while the boys succumb to the romantic allure of the shashka and the saddle, running off to gallop about the land with their cossack partisan elders instead of attending school. As a result the literacy rate in these areas remains stubbornly below the national average, reducing the overall national rate into line with neighbouring states which Kalgachia might otherwise have outperformed.

[[File:Nukethegranite.png|thumb|right|275px|The Churchytopp Process, backbone of [[Project Newrad]]'s life support systems.]]

Students continuing from college are admitted to one of Kalgachia's two universities, Oktavyan or Bergburg - the former being the traditional crucible of Kalgachi culture while the latter advances the nation's science and engineering. Here, after suitable period of immersion in the [[Arithmedarts|local academic culture]], they either settle into postgraduation and eventual tenure or go on to apply themselves in the most important nodes of the Kalgachi bureaucracy.

Within the Directorate of Health and Public Welfare, some provision exists for the residential education of halfwits, cretins, imbeciles, idiots, morons, spasmodics, Jingoloids and other flavours of intellectual disability as well the deranged, the irritably epileptic, the deaf and the blind - the majority of such afflicted individuals being Nezeni by heritage, the result of unforeseen incompatibilies in modified genes arising from that population's abandonment of the strict eugenics practised by their [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] forebears. The majority of staff in Kalgachia's special-needs institutions are Lywallers by heritage, their innate jollity and patience being considered best suited to the care of high-maintenance students. The curriculum of these institutions, modest by necessity, is built around practical measures to recover as much of their students' societal functionality as possible and reduce their burden on state resources.

The educated class of Kalgachia has an unusually high population of scientists and engineers for a country of its size, initially nourished by the learned cadres of [[&zeter]] who, with varying levels of volition, migrated to Kalgachia after Minarboria's collapse. Certain achievements in Minarborian technology such as biodiesel propulsion, resilient electronics and rocketry owe themselves to this inheritance, alongside the country's advanced capabilities in underground construction and medicine which draw from the well of Deep Singer experience. These two skillbases have combined to prioritise the location of Kalgachia's most important state and industrial assets in the deepest underground venues, each rated to withstand attack by an orbitally-delivered kinetic penetrator bearing a nuclear warhead in the multi-megaton range.

In recent times, much of Kalgachia's scientific development has pivoted from the development of military technology to the synthesis of life-essential material from Kalgachia's sub-surface geology, with the goal of enabling the underground protectorate of Lapivril to attain a self-sufficiency and independence from the surface world of an extent unseen since the [[People's Republic of Hell]]. While the extraction of limitless geothermal power from the mid-Benacian tectonic fault and the production of ultraviolet lighting to mimic the absent rays of [[Atos]] have long since been within Kalgachi capability, the synthesis of life-essential material from geological strata in which they are absent had long eluded Kalgachi scientists until one Dr. Eager Churchytopp of the University of Bergburg combined a series of processes utilising alpha particles from abundant sources of Radium-226 in the local granite to effect reliable, in-situ nuclear transmutation of other abundant substances. The discovery of these processes, combined with the developments in the extraction of magmatic hydrogen from deep thermal vents and sub-surface agronomy, won the Lapivril official resourcing from the Kalgachi government and advanced the reputation of Kalgachi physics and chemistry in foreign centres of academic excellence such as [[shire:Kezan|Kezan]].

==Society==

[[File:Kalethnography.png|thumb|left|275px|An ethnographic map of Kalgachia.]]

Kalgachia's geography, and the historical migrations that have taken place upon it, have made it the meeting point of many Benacian ethnicities. Each have their own quirks of custom, dialect and outlook on life. If any traits can be considered universal in Kalgachia they are a desire for self-reliance, a strangely unpeturbed tenor in the face of grave danger bordering on outright fatalism, a casual directness of tone and a lingering, deep suspicion of Eastern and Northern Benacians - all of these things reinforced by generations of folk wisdom even in the absence of memetic cultivation by the Kalgachi media.

[[File:Lywaller.png|thumb|right|175px|A Lywaller in his element; recounting jolly tales to small children.]]
Relations between Kalgachia's ethnic groups are for the most part civil and open-minded - not so much a result of humanist ideals as a general recognition that the survival of each group is absolutely dependent on the preservation of Kalgachia's collective integrity, a message driven hard by central media organs whose content abounds with dire predictions of the penury and foreign vassalage which might result from allowing Kalgachia's constituent populations to be leveraged against each other.

===Ethnic Groups===

====The Lywallers====
The Lywallers, contrary to their overly-specific appellation, are descended not only from the Minarborian-era inhabitants of [[Lywall Protectorate|Lywall]] but also [[Northbloom|Highbloom]] and [[&zeter]], these populations having been the most socially proximate to their erstwhile [[House of Rossheim|Rossheim]] sovereigns and inheriting the greater part of the social mores gifted to the world by that famed undead bloodline. As a result they are characterised by an indefatigable jollity and unsophisticated daintiness which occasionally extends into the outright childlike, lending the atmosphere of a kindergarten to even the most formal situations. This is often mistaken for flippancy or intellectual disability - generally to the misfortune of the uninitiated as Lywallers are [[Tales from Kalgachia - 9|no less capable]] of ruthless cunning than any of their fellow Kalgachi, indeed the false sense of security created by their outwardly-cheerful tenor is all the more disturbing when events reveal their true colours.

Having been a favoured class in Minarboria and still celebrating their ancient association with its undead Empress, the Lywallers retain a residual degree of social advantage and can be found throughout Kalgachia, although they are mainly concentrated around the Lieutenancies of Katarsis and Jollity as well as the protectorate of [[Northbloom]]. Their innate gift of working well with 'the little ones' and communicating across language barriers has given the Lywallers a disproportionately-dominant presence in the halls of primary education and the diplomatic corps respectively.

====The Laqi====
[[File:Laqi.png|thumb|right|175px|A Laqi, sizing up an approaching traveller for extortion potential.]]
The Laqi are an inexplicably persistent community in Southern Benacia, originating in the ill-fated [[Laqi Free Republic]] with a sizeable diaspora migrating to eastern [[Ashkenatza]] after the former's collapse. Although these polities have long since been swept into the chop yard of history, the Laqi have remained a coherent body of people with a consistent presence in Benacian public life to this day. The Laqi practice a social conservatism verging on tribal backwardness, although their nomadic past has imbued them with an innate wanderlust and a tendency to play as hard as they work. Their reputation as brigands and hard drinkers is mostly deserved, with the comprehensive plunder of Minarboria's fallen Shrublands by their rampaging cossack bands being instrumental to the foundation of Kalgachia as a viable sovereign state. Their most fearless sons continue to be utilised conducting black operations for the [[Military of Kalgachia|Kalgachi military]].

The division of wider Laqidom by the borders established during the [[Benacian Reconquest]] has led to something of an acceleration in the inter-clan politics and shifting loyalties which have always characterised the race. In particular the ascent of the [[Republic of Inner Benacia]] on Kalgachia's southern and eastern frontiers has provoked much debate among the Kalgachi Laqi as to their precise role and power in relation to their foreign cousins. The prevailing conclusion among the Parish ''jirgas'' and partisan bands of the Kalgachi east, much advanced and promoted by central government, is that the Laqi of Kalgachia are a breed apart from their lowland neighbours (popularly named the "Green Laqi" in comparison to their "Black" and "Red" counterparts abroad) on account of their mountain environment, their more comfortable standard of living, their better access to basic education and their cultural cross-fertilisation by [[Konkordskaya Bratva|traditional allies]] such as the Mishalanski which lends a more slavophilic tenor to their language and customs. This celebration of wealth, culture and a literally more elevated location has been characterised as rank snobbery by the Laqi of other states, an accusation dismissed in turn by their Kalgachi cousins as little more than petulant jealousy.

Kalgachia's Laqi are mostly concentrated in the Lieutenancies of Schlepogora and Abrek, their old Minarborian heartland.

====The Nezeni====
[[File:Nezeni.png|thumb|left|175px|A Nezeni, giving a briefing on Lithead's biomic hazards.]]
The Nezeni are genetic relatives of the transhuman, biomantic race known as the [[Deep Singers]]. Named for the latter's ancient language which continues to feature in their dialect, the Nezeni came to prominence during the collapse of Minarboria when the greater part of the Deep Singer population were scattered and driven underground by a rogue pathogen known as the Crystal Death. The event effectively destroyed the societal integrity of those few who enjoyed natural immunity and remained on the surface; the loss of so many genesplicers and their broodchambers, on whom the Singers' artificial reproduction process was wholly reliant, provoked the isolated surface population to extreme measures to ensure the survival of their race - namely the reversal of their [[Deep Singers#Reproduction|sequestration]] by mundane surgical practices so they could reproduce naturally. Such surgeries were hazardous in the conditions of the time, many being performed by hired Yehudi clerics under the misapprehension that the procedure was little different from a circumcision; the absence of the old Deep Singer oversight regarding specific genotypal combinations, aggravated by a certain amount of interbreeding with unmodified humans, also resulted in a high number of gynaecological complications and birth defects which burdened the first generations of the new Nezeni race with a high mortality rate until, over successive generations, their evolution began to select for the more viable specimens. This process also tended to eliminate the extra limbs, tentacles and more insectoid features seen in the true Deep Singers although the Nezeni remain easily identifiable by their silver, blue or green complexion and lizardlike eyes. They also retain certain vestigial advantages such as enhanced hearing in the ultrasonic range, accelerated healing and almost perfect immune function - although their reproductive problems remain sufficiently prevalent that most statistics on the matter are classified secret by the Directorate of Health and Public Welfare. Beyond cursory mentions in the context of family planning advice, the problem is rarely discussed in public but is [[History of Kalgachia/The 170s#The Death of the Pedagogue General (172 AL)|known to have struck]] even the most important echelons of Kalgachi society.

As in Minarboria, the Nezeni exert a great influence over the Kalgachi church and by extension the state - the horticultural holism of their ancient belief system, although less viscerally intense than that of their Deep Singer ancestors, remains an integral part of Kalgachi philosophy and theology.

By virtue of their modified genes, the presence of the Nezeni on the Benacian continent is especially irritating to racial-supremacist elements around Benacia. Safety considerations have caused the Nezeni to be barred from service in the DTW diplomatic corps to avoid international incidents and Nezeni troops of the KDF are issued suicide syrettes to prevent their capture and live mutilation. Aside from the predictable revulsion of their kind emanating from the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanists]], the Nezeni are also looked upon with discomfort by the Deep Singers of [[Lepidopterum]] to whom their genome represents a chaotic, destructive and ultimately dangerous regression from the iterationally-guided perfection of the past. Calls for the return of the Nezeni to Deep Singer 'cultivation' in order to repair this perceived 'damage' have been resisted by the Kalgachi government, which seeks to homogenise its population toward a single racial identity, and to an extent by the Nezeni themselves who wish to preserve their own distinct heritage.

The social tenor of the Nezeni is characterised by a visceral, almost scandalous sensuality which might have neared the worst excesses of the [[Froyalaners]] had it not been tempered with a casual self-contentment rather than promoted aggressively among adjacent cultures. The boundary between self and environment is less defined in Nezeni society - especially in their home territory where they seem in places to integrate seamlessly with the local biome akin to the hunter-gatherers of a forest garden. The Nezeni are also considered to be the undisputed masters of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWtzJ6IqyVI Kalgachi folk music] with a heavy emphasis on wind instruments, birdlike rhythm and tonal mobility.

The Nezeni can mainly be found in the Lieutenancy of Lithead which composes the northeastern rim of their Minarborian heartland, although a number of them live among their Deep Singer cousins in [[Lepidopterum]]. These areas remain chock full of hazardous flora [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|and fauna]] and remaining functional, or indeed alive there for any length of time requires an adherence to the various strands of Singer/Nezeni folk tradition which have allowed them, and them alone, to thrive in the biome.

====The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi====
[[File:Bergburger.png|thumb|right|175px|A Bergburger, brushing up on the ancient ''meforshim'' of his ancestors.]]
The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi, or '''Bergburgers''' as they are known in Kalgachia, originated in the [[Ashkenatza|Ashkenatzan]] provinces of Volhyria and Porolia. After the collapse of that state and a few intervening centuries of anarchic Kossar warlordery, the area was annexed by Minarboria and the tribal ''Kohanim'' of the local people were installed as the basis of a theocratic Shophate known as Siyachia, answering nominally to the Minarborian Empress. After Minarboria's collapse, the mountainous east of Siyachia was annexed by Kalgachia and saw an influx of migrants from the west seeking new oppurtunities in the nascent state. They coalesced around the mountain town of Bergburg, which quickly became the locus of their efforts and lent its name to the surrounding Lieutenancy.

Bergburgers remain mostly concentrated around Bergburg, although a large community of them exists in Oktavyan where they form a disproportionately high number of financiers at the Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning and tenured academics at the Directorate of Education and Outreach. As a community they practise a certain insularity, soaked into them by a centuries-long feedback loop of defensively intensifying religious custom and persecution by ignorant ''goyim''. This body of ancient tradition, originally developed to glorify the original god of the Bergburgers' ancestors, has now accumulated in cultural weight to become an end in itself and survived no less then two full transitions into different belief systems, successfully securing the necessary concessions from their adopted churches to continue observing the ancient ''mitzvot''.

====The Kalgachi====
[[File:Kalgachiwedding.png|thumb|left|175px|Occurring within a socially privileged class, ethnic Kalgachi weddings tend to be comfortable affairs.]]

Kalgachi ethnicity is defined in [[Oktavyan Code|national law]] as "''any combination of Lywaller, Laqi, Nezeni, or Siyacho-Ashkenazi''", meaning that in theory - and often in practice - it is possible for two persons to share official Kalgachi ethnicity depite having no common racial heritage. This is not considered especially troublesome in official circles, for whom the objective of forging a single Kalgachi race is secondary to that of diluting and homogenising the cultural heritage attendant upon each of Kalgachia's contributory ethnic groups in order to permanently eradicate seperatist sentiments from the population. A wide variety of official and unofficial incentives exist to accelerate this process, ranging from a statutory preference toward mixed-Kalgachi individuals in employment to the prioritisation of obstetric care for mothers of mixed-Kalgachi offspring <ref>Or darker, more proactive measures - rumours exist an informal programme by DHPW eugenicists, usually in Laqi parishes with a high banditry rate, to occasionally terminate non-mixed foetuses with microwave beam apparatus built into ultrasound scanners. Folk avoidance of DHPW medical services arising from this rumour has caused the rate of stillbirths from undiscovered obstetric complications to rise in such areas, such a fortuitous double-bind leading some to wonder if the rumour was started by the national medical establishment itself.</ref> A particularly effective tactic has been the positive depiction of mixed-Kalgachi families in television soap operas with an emphasis on career paths, causing the programmes' primary viewership of gossiping grandmothers to relentlessly badger their children to marry across racial boundaries.

Theoretically a Kalgachi carrying blood from all of the country's ethnic groups would be dark-haired in appearance, owing to the overwhelming proportion of their genome originating from the swarthy folk of subtropical south-east [[Benacia]] and the [[Yardistani]] Isles. The biomantic legacy of the Deep Singers and their Nezeni descendants leaves many ethnic Kalgachis with a very slight greenish, bluish or iridescent skin hue, accompanied by a glossy sheen which is often mistaken for a sign of illness.

Although schooled in the art of humility before lesser races, the social advantages enjoyed by the ethnic Kalgachi have furnished them with a paternal attitude with regard to their fellow peoples, readily filling the void left by the demise of the nannying Minarborian aristocracy and painting those outside their well-appointed class as pitiable souls in need of charity - or, in the horticultural language of the elite, sickly specimens in need of "[[wikipedia:Grafting|grafting]]." Although this is less pronounced around the Nezeni or the Lywallers, many ethnic Kalgachi in the east of the country consider it their personal mission to rescue their Laqi neighbours from the culturally-ingrained creed of rampant corruption and banditry which has been the latter's birthright since the days of the [[Laqi Free Republic|Free Republic]]. The success of this wistful mission, despite some progress in metropolitan areas like Schlepogora city, remains woefully partial - not least due to the tendency of mixed Kalgachi of Laqi descent to marry back into full Laqi bloodlines. Elsewhere, however, the demographic expansion of the mixed Kalgachi in proportion to their single-race counterparts is occurring more quickly - the group became a plurality of the national population in {{Tooltip|215 AL|late May 2019}} and the more optimistic surveys project them to become an absolute majority as soon as {{Tooltip|230 AL|October 2019}}.

The ethnic Kalgachi are disproportionately represented in the sub-surface portions of Kalgachia's urban centres, regardless of whether or not they are descended from burrowing Deep Singer bloodlines. The reasons for this are not fully understood - the most popular theory in academic circles is the internalisation of a suggestive link between their 'master race' status and the image of sub-surface development as a source of religious purity and national pride.

====Minor Groups====

Between the country's foundation and 200 AL, Kalgachia was host to two notable immigrant populations: the [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]] and Mishalanski. Ironically both populations were displaced from their respective homelands by related events, namely the periods immediately before and after the [[shire:Auspicious Occasion|Auspicious Occasion]] in Shireroth which saw the eventual end of Froyalanish rule in that nation.

First came the Mishalanski, escaping Froyalanish persecution - many of these were organised and armed by the then-nascent Kalgachi government into the [[Konkordskaya Bratva]], a genocidally-inclined militia who would go on to assist in the Froyalaners' subsequent deposition in Shireroth. Those who remained established a small population in Kalgachia's northeast where, over the course of several generations, they were assimilated into the neighbouring Laqi population <ref>this conveniently explains the presence of overly-Slavic tendencies in Kalgachia's Laqi population, whose original [[Laqi Free Republic|ancestors]] were considerably more Turkic in nature. Wink wink.</ref>

After the Auspicious Occasion, during a time of intense infrastructural development in Kalgachia, a large but conspicuously unrecorded number of Froyalaners were imported from Shireroth as bonded labourers, of whom some two million survived to be emancipated in 161 AL. All were sterilised upon arrival, allegedly to prevent them gaining an ethnic foothold for cultural exploitation by the [[Stormark|Storish]] in the far future. In Kalgachia the Froyalanish formed a class of unpaid menial workers similar to the undead 'zombots' of Minarboria. Their service ranged from [[Tales from Kalgachia - 9|arduous, often fatal]] manual labour to more sedate work as office clerks and domestic servants, these roles broadly determined by the difference in physical brawn inherent between the male and female genders. After emancipation Kalgachia's Froyalanish population were released from bondage and paid a minimum wage, although the practice of their memetically-virulent religion remained a capital crime and their sterilisation caused them to die off within a generation of labour imports being ceased in 164 AL.

===Politics===

Although not a pluralist state, Kalgachia is nonetheless host to a wide variety of political opinions forged by ancestral leanings, personal experience, national and international events, historical interest, individual interpretation of official doctrines and the osmotic effect of common gossip. Some of the Kalgachi population's more notable schools of thought are:

====Proprietism====
Proprietism is an adherence to the sum total of official orthodoxies put forth by the Church of Kalgachia and the Directorate of Education and Outreach. Proprietists, found most strongly in the middle and deeper echelons of government, advocate balance between - and eventual synthesis of - all other political beliefs. Proprietist sentiment is predominant among the mixed-Kalgachi population.

====Shrubbitarianism====
The Shrubbitarians consider it the goal of the individual to be as inoffensive as possible in the spirit of [[Minarboria#Religion|Minarbor]], the mild-mannered shrub worshipped in Ketherism. Quietness, politeness, pastel colours and gentle gestures are the Shrubbitarians' creed, but far from being dour they advocate a sensible jollity in daily life as promoted by Minarbor's fellow Ketherist Salvator, [[Lord Toastypops]]. Shrubbitarianism is popular among the Lywallers of central and northwestern Kalgachia and at all levels of the Kalgachi clergy. Many Shrubbitarians believe in the 'old creed' of Minarbor's eternal supremacy among deities - putting them at odds with Ketherist doctrine - and they generally regard the Minarborian era with a wistful fondness.

A seperate strain of Shrubbitarianism exists in [[Northbloom]] where the personage of Minarbor is substituted for that of [[Mondo Etzeterra]].

====Cryptocracy====
The Cryptocrats are the strongest proponents of [[Temporal Secessionism]] and its related concepts, advocating the perceptual distortion of every facet of Kalgachi life by an obscurantist veil of some kind until it is so bewildering to hostile forces that it becomes invisible. Cryptocratic ideas find their natural home among the Troglodyti, the Prefects, the intelligence organs of the Kalgachi Defence Force and the certain quarters of Church of Kalgachia (mainly the [[Ketherism#The Yehudi Conundrum and its Resolution|Pesakhnik]] tendency).

====Commercantism====
Commercantists hold that a comfortable material living standard is the principal glue that holds Kalgachi society together and protects it from the competing temptations of the Tumultuous Wastes. Mainly found within the DLEP and the deeper echelons of the unitary and church business sectors, the Commercantists advocate an entrepreneurial spirit in the individual and active foreign relations to stimulate trade.

====Laqism====
The Laqists advocate the preservation of the Laqi language and way of life (typically the resistance of state power in favour of traditional clan politics) and the political union of all Laqi peoples.

====Yehudism====
The Yehudists advocate the preservation of the ancient Yehudi bloodlines inherited from [[Ashkenatza]] but are more willing than the Laqists to adopt a mask of conformity within wider Kalgachi society. The more militant Yehudists consider those outside their chosen bloodlines to be lesser peoples whom can be freely deceived, exploited or assailed, and view their incorporation within Kalgachia as little more than a sham to be maintained as long as it is societally advantageous to them.

====Hypernationalism====
The Hypernationalists hold that the application of military force, or at least military organisation, is the purest manifestation of the Ketherist imperative of human agency. They cite [[Republic of Inner Benacia|numerous]] historical [[Slavegate Convention|precedents]] in arguing that displays of strength before the celestial archons, and their agents who drive Kalgachia's rival powers on Micras, are the only language to which the latter forces are truly responsive. Hypernationalism is naturally popular within the Prefects, the Kalgachi Defence Force and the immense partisan formations of the Church of Kalgachia.

The Hypernationalists support the essentially corporatist character of Kalgachi central government and hold a grudging admiration for such authoritarian societies as [[Jingdao]] and the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]]. They are extremely supportive of the homogenisation of Kalgachia's ethnic groups into a single unbreakable whole.

====Sixism====
Sixism is support for the expansionist [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Sixth Law]] of the Garden, as advocated by the Church of Minarboria but repudiated by the Church of Kalgachia. Almost exclusively found among the [[Deep Singers]] and Nezeni, Sixist sentiment is strongest in [[Lepidopterum]]. Sixists generally hold that the mix of unmodified and Deep Singer genes seen in the Nezeni people is a degenerate accident of history and that such individuals must be genetically 'repaired' and re-assimilated into the pure Deep Singer genome.

The more enthusiastic Sixists advocate the eventual assimilation of all Kalgachi peoples into the Deep Singer genome while the most extreme - named the '''Doronists''' after the notorious [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]]-era bioterrorist, Doron Se - advocate the forced displacement or assimilation of all life in the universe by engineered Deep Singer lifeforms<ref>It is worth noting that Doronist talking points tend to be emphasised in [[Unified Governorates|Benacian]] media outlets during periods of ''tension'', being presented, in a heavily curated form, to the masses as the true and authentic voice of the "hidden masters" of Kalgachia. Similarly, during the periodic interludes of pragmatic coexistence, the tame ''commentariat'' of the controlled media will deftly shift their narratives towards an appreciation of the Garden's [[Military of Kalgachia|martial capacity]] as the "Benchmark Enemy" of the Unified Governorates.</ref>

==Calendar==

Kalgachia uses the ''Anno Libertatis'' calendar - a slowing of the Minarborian ''Anno Fruticis'' calendar by a factor of ten (with 1450 AF rendered as 145 AL, for example) devised to reduce the [[shire:Temporal Haemorrhaging|Temporal Haemorrhaging]] factor against the ascendant ''Ab Nortone'' count from ~30:1 to a more comfortable ~3:1. Like its Minarborian predecessor, the ''Anno Libertatis'' calendar takes the emergence of the shrub Minarbor (July 8th, 2013 Gregorian) as its start point, and retains the old calendar's treatment of this point as the zeroth year rather than the first. ''(A rather flawed year converter can be found [http://shyriath.a2hosted.com/public_html/minarboria/AL%20conversion.html here]; use the bottom calendar for selection).''

The sub-year Minarborian calendar - pegged to the Gregorian and utilised in narrative terms as a seasonal window into the appropriate ''Anno Libertatis'' year, has been adopted in Kalgachia wholesale. It has a five day week consisting of:

'''Helloday''' 
'''Pleaseday''' 
'''Rustleday''' 
'''Thanksday''' 
'''Byeday''' 

A given date will always fall on a given day of the week, as said week is synchronised to a pattern of months as follows:

'''Winterise''' (30 days - 22 Dec to 20 Jan) starting on a Helloday 
'''Winterhigh''' (30 days - 21 Jan to to 19 Feb) starting on a Helloday 
'''Winterfall''' (29 days - 20 Feb to 20 Mar) starting on a Helloday 
'''Springrise''' (31 days - 21 Mar to 20 Apr) starting on a Byeday 
'''Springhigh''' (31 days - 21 Apr to 21 May) starting on a Helloday 
'''Springfall''' (31 days - 22 May to 21 Jun) starting on a Pleaseday 
'''Summerise''' (31 days - 22 Jun to 22 Jul) starting on a Rustleday 
'''Summerhigh''' (31 days - 23 Jul to 22 Aug) starting on a Thanksday 
'''Summerfall''' (31 days - 23 Aug to 22 Sep) starting on a Byeday 
'''Harvestrise''' (30 days - 23 Sep to 22 Oct) starting on a Helloday 
'''Harvesthigh''' (30 days - 23 Oct to 21 Nov) starting on a Helloday 
'''Harvestfall''' (30 days - 22 Nov to 21 Dec) starting on a Helloday 

Earth's leap day of February 29th is rendered specially as ''Shudderday, 9½ Winterfall''.

In full, a date such as ''Sunday July 2nd, 2017'' would equate to ''Rustleday Summerise 11th, 145 AL''.

==References==
[[Category:Kalgachia]]

Kalgachi Orders of Council

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Yastreb:

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The following is a list of the more prominent orders issued by the Council of Perfecti, the supreme executive of the Garden of [[Kalgachia]]. It comprises only a fraction of the Perfecti's rulings, the majority of which are issued to specific authorities and in many cases are classified ''Sub Juniperus''. As a result, only orders of national or diplomatic importance are featured on the official roll.

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| Pleaseday Summerfall 28th, 226 AL || Extraordinary Grand Council of 226 || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS various events of the last decade, both within and without the Garden, have borne cumulative implications for its overall navigation through the Tumultuous Wastes and the continuity of the Shrubly birthright, AND WHEREAS the usual technocratic mechanisms of government are inappropriate for addressing such matters,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order summons the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lords Lieutenant]] of Abrek, Bergburg, Jollity, Katarsis, Lithead, Oktavyan and Schlepogora, the Resectors of the Holy Synod of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], the General Staff of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] and the Lords Protector of [[Lapivril]], [[Lepidopterum]], [[Northbloom]] and the [[Upland Confederation]] to convene in '''Extraordinary Grand Council''' at the Cathedral of Heaven's Conquest in Oktavyan.

'''2.''' Members of the Council are instructed to prepare such informational materials and policy observations as may be appropriate in deliberation upon the following matters:

'''a)''' The congelation of the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent into [[Stormark|Vanic]]-[[Batavia|Batavian]] and [[Raspur Pact]] poles of influence outlain by Kalgachia, [[Tellia]] and the [[Guttuli Protectorate|Guttuli]].

'''b)''' The fall of the [[House of Verion]] in Batavia, the rebalancing of that kingdom's legislature and executive, the revival of the multinational veto on Kalgachia's off-continent commerce (''the [[Li Naomiai|Naomiai]] Protocol'') and the mutual hedging of Batavian and [[UGB]] trade routes.

'''c)''' The threshold between sustainable military assistance to the Protectorates and strategic haemorrhaging of the hinterland.

'''d)''' The threshold between the net gain obtained by stockpiling of non-native raw materials and the net drain incurred by their storage and preservation.

'''e)''' The possibility of a causative resonance between the Kalgachi government's indulgence of the Pecuniary Archon and the simultaneous torpor of the Salvators [[Lord Toastypops]] the Jolly and Celestine the Broodmother, and its relation to the amonetarist pronouncements of the Salvator Lyssansa the Blue.

'''f)''' Characteristics of the Minarboreal Civilisational Space capable of outlasting the present sovereignty of the Kalgachi state and options for their cultivation to continental relevance in geopolitically inert and unpervertable form.

'''g)''' The role of the [[The Lot of a Lichnik/3|unlife]], [[Media of Kalgachia#The Good, The Bad And The Shrubly|life]] and works of one Vascarina Goldcluck in Kalgachi folk belief and their status in [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] theology.

'''h)''' Such other matters as may conceivably arise in the circumstances.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerfall 3rd, 224 AL || Pachadsberg Special Recreational Zone || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS recent years have seen an increase in well-connected foreign personages engaged in commercial and diplomatic business with the Garden, AND WHEREAS a number of these individuals have, in the course of their activities, been appraised of abundant recreational oppurtunities available to tourists of a discerning nature within the Lieutenancy of Jollity, AND WHEREAS the foreign missions of the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] have referred increasing numbers of visa applications to the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] by persons seeking to visit Jollity for the purpose of leisure alone, AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] has assessed that a measured cultivation of the phenomenon would represent a net economic benefit to the Garden,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order transfers, to the Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning, sole title to that territory comprising the Eighth Easement of the Parish of Sugarscythe within the March of the City of Jollity, henceforth to be named the '''Pachadsberg Special Recreation Zone''' in honour of one Pachad ben Mavet, Nohsi of [[Ashkenatza]], Jollifier of the [[Minarboria|Minarborian]] Kossars and noted connoisseur of the ancient Fleshpots of Mazeltov on whose ruins the illuminated wonders of Jollity city now stand.

'''2.''' The DLEP is instructed to develop Pachadsberg into a resort community of ski slopes, casinos, hotels, restaurants, houses of prostrate companionship and boutiques of the finest international standard.

'''3.''' Purveyors of public goods and services in Pachadsberg shall exclusively accept the following currencies as tender:

'''a)''' the [[Kruys]], [[Liberadosan cruz|Cruz]], [[Arcadia|Golden Cruz]], [[Kasterburg|Thaler]] and [[Helderbourgh|Heldermark]]. 
'''b)''' the [[Natopian natopo|Natopo]]. 
'''c)''' the [[Economy of Constancia|Stater]]. 
'''d)''' the [[Sovereign Avak]]. 
'''e)''' The [[Economy of Shireroth|Shirerithian]], [[Verionist Republic#Economy|Verionist]] and [[Ransenari Erb|Ransenari]] Erb. 
'''f)''' the [[Nova England|National Redoubt Denarii]]. 
'''g)''' the [[Economy of Alduria|Écu]]. 
'''h)''' the [[Jingdao|Kala]].

'''4.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]], through its public transport [[Economy of Kalgachia#Unitary Enterprises|subsidiaries]], is instructed to establish a connecting passenger shuttle service between [[Gravelbottom Airport]] and Pachadsberg using civilianised [[Whirdlebirb|Whirdlebirbs]] and to implement the necessary fixed infrastructure and rolling stock for first-class rail charter services to Pachadsberg from the Kalgachi frontier.

'''5.''' The Prefects are instructed to insitute a 'Pachadsberg Only' visa option, valid exclusively for travel to/from and residence within Pachadsberg, for the safe admission to the Garden of persons of indeterminate security risk.

'''6.''' The implementation of all provisions of This Order and the governance of Pachadsberg upon its completion shall be the ultimate responsibility of the '''Pachadsberg Development Committee''', an organ of the DLEP chaired by Governor '''[[House of Yastreb#Caustifer Yastreb|Caustifer R. Yastreb]]''' of the Reserve Bank of Kalgachia and the Garden's Salvator '''[[Lord Toastypops]]''', Lieutenant of Jollity.
 
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| Thanksday Summerhigh 26th, 223 AL || Protectorate Status for the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Congress of Džirgas of the [[Upland Confederation]] has convened and deliberated upon the present state of safety and stability afforded to that realm by the transformative presence of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], evolving as it has from purely defensive needs to matters of humanitarian assistance and rudimentary infrastructure development, AND WHEREAS it is the resolution of the Congress that this state of affairs be sustained indefinitely in a manner which nonetheless preserves the clan structures and autonomy of the Confederation, AND WHEREAS the Congress has directed their ruling Ataman to petition the Council of Perfecti of the Garden to advance the Upland Confederation to the same state of regard enjoyed by [[Northbloom]], [[Lepidopterum]] and [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]],'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order extends ultimate and beneficient jurisdiction to the Upland Condeferation as a Protectorate of the Garden of Kalgachia, by special allotment outwith the [[Oktavyan Code]].

'''2.''' Ataman '''Varҳat Ҳazedinov''' of the Upland Confederation is hereby appointed '''Lord Protector of the Upland Confederation'''; remitted, in deference to the native civil mechanisms of that realm, to represent it before the Council of Perfecti and to implement such measures as the Council see fit to supplement the rulings of the native authority.

'''3.''' That portion of the Upland Confederation lying east of the 152nd meridian and north of the 47th parallel is, in respect of its biomically challenging character and administrative burden, transferred by This Order to the administration of the Planting of Lepidopterum for specialised development.
 
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| Byeday Summerhigh 22nd, 222 AL || Tealsburrow Railway || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the present geopolitical and economic situation has rendered it desirable to upgrade the Garden's infrastructural links with the city of Stonetree, presently administered by the Ketek Corporation in accordance with the [[Slavegate Convention]], AND WHEREAS it is incumbent upon the Garden, in accordance with the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Second and Fifth Laws]], to render unto its trusted trading partners adequate recompense for recent economic policy decisions which have developed not necessarily to the latter's advantage,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] to carry out the necessary surveys and engineering plans for the following:

'''a)''' The construction of a double-tracked railway linking the town of Tealsburrow to the national rail network at Zensemer.

'''b)''' The construction of a combined rail and highway route extending south from the town of Tealsburrow to the national frontier.

'''2.''' In recognition and appreciation of the successful delivery of the expansion of [[Gravelbottom Airport]] in 193 AL, the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] is instructed to make available the sum of 1.2 million [[Economy of Kalgachia#Currency|Kalgarrand]] (or an equal value in civilian commodities) for the contracture of the aforesaid works to the [[Iron Company]], who are invited to peruse the DPW specification and begin construction at the earliest possible convenience.

'''3.''' The Lithead Division of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]] is instructed to prepare a regime of close protection for contractors in the Tealsburrow area against the depredations of ''[[Tyrannocricetus aliger]]'' and other hazardous features of the local biome.
 
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| Pleaseday Summerhigh 4th, 221 AL || Repatriation of the Froyalanish and Rescript to the Kingdom of Amokolia || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] has been petitioned by the government of the Kingdom of [[Amokolia]] regarding the repatriation of those naturalised guest workers of [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish extraction]] who were admitted to the Garden between 152 and 164 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]], AND WHEREAS the majority of such individuals have now aged beyond useful labour ability and, by their reliance upon the alms of the [[Kalgachia#The Church of Kalgachia|Church of Kalgachia]], have become a net burden upon the [[Economy of Kalgachia|Kalgachi economy]], AND WHEREAS the [[Kalgachia#Provincial Governance|Lord Lieutenants' Council]] of the Garden, remitted [[Oktavyan Code|as it is]] to rule upon matters of nationality, has submitted its conclusions upon the subject, AND WHEREAS the general policy of the Kingdom of Amokolia with respect to the Froyalanish is, for historical reasons, a matter in which the entire [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent has a legitimate interest,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI accepts in full and by This Order enacts the ruling of the Lords Lieutenant of the Garden as follows:

'''a)''' Kalgachi citizens of Froyalanish descent shall henceforth be permitted, optionally and of their own volition, to emigrate to the Kingdom of Amokolia.

'''b)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners wishing to remain in the Garden, and whose conduct does not present grounds for deportation, shall be permitted to remain in the Garden.

'''c)''' Kalgachi Froyalaners returned to the Kingdom of Amokolia shall forfeit their Kalgachi citizenship upon exit from the Garden.

'''d)''' ex-Kalgachi Froyalaners shall be subject to the same constraints upon re-entry to the Garden as any other non-citizen, in individual accordance with such foreign citizenships as they may subsequently acquire.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|Directorate of Health and Public Welfare]] is instructed to administer a course of exit vaccinations, of a composition determined by the DHPW Woundmender General and Clinical Commissioners, of all Froyalaners departing the Garden pursuant to the provisions of This Order.

'''3.''' The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes, the [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] and the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] are instructed to jointly establish and operate a regime of chartered passenger flights from [[Gravelbottom Airport|Gravelbottom]] to [[Brandenburg]] for the expedient implementation of the provisions of This Order.

'''a)''' The removal of Froyalaners pursuant to the provisions of This Order shall occur exclusively by aerial means. Those border security measures established on land by the Order of Council dated Summerise 20th, 220 AL shall remain in full effect.

'''4.''' The Directorate of Tumultuous Wastes is instructed to convey to the Amokolian government, on behalf of the Council of Perfecti, the rescript contained in the Schedule to This Order.

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'''Schedule 1: Rescript to the Amokolian Government'''

''The Garden notes with interest the present attention of the Amokolian government to the historical situation of the Froyalanish people in the years following the Auspicious Occasion in Shireroth.''

''In the interests of complete historical accuracy and continental harmony in the modern era, the Garden hopes that in recognising the magnitude of the suppression of the Froyalanish, the Kingdom of Amokolia will also recognise the underlying cause of the event; namely the wilful and systematic programme of the House of Ettlingar Freyu - using the Froyalanish race and the captive government of Shireroth as their vectors - to concentrate power in their own hands at the exclusion of all others, to erase the indigenous life of Benacia from memory by the falsification of history and ultimately to disenfranchise, annihilate and supplant [[Benacia]]'s entire ancient tapestry of native societies before a deaf and uncompromising Vanic hegemony.''

''The Garden hopes that the Amokolian government will recognise how the Shirerithians' appeals for moderation were ignored, how their processes of legal redress were subverted in the foulest of faith, how the evasive glibness of the regime of King Noah in [[Elwynn]] was little comfort to the [[Mishalan|Mishalanski]] as they were dragged from their homes, and how the people ultimately took to the use of force because all other means of moderating the behaviour of their Froyalanish élite, of assuring some baseline of societal survival lest their their ancestral birthright be torn to pieces, had been denied to them.''

''The Garden advises against swallowing the absurd fiction propagated from [[Haraldsborg]], that the Froyalanish were an innocent race who were turned upon by all Benacia for no reason - for the reasons were plentiful, painfully unavoidable and ultimately sown by the Storish elite who, in their vanity and hubris, expected to pervert or wipe out the nations of Benacia without effective opposition. The suppression of the Froyalanish people had its roots in the reckless avarice of their baubled Storish enablers, and if the government of Amokolia truly cares for the plight of the Froyalanish - or indeed any Amokolian - it must take care not to indulge that avarice again.''

''At any rate the peoples of Benacia shall never apologise for pursuing, to the fullest extent necessary, the imperatives of individual and collective self-defence which are the foundational instinct of all life in the universe. Benacia, if necessary, would do it all again.''

''The Kingdom of Amokolia, for the present time, remains assured of the Garden of Kalgachia's highest consideration.''
 
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| Helloday Summerise 20th, 220 AL || Northern Border Controls || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the regal proclivities of the [[Amokolia|Amokolian]] sovereign as they pertain to the manifest policy of that realm are recently reported to include the active enablement and indulgence of [[Froyalaners|alien colonial forces]] on the [[Benacia|Benacian]] continent, AND WHEREAS such wilful repudiation of the Goltz Doctrine of continental self-determination, the foundational consensus of Benacian diplomacy [[Amokolian War|inscribed with the blood of our Ashkenatzan forebears]] on Amokolia's very own soil, is a development not necessarily in the interests of the Garden nor the wider symbiotic harmony of the Benacian continent,'''

'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI instructs the defence and security organs of the Garden of Kalgachia and its Protectorate of [[Northbloom]] to implement and maintain a full and immediate closure of the border adjoining their respective jurisdictions to the Kingdom of Amokolia, assisted to the maximum extent practicable by other organs of governance.

'''2.''' Kalgachi and Northbloomer authorities are each authorised and instructed to solicit and accept from the other, any and all mutual assistance as may be required in the implementation and maintenance of a functional Amokolian border closure coherent across both jurisdictions.

'''3.''' The application of lethal force, without prior warning, to violators of the Amokolian border on Kalgachi/Northbloomer soil is authorised.

'''4.''' The Kalgachi delegation to the [[Slavegate Convention|Military Coordination Council]] at Stonetree are instructed to initiate discussions with their [[Raspur Pact]] counterparts concerning the coordinated implementation of a pan-Benacian containment policy against such common civilisational threats as may hypothetically emerge from the territory of a compromised Amokolian government.
 
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| Thanksday Summerise 18th, 220 AL || Church Statement upon the Deliverance of the Upland Confederation || <div align=center> '''WHEREAS the Garden of Kalgachia has, in the [[Slavegate Convention]], obtained an agreement with the [[Raspur Pact]] upon the cessation of hostilities in the [[Upland Confederation]] and a mutual acknolowdgement of territorial interests in the [[Republic of Inner Benacia|post-Dolmen]] space, AND WHEREAS this development has far-reaching and greatly beneficial implications of which all Kalgachia ought to be appraised, AND WHEREAS the valour and sacrifice of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], particularly its Kossar regiments, are worthy of the deepest recognition for bringing about such a favourable state of affairs,'''

'''1.''' The COUNCIL OF PERFECTI hereby releases a public statement contained in the Schedule to This Order, from Our Sovereign Brother the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia.

'''2.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Education and Outreach|Directorate of Education and Outreach]] is instructed to circulate the statement of Our Sovereign Brother through all news organs of the [[Media of Kalgachia|Kalgachi media]].

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'''Schedule 1 - Statement by the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia upon the cessation of hostilities in the Upland Condeferation'''

''Children of the Garden,''

''The greater number of you will be aware that recently, in the town of Slavegate, representatives of the [[Raspur Pact]] met with our Garden's executive, military and diplomatic leadership to bring about a cessation of armed hostilities with the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]] on the outer frontiers of the [[Upland Confederation]]. The Convention resulting from those negotiations allows the administration of that valiant ally of Shrubdom, the Ataman Ҳazedinov, to retain those territorial holdings obtained with the blood of his brave Laqkozaki and, indeed, the children of our own mountain Garden who were dispatched to the aid of his people.''

''Whilst we mourn those whom the Garden has lost in this just campaign, it is the judgement of none other than [[Lord Toastypops|Our Lord Salvator in Jollity]] that jollity is indeed warranted at its outcome. Jollity, in the first instance, for the plight of the Black Laqi who have been spared the greater part of the [[Benacia Command/Military Operations#Unternehmen Dschingis|archonic wrath]] poured out upon their Red Laqi cousins east of Schlepogora. They who stood in defence of our Shrubly name in [[Minutes of the Dolmen|the days of the Dolmen]], to the ridicule and enmity of their peers, have now yielded the fruit of deliverance from the archonic talon; for the [[Ketherism#The Laws of the Garden|Fifth Law of the Garden]] determined that this was our debt unto them. Glory unto the name of the [[Minarboria#Religion|Shrub]] and his Salvators, then, for the radiance of their example has lit a path through the Tumultuous Wastes and guided us to do what the Garden requires. There shall be cultivation ahead, yea, and all children and friends of Shrubdom shall partake of its fruits.''

''Still more righteous of our men and women at arms is the deliverance of the Benefactor Races, the [[Deep Singers]] and [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] of [[Lepidopterum]] and Lithead, from proximity to the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] horde who would slaughter them to the last orphaned infant if only the briefest chance availed itself. Banished for our time is the spectre of aggression, provocation and decoherence of the spirit upon the borders of those lands. It is for the deliverance of the hinterland Benefactors that the liberation of the Upland Confederation is an event beyond the realm of mere military maneouvre - it is a salvational act mandated from the [[Ketherism#Cosmology|Garden Ketheric]] itself, wrought by the faithful Kalgachi who fortify that Garden's periphery in this blasted world and have a shared interest in its defence. Here too does the Fifth Law come into effect, for the debt of all Kalgachia to the Deep Singers is everlasting; their works are of such significance in the righteous life of our nation, in our very genetic composition, that neither the [[Tyrannocricetus aliger|Tee-al]] nor the Crystal Death will ever suffice to part us from the children of the Broodmother. To the end of time, then, we shall stand or fall together - for this is the course on which history has set us.''

''In the valour and devotion of our armed forces during this campaign, it would be remiss of us to overlook those of the [[Ketherism#The Yehudi Conundrum and its Resolution|Pesakhnik creed]] - the sons of Jacob whose most valiant number comprise the Kossars of our Kalgachi Defence Force - for it is they who were first into the fray when the Black Laqi called for aid. It is they who ventured atop ruined forts to scour the skies for enemy aircraft. It is they who hauled artillery to the forward lines and offered furious reply to the raids of the [[Black Legions]]. It is they who suffered losses the longest. And yet...! What became of the dire predictions of defection and rout? These rootless cosmopolitians, these aristocrats of the human race, these pedestrians of the sea, where did we see the betrayal and reversion to archonic type that was feared of them? It was forgotten by a great many it seems, that their tribe has known such malice in antiquity as can scarcely be imagined; to the plight of our people, and especially the posthuman Benefactor Races, events have proven that the [[Kalgachia#The Siyacho-Ashkenatzi|Yehudim of Bergburg]] have cultivated within themselves a protective affinity. It has been learned in military circles quickly enough; Kossars are being promoted already. For the first time, rogatywka caps rest on the map tables of the General Staff. The First Law of the Garden mandates that all life be allotted the fullest niche it can occupy, and many a hero has returned from the Uplands deserving of a deeper station in life. Consider this when you next meet a serving soldier or a demobilised reservist.''

''By their valour and determination, the soldiers of Shrubdom have brought the Black Legions to terms. They have secured peace in our time. In the forts and trenches of the Upland Confederation the long humiliation of the Great Replantings, begun with the flight of the Shrub from [[Shirekeep]] and culminated in the [[History of Kalgachia|rout of our forefathers]] to these Octavian mountains, has at long last met its limit and begun to recede. After [[Harvestfall Revolution|revolution]], [[Minarboria#Collapse|collapse]], after hunger and privation, the final trial awaiting Shrubdom was its defence by force of arms against a powerful adversary. Our armed forces have stepped forward to this trial and been found worthy, and all the Garden with them.''

''Although our children may face this trial again, perhaps of a ferocity that wipes the present victory from memory, we now know that it can be done. And what is more, the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia|Gubernatorials]] know it can be done - the wave of chaos and destruction that precedes them, that has masticated so many other populations of our Benacian continent for easy digestion in the tradition of their [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] forebears, has failed to break us down. Those accustomed for centuries to the harrying of the disparate and leaderless have found us equipped, informed, prepared, and able to impose greater damage to their strength than is worth paying for the [[Endsieg|vain objectives]] of continental hegemony or the extermination of benign races. And so they have offered peace, not out of charity but out of necessity. And this is all we require of them.''

''So I beseech you, in the name of the Shrub and His Salvators, be thankful to our armed multitudes and the Garden that nourished their souls to life. By their gift you may go forth in jollity this day, for the Garden remains!''
 
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Orders made before 220 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] are archived below:

*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 210s|The 210s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 200s|The 200s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 190s|The 190s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 180s|The 180s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 170s|The 170s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 160s|The 160s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 150s|The 150s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 140s|The 140s]]

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