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| {{ESB article}} {{N&H article}} {{House of Osman article}} {{SANE article}} | | [[File:ChryseCongressFlag.png|thumb|The Congressional Flag (shown above) and the Congressional Emblem which it features as they were agreed upon in the 1703 Session.]] |
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| The '''Congress of Chryse''' of 1696– was an important diplomatic conference, focused around the creation of a new Benacian political order after the [[Second Elwynnese Civil War]] ({{AN|1692}}–{{AN|1696}} which saw the final and irrevocable defeat of democratic forces in [[Elwynn]]. As a "congress of the victors" it was a meeting of representatives of [[Benacia Command]], the [[Black Legions]], the Honourable Company of the [[ESB Group]], the [[House of Osman]], the Benacian [[Council of Archons (N&H)|Archons]] and the [[Union Defence Force]], and held in the city of [[Chryse]] from 20.X.{{AN|1696}} until its conclusion. | | The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the highest legislative body of the [[Benacian Union]], one that, being comprised of the victors of the [[Second Elwynnese Civil War]] placed itself above all laws from the moment of its victory. As a self-appointed permanent institution, comprised of representatives of [[Benacia Command]], the [[Honourable Company]], and the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party]], has thus far sat in the following sessions: |
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| The objective of the Congress was to map out a long-term plan for the vast swathe of Central and Northern Benacia which had now been cleansed of democratic and feudal forces. While Benacia Command remained committed to the global coalition of the [[Raspur Pact]] it was obliged to begin the process of reconstituting itself within the context of a separate political entity with ultimate authority over the conquered territories of the UGB and Elwynn. These steps being undertaken following a cleft in the Benacian membership of the Pact wherein several member-states, particularly [[Ransenar]], [[Sanama]], and [[Shireroth]], had proven themselves either unwilling or unable to commit to the principles of [[Endsieg]] ("Final Victory"), which had been applied in ''the Scouring'' – a limited orbital bombardment and nuclear exchange which had broken the back of entrenched rebel resistance in [[Upper Elwynn]].
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/1696-1698 Session|1<sup>st</sup> Session (1696-1698)]]: Produced the "final act" which reflected the extra-legal status of the victors of the civil war and the prevailing anti-constitutional sentiment in the immediate aftermath of the vanquishing of [[Ayreonism]] and [[Verionism]] from the continent of [[Benacia]]; |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/1703 Session|2<sup>nd</sup> Session (1703)]]: Convened to restore nominal constitutional governance upon the subject realms of the union, to address the status of the [[Sovereign Confederation]] within the union and the status of [[Normark]] outside of it; |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/1708 Session|3<sup>rd</sup> Session (1708)]]: Appoint the [[High Presidium of the Benacian Union]] for the next four years and to set the strategic agenda for that period. |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/1712 Session|4<sup>th</sup> Session (1712-1714)]]: Addressed the issues arising from the integration of [[Ransenar]] into the Benacian Union. |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/1717 Session|5<sup>th</sup> Session (1717)]]: Assessed the status of the Union-State and oversaw territorial renegotiation to reflect developments in the [[Cult of the Sacred Detonation|Exclusion Diocese]], [[Mishalan]], and the ongoing Kalgachi missions. |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/1722 Session|6<sup>th</sup> Session (1721–1722)]]: Addressed appointments to the [[High Presidium of the Benacian Union]] for 1723–1727. |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/1728 Session|7<sup>th</sup> Session (1728)]]: Addressed appointments to the [[High Presidium of the Benacian Union]] for 1728–1732 and the future strategy regarding [[Shireroth]] in the event of its departure from the [[Raspur Pact]]. |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/Extraordinary Session of 1731|Extraordinary Session (1731)]]: Addressing the [[Shiro-Benacian Cold War|deteriorating relations]] with [[Shireroth]], and the defence and security considerations arising thereof. |
| | *[[Congress of Chryse/Extraordinary Session of 1737|Extraordinary Session (1737)]]: Focused upon planning for the aftermath of the [[Shiro-Benacian War]], constitutional reform, administration of autonomous and occupied territories, and international relations. |
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| The Greater Elwynnese Realm and the Unified Governorates of Benacia would be reconstituted as one-party states under the control of the respective national sector parties of the N&H movement. While both polities would retain their nominal sovereignty over domestic political affairs, the functions of defence and security, economic, and foreign policy would be vested in a higher coordinating body - that of the Benacian Union where Benacia Command of the Raspur Pact, the Benacian Directorate of the Honourable Company, and the Benacian Archons of the Nationalist and Humanist Movement would provide a delegate apiece to sit upon the High Presidium of the Union.
| | ==Subordinate offices== |
| | *Office of the Lord High Censor |
| | **[[Benacian Censorate]] |
| | **[[Guild of Magisters-Carnifex]] |
| | *Office of the Lord High Rector |
| | **[[Benacian Academy]] |
| | ==Gallery== |
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| ==Preliminaries==
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| ==Participants==
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| [[Jeremiah Avon-El]], Commander in Chief of [[Benacia Command]] and [[Szodan of Benacia]] until the [[Declaration for the Reorganisation of Benacia and Elwynn (1696)|Declaration on the Reorganisation of Benacia and Elwynn]] on 8.XI.{{AN|1696}}, did not attend the Congress as he was subject to a formal enquiry by the Permanent Commission of the [[Raspur Pact]] for his conduct of the [[Second Elwynnese Civil War]]. Accordingly his place was taken by suitably empowered deputies.
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| ===Benacia Command of the Raspur Pact===
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| ===Benacian Directorate of the Honourable Company===
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| ===Black Legions of the UGB===
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| ===N&H Movement===
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| ===House of Osman===
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| ===Union Defence Force of Elwynn===
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| ===Invited observers===
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| All Benacian states, multinational bodies, and corporations were invited to send observers to the Congress as was the Secretary General of the Micras Treaty Organisation.
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| * [[Friedrich Hans Hemmelsworth]], Executive Director, [[Green Micras Initiative]]
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| * [[Samira al-Osman]], President, [[Transegale Trading Company|Transegale Trading Company of Elluenuueq, Inc.]]
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| * [[Royston Anders]], Vice Chairman, [[Oranjesion Private Equity Capital]]
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| ==Venues==
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| The island of [[Botha]], a private resort set in the Bay of Chryse and normally reserved for the pleasures of the ruler of the city, was chosen as an amenable venue in which to conduct the top level negotiations between the various parties in an environment of safety, comfort, and discretion, removed from prying eyes. At their leisure the principal negotiators were free to conduct their discussions under ''Bothan Island Rules'', that is to say without the cant and hypocrisy that burdens politics and diplomacy when it is carried on in a more public forum.
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| ==Course of the negotiations==
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| Negotiations began productively enough, resulting in the [[Declaration for the Reorganisation of Benacia and Elwynn (1696)|Declaration for the Reorganisation of Benacia and Elwynn]]. But as the work was divided into constitutional, diplomatic, and procedural workstreams for the attention of specialist negotiators, ensconced in hotels on the mainland, the pace of proceedings was slowed down by the calling away of key interlocutors to attend to various other matters; the troubles in [[Jingdao]] and the Humanist cause there, the perennial problem of recalcitrant [[Zeed]] and its futile [[Third Euran War|war]] in [[Eura]], and the newly minted expansionist policies of [[Hurmu]] on [[Apollonia]]. Accordingly, as {{AN|1696}} gave way to {{AN|1697}} many of the principals found themselves called away to other theatres, leaving matters in the hands of their negotiating teams, to make sense of the redacted notes that they had been left as best they could.
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| The Agreement on War Reparations (5.VI.{{AN|1697}}) between the Unified Governorates and Elwynn, set the final debt burden for the rebel bailiwicks of [[Amokolia]] and [[Upper Elwynn]] at 3.9 trillion [[Elwynnese mark]]s, of which 995 billion was to be set aside for the compensation of [[Alalehzamin]], the [[Sovereign Confederation]], and [[Ransenar]], for reconstruction and the remediation of the effects of the ''Scouring''. The burden of reparation payments was initially divided equally between each reconquered bailiwick, irrespective of size and ability to pay. Eventually exactions were scaled to taking forty-percent of a bailiwick's pre-war economic output. The [[UDF]]-supervised authorities of Amokolia and Upper Elwynn were accordingly mandated to collect a total amount of 39.8 billion marks per annum for the duration of the duration of the period {{AN|1697}}–{{AN|1797}}. Only with the fulfilment of the last payment would the war guilt of the Elw and Amokolian races be considered expunged and the restoration of a constitutional democratic form of government even to be essayed as conceivable. Perhaps seemingly petty at the time, the Imperial State of Constancia demanded restitution of 20 million Natopos to compensate for the building and untimely deaths of staff of the Imperial Embassy in Eliria, and repayment of restitution advanced by the Imperial State for their families. The claim was held to be dubious as the loyalist government had issued warnings for international missions to remove their staff from Eliria as their safety could no longer be guaranteed. The final warning to the diplomatic corps had been given well in advance of the date of the Scouring, as such it was contended that any who, by that stage, had remained in a city at war did so at their own risk. Accordingly clarification was sought before funds would be disbursed from the reparation payments gathered in.
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| The Agreement on Restitution for Losses Incurred by Allied Shipping (6.VI.{{AN|1697}}) empowered the municipal corporations of ports in the Sovereign Confederation and the Unified Governorates to apply for letters of marque from the Congress, and subsequently from the Benacian Union, to outfit ships to serve as [[Sea-Reavers]] thereby to seek and take as prizes vessels sailing under the flags of [[Calbion]], [[Cimmeria and Raikoth]], [[Jingdao]], and [[Nova England]]. Each port would be permitted to take prizes up until the value of wartime losses incurred by the ports had been reached. Prizes taken were to be sailed to [[Chryse]] for the purpose of valuation and auction, to be conducted by an Admiralty Court convened for the purpose there.
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| ==Final act==
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| ==Domestic responses==
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| ==International reaction==
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