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| Byeday Summerise 8th, 218 AL || Operation Broodmother III: Occupation Phase || <div align=center><br>'''WHEREAS the [[Black Legions]] of the [[Unified Governorates of Benacia]] have, in support of that entity's claim to the territory of the Garden's neighbours and allies in the [[Upland Confederation]], engaged in a sustained aerial assault upon that territory whose casualties include many serving personnel of the [[Military of Kalgachia#The Kalgachi Defence Force|Kalgachi Defence Force]], AND WHEREAS free range of the aforenamed territory, or any territory abutting the prevailing domains of our [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] benefactors, by any entity enthralled to the [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanist]] creed, remains existentially intolerable to the Garden, AND WHEREAS the particular nature of the aforenamed ideology suffers force and force alone to moderate its proclivity for degenerate martial excesses, YET WHEREAS the strategic interest of the Gubernatorial regime in bleeding the flower of Shrubdom dry upon [[Benacia]]'s turbid lowlands, representing as it does a wilful cultivation and exploitation of the archonic fixation, compels prudence and moderation in the Garden's response,'''
| Helloday Summerise 20th, 220 AL || Northern Border Controls || <div align=center><br>'''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 by This Order commands the Kalgachi Defence Force to secure the Garden's interests in the Upland Confederation by full occupation of its defensive depth within the existing and expanded auspices of '''Operation Broodmother III''', with emphasis on the following objectives:
'''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.


'''a)''' The provision of ground-based air defence sufficient in coverage and potency to effect threatened or actualised losses, and consequent strain on industrial and personnel resources, of a level greater than the Upland Confederation's strategic value to the regime in Merensk.
'''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.


'''b)''' The acceleration and population of the arrangements for ground defence currently supervised by the administration of Ataman Ҳazedinov, toward an extent and quality sufficient to halt and/or reverse a direct combined arms assault up to army group scale backed by gravimetric and space assets.
'''3.''' The application of lethal force, without prior warning, to violators of the Amokolian border on Kalgachi/Northbloomer soil is authorised.


'''2.''' The following KDF units are to be mobilised and released for the above purpose within the following forty-eight hours:
'''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.
 
'''a)''' The Fire Division.
 
'''b)''' The 3rd Katarsis Division.
 
'''c)''' The 4th Jollity Division.
 
'''d)''' The 6th Bergburg Division.
 
'''e)''' The 8th Oktavyan Division.
 
'''f)''' All rail-mounted artillery units of the Fortress Division.
 
'''g)''' The entirety of Reserve Army North.
 
'''3.''' To facilitate the deployment of the above forces, the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Public Works|Directorate of Public Works]] is instructed to close to civilian traffic all railways and principal highways in the Lieutenancies of Abrek, Katarsis, Jollity, Bergburg and Western Lithead for the following seventy-two hours. The DPW is authorised to deputise without limit such formations of [[Kalgachia#The Prefects|Prefects]] and [[Military of Kalgachia#Church Partisans|Church partisans]] as may be required to assist in the task.
 
'''4.''' The ballistic missile component of the Fortress Division is to assume full alert status. All leave is cancelled.
 
'''5.''' The [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes|Directorate of the Tumultuous Wastes]] is instructed to convey through appropriate channels to the governments of all Western Benacian powers that '''a no-fly zone is in effect over all territory of the Upland Confederaton until further notice. Aircraft of any origin breaching this zone will be fired upon without warning.'''
 
'''6.''' Ground assault, ground reconnaissance or strategic munitions delivery outside the territory of the Upland Confederation by the forces named in This Order is strictly prohibited without direct and explicit authorisation from KDF Deep Command.
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| Thanksday Springfall 18th, 216 AL || Autonomy of Lapivril || <div align=center><br>'''WHEREAS [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|our occluded brethren]], by their subtle and ingenious works in the development of [[Project Newrad|Lapivril]], have cultivated in those sublime depths a social order increasingly advanced from the customs and concerns of the surface, AND WHEREAS in such circumstances the incorporation of that territory into the normal structures of Kalgachi state is no longer tenable,'''
| Thanksday Summerise 18th, 220 AL || Church Statement upon the Deliverance of the Upland Confederation || <div align=center><br>'''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 by This Order releases the Lieutenancy of Lapivril from the provisions of the [[Oktavyan Code]] and shall approach it henceforth as a Protectorate of the Garden, with such autonomy in its affairs as is enjoyed by [[Northbloom]] and [[Lepidopterum]].
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| Thanksday Springfall 18th, 216 AL || Reform of the Oktavyan Code || <div align=center><br>'''WHEREAS historical developments of recent years, both within and without the Garden, must be acknowledged and reflected in law to maintain the efficiency and relevance of the Kalgachi state in modern times,'''
 
'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order reforms the [[Oktavyan Code]] to the Revision of Springfall 18th, 216 ''Anno Libertatis'', with the following adjustments:
 
'''a)''' Transfer of the power to appoint or dismiss Chairpersons of the Council of Perfecti from the [[Kalgachia#The Troglodyti|Troglodyti]] to the Council itself.
 
'''b)''' The striking of all references to the [[Project Newrad|Lieutenancy of Lapivril]] in preparation for its conversion to a Protectorate of the Garden.
 
'''c)''' A relaxation of the prohibition on imports or exports of food between Kalgachia and its Protectorates.
 
'''d)''' A codification of visa-free entry to Kalgachia by citizens of the Protectorates.
 
'''e)''' The inclusion of the [[Stormark|Storish]] to provisions pertaining to the [[Froyalaners|Froyalanish]].
 
'''e)''' The institution of a Certificate of Ethnicity for Kalgachi citizens, with an expansion and finer delineation of its function in civic affairs.
 
'''f)''' A prohibition of Elianism and similar manifestations of invasive Jacobinism.
 
'''g)''' Various technical amendments, removals of historically-moribund provisions and archonic language.
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| Helloday Springfall 5th, 214 AL || Cause for Mourning || <div align=center><br>'''WHEREAS the Garden of Kalgachia has lost a noted luminary of its foundational era, AND WHEREAS the people of Kalgachia, as prime beneficiaries of his works, are entitled to solemn appraisal of the fact, AND WHEREAS funereal arrangements befitting his legacy to the Garden are a matter of some importance,'''
 
'''1.''' THE COUNCIL OF PERFECTI by This Order announces with lacrimal regret the death of one '''Xantus Albedevich Zmeysyn Yastreb''', tireless sower and cultivator of our shared Garden, from complications of latent genotypic incompatibility.
 
'''2.''' The Council offers in recognition of the deceased, the following brief obituary:
 
''Xantus Yastreb was born in the Shrubly Shade Correctional Colony outside Stonetree (now [[Republic of Inner Benacia|Bagegeniśort]]) where his father, Albede Yastreb, was serving a remedial term for leading the [[Harvestfall Revolution]] against the government of [[Minarboria]]. The decision by Albede and his wife Prethil Nal - latterly the Lady Protector of [[Lepidopterum]] - to create a child called for an unusual combination of lich and [[Deep Singers|Deep Singer]] genetic material outside approved iterational protocols, an exception granted for experimental purposes after lobbying from the Shrubly Shade colony administration. Although born alive and largely functional, Xantus entered this world with a burdensome array of minor genetic defects which would ultimately combine to bring about his demise, and which make his accomplishments in life all the more remarkable. Released from Shrubly Shade in 134 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] for good behaviour and academic competence, Xantus was ordained into the Minarborian church as a mendicant Dissitor.''
 
''Xantus was travelling through [[Northbloom|Highbloom]] when the Minarborian state experienced its final collapse in 141 AL and like countless thousands of other Minarborealist clerics, he found himself compelled to rally the frightened population around him in the absence of a functioning government. Xantus was one of the first to recognise the value of the Octavian mountains as a place of refuge and reconsolidation, along with the value of sympathetic [[Kalgachia#The Laqi|Laqi]] warbands in defending his weakened charges and requisitioning wealth for them out of the shattered post-Minarborian wastes. Linking up with similarly-inclined clerics and their own columns of refugees, Xantus would eventually supervise the relocation of some sixteen million Minarborians into the land now known as Kalgachia.''
 
''Moreover, it can now be revealed, it was Xantus Yastreb who convened his fellow clerics into the very first Council of Perfecti and established the Kalgachi state. To the name and face of Xantus Yastreb goes the honour of the fatherhood of our nation, the cultivation of our sublime mountain garden from a heap of uncaring granite hitherto neglected by all the civilisations of [[Benacia]]. In this capacity did Xantus guide the Garden's sovereign Perfecti over the coming years - even through the premature death of his wife, the [[Urchagin|noted]] Pedagodue General Ilessa Aerit - until 191 AL, when his increasing illness called him to a life of well-earned rest in the Karymovka Sanatorium of Schlepogora; previously the private seat of his family, which he had given over to the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Health and Public Welfare|DHPW]] for the health of the nation.''
 
''Xantus is survived by his mother, the Lady Protector of Lepidopterum whose fully-iterated Deep Singer constitution, whilst leaving her blissfully free of her son's genetic problems and blessed with indefinitely-advanced years, nonetheless now burdens her with the painful duty of her son's burial. She is joined in grief by their two children; the Lady Lieutenant Rubina Yastreb of Oktavyan, and one Falcifer Yastreb presently engaged in government service.''
 
''Xantus Yastreb is gone among the Ketheric Host; yet thanks to his loving work for us all, The Garden Remains.''
 
'''3.''' A Funeral Committee shall be established to attend to the burial and post-mortem affairs of the deceased, comprised of the following persons in the order of precedence given:


'''a)''' Prethil Nal, Lady Protector of Lepidopterum.
'''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.


'''b)''' The Salvator Celestine Vivienne Hypatia de Taniere-Gaudin, Broodmother of the Garden.
'''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]].


'''c)''' Rubina Xantievna Prepodava Yastreb, Lady Lieutenant of Oktayan and Chair of the Lord Lieutenants' Council.
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'''d)''' Falcifer Xantievich Yastreb, presently engaged in government service.
'''Schedule 1 - Statement by the Perfectus of the Church of Kalgachia upon the cessation of hostilities in the Upland Condeferation'''


'''4.''' The Funeral Committee shall proceed according to the Last Will and Testament of the deceased, as notarised by Our Sovereign Brother the Perfectus for Health and Public Welfare in the year 212 ''Anno Libertatis'' and given in Schedule 1 of This Order.
''Children of the Garden,''


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''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.''


'''Schedule 1 - Last Will and Testament of Xantus A.Z. Yastreb'''
''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.''


''I worked in low profile and I shall be buried in low profile - a coffin filled with soil and/or scree from each of Kalgachia's Lieutenancies and Protectorates, interred alongside the remains of my late wife in the grounds of the Abiding Rustle Elementary School in the parish of Frostypeeps, March of Retention, Oktavyan Lieutenancy. The Resectors of the Holy Synod of the Church of Kalgachia shall be my pallbearers, the parish partisans of Frostypeeps shall provide the guard and their Credent shall lead the funeral procession. Attendance shall be limited to my relatives, the Salvator Celestine, the Lords Lieutenant, serving and retired Perfecti and such inhabitants of the parish of Frostypeeps as might wish to attend. The burial shall be conducted in accordance with [[Ketherism|Ketherist]] rites by my Brother Sovereign the Perfectus for the Church of Kalgachia. A single eulogy by the benefactor of my youth, the Salvator Celestine the Broodmother, shall be permitted in which she might wish to pass final judgement upon my life and works on behalf of the Ketheric Host.''
''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.''


''My material possessions and the entirety of my financial assets are left to my grandson, Caustifer, conditional upon his completion of the [[Urchagin]] within the allotted age range. In the event that this does not occur, I forfeit all of the above to the [[Kalgachia#The Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning|Directorate of Labour and Economic Planning]] for disposal upon the open market.''
''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.''


''Words never came so easily to me as actions; such is the creed of the Great Garden Beyond into which, Shrub willing, I shall shortly enter. May its dappled glades rustle on in the hearts of you whom I have left, and may my works be surpassed out of memory by your future glories. To the Ketheric Host I carry this faith and to their number I commend the souls of you all, my loving Kalgachi people. Redemption shall know you yet.''
''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.''


''- X.A.Z.Y.''
''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 210 [[Kalgachia#Calendar|AL]] are archived below:
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 200s|The 200s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 190s|The 190s]]
*[[Kalgachi Orders of Council/The 190s|The 190s]]

Revision as of 21:42, 20 July 2019

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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.

Date Decree Title Text
Helloday Summerise 20th, 220 AL Northern Border Controls

WHEREAS the regal proclivities of the Amokolian sovereign as they pertain to the manifest policy of that realm are recently reported to include the active enablement and indulgence of alien colonial forces on the Benacian continent, AND WHEREAS such wilful repudiation of the Goltz Doctrine of continental self-determination, the foundational consensus of Benacian diplomacy 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 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.

Thanksday Summerise 18th, 220 AL Church Statement upon the Deliverance of the Upland Confederation

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 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 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 Directorate of Education and Outreach is instructed to circulate the statement of Our Sovereign Brother through all news organs of the 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 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 archonic wrath poured out upon their Red Laqi cousins east of Schlepogora. They who stood in defence of our Shrubly name in 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 Fifth Law of the Garden determined that this was our debt unto them. Glory unto the name of the 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 Nezeni of Lepidopterum and Lithead, from proximity to the 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 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 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 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 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 rout of our forefathers to these Octavian mountains, has at long last met its limit and begun to recede. After revolution, 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 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 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 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!

Orders made before 220 AL are archived below: