Kosovo Space Observatory (Imperial Re-Uprising)

The Kosovo Aerospace Facility and Observatory (Serbian: Аеросветски објекат и опсерваторија Косова, Aerosvetski objekat i opservatorija Kosova; Russian: Косовский аэрокосмический комплекс и обсерватория, Kosovskiy aerokosmicheskiy kompleks i observatoriya) known in short as the Kosovo Space Observatory, is a joint Serbian-Russian military and civilian space facility located in Pristina, in the Principality of Kosovo.
It is currently Serbia's first and only space facility, and boasts being one of the largest space facilities in the world, and the largest in all of the Balkans.
The idea of a "first Serbian space facility" came during the reign of Queen Mila Karadordevic, shortly after World War III. In 2047, Belgrade announced its intentions to build a space facility, however, Queen Julianna decided it would not be Serbia's prime first priority, as the country lay in economic ruin and decay.
Therefore, for three years, Serbia, Russia and Germany cooperated and focused on helping rebuild Serbia. In those three years, Kosovo underwent a rapid period of "Serbifying", in which the Albanian Kosovar population was forced out (many migrated to the Pax Islamica). 
Construction on the space facility didn't actually begin until 2053, amid rapid economic recovery. The Serbian government chose construction to be on the site of the Great Kosovo Mosque, shutting it down, destroying its minarets, and re-using the former prayer hall as the atrium and commons area of the future space center.
Currently, the center contains the Miroslav Berović National Planetarium and Space Museum, the Kosovo Civilian Space Port, the 1st Kosovo Space Port (military space port used by the aerospace forces of Serbia and Russia), as well as various space-themed shops, cafes and restaurants. The Kosovo Space Station operates in the aerospace directly above Kosovo, also containing shops and restaurants where people can view Kosovo (and Serbia) from outer space from a glass floor.
=== History ===
In 2046, after the Russians helped Serbia conquer and fully annex all of Kosovo, the "Slavicizing" of Kosovo commenced. Queen Mila Karadordevic, wanted Serbia to advance with the rest of the world, and made extensive meetings with Russian Supreme Leader Svetlana Orlova. 
One of the ideas that both leaders agreed on, was the building of a space facility in Kosovo. However, this was not met with positive responses at first, since all of the Principality Ministers agreed that fixing Serbia's ruined economy and infrastructure should be the priority.
Queen Mila agreed with the Principality Ministers that Serbia's economy should be the priority. Therefore, economic aid from Russia and Germany was used to revamp the Serbian economy.
In 2046, after the Serbians fully gained control of Kosovo, thanks to Russian aid, where Mila Karakordedvic placed her younger sister, Ivanka, as its ruler, and Radoslav Nikolic as its Principality Minister.
The Serbian government eventually began to full Slavicizing of Kosovo, silently deporting the Kosovar Albanian population, these migrants were accepted by the Pax Islamica, who issued deep grievances against both Serbia and Russia.
Germany, having grown into a superpower, supported Serbia's move.
In 2048, the Albanian government was not hesitant to launch a retaliatory attack against Serbia, to which it did. Despite emerging victorious, the Serbian government was fully convinced that until the Albanian threat was extinguished, space port construction would always remain unsafe.
In knowing that former Yugoslavia would always violotile, without one main major power to keep things in order, Queen Mila ordered Serbian invasions of several former Yugoslav countries, only that they would become territories under the Kingdom of Serbia.
==== Groundbreaking - 2053 ====
With Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and the northern half of Albania under full Serbian control, Queen Mila decided it was time to begin Serbia's own push to space.
Serbian and Russian engineers and planners debated as to where to put the space facility. Stefan Cerović suggesting coinciding the space facility's construction with that of the "Serbifying of Kosovo". 
In 2053, the Kosovo Principality Government ordered the shutdown of the Great Kosovo Mosque in Pristina. Princess Ivanka ordered the destruction of the minarets. In addition, the new and up-start Cerović Design Bureau would oversee the design of the space facility. The former prayer hall would be used for the atrium and commons area for the planetarium section of the space facility. 
A brdige, co-designed between Boris Babović and Russian architect Vladimir Melnikov, which would later be named the Babović-Melnikov Skybridge, would connect the former mosque to the former Pristina International Airport, to be converted into the Kosovo Civilian Space Port, accompanied by the 1st Kosovo Space Port, a military space port to be used by the aerospace forces of Serbia and Russia.
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