Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Empire of Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, is the continuation of the former Roman Empire in its eastern territories during the First Void War, when its capital was Nova Byzantium. It survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire but fell under the control of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, which made Byzantium its satellite state after the end of the First Void War.
==Politics==
===Overview===
The Byzantine Empire operates under a Despotist regime which functions as a theocracy and an absolute monarchy but it is a puppet state of the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth, which forced emperor Andronikos IV to sign a humiliating peace treaty which placed it under Novayan thumb. While its honor and glory is broken, the Novayan government allowed the Byzantines to operate freely albeit as a satellite state. It is currently a member of the Unity Pact.
As part of Operation Sovereign Justice, Grand Marshal Borealis III's Novayan-led coalition military operation against the First Order, the Byzantine Empire provided military equipment to the nascent Coalition of the Willing (later the Jedi Coalition) but not military units; only after the second death of Darth Sidious at Exegol and the end of Exegol-2 did the Byzantines send military units to reinforce the badly-beleaguered Coalition's military strength. After the final death of Darth Sidious at Byss, Byzantium is involved the Colonization Rush in Galaxy Foxtrot-Foxtrot-Alpha, where it sent colonists to join the colonization program which is to modernize the galaxy itself. Many Byzantines established colonial settlements and communities at Zakuul, Byss, New Meridian, and Beliya-Zatszol; plans were made to grant the Byzantines their own colonies, which is achieved only after the start of the One Sith War.
The internal divisions within the Norsoutha-Tomoshima families that shattered the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth shocked the Byzantines, who never expected Novaya to fracture from within. The mass confusion which dominated the Novayans had also affected the Byzantine Empire, whose military overlords contemplated on withdrawing back to the NSC to impose martial law and curfew or stay where they are. The ever-increasing confusion soon forced the Byzantine emperor Constantine XXVII and senate to impose martial law and curfew to prevent a major breakdown of the Byzantine nation. After the Revolt of Eon-U 5SB144, despite being provided the path of independence by the leader of the Freies Armee Novaya and later Novayan prime minister Wilhelm Brandt, the Byzantines voted to remain a satellite state after realizing that lacking Novayan overlords would only lead to Byzantium's decline.
===National spirits===