Reillan Union

The was an interplanetary governmental union which existed during the Interregnum. It was a precursor state to the modern era's Despotate (and later, Empire) of Alusia.
== History ==
The outer arm of Imperial space has long been dominated by governments centered on the 3-gate world of Reilla. Once the seat of the Reilla Sector during the days of the Mage Imperium, the region became an autonomous zone upon the Imperium's collapse. By dint of its distance from the other major powers of the cosmos and the pure luck of not suffering destruction by the planet-killing weapons of the many Ascensionist factions, Reilla and its neighbors entered a period of relative peace, particularly following the collapse of the First Fialta Imperium, which had ravaged and occupied the nearby Hybern Sector.
To guard against incursion by the Fialta and the intruding Kirvan successor states, the surviving Imperial planetary governments formed the Reillan Union, a mutual-defense pact that lasted (on and off) for several thousand years - sometimes discarded in times of external peace by internally revisionist powers, often incorporating minor invaders into its auspices, but almost always reinstated with the coming of another wave of invaders from elsewhere. Little is known about this period, as most records have not survived; what little is known comes from the archives of the Academy of Saldan, which mostly record that the Union was one of its consistent trading partners in the period after the Saldanese reopened their aetheric gates. By the time of the Unification of Aeldrum, the Union had been suffering from a long decline for a century or more in the face of rising cosmic powers.
The Reillan Union and the neighboring areas were colonized by the Knights of Adarnum a century after the Unification of Aeldrum. the territory was consolidated into a single administrative zone, which was called Alusia (or "Soft Lands", from the somewhat biased Adarnan impression of the region's decadence). Following Bishant's imperial policy, the dukes, chieftains and other secular rulers of the newly minted Alusian March were placed under the rulership of a Despot, at the time a cousin of the Emperor of Bishant, whose family soon became in effect a cadet branch of the Shantine Imperial Family.
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