Assoon Insurgency

The **Assoon Insurgency** was an Allempi uprising and separatist movement against the Gimoan Alliance, starting in the mid-Old Era, specifically targeting the corrupt authorities of the Lapauan State at the Allempi homeworld, Lapau. The uprising began with the assassination of the Lapauan governor, Tal Luoco, by Assoonite special agents, sparking the Allempi Civil War. The rebellion gained traction with the allegiance and financial support of the Rebels of the Outer Territories (R.O.T.), culminating in the overthrowal of the Lapauan State, replacing it with what became the Assoonite State for the remainder of the Old Era.

## History

### Origins

During the mid-Emergent Epoch of the Old Era, the small, multistellar Allempi territory became a constituent of the Gimoan Alliance. This meant that Allempi-occupied territories were granted the protection of the Alliance and allowed for the increase in trade between Allempi and other Allies. The territories' capital was Lapau where the Allempi central government was situated, the centralised Lapauan State, which saw a marked increase in infrastructural and economic development and general prosperity as a result of joining the Alliance. Other than a small number of neighbouring planets, the rest of the Allempi territories experienced very little positive change, with much of the developing wealth reserved for Lapau and its surrounding systems. Behind the façade, economic instability in the other systems of the Lapauan State drove many Allempi into poverty, resulting in an increase in crime - particularly in the illegal weapons trade with the Brooglords of the Outer Territories. The Allempi-occupied planet Assoon became the primary gateway for the trading of illegal goods in and out of the Alliance, and gradually its economic stability was recovered. Culturally, however, the people of Assoon began to identify more with the nations of the Outer Territories than they did with their own capital; and, with the commercial aid of the Brooglords, the Assoonite Allempi rebelled against the central Lapauan government with the assassination of Governor Tal Luoco. This sparked the Allempi Civil War, officially expelling Assoon and its associative planets out of the Gimoan Alliance.

### Allempi Civil War & Shamfast's Rebellion

The Civil War between the Assoonite Allempi – now known officially as the Assoon Insurgency – and the Lapauan Allempi lasted for many years, though few major conflicts occurred due to neither side possessing an official army besides the Tinggi mercenaries supplied to Lapau by the Gimoan Alliance. The Assoon Insurgency meanwhile received no military aid, instead focusing on infiltration tactics to attack the elite figureheads of the Lapauan State directly and to avoid open military conflicts. Assoonite espionage and state-of-the-art weapons manufacturing made the Insurgency and the wealthy elite of Lapau evenly matched throughout the Civil War, with neither side conceding to the other until the end of the Emergent Epoch. Towards the end of the Emergent Epoch, the eminence of Assoonite espionage and weapons technology attracted the attentions of the increasingly influential young Ragash rabble-rouser, Shamfast the Rebel, who sought to unite the independent nations of the Outer Territories in order to overthrow the Gimoan Alliance. In 262, 4th Age of the Emergent Epoch, the leader of the Assoon Insurgency, Io Yalin, was summoned to the Ragashi homeworld of Farsai, where he attended the 262 Rally as one of the 88 leaders and representatives of the nations of the Outer Territories. Io and his entourage were so impressed by Shamfast’s speech that they immediately committed the Insurgency to his cause. This allegiance supplied the Rebellion with sophisticated Assoonite technology while simultaneously massively boosting the Assoon Insurgency’s economy and providing it with military support in its war with Lapau. By the 1st Age of the Chaotic Epoch, shortly after the signing of the Broogpact and the death of the Rebel-leader Shamfast, the Assoon Insurgency successfully overthrew the government of Lapau and its neighbours, and with the military aid of the newly unified Rebels of the Outer Territories (R.O.T.) they ousted the Tinggi mercenaries occupying the Allempi homeworld.

### End of the war & formation of the Assoonite State

In 98, 1st Age of the Chaotic Epoch, the Assoonite Allempi peaceably set foot on their ancestral homeworld for the first time in about 500 years. The remaining Lapauan inhabitants took some time to adjust to the changing of power, with many fleeing to the Central Galaxy to escape the Rebels and the rapidly materialising Chaotic Wars. The Assoon Insurgency, now the Assoonite State, maintained its capital on the planet Assoon, working to redistribute Lapau’s accumulated wealth throughout the Allempi territories. It remained an asset to Shamfast’s Rebellion throughout the ensuing Chaotic Epoch, arming the R.O.T. and provisioning them with its exemplary intelligence agents. After the fall of the Gimoan Alliance in 151, 2nd Age of the Chaotic Epoch, the Ragash Regime seized power over much of the Galaxy. This destabilised the galactic economy, and a short time after their rise to power the Regime became bankrupt, unable to fulfil the many promises that Shamfast had made to the nations of the Outer Territories centuries ago at the birth of the Rebellion. Both the Allempi of the Assoonite State and the former Lapauan elite assisted in the deposition of the Regime, and as the ensuing turmoil culminated in the dawn of a new era with the rise of the Imperial Epoch, both Allempi fled to their territories and were not heard of again. Reports from visitors to the Allempi territories declare the former capitals of Lapau and Assoon as abandoned and uninhabited by any Allempi. It remains a mystery as to where they went, how they disappeared so effectively, and why the Allempi abandoned their territories in the first place. It is generally assumed that they expected the Chaotic Wars to continue to grow and grow until it eventually caught up with them at their homeworld, and having forever had a cultural identity defined by civil war and rebellion, the Allempi decided to start again in an uninhabited corner of space.