Assassination of Laura Fox

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The **Assassination of Laura Fox** was a key event in the closing months of the Has Wars where the Libirachi Empress Laura Fox was assassinated by forces of the Persian president Almac Docu in order to destabilise the nation in the lead up to the Libirachi Civil War

As one of the most chaotic events of the Has Wars, the death of Laura Fox set in motion the Libirachi Civil War and the eventual assent to power of her daughter Penny Fox, who ruled as regent during the civil war to try to keep the population complacent with her reign by securing a victory over the Confederacy of Independent Nations, which formed in the aftermath of her mother's death. Forming her own Union of Aligned Nations, Fox would go onto lead the UAN against the CIN to ultimately secure a victory in 2024 with the deaths of CIN leaders Ashton Morre, Almac Docu and Stanford Desai in October/November 2024.

Taking the throne as a regent following the death of her mother, Penny Fox took leadership over the Libirachi Empire and the Imperial Army as the paramount leader of the nation as the Confederacy of Independent Nations under the leadership of Almac Docu continued to keep dividing the only recently re-proclaimed Libirachi Empire, before the regent formed her own Union of Aligned Nations in rebuttal to the CIN’s warmongering. Fighting off the Confederacy in the ensuring war, the multiple failings of the Libirachi Imperial Army being pinned upon President Xi Jimping who was deposed and forced out of office on February 2nd 2023 to be replaced by the Minister of War, Damien Salamander, who promptly set about restructuring the decaying imperial bureaucracy on the behest of the regent Fox, as part of a precursor to the later implementation of the New-Think in the next decade.

Following 2 years of civil war and 4 years of continuous warfare involving the Fox Dynasty, Penny Fox set about reconstructing the political system of the nation with the Libirachi National Congress being given more *de-jure* power in order to make the nation seem more democratic and progressive, creating a 2025 Libirachi Constitution which codified into law the legal requirement for quinquennial elections every 5 years. So far there have been elections in 2025, 2030, 2033 and 2035, under presidents Damien Salamander (2023 - 2033) and Karyn Voor (2033 - *Incumbent*). Another of the changes was a provision which brought COMPNOR legal powers above the National Congress, whereas in the 2019 Constitution it had been subject to scrutiny from a select committee. Further amendments to the constitution were introduced in 2033 when President Voor took office and the Libirachi Imperial Army became subject to supervision from the Central Military Commission.

## History

 **Empress of the Libirachi Empire****Reign** • **Coronation**Xi Jimping I, WarHǔnluàn • COMPNOR • Libirachi Imperial Army • Fox Dynasty • Hunt for the Hǔnluàn • Explosion at the Xi Kanna Power Plant • Explosion at the Ulaanbaatar Government Building • Has Wars • Bovido Invasion of the Libirachi Empire • **Death**

 **President of the Libirachi Empire****Presidency**2019 Libirachi Coup d'état • Assent Bill (2019) • Imperial State Council • Imperial High Command

With the Has Wars coming to a close, a plot was formed in Persia under the leadership of the new President, Almac Docu, a former Libirachi politician in exile for rebelling against the government; under a cloak of darkness, a set of assassins infiltrated Beijing and poisoned Empress Laura Fox in the evening of May 27th 2022, leaving the nation without a head of state. Taking over *de-facto* power, President Xi Jimping connived a meeting of the Shadow Council, consisting of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Cassio Tagge, Grand General Guo Tijjan, Grand Moff Chen Bingde, Minister of War Damien Salamander, Minister of Defence Alastar Brigman and Director General of COMPNOR Penny Fox which unanimously selected the *late* Empress' daughter as the new regent of the Libirachi Empire, although she refused to waste time and resources on a coronation until after conflict stopped, instead taking over as Head of State from President Xi and the powers associated, despite not holding an official title with the authority to take the post. Meanwhile, as news of the Empress' death trickled out through the military command structure, several regions rebelled against the regime, such as the splinter nation of New Libirachi and *self-proclaimed* Grand Moff Alex Pandion's Imperial Fraction which seized control in the Lower Stan Provinces and Iran after failing to seize control in his oversector of Eastern China and the Acquired Provinces of Bovido Has. Whilst the Libirachi Empire continued its fight against Obadiah Has, the separatist groups united with Persia and several eastern European nations to become the Confederacy of Independent Nations, with Docu as its President. Facing a real threat of invasion, the Empire formed an alliance with the Russian Federation and Canogally to form the Union of Aligned Nations with Fox as its Chairman.

## See Also

* Libirachi Civil War
* Confederacy of Independent Nations
* Reign of Laura Fox
* Confederate Presidency of Almac Docu
* Persia
* Fox Dynasty