Holy Briserian Empire

### Location

Second Duchy territoryPeripherical planetary systems (de facto)75% of the Known Worlds

### Leader

Emperor Enoch the First † (8020 - 8023)Emperor Enoch the Second † (8023)

Military Staff

### Capital

None de jure, de facto Empire's Home

> "*The biggest threat Humanity has ever encountered since the Apocalypses, might as well call this the Third Apocalypse." - Federation President, 8023*
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The Holy Briserian Empire, is a continuation of the Second Duchy, founded after the reformation of the Duchy's religion, following the Nuclear Devastation in 8000~ in the Galactic East.

The Holy Briserian Empire is a total refoundation of the Second Duchy, with the entire political system switching from a quasi-feudal system to an Empire, similar to the past Briserian Empires and Imperial States that existed throughout history.

The Emperor, Enoch the First, was the Second Duchy's de facto head of state, due to the fact that in reality, the Second Duchy was an oligarchy, but covertly controlled by a shadow government whom Enoch the Ist was part of. The HBE still has the shadow government Function, with the shadow government covertly controlling Pro-Duchy insurrectionists, religious fanatics, and the First Duchy, which is still active, but internationally recognized as a terrorist organization.

The objective of the HBE is to unify Humanity under its religion, with Earth, considered holy, since it is the cradle of humanity, as its capital and sacred place. The HBE, and its predecessor, the Second Duchy, is at the origin of a large number of destabilization attempts against the Briserian Federation, which controls Earth. It is theorized that it was the Second Duchy that helped the Free State of Earth to gain its short independence. These destabilization policies kept going on with the evolution as the HBE, and intensified through its Duchy's Remnants faction, operating covertly for the HBE, and carrying attacks throughout the galaxy in the name of the Duchy in general.

As of 8023, following the Great War of 8021, the Holy Briserian Empire seized control over most of the Briserian colonies, with more than 85% of the Promethean-Briserian population living under the Empire. The overwhelming force of the HBE and the sheer devastation caused by its attack strategy left many worlds ruined, devastated, with some irradiated beyond habitable levels. The Federated Briserian States, the opponent of the HBE with the Stratocracy, is planning to send multiple colony vessels across the galaxy.

The Holy Briserian Empire has been extremely weakened, due to the Siege of Empire's Home. The death of Enoch the First, and Enoch the Second, its heir apparent, and the destruction of most of the state facilities by Federal forces shook the entire machinery of government. The Military Staff took control of the Empire and tries to maintain its integrity. A large part of the Imperial Fleet from the Western Front against the FBS were brought back in emergency in Empire's Home. The lack of defense in the Western Front made the Federal Forces advance in Imperial territory and retake roughly a quarter of lost territory.

The Empire is, as of Q4 8023, is crumbling and most probably will shatter in multiple states.

## Politics

The HBE is extremely different from the Duchy, where it was more suited for a single inhabited planet, and a few planetary systems under its control. Freedom is extremely limited, with at best draconian restrictions, and on certain colonies, curfews and martial laws are the norm. Religion is imposed on every civilian, obligated to observe the numerous religious festivals and customs.

Diplomacy with the other states in the Known Worlds is almost non-existent, especially since the HBE does not follow the various articles, decrees and treaties signed and ratified in the past, such as the limitation in colonization efforts to save and minimize human's impact on untouched worlds, and the avoidance of inhabited worlds that are not within the Known Worlds.

## Military

The HBE is conventionally composed of the Spatial Forces, the Atmospheric Forces, and Planetary Forces. The conscription is compulsory and is of at least a year, and a regular, 1-week long per semester training course. With a large portion of the population being regularly trained and maintained, the HBE military is also composed of militias, decentralized, for local defenses, if the HBE is compromised, and sieged, the HBE will have another large military body fighting, mainly designed for asymmetrical warfare.

The military is composed of a mix of Commonwealth (mainly GpK) equipment, and Federal equipment (mainly MAK, then LMAK), with a large number of MAK 20 fighters, and Citadel-class B/D/C (Battleship, Dreadnought, Carrier). The Ground component is equipped with a large number of PRTY-derived armored vehicles, thanks to the enormous hideouts and storage hangars in the previously CMWR territories that were annexed.

Irregulars, militias and conscripts uses HBE's own equipment, cheap, easy to maintain and mass produced standardized firearms, light equipment, and repurposed civilian vehicles. This is made deliberately as the HBE's main armies would easily crush rebellious irregulars.

The HBE's main armies, as said earlier, enjoy more complex, more powerful and more advanced technologically equipment, with PRTY-derived infantry weapons, up to stolen Type-81 Gear.