The Republic of Phoenix

Seal of the Repuiblic

The Republic of Phoenix (Abbreviated RoP) is the largest nation in Orion-spur, with almost 50 individual planets members of the Republic senate, it functions as a indirect democracy with each member planet having 2 representatives regardless of population, The nation has a rich history dating back to its formation in 10 BP during the great civil war.

**Government**

Government is split-up between the executive branch and the Republic Senate, The executive branch houses the President of the Republic and Congress while the senate is made up of representatives of members of the Republic, the senate primary purpose is to propose and vote on laws, the executive branch is primarily to direct day to day operations and direct the military incase of wartime, Congress is primarily made up from the founding members of the Republic being Farah, Skali and Meridian, the President is elected by vote via the Congress and Senate and can only serve a minimum of 4 years before reelection, and as of 50 AP, is mostly a figurehead more so than a leader, both the executive branch and senate must follow rules that were created during the formation of the republic named the *Republic Doctrine*

**Culture**

Culture of the RoP is constantly changing, however the main political parties of the republic have enjoyed power back and forth since the founding of the republic, most core planets share deep political ties with each other, with most politicians coming into power from those planets, outer-planets lack the political insight and can operate independently from one another, these worlds are classified as semi-independent, only being in the republic for stability, the anthromorphic virus that infected most of Orion-spur affected these semi-independent planets the hardest, Republic and Saimin scientists estimate that 91% of the semi-independents were turned into anthros, while the core regions developed a vaccine quickly resulting in only 12% of the population becoming anthro, tensions between the human and anthro community has been tight at most with some places even outlawing anthros entirely (this was made illegal by the senate in 32 AP)

**History**

*Early years/Great Civil war*

The RoP was founded in 10 BP during the great civil war, its founding was to unite two sides of the war, the Republicists and the Imperialists who both were engaged in a massive revolution against the Phoenix Empire, with the formation of the RoP effectively turning a civil war into a revolution, the RoP originally composed of three member states, Farah, Skali and Meridian who succeeded from the Empire that same year, The RoP struggled greatly in the first couple years of its formation with both the Republicists and Imperialists arguing over wartime strategy, this weakness allowed the Phoenix Empire to exploit them, leading to Meridian being glassed, this setback united both parties once more, using civilian ships commandeered from Farah's local shipyards, a Navy was created. while weak it successfully drove off a attack on Farah, giving time for local ship manufactures to construct what would become the prototype for the *Silverlining* class of ships that became the backbone of the Republic armed forces., the Republic would then go on to push back Imperial troops towards the Maki Reality Gate in the Hope system in what would be dubbed the Destiny Campaign which would last the rest of the war, Coming closer to the Homebase of the Empire stationed in Orion-spur in the Maki system, The empire would call reinforcements, which would arrive a couple months before the end of the war.

*The end of the Great Civil war*

The Empire would adapt a scorched earth policy as the Republic made gain after gain, glassing worlds before they fell into republic hands, this only made the drive of the republic stronger, who in turn began executing imperial members on sight even if surrendered. The final battle of the war would be the *battle of Destiny.* the largest battle of the war, this battle would see the first ever deployment of a C.A.T superweapon, which would be used by the Republic to completely destroy the Imperial reinforcements and destroy the Maki Reality Gate, effectively cutting the Empire off from its homereality, securing a Republic victory.

*Peacetime.*

The aftermath of the war saw great prosperity for the Republic, what was the Republicists and Imperialists would become the Progressives and the Conservatives, with the Progressives wanting to expand Republic influence and the Conservatives wanting to take a more isolationist approach, the first president would be a progressive James Wilk, who commanded the navy during the battle of Destiny, President Wilk would expand the Republic ten-fold, with 32 planets joining the republic under his presidency.

The Economy would boom, planets such as Farah would become economic powerhouses, Meridian despite being glassed would become the largest shipyard in the republic with 86% of all constructed ships originating from Meridian, Technology would progress at a almost impossible rate, Artificial Intelligence, Cryogenics, what would take a month of FTL travel would take mere hours, planets ravaged by gassings would be terraformed into tropical paradise worlds, the invention of cybernetics increased life expencency three times its pre-war rates.

but all good things, must come to a end.

*The Sol crisis*

the republic would undergo massive expansion of its borders, however not all planets wished to join the republic, and in 25 AP, the system of Sol would be discovered by scouts, the scouts would go missing while approaching the planet of Earth, the 3rd President of the Republic, Omni Winter would order the investigation of the missing scouts, and what they discovered would shock the Republic, a large inter-galactic nation by the name of the Earth United Federation had destroyed the republic scouts and already controlled a large chunk of the surrounding space, it was also discovered that a unknown pathogen had been raging across the EUF's population, turning those into andromorphic beasts, President Winter using her executive powers enacted a policy of containment of the virus and the EUF, and arthorized the use of glassing to prevent the virus from spreading into Republic territory.

Researchers at the Farah institute of sciences discovered that despite the virus's nature, the population and government of the EUF did nothing to prevent the spread, nor did they acknowledge it, the virus also showed to have no ill effects on infected individuals despite the large change the virus causes, this research would be suppressed by the RoP government, Lastname industries was commissioned by the RoP government to construct a warship solely for the purpose of enacting containment, setting the ground works for the famous supercarrier the *Destiny*

the EUF would become aware of the RoP during the *Proxima Centauri B Crisis*, in which a Republic Vessel would glass a portion of the planet despite a order by the Fleet Admiral to keep distance, the EUF would successfully board and accidently infect the crew of the Republic Vessel, resulting in the vessel being destroyed by a nearby RoP ship in accordance with the containment policy, this event would spark the *EUF-REPUBLIC cold war*

*EUF-REPUBLIC COLD WAR*

Both nations would increase border defenses drastically, the EUF seeing the incident on Centauri B as an act of war, the EUF tried numerous times to contact the RoP, the RoP would refuse to contact the EUF due to the containment policy. In secret, President Winter and select members of Congress would create the Winter coalition and prepare plans to invade the EUF to eradicate the virus.

**The First Solar war 23AP- 31 AP**

On July 2nd 23AP the Republic Invasion fleet under the command of Winter herself, would enter the border-zone of the RoP and EUF, and a declaration of war was declared, and the invasion fleet would enter EUF territory, sparking the first battle of the war, *Glassing of Kepler,* a decisive Republic Victory. With support from both the senate and congress, President Winter would declare wartime, giving the president full control of the government and making her term limitless.

In 24AP, The Destiny would finish construction from Meridian, it was the largest ship ever constructed, it was the first ship to feature a C.A.T in its design and was immediately assigned and deployed to Winter's Fleet where it would serve as a capital ship, The Destiny would help win victory after victory, reaching closer to Sol.

*The Battle of Sol 28AP*

The Battle of Sol marked a turning point in the war, the RoP used orbital bombardment and avoided close quarters combat to avoid the spread of the virus, however it was apparent to the RoP that a ground invasion of the planet was the only way to take the planet, the EUF had known for months now why the RoP had enacted a invasion in the first place, the virus. and was to exploit the fear of the virus to its advantage, EUF would go on the offensive, using the *Earth Defense Fleet* they would flank the RoP fleet from behind, and board its ships and purposely infect the crew, the RoP ships would then be ordered to destroy the compromised vessels, effectively destroying the entire fleet, this plan would be extremely successful, however several now infected ships would escape and break RoP containment, The Destiny would also be damaged by Earth's Orbital defenses and would leave the battle for repairs. the EUF would manage to capture a portion of the fleet aswell and allowed them to reverse engineer republic technology. the Battle of Sol would be the first Republic loss of the war, with more to come.

*EUF on the offensive*

Infected RoP ships would make landfall in Farah and Meridian, quickly causing massive accidental outbreaks, it was becoming quickly obvious the true nature of the virus with members of the progressives calling for the removal of the containment policy. the conservatives including President Winter viewed the infected as less than human, causing a massive rift between the progressive controlled Senate and the Conservative controlled Executive branch, all the while EUF using RoP tech against them and by 30 AP would invade RoP territory.

The Winter Coalition would discover a abandoned Empire outpost on the planet Maka, they would then discover the *Imperial Artifact*. which told the return of the Phoenix Empire, President Winter, seeing the writing of the wall would secretly divert assets to a planet inside a section of space named the *Deadzone*, Winter would also kill members of the Coalition who showed sympathies towards the EUF and those infected by the virus. early 31AP EUF forces were only a few systems away from the core worlds of the Republic, the split between the conservatives and progressives had gotten violent. with desertion to the EUF growing increasingly common, the progressives had called for the removal of Winter on the early morning of November 2nd, with a vote of 47-3, Winter did not step down, and had called back her personal fleet to Farah to prepare for the impending attack by EUF forces, mere hours later 89% of the Republic would denounce Winter, and move to remove her via force with help of the EUF. EUF and a RoP deserter fleet would enter Soolas, bringing the infection with them. Winter, sparking the *Battle of Farah,* the final and largest battle of the first solar war.

The Destiny and her supporting ships would form a parameter of the capital city of Ashes in orbit, while the Winter Loyalist Fleet engaged the EUF and RoP deserter fleet, Winter would be evacuated to the Destiny. The battle was farce and long, Orbital Defenses were sabotaged internally. the EUF's capital vessel, *Hero of Sol* would intercept the Destiny by ramming her hull, the Destiny would take massive damage and fuel storage would be ruptured causing her engines to fail, EUF forces would board the Destiny in search of winter, who was quickly moving to her personal ship landed in the hanger, Winter Loyalist and EUF forces would clash throughout the massive ship as it started to be pulled into Farah's atmosphere, Winter avoiding capture and infection through maintance halls, she barely managed to escape the Destiny as it started to break up in atmosphere. EUF forces would attempt to trail her, but a loyalist frigate *Winter's Fist* was quick to respond to Winter saving her from capture and quickly warping to the planet in the deadzone along with the remnants of the loyalist fleet, The Destiny would reach her final resting place in the Northern Mountains of Ashes, The RoP capital, the battle would be a EUF victory and mark the end of the first solar war.

**POSTWAR**

Following the surrender of all Republic forces to the EUF after the fall of Farah the EUF would move to rebuild its own territories and infrastructure while leaving a fleet to occupy Farah and other important Republic controlled worlds, the peace agreement would be signed in the Senate chambers by the EUF chairman and members of the RoP senate who did not flee with now war criminal and former President Winter, the agreement gave the EUF access to some of the more resource rich outer-colonies that were apart of the RoP and allowed the EUF to operate in the RoP territory for 10 years, the EUF would also oversee the next Republic Election.

This treaty was controversial to both remaining Republicists and Imperialists alike, Imperialists in particular didn't like how the EUF would be able to enter RoP territory at will and unchecked. while Republicists didn't like how the EUF would oversee elections, riots would breakout on major planets and had to be put down by the EUF occupying force.

The following Emergency Election would see the creation of a new party, the Peace Party, individuals that sought a closer relationship with other nations such as the EUF, the peace party would win big in the election seemingly in a landslide, RoP historians agree that these elections were most likely influenced by the EUF in some manner.

The President however would be elected war vet and CEO John Lastname who was a member of the imperialists, he would immediately start remilitarizing the RoP because he saw Winter's Loyalists as a major threat. he also had a belief that the EUF will overstep its boundary leading to war. members of the Peace Party (who now had a majority in Congress) was annoyed and quickly approved laws to limit the Presidents power and put more power to Congress, Republicists and some members of the Imperialists sided with this move to avoid another President like Winter.

reconstruction was relatively quickly with the EUF helping after rebuilding its infrastructure, The EUF and RoP would also come to agreement making the Saimin homeworld a neutral zone.

**TENTIONS**

By 34 AP, the EUF and RoP maintained a relatively close bond at least publicly, behind the scenes Imperialists and Republicists were becoming increasingly angry over the EUF backed Peace Party, and on September 2nd a secret meeting with President Lastname and members of both Republicists and Imperialists drafted a contingency plan in the case the EUF went to far, this contingency would see the rapid deployment of the entire RoP military and use former Phoenix Empire ship routes to sidestep EUF border worlds and make a beline to Earth in order to stun them to give the Republic Intelligence agency time to steal intel, they would then fall back to the border and prepare for a counter. this contingency was dubbed the Carter Contingency, named after the man who proposed it. Berk Carter.

the EUF was becoming increasingly aware of President Lastnames distain for the EUF and started using the Peace Party as a tool to limit his power further, but with the now united Republicists and Imperialists most of these bills were struck down. the EUF became increasingly worried about President Lastname, and a assassination order was given.

RoP intelligence figured out the plot and informed the President and his security, who then decided to lay a trap.