History of Bujan

This is an article about the history of Bujan.

## Ancient history

In ancient times, the native peoples of what is now known is Bujan referred their island as Ersoviant, meaning "Land of the Sunrise Mulberry Trees".

Makkadal Island's inhabitants established minor kingdoms, whose writings were among the earliest attested Wonao languages since the Third Age. Before the Seventh Age, they were united into Makkadal by the Treaty of the Six Princes.

The city of Vaikoro (later Koscheigrad) was founded on the Second Age by the Koedaker tribe's ancestors, worshipping the whirlpools to the northwest of their ancient city. Heroes and kings who died were sent to the storms after their funerals, to be brought to the Gods in Heaven. It was later modernised as a bustling metropolis, even as it was ruined during the Sarmelonid invasion.

Pirates, sailors, and merchants from ancient Daizhou traded with the minor kingdoms of the Wonaos, introducing technologies like horse-riding, bronzeworking, and noodles. After the death of Motakol, they also introduced the first cats into Resovjant.

### Natulvan Blizzard

At the early Third Age, Resovjant was ruled by a number of kings and chiefs. Daruval ruled the northeast, the biggest of the nine kingdoms, while Varu and Vaikoro thrived at the southeast. Daruval experimented with engineering from Daizhouvian pirates, Varu built cities of stone and marble, and Vaikoro built its own farms within geothermal vents.

While wars and raids broke out over quarrels between kings or towns, the whole island was thrown into chaos after an unusually-harsh blizzard drove the people to starvation. The blizzard was known as the Natulvan, the Great Blizzard; and the dark age that followed was the Old Hiranol in Wonao legend, when a paradise in famine was turned into a hellscape. This led to many innocent people being slaughtered in cannibal feasts and mass sacrifices, and foreign tyrants to conquer emptied coasts in the west.

Akrindo, future site of Lidongrad, was a great city built during that time where many people were slaughtered and eaten. It was burned down by Motakol and its prisoners, whom he armed with torches to destroy its tents.

### Unification of Resovjant

An early king who dated back to the Third Age was Motakol, who unified the island and created the Krudaka Code to improve his people. His allies were the people of Varu and King Mudarivo, who were among the first members of Motakol's elective monarchy. The unified island nation was known as Resuvjonta in records from that time.

But later in his reign, he and his whole nation suffered from panic attacks, driven by horrific visions of the killings before the unification. These accursed visions were dispelled when several bards helped the people heal their minds, so Resovjant will not slide back into chaos. To remember his benevolent rule, the Wonao people had speeches and plays that warned about the neglect of the Krudaka Code causing the downfall of society. From that first unification of the island, the Lunar Throne was established as one of the oldest systems of monarchy on Jerde that continues to this day.

50 years after Motakol's son Tarautol became king, a young man discovered that mangroves would lead to the expansion of land from the sea through sediment. This became a widespread practice among the Wonaos and some people of other ancient countries, which led to southern Resovjant gaining more farmland, food, and wood through years of mangrove-expansion. Even Daizhouvian peasants began practicing mangrove-built farmland along river deltas!

The wise peasant who discovered the use of mangrove trees was Paisolan. He was forever remembered and celebrated, as a folk hero among the Wonao nations, in Bujan and beyond. Centuries later, the lands making up Bujan's southern provinces were formed as farmland. New forests and jungles grew south of the mountains north of those lands, and its widest canals eroded into rivers. The mud from southern winter rains and melting snow watered the new lands, creating more forests whenever any farmland was abandoned.

The farmers were also joined by a growing community of fishermen, who were glad that they did not need to sail for a few days just to reach schools of fish further south. They were able to build new homes and just catch the plentiful fish, every day. Some of those fish also happened to swim through the canal-rivers into the paddies by accident.

### Later ancient history

The Kingdom of Resovjant built a fleet of treasure ships to deliver a tenth of all foreign currencies every summer to nearby nations, including Daizhou.

At the Seventh Age, the nearby civilisations of Makkadal and Ohon were established south of Bujan. They admired each other and Resovjant for the advanced sophistication of each other's societies, forming a triple alliance.

During the Aspuruk Invasions of the Eighth Age, much of Bujan was ruled by the Kingdom of Ida. Its ruler, Serumal, led his warriors into daring raids into Aspuruk ships that rested on his island. Using a sort of toughened steel, Serumal's raiders were able to break down the Aspuruks' armour and even their doors in frenzied massacres. The prisoners became Serumal's two-headed scribes, bearing the only contemporary records of the Aspuruks' homeworld and technology. Such valuable information was brought to the Ecumene to improve their technology.

Ida traded with the lands of Darros, which were known as Zalonrae in the Idaish tongue. It established relations with its kingdoms, and Rorizian wares were among the most popular for their beauty.

Tukshara conquered Resovjant during the Fifteenth Age during its wars to expand eastward. It left its former colony somewhat modernised from a mediaeval society reliant on steel and gunpowder. During its reign, the Tuksharan colonial governors created a simplified version of its Eosome alphabet to be used for computers and typewriters. Later, that same simplified alphabet and the Tuksharans' own machinery was used by local revolutionaries as they freed their homeland from Tuksharan oppression. The revolutionaries then founded the Kingdom of Resovjant, united again by the local tribes.

Resovjant took in many Pinogunian migrants and refugees, who became architects, engineers, and knights in the courts and towns of the Wonaos.

In the Sixteenth Age, Ersovjant was a monarchy where people lived rather modern lives on par with the Gauvajuts and other powerful countries, in spite of the smaller size of the island nation. It resisted invasions by a Pinogunian empire, largely due to hundreds of ethnic Pinogunians rallying to the royal armies of Resovjant in defensive crusades, known as antoræsatau. The counter-attacks against Pinogunian imperial fleets are known in Bujanski history as the Tjoltæsad, the Rainbow War (or Crusade) of the West.

One of the most famous warriors of Resovjant was a scribe of Pinogunian blood, Inobuje Vitasonda. He joined a band of crusaders, followed by many ethnic Pinogunians who were dismayed by the mass killings of towns and ports that fell to the imperial army. Although he wanted to save his friends in what is now the Sommemmo Federation from being killed, in the process, he protected many innocents and aided rebellions in the name of the imperials' victims. For his virtues and heroism, he was knighted by the King of Resovjant.

From the Sixteenth Age onwards, the Kingdom of Resovjant was invaded by various Terran armies during World War III and the Reorganisation Wars. Among those Terran invaders were those of Slavic descent, whose poor habits and arrogance led to the Nōtmoli, mythical demons of ice. Henceforth, the seas to the south between Bujan, Irajon, and Baido were an infamous hub of invaders' portals, both from the Terrans and other universes.

Resovjant was a member of the Denlotia, to protect its own people from the spiteful Terran warmongers.

It was conquered by the Sarmelonid Empire.

## Bujanid Empire

Bujan was founded by Koschei the Red, a warlord who revolted against the Sarmelonid Empire and liberated Vilon. He conquered Bujan to steal the immortality elixir of Ratirminoz, and he gave the plentiful doses to his people, the natives who helped him defeat the Vozonid authorities, and the Freyrgardians who supplied his army: as a result, the three peoples enjoyed an extended lifespan of 200 years: with their renewed youth, the three peoples used their prolonged adulthood to start a cultural renaissance. After surviving and withstanding the Kyrvotin Invasion, Koschei's grandson, Solintoz, turned Bujan into an empire resembling that of the Sarmelonids.

Under the Pact of Koschei, the Bujanski and the Wonao became the co-rulers of the archipelago. In order for the Bujanski to stay and live on the island, they were required to accept the authority of the local kings, and they agreed to be their fellow-subjects. For his role in allowing Ersovjant to regain its independence as the Kingdom of Bujan, the native kings elected Koschei as the first king of their restored nation.

Koschei allowed his people to elect a new Eosome name for themselves, to replaced various insulting terms referring to them. One of them, "Kagaruro", won the vote due to its popularity. However, his experiments with his modified immortality elixir damaged his mind, that his own people joined the Wonaos and their kings to expel him to his laboratory. He was replaced by his son, Rumo, who was one of the leaders who expelled him from the throne.

Both became equal in being the privileged ones, that after Solintoz died, his grandson gave his throne to a Wonao candidate on the day after, out of respect of the Pact. The Wonao native dynasty was later succeeded by a Slavic dynasty, and the cycle of elective dynasties continued for thousands of years.

Centuries after Bujan was founded from the ashes of the Sarmelonid Empire, the Darroskei created another empire. Their wars against the Slavic nations of the west, and their massacres of the locals, have angered the Bujanski Slavs. The Bujanski rejected the Darroskei's offer of "brotherhood", and cursed it, even though many Bujanski were also of Darroskei ancestry. The Darroskei waged more wars against the young kingdom, but they were defeated, and the Bujanski intervened to help the other Slavs of the west expel the invaders.

## The Terran Threats

Between the Sarmelonid and Jauparturnid eras, Bujan was known as Gathoz (Vozonid rule), Miranni (Moonfolk Massacre), and then as Menitsa. It was ruled by the wise emperor Soltarin.

It was later known as Kahhatere and Suogon. Bujan fended off against various invaders, from more "Americans" to *zebatri* (monotheist fanatics), aliens, robots, supercorporations, demons, and polytheist murderers; no matter what beliefs, culture, or gods (or lack of gods) they had, any warmonger who simply ended up there at the seas to the south of the island was added to a long list of monsters and invaders, even if they were also humans who happened to be notoriously cruel.

This led to a greater unease towards any visitors who appeared out of nowhere or from a portal over the sea, and the construction of a portal network to stop more random portals and warbands from raiding or attacking the region. Any visitor who appeared from the available portals on that network, within the sights of the countries' spaceports and military bases, was more likely to be trusted and welcomed, than a stranger who appeared out of nothing. The large secret portal at the island to the west of Bujan may have been one of those portals built during that contentious era, mainly to stop the raids.

At one later era before the Green Years, the Darroskei were at war with a United Slavic Federation. While Darros committed and denied cruel acts to destroy the Federation's peoples, Darroskei tourists and immigrants supported the warmongers and behaved in a selfish manner. The Bujanski, among the peoples targeted and hated by the Darroskei, created many precepts to avoid becoming like that Darroskei empire.

The island was repopulated by the Darroskei during the Green Years as Zelinos, who intermarried with the Wonao to create some of the latter tribes along the east. Over time, the older Slavic peoples, the direct descendants of Koschei's folk and later arrivals, were assimilated into the native peoples, with only a few Slavic tribes remaining as the Drevbojanse people.

## Divided Bujan

Smelja Zaljanov and his Zeljonid regiments of Terrans invaded Resovjant at around 8200 BT.

In 7000 BT, Bujan was divided into four kingdoms, during the Fulinda Era (Years of the Four Tigers). The westernmost kingdom was Koturran, which ruled all the way to Somemmo in the west as a thalassocracy. From 6400 to 5900 BT, Koturran was ruled by the Bierida Dynasty, a Slavic dynasty, who was known as the Golden Kings for their hair. It was succeeded by several native and Slavic dynasties, before it was being annexed into the United Kingdom of Mraimö in 3000 BT.

Bujan was ruled by natives in 1600-980 BT, as three successive kingdoms: the first of these kingdoms was the mixed culture of Erausik, which left behind a rich trove of literature. The Slavonian peoples there were treated with great respect due to the Pact of Koschei, which ensured their protection.

In 1598 BT, its native religion was codified.

## Zvestarid Standardisation

In 980 BT, Bujan was conquered by a Vozonid warlord.

It was liberated in 812 BT by an army of Darroskei, who intermarried with the local Slavonians and became the Prejaznian people and founded the Kingdom of Zvesta. They were named "Prejaznians" because they were friends of a local king who requested for their help. Although they became the new majority of Bujan - displacing Wonaos, the older Slavic people, and the Vozonids - the new Bujanski Slavs agreed to honour the elective monarchy to be citizens of their new home. Although their nation of Zvesta became more Slavic, it was seen as the continuation of a united, liberated Bujanski nation.

Around the same time, the distant kingdom of Rukania initiated a programme to digitalise various public services. The same programme, the Zolluchije Campaign, might had inspired the Zvestarids to focus on technological advancement as they were impressed by the sheer scale and speed of its progress.

In 800 BT, the government of Zvesta enacted a series of reforms. Among them included a system of measurements and a calendar, which were then used in other countries throughout the world. The Bujanski national calendar used this year as the starting year.

## Zavtranian Usurpation

In 650 BT, a wave of Terrans migrated to Darros, where their leaders overthrew the government and built their own empire, Greater Rus or Novi Rus. They attempted to annex all Slavonian countries into a single super-state, similar to their homeland of "Zetrosia" from another world where it was ruled by an emperor. Even though Zvesta was a prosperous and fair nation during that time, Greater Rus won some overenthusiastic supporters who called for Zvesta to be annexed as its easternmost province, using its similar culture as their main reason for their campaign.

When the pro-annexation supporters were overwhelmingly rejected, they called for the Zetrosians to attack Zvesta. While the Zvestarids referred them as the "Z Army", the turncoats referred themselves as "Zavtranians" or "Russians". They claimed that under Russian rule, Zvesta would enjoy total advancement and even a spacefaring civilisation as the province of Zavtrana, the Land of Tomorrow.

For three months, Zvesta defended itself against the Zetrosian fleets and their turncoats, who used a "Z" symbol on their flags as they waged war against Zvesta's king. Although Zvesta suffered from heavy losses, the Zetrosians were defeated, and their "Z" symbol was henceforth used as target practice for Zvestarid and Bujanski guns. Some Zavtranians who survived their defeat seceded from Bujan, forming the Ethnostate of Kovastoi to the north.

## Kingdom of Zvesta, the Spinel Age

   For over a thousand years, Bujan was known as Zvesta, flying the green star flag with stripes as it thrived and prospered as the richest economy in all of Jerde. Such was its vast wealth from asteroid mining and selling machines made from interstellar scrap, that it used its wealth to defend various allies across the world against the Great Game and the occasional intrusion by aliens and Terrans. For example, Zvesta's biggest trading partner was the vast kingdom of Rukania, and many presitigious offices and academies were set up along the west coast of the Darroskei continent, from the frigid swamps of northern Sevraeja to the steaming jungles of Tirkiatlor and Bulanabek.

This prosperous era that won it the respect of the world is known as the Golden Age, or even as the Emerald Age or the Spinel Age, for the two sacred gems in the classical culture of Vozolaz that Bujanski use to represent divine blessings.

Bujan was a native-ruled nation from 756-1056 AT, when a succession crisis caused a native noble to take control of the throne. In 1254 AT, the latest native dynasty was replaced by a Bujanski king in a typical royal election.

However, in later times, the resentful Kovastoi occasionally waged wars against Bujan, even as it survived the global EMP that ruined technology in every continent. Due to the vast wealth and high level of technology in Bujan, the Bujanski were among the powerful nations who chose to rebuild the world, especially in light of many empires waiting to start a new age of conquest and ruin similar to the destructive Sixteenth Age.

## The Salvation Party's Lie

The final years of Zvesta were marked by excessive corruption, where three major political parties sought to overthrow the monarchy and replace it with a dictatorship. The Salvation Party (Sterne Spasanije) prevailed and sought to unify Kovastoi with Bujan, as part of a platform to enforce a radical form of conservatism across the country. They also claimed that they did this to save the Rodnover faith, corrupting it to a stricter and more sycophantic form that deviated from the standards of the Zvestarid laws.

Unhappy with the growing Terranised behaviours causing people to become more selfish and corrupt, most Bujanski left their country to havens on the Moon, Rukania, and Sevraeja. A second wave fled the nation after the Wannaenids attempted to seize power, sensing that the Kingdom of Zvesta grew weaker due to its new dictator, and the last King of Zvesta stayed behind to defend the locals, where he was killed in battle. The last Bujanski who were not allowed to leave were mostly members of the three corrupt parties and various politicians, who ignored their people's cries to stop their abusive behaviour, leaving them to fight the Wannaenids on their own. Many Bujanski also started to practice online trolling and cyberharassment, formerly avoided as abominations, as a newfound hobby, only to be immediately drafted by the Wannaenids or enslaved.

Koscheigrad was bombed, marking the total destruction of the small resistance. It was late to emerge, and its pleas were ignored, as the remaining Bujanski wanted to impose a Terranised society upon the sacred island. They instead met cruelty and oppression when the Wannaenids and their Tyrskan lackeys colonised the island.

This was why the Salvation Party and its supporters' various attitudes are banned in modern Bujan, and anything related to the Salvation Party prohibited. This included the "radical freedom" that allowed it and other radicals to seize power.

## Wannaenid rule

Bujan was conquered by the Wannaenid Empire in 1551 AT, who subjected its people to serfdom and slavery. The Wannaenids also brought in Ontemazei and Arnadjanai slaves to be used in torturous and degrading experiments: the slaves joined clandestine resistance movements funded by the exiles in the moon.

### "Zavtrana Province, Tyrska"

The island remained autonomous as it was ruled by an aristocracy, known as the Tyrskans, who named themselves after their ancestral homeland. The Tyrskans were notorious for their whataboutism, jingoism, and arrogance, to the point that they once worked with the Wannaenids to depopulate and banish the Bujanski to claim the whole island for their "empire".

The Tyrskans would had developed a large, plentiful army of fanatical men to wage war on the world and build a world empire to dominate all Slavic peoples, but frequent raids by rivals from other dimensions diverted those reserves to colonise those otherworldly foes. Many of them were cut off from Bujan's portals during the revolution, isolated and left to fend for themselves.

### Church of Q

They were not the only tyrants who ruled Bujan during the dark age of Wannaenid domination. The northwest and centre were dominated by the Church of Q, who waged war against the Tyrskan rulers.

### Salvationist Party

The Salvationist Party, heirs of the collaborators, felt cheated as much of their promised rule over Bujan was given over to the Church of Q and the Tyrskans, limiting them to the east.

### Serpentians

More Terrans were left in Bujan to fend for themselves or kill, but they were unable to survive the strict, brutal standards of the three powers. Eventually, they ended up forming a new faction, the Serpentians, who sought to turn Bujan into a communist state for themselves.

Those four factions and the Wannaenids fought each other for the dominance of the ruined colony, ultimately for the amusement of their overlords.

### Notable events

The Seven Massacres took place during Wannaenid rule, slaughtering hundreds, if not thousands, of natives.

## Independence

See also: Bujanski War of Independence

The Irajonian Deportations angered many Vozonids in Bujan, who feared that they may be next to be rounded up and exiled, torn away from their beloved homes and folk as beggars in a distant land. This led to growing secret support for the resistance movements.

Thirty-three groups emerged and formed an alliance to free Bujan from Wannaenid terror. The first was a Vozonid Burrow-city, and the second was the slave-slum of Nasarpollo, where the Arnadjanai slaves slaughtered the entire Wannaenid garrison - which consisted of nothing but men and hired killers. These groups also emerged to organise the Bujanski resistance, which by then had descended into sporadic groups hunting down zealots, hooligans, and Internet warriors to be slaughtered. They needed to organise the Bujanski people into a proper nation, so they will not succumb into chaos like the Terrans did.

The Emperor of the Wannaenid Empire suffered from successive nightmares for several days.

Alarmed by growing revolts in the equatorial colonies, the Wannaenid authorities attempted to detonate a viral bomb to exterminate everyone in Bujan and the nearby archipelagoes. When the plans were leaked, the Vozonids were infuriated that the Wannaenids would simply toss them aside and replace them with armies of aliens. In one blackout, the resistance movements emerged from the shadows and slew many Wannaenid warriors, sabotaging their machinery and taking their fortresses within a single night. They were united under a nobleman from the Moon, Dostagir, who managed to convince them to work together to establish Bujan as an independent monarchy. They especially chose him for his direct ancestry from the last ruler of Zvesta who died fighting the Wannaenids, as the unifying symbol of their new nation.

Several nations also aided Bujan's independence. The old allies were Rukania, Sevraeja, Porashon, and Pinoguni; while Marnos and Siangwaan aided Bujan, seeking to repay its aid in helping them utilise more advanced technology. The Marnosyn mutants turned the tide of battle against the Wannaenid supersoldiers and their Terran hordes. The Kovastoi also turned to support the Bujanski, wanting to stop the Tyrskans from sending nearly everyone there to their deaths in wars, eliminating their ethnostate to create a monarchy.

There are also many Zvestarids from the Moon, space colonies across the Jerde system, and Rukania, who returned in large numbers to liberate their own homeland. Many of them brought about the Ardeschen traditions that shaped modern Bujanski society, which were learned from an earlier Rukanian modernisation.

June 28, 1892 AT (2692 AT) became the country's Independence Day. In honour of his skilled leadership in war and administration, the resistance movements coronated Dostagir and his wife as their king and queen, blessing them in the names of Svetovid and their many Gods. Even the Arnadjanai and Ontemazei, formerly slaves liberated by him and his allies, also declared themselves as his subjects after he granted all of them citizenship with everyone else on the island who was not a foreign national.

The Ontemazei, formerly Kalokei who turned towards the resistance for protection, mostly chose to stay in Bujan, while the rest became citizens of Porashon. Many Ontemazei forced themselves to become scientists and engineers to dispel early stereotypes of them as "cannibals and monsters", and they ended up being among the brightest minds in the early years of the modern kingdom. They and a growing number of Arnadjanai started to assimilate themselves into Bujan's national culture, copying the mannerisms and aesthetic of the bygone nobility to present a better image of themselves. To counteract any possible loss of those minorities' cultures, the government and many Wonao advocates supported new associations that promoted Ontemazei and native Arnadjanai cultures.

As for the Tyrskans, King Dostagir did not allow his people to kill them all. Already thousands of Tyrskans and other Terrans, mostly fanatics and criminals who often murdered and abused each other, were slain by Bujanski guerillas for a number of abusive acts, from bullying and murder to even online trolling and flaunting imperial symbols. The King did not want his people to become like the Tyrskans, so he ordered his people to stop, and executed those who refused to obey him. Following suggestions from his Ontemazei subjects, he allowed them to keep their homes, but they must live next to ordinary Bujanski, to learn to abandon their supremacist views.

The Maeranoi, like the Tyrskans, were among the most hated for their abusive behaviour and actions, and their many plots to kill all Bujanski. But in spite of the locals' hatred, their King forbade them from exterminating the Maeranoi.

## Black July

The Terrans had three choices, as thousands were assembled in prison camps all over the country. They would go into the portals to their war-torn homeworlds and die trying to survive. They could retaliate in fits of desperate rage, but they will be instantly slain. Or, they would agree to undergo penance, by living like ordinary citizens as they pay for their crimes by their work.

Some Terrans went into the portals, while those who dared fight back were instantly slain. The sight of random fighters dropping like flies frightened the fanatical Terrans, who desperately wailed and begged the King to spare them. They even raised their children in the air, and in spite of angry curses from the Bujanski mobs, the King ordered his own soldiers not to shoot at them. At the prison camp where he oversaw a large crowd of Terran families, he walked down to meet them personally. He answered that every Terran who agreed to his terms would be under his direct protection. All at once, the Terrans cried out that they accepted the terms, and begged the King to allow them to keep their homes.

Nonetheless, the whole kingdom was subjected to martial law, to prevent fanatics from seizing power. Many Terrans and Bujanski were killed by angry mobs over a number of unruly behaviours, even as petty as posting violent comments against Bujanski people, or spitting on a person. Those behaviours were considered supportive of the Wannaenid regime for being similar to whatever the oppressors promoted, marking the offenders as traitors who must pay with their lives as enemy combatants.

The mobs themselves, being surviving anti-Terran fanatics who fought alongside the Coalition and other rebels, were so unruly that they targeted people who had not committed the same crimes, that the government of Bujan had to suppress those gangs. It turned the people against the mobs and whoever who took part in their purges, causing more people to consider protecting Terrans. The brief civil war in Bujan was prolonged due to the fanatics escalating into terrorist actions against other Bujanski, that it lasted until the end of July.

Complaints by the people had led to the end of martial law. The Terrans were so traumatised by the purges, that many of them lived in fear of the Bujanski and their own crimes. On the other hand, some Ontemazei tried to help the remaining Terrans, seeing that the Terrans were becoming just like them during Wannaenid slavery. Fanatics who had nowhere to turn to, that many of them begged for the Ontemazei to kill them.

Instead, the sorrowful pink-haired monsters took them into their protection. They calmed the angry mobs who were hunting every last Terran by inviting them to large tea parties, where they returned to their senses as they learned more about the frightened Terrans. Some Bujanski were horrified over many of their own rules they violated, that they even committed suicide to curse themselves. Others turned themselves over to the authorities to be punished like Terran criminals. Still others agreed to integrate the Terrans, teaching them to live and think like Bujanski in order to survive in this troubled nation.

Although the Bujanski were angry towards anyone who was Terran, the Ontemazei and their friends helped them understand that those Terrans were willing to repent and repay for their crimes. For most Terrans, especially adults, they were ordered to pay a portion of their income to the state, or be involved in construction and repair work. After a few months or years, these Terrans were able to become citizens, but they are not allowed to become leaders.

While the mobs no longer existed as a unified group from August onwards, some extremists continued to wage war against Bujanski society, angered by attempts to compensate the Terrans and integrate them into the country. When the last of the fanatics was slain, the Terrans went out to apologise to all Bujanski people, bowing to the ground and swearing loyalty to the King. All of them also promised to begin their penance and pay back for all the harm they committed to all Bujanski.

The last Terran to finish his penance was pardoned in 1927 AT, after paying the last of his financial debt. To celebrate, he became a Buddhist monk.

### Five Provinces

Five provinces in central Bujan were the former domain of the death gangs, forming their own isolated society to thrive in an environment without Terrans. For eighteen years, from 1892 to 1910,

They were Ruisan, Vlesto, Resok, Eshad, and Deritsa Provinces, forming the self-declared "Restored Kingdom of Zvesta". Their isolation ended when the "King" they appointed declared an end of the isolation, and bowed before the King of Bujan.

The end of the isolation led to clashes between supporters of a Terran militant, and other Bujanski people. It started when the militant killed the "King" of the five provinces for overseeing executions of Terrans, and threatened further terrorism unless the Bujanski were willing to treat Terrans fairly, causing Bujanski to attack Terran people. Exhibitions were held to prevent the violence from escalating, by allowing Terrans and Bujanski to understand each other and reconcile.

## Modern times

Nearly all the Terran humans who oppressed Bujan were originally from a bleak, warlike planet known as Earth 96. On the fourth day of July, after Bujan's independence, a great Wannaenid fleet bombarded the whole planet, destroying both the Qyuvian and Tyrskan Empires. While Bujan's neighbours celebrated the deaths of their oppressors, Bujan itself was one of those who did not rejoice. The King ordered his people not to celebrate the extermination of a planet, and that angered the mobs who denounced him and the government as traitors who served the Terrans instead of Bujan.

In the 1920s AT, Bujan tried to find allies on Earth 27, an alternate world. Due to the invasion of Koivarin, the Jerde Alliance considered it right to wage war on Earth 27 by killing various crime gangs and criminals. Due to the Wannaenid invasion of that planet, the Jerde Alliance and Bujan were rejected by their allies and members for three months, and the leaders of the Jerde Alliance were brought to the King of Bujan, who executed them by firing several lasers into their heads. The world rejoiced as the culprits dropped dead, their burned heads in full, gory view before the cheering audiences.

Bujan's eastern coast was raided by Wannaenid pirates and hired killers. The most notorious attacks were during the 1940's, when they even bombed the city of Voripol. Paxoti's family were refugees from the bombardment.

Bujan also sent troops to protect its ally, North Raoti, from the many warlords destroying his country. The Bujanski troops knew that their only mission was to aid the Raotianese people and their king, never to attempt any annexation, to prevent the Wannaenids from taking over and bypassing their joint sea defences with Irajon and Baido.

In 1956 AT, Bujan attempted to harness a discovered portal to Kyrvos. Several young students, including Radumo, Tavatagus, and Takasoka, prevented the malfunctioning portal from trapping Enedris and his friends, and perhaps devouring the world in another Void storm.

## Future

Bujan was invaded by the Wannaenid Empire for a second time in the latter part of the 22nd century, when its armies were resurgent and able to launch invasions of other lands. The Bujanski managed to resist and retain the southern half of their island, before expelling the Wannaenid forces after several months of sabotage.

## See also

* Bujanski calendar
* Kings of Bujan
* Azdortil timeline