Anton Ujung

**Anton Gabriel Ujung** (April 17 1978 - January 5, 2036) was a Bovido Hassian clergy member and religious leader who was responsible for the rebirth of the Bovido nation after it's defeat in the Has Wars, and was the first Bovido Imperator from August 10, 2028 until January 3, 2036, as well as having previously served as Cardinal of the Holy Clergy between 2021 and 2028, the Archemirate of Bovido Has in 2020 as well as the Emirate of Jerusalem from 2014 until 2021.

Born into the prestigious Ujung family, many within Bovido Has and later the Bovido Imperium regarded Ujung as a new messiah during his first decade of reign over the Bovido nation-state, sent to earth to supposedly bring glory back to the "true followers" of the Final Testament, owing in part to his largely successful military and political schemes in the 2020s and 2030s which brought the dream of a unified Bovido empire back to life following the fall of the nation during the Has Wars at the hands of the Libirachi Empire. Formulating an alliance between the nations of Jerusalem Bovido and ST Joseph's Devotees under Marisa Belacqua, Ujung restored the Bovido throne in the form of the Imperator, a sign of the nation's move back towards Latin following the language's abandonment in the 1980s under the reign of Michael Ezra; attempting to divide Christianity into two wings, the chosen disciples of the Imperium and the blasphemers who followed the first two canonical divisions, the Old and New Testaments.

Attempting to split the Christian world in two, Ujung did receive an influx in supporters and pilgrims, largely in Africa and South America, leading towards the Bovido Hassian African conquest and the Unification of the Arab State in retaliation to the Bovido invasion, leaving northern Africa split religiously between the Arab State Republic in the west and southern Egypt, whilst to the east and north of Egypt the Bovido Imperium frantically fought to create a member state for its empire within the African continent.

Deeply revered amongst all walks of life within the Bovido nation, Anton Ujung's dream of a Bovido state marked him as a profound Bovido nationalist, using a right-wing dogma to spur up the devoted followers of the Final Testament into a raving fury by the 2030s, pinning the blame for much of the nation's failure in the Has Wars upon the Libirachi Empire, ensuring that the centuries old rivalry continued into the next iteration of Bovido Has. However, Ujung's drive to destroy the Libirachi Empire and eradicate Islam from the world would ultimately be the cause of his downfall, as increasingly frantic actions taken during the Invasion of Libya allowed political rivals to band together in January 2036 and overthrow his regime, with Ujung himself being executed just days after his deposition as the Bovido Imperium began to pursue peace.

As the last significant Bovido leader to govern over the nation, Anton Ujung's legacy of a united Bovido Imperium quickly began to fall apart following his deposition in the 2036 Bovido Coup d'état, whilst his successor failed to unify the factions within government which had been so determined to see him removed. Despite having raised the Bovido Imperium nation into one of the most powerful armies on the planet within the space of 6 years of him asserting his power, the subsequent collapse of the nation's empire during the later years of the Conquest of Africa proved that much of the Imperium's strength derived largely from Ujung's own personal political powers, as opposed to any coherent political ideology or a national identity - instead, the country left behind following Ujung's death resembled Bovido Has in 2021, a weary war-torn nation with fractious regional political leaders vying for an unachievable dominance over a greatly disunited government and populace.

## History

As a direct descendant of Archbishop Canaan Ujung, Anton Ujung was born in 1978 to a devout Christian family in the Holy Province of Jerusalem and entered the Clergy in 1992, graduating in 2001 as an ambassador to the Vatican City in Isgardia, where he served until 2008 - ties between the Pope and Bovido Has were cut the same year. Returning to the Bovido capital of Makassar, Ujung was deployed to his home district in 2014 as the Emirate of Jerusalem. Coming into contact with Archemirate Damal Betung in 2016, Ujung quickly became an important political figure within Bovido Has, but was passed over for the post of Archbishop in 2018 after the death of Michael Ezra and the appointment of former Chief Diplomat, Hazael Buller to the office. Sent back to Jerusalem by Buller, Ujung spent two years in political exile before the Death of Buller in 2020, which saw him appointed to the post of Archemirate by the new Emperor and his Archbishop. Serving on the War Council with Emperor Damal Clod and Archbishop Syli Dean, Ujung advised on war matters in the Middle East as well as defence guidelines for the various Has provinces. With the defection of the Lord's Grand Army in late March 2020, Ujung and military specialist Gabriel Stomas worked on rebuilding the Army, although the death of Stomas and the assassination of his successor hindered the plans. While not present for the Council meeting, Ujung's forces were called upon to assist with the ultimately futile Invasion of the Libirachi Empire in late 2020, and as an act of protest, Ujung resigned from his Archemirate office. Returning once more to Jerusalem, Ujung was spared the fate of may of his cohorts in Makassar after an enraged Libirachi Empire assaulted the Bovido capital. Initially following Archbishop Syli Dean and his new Tokyo Bovido, Ujung split from the government, proclaiming himself as the Cardinal of Bovido Has and decrying the leadership of his rival. Surviving the Has Wars, Ujung's Bovido Remnant took up the name Bovido Has, having destroyed neighbouring remnants or engaging in peace treaties with them, and began rebuilding itself as a new (albeit smaller) nation in the Middle East, having abandoned the Tokyo government to die during the Libirachi invasion. Establishing the Grand Council in 2022 to pacify the leaders of the Hases that made up the new Bovido.

## Reign

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Taking power as the Cardinal of Bovido Has in July 2021 following his split with Emperor-Archbishop Syli Dean of the Tokyo Bovido in the waning months of the Has Wars, Anton Ujung established himself with a new title in his home city and Has of Jerusalem, using his control over the local division of the Lord's Holy Army to make the newly proclaimed Jerusalem Bovido entirely independent from the fragile control of the Tokyo Bovido Provisional Government in Tokyo. Armed with a mission to make sure his province of Bovido Has survived the Libirachi conquests in Persia and Japan, Cardinal Ujung immediately attempted to surrender to the Libirachi Empire before the attempt was rejected and Ujung ended the war by establishing a separate nation state and thus legally ending the war with the Libirachi government. As the conglomerate of Hases collapsed over the summer of 2021, the Bovido Hassian armed forces overthrew the clergy in the middle of the Libirachi Invasion of Japan, replacing Archbishop and Emperor Syli Dean with High Admiral Etsushi Toyo, who proclaimed himself Emperor and proceeded to surrender the islands of Japan to the Libirachi Empire, before fleeing to the Pacific ocean with his remnants of the Holy Navy to escape persecution in the new administration. With the destruction of the Tokyo Bovido eventual, the Jerusalem Bovido quickly became the largest Bovido Remnant and began a campaign of destruction against the remaining remnants in a contingency plan executed by Anton Ujung.

The Bovido Hassian Contingency was a plan initially devised by Archbishop and Emperor Caanan Ujung of Bovido Has in the late 1930s for the future of his Empire in the event of his death, although the predicted collapse of Bovido Has didn't happen after his death, leaving contingency plans shelved until the appointment of Peter Purba. Under Purba's tenure in office, the Contingency plans were reshuffled and updated and following his death in 1981, members of the Purba family attempted to initiate the plot, although were put down by a specialist task force from the Lord's Grand Army. The task of finally putting the Contingency into effect was taken up by Anton Ujung, an Emirate from the holy city of Jerusalem. Ujung's plan was to have the many remnants of Bovido Has destroyed, culling its weak elements and punishing it for failing to protect its leaders, while also ensuring its rebirth in the territory of the Jerusalem Bovido in order to continue its legacy. As the leader of the Province of Jerusalem, Emirate Anton Ujung began to assemble a new coalition of forces to with the purpose of reclaiming the title of Bovido Has and punishing those who let the once great empire dissolve into a handful of remnant states scattered across Asia and Africa. Re-establishing a contingency plan, Ujung devised a plan to send his armies into neighbouring states to extract intellectuals, generals, strategists and scientists to allow for the rebirth of Bovido Has, whilst launching military campaigns to destabilise neighbouring regimes and to expand his territory into a small country. Colluding with Viceroy Nadia Crestvick of Russia Has and Legate Julios Cragen of Palestine Has to build a conspiracy to take the new Bovido Remnants by storm and topple all competition. Having taken the remaining forces of the Tokyo Bovido and fled into the Pacific, High Admiral Etsushi Toyo proclaimed himself Emperor of Bovido Has on September 1, 2021, having played a key role in the deaths of Syli Dean and his inner circle of advisors. Likewise, Damacus Visus had seized power in the Palestine Has with the help of Legate Julios Cragen, who unbeknownst to him was working for Cardinal Ujung to prolong the war and deplete the Palestine Has' resources, declaring himself emperor.

## Imperium Reign

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After 7 years at the head of the largest Bovido remnant, Cardinal Anton Ujung set about attempting to build his forces into a new superpower nation capable of besting the Libirachi Empire in conflict and re-building Bovido dominance on the global stage. Beginning with an internal reorganising, Bovido Has became the Bovido Imperium, literally meaning Bovido Empire, and Ujung had himself crowned as Imperator of the regime. A vast re-armament campaign was launched and the armed forces of the new government began to grow in power massively; meanwhile, the internal political structures were redrafted and the imperium became made up of two separate member regions, North Africa and Jerusalem State, which had their own Prime Minsters appointed by Ujung, whilst North Africa became a region controlled by the military. In November 2030, Imperator Ujung negotiated a merger with the Holy Republic of ST Joseph's Devotees to combine the forces of the two national adherents to the Final Testament, bringing the devotees into the Imperium as the state of Pindorama with Magisterium leader Marisa Belacqua becoming Prime Minister of Pindorama under the new union, though she retained a high level of autonomy from the main Jerusalem based regime. Alongside the political restructuring of the nation, Anton Ujung set about integrating the Bovido Clergy and the Pindoraman Magisterium into a unified church of the final testament, framing the move as a demonstration of the purity of the Bovido religion and attempting to stoke division between the extremists of the Final Testament and the more mainstream followers of the Old and New testaments of the bible. As part of this ideological posturing, Ujung began to order the expansion of the military forces once again, with a mass build-up of the Bovido military taking place along the Gaza coastline and in the military junta of North Africa; able to operate without gaining much attention from the Libirachi Empire, the Bovido Imperium benefited from establishing itself during a global financial crisis, which left the nation largely unscathed thanks to it's isolated nature from the global economy, allowing the Bovido Imperium to continue to grow whilst every other nation struggled under budget deficits.

 **Cardinal of Bovido Has****Reign**Contingency • Has Wars • Has Union • Jerusalem Bovido • Bovido Has Grand Council • Holy Clergy of Bovido Has • Bovido Remnants

In 2031, Bovido posturing on the international stage caused the unstable Islamic nations of northern Africa to unite into the United Arab Republic in an attempt to ward off Bovido influence in the region, although in doing so the nations conveniently made themselves a target for the Imperium, with Imperator Anton Ujung ordering plans for a full invasion of the UAR to be ready for the second half 2033. Subsequently on September 1, 2033, Major General Torrent Koon led the armies of the Bovido Imperium into an Invasion of Egypt, quickly toppling the regime of the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood by mid-November 2033. However, by October 2033 the Libirachi Empire had coordinated a united front of satellite states and puppet regimes to declare war on the Bovido Imperium to try to prevent their conquest of Africa. Deciding upon the need for a decisive blow to be struck against one of the Libirachi allies, Imperator Ujung ordered a raid on the Persian capital of Nupersia on November 30, 2033 which saw the air wing of the Imperium strike enormous damage on the Persian Republic, killing Prime Minister Emanuel Parra and forcing the shut-down of the Persian Congress. However, Persian retaliatory attacks with Libirachi backing caused immense damage to the city of Jerusalem during the Christmas Attacks which forced Imperator Anton Ujung to flee the capital and seek refuge in Pindorama, under the guise of visiting Prime Minister Marisa Belacqua. The attacks saw the Libirachi Empire effectively wipe out Bovido satellite communications, albeit temporarily, and the various states of the Imperium began to become politically fractured without the presence of their leader. The Bovido campaign against Persia was quietly dropped in February 2034 with the launch of Operation Avestor and the Battle for Morocco, with armies launching across the Atlantic from northern Pindorama and landing on the west coast of Africa, storming through the United Arab Republic and securing several humiliating defeats against the Arab forces, before capturing the entire western coast of the nation, as well as securing dominance over the Gibraltar Strait, in the process damaging the international standings of Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. At the same time, fear of the Bovido Imperium had caused a series of sub-Saharan African states to unite together into the North African Federation in an attempt to ward off Bovido influence in the region and to prevent the Bovido armies from travelling further south. However, a series of internal coups and democratic takeovers coordinated by agents of the imperium allowed the Christian Loyalist party led by Jean Bagasauo to seize control over the entire nation by August 2035, inviting the Bovido army to protect the region and appointing prime minister Torrent Koon as Vice President of the federation in July 2035.

Following months of poorly coordinated military failures during the Libirachi Empire's Invasion of Jerusalem State, as well as a stagnant effort in the Bovido Invasion of Libya, on November 25, 2035 Imperator Anton Ujung ordered a thermonuclear strike against the city of Tunis, capital of the United Arab Republic, which began to fracture the unity of the Bovido Imperium's leadership. With Imperator Anton Ujung unaware of the plots against him, having trusted Inquisitor Kolas completely in his task to prevent unrest within the imperium, High Admiral Torrent Koon used his power within the Maximo Exercitus Imperium to begin re-deploying soldiers around the capital of Jerusalem, personally hand-picking a squad of marines to join him in the takeover of the city. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Marisa Belacqua attempted to covertly acquire the support of leading Clergy members, including Julios Cragen and Nicholas Azure, with the assistance of Inquisitor Justas Kolas who hid the evidence of meetings between key officals in order to keep their existance secret. On January 3, 2036, the forces of the Holy Clergy and the Magisterium began their coup d'état against Imperator Anton Ujung, with armed forces of the Maximo Exercitus Imperium seizing control of major facilities across the capital controlled by the Praesidium of the Bovido Imperium, managing to gain power within the city in the space of hours; by 6pm GMT, the coup forces claimed control of the palace and Imperator Anton Ujung was arrested by members of the Magisterium before being stripped of his titles by a unanimous vote of a self-appointed Grand Council consiting of Cardinal Julios Cragen, Prime Ministers Marisa Belacqua and Torrent Koon and Minister Nicholas Azure. With Ujung deposed, Cardinal Cragen took over the *de-jure* powers of the Bovido throne, being crowned as Bovido Imperator on January 4, 2036 in an elaborate ceremony in front of the Praesidium, Clergy, Magisterium and Maximo Exercitus in the Jerusalem palace, formally ending the coup with the selection of a new leader. On January 5, 2036, Anton Ujung was executed for war crimes and Imperator Julios Cragen began to open peace talks with the Libirachi Empire.

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