Petar III

Petar III, (real name: Petar Dragan Potočnik) is the current Minister of War of the Serbian empire and the chief of staff of it's army. Petar is known for being a part of the infamous Potočnik family, a noble family with it's roots in Yermania. Petar is the grandson of Petar Oskar Potočnik, the former King and Premier of Yugoslavia and the second Minister of War for the Serbian empire.

## History

Petar was born on the 8th of March, 1956, in Belgrade to the son of the minister of war at the time, Petar II. Petar was raised by his father to join the military, with Petar initially not wanting to join it, until he met famous generals such as Draža III who told him that the job could gain him infamy in the empire.

Petar then reluctantly agreed to join the military after his 18th birthday on the 21st of March, 1974. Petar fought in the Third World War, being known to have fought in the famous battle of Ljubljana. He would rise to the rank of Major by late 1976, commanding a small infantry company. Petar was nearly killed by a stray bullet on the 17th of January, 1977, as he fought in the battle of Nürnberg.

By the end of the war, Petar was honored with the rank of Colonel and recieved his first medal as well. He would later join the Chetnik force in 1979 to continue his military career.

### Military career throughout the empire

Petar started to rise through the ranks after he had joined the Chetnik paramilitary force. With the outbreak of the Croatian revolution in 1980, he could show his newly learned skills in the military, working with his father to capture Karlovac. Petar eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant general by the start of Emperor Borislav III's rule.

It was unknown if Petar would rise to the position of Minister of War after his father would die, as it didn't seem that Borislav III was on the greatest terms with the Potočnik family ever since Petar's father protested against Borislav's decision of demoting the Secretary of state. This wasn't a problem however, as soon enough, Borislav would die during the Turkish revolution.

   Petar was promoted to the position of Major General by the new emperor, Borislav IV in 1991 and from there he would continue his rise to the position of general, gaining the position on the 11th of November, 1998.

### Political career

Petar became the Minister of war a day after his father died, on the 21st of August, 2000. Petar used his position to threaten the USSR and Japan by showing off the Serbian military in multiple parades since 2000. Petar also became the chief of staff of the army earlier in 2000 and tried to reform the military by ordering them to create new weapons and modern uniforms.

Petar had tried to strengthen relations with the Imperial German Army, to make sure it would help the Serbs if they were attacked, with an official pact being signed on the 20th of January, 2002.

## Fourth world war

On the 8th of April, 2004, the Fourth World War broke out after months of rising tensions between the Soviet Union and the Serbian Empire. 2 weeks before the war broke out, Petar and fellow general Draža IV were ordered by Stefan Borislav IV to mobilize the entire army of Serbia, which at the time sat at around 3,8 million total personnel (paramilitary not counted). The troops at the border ended up being the last straw for the Soviet Union's Premier, Lavrentiy Beria and he declared war on the Serbian Empire later on.

Petar was drafted to the front in the USSR, with the conflict growing bigger and bigger as time went on, with a fascist uprising starting in Germany and Imperial Japan declaring war on the Chinese Zhau dynasty with the help of the USSR. A little later on, the Imperial German Army was given acces to Serbian land and started helping them out in the conflict against the Soviet Union.

Initially, Petar and Draža were pushed back all the way to the city of Cluj-Napoca, which lies around 315 kilometres away from the Serbian capital of Belgrade. The second and 4th field armies under field marshal Filipp Golikov managed to advance all the way to Bucharest, an important city in Romania which holds the most important railways in it. Draža and Petar eventually turned the war around by surrounding 480 000 Soviet soldiers and capturing them in Cluj-Napoca along with General Maxim Anoufriev of the 5th and 7th field armies on the 9th of October, 2006.

The war went on for another 1 and a half years, until it finally ended around a month after the end of the Battle of Kiev, on the 18th of June, 2008. Petar was hailed as a hero along with Draža after the war and gained multiple awards.

## Peacetime

During peacetime in Europe, Asia and America, Petar has mostly tended to the peaceful policies that the emperor and his cabinet set up after the Belgrade conference on the 1st of March, 2011. Petar's health has been failing as of recently, with him suffering a heart attack on the 14th of November, 2020, but recovered after 3 weeks.

Petar is the current chief of staff of the army, however, as the army doesn't do much ever since the Fourth World War, Petar has not been able to do much relating to the office he holds.

## Medals and awards

* Order of the Serbian Flag, 2nd class (Awarded: 9th of April, 1977)
* Sretenje Order, 1st class (Awarded: 27th of January, 1981)
* Order of Merits in Defense and Security, 1st class (Awarded: 17th of July, 2000)
* Order of Karađorđe's Star (Awarded: 20th of March, 2002)
* Order of the Empire of Serbia, 1st class (Awarded: 10th of November, 2006)
* Order of the White Eagle, 1st class (Awarded: 25th of June, 2008)
* Order of Merits in Defense and Security, 2nd class (Awarded: 1st of March, 2011)