Austin Alonzo

* Basic Info
* Occupations

Union Head of the Soil Union:

M1-04 375 ASB - M8-30 391 ASB

Union Head of the Soil Union:

None, position created

Union Head of the Soil Union:

Conrad Smith

## Biography

### Early life (344 ASB - 363 ASB)

Austin Alonzo was born in the mining settlement of Rock on M10-14 344 ASB, where he worked a a miner - he received no formal education. He met Tripe Snide and Sabant Ratliff who became his two closest friends. On M12-02 360 ASB Alonzo met with Snide and Ratliff and explained his intention to fight in the next Sand War of Succession, the group would meet many more times until the death of King Stanley Artekin and the start of a Sand War of Succession.

### Sand War of Succession (363 ASB - 365 ASB)

On the first day of the Sand War of Succession Austin Alonzo and his followers took control of Rock.

On M1-14 364 ASB Austin Alonzo and several of his followers were probing into the Monoterrus controlled regions of the Sand Republic when they encountered a patrol from Monoterrus, which they attacked and defeated of those that they attacked only a single one survived, a Clay named Dervot Heord who Alonzo 'persuaded' to join his faction.

On M8-24 365 ASB Austin Alonzo was declared King of the Sand Republic, he granted Dervot Heord, Sabant Ratliff and Tripe Snide membership into the House of Alonzo. Snide and Ratliff chose to remain in the Sand Republic to serve as advisors in the newly formed government, they also chose to take Alonzo as their last names, Heord elected to return to the Kingdom of Clayistan in secret. After the departure of Dervot Heord, Alonzo and his advisors began planning a war that would place the Sand Republic in control of all of the Soil Texture Continent.

### Sand War (365 ASB - 375 ASB)

On M9-20 365 ASB Austin Alonzo appointed Sabant and Tripe Alonzo as generals in his army and a month and a day later sent them to lead his armies against the Loaman Empire. On M10-28 365 ASB Austin Alonzo ordered Tripe Alonzo to take his forces and invade the Protectorate of Sandy Clay Loam and figure out a way to defeat Clayistan.

On M10-07 368 ASB the Loam Empire surrendered to the Sand Republic, Alonzo ordered the invasion of the Silt Fleet immediately after. The Silt Fleet surrendered on M1-28 369 ASB, Austin Alonzo ordered Sabant Alonzo to keep his forces in the area to crush the Silt forces that refused to surrender. On M5-15 373 ASB Clayistan surrendered to the Sand Republic.

By the start of 375 ASB the Sand War was still going despite the surrendering of all of the Sand Republic's enemies and the capturing of many of their prominent cities and on M1-04 375 ASB Austin Alonzo announced the end of the Sand War with the majority of land taken returning to it's original owners the exceptions being the island of Tannhure in the Purple Isles which would remain under the control of the Sand Republic and the former Protectorate of Sandy Clay Loam and the Eastern provinces of the Loaman Empire which would form the Sandy State to serve as a buffer between the Sand Republic and the rest of the continent, with himself and his two generals on their ruling council. A mistranslation was made during the handing back of territories, a treaty that was signed by the late Admiral Sediment and had the official seal of Loamsly III read that the Silt Fleet was given 'Maricis' Alonzo having having been self educated assumed that 'Maricis' meant all of South Estuaria and gave the entire region back to the Silt Fleet. Alonzo at the announcement of the end of the war also declared the creation of the Soil Union, a de facto superstate that would contain all nations on the continent and would be led by himself with it's capital being Jerusoilum a new city being constructed on the border of Clayistan, the Loaman Empire and the Silt Fleet, among other things the Soil Union banned wars between it's internal regions.

### Rogue Sand Uprising and Great Soil War (375 ASB - 391 ASB)

On M11-12 376 ASB Tripe Alonzo, without the authorization of Austin Alonzo took his forces and the forces of the Sandy State and invaded Clayistan and the Loaman Empire in an attempt to start the Sand War up again. Austin Alonzo initially wanted to remain neutral in the conflict and see where it was going but the day after the invasion he was confronted by Sabant Alonzo who threatend to have his city Barnite succeed if the Sand Republic didn't enter the war. Austin had the Sand Republic move against Tripe a day after. The other leaders involved reacted swiftly and by M3-09 377 ASB Tripe Alonzo's forces were no more, the conflict came to be known as the Rogue Sand Uprising. King Claysius IV of Clayistan and the various petty rulers of the Loaman Empire agreed that some sort of punishment towards the Sand Republic was in order and threatened to continue occupying the portions of the Sandy State that they took during the uprising if no punishment was dealt. On M3-23 377 ASB Austin Alonzo had Tripe Alonzo stripped of his rank and placed into the ancient vaults of San Palaguas in order to send a message to the rest of his armed forces. On M4-06 377 ASB Alonzo ceded the Loamy Sand portions of the Sand Republic to the Sandy State as 'punishment' for allowing the Rogue Sand Uprising to happen, Claysius IV withdrew his forces from the Sandy State, the Loaman Empire's petty rulers did not. On M6-26 377 ASB Austin Alonzo commissioned the creation of a floating island to the north of the Sand Republic and to the west of Clayistan called Ramal Athnyn and would be funded via the Soil Union.

On M10-28 379 ASB the forces of the Loaman Emperor Loamsly III crossed from the Loaman Empire occupied portion of the Sandy State into the Sandy State proper thus beginning the Loam-Sand War. Alonzo pledged that the Sand Republic would come to the aid of the Sandy State but due to the economic constraint of the construction of Ramal Athnyn Alonzo was unable to fund enough soldiers to realistically win the war in a timely fashion. On M8-22 382 ASB a ceasefire was called ending the Loam-Sand War with the Sandy State controlling the majority of their previously occupied land.

On M7-07 390 ASB Ramal Athnyn was completed having put the Soil Union into dire economic stress and on M8-30 390 ASB Austin Alonzo announce the first Soil Union election for Union Head in an attempt to make the dues somebody else's problem. On M8-30 of the next year Austin Alonzo relinquishes his role as Union Head and hands the position over to Conrad Smith of the Party for Peace and Prosperity, the next day the Sandy Clay Autonomous Region in Clayistan declared independence as the Revolutionary Republic of Sandy Clay and invaded the bordering countries Clayistan, the Loaman Empire and Sandy State beginning the Great Soil War, Austin Alonzo opted to remain out of the conflict as he assumed that the three countries already involved could handle it. On M11-16 394 ASB the Sand Republic was invaded by refugees from Maricis and the surrounding areas who fled with Governor Steward Smart following the Liquid Carbon invasion, Austin Alonzo ordered his people to travel north to board boats and sail to Ramal Athnyn, it was there that Austin Alonzo waited out the remainder of the Great Soil War. Alonzo attended the Jerusoilum Conference on M5-03 397 ASB to decide the terms of the treaty ending the war, where he ended up ceding Ramal Athnyn to Liquid Carbon.

### Rising Tensions and Death (391 ASB - 429 ASB)

On M7-18 419 ASB Austin Alonzo had the Sand Republic withdraw from the Soil Union, he attempted to join the League of Soils but was blocked by George Twinton, the Captain of the North Fleet who had Anti-Sandic views.

Austin Alonzo was killed on M12-25 429 ASB when the Shale Empire destroyed San Palaguas with a strike cannon.