Anadrene Empire

The modern flag of the Anadrene Empire

The Anadrene Empire **[ADN]** is a medium-sized nation located in the mid-northern tropics of Izanami. Whilst technically not one entity, it is a unity of 12 smaller member states, united in a military alliance with a common leader.

Anadrene shares borders with the Federation of Kurarctic States, Rykovan State and Devia-Greed.

## History

The Anadrene Empire was formed as a result of a century-long war called the Genesis Conflict; The twelve states being the isles of Ephyra, Cascadia, Timgad, Koros, Callahan, Rusbult, Torrenne, Archer, Azura, Velix, Laconia and Kytar went to war over what would later be evaluated as "A series of political and socioeconomic clusterfucks", predominantly being a result of material tensions combined with warlike competition of the states. A skirmish between the Laconian frigate LCNV Firespirit and the Cascadian missile destroyer RCN Ascension would escalate until the entire navies of both nations were engaged. This prompted the other island states to strike at the two opponents whilst they were most vulnerable. A lack of comms thanks to a failed Miroslavan GAMBIT-IV shuttle launch destroying the Global Communications Network would result in the conflict escalating to all-out war; A free-for-all between twelve military powers.

For 98 years, the Genesis Conflict would rage on at a deadlock's pace, with all sides taking massive losses but still engaging in battle. The final stages of the war would see the nation of Ephyra develop powerful thermobaric weapons, which it would deploy on the nations of Timgad, Rusbult and Cascadia, with threats to unleash them on the capitals of the other island nations should they not stand down. Whilst this was successful, the Laconians proceeded to begin the final battle of the war.

The Siege of Tyra and the subsequent Glassing of Marcos was the final battle of the Genesis Conflict, where the entire Laconian air force and navy would besiege the capital city of Ephyra with artillery bombardment and airstrikes with chemical ordinance. In spite of mass casualties, Ephyra would then launch its arsenal of thermobaric ballistic missiles at Laconia, completely wiping the capital city of Marcos off the map. Peace talks would begin, with the nations in agreement that unity was better than their mutual destruction; The Unity Accords were drafted, assembling the nations into a league-style empire with the capital city of Tyra. The Hall of Sovereigns was assembled to form the legislative parliament of the empire. A common currency, the Adrian Iron was coined in favour of the several localised currencies the nations had previously used, and a national holiday, Unity Day, was formed in celebration of the genesis of an empire.

## Flotsam Front I

During Flotsam Front I, Anadrene would lay claim to the isles of Anadrene, Torrenne, Alcinne and Ephyra. It would remain mostly neutral until allying with Nordman Industries Manufacturing under the Free Trade Alliance and later going to war with the Miroslavan Pact and Warriors of Greed.

### **PACT-FTA War**

**Main article: Great Alliance War** and the **Battle of Rykova**

Once the war began, Adrian sailors and pilots took off from Ephyra Naval Base and set heading for the isle of Rykova, arriving in the nick of time with NIM and ADN ships arriving to reinforce the already-engaged FTA flotilla and the NIM staging post that had been built on the isle of Rykova.

The combined flotilla consisted of:

* 1x ADN Armstrong-I Battleship - ANV-252 "Ashen Goliath"
* 1x NIM Battleship
* 2x NIM Cruiser
* 1x FTA Cruiser
* 1x ADN Ronin-class Destroyer - ANV-271 "Ivy"
* Several NIM Bomberman-pattern strike craft
* ADN Two squadrons of KZ16-pattern fighters

#### **First Battle of Rykova**

GRD dispatched a carrier consisting of 1 **M**-class carrier, 1 **B**-class cruiser, and 1 **D**-class corvette to the NIM fortress on Rykova. Through conventional naval warfare and continued bombardment of the FTA ships, GRD were able to destroy a Free Trade Alliance cruiser, albeit losing several planes and damaging their corvette in the process. Once NIM and ADN reinforcements arrived, NIM Bomberman-pattern strike aircraft were sent to destroy the carrier. Meanwhile, ADN and GRD fighters dueled in the skies, with GRD's planes unable to land to re-arm following the carrier's destruction. The **B**-class cruiser fielded by GRD would be sunk in conventional combat against the ANV-252 Ashen Goliath and NIM's battleship, having taken several casaba rounds (Which would cost the Goliath its entire missile complement). The **D**-class corvette would manage to escape, albeit heavily damaged. It remained in dock for the rest of the war.

**Second Battle of Rykova**

Upon ADN and NIM's victory in the first battle of Rykova, one of the remaining bomberman strikers in the sky reported "A shitload of PACT ships out west" back to the fleet. The fleet would regroup and repair at Rykova before leaving harbour again to engage the approaching Miroslavan fleet.

Outgunned, outmatched and outnumbered, the fleet stood valiantly. The Ashen Goliath would be the first ship to fall in the fleet, after suffering a malfunction in launch control, causing it to ascend out of the water and hover over the field with no bridge control. It was then impacted by several MPT anti-ship missiles and destroyed, the wreckage smashing into the ocean below. The surviving crew swam to nearby NIM ships, where they took command of smaller frigates and brought them to the front from the Rykova base. NIM's battleship's bridge would be destroyed, but the ship's fire control remained intact, and successfully destroyed several Miroslavan ships. With combined efforts from the NIM ships and Miroslava's missiles having thruster malfunctions, the Miroslavan fleet would be sank, the RSS Sovereign Song upon being struck by 500mm HE rounds exploded into a fireball visible from space.

Anadrene in this dimension would later collapse due to a Miroslavan-funded revolutionary group, but NIM would succeed in destroying the remaining PACT military assets.

## Vexiology

### **Imperial Star Flag**

The Imperial Star was the first flag of Anadrene, created with the Unity Accords. A fairly simple flag, with the corner star representing the empire's unity and common purpose, the red representing the blood shed to forge the empire, and the white stripe to represent the finding of peace amidst the blood, leading to the Unity Accords.

### **Open Circle Alliance Flag**

The Open Circle flag was the second revision to Anadrene's flag, created approximately 6 AU (post-unity accords in years). This flag sports the similar meanings of the first, but places twelve stars on its central white stripe to represent each member state. The imperial star remains at the centre, albeit opened with a surrounding circle in order to represent the progress and openness of the new empire.