Tenasian-Atlus Empire

Dath Tenási-Atlusa Kungarate (Tenmai-Vosaian)
Lot Cohodlo-Atlusa Lorhat (Occetian)

Flag of the Empire

## Overview

The Tenásian-Atlus Empire is the Federal Empire controlling the entirety of the Ares-Zealot (Sirius) System and Mintaka System and the vast majority of the Tenmas-Masten (Procyon) System, lying in the Canis Major, Canins Minor and Ursa Major Constellations. The Tenásian-Atlus Empire is probably the largest civilisation in the general area around Sol. The Empire maintains good relations with the Humans and Oxifians, and knows only whispers of other forces at play, key amongst their allies are the Kalmar Union, the primary European Superpower.

The Empire is divided up into 9 Planetary Authorities, The Tenásian, The Atlusian, The Lumean, The Cascadian, The Satrean, The Patteman, the Typhon, The Lusseman and The Ereban, these are all divided into Commonwealths (Continental Landmasses or Groupings of Regions), with the exception of The Lumean, which is divided into the individual moons. These Commonwealths are divided further into States (Former Countries or Large Regions), States are divided into Districts and Counties. This system results in bureaucratic issues running rampant across The Empire, but certainly lessens the load of administering entire planets.

The Empire possesses a rather powerful Military, capable of power projection light years from Temas-Masten, its shipyards could pump out cruisers hourly in times of crisis, but this, thankfully, has never occurred. The Tenásian Armed Forces are often deployed to escort Freighter Vessels and deal with rebellious pockets in The Empire.

## History

### Post Unification Wars

The Successor State of all those on Tenas and on Atlus, The Tenásian Empire was founded after the resolution of the Final Unification Wars (1880-1899), the last, and calmest (with the exception of the Post-Karnian Stalemates (1871-1880) part of the Grand Unification Wars (1808-1899), lasting 63 total years of near constant warfare. Tenas was ultimately united by the efforts of Emperor Juceia Naeoi II of the Tenmai Empire and Queen Helsber of the Marsei Empire, bringing the entire planet under a united government for the first time ever. In the years following the Unification Wars, the efforts of The Empire were dedicated to repairing the damage dealt, in the process, the Atlusians from the moon of Atlus joined The Empire, forming The Tenásian-Atlus Empire.

#### Diarchy (1899 - 1919)

The Diarchy of Empress Juceia Marsei Helsberaek Naeoi II and Emperor Helsber Marsei Juceiaek Naeoi III presented the most stable period of the planet in centuries, with Tenas unified under one state, the Two Empresses and the Imperial Senate could properly allocate aid and support to regions that needed it, mostly the continents of Alturia, Aeltlea and Zalanta. Of course, the title of “the most stable period of the planet in centuries” does not sufficiently describe the large amount of Anti-Imperial Groups, mostly centred in Alturia.

In 1900, Naeoi II and Naeoi III had a child, future Emperor Vors Leios-Marsei.

The Diarchy brought with it the unification of the Tenásian Empire with the Atlusian Republic in 1903, which itself had been embroiled in a major civil war between two major factions, one who wanted war with the Tenásian Empire and one who saw the potential benefits of a proper alliance, and later unification, with the Tenásians. Atlusian money greatly aided the reconstruction of major parts of Tenas, and helped with the development of starships to better travel their home system.

In 1907, a Tenásian-Atlus ship launched from Atlus arrived in the orbit of the planet Teal in the Tenmas-Masten System and discovered a civilisation on the planet that was in the process of undergoing a shift from the human equivalent of the Late Modern Period into the human equivalent of the Cold War Period. The Telian Civilisations were believed to be in the opening stages of the process of a peaceful and long unification. Empress Naeoi III advised that contact not be made until the Telians either develop their own FTL systems or make contact first, thus establishing the still ongoing “Brotherly Wait” for the Telians to fit the criteria for contact.

In the early 1910s, Empress Naeoi II began to group Tenásian States into Proto-Commonwealths (this is technically a retronym, as they were unofficially called Commonwealths back then), most of these would be recognisable to modern Tenásians, with a few exceptions, primarily Alturia having 2 Proto-Commonwealths (Collective State Government of Northern Alturia and Occetia (CVAyO) and the Collective State Government of Southern Alturia (CLA) and a unified Gensturnai Commonwealth (Collective of Gensturn State-Territories (CGLN). These Proto-Commonwealths helped historically and culturally similar states cooperate better, which while not perfect, provided great assistance in the restoration process of Tenas.

On the 25th June 1919, at roughly 14:12 Greenwich Median Time, Empress Naeoi II died at the age of 87 in her sleep, leaving Empress Naeoi III and their child, Vors.

#### Empress Naeoi III’s Individual Rule (1919 - 1922)

Following the death of Naeoi II, Empress Naeoi III fell into depression, with slowly deteriorating health. Despite this, Naeoi III continued to rule without aid for 2 more years, completing most of the goals and reforms of Naeoi II.

In late 1921, her son, Vors, began to aid her in her roles, as Naeoi’s health was only getting worse, her doctors believing her to have developed a severe form of depression and a broken heart, with her expected to only live a few more years if she was unable to accept help. She was not able to be helped, knowing this, she spent her last months assisting Vors to get ready for his later coronation, not telling Vors that she was close to death.

Empress Naeoi died on 3rd June 1922, at roughly 12:19 Greenwich Median Time, only 3 days after the 2nd anniversary (in Tenásian time) of the death of Naeoi III, in a believed suicide, it’s thought a note was written, though has been lost entirely, potentially found by Vors, who discovered her and kept by him.

### The Commonwealth Emperors (1922 - 2028)

Following on from Naeoi II’s Proto-Commonwealths, Tenas and Atlus were divided into modern Commonwealths in 1923 by Emperor Charlé II, this period also marked a decline in the power of the Emperor through entirely voluntary choices on the side of the 3 Commonwealth Emperors. This period also marked massive scientific and economic improvements on Tenas, with the adoption of the Vorsite Economic Model, beginning the still ongoing socialisation of Tenas.

#### Emperor Charlé II (1922 - 1955)

Vors Leios-Marsei (Born 1900) was the son of Empress Naeoi II and Empress Naeoi III and former commander of the Sonyiern Neyarn Legion of the Imperial Guard. He ascended to the throne of the Tenásian-Atlus Empire on 4th June 1922 (GMT), following on from his mother, Naeoi III, being crowned Charlé II (Vors claimed ancestry from the near mythical Emperor Charlé I of the ancient Narkai Sea Empire, hence the II of his title). Prior to this, he was filling in most of the roles and duties of the Emperor for his ailing mother.

Charlé in his 1st year of reign established the Modern Commonwealth System, converting many of the previous Proto-Commonwealths directly to Commonwealths and, at the recommendation of them, unifying the CVAyO and CLA into the Alturian Commonwealth, along with dividing the CGLN into the Klatta and Stata Gensturnai Commonwealths. These Modern Commonwealths wielded much greater power over their constituent States than the Proto-Commonwealths and allowed the final stages of Tenásian Reconstruction to start.

Charlé also introduced new economic ideas to the Imperial Senate in 1927, dubbed the Vorsite Economic Model, this plan would begin a shift away from the capitalistic system of Old Tenas to a much more socialist model, this also involved the Two Century Plan, where Tenas was planned to have either a full or near Post-Scarcity Economic Situation by 2138. The Senate introduced the Two Century Plan in 1931, with results becoming very obvious very quickly. The economic stability that became apparent in the following few years launched Charlé into an extremely popular Emperor, even in historically Anti-Imperial areas in Alturia, Charlé quickly obtaining the nickname of “The People’s Emperor”, which he didn’t entirely enjoy.

Another notable aspect of Charlé’s reign was him greatly increasing the power of the Senate and shifting closer to the role of a referee over the Tenásian Political System. This move set the standard for the two following Emperors.

In April 1954, Charlé began to show signs of a Genetic Disorder, with him losing leg function only a few months later. This disorder was believed to come from a minor issue in his conception, as the process by which Naeoi II and Naeoi III conceived him wasn’t perfected. The disorder seemed to only affect his legs and a singular lung, with it believed to have stopped spreading in October 1954. On the 20th of September 1955, Charlé was suddenly taken ill, passing away on the 22nd in his sleep, leaving his now orphan son, Vorsall, to become Emperor.

Charlé had an immense funeral, potentially the largest single gathering of living beings in the Tenmas-Masten System ever, though was proportionally smaller than the funerals of his Mothers.

#### Emperor Heftur (1955 - 1996)

Vorsall Heftur Leios-Marsei (Born 1917) was the son of Emperor Charlé. Heftur ascended to the throne of the Tenásian-Atlus Empire on the 22nd of September 1955, following on from his father. Heftur took the unusual decision to use part of his given name as his Regnal Name.

Heftur had a child in 1942 with his wife, who died in childbirth, the child was called Saleis Malol Tiol Helsber Leios-Marsei, adopting the given names of all 4 of her great-grandparents.

Heftur always lived in the shadow of his father’s accomplishments, and despite lessening his power even further than Charlé did and slightly accelerating the Two Century Plan, did not obtain the fame of his father, though Heftur came to accept this, opting to use his position to advocate for social changes, touring the empire at least 8 times during his reign, coming to place his main residence in the Gensturn city of Nossenet, where he unofficially reigned from.

Heftur made quite an effort to get the majority of Atlusians to like the Monarchy, doing a large amount of work on Atlus and personally funding some endeavours on the planet, such as developments of the first Fusion Drives in 1984, which enabled the Empire to colonise the remainder of the Tenmas-Masten System (Teal and her moon excluded) substantially faster, with Charlé’s last tour of the Empire in 1995 taking him across the entire Tenmas-Masten System, something he apparently talked about in a book he completed on in his deathbed, commenting on it in his Main Brinat, An Emperor’s Words to Death (Death Poem/Novella/Novel.)

Heftur died of old age in 1996, having delegated virtually all his power to his Daughter as Princess Regent.

#### Empress Saleis Naeoi IV (1996 - 2028)

Saleis Malol Tiol Helsber Leios-Marsei (Born 1942) was the daughter of Emperor Heftur. Saleis ascended to the throne of the Tenásian-Atlus Empire on the 6th of June 1996, though had served as Princess Regent from mid 1994. Saleis, as with all Empresses before her, amended the word Naeoi after her first given name for her Regnal Name.

Saleis had 4 daughters, Helsber (1981), Idan (1993), Ishla (1996) and Tiol (2000)

Saleis worked hard on tidying up the ageing systems upon which the Empire relied on and worked on accelerating development into superior space travel mechanisms, culminating in the first Frameshift Drive (Type AA-01) being unveiled in 2015.

Saleis oversaw the first stages of the colonisation of Ares-Zealot and the deployment of survey ships to Mintaka, along with the completion of the colonisation of Tenmas-Masten (in accordance with the Brotherly Wait)

Saleis, while focusing on her work tidying up the ageing systems, began to realise that the Monarchy itself was the root of a large amount of issue, and recognising that her powers were minimal and that sooner or later the Monarchy would become entirely irrelevant, confided with President Vosel Harvek of the Imperial Senate about her concerns. The two began work on how the Empire would function after the termination of the Monarchy. Following discussions with 3rd Earl of Stolades, Ritli Har’, 4th Grand Duke of Marsei Sholo Marseiifrid and Senate Minority Leader Hat Vir, it was decided that the Monarchy would continue to exist, but the title of Emperor would remain forever vacant once Saleis abdicates, and that the Empire would shift to being ruled by a Chancellor, head of the Imperial Council, a new House above the Imperial Senate. A vote was made in 2026 between Harvek, Har’, Marseiifrid and Vir, with a civilian called Atl Daniel Holc serving as a tiebreaker, to determine who would become Chancellor if the Senate was to vote in their plan. Harvek won, and the plan was advanced to the Senate, who decided that upon Harvek’s 20th Year in the seat of Senate President, he would become Chancellor.

In 2028, Saleis granted Vosel Harvek her blessing to become Chancellor mere minutes before her abdication officially took place, it being her last Official Decree. Saleis became Harvek’s advisor until she died in 2043.

### The Chancellorship (2028 - Present)

In 2028, the last Empress of the Tenásian-Atlus Empire abdicated, leaving the title of Emperor vacant, though still existent, decreeing Vosel Harvek, President of the Imperial Senate to be Imperial Chancellor, forming the Imperial Council in the process, which was formed of elected Councillors of Commonwealths. The Chancellor’s term lasts 20 years and they are officially placed into power by the current Duke/Duchess of Tenmai and Vosai.

#### Chancellor Vorsel Harvek (2028 - 2048)

Vorsel Harvek (Born 1973, Died 2091) was, before his ascension, the President of the Imperial Senate for 20 years and State Senator Kaminale for 33 years. Harvek took the Chancellorship in 2028.

Harvek’s early years involved mostly administering the colonisation of Ares-Zealot and managing the now rapidly changing economy, as the Two Century Plan reached its 1st Century during his reign, thus entering a phase of substantially faster changes. Owing to some poor decisions on his part, Harvek contributed to a growing bureaucratic crisis in the Empire and a minor growth in Anti-Imperial Sentiment in Alturia.

Vorsel was succeeded by Chancellor Hessia Nestun in 2048.

#### Chancellor Hessia Nestun (2048 - 2068)

Hessia Nestun (Born 1991, Died 2103) was, before his ascension, the Councillor for the Cascadian Dvetch Commonwealth for 11 years. Nestun took the Chancellorship in 2048 following Chancellor Harvek, blessed by Duchess Helsber Leios-Marsei.

Nestun oversaw the finalisation of the colonisation of Ares-Zealot, being a resident of a planet in the system, and organised the start of the colonisation of Mintaka. During his reign, a large amount of Anti-Imperial groups arose across the Empire, which were not managed sufficiently. Nestun’s reign also saw the Telia develop spaceflight and the start of their colonisation of their moon, with the Brotherly Wait being placed into serious consideration, though ultimately retained.

Nestun was succeeded by Chancellor Shran of Suenor in 2068.

#### Chancellor Shran of Suenor (2068 - 2088)

Shran of Suenor (Born 2029) was, before their ascension, the Councillor for the Tenmai Commonwealth for 17 years. Shran took the Chancellorship in 2048 following Chancellor Nestun, blessed by Duchess Helsber Leios-Marsei.

Shran was immensely popular in their reign, especially amongst the youth, and was well known for a willingness to listen to people. Shran oversaw the finalisation of the colonisation of Mintaka, and made plans to colonise the system of Folidae (Sol), though stopped early on. Shran also tried to remedy the bureaucratic crisis in the Empire, stalling it by an estimated 40 years. They also addressed the growing Anti-Imperial Groups, attempting to calm them diplomatically, though making it well known that they would crush the groups if they did not stop, declaring war on non-compliant groups, these claims were bolstered by them further militarising Tenas, renaming the Tenásian Interstellar Navy to the Tenásian Expeditionary Navy and ordering development of new vehicles, equipment and doctrines. Shran also developed first contact protocols for the Telia, and by extension further alien races, based on his favourite Sci-Fi novels.

Shran was succeeded by his close friend Chancellor Shras’ of Soin and L’men in 2088.

#### Chancellor Shras' of Soin and L'men (2088 - Present)

Shras’ of Soin and L’men (Born 2056) was, before his ascension, an aspiring soldier, though rejected entry to an Imperial Guard Legion, becoming a politician in 2071. Shran took the Chancellorship in 2088 following Chancellor Shran, blessed by Duchess Doria Leios-Marsei.

Shras’ is the first Chancellor to run as a member of a party, the Shras’ites, a centre-right party (by European standards) and is extremely popular with the military, expanding the Imperial Guard and the rest of the Military. Some Anti-Imperial Groups formed during his early reign, though not many at all. In 2095, an accident occurred, where the Steel Fists Legion vanished along with all but 2 companies of the Sonyiern Neyarn Legion. This led people to believe Shras' had displeased the spirits of Leios XVII and Naeoi II, which was denied by Shras'. In the mid 2090s, Shras’ oversaw contact with the Oxifians, and in 2100, during a colonial probing mission, oversaw contact with Humanity.

1. ↑ Shran's ender is halsnald, a Tenásian form of androgyny, thus in English translation adopts they/them pronouns