St Miller

## Overview

Located in the centre of the Dalvanberg region. The city of St miller is the largest of the Kapitels within the Bibliothek. Being the primary Kapitel for interactions with all the other Kapitels and the nations of the VBM, CSR and Union. It, like the city of Charon has only once disappeared from reality; that being when the Bibliothek was established.

Lad out like a metro station, the city of St miller has tunnels leading off in every which direction. Some with tracks, some without, some stable, others flickering in and out like a TV with a low signal, but with all the tunnels of Dalvanberg leading back to this station, the hub for trade, communication and a pathway through the centre of Dalvanberg.

## History

Established at the height of the Alliance/union war, by Union forces, as their most western base for operations in to the centre of the Dalvanberg region. Though it wouldn't stay in the hands of it creators for long as Alliance forces pushed back capturing the city for their own, gifting them their most eastern base and a direct root through to Union territory.

In response the union counter attacked, sending hundreds to die for the recapture of the city, and capture the city they did but it only lasted a matter of weeks before the alliance took the city once again. capture after recapture, attack after counter attack, what is a million lives for a path to the enemy, what is tens of millions to capture the city. That was the thought of both the alliance and union. capture after recapture of decades. Decades under occupation of either side. Till one day the battles for the city stopped. The silence deafening in the face of one man. **General Augustus Miller**. *The man that defied gods and devils at the end of reality*.

### The General turned Saint

Augustus Miller born during the few months of peace following the end of the NATO/Russo war. In the desolated remains of eastern Poland, too a kind and proud family. He was the second of three children of Olivia and Michal Miller. Both soldiers turned farmer as the war came to an end. For most of his childhood, things were calm, peaceful even. But upon his 11th birthday, things started to change. The weather the last couple of years had began to get worse. The heat of summer burning a portion of their crops. The heat unbearable for most of the day keeping them inside, watching as the sun baked the ground. Then when winter came the frozen wind brought with it snow. Snow that buried their home and fields for months. Months that seemed to get longer and longer.

Then the first of the refugees began to arrive from the east. Frozen, staving husks they came to his home asking for help. Help that his family was happy to give, at least for a time. As more refugees started to pile in, and the weather continued to worsen, his parents decided to abandon their home and head west with the refugees. By the time he was 16, they had been waiting outside the defensive line of 15o east for over a year and things were getting worse. Fights had began to brake out over scrapes of food and bottles of water. The soldiers opening fire on both parties, without much care for who they were or who they might leave behind.

Then the battles began. The Union attacking over the entire border, thousands died both refugees and Union soldiers, his family only just escaping with the help of a Alliance soldier that his father had known from the war. Though not all of his family got through, with his older sister getting shot in the chest, as they were running for the hole in the defences.

Though he would later join the Alliance military, he would never forget that it was the Alliance that forced the Union to attack. That it was the Alliance that killed his sister, and as the war continued his distrust of the Alliance only grew.

#### Millers appointment to the city

He was 48 years old, by the time he was appointed to the base. By that time, he had became a legend among the troops. His willingness to give up land and resources to save lives. His defiance to high command if it was dishonourable, or immoral. His willingness to let prisoners go instead of reporting it and sending them to become experiments in some Alliance monster lad.

He was loved by his troops and hated by command. Leading to his appointment to the base. High command thought that they could get rid of him in a counter attack by the Union. But that never happen, in truth the attack just stopped. Or at least it stopped for the soldiers in the city. Whilst command kept getting report of attack that his troops were able to repel.

The truth was that he was able to get a cease fire with the commander of the Union troops within his region establishing a Alliance of multiple bases, stations and armies. Ending all fighting within the centre of the largest battle in recent history. This is how thing where for a few years. Till one day a army of Alliance troops lead by a Alliance high general arrived in the city. They were carrying cylinders of gas each with a biohazard sign on them. The general was stopped just as he exited the tunnel. Miller demanding that they turn back, that they wouldn't allow them to enter with those cylinders. The general tried to pull rank, ordering Millers troops to arrest him. They wouldn't. Insulted and annoyed the general pointed his gun at Miller. Telling him that he would allow them through. That the gas is the means to the end of the war. Our salvation. Miller nodded and the generals head exploded. In the next minuets the city was in chaos, gunfire and explosions echoing off the walls.

For the next few months the Alliance attack again and again. Then the Union leadership found out about millers alliance and attack them from the other side, though the effects of trident on them made the attack sloppy and in the end, the Union troops that was attacking pleaded to be helped when they got infected, and of course Miller helped.

It would be only hours before Die Nihil. When old Miller would die from being infected by trident. His last moments demanding that his Alliance would survive and continue to fight together for what's good and what's right. The general, turned Marta made Saint.

### Post Die Nihil

As with all the Kapitel of the Bibliothek. The city of St miller is named after its apparition. The spirit of the general, his soul believed to be the reason the city has so many connection to the other Kapitel as well as the outside world. His spirit connecting even to those Kapitel that aren't fixed to this universe. His soul able to make a connection across the barriers between worlds. Though he is seldom seen and believed to be more of a legend than an actual ghost that wanders the halls of this Bibliothek.

## Government

The city of St miller acts differently from that of other Kapitel of the Bibliothek. Instead of being a chieftain. The city is more like that of a democratic meritocracy. with each of the stations of the city voting for a individual that has shown themselves to be hard working and logical, a natural leader. That has help improve the lives of the common citizen of their station. Then they will join a council to represent their station.

There are 12 stations, each with its own little society, culture and customs, each named after different leaders, generals or important individuals that had fought with Miller during the late days of the war. The society of the city is cut into two main groups, that of the Alliance and the Union for their culture whist their politics is cut into the CSR, CIR or VBM depending on which group they lean more towards. This influencing how the people vote for every 5 year.

The city council doesn't have a mayor or single voice as the city is not made up of one type of people. Instead during gatherings or press conferences all 12 are in attendants and if the current leader of a station can't make it, then their deputy will attend. To ensure that all stations are reparented. Though in times of crisis or war the council will be disbanded and the cities military will take command into it is over.

This military works as any other and is based off of the Common line, with legions and the like. However it is a small army mainly being used as home defence and border petrol, allowing Kapitels with the desire for war, to protect the city and the Bibliothek from outside aggressions, whilst St miller does what it does best and tries the diplomatic root.

> *There is no man that can't be reasoned with in war. There is no man that doesn't want peace, to go home. To forget about the faces of those they had already slaughtered. There is no man that can not be reasoned with, if not through words, then through the barrel of a gun. **General Augustus Miller. The alliance in the middle of Dalvanberg.***
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