Byzantine Remnants

*We'll meet again*

*Don't know where*

*Don't know when*

*But I know we'll meet again some sunny day*

*Keep smiling through*

*Just like you always do*

'*Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away*

- "We'll Meet Again", Vera Lynn
The **Byzantine Remnants** (or just **Remnants**) is a minor Pandemonium faction of the Norseverse. Before the Alien Wars, the **Directorate of Eight Great Nations** was the largest and strongest power on Earth, composed of the European monarchies, Byzantine Empire, and the Confederate States of Virginia, who actively fought the other powers for control over the whole planet, able to keep fighting for the whole duration of the Century War. When the aliens came to wage their own personal war, the Directorate replied with their own attack, which lured the attention of the extraterrestrial forces onto them and effectively destroyed the united monarchies. Now the Byzantine Remnants, the only Directorate nation whose government came out (relatively) unscathed, are forever trapped warring with the other superpowers and their former allies turned bandits in the delusion of rebuilding the Directorate and getting back what is theirs. The various surviving nobles, governors, prefects, and military officers devolved into cutthroat bandits, ruling their own “kingdom” within the majority of former Directorate territories.

## The Imperial Armies of Byzantine

### Defenses

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Fusion Cannon | Most commonly seen in the largest cities and important military bases, Fusion Cannon is the most powerful base defense in Directoarte's arsenal. Armed with two fusion cannons that can vaporize nearly anything under its sustained fire of yellow shots, the turret is also able to target the air, thought the aiming is poor so its more of a suppression weapon than anything else.

### Airforce

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Harrower | Circling over the battlefield and raining down death on the enemies with a set of 10 autocannons and heavy machine guns and a single 105mm howitzer, thats the job of Harrower. When approaching the battlezone, Harrower can release a swarm of cluster missiles to decimate the morale of anyone caught in its wide radius.

### Navy

 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Spartan Escort Carrier | Seeing the need for protection of their fleets from aerial attacks, Roman designers converted a portion of their cruisers into small carriers, carrying squadrons of smaller jet fighters modified for STOL to protect and engage any aerial opposition over the Seven Oceans... when there is no one too close to threaten them.
 File:IconTUEDirectorate.png | Monarch Dreadnought | The public image of the Directorate's Armada, Monarchs were always a feared enemy to even the Fylkirate captains. Armed with six turrets bearing 16 inch guns and a complement of secondary gun batteries, making it capable of engaging both other warships and coastal installations. The Remnants still possesses large number of these battleships.

## Behind the Scenes

* The Byzantine Remnants, and the Bandit Lords, are supposed to be a "Mirror Allied Reservist" and "Mirror Allies" of the Red Alert 3 for the PEQAN. It takes some inspiration from the Galactic Empire, the Imperial Remnant and Sith Empires from the Star Wars. The storyline will source from Star Wars Expanded Universe, now Legends, about the defeat, fragmentation and desperation of the Galactic Empire to survive.
* The unit lists are specifically a counterpart of Red Alert 3 and Uprising Allied units while being based on forces and navy of the Star Wars Galactic Empire. Monarch-class Dreadnoughts, Stormtroopers and Buzzard Interceptors are meant to represent Imperial Star Destroyers, Stormtroopers, and TIE Fighters, respectively, only altered to go along the pathway set by C&C's Allies.
* *The Headstrong Ram*, the symbol of the Directorate military, is to be the opposite of the Allied eagle. Where the eagle represents the aerial domination and swiftness of the Allied Nations, the ram is the charging powerhouse of the Directorate. It being heavily scarred represents the Byzantine Remnants that survived the Aftermath, and thus proclaim themselves as the true unifier of the Directorate, in comparison to the Bandit Lords which is shattered into five pieces representing the five Bandit Kingdoms.
* The splitting of the Directorate Remnants into the Byzantine Remnants and Directorate Bandit Lords is to remedy the discrepancy between the Directorate Remnants being a major faction in the Concordiat/Norseverse yet in PEQAN PIES is a minor faction.