Central Military Commission

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 Founded

The **Central Military Commission of the Fox Dynasty**, also known simply as the **Central Military Commission** or the **CMC**, is a Libirachi state commission which acts as a congressional oversight body for the historically independent Libirachi Imperial Army. The organisation is a part of the Libirachi National Congress, which elects up to 20 members to serve a 5 year term on the commission for the duration of a congressional session, whilst eight seats on the commission are granted to senior members of government *ex-officio*.

Founded in 2034 by Empress Penny Fox and President Karyn Voor, the Commission serves as the means by which the central state government of the Libirachi Empire is able to control and reign in the often turbulent leadership of the LIA, using a combination of tools from the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order such as the Imperial Security Bureau and the Empress' personal guard the Vindicta in order to force members of the army to comply with the leadership of the nation. Chaired nominally by the Empress Fox, day to day running of the Commission is actually overseen by the office of the president and the chairman of the Libirachi National Congress, who acts as the presiding officer for the body. In their capacity as the leader of the government, the president is the highest ranking politician within the nation and is granted significant weight within the Central Military Commission, although final decisions usually require consent from the monarch.

The Imperial High Command is held to account through the Central Military Commission which is led by the President of the Libirachi Empire and has membership including the Director General of Imperial Intelligence, the Chairman of COMPNOR, the President of the Imperial Privy Council, representatives relevant to the meeting which can be switched out based on need and on occasion members of the National Congress who specialise in army matters. The Central Military Commission can legally call any official at any rank within the LIA before it's jurisdiction and both the Imperial Security Bureau and Vindicta have the means to arrest and detain any official who refuses to comply with a Commission summons in order to force their participation in a commission session, whilst the Commission can sentence anyone brought before the body to receive a judiciary trial, or if the Empress so wishes the Vindicta has the power to execute anyone condemned by the body.

As a collective, the Commission acts with the authority of the Libirachi throne and has the ability to circumvent the majority of the Fox Dynasty's legal system, with cases being directed straight to the supreme court and prosecuted by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Edicts passed by the Commission have the equivalent status as law, though cannot overrule statue legislation, and can be used to enact wide ranging purges of government ranks, such as the 2034 Libirachi Army Purge. As the head of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order's legal division, the Attorney General is responsible for prosecuting figures indicted by the Central Military Commission.

Elections to the Central Military Commission occur every 5 years during the first plenary session of the newly elected Libirachi National Congress; depending on the wishes of the government, there can be as many as 30 members of the commission, with only eight seats being held *ex-officio*. Elected membership of the body is considered highly prestigious within Libirachi political spheres, and allows members of the congress to gain access to the most senior members of government. Decisions taken by the body require a simple majority of votes to become edicts, though require royal assent before they can become enforceable acts.

## Overview

 **Electoral History**2033 Libirachi Presidential Election • 2035 Libirachi National Congress Election • 2035 Libirachi Presidential Election • 2040 Libirachi National Congress Election

 *Libirachi: Asia's Superpower*

With 39 million active troops, the Libirachi Imperial Army is the worlds largest standing army, by a significant margin, and reports directly to the Central Military Commission of the Libirachi Empire, following nearly 200 years of being granted nearly full autonomy from the central state government from the establishment of the Imperial Republic of Libirachi in 1852 and the creation of the CMC in 2034 during the presidency of Karyn Voor. The LIA consists of the First Legion, the Imperial Occupation Legion, the Sky Core, the Naval Legion and the Special Forces, serving as the interior defence, ground invasion, aerial combat, naval and special forces divisions of the army respectively. The control of the Libirachi Imperial Army is layered and each force has an internal hierarchy which culminates in the Joint Chiefs, where leading members of the Libirachi Admiralty, Sky Core, Occupation Legion and First Legion meet to deliberate day-to-day operations of the LIA, whilst the Imperial High Command is attended by the leaders of the divisions, that being the Grand Admiral, Grand General and Grand Moff and is chaired by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, although since the title was granted to Empress Penny Fox in 2033, the IHC has been chaired by the Minister of War or in substitution the Defence Secretary.

The Imperial High Command is held to account through the Central Military Commission which is led by the President of the Libirachi Empire and has membership including the Director General of Imperial Intelligence, the *de-facto* leader of COMPNOR, the President of the Imperial Privy Council, representatives relevant to the meeting which can be switched out based on need and on occasion members of the National Congress who specialise in army matters. The CMC can legally call any official at any rank within the LIA before it's jurisdiction and both the Imperial Security Bureau and Vindicta have the means to arrest and detain any official who refuses to comply with a CMC summons in order to force their participation in a commission session, whilst the Commission can sentence anyone brought before the body to receive a judiciary trial, or if the Empress so wishes the Vindicta has the power to execute anyone condemned by the body.

## History

Following over 160 years of the Libirachi Imperial Army's independence, President Karyn Voor began to attack the leadership of the LIA, finding it to be disruptive and difficult to lead and in 2034 the Central Military Commission was established under Voor's guidance to bring the armed forces completely into the fold of the central government. Subsequently, Voor's control over the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order allowed her to conduct a purge of Libirachi armed forces leadership, bumping off famous leaders like Joseph Zuma, Chen Bingde and Rithnuro Thrawn. The 2034 Libirachi Army Purge took place between May 17 and May 25, 2034 under the leadership of President Karyn Voor to remove key members of the Imperial High Command of the Libirachi Imperial Army as part of a drive to bring the LIA under the control of the government and the newly established Central Military Commission which was established on May 1, 2034 and immediately authorised the purge to target key figures regarded as resisting the campaign. Among those indicted included Grand Moff Joseph Zuma and long-serving Grand Admiral Rithnuro Thrawn, hero of the Has Wars, both of whom advocated for the operational independence of the Libirachi Imperial Army, a longstanding tradition dating back to the presidency of Stanford Rightly in the 1800s which had caused numerous problems for the Libirachi government over history, with the memory of the Wahngso Crisis still fresh in the memory of the Empress Fox and many other members of government.

Beginning on May 17, 2034, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and Central Military Commission jointly ruled that 17 officers of the Libirachi Imperial Army had committed punishable offences, ranging from corruption to treason, and passed an order to COMPNOR to ensure that all 17 were brought before trial; tasked with rounding up the members of the military, Major General Maximilian Veers of the Vindicta conducted a wide-reaching purge of the Imperial High Command, executing Grand Moff Joseph Zuma on May 18th, before claiming that Moff Zuma had "resisted arrest". Likewise, following internal resistance to the creation of the Central Military Commission, Minister for War Alexander Fowle was similarly arrested and sentenced to death by Attorney General Lauren Salamander on May 20th. Out at sea in the Pacific Ocean on a tour along the western coast of the United States of America, Grand Admiral Rithnuro Thrawn was relieved from his post by Fleet Admiral Alexander Kallus and flown back to America, before being flown back to Beijing from a Libirachi air base, where Thrawn stood trial for corruption, receiving a life sentence in prison and being stripped of all titles and medals. Meanwhile, the retired Grand General and former Supreme Commander Chen Bingde was pulled out of retirement and sentenced to death by the Vindicta, acting on the orders of the Empress Fox directly.