Sabant Alonzo

* Basic Info
* Relations
* Occupations

Barnite, Sand Province, Empire of Shale / Barnite, Empire of Shale occupied Sand Republic

### Spouse

Rill Sebe:
Married M6-21 378 ASB

### Children

Conrad Alonzo:
Born M10-06 379 ASB

### Title(s)

Lord Mayor of Barnite:
M12-10 364 ASB - M5-20 408 ASB

Secretary of Infrastructure for the Sandy State:

M1-04 375 ASB - M11-13 377 ASB

Mayor of New Barnite:

M10-13 408 ASB - M2-16 430 ASB

Premier of Sand:

M4-16 430 ASB - M4-08 436 ASB

### Career(s)

General of the Sand Republic:
M9-20 365 ASB - M5-20 408 ASB

### Preceded By

Lord Mayor of Barnite:
Malcom Ubari

Secretary of Infrastructure for the Sandy State:

None, position created

Mayor of New Barnite:

None, position created

Premier of Sand:

None, position created

### Succeeded By

Lord Mayor of Barnite:
Conrad Alonzo

Secretary of Infrastructure for the Sandy State:

Bingo Bongo

Mayor of New Barnite:

Henry Isle

Premier of Sand:

None, position dissolved

## Biography

### Early Life (345 ASB - 363 ASB)

Sabant Alonzo (born Sabant Ratliff) was born in the mining settlement of Rock on M10-27 345 ASB, where he worked as a miner and where he met Austin Alonzo and Tripe Snide, Austin Alonzo became one of Ratleff's closest friends whereas he was always distrustful of Snide. On M12-02 360 ASB Ratliff met with Alonzo and Snide, Alonzo explained his intention to fight in the next war of Sand War of Succession, the group would meet many more times until the death of King Stanley Artekin and the start of a Sand War of Succession on M10-18 363 ASB.

### Sand War of Succession (363 ASB - 365 ASB)

On the first day of the Sand War of Succession Ratliff and the rest of Austin Alonzo's followers took control of Rock.

On M1-14 364 ASB Alonzo's forces including Ratliff were probing into the Monoterrus controlled regions of the Sand Republic when they encountered a patrol from Monoterrus, which they attacked and defeated. Of those that they attacked only a single one survived, a Clay reporter named Dervot Heord. The group knew that Monoterrus had the backing of the Kingdom of Clayistan in the war, Tripe wanted to personally execute the Clay to send a message to the Kingdom of Clayistan. Sabant however believed that he would be more valuable to them alive. Alonzo decided to keep the man alive on the condition that he carry his weight in their army, which he did.

On M12-10 364 ASB Sabant Ratliff and the forces under his command captured the city of Barnite from Malcom Ubari. On the day of his city's capture Ubari resigned from his position as Lord Mayor of Barnite and granted the title to Sabant Ratliff. As the Lord Mayor of Barnite Sabant now had access to the city's forces and used them in support of Austin Alonzo. He was also given Ubari's advisor Symour Beige who provided Sabant with excellent tactical information. Sabant himself didn't leave the city for the rest of the war.

On M8-24 365 ASB Austin Alonzo was declared King of the Sand Republic, he granted Dervot Heord, Sabant Ratliff and Tripe Snide membership into the House of Alonzo. Snide and Ratliff chose to remain in the Sand Republic to serve as advisors in the newly formed government, they also chose to take Alonzo as their last names, Heord elected to return to the Kingdom of Clayistan in secret. Throughout the war Beige had provided Sabant with detailed tactical information regarding the rest of the Soil Texture Continent. Austin Alonzo believed that they had enough information to quickly seize control of the rest of the continent. At first Sabant didn't want to wage a war of aggression against the rest of the continent but Austin managed to convince him after pointing out that the Loaman Empire and the Kingdom of Clayistan were on the verge of war and without the information that they had the war would last longer and kill more people.

### Sand War (365 ASB - 375 ASB)

On M9-20 365 ASB Austin Alonzo appointed Sabant and Tripe Alonzo as generals in his army and a month and a day later sent them to lead his armies against the Loaman Empire. Snide was given the task of eliminating the Loaman Empire and the Silt Fleet.

The initial push into the Loaman Empire went well for Sabant and continued going well up until M12-16 365 AS when the Loaman army being led by Loaman Emperor Loamsly III took back the city of Timeworm and continued pushing westward liberating as he went. The Battle for Parakou began on M1-12 366 ASB, the battle went poorly for Sabant's forces on the first day, on the second day the Loaman army began to fall back. The next day whilst inspecting the salvage from the battle Sabant noticed Loamsly III's seal amongst the piles. Sabant realized that Loamsly III must have been among the dead and was the reason why the Loaman armies fell back. He ordered his forces to locate the body of the emperor from the half filled mass grave to give him a more suitable burial. From the edge of the grace Sabant managed to spot the body of Loamsly III and then saw the body look at him. He asked the burial's supervising officer Fredrik Burke if all of those being buried were deceased, when he said "yes" Sabant hopped into the grave and waded his way over to the emperor to check his pulse and discovered that he was still alive. He pulled him out of the pit and ordered Burke to make sure that none of the bodies in the pit were still alive and threatend to have him buried in the pit if he failed to rescued all the lively ones.

On M10-07 368 ASB Sabant had Loamsly III sign the Empire's surrender. With the Loaman Empire out of the way Sabant launched an inversion of the Silt Fleet. He was unaware that most of the Loaman forces were not ready to surrender.

On M1-28 369 ASB the Silt Fleet surrendered to the Sand Republic. This time around Sabant correctly guessed that the forces involved wouldn't lay down their weapons so easily.

By the start of 375 ASB the Sand War was still ongoing despite all of the Sand Republic's enemies having surrendered and the Sand Republic controlling many of their prominent cities and on M1-04 375 ASB Austin Alonzo announced the end of the Sand War with the majority of land taken returning to it's original owners the exceptions being the island of Tannhure in the Purple Isles which would remain under the control of the Sand Republic and the former Kingdom of Sandy Clay Loam and the western portions of the Loaman Empire which would form the Sandy State to serve as a buffer between the Sand Republic and the rest of the continent, with himself, Tripe and Sabant on their ruling council. Alonzo at the announcement of the end of the war also declared the creation of the Soil Union, a de facto superstate that would contain all nations on the continent and would be led by himself with it's capital being Jerusoilum a new city being constructed on the border of Clayistan, the Loaman Empire and the Silt Fleet, among other things the Soil Union banned wars between it's internal regions. Sabant was not happy about the way that the war ended as he assumed that it would not end the fighting on the continent and would probably only prompt more.

### Rogue Sand Uprising and Great Soil War (375 ASB - 397 ASB)

On M11-12 376 ASB Tripe Alonzo as a general of the Sand republic ordered his portion of their army to march against the Loaman Empire and Clayistan and as the Secretary of Defense of the Sandy State had the country declare war on and invade the Kingdom of Clayistan and the Loaman Empire, he did all of this without the authorization of Austin Alonzo beginning the Rogue Sand Uprising. The day after the invasions Sabant resigned from his position in the Sandy State and asked Austin to send his forces into the Sandy State to intervene. Austin Alonzo told Sabant that he had no intention to intervene until he saw which way the war was going. Sabant told Austin that if he didn't move against Tripe he would have the city of Barnite secede from the Sand Republic. The next day the Sand Republic moved against Tripe Alonzo, Sabant led a portion of their forces.

The uprising ended on M3-09 377 ASB with the Sand Republic capturing Tripe Alonzo. The King of Clayistan Claysius IV and the various petty rulers of the Loaman Empire agreed that some sort of punishment towards the Sand Republic was in order and threatened to continue occupying the portions of the Sandy State that they took during the uprising if no punishment was dealt. On M3-23 377 ASB Austin Alonzo had Tripe Alonzo stripped of his rank and placed into the ancient vaults of San Palaguas in order to send a message to the rest of his armed forces. On M4-06 377 ASB Alonzo ceded the Loamy Sand portions of the Sand Republic to the Sandy State as 'punishment' for allowing the Rogue Sand Uprising to happen, Claysius IV withdrew his forces from the Sandy State, the Loaman Empire's petty rulers did not. Sabant did not think that Austin had handled the issue of punishment properly as the Sandy State was still more or less a Sand Republic puppet. The relationship between the two deteriorated further on M6-26 377 ASB when Austin Alonzo commissioned the creation of a floating island to the north of the Sand Republic and to the west of Clayistan called Ramal Athnyn using Soil Union funds.

On M6-21 378 ASB Sabant married a woman named Rill Sebe who took the name Alonzo.

Sabant's wife gave birth to a son on M10-06 379 ASB named Conrad Alonzo.

On M9-01 391 ASB the Sandy Clay Autonomous Region declared independence from the Kingdom of Clayistan and invaded surrounding regions beginning the Great Soil War. The Sand Republic declared their neutrality in the war despite Sabant Alonzo's claim that the Sand Republic needed to aid their ally Clayistan to maintain future peace on the continent.

On M11-16 394 ASB the Sand Republic was invaded by refugees from Maricis and the surrounding areas who fled with Governor Steward Smart following the Liquid Carbon invasion, Austin Alonzo ordered his people to travel north to board boats and sail to Ramal Athnyn, Sabant announced to the people of Barnite that he had no intention to flee and he advised them to do the same. The Great Soil War ended on M1-14 397 ASB.

### Last years in the Sand Republic (397 ASB - 408 ASB)

On M4-27 400 ASB the Kingdom of Clayistan withdrew from the Soil Union and created the rival League of Soils, by this point Sabant had given up trying to talk Austin into taking action. On M5-08 400 ASB, nine days after the Sandy Clay Commonwealth withdrew from the Soil Union and joined the League, Sabant Alonzo met with Symour Beige in private. Sabant had a long conversation with Symour going over the details of how Sabant felt about the state of the world and the lack work being done towards peace. At some point during the conversation Sabant asked his advisor if he knew of a time when there was no war on the continent, he said that he knew of only one period of relative peace on the continent, during the reign of the Empire of Shale. Conversations like this became a common occurrence between the two men and led to Sabant Alonzo's desire to travel to the Empire of Shale and provide them with information that might help them bring peace to the Soil Texture Continent.

Sabant Alonzo began construction of a ship capable of penetrating the Western Storm on M11-16 401 ASB. The ship was being built in the city of Monoterrus outside of his cities control and as such became known to the public, Sabant made no attempt to hide his plan to travel to the Shale Continent but kept his plan of aiding in a potential invasion a secret.

The MV Stormbreaker was completed on M4-11 408 ASB. Sabant departed the Soil Texture Continent for the Shale Continent on M5-20 408 ASB with a crew numbering seventy-three not including himself.

### Life in the Empire of Shale (408 ASB - 430 ASB)

Sabant arrived in the Empire of Shale on M8-21 408 ASB. Upon his arrival he was brought to the office a Shale official who was interested in knowing how and why he had come to the Empire of Shale. Sabant told him everything. The official promised Sabant that he would look into getting a proper home set up for him. Sabant spent his next few weeks in the Empire of Shale in his ship at the docks.

On M10-05 408 ASB Sabant Alonzo was informed by some Shale officials that a town for him and his crew had been constructed on the north coast of the Empire and recommended that he travel to his new home. Sabant arrived at the new town on M10-13 408 ASB where the Shale's who were there named him the mayor of the town and requested that he give the town a name, he named the town New Barnite after the city that he had lived in for most of his life.

On M2-13 430 ASB a Shale messenger entered Sabant's office and told him that the Second Shale Invasion of the Soil Texture Continent had began and invited him to govern the newly created Sand Province. Sabant accepted the proposal and set off for the Soil Texture Continent in the MV Stormbreaker three days later.

### Premier of the Sand Province (430 ASB - 436 ASB)

Sabant arrived at the Soil Texture Continent on M4-16 430 ASB where he was declared Premier of Sand. Sabant chose Barnite to serve as his capital.

Sabant died on M4-08 436 ASB when Regolithia crashed into the Soil Texture Continent.