Ostenbourg

The banner of Ostenbourg

### Members

TheGolemGuy, kidcalvin74, owltz, PrincessAnnaPan, Maddoix, Zacifer, adame5, overweightg00se

### Cities

Johanburg (Johanesburg), New Kerguelen, South Port, Crystal Harbour, Harztal, Madarak Szigete, Újbagolyvár, Hegyibagolyóvár, Medvesfehérvár

## Culture

### Religion

Dark Gods worship (Dark Angelism)

*"For God-Emperor and country, we proudly stand today. Shining the torch of Ostenbourg, to light the world's way! Though evil may assail us, and seek to bring us down, we shall topple all who challenge us, and bring them to the ground."- Passage taken from the Ostenbourgish national anthem: God Save Our Country.*

The **Empire of Ostenbourg** is a faction founded by Emperor Yhorm† and the second most populous faction. Ostenbourg shares land borders with Ottacorp, The Board and Meridium. The Empire is a developing faction whose primary goal is to consolidate the land within its claimed borders through the building up of cities and infrastructure. Though the founder of the nation Emperor Yhorm The First is a longstanding member of the Minecraft server community, the faction itself is relatively new, coming into existence years after previously established factions. The Empire is part of the Dual Commonwealth, a real union with the Thronemanship of Ottacorp.

## History

**Founding**

The Empire was founded on August 29th in the year 2021 (imperial year 0). Its founder TheGolemGuy (Yhorm) had long been a notorious recluse of the server, though nominally a member of The Board, he lived far, far away from other players, preferring to build his house in isolation and not rely on the support of factions. During the board's period of dormancy, it was taken over by Ottacorp and the land was ceased to be added to their faction. This vocally decried Yhorm, who fled the board and Yhorm island, taking his isolation to new heights and living in the unspoiled land of the far, far, far jungle, tens of thousands of blocks from other settlements. During this time of isolation Yhorm's complaints about Ottacorp's occupation of the board only increased he started calling himself a "resistance fighter" and claimed that as the sole active player in The Board faction left, he should have the right to take over the territories.

When Yhorm's isolation finally ended, the reasons for this are unknown, and he went back to Wackel the capital city of Ottacorp to conduct rare trade with its faction members, while still pressing his issue of ownership of The Board. During this time, the previous owner of the board Darpleon had surfaced and came to claim and reorganize his territory. He stated that since Yhorm was an alleged member of the faction, he must help, and Yhorm began construction of a house in Board's territory he had promised to build a long ago.

Yhorm's time on The Board, however, was short-lived. He found Darpleon to be a very demanding master and disliked the complaints about his allegedly reckless behavior in Board's territory. Yhorm was forced to clean up a lot of the mess he made in the construction of his house, and Yhorm found these demands to be unreasonably harsh and excessive. This growing dislike came to a head with "The Netherite Incident", where it was revealed that before Yhorm left for his isolation in the jungle, he had stolen a netherite block of Darpleon's. This was an unthinkable crime and was seen as incredibly hypocritical for the man so constantly complaining about stolen freedoms. Yhorm was forced to pay back his stolen goods in full, but he vowed that he would never be a member of the Board again. Instead, he vowed to create his own faction. Yhorm in partnership with a new, rising Kidcalvin74 declared all of his lands independent from Board territory and that he was now a part of a new unique faction. However due to Calvin already constructing his castle- Johanburg- in the east, the faction's focus shifted from the Board to there. The name Yhrom gave for this faction, is Ostenbourg.

### Early days

Mainly thanks to the diligent work of Kidcalvin74-who was now the Archduke- the Johanbourg area experienced rapid advancement. MonkOfDawnridge offered his assistance in encouraging new faction activity besides Ottacorp.

#### New Kerguelen Crisis

At the beginning of September 2021, Ottacorp had a monopoly of power and influence because of its size and large population. The new faction did not hide its goals of developing and expanding. Even though Ostenbourg did not have near the number of buildings and population of Ottacorp, Ottacorp immediately decided to have hostile relations with Ostenbourg. This attitude was, according to Ottacorp, justified by the will to condemn the authoritarian regime of Ostenbourg. It is in this context of diplomatic tension that the New-Kerguelen Crisis took place.

On the 11th of September, the right wing of The Chairhouse building was damaged in an explosion, the attack was immediately blamed on Ostenbourg. A state of emergency was declared in Ottacorp and under the leadership of Executive Chairman CK\_Wagner construction started on a 'refugee camp' named New Kerguelen, this was a response to the attack on The Chairhouse. When the settlement was discovered on the 19th of September 2021 Ottacorp issued the following statement: "*Ottacorp launched a preventive operation, aimed to all free people living in Ostenbourg "Empire". Our **"Ottaprotectorate New Kerguelen"** will become a safe haven for all quelled under oppressive jackboot and center of commerce for all parties involved.*" Ostenboug began construction on a wall around the settlement the same day the statement was released. On the 24th of September, the two parties managed to come to an agreement declaring New Kerguelen a free trade zone. New Kerguelen completely returned to Ostenbourg after The One Hour War.

### Reign of Emperor Yhorm

Under the reign of Emperor Yhorm (TheGolemGuy) the rivalry continued with Ottacorp. On the 21st of October, a bomb went off in Johanbourg injuring Archduke Calvin and leaving a giant crater, Pacal08 took responsibility and claimed that *"they did not expect the bomb to be a nuke"*. In 2021 October construction was finished on the gate of Johanbourg, one of the largest structures on the server.

The farms of Ostenbourg were built during this period by the notorious player MamafPadi who later declared independence from Ostenbourg founding the similarly named *Boarenburg*.

By late winter relations between the two factions eased giving place to the theater race, where Kidcalvin74 and Pacal08 competed to complete their respective theater buildings first. During the spring of 2022, both Kidcalvin74 and TheGolemGuy went inactive.

### Rise of Ostenbourg

Due to Yhorm losing his account Kidcalvin74 was named emperor on 2022 August 2. Calvin returned to Minecraft and set to work on reviving the faction. Thanks to the encouragement of Ottacorp officials several inactive Ostenbourg members returned with Maddoix-an active discord member- joining the faction as well.

This increased faction members actvity led to rising tensions with Ottacorp. This could be observed in the many number of incidents that took place in August - most notably the Penzing Escalation, Pommern Wall battles and Day of Desecrations, and with the growing spendings on defence resulting in creation of new fortifications:Ostenbourg's Pommern Wall and Fort Foch; and Ottacorp's Fort Winterpalace.

These tensions in the end led to the declaration of war on Ottacorp by the emperor at 16:00 28.08.2022, which in one hour resulted in decisive Ostenbourgish victory, giving the name to the conflict - The One Hour War. In the aftermath Ostenbourg occupied the districts of Pola (renamed to Polabourg and governed by Owltz), Wackel (renamed to Wackelberg and governed by Maddoix) and Nyarpolata (renamed to Sommerpalast), the town of Primosten and the Northern Fort.

In the occupied areas, Ostenbourgish forces were met with resistance from the local populace, with the Nyarpolatan uprising presenting it best. As it was later discovered during a police raid in Pola, the resistance had been supported by the Ottacorp government-in-exile known as NARO.

Seeing the animosity of the local population and pressured by the emergence of a new, powerful faction - Meridium - the Empire decided to stabilize its gains and on 22nd of September negotiations began between Pacal08 and KidCalvin to create a real union between Ottacorp and Ostenbourg. This process had been accelerated by the Sus massacre as both parties united in a common struggle against common enemy - Meridium. On the 25th of September, the day after the event, the Dual Commonwealth has been officially established.

## Geography

### Location and borders

The majority of Ostenbourg's territory and population is situated on the spawn continent, around its capital city Johanburg, east of spawn. It is bordered north, east and south-east by the ocean, south-west by the Ostenbourg Sea and west by the Drübenisoasch river forming the border with Ottacorp. Ostenbourg is still a growing faction so it is important to keep in mind that those borders can be temporary.

### Administrative subdivisions

The Empire of Ostenbourg is currently subdivided in the following 10 crownlands and provinces:

* Principality of Aiko Castle
* Archduchy of Johanburg
* Grand Principality of Gyöngybagoly
* Imperial free city of New-Kerguelen
* County of South-Port
* Duchy of the Archipelago of Hugenbirch (Yhorm island)
* Colony of New-Alsace
* Monastic community of Mount Storkenkopf
* Foch military Zone
* Duchy of Pommern
* County of Crystal Harbour
* Colony of Novum Quercum

There are currently 9 crownlands, which are provinces under the rule of an imperial nobleman. To this are added 5 provinces with special status : New-Kerguelen which is an Imperial free city, New-Alsace and Novum Quercum which are colonies, Mount Storkenkopf is an autonomous religious community and Foch which is a military zone under the authority of the Chief-General of the imperial guard. The territory also includes a district, which is mostly uninhabited land that the empire is currently developing.

## Relations

As part of the Dual Commonwealth Ostenbourg retains good relationship with it's historical rival, Ottacorp.