Spheroidic Republic

# The Spheroidic Republic

## Small overview

The Spheroidic Republic is a republic that occupies the whole Iberian Peninsula, having 1 large oversea colony and another former large overseas colony (Which to be honest, were more like provinces than actual colonies because they have the same rights as any other province has over their own territory)

## History

In 1456, after the establishment of the Republic of Spheroidica, from the first couple of months of existence, the Spheroidics focused heavily on their military because attacks happened often since the Spheroidics had not fully unified under one government. Eventually they grew strong enough to begin the task of unifying all of Iberia, which at the current time, was a difficult task, and others failed in the past. (See Paleolithic era and Iberia Esferoide)

### Década de Sangre Ibérica

Though when they finished that task from the start of it in 1460 to 1463, they had some more immediate problems. The most major one, was instability. Remnants of Spheroidic states had of course, remnants of militias. Which of course, raided towns and cities, causing instability. Over the next 10 years, from 1464 to 1474, Spheroidica was less of a republic, and more like a semi-anarchic state. The military of Spheroidica had focused on the extermination of all militias that caused destabilization whether it meant via diplomacy or via force. Whichever one they had to do, they did, and the total of casualties from both sides totaled over a million. These wars have been named in the history books as the Década de Sangre Ibérica, which had a major number of casualties for its era.

### Década de Sangre Ibérica | Aftermath

After the war, the Republic of Spheroidica had went from a struggling nation that needed protection, to a nation that could hold its own ground against others, though now not much happened with it for around 47 years as it was basically a Switzerland for that amount of time. Until 1521 where an alternate species of Spheroidic attacked the western coastline, though it was unknown where they came from.

### Cross-Claim-Conflict

After around 12 years, (1533) a bloody conflict where the Acoleprévios, Gerlorvir'raka and Atloquiéque-Pinnésres regions, which were mostly part of the Spheroidic Republic, caused a conflict due to conflicting claims between the Kingdom of Francia and the Republic of Spheroidica, where Francia would end up victorious. And to worsen the already rather unfortunate situation the Spheroidics found themselves, a couple of months before the war ended, a civil war commenced within the country. The civil war commencing was due to the fact that the leader at the time had committed horrible actions against non-spheroidic species, which caused a majority of the provinces to turn on the state's capital province and the states supporting them, due to the fact Spheroidics during this time weren't very discriminatory of other species. This civil war ended in 1541, because at the time, the capital's province held one of the strongest divisions in the Republic of Spheroidica, which allowed the civil war to go on for so long.

### Four Hours War

The Six Hours War was caused when a rebellion attempted to start a change in government for the Republic of Spheroidica in 1547 on March 5th, 10:30 AM.

#### HOUR 1

In the first 30 minutes (11:00 AM), the rebellion gained a massive amount of territory in one of the fastest marches in history for the region. After that, it slowed down, and gave Spheroidic divisions enough time to arrive 15 minutes after the slow down (11:15 AM). Major clashes in the region had mostly ties at this point. (50% wins for both sides). After the lines had been defined across the Iberian Peninsula, after around 15 minutes (11:30 AM), Spheroidic Capital Divisions began to arrive to start a push on the enemy.

#### HOUR 2

In hour 2, the Capital Legions began to give Spheroidica a larger chance of winning currently occurring battles. (70% Spheroidic wins), though the advance was slow. After around 30 minutes (12:00 PM), Spheroidica had made some progress on reclaiming land from the rebellion, but not a lot. At 12:15 PM, Spheroidica's southern front was met by a large-scale advance by the rebellion. This led to a part of the coast being nearly cut off from the rest of Spheroidica, though at 12:30, they took back most of what they did there.

#### HOUR 3

In hour 3, the Capital Legions had finally fully arrived. At the start of 12:35 PM, a Spheroidic Capital Division began to go straight torwards the center of the Rebellion, where their base of operations were. While that was happening, the first actual naval battle occured between government and rebel forces, lasting from 12:38 PM to 1:10 PM. Soon after 12:35 PM, at 12:45 PM they reached the base of operations of the rebellion. A siege was laid on it, where the siege lasted from Hour 3 to Hour 4. Back to the Naval battle, the ships were fighting eachother as hard as they could. The war quickly began to end from here.

#### HOUR 4

In hour 4, the rebellion, from 12:45 to 1:05 the siege occured, and after the siege was won by the Spheroidic Republic, the naval battles concluded 5 minutes after. The rebellion began their 25 minute demise from 1:05 PM to 1:30 PM, which at 1:30 PM, marked the end of the war.

### Neutrality

After the 4 hours war, the Spheroidic Republic began to focus on their own issues, improving their military and technology to their time's standards, and etc. This would lead to the around 200-to-300-year era of neutrality for the SR, from 1547 to somewhere between the 1700s and 1800s. And the rest you all know since we roleplayed it.

## History before the SR formed

### Very-Proto-Spheroidics [175M BCE - 2.1M BCE]

This period of the Spheroidics were mostly their divergence from spores, and in the last 5M years of these, proto-civilizations that crashed during the Huronian Ice Age and then returned after. Not much to see here.

### Proto-Spheroidics during the Paleolithic [2.1M BCE - 10,000 BCE]

Spheroidics began using stone tools and weapons, as well as migrating to Iberia. When they settled fully, they had around 7 failed attempts for at least uniting the peninsula for a year. The last one united half the peninsula (The eastern half) for around 8 months before collapsing.

### Proto-Spheroidics during the Neolithic [10,000 BCE - 6,000 BCE]

Spheroidics, when the invention of farming came along, had an absolute population BOOM, infact, it was so large, that a population BOOM would be an understatement. The tribes of Iberia began forming into a small amount of large spheroidic tribes that ruled over the area. Which leads to massive wars. Many, Many wars.

### Proto-Spheroidics during the Metal Ages & the Metal Wars [6000 BCE - 405 BCE]

Spheroidics when the metal ages came around, had a absolute REVOLUTION in terms of sword and bow weaponry, and once the revolution in weaponry development had finished, oh boy did the ethnic spheroidics break Europe many times.

#### The Metal Wars: Round 1 [5973 BCE - 5969 BCE]

Spheroidic people in round 1 of the Metal Wars armed themselves and began raiding many European cities for things, and forced many European Nations's militaries to put aside their damn differences and attempt to work together to get rid of this threat while dealing with VERY LARGE shortages of necessary materials their nation needed. It took 4 years.

#### The Metal Wars: Round 2 [5845 BCE - 5839 BCE]

Spheroidic people again armed themselves but this time, they had more. In short they caused multiple civil wars to commence in many countries due to simple disagreements they turned into all-out civil wars (At this point, Spheroidics had the ability to turn simple political arguments into full scale civil wars), caused multiple collapses of countries due to almost no food, shelter or other things remaining after the raids. Some people in these unfortunate countries DIED due to the lack of resources they needed to live. Areas spared: Scandinavia, Russia.

#### The Metal Wars: Round 3 [5718 BCE - 5714 BCE]

Spheroidic people, again for the 3rd time, armed them selves, with even more weapons and people, In the first 2 years of the war, massive famines haunted Europe, as well as the shortages of materials, forcefully commencing civil wars inside the enemy nations, collapsing of many countries due to basically being starved of everything needed for them to exist, PLUS the complete razing of many cities off the face of Europe. In the end, they messed with very strong nations and their army got destroyed, marking the end of the devastating Metal Wars.

### Aftermath of the Metal Wars [5714 BCE - 5500 BCE]

After the metal wars, there werent many wars due to fact that almost every nation had to focus on repairing themselves. There were a lot of smaller conflicts near southern france due to the fact southern france was heavily damaged by the metal wars and they wanted to get revenge. Other than that, not much happened. The damages were so severe from the cities being raided, razed, constant famines and shortages, that it took until around 5500 BCE for most of the damages to have been fixed. That's **214** years.

### Iberia Esferoide [5519 BCE - 5498 BCE] [21 years]

The first united Spheroidic State formed around 5519 BCE and lasted for around 21 years. In the first 2 years, they began focusing on growing military strength due to a threat in the western half of Iberia, that also wasn't spheroidic. After their 2 years of preparation [At 5517 BCE], they drove it out and now ruled over Iberia.

#### Infighting [5516 BCE - 5513 BCE]

In 5516 BCE, infighting began before they could fully secure the land they attempted. Provinces began forming their own armies and began fighting each other. Whenever this happened, the country known as Iberia Esferoide had to send in their military to deal with the situation. This infighting continued over and over until 5513 BCE.

#### Invasion

In 5512 BCE, more bad luck struck. African civilizations, taking advantage of the Iberia Esferoide's instability, to invade them, where they took over the small African territory that the Iberia Esferoide had, plus some cities on the bottom half of Iberia.

#### Spheroidic-Proto Spheroidic Ethnic Violence

In major cities around 5509 BCE, the modern evolution of spheroidics and proto-spheroidics (Not technology) began what is basically ethnic violence. This led to even more instability in the nation, leading into a deep spiral of instability for the rest of the Iberia Esferoide's 21 years of existence

#### Fracturing

Provinces began to break away from Iberia Esferoide around 5503 BCE as they saw it was very unstable. 1 by one, each of the 15 main provinces began to leave. From 5503 BCE to 5498 BCE, this was the demise of the Iberia Esferoide. Every single one began to leave until it was 1 small province at the southeastern region of Iberia, for around 4 days before it dissolved completely. (Yes I just referenced the fact Kazakhstan was the entire USSR for 4 days). After approximately 56 years after the nation fractured, a new attempt at uniting Iberia rose up.

### Union of the Spheroidic Provinces of Iberia [5442 BCE - 5409 BCE] [33 years]

This was the next attempt at uniting Iberia.

#### Rise

The nations of the northeast of Iberia formed the Union of the Spheroidic Provinces of Iberia, or USPI for short. After the union formed strong and healthy, they began to slowly get other nations to join the union, which basically was a trade like this: Joining nation loses some autonomy but is able to get assisted by other provinces apart of the union if they get into some sort of bad situation that they normally would have to deal with themselves. Also it's kind of like NATO because an attack on 1 province is treated as an attack on all.

#### Uniting

From around 5442 BCE to 5437 (5 years), they spent some time cleaning up Iberian nations with a broom and dust pan (That's a metaphor). They sometimes had to take nations with force due to them being very hostile to the union, for example, some intentionally misinformed their citizens to cause border violence.

#### Northern Intervention

A conflict between 2 spheroidic nations that were in Southern France had been occurring from 5437 BCE to 5434 BCE, and the USPI had enough of it because it had slowly been bleeding into Iberia. In early March of 5434 BCE, the USPI began their invasion of the 2 countries. The 2 countries didn't last too long, and by early April, 75% of the nation to the west was taken over, and 65% of the nation to the east was too. And by the time it was between early and mid April, the war was over.

#### Late Retaliation

The USPI begins to look south and begins to feel a sense of revenge as they look at the spheroidic territories bitten off by African civilizations in the days of the Iberia Esferoide and the time between the the USPI's existance and the Iberia Esferoide, and decided to militarized and group up forces around it. On the 15th of September, 5433 BCE, The war began, which was kind of like a Great Patriotic War for the Spheroidics. Initially, it was the late summer, and fighting occurred in the mountains while it was still warm, but when it turned to winter, the enemies of the USPI had their season where they were more skilled at fighting gone. With this, the enemies were kicked out of Iberia, plus a little bit of Morocco to control the Gibraltar Strait again.

## Demise of the SR

In 1996, SR goes dark on communications again. When it turn back on, SR was a war between the Union of Spheroidic Socialist Republics, and the Cyans. (Reference to the Whites during the Russian civil war). The Spheroidic Socialists controlled most of the country, including northern Spherdafrica.

### The Funtimean Legion (Czechoslovak Legion reference)

In Lisbane, the Funtimes that lived there formed a legion of 10s of thousands of soldiers, and began gaining control of railroads across the province and provinces within Lisbane. Around 1998, they take control of most of Lisbane, but fighting on the frontlines continue. for the rest of the war.

### Iberian Front

On the Iberian front, most of the front was stuck in trench warfare. In February of 1997, the Socialists gain enough people who can use magic to raise what is basically a mana version of a heatshield over the entirety of Iberia, breaking the stalemate temporarily, allowing them to capture the leader of the SR and also use 1 bullet made of pre-nerf strength electronium from which the material dropped from the portal that had occured in the previous time communications shut down to nearly assassinate the SR's high tier hero, which if it hadnt been so heavy that it hit the leg instead, could have seriously shattered morale of the Cyans.

### Fronts of the Cold

From the mana heatshield blocking out the sun, Siberia-level tempatures slowly begin to occur over the coming months of the war. On the fronts, the Spheroidic Socialists began pulling their troops training in the cold of the Iberian mountains to fight on the Iberian Frontlines. From March 1997 to February 1998, the Iberian frontline, unprepared for a winter war, began to collapse against what the Cyans needed.