Aleks Vanja

* Basic Info
* Occupations

## Biography

### Early life (398 ASB - 426 ASB)

Aleks Vanja was born on M1-12 398 ASB in the city of Berloam to a low income family. At the age of fifteen Vanja much like his father and mother got a job working in the mines of Berloam extracting valuable minerals that were to be sent off to Voltucique for processing and sale.

### Service to the Piershoe Dynasty (426 ASB - 437 ASB)

On M6-06 426 ASB Sou Piershoe, the governor of the Loamy Sand Region declared independence from the Sandy State and Soil Union as the Loamy Sand Emirate with Sou Piershoe declaring himself Emir Sou I, he also announced the need for an army to assemble to hold back any possible Soil Union retaliation, Aleks Vanja joined the new army on the day of the announcement. Vanja served as a soldier during the initial war with the Soil Union fighting in the war's only battle until M6-13 426 ASB when a ceasefire was called due to the League of Soils's intervention in the war. On M11-24 426 ASB Sou I declared Berloam the Loamy Sand Emirate's new capital and personally met with Aleks Vanja along with other soldiers from the region.

On M2-13 430 ASB the Loamy Sand Emirate invaded the Sandy State, Aleks Vanja was present in the initial invasion and did not witness the Unspeakable Horror's assault and capture of Berloam on M2-14 430 ASB but did receive the order to hold his ground upon the cities capture. On M4-07 330 ASB the Unspeakable Horror became a co-Emir of the Loamy Sand Emirate and orders were sent to Vanja and other soldiers to return to their city of origin and fight off the Empire of Shale who had recently invaded. By 434 ASB Vanja and his fellow men at arms had been pushed north by the Shale Empire into the north western most portion of the Sandy Loam populated portion of the Soil Texture Continent, on M3-26 434 Sou I had the Loamy Sand Emirate join the Shale Empire his soldiers were promptly ordered to stand their ground. On M1-29 435 ASB the Kingdom of Clayistan declared war on the Empire of Shale, Sou II the successor and son of the late Sou I ordered his forces to the front to fight Clayistan, by 436 ASB Vanja and the rest of the army from Berloam had been pushed into the city of Timeworm in the Sandy Loam populated portion of the Soil Texture Continent, on M1-26 436 ASB Sou II separated from the Shale Empire and declared war against them, Vanja and his fellow soldiers were allowed out of Timeworm to fight the Empire of Shale. On M4-08 436 ASB whilst Vanja was fighting Shale remnants the floating nation of Regolithia plummeted into the Loamy Sand Emirate which at the time was occupied by the Shale Empire, two days later he received orders from Sou II to travel west to the shores of the land just north of pre-Shale Invasion Loamy Sand Emirate and aid in creating New Berloam to serve as the new capital of the Loamy Sand Emirate, New Berloam was established on M4-16 436 ASB. On M6-14 436 ASB Aleks Vanja and several other soldiers accompanied Sou II to the Sunbell Conference.

Following the Sunbell Conference Aleks Vanja under the terms Loamy Sand Resettlement Plan was sent to Town 4 which was one of twelve towns established by the treaty. By M3 of 437 ASB the people of Town 4 had begun blaming Sou II for the woes of the Loamy Sand Emirate and were in a state of constant revolt, on M3-08 437 ASB Vanja was invited by Sou II to his manor in Town 4, when Vanja arrived Sou II informed him of the nations variety of problems and when he had finished his list he, in the presence of eight of his personal guard, abdicated in favour of Aleks Vanja and gave him a box that he claimed was made by Sou I and contained all that he needed to know about leading before he left the building.

### Emir of Loamy Sand (437 ASB)

On M3-09 437 ASB revolutionaries stormed Vanja's office in Town 4 but were quickly repelled by the forces housed in the office. On M3-11 437 ASB Vanja under the advice of his soldiers abandoned Town 4 to the revolutionaries and set off towards Town 6 to ask for the intervention of the Anti-Shale Pact, when he got their on M3-12 437 ASB the ASP forces present did not acknowledge him as the Emir, Town 6 was taken on M3-15 437 ASB on that day the ASP forces departed eastward out of the Loamy Sand Emirate, Vanja took his forces and Town 6's garrison northward. Vanja and his forces arrived at Town 9 on M3-18 437 ASB where his forces where killed in an ambush by revolutionary forces with himself being captured, Vanja was forced to abdicate on M3-19 437 ASB.