Attila's Regime

## The Second Reconstituted Socialist Regime of Atlan

The governing body of the newest nomadic Regime of Atlan served in the place of the short-run democratic government and the slightly longer First Socialist Regime upon which it was based. It was largely more successful and longer-running than the First Regime which only served a year in the place of the decade and a half of the Second Regime. It is attributed to The Ash Lord after the casting out of the former Baroness Kalir. It was a deadly nation shrouded in constant mystery, not seen by Federation kind unless before death. It was disbanded after the unification of Mankind and now its territory located within the Deep Expanse serves with the Imperium Secondus.

### The First Regime, Yennir's Regime

> *"People of Atlan today, as did yesterday, marks a historic moment in this chapter of our history. Today I found the very acting-Baron who had promoted peace with this Federation, to secure our future, had betrayed us. The traitorous armies of the former Baron Volundir besieged the very ambassadors that would secure peace with this city, with this world. Under my swift guidance I saw fit to designate a private militia to combat the threat that this man had brought to our door, with new weapons and ships we crushed the enemy that he had though could conquer us, could ruin the peace and send the thirteen proud colonies into oblivion! Under the suggestion of the remaining trustworthy senators it is with great reluctance that I agree to take emergency powers, to this calling for security. I love democracy. I love the people. The power you give me I will lay down when the crisis is abated. As my first act with this new authority I shall dissolve the very heart of this treachery, the corrupt and deceitful senate and the corrupt and deceitful justice system. The attempt on the very life of this world has been foiled and the remaining traitors will be hunted down and defeated! The military will be reformed and compulsory conscription shall begin immediately! The military shall be our red fist of justice in the face of darkness, red with the blood of martyrs and enemies alike! In order to ensure the continuing security and stability, the Atlanian Democratic Republic shall be reorganised into the first Socialist People's Regime for a strong and secure society!"* - **Baron** **Yennir Attila addressing the people Post-First Massacre**
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#### Governance

The First Socialist Regime of Atlan, or the Regime for the short, was a socialist worldwide government formed by Baron Yennir Attila. It was infamous for an oppressive and pragmatic way of surviving, banning private products and commodities. This was due to the main belief that it benefited the few and not the many and would demoralize them, requiring other methods to keep them in check. It was seen as wasteful. Using a socialist economy, it removed the little trading the isolationist planet had, using the resources of the economy to support the world and provide a strong military base. Military development rose massively with the rise of the Regime and they used it as a steadfast symbol of power and glory, offering citizenship to those who served and not those who refused. Political choices such as votes and better rights were seen as an act of power and power as violence, violence is naturally the weapon of the soldier and thus they believed that the pragmatic soldier was the better ruler than the emotional man. Amongst some of the Regime's policies were: No emigration, prohibition, gun control, capital punishment, conscription, compulsory DNA harvesting and corpse use, no adultery, prudism, autocracy, (later) state press, no dissident, no WMD. With a surprisingly strong economy, technological tariffs and a ban on anything but SSP-approved inventions caused the majority of resources to be pooled into a vast military and economy with a smaller focus on updating the outdated dome protection. In it's later years with potential Federation - SSP war brewing, the Regime prepared to build up a vast economy to hasten their defences and protect themselves should the Marines also see them as a target. 38.6% of the economic wealth (converted from raw resource rates) was spent on the military and law and order, with the military taking a slightly larger emphasis of 20.8. This later tension truly did bring around a war which saw the suffering and massacre of countless millions by the hands of the 'liberating' Federation.

#### Rise to power

The regime that would wrestle control of the political and physical landscape on the world of Atlan was created in the midst of The Great Massacre which saw the death of over 1.7 billion Atlanian souls within the coming weeks. Due to the mass political unrest and general chaos over the surviving thirteen domed cities leading to the release of all tortured captives working against the former state. Attila was amongst those imprisoned at the time and was released following outdated law. As the proxy three-day government of acting-Baron Goffanil was reaching its end, Attila wrestled control using old allies from his time in both the SSP and the Atlanian State Military. With new technology and weaponry granted by the Supreme Patriarch, Atilla quickly formed a small task force which would take the city using the old plans installed from his previous insurgency days and so he executed the acting-Baron for treason, treason very much true, against the current government. From there Attila launched small campaigns against key resisting parts of the city, using control over both the power, food and central government buildings to enforce his regime.

With control of the major parts of the city, the regime was quick to dissolve the senate, private sector and banking clans of the planet in an operation known as Operation Marx with the help of Lieutenant Henry Acheron, a Federation Space Marine, forming countless strike teams to intercept and seize what were considered inefficient storage assets. SSP forces also aided in Operation Marx as seen by the elimination of the majority of the senate when Lieutenant Acheron and his squad failed to breach the heavy security doors. After a resounding success, this operation caused worries within the Federation, more so with the manipulation and turning of Acheron. The Regime had become socialist and was renamed the First Socialist Regime of Atlan.

#### A Great Oppression

Soon after the prospering nation began its rebuilding, the Federation, more precisely the marines, stormed the planet and came to the domes after attacking the protectorate SSP. As they demanded to take the cities to use as a disgusting and dishonourable ransom against their sole protectors for the last two centuries, they naturally declined. Even with such events going on, the massacre of entire families and generations led to the people of Atlan hating them. Due to the superiority of the Federation Space Marines, every city that was visited was cracked open and everyone inside died, the event and a brief battle being known as the Great Oppression, an event which later angered the SSP and it's patriarch due to the demand that they were to be left out of it due to their lack of involvement in both the war or as a natural state. They had not declared war on the Federation before they were attacked. A quite controversial topic due to the wholesale massacre within months of the last, very few bastions held out long enough to strike a deal. It was an event which saw the first time that a Baron had officially allowed, if not demanded, that the people weep and pour out their emotions over such a loss. It was the first time tears were not seen as a sign of weakness. These peoples saw themselves to be enslaved, many of which experiencing the first bout of starvation the planet had ever known in over two centuries, women and children huddled into rooms once occupied with long-dead fathers and husbands. It was a sombre and hateful time which spurred such anger for the Federation that the Regime even joined with the Greyhands for a time out of such hatred for the Federation. No greater evil was known within the society and the newly formed RASPUTIN saw the act and was invigorated to find many ways around his protocols to ensure both the survival of the remaining populace and the untold suffering of those who had committed the deed. For the first time, the AI was actively plotting to destroy a cell of humanities defences out of a strong sense of justice and revenge.

#### Dissolution

After the Great Oppressions first moments and the end of the major massacre, the government was soon forced to dissolve and revert to the more democratic Terran way. It was the end of the Regime and saw the most chaotic events occurring within the period. Democratic elections ruined the fine-tuned political system, destroyed the people's culture and saw the Terrans blamed for the growing starvation. Over nine thousand riots occurred within the months following, two thousand of serious threat and size. It was also under the guise of the dissolution and the ongoing riots that the remnants of the Regime began expanding their naval recovery and construction capacity extorting the aid of the Federation in funding this effort. Using countless native protocols and the use of their own, untranslated language, they deceived the Federation into believing that the Atlanian people had gone extinct, escaping the planet. Almost three-quarters of the population died to cover the escape of the select few, the great and terrible lie truly believed.

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### The Second Regime, Kalir's Regime

> *"No greater victory had yet come to Atlan since the day they believed us extinct, no greater victory over the cruel and abominable Terrans has come since we slew their dogs in the highest echelons of their corrupt society. We had cast ourselves and our enemies from our home and had betrayed a decadent, sprawling Empire that betrayed us months before. From now on the lives of every man and women, child and babe, of the people of Atlan shall not be decided and divided by the Terran's or any other damned authority, from now on I rule and take up the mantle of my father. A man who was a father to not just me but to all of you! I may not be that father you want but I shall be the sister you need! Confide is me, my brothers and sisters, confide and grow for together we shall dominate the stars, purge the Great Enemy and retake what was rightfully ours! Today we form The Second Reconstituted Socialist Regime of Atlan, let it have new meaning now. Let it remind and bring you the longing and the strength to retake our home. Prove yourself, prove yourself to me, be loyal and I will never betray you! Fight! Dominate! Win!"* **- Baroness Kalir Attila addressing the Sceptre Fleet upon her inauguration**
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#### Governance

The current Second Reconstituted Socialist Regime of Atlan was formed close to five years after the exodus of the Atlanian people and almost saw the fragmentation of the peoples which might of lead to a devastating civil war. With this, the new Baroness Kalir Attila deemed the return of the Regime's order to be necessary. The list of the returning laws lists, but is not limited to prohibition, gun control, capital punishment, conscription, compulsory DNA harvesting and corpse use, no adultery, prudism, autocracy, no dissident. Surprisingly the new order allowed both a privatised media and removed their limitations on WMDs. A new admiralty, general and military system was formed in preparation of their return. With the return of ancient ranks such as archImperator and archLegate, the return of age classification and countless other previously laws banned by the Federation, it is not surprising that this rise to power was known as the 'Cultural Rebirth' of the Atlanian people. Even Kalir's up taking of the rank of Baroness restored more of their culture as the powers it originally had and meant were returned. She became the first leader in fifteen years to hold the title truly again, the true Atlanian meaning. Technological development was no longer outlawed seeing a boom in the growth and technological development of all aspects of life. Slowly but surely the economy also boomed with the vast wealth of untapped minerals and asteroids in Deep Space being harvested and exploited, stripped dry as the ever-moving fleet continued building an expanding. Unlike the former Regime law enforcement was not a major part of spending with a lack of crime or unrest breaching these people. This new Regime was now free to govern more effectively and continued it's dogmatic and xenophobic policies, genetic modification and cloning eventually making its way onto the stage. Whilst still a slow work it helped expand the Regime for generations to come.

#### A Great Exodus

The exodus to the stars was a surprisingly quiet one, the vast ships that propelled the remains of Atlan to the stars knowing that they would never see anything like their home for decades to come. It was through the Great Exodus that Kalir's secret science guild began crafting plans on how to deal with the problem of growing their low population. It was only five years into the exodus that Kalir was able to reveal this guild as the new Baroness of the people, forming them into an official organisation.

Under the title of Progenitor, these scientists had finished their work and revealed what was expressed to be the saviour of the Atlanian people, genetic cloning. It was at this time that the exodus began finally constructing new ships, a vast and mobile shipyard finishing several works within the year. Called Genesis Ships, these ships housed both the Progenitors and their work within which they oversaw the maintenance of the clones birth cycles. Surprisingly the Progenitor ranks were very small and they relied on robots to harvest and control the batch of nearly a million clones each month. With this work at the end of the decade, they had brought the population to 127 million souls.

#### The Return of the Baron

Yennir Attila, having been greeted by the cancer blight that infected all his people, turned to the Progenitors to find a way to heal and secure his body. Unfortunately, fifteen years had yielded no true success to this plight and thus the Progenitors turned to the reformation of his body, crafting and weaving an enhanced body through which to act. Note: Though troubled by the difficulties of brain transplant surgery, Yennir returned through this method.

The former Baron awoke to this fleet in horror, a week of intense physical and mental therapy forging his body and mind sharp once more as the fate of Atlan truly dawned on him. Cursing his daughter and the supposed 'mockery' of his plans she had fulfilled, Yennir noted that the Atlanian people had neither settled or let go of the grudge they held upon the Federation which burned their world, for this he was disgusted.

#### The Weeding of a Blight

Yennir had witnessed enough and so acted upon the loyalties that still remained amongst his legion. Whilst his daughter was away on a mission to Olympia, Yennir brought forth his first-born loyalists, those who had not been clones, and captured half the fleet. A particularly moment to note was the slaying of the Ash Lord, the chief adviser and leader of the military forces of the Kalir's Regime. The title was taken up by Yennir as he renounced the title of Baron, expressing the people did not deserve it.

Taking this fleet he made for a set of worlds in the Vor'ci system, settling down the Genesis Ships and building cities in the image of Atlan, using a device called the World Engine to terraform the planet to hold a more fitting environment for his citizens. It was no quick process however and even five years after their formation they still remain under development in the hidden Imperium Secondus.

#### The Siege of Terra

> *"I look now on my ancestor's Atlan, 800 years after its birth and I see a kingdom on the edge of annihilation. We have not conquered, we have only endured. We have not thrived, we have merely survived. We have let this galaxy burn but all is not lost. Salvation dawns with the promise of our new technologies drawn from the lore of our new golden age. We have blended my mission with the new sagacity of the Progenitors. We have wrought new wonders with the clay of Atlanian flesh and we have bred new warriors for this darkest of ages. Gene forged beyond the capabilities of even our own generation, armed with weapons befitting their stature as the truest heirs to our people's legacy. To the Jianolv bloodied and besieged in that dark Federation, we bring reinforcements. To the lineages lost in valliant duty or driven to destruction, we offer rebirth. To the enemies of my people's regime... we bring death. With these words, I, Yennir Attila, Ash Lord and archImperator of Atlan, son of Lord Ulson Valrin, declare the Iron Crusade. Terrans, Traitors, Xenos pay heed to the comings of my armies and the ruin we promise your miserable kind. This galaxy... is"* - Ash Lord Attila declaring the Iron Crusade
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After much deliberation, Yennir agreed that the people could not quell this desire for revenge and so he set out to burn a portion of the wounded Federation. Setting out with a crusade of 80 million men and hundreds of fine ships, Yennir watched as a Federation looked in horror as their fleets were destroyed by the re-emerged Regime. As the Sceptre Armarda annihilated the Luna defences, vast forces of superior Atlanian warriors fell in an Iron Rain after a hail of artillery bruised the already weak defences of Terra. Within an hour vast swathes of the populace across countless locations had been exterminated and the forces seemed primed to take Terra.

It was at this point the Olympian forces descended upon their fleet, forewarned by the Atlanians Thargoid allies who had been bested in battle and confirming Yennir's worst fears. Outmatched in space and his legions surely doomed to die on Terra, Yennir waited patiently for the arrival of the arrogant Lord Consul. As expected the man arrived upon Yennir's Flagship, *'The Vorsaan',* and they engaged in a one-sided duel which Yennir was bound to lose. However, he ensured he owned the upper hand through exploiting the insecurity of the superhuman leader, threatening the destruction of Terra if he did not withdraw. Under this guise as the pretend-Ash Lord, even the Lord Consul did not know the true motivations of the 'mysterious' man and so refrained from testing this. In a fit of rage, he left to secure other worlds as the Ash Lord believing the vengeance was complete decided to leave.

#### The Exem

The Regime later appeared at the end of the Siege of Mars by the ravenous force known as the Exem, bringing relief forces to Mars that were desperately required for their survival. Having received visions and prophesies from the AI Rasputin, Yennir demanded that their forces join into an Imperium with Macharius as the Emperor. It was because of this experience and his humiliating retreat aboard the flagship that the arrogance of Macharius had been lessened and he had been deemed worthy to take the title. Having no choice but to join with the enigmatic Ash Lord, Macharius took the title and with that the Regime finally ended.