Governmental Type: Imperialism Major Races: Humans, Elayans, Mistelareia, Funok Minor Races: Karearans, Faereons Armed Forces: Imperial Resbinarge Navy, Imperial Resbinarge Army, The Imperial Police Force Main Languages: Resbinarge Imperial, Feareon, Norlakian (Mistelareian), Ardeshi (Mistelareian), Protanus (Funok), Tasaleiac (Mistelareia), Osarus (Funok) Currency: Resbinarge Rubinek's Exchange Rate: 10 Rubineks = 1 DF Credit History: Like several nations in C69, Resbinarge traces it's origin's to two of the original colonisation fleets, the Resbinarge fleet and the Latamoth fleet which originally settled in simalar areas of space. Resbinarge was always though the more imperialistic of the two fleets and the more power hungry. When the fleets settled this area of space though, the Mistelareia race, native to C69, had already achieved FTL travel and were establish some small primative colonies amongst the surrounding star systems to their home system. The Mistelareia however negotiated with the Latamoth colonists and in 80'782 SC they merged into one nation known as the Latareia Federation. Meanwhile, the Resbinarge colonists were expanding rapidly, colonising as many world's as they could. The Latareia Federation however was rather more conservative in their approach, putting star systems to their full use before colonising the next. This meant that Resbinarge spread out far quicker than the Federation, though their star system's were less densely populated. In 81'352 SC, The Empire was being tagged into the name of the Resbinarge nation and Emperor Osarus came to rule. Osarus is known in history as possibly one of the cruelest players in galactic affairs, though down the millenia, many of his dissendants were capable of his same cold methodology. Under Osarus ruling, the still primative Funok were introduced in the Empire in 81'358 SC and in 81'363 SC, after 11 years of building up a secreat fleet of vessels, the Emperor declared war on the Latareia Federation. The reasons presented to other nations for this move were fickle though the real reason for the move was just pure greed for power. Many historian's agree that Osarus was a deffinate extreme case of a megalomaniac. The Latareia Federation were unprepared for this sudden move, especially considering their were several uncolonised systems between the two nations. But swift and sure, the Empire's fleets rained havoc down upon the Latareia Federation. Within a single sol, the Federation had been reduced to occupying half the star system's it once had and was now barely able to fight back. It was a time of great sorrow for the Federation and in their thousands, many Latareia Federation citizen's fled the area, many migrating to the neighbouring nation of the Psi Collect (this later merged with the Omas Foundation to become the nation Psi Omas). Fighting a loosing war, it's citizen's fleeing in terror before the Empire or being absorbed into as the Empire took control of their star systems, the Federation looked to other nations for assistance. However, many had struggles of their own and though the Psi Collect was open to accepting Federation refugee's, they were not open to idea of going to war with the Resbinarge Empire. They did find allies though in the form of the nation known as Cyran Dor. Cyran Dor promised assistance in exchange for weapons technology and occupation of some of the Resbinarge Empire systems that they helped to take. Desperate to do anything, the Federation agreed and the Cyran Dor Confederacy entered into war with the Resbinarge Empire in 81'364 SC. Being attacked from the side now by the Cyran Dor Confederacy, the Resbinarge Empire's advances into the Latareia Federation terriotries was slowed considerably as they turned to defend themselves from this new player in the game. The pressure eased of the Latareia Federation and no more gain's were made into Federation terriotry until nearly a decade later. Having been slowed using military pressure to advance into the Federation, Osarus now decided to use more subtle tactics in the form of covert agents working inside the Federation. It was these thousands of agents that tipped the balance again. In 81'378 SC, the Resbinarge Empire, despite fighting a war also with the Confederacy, managed to take control of the last three star systems the Federation had and the Federation became no more, it's citizen's absorbed now into the mass that was the Resbinarge Empire. Emperor Osarus was quick to use these newly gained solar systems to the Empires advantage. With new sources for militry equipment and now able to turn their attention fully to Cyran Dor, the Empire entered into a full scale blood shed against the military led Confederacy. The war with the Cyran Dor Confederacy lasted for just under two millenia. At the time, this was the longest any one had been at war and both sides felt the strain as Grand General an Emperor's changed and continued the battle. Both sides developed and learnt numerous tactics during this time however, something which would only strengthen both nations later in history when both would end up fighting other nations. As it came to be though, the Grand General Yophistia and Emperor Goltarn signed a non-aggression pact in 83'291 SC, ending the war between the two nation. The Empire now settled back for a while, rebuilding and strengthening it's borders. It had been quick to act against the Federation but had not counted upon the Confederacy's intervention. It was a lesson that taught the Imperial lineage that they would have to more careful with their expansion plans in the future, being careful not to be caught from multiple sides again. According to historian's the Empire's next target was going to be the nation of Resque as the Empire once again secretly amassed a large fleet to strike their neighbouring nation. However, as carefuly considered as the plan was, the Empire did not count for something else occuring. Rebellion. The records indicate that the rebellion started from the twin planet's of Planica and Plantia inside the Empire, though in truth it had been building up for sols across the whole nation. Dissatisfied citizens and military leaders began to question their motives and the Resbinarge Empire errupted into full scale civil war in 85'578 SC, two sols before the planned attack on Resque. Such a move was devastating for the Empires plan's and the rebels used many of the Empire's own tactics and vast weight against itself. With fleets being destroyed from within or whole armouries of the Empire being destroyed by it's own vessels due to misinformation, the Empire found it's invasion plans halted from within. Sol after sol, the rebellion grew with more and more military leaders joining and the future of the Empire began to be called into question. After a century of internal civil war and the reign of four Emperor's who had all tried to quench the Rebellion and failed, a new Emperor took to the throne, Emperor Talius. At first, Talius policies seemed quiet and giving into the way of the rebel's. The changes the rebel's strove for were looking like they were finally starting to appear. A senate was formed to aid the Emperor and give voice for the people, concentration was put into assisting the oppressed and money forwarded to improving the Empire within rather than focusing on outward invasion. The war died down, though the dissentionists continued to push against the still domineering Empire, though the new senate gave a more peaceful solution. However, this all turned to be a ruse. In 85'689 SC, the Emperor called an emergency senate meeting to discuss a major threat discovered to the Empire that was occuring from within and all but five senators showed up to the meeting. Then, in one decissive blow, the Senate building was blown up by carefully hidden explosives throughout's interior. Talius declared the senate abolished and gave a new no nonsense stance on the Rebel's. He declared he would not rest until every Rebel was wiped from the Resbinarge Empire. This obviousily caused an uproar amongst the rebels. Such treachery stung them badly and they renewed their efforts to attack the Empire from within. However, where as before they found it easy to sway important and not so important persons alike to their cause, they found the new military leaders working for the Empire to be intensely loyal, many off them turning and cutting down the rebel's on the spot. This change from dissatisfaction over to extreme loyality has always had historian's baffled. Many agree though that the Emperor had been working on something within the hierarchy of the Resbinarge forces and governors that would ensure their consistant loyality to the reigning Emperor. Though no one knows what this was for sure (for none who were loyal would never say), it is suffice to say that what ever it was must have been in use right up until the last few centuries of the 99'000 millenia as since this time the hierarchy of Resbinarge have always been loyal to the Emperor in a way that was like no other. The rebel's were now on loosing ground. Though the numbered in the millions, when faced with the new hordes of loyal Resbinarge troops who were now much better at sniffing them out, the rebel's had to concede that it was a war they were now loosing. Talius trickery had out witted them and in 85'703, the rebellion's leaders declared the rebellion over and instead ordered a mass evacuation of the Rebel's out of Resbinarge terriotry. The Empire of course tried to stop them, but the rebel's made sure that they left via many numerous and cleverly hidden ways and by the time the Empire had found out the evacuation was on, over half of the rebel's had left the Resbinarge Empire. The Emperor Talius brooded. Though the rebel's were gone, he was not satisfied for he knew they would still be out there. Yet, the Empire still needed rebuilding once more, the rebel's had set the Empire back millenia in it's expansion plans. Choosing to ignore the now fled rebel's in the end, Talius decided instead to concentrate on getting back on course with the grand scheme of Empire expansion. The rest of the history of the rebel's is covered by that written in the Planica / Plantia Empire history. Needless to say, when the Empire found out about it the nation in 86'105 SC, it was declared that one day the Resbinarge Empire would wipe out the Planica / Plantia nation for good. However, despite the constant threat of wanting to attack Planica / Plantia, the Empire never got the chance. Between the two Empire's stood Resque and though Resque was once a goal of Empire expansion, Resque had now grown so strong in the time since the original invasion was planned and the Empire set heavily back by the rebellion, it was decided to leave Resque for now and look to other places to expand to instead. And they found it to the north of their borders. Their stood two nations, ripe for the picking who were already weakening themselves in a war between themselves. The nations of Feareo and Deltaria. Over the next three millenia, the Resbinarge Empire built up it's forces, planning for a day when one day it would strike. Until then, they paid a special interrest in the war between Deltaria and Feareo, fueling it where ever they could to help keep it going all that much longer. In particular, the Empire built up special relations with Deltaria, exhanging weapon design's and providing the means they required to keep the war going with Feareo. In truth, Resbinarge considered Feareo the stronger of the two opponants and with out the Empire's assistance, there was a good chance that Feareo would have defeated Deltaria. For the Empire, that would not do. Yet, despite the Empires interventions into the Deltaria / Feareo war, the two sides managed to eventually wind down to a peace agreement, choosing to finish the war themselves. The Empire tried to continue to stir things between the two nations, but somehow, the two had found a new form of peace between themselves. So it was Emperor Calithor who decided to take a new twist on the matters. Perhaps now was the time for the Empire to strike and take the two nations. With a careful web of deciet sown in the intergalatic courts of the Assembly of Nations to back them up, Resbinarge attacked the nation of Feareo in 91'673. The intention was to make it look like Resbinarge's strike was because of something Deltaria had done and to turn the two back onto fighting on another as the Empire caught Feareo in the middle. Then, with Feareo destroyed, the Empire could work on Deltaria from the inside. Unfortunately for the Empire, their planned did not suceed. Deltaria and Feareo saw through Resbinarge's trick's and both declared war on the Empire, a move the Empire had not expected considering their carefully measured association with Deltaria. Instead of the Empire and Deltaria attacking Feareo, the Empire found itself under fire from both Feareo and Deltaria. A deadly mistake that would plunged the Empire into a brutal war that would become the longest war in C69 history. What made it worse was the fact that the war also caused the nations of Deltaria and Feareo to merge, becoming the new nation of Delta Feareo. As recorded, the Delta Feareo / Resbinarge war last for nearly eight and a half millenia. At times the fighting was fierce, with neither side giving a quarter. At other times, a brief calm would appear in the war while both sides would recuperate. However, it is not fully understood what the Empire did during the millenia of 96'000's. Though maintaining the normal war front in their battle with Delta Feareo, behind the scenes the Empire managed to start building up a larger and new fleet of ships, the likes of which were never seen before. How this was achieved or how they managed to hide it from the rest of the galaxy is still unknown, though some believe covert hyper space factories and laboratories were used. But it what led to was the biggest offensive any nation had launched to date against another nation in the millenia of the 97'000's when Resbinarge used this sudden new fleet to push deep into Delta Feareo terriotry. For most of the next millenia, Resbinarge enjoyed growing success in it's war with Delta Feareo. Every sol, the Empire seemed one step close to victory and the height of the invasion, the Empire controlled a good third of Delta Feareon star systems with the rest of it's military forces tattered, broken and on the run. Yet from the dying ashes, like a pheonix, Delta Feareo arose. The formation of the Delta Feareon resistance proved a turning point and towards the end of the millenia Delta Feareo was successful in driving the Empire back out of it's borders. The resistance was a thorn the Empire had once again not expected. The resourcefulness of Delta Feareo's Dark Thaum's and Mega-Corporations had driven them back with methods that stank to the Imperial court of being on par with methods used over ten millenia ago by the Planica / Plantia rebel's. Yet when it came down to it, Resbinarge was driven back and with both sides now shattered, a huge lull occured in the war that would last around the time of a millenia. Having been so close once, Resbinarge was not to be perturbed and set about in that millenia constructing a vast fleet once more, this time even larger and more powerful than before to be ready to once again strike deep into Delta Feareo terriotries. In 99'102, the Resbinarge Empire launched the second of their large scale attempts to break into Delta Feareo. The fleet this time was certainly much larger and for a short while it seemed like it was suceeded as the Resbinarge fleets broke through the first few star systems on the Delta Feareon border in a time much quicker than it did the first time. Over confident in themselves, the Empire was to be brough sharpely back down. The fleets had flown straight into a number of carefully orchastrated traps by Delta Feareo and discovered the tide rapidly turn against them. In the manner of weeks, the Resbinarge fleet was either destroyed or back on the run across the border. Hot on their heels was the largest and most powerful fleet Delta Feareo had ever built themselves. Now it was Delta Feareo's turn to push into Resbinarge terriotry. Their back bone broken, the Resbinarge Empire made a brave effort to hold back the Delta Feareon forces, but it became a loosing battle as Delta Feareon forces bite deep into Resbinarge star systems. To make things worse, halfway through the millenia of 99'000's, what ever it was that had held Resbinarge's military forces so loyal to it must have failed, for numbers of military leaders either turned traitor on the Empire completely or turned Renegade, ignoring the Emperor's orders and trying to fight the battle for the Empire their own way. These set backs were to prove irreversiable. Over the last five hundred sol's leading up to the sol of 100'000 SC, the Empire began to change. The objectives of the old Empire have been lost and replaced with less cruel Emperor's who's only intent was that Resbinarge should survive this war it was now bitterly loosing. The biggest blow came in the sol of 99'989 SC when a vast Delta Feareon fleet stormed the capital star system of Metis and devastated it to the last atom. By this point, Delta Feareo now held eighty percent of the Resbinarge star systems in it's control and there was no way the Empire could ever fight back from it's position. From it's new capital of Eurynome, the first Resbinarge Mistelareia Emperor signed the surrender of the Empire to Delta Feareo in 99'992 SC, ending the war. Much to everyone's suprise, Delta Feareo took the surrender and then began to draw up treatise to deal with the withdrawal of Delta Feareon occupation of Resbinarge star systems, allowing the Empire to rebuild once more on the condition that it's greedy expansion plans would no longer be an issue in the galaxy. Glad to have survived, the Resbinarge Empire agreed and with Delta Feareo's assistance, have started to become a nation off it's own right once more. Current Status: Resbinarge today is a very different place to what it used to be in millenia past. The oppression of an over bearing greedy, all controlling Empire has gone and has been replaced with something that only be described as the good things that the people of the Empire had crossed with a very degree of Delta Feareon influence. In fact, were it not for the numbers of Mistelareia and Funok being in higher proportion and some archietectual variance, one could some times believe that in much of Resbinarge that you are in fact standing in Delta Feareo. Despite the treatise drawn up between Delta Feareo and Resbinarge for Resbinarge to take full control of it's star systems, Delta Feareo has not fully with drawn yet. Regular Delta Feareon patrol's still fly through Resbinarge, but with a different purpose. Resbinarge is weak, it's forces shattered and Delta Feareo now gives aid where it can until Resbinarge can become self-sufficient once more. As time wears on, the Delta Feareon patrols against things like smuggling and piracy decrease, but so newly built regiments of Resbinarge vessels take their place as Resbinarge find their feet once more. So too has the hatred of Delta Feareo all but gone now. Instead, Delta Feareo is seen now as a valued allied by the people of Resbinarge. Some of the Resbinarge star systems have even been under Delta Feareo occupation for nearly a millenia, so views have changed as Delta Feareo did not treat it's occupied world's as anything less than it would it's own. The atmosphere thus of Resbinarge is no longer oppression but one of looking forward to the challenge of rebuilding the Empire. This time though, the Empire will not be the evil mass that it once was, but a thoughtful and peaceful nation, co-existing peacefully with it's neighbours in the galaxy. Perhaps only time will tell if this will stay the same way though forever. Solar System names and Sector location: [Sector 2,3] [Sector 3,3] [Sector 2,4] [Sector 3,4] [Sector 2,5] [Sector 3,5] |
               
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