Polity History
Ενότητα στην πολυμορφία - United in Diversity - Enótita stin polymorfía
The Elysium Protectorate was founded by a group of former United Nations of Worlds citizens who were transported to the western edge of the sector after a spacial MES storm caught them in the
Creusa system. Far from easy communication with home, they developed a fierce reputation for independence, initially refusing to join the emerging galactic council. They strive to unite more worlds under the protectorate umbrella and to promote peace within their space, though they do not shy away from force to achieve their ends.
The actions of their first leader,
Cyrus Adonis, saw most of the initial Protectorate Army and its heavy equipment destroyed by an orbital bombardment in their very first battle against dark forces that sought to snuff the polity out before it formed. The assassination of the interim governor just after that shook public confidence in the government and the chances the colonists had on this world of initially hostile Khans and the plague of the dead returned to life. No individual was spared suffering, poverty, and a difficult daily life but the struggle forged a hard people now looking out from a rebuilt city, a unified world , and several worlds around their capital all now flying Protectorate colors protected by shield walls of modern military equipment.
The Elysium Protectorate Today
Fielding many trials and tribulations over it’s short existence, the Elysium Protectorate formed into a customs union by April 2668. The ratification of their constitution in May 2668 cemented the transformation of a scrappy polity on the edge of extinction to a true player on the galactic stage under the stable leadership of the 1st Herald Hedwig Wilhelmova Sakharov.
In 2669 the Herald fell in combat, and a transitional government on Elysium Cloud now rules as an elected public body. Though their use of force has somewhat been tempered by their inclusion into
The Iron Stars Federation, Protectorate Military forces have deployed to many galactic warzones and have been instrumental in fighting back the slavers of the
Etxaurren Empire, the trade legions of the
Phemno Mining Guild, and the Flesh Shaper host. All who have stood against the mighty battle lines of the Protectorate have been defeated though with the galaxy becoming a safer place, many wonder if these fighting forces will be able to re-invent themselves as specialists in other things.
The war declared against the overlords of the
Chimeran Ascendancy at the end of 2669 once again sees Protectorate soldiers and sailors thrown into the crucible of war, and such questions about a soldier's place in peacetime, and the soul of the polity seem to be deferred to future days.
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