History of Imperial
History of Imperial
Stone Age: “The Uncharted South” was the name of our land before its founding. This province was not colonized because of its unfertile soil and lack of minerals. The idea of a nation profiting off of it was unthinkable. Therefore, this land was mostly uninhabited. The few humans living here traveled in small groups in the past, but one man would change that. A man by the name of Lucifer sought out to unite the small tribes of the Uncharted South and all the empires scattered across the continent to form a strong, peaceful, and prosperous nation. People were drawn to the idea of money and power, so they supported his idea. Thus, “Imperial” was born.
Bronze Age: A strong, prosperous nation was impossible without anything valuable to trade. As the Imperials had no crops, no precious metals, and no lumber, they had nothing to trade. The only thing they did have was enough game to get by. The founder had passed on his position to his eldest son: who was also named Lucifer (they all are, I’m too lazy to come up with another name) Lucifer II knew that the only Imperial would prosper was if they conquered another nation. Their neighboring country, Dunarsund, had a large amount of flowers, and exported dye for large profits. Because they were on good terms with the other nations, they did not have a strong army. Despite being weak, the Imperials were skilled with spears. They used the spears for hunting to attack Dunarsund. Dunarsund was a very weak nation. The closest thing they had to an army were the guards in front of the palace. Our spear-wielding ancestors were only faced by an untrained, volunteer army that was formed at the last second. The amateur army fell with little resistance, and one empire was crushed.
The other three nations in the region wee absolutely stunned by this event. An unknown nation coming out of nowhere and taking over a rich and prosperous land. They felt threatened, and greeted the Imperials with iron. To calm down Tyr, Hymir, and Fel Dranghyr, the imperials greeted them with kindness and gifts. After they let their guard down, and Fel Dranghyr was attacked, and conquered. Outraged by Lucifer II’s actions, the two remaining empires joined forces and stationed a massive army at Bronze Age Tower. As both nations had sent most of their forces to the southern border, the northern sectors were mostly unguarded. To confuse the two nations, Lucifer II invaded both nations simultaneously. Attacking two neighboring sectors from the coast. In a state of panic, they sent the soldiers at Bronze Age Tower to the two conquered sectors. With Tyr’s remaining army only miles away from the fort, the Imperials conquered 3 more sectors in one night. With only one patch of land remaining, Tyr sold its final sector to prevent further bloodshed.
Hymir was already caught up in the war. Half their army was lost in at the Bronze Age Tower, which was now a military base for Imperial. Unfortunately for Hymir, the sector previously conquered, was their main source of metal. Imperial had the material needed to forge weapons now, and Hymir lost it. A fierce barrier guarded by highly trained warriors guarded to border between Hymir and Imperial with the little weapons they had left. Taking advantage of this, Lucifer II led a small army through the mountains and took a sector from behind. By the time the warriors reached the disputed territory, another sector was captured. Hymir was split in two. The capital could not send troops to the other sector, and was soon all alone. Surrounded by Imperial forces, Hymir’s leader snapped and lost his sanity. The final sector was sold for a small amount of goods. At this time, Imperial had grown to a powerful nation, but Lucifer II’s son, Lucifer III did not believe in bloodshed, and wished to end his father’s reign of tyranny.
Iron Age
Lucifer III had finally come into power. Like his grandfather, he wished to expand Imperial across the continent by peaceful means. After sending scouts to the north, Imperials learned they were not the only empire to conquer a whole province. Maktaba had taken over the north. Lucifer III used peace treaties and formed the largest real-estate sale the world had ever seen. Two provinces bought at once. One had a fort “Iron Age Tower,” the other, had a great supply of sheep, giving Imperial another good export: wool. While slowly purchasing more land on another province, Lucifer III realized he was hurting his people. To buy such a large amount of land, he had to over tax the citizens, spreading economic inequality and poverty. Angered at his own selfish actions, he sought a solution. A big powerful nation would not just sell their precious land. There had to be a motive other than money. Maktaba was far stronger than Imperial. Lucifer III went to talk to Maktaba’s leader, Hasdrubaal Barkas. Maktaba was being attack up in the north by other nations. His empire would fall soon. He and Lucifer III came up with a plan. Hasdrubaal Barkas give his empire to Imperial, but act as if it was invaded. A new scary nation popping of nowhere and conquering such a large empire would scare them off. In exchange Hasdrubaal Barkas would govern this area. They would light Maktaba’s capital on fire after evacuating all the citizens. The Northern provinces would be greeted by Imperial forces, who quickly plucked off the weakened army, shocked the entire continent. They all now knew that a strong, prosperous nation had emerged from what was thought to be a barren wasteland. Outraged by their almost wasted efforts, the hostility between Imperial and the neighboring provinces, Pfefferbeg and Dunkelwald rose. These nations refused to trade with Imperial, and refused to let Imperials pass through their trade routes.
Early Middle Ages
10 years past, the next leader took over, and the hostility between Imperial and the Northern provinces grew worse. Enemy forces would attack Imperial cities to convince Lucifer IV to give over the land. No raid party success fully raided any city, but many soldiers were hurt or even died. In an attempt to make the military stronger, Lucifer IV started colonies in faraway lands. These colonies would research combat in foreign lands, and focus on helping Imperial prosper. As a result, the Imperial army grew very powerful, and struck back at the hostiles even harder and never failed once. After a while, the attacks stopped, but a year later, an Imperial village was burned down by Pfefferbeg forces. Outraged by the loss of his people’s lives, Lucifer IV sent the elite guard to conquer a sector of Pfefferbeg in vengeance. Not a single Imperial soldier was lost, and no Pfefferbegian was left alive. Pfefferbeg sent military forces to the Early Middle Age Tower to attack Imperial. Lucifer IV was ready to wage war. By winning the people over and using them to collect Intel, Lucifer IV was able to come up with a genius plan mid-battle, and conquered an empire without losing a single man. This greatly strengthened Imperial forces in the north, because they had captured Early Middle Age Tower. Unlike the earlier leaders, Lucifer IV was not completely anti-war, but was not a hostile. He attacked violent nations, and brought peace to their people. At the time, the Northern provinces showed no respect for Imperial, and attack them frequently, but after crushing the oppressive nation of Pfefferbeg, Freiherr von Greifensprung, accepted Imperial and the hostility ended. Lucifer IV could finally carry out the Imperial’s dream of expanding through peace, but we all know that can’t happen. As soon as Lucifer IV found out that the mountain clans were hired for the job, he sent scouts there and an onslaught of archers to shoot down the barbarians.
Back at Imperial, an envoy from Sturmhohen demanded that Lucifer IV and his people pay Kaiserin Konstanze taxes. Outraged by this demand, Lucifer IV attacked Sturmhohen. Now at war with a powerful nation, which even brought Barakas to his knees, Imperial was in a lot of trouble. While the Kaiserin was a problem, the mountain barbarians posed a greater threat. Provinces in the north that were once owned by Barakas were being attack by the mountain clans. This was tough because the terrain was so rocky. The barbarian slingers could easily attack any cavalry unit because of rocks, and any heavy or light unit would have their speed cut too severely and get little to no stat bonuses. The only units the Imperials could send were the archers, but an 8 archer army for every battle wasn’t going to cut it. After three provinces, the barbarians realized that Imperial wasn’t using archers because they wanted to. They could only send archers. Suddenly, Imperial was put on the defensive.
Lucifer IV, needed a way to combat these barbarians and their wreck less battle tactics. Imperial came up with a new battle style, one that could crush the barbarian forces. Thus, the berserker was born. These new units easily crushed the barbarians, sustaining minimal damage while killing them off quickly. The berserkers did fine in the north as well. The Kaiserin’s army was no match for these berserkers and her empire crumbled quickly. Imperial was unstoppable. After pushing through the mountains to find the root of the barbarian attacks, Lucifer IV and Barakas learned that Barakas’s old general, who was believed to have died after him and his men were stranded in the mountains, was attacking Imperial for revenge. They attacked Imperial with soldiers stronger than any Imperial had ever seen. Even the berserkers were at their limits. The army pushed to the capital. After a fierce battle, Barakas and Lucifer IV were both found dead in capital building, along with countless enemy corpses. Imperial was left without a leader.
High Middle Ages
Ragu Silvertounge, the Imperial advisor, struggled to lead Imperial while trying to figure out the empires next move. The only logical heir would be Lucifer V, Lucifer IV’s son, but he was still a child, unfit to rule, unfit to lead. It was decided that this child would lead the country, but he would need a great amount of help to lead at such a young age. In order to crush Celas, Imperial needed a strong new weapon. Lucifer V was extremely fascinated weapons from the Iron Age: especially the ballista. He requested for the nation’s team of researchers to create a hand-held ballista for a sort of, “cross,” bow. Aiming like an archer. But shooting like a ballista, the crossbowmen squads were formed. Celas stood no chance. His elites were brought to their knees by the crossbowmen, and the mountain range was finally settled.
In the east, Imperial had poked its nose into a fight between four brothers, who had a similar, but very different problem. A great king had died without picking an heir. His four sons set off a great civil war in his empire. Because they were still at war, Imperial decided to stay out of it for a while. Occasionally buying land, and eventually a whole province, but later Lucifer V would grow older, wiser, and more fit to rule. He would then solve the problems in the east. In his teenage years, Lucifer V became more obsessed with peace. He decided to continue buying the provinces in the east, that is, until he met Childrich. This man was bent on conquering all of his father’s legacy by force. Ludwig, another one of the king’s sons, begged Imperial for its help in stopping Chilrich. After crushing his meager empire of two provinces. Ludiwig attempted to assassinate Lucifer V, and take all of Imperial for himself. Outraged at his betrayal, Lucifer V sent troops all of the four military towers and crushed Moravaria. All but one sector fell, placing the final hurdle under siege. This sector was too well guarded to take down easily. Imperial needed a new weapon. As a result, Lucifer V did some more research on foreign weapons. The result: the Imperial trebuchet battalion. 8trebuchet stormed Moravaria and absolutely destroyed its capital. It was finally time to deal with the evil king in the north.
Late Middle Ages
The trebuchet were nearly unstoppable. They pushed Sir Richard back and forced him to retreat to his king’s empire. Through stealth and trickery, Lucifer V managed to push Darkblood all the way to the top of Mount Killmore by buying Wolvhamton from him, then acquiring sectors around the mountain to cut them off from the capital. While cut off, the remaining provinces could not receive orders, and fell easily. Mount Killmore was guarded by Darkblood’s sorcerer, who used his magic to make Darkblood’s army stronger. The soldiers of the high middle ages was not going to cut it anymore. To claim the summit, Lucifer V decided to teach the soldiers his family’s sword style. They became known as, “The Great Sword Warriors,” and slashed through Darkblood’s army and claimed the summit. Because most of the soldiers were out at war, the Imperial dungeon was mostly unguarded. Imperial’s old enemies broke out, united and plotted revenge. First, they needed a stable empire to use as a base. They gathered the rebels from all over Imperial and took over Raven’s Creek. They then plotted to take over Imperial. After a long time at the throne, Lucifer V was ready to let his son of mid-adolescence, Lucifer VI, take command.
Colonial Age
Lucifer VI had a simple plan for what he would do during his rule. #1 Rescue Princes Myciena from Kaiserin Konstanze. #2 End the tyrannical rule of Sophia Antoinette and relieve her people with lower taxes. #3 Capture the capital of the conquered Maidenport from King Darkblood. Unfortunately, there were a few kinks along the road. The first priority went swimmingly. The lands controlled by Konstanze were liberated and Myciena was safe. The second step went a little bumpy. The people were already so over taxed to afford Sophia Antoinette’s lavish life style that when Lucifer VI waged war to free them from the problem, taxes were severely raised to fund the battles. Yeah, probably should have thought that through. Ragu suggested that to avoid further economic crisis in the future Imperial lands, Lucifer VI had to force people into the military and raise taxes as well, though not nearly as much as Sophia Antoinette’s empire. She was conquered quickly, but with a great cost. Enraged citizens in the older Imperial province, and enraged citizens in the new Imperial provinces. Many small uprisings were held which Ragu advised public hangings, and an increase in military might. Cranky Imperial moved on to Louis’s lands next. Louis was eager to wage a war, as like Lucifer VI, he enjoyed a good battle of arms and wits. The two kings got along well, but after Louis realized he had absolutely no chance of succeeding he backed out and blamed all his empires problems on Imperial. He attacked, we attacked, he lost, we won, and you get the picture. The provinces added from Louis’s empire were even more hostile. Riots, protests, raids, the empire was at the brink of revolution. When Lucifer VI was finally ready to deal with the people and settle them down into Imperial’s better economy, Ragu Silver Tongue staged a coup de tat. He had gathered rebels, and bribed soldiers to prepare a full scale rebellion. Lucifer VI fled with Princess Myciena to the battalions that arrived at Imperial with the princess would aid Lucifer VI in taking down Ragu and the Great Sword Warriors. 2 Grenadier, 2 field gun, and 2 musketeer battalions vs. 8 Great Sword Warriors and 8 Musketeers. It was a bloodbath like no other. Ragu Silvertongue fled the scene and went into exile, but swore he would return one day.
The final province in the continent was owned by Victor Bonaparte. His province was weak from a recent rebellion and needed money to run, so Imperial just bought it and built new ports by its coast. These new ports did trade primarily with the east coast, exchanging anything from supplies to information. This lead to Lucifer VI learning about a new continent in the west. He and his scouts sailed across the ocean, and made contact with the natives. They believed in peace and were happy to trade for their land. Imperial now had a province in the new world.
Industrial Age
Settlers from Imperial who had left to find a better life had already taken over. They were in the middle of a civil war between General Dee and President Cartwright. Dee’s southern provinces believed in a confederacy while Cartwright’s provinces in the north believed in a union. State vs. Federal power. Lucifer VI needed to play his cards right if he was going to conquer this new continent. The south had better skill fighters but weaker technology, while the north relied on its superior tech and not so much skill. Lucifer VI decided that if he were to work with the south to take down the north, the south would be cake after because Imperial had better fighting tactics than the south, and the south relies on battle tactics to make up for their lack of modern tech. The first move of the war was to capture the eastern coastline. This would allow Lucifer VI to lower trade for Cartwright’s provinces by enforcing a tariff on all goods running down the only river connected to Cartwright’s land. If they did not have their tech, they would be unable to fight Imperial. Stage two of the war involved capturing Rantford. This provice produced tons of coal, so if it were captured, President Cartwright’s country would not have international trade or coal to fuel their trains, factories, and light fixtures: crippling his nation. The rest was fairly easy. He could not mobilize his soldiers or produce weapons as fast as before, making it nothing special. Now that the north had fallen, it was time to betray the south. General Dee was a bit surprised when Desperation was suddenly attacked from all angles, but retaliated and fought viciously at Las Penas and Dragon City. Despite the South’s efforts, Imperial now having tech that rivals the old north, and superior tactics compared to the south, so the south did not last long. Now Dee and Cartwright’s lands were both under Imperial control, the far north and the far south felt threatened. They acted very hostile and border fighting was common. To scare them off, Imperial bit back and took a province from both El Hacha Gonzalez and Barthelemy Philipeaux. They offered peace and both accepted, but trade between the two with Imperial was banned. Those two nations were very tough to beat, so Lucifer VI wanted to wait until the military tech was strong enough to crush the two without losing tons of units. Back in the east, the northern continent provinces were in a great war. In order to possibly profit off of it, Lucifer VI purchased a small province off the coast, and constructed a fort. Imperial is to strike when its military is stronger. For now, we wait.
I would love to write more, but there needs to be more events in my city for there to be more history to cover.
