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| - ! colspan="2" scope="col" style="font-size: 120%; text-align: center; "|Laurasian Empire |- ! colspan="2" scope="col" style="font-size: 120%; text-align: center; "|File:Flag of the Laurasian Empire.png |- |Type of Government |Absolute Monarchy and Autocratic Empire |- |Founding Document |Proclamation of the Laurasian Empire, 1321 |- |Constitution |None |- |Head of State |Emperor and Autocrat of All the Laurasians |- |Head of Government |Emperor and Autocrat of All the Laurasians with Chancellor of the Laurasian Empire |- |Commander-in-chief |Emperor and Autocrat of All the Laurasians |- |De facto leader |Emperor and Autocrat of All the Laurasians |- |Executive branch |Imperial Privy Council of Laurasia |- |Legislative branch |Emperor and Autocrat of All the Laurasians (supreme source); Privy Council and Governing Senate (secondary laws) |- |Judicial branch |Governing Senate |- |Capital |Christiania, Laurasia Prime |- |Official language |Imperial Laurasian Standard (English) |- |Currency |Imperial Dataries |- |State Religious Body |Almitism (Imperial Holy Synod) |- |National Holiday |Imperial Proclamation Day |- |Anthem |Under the will of Almitis this Empire lives! |- |Formed from |Stellar Kingdom of Laurasia |- |Date of Establishment |25 November AH 1321 |} -Empress Aurelia I the Great The Laurasian Empire, also known as the Empire of Laurasia, the Laurasian Imperium, the Laurasian State, the Laurasian Dominion of the Caladarian Galaxy, and rarely as the Galactic Empire, is a galaxy-spanning empire which extends its dominion over the entire Caladarian Galaxy and its two satellite galaxies, the Angelina Spiral and the Great Tesmanian Cloud. The Empire was formed out of the Stellar Kingdom of Laurasia, a major Core Kingdom which had existed in various forms since the 5th century AH. The Stellar Kingdom had been originally established in AH 412 by Arasces I the Founder (AH 412-32), following the end of the Arachosian Period. Laurasia enjoyed strength and prosperity during the First Laurasian Period (412-630), during which it exerted its power over the Core States, including such rivals as Gordasis, Courdina V, Clancia, Goldaria, Marshia, Rebecca, Briannia, Chancia, and others. At the death of Horax (603-23), Laurasia governed a vast dominion spanning from the Central Core to the outskirts of the Middle Territories. After Horax's death, however, the Kingdom entered into a severe decline, experiencing a civil war and losing control of most of its worlds. By 630, Laurasia had been subdued by the Lacian Despotate, to which it was a vassal state for twenty-seven years. In 657, with the Lacian Despotate itself entering terminal decline, King Perseus (653-59) overthrew Lacian overlordship and reasserted Laurasia's complete independence. During the Second Laurasian Period (657-840), the Stellar Kingdom of Laurasia enjoyed a even-greater period of strength and prosperity. Under the successive kings Constantine (659-87); Marcus Aurelius (687-712); Flavius Aetius (712-46); Hercules I (746-62); Gordian II (762-76); Hercules II (776-99); and Polares (799-809), the Stellar Kingdom of Laurasia extended its power from the Galactic Center and the Wild Marshes to the Shendonanan and Roastafarian systems. By the time of Polares however, Laurasia had become overextended and was under severe strains. The devastating Trajanic Civil War (810-32), caused by the ascension of the baby King Trajan (809-23) to the Laurasian throne, resulted in the severe disruption of Laurasian power. Heredotus (823-30); Andrea Septimia (830-32); and Neuchrus (830-32), struggled with each other for control of the Laurasian state. Eventually, Gordian III (832-40) emerged victorious, but was soon after confronted with the formidable Dasian challenge. In 840, the Dasian Khan and military commander Batya, as part of his campaigns throughout the Core Regions, overwhelmed Laurasia Prime and subdued the world, commencing the Dasian Yoke. During the Dasian Yoke (840-1080), Laurasia Prime and the Laurasian Purse Worlds were under the rule of a Dasian Bey, who acted as the military and political governor for the Dasian Golden Horde in the region. From 978-82, Arasces Arcracius, a Laurasian noble, briefly managed to restore Laurasian independence, but was eventually defeated by the Dasian Khan Tokhtamysh in 982. After nearly another century however, Laurasia emerged as a Grand Principality in 1075, as the Khan Ahmad attempted to instate measures in order to insure loyalty to the Dasians. The Grand Prince Honorius took advantage of the weakened Golden Horde's troubles, and in 1079, instigated a rebellion. In 1080, he defeated Ahmad and proclaimed himself King, thus ending the Dasian Yoke. During the Third Laurasian Period (1080-1321), Laurasia recovered from the Dasian Yoke, reconstituted its home territories, and at times even dominated the Core Regions, during the first half of the twelfth century. The reign of Honorius the Terrible (1133-84) and the following Time of Laurasian Troubles, however, seriously weakened the kingdom, as it suffered losses against the Solidaritan Sultanate, the Celestial Kingdom of Briannia, and the Polonian-Donguarian Commonwealth. The reign of Leonidas the Restorer (1213-45), and the establishment of the Leonidian Dynasty, began the process of recovery. His reign saw the continuation of Laurasian penetrations into the Western Regions, which had already been seen with the conquest of the Stellar Kingdom of Malaria between 1182 and 1198; the Kelvanian and Morganian Provinces were brought under Laurasian jurisdiction between 1213 and 1289. During the second half of the thirteenth century, by means of the War of the Deluge (1254-67), Laurasia seized control of the Central Core from Polonia, subordinating the Ivorian Hetmantate, and reasserted itself. Yet it was not until after Seleucus the Victor's accession to the throne, in 1282, that the true process of expansion and reform began. His triumph in the Great Briannian War brought the Empire the Nexus Route regions, Schaueria Prime, the Horacian Provinces, the Northern Crimeanian Provinces, and the Venasian Triangle. Over the course of the next four and a half centuries, under Seleucus's successors, including the Leonidian Dynasty (1321-1416), the Tiberian Dynasty (1416-68), the Vespansian Dynasty (1468-96), the Nervian Dynasty (1496-1592), the Severan Dynasty (1593-1635), and the Neuchrian Dynasty (1685-1803), Laurasia gradually expanded from its position in the central-western Core Worlds to encompassing the entire Caladarian Galaxy. The fourteenth century witnessed a continuation of conflicts with Polonia, Solidarita, Venasia, and in the Wild Marshes, with territorial acquisitions being made from all of these states and the Empire's elimination of Briannia (1364); the fifteenth century saw the Empire's rapid expansion across the Core Regions, into the Middle Territories, and down to the Lower Barsar Regions, with all core states except Venasia being completely subsumed, and with territories seized from Kimania, Melanie, Anastasia, Lesia, and the Abbathian Dynasty; the sixteenth century saw the Empire's incorporation of the rump remnants of Venasia, and its conquest of Hunt, Kimania, and Lesia. It also seized the Homidinian and Burglais Arm Provinces from the Mellorite Empire, imposed its overlordship over Neo-Anastasia, and acquired strongholds from the Neo-Xilanian Empire. Yet that century saw the commencement of Laurasian military conflict with the Dejanican-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Marasharite Empire, and the Haynsian Despotate, who now became the Empire's main enemies. The seventeenth century was dominated by its Crisis (1635-85), in which the Empire faced considerable external and internal challenges, and wars with Dejanica, Marasharita, Vectoria (after 1613), and the Celestial Kingdom of Scottria (from 1602). Neuchrus I the Reformer's accession in 1685, however, inaugurated another period of great expansion and strength for the Empire. It became greatly involved in the affairs of the Great Amulak Spiral, and by the end of that century, had subsumed the remainder of Xilania, Anastasia, and Mellorita, as well as the Kingdom of Karakorum. It was the eighteenth century which saw the Empire's greatest period of expansion, with the extension of its rule over the Galactic Borderlands and the satellite galaxies. Haynsia, Vectoria, and Scottria would be eliminated, and Dejanica partitioned. Wars with these states and with Franconia, Spamalka, and Marasharita dominated that century. As of the present (AH 1803), the Laurasian Empire controls the entire Caladarian Galaxy and its nearby Satellite Galaxies. The Empire's territory comprises of seventy million inhabited star systems, spread across a distance of nearly 150,000 light years, from the Galactic Center to the outer edge of the Great Tesmanian Cloud. Of those seventy million star systems, nearly twenty million possessed their own original native inhabitants (or native species). Just seven million systems had populations exceeding one million however, and of that, just 1.5 million star systems had populations in the hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or low trillions. The Laurasian Empire is a absolute monarchy and a autocratic empire, being governed by the Emperor and Autocrat of All the Laurasians, who possesses autocratic authority. The Emperor is recognized as a divinely-ordained sovereign elevated in authority above all of his subjects. He is assisted by the Chancellor of the Laurasian Empire and by a assortment of government councils, chiefly the Imperial Privy Council, the Governing Senate, and the Holy Synod. The Laurasian Imperial Government and Military are extensive and highly-organized, wielding authority throughout the entire bounds of the Empire. Laurasia Prime is the Empire's capital and leading world, with the highest population level in the Caladarian Galaxy, while Christiania is the Imperial capital city.
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