Because Kiovai only had one son, who was very young at the time, the Exlusite military sought a new leader. The military supported Ezvoli Vtarsu, a field-marshal in the Exlusite Army, to lead the Republic. However, Vtarsu had enemies. Part of the Exlusite Armed Navy supported a distant relative of the two Executors of the Karixus dynasty, Eprobos Karixus, to lead the Republic.