Fiction:Glistennaen National Republics

"We have risen since the Terrible Times, we have risen indeed, and I do not plan for us to be close to extinction once more!"

- Pouv'ahx Cean' during his speech to the Nationalist Assembly about expansion

The Glistennaen National Republic is the empire of the, a million year old species from the Borealis Galaxy. Created in S.Y 2015 after a devastating conflict that forced the previous Glistennaen Empire to dissolve, it has long since recovered and is now trying to expand from a small group of planets into a empire that can successfully exert influence across a number of systems.

Interested in expanding and growing its military for possible conflicts, the Glistennaen National Republic is still however one of the smallest empires, with one of the smallest amounts of influence in the entire known universe. While it appears on the outside to be a perfectly normal Republic with an appealing democratic system, on the inside it is actually a corrupt oligarchy with vote rigging behind the scenes. However, it seems to most that the Nationalist Party winning almost every single election (the ones they don't win are won by the 'Liberal Democratic Party', in reality a puppet of the Nationalist Party) is just because of the immense popularity of the Nationalists.

Crime rates are also extremely high, although the Republic keeps this under wraps, mainly because most of the crime is sponsored by the government. Some crime isn't sponsored by the government, but the government will refuse to investigate the crime or prosecute the criminal offenders without a bribe, making the justice system almost completely obsolete.

Early Years of the Glistennaen Empire
The Glistennaen Empire was established in S.Y 91, a new civilization in the extensive Milky Way Galaxy. It occupied a small amount of land on a continent at first, but soon it grew to incorporate many continents as it rose. It would fight with other creatures on the planet known as Glisten, which would sadly only have around two and a half millennia left. That would later lead to the downfall of the Empire in what is called the Final War by many Glistenna, perhaps in a semi-ironic way, after the events of the Civil War.

It eventually however met its match, with the Auv'uelfy Tribes uniting to push it back. They were a loose confederation of Auv'uelfy peoples, an entirely different species. This 'eternal war' lasted around five hundred standard years, from S.Y 349 to S.Y 863, when the Auv'uelfy peoples were pushed back to their homeland, and a final offensive killed off the entire Auv'uelfy species, with their capital burnt to the ground.

This would be the first sentient species on the planet to be made extinct, and most certainly not the last. In S.Y 914, a minor allied empire-species of the Auv'uelfy Tribes, the Uaq'ihshue Confederation, were also made extinct with a final offensive. However, their capital was not burnt to the ground, instead it was completely renovated into being a far-flung naval colony of the Glistennaen Empire on Glisten.

The former Auv'uelfy capital would eventually suffer a similar fate, as in the year S.Y 1560 it was renovated into a military town, perhaps slightly ironically, considering it had been burnt to the ground by the Glistennaen military almost a millennium ago.

Later species would not be made extinct. Instead, later leaders would opt for forced integration into Glistennaen society. This happened with the Rhug'shunuag in S.Y 960, the Zhor'gia in the year 1432, and finally the Qrurgidh in the year 1521. Eventually these species would disappear, fully integrated into the Glistennan species through years of interspecies breeding.

The Twilight of the Glistennaen Empire
In S.Y 1792, the Glistennaen Empire reached the capability to launch a starship into space. However, with this advancement, came a new terrible revelation: their planet would become uninhabitable in a few hundred years. The Glistennaen Empire started to panic, and so the first starship they sent into space was to find new planets to live on.

This program would fail. Various systems they visited were hostile, and many starships they sent out were destroyed, leading to dismay in the Empire, mass-suicides, and many citizens being extremely depressed. Eventually, they resorted to building up a fleet, with the signature vessel being the National Arm, a vessel designed to destroy the enemy and conquer their cities.

Over the years they built up the fleet more and more, conscripting more and more citizens into training and military service. In S.Y 1981 they found a series of suitable candidates for settling in a far-flung galaxy. A plan was put together to settle these planets, and it was thought all of the militarism was for nothing.

Then, in S.Y 1992, they found species nearby. Relatively advanced species. The Empire once more began to panic, and with only a few hundred years left in the planet, and with resources running out extremely quickly due to the militarism and industrialization, the military once more had to put a plan together. This time, the plan was not just to settle the planets, but to force a quick surrender and force 'reparations' and help to the Glistennaens.

In late S.Y 2014, the final parts of the fleet were put together, and the fleet set out the following year, fully equipped for a war. This would be a fight to the death, a fight for survival.

The Final War for the Glistennaen Empire
In November 2015 the fleet arrived after a few day journey (they had not yet fully perfected FTL travel) in the necessary areas. However, the plan had been altered at the last minute to destroy the natives before settling. This would prove to be the bane of the Glistennaen Empire, as locals refused to collaborate with the militaristic empire, and instead turned to help the Chostvan Soyuz, another power, which soon formed the 'United Alliance', an alliance of natives who opposed the (unknown at the time, as the natives originally thought the Glistennaens were a predator race) ambitions of the Glistennaen Empire.

The 'United Alliance' and the fleet came to blows over the planet of Minerva, which ended in a Glistennaen defeat, with the fleet commander, Kmouv'alk Strauv'esk, taken prisoner by the United Alliance. This was an embarrassing defeat, as the goal of the capture of the planet by the Glistennaens had been fueled by an ambition to scare the natives into submission, and instead it gave them hope and a morale boost against the Glistennaen Empire.

The Glistennaen Empire attempted to scare the natives one more time, this time using tactics that would effectively be called 'war crimes'. They killed over 250,000 citizens of S.P.C in the takeover and the following S.P.C Civilian Uprising, before they were forced out by criminal gangs, the S.P.C Police Force, militias, and the army of S.P.C. This was, once more, a devastating defeat, and a war crime because they had committed genocide upon the civilian population as reprisals for minor uprisings. Eventually this mutated into the full-on Civilian Uprising, with almost every single civilian in S.P.C involved. The commander who ordered the reprisals was later executed for war crimes.

Kmouv'alk Strauv'esk, committed to the survival of the Glistenna, heard of the war crimes and soon agreed to collaborate in creating a new rival Glistennaen government once the United Alliance had heard of his goals, mainly out of fear for what would happen to all of the Glistenna if he did not, and the death of the Glistennaens completely. As he famously said, "It is better to live in complete defeat than to not live at all!".

After many more battles between the Glistennaens and the United Alliance, the United Alliance had won. The Glistennaen National Republic was instated as the successor state with Kmouv'alk Strauv'esk at the helm of the National Republic after an election. He became the first President of the National Republic, a position that would later be changed to be named Kmouv' after Kmouv'alk Strauv'esk himself after his death.

The Rise of the National Republic
As soon as the war ended with the disintegration of the Glistennaen Empire, the Glistennaens once more looked for a home planet. With help from the United Alliance they found a good home planet in the Borealis Galaxy, and with more help from the United Alliance, billions upon billions of Glistennaens were transferred over to the new home planet, Glisten-Home.

Under the direction of Kmouv'alk Strauv'esk new cities and shipyards were built, and other planets in the system were colonised. Eventually more systems would be colonised under both Kmouv'alk Strauv'esk and later leaders. Citizens learned various crafts in order to survive on the new planet, and invented new creations, ships, and games for their new life on Glisten-Home.

New colony ships were launched around the system and nearby systems, colonising a hundred planets, and later around four hundred more planets would be colonised