Fiction:Duchy of Selvath

Selvath is a small duchy on the planet of selvath, which it claims ownership over. Selvath only has control over the planet of the same name and even then has to marshal soldiers to defend it's cities. Selvath is most notable for starring in Adventure:Series:The Bloodied Blades and little else. The Duchy of Selvath was founded to unify the peoples of the planet Selvath into a political and economic force that the rest of the galaxy would recognize. Selvath is considered a tier five empire because they do have relations with other spacefaring empires and are capable of space travel.

History
Selvath was founded by Duke Selvath the first though this is not his original name, it was changed to Selvath to signify control of the planet. To unify the numerous town in the West Herracin sub-continent, one of only a handful of inhabitable regions, the rest being badlands controlled by primitive tribes of barely sentient creatures or other handfuls of barbarians. Of the original nine town that unified to create the Duchy of Selvath only four would remain in the next hundred years during these hundred years the people of Selvath saw great technological advances as they were able to reintegrate into galactic society as well as seeing a population boom. They also learned about their history as abandoned colonists from a long gone empire.

Decline of Selvath
Selvath's decline began when the Conqrix united and armed the barbarian tribes near Selvath in an attempt to fight a proxy war all across the sector. Soon the capital city of Selvath was all that was left of the duchy, now experiencing supply shortages due to the sudden influx of refugees. However, the refigees were quickly put to work in the Selvath militia, the force responsible for guarding the planet of Selvath against domestic incursions and invasions. Currently, the small Selvath expansionary force sat idle in numerous planets across the sector, lacking the means to be transported back home. The militia however, fough of the armed tribes and discovered the Conqrix plans to invade the secotr of Betron Reach. Selvath sent a diplomat and member of the royal family to the Valraze Protectorate to petition for soldiers to be mobilized to preemptively strike the Conqrix, however, the baron of Valraze, an adamant worshipper of the god Palreo had been advised by his priests of Palreo to aid the Conqrix, who had made a pact with Palreo. Delester imprioned the diplomat and her bodyguard and attacked the Selvath embassay on Valraze. However, the diplomat and her bodyguard broke out of the prison and stole a boat to warn the embassay of the impending attack. When they arrived the embassay was already under attack and the diplomat, Dareghaz Selvath was shot. The embassay had stronger defenses than was anticipated by the baron and some of the soldiers and statesmen there were able to escape to Selvath. However, upon arriving at Selvath the men from the embassay soon discovered that Palreo worshippers (a sizable amount of selvath citizens) rebelled at the behest of their god, killing many and seizing the fortress of House Selvath. The soldiers that arrived from the embassay linked up with members of the Selvath militia and counter revoloutionary citizens and retook House Selvath by force. The leader of the Selvath militia, Felralar Selvath became duke Selvath VI and announced that Selvath would be relocated to another planet in case the Conqrix would chose to finish what the rebels an barbarians could not.

New Selvath
Selvath was relocated to the planet of Kalia where a small colony had once stood, but had been abandoned due to economic reasons. New Selvath was cramped dirty and almost as technologically retarded compared to the rest of the galaxy as the old Selvath, maintianing only a spotty at best commmunications array, a landing pad some decrepit homes. Soon upon arriving Felralar Selvath was declared unfit to rule by one of his subordinates, Lieutenant Bradth and killed, Bradth proceeded to declare himself lord of Selvath. As lord he killed a Fiction:GFSP diplomat and his guards and began to negotiate with the Conqrix regarding a military alliance. This behavior was considered abhorrent by many citizens of Selvath. The GFSP, angered at the loss of their diplomat and soldiers sent a company of soldiers to investigate and impeach Bradth if neccesary. The Selvath Militia as well as some Conqrix allies fough against the GFSP fiercely, Bradth's second in commands and high priest killed him and jointly led negotiations with the GFSP commanding officer. A year passed and Selvath joined the GFSP and built a new spaceport and prepared to elect a new leader, thus, ineffect, doing away with The Duchy of Selvath and creating a direct democracy. Now Selvath had the resources to recall their foreign soldiers, however, with this came a new problem, leading the Company of The Demonic Skull, Selvath's elite force was Makomith Selvath, the only surving member of the Selvath royal family. He wished to become duke, but the GFSP would not allow this, Makomith led a coup against the GFSP and the current leader of Selvath,later exiling all.

Civil War
Makomith was not at all an effective political leader, and had soon driven Selvath's economy and foreign relations into the ground, many of Selvath's citizens proceeded to protest his rule, soon added to this group of dissidents was the Selvath Militia, now this group of protestors represented a real threat to Makomith's rule. Tensions finally reached a breaking point when Makomith himself fired on a crowd of dissidents, ordering his soldiers to do the same. Very few soldiers actually followed this order and Makomith was quickly impeached and killed with little bloodshed.

Current State
Currently Selvath lacks a government and has reeopened their spaceport which has been very popular due to incredibly low tarrif rates. It is currently unknown whether or not Selvath will rejoin the GFSP.