Fiction:Chostvan Soyuz (Gigaquadrant)

"Friends of the Soyuz, friends of the people, may the Soyuz live forever!"

- Former Chief Executive Minerva Kukrysrar, speaking in S.Y 1871

The Chostvan Soyuz is a union composed of many species outside of the Gigaquadrant, however the Chostvan Soyuz has a large footprint in the Gigaquadrant, with 207 colonies (planets, moons, and asteroids) in the Gigaquadrant. 709 of the colonies are in the Mirus Galaxy, and 198 in the Milky Way Galaxy. Using the colonies as springboards for intervention into the Gigaquadrant (and using them to watch the Glistennaens so they don't try anything for the second time in a millennium), they are a major power and influence in the Gigaquadrant. Under the leadership of Mer Korolyova the Chostvan Soyuz has grown out of its home planets and into a power that rivals many in the Gigaquadrant. Mer Korolyova has lead the Chostvan Soyuz for almost 796 Standard Years now, ruling during many times that were important for the Soyuz, such as 'The Great War', known to most in the Gigaquadrant as 'The Final War'.

The Chostvan Soyuz is also a heavily socialist nation when it comes to economic policies, although the political system is extremely free, with many parties in the People's Assembly voting on many matters, and ruling the Chostvan Soyuz. In the People's Assembly each Assembly representative votes on a matter (mostly following their parties line, or their beliefs if they are an independent) and elections for Assembly representatives take place every four years, however if a representative resigns early (or is incapacitated) elections shall be held before the usual date. Elections for Chief Executive take place every six years, however if one resigns early or is incapacitated elections may be held early. Mer Korolyova holds the record for the longest time in office as the Chief Executive, reigning from 2008 to today, however Minerva Kukrysrar holds the record for oldest Chief Executive (she ruled from 1871 to 1920, before resigning).

Considered by some to hold true to the national motto, the Chostvan Soyuz shows no sign of stopping, growing every day and having been in a nearly never-ending Golden Age perhaps since the founding of the Chostvan Soyuz. Indeed, may the Soyuz live forever!

Before the Space-Faring Imperium
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As this is not relevant to the Soyuz, please reference the article above.

The Years of the Early Space-Faring Imperium
Before the Chostvan Soyuz, there was the Chostvan Imperium. A sad state, where workers and peasants would toil away for the Chostvan Imperial State under the control of the Imperium. A place where, to be fair, you would emigrate from if you had the chance. A sad and yet solemn place.

And, of course, they had space travel capabilities.

Writing the history before the space-faring Imperium would be ludicrous and take up space, so please do reference the article known as 'Chostva', instead of this, which is a history of the spacefaring history of the Imperium and of the Chostvan Soyuz. Yes, please do leave. Yes, that door there. Yes, that one. No, I'm not misleading you. The door just above where you are reading. Mhm. Leave if you want to read about the pre-spacefaring history, good friend. Leave. Can you hear me? No? Or do you just want to read on? If you do, please, do read on to find out about the early space-faring Imperium, or rather Imperial State.

On the 24th of Octobre (not a spelling mistake you nitwit) S.Y 1648... we first went to space. We had been travelling for years before using the mysterious... stones, but I shall not go into that, and that was travel, not for colonisation and establishing bases as an actual space-faring civilization. The Imperium program sent up the rocket as part of the program. The rocket was not occupied by a lifeform however.

It was glorious. The rocket took off, orbited the planet a number of times, and thanks to advanced technology, it made a completely safe re-entry and what was left of it landed in the Hauptstadt Sea, which was soon collected by the various... shady organisations that aided the Imperium with their endeavours to get into the so-called 'open wilderness of space'. Rather, they aided the Imperium with almost everything, they were the practical secret police and mercenaries of the Imperial State after all. Crowds cheered as they saw the rocket go through the streets of Hauptstadt, being delivered back to the scientific facilities, all while the rebels from the Aout (August) Rebellion were being tortured in a nearby building... and now I shall go into detail on that.

The Aout Rebellion was devastating for the Imperium. Inspired by Syndicalist, Democratic, and Socialist ideals, a number of groups organised an uprising to overthrow the Imperium. They failed, miserably. Miserably in the way they completely failed, and the fact that the people had to put up with the Imperium and Imperial State for an even longer time, with even more brutal crackdowns on revolutionaries, rebels, and supporters of democracy, socialism, and syndicalism in the Imperial State.

Devastating in the way that a lot of machinery was broken and nobles killed. Hundreds of nobles were executed by the Aout Rebellion wherever the Rebellion found them. Nobilities were not being handed out like posters for a circus at the time, they were being handed out like political party pamphlets. That being that they really were rare at the time, and the hundreds of nobles executed made a perhaps more than slight dent in the bureaucracy and noble lineage.

And, a lot of possible future suitable mates for the Kaizhar of the Imperium, which I shall go into in a few parts.

The Rebellion was lead by a number of people, who actually weren't prosecuted. A lot of members were, but the leaders weren't. Mainly because the leaders used quite amusing (but life-saving) aliases such as Signed, a group of politicians who do not wish to stuff their coffers.

That, and the refusal and inability to give up the names of any other member under severe torture due to the close-knit network of cells where most were best friends and the pretend aliases the members of the Rebellion would use to hide away from the Imperium, Imperial State, spies, and sometimes other members altogether because they wanted their identity hidden. Most did.

And so we went to space for the first time with the Imperium program, which has actually been kept by the Chostvan Soyuz, mainly for reasons involving confusion about two programs in two different history books, one named the Soyuz program and the other the Imperium, for example.

The Years just after The Revolution
It was under the Chostvan Soyuz that space colonisation began to be considered seriously. It really was I suppose. Anyway, this part of the Years just after The Revolution chapter shall cover all about the plans to go to space and colonise new planets under the rule of Minerva Kukrysrar and the Socialist-Revolutionaries just after the Revolution which overthrowed the Imperial State, with a lot of Imperium members executed of course, as I have covered already in the previous chapter.

It began with the Voyageur program, for none-core world colonisation, and the Coureur program, for inhabiting more and more core worlds near Chostva itself. Coureur was given the larger amount of funding, of course, as the government saw the core worlds program as more... inviting and productive than the plan to colonise outer worlds under Voyageur. Indeed, many of those core worlds became huge industrial hubs in the 20th Century under many industrialisation plans, although many frontier worlds contributed heavily to mining and trade as well as the benefits of the core colonisation.

We sent the Voyageurs up to space, and I suppose we reaped the benefits of the colonisation! Without it, I dare say the Chostvan Soyuz might not have been a hyperpower like it is today, stretching across the universe! Industry grew during these times thanks to these newly colonised planets.

Military
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Allies
"May you also live forever, gallant allies!"


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Friends
"Greetings! Here to trade, conduct diplomacy, or something else perhaps?"


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Neutral
"We aren't too bothered about you... make yourselves at home, please."


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Disliked
"Do not stay long. The air of Hauptstadt is not suited for the likes of you."


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Enemies
"You shall be crushed, and your people integrated into the Chostvan Soyuz under the hand of friendship once we have dissolved your nation-state."


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