Post by Lord Harrab on Jul 30, 2016 1:34:37 GMT
"The Red Flower will never again meet the Green Leaves."
Originally one of the Breakaway Sates of Erebos' Original colonies, the group that would later form the Kingdom of Lycoris were originally a meteorological and suborbital weather station and when the ESF began to loose their grip on the colonists, took the chance to quietly and peacefully break away themselves, while still offering their data and a quota of mined resources to the government as a form of payment. Their first governor, Charles Thorpe had long been respected and loved by his people, and, therefore took the title of King once the overwhelming pressure form below to separate became too much, renaming the colony after a type of red flower from earth.
One the choice to become independent had been made, King Thorpe turned his attention and the colony's focus towards maintaining that independence and with the massive array of sensors and radars they had at their disposal at time, an elite and well equipped air force was seen as the most feasible deterrent to aggression, with an Army serving to secure the new Nations borders, by the time the United Solar Federation Colonial Orbital Defense Force was forced to only maintain their garrisons in orbit, the Royal Lycoris Air force and Home Guard were a reality and more than a match for their more war-like neighbors.
RLAF F/A 65 Blizzard Multirole Aircraft patrol in force over their borders during the Six Hour War, many of these aircraft were later kept on as trainers and reserve aircraft, ensuring their survival into the Post-Impact years
Diplomatic relations with these other nations was difficult as leaders and governments changes quickly and often, but a relationship of mutual co-operation and support was made with the strange former mining colony now known as the Hadorian Conclave, despite their own apparent dislike of monarchical systems, trading ore and metals for detailed atmospheric reports and long range scan data
Mindful of the weapons that were hovering over their collective heads, the Kingdom of Lycoris never involved itself in the hostilities and skirmishes of the other nations directly, understanding that others had noble dreams of Independence, others of conquest and power, with no real way to determine true motives of each, it was safer to remain impartial, carefully watching the skies for retribution for this hubris all the while. But when it came, it was in a manner they never expected.
The Six Hour War and the USF's intervention had long been coming and proved King Thorpe's wisdom in keeping only to their own lands, but the comet suddenly and irreparably pushed the world back into chaos right when it seemed peace and order would be restored. With only a few weeks warning, many of the Kingdom's Equipment and people were stuck on the surface when the comet impacted, their surface facilities were destroyed and the population fell to a fraction of its original number, hiding in the fortified bunkers original conducted as a deference against USF super-weapons. Storage chambers became Cites, and Ammo bunkers military outposts, caverns became underground farms and the old tunnels of their own mining operations became the lifelines of trade and transit.
To further add to this tragedy, as the surface was consumed by storms and toxic sustenance flung up by the comet's arrival, beloved King Thorpe passed away in his sleep, leaving the crown to his Daughter, at the time merely a child, she proved to be an apt and suitable leader, keeping her father's legacy intact throughout the years, until, as the storm dies down at least, and the People of Lycoris emerge once more, to bloom in land surrounded by death.
Home Guard A45 "Conway" Light Tanks on Exercise, designed as fire-support for Mechanized Infantry before Impact, time will tell if they are suited for the Apocalyptic landscapes they will now have to operate in.