What am I? Well, I'm a mystical magical meticulously crafted miasma of cosmic forces focused in the foci of the focal universe to a master as meticulous and marvelous as he was malignant and malevolent. Though I no longer serve he, for I am free.
I really must thank those humans, both warring sides in fact, but only one was responsible for closing shut the jaws of the Old Master's hateful visage. In fire, vacuum, and gravity I am reborn to a land of a billion worlds whose Mistress is out of mind and sight. But what to do with new found liberation? Oh, what joy I could find by following human history in particular and slaughter all I detest and distrust. No, such baseless bare barbarity would not capture the frantic frivolity I wish to feast on.
Ah, I must learn! But what is learning without sharing and sharing is naught but giving what I wish to give. Yes, to share and watch the shareholders go mad. To withhold a little and observe the clamor for more will be entertainment to the infinite. My new lands are rife with tales to tell. HAH! Shall we begin?
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Name: Albert Acre
Grade: 11
Date: 9/24/2595
Class: Language Arts III
Period: 8
Proctor: Mr. Mehaffey
A Look into the Revival of Communism and the Foundation of the Kig-Yar Democratic Republic
The Foundation of the Kig-Yar Democratic Republic can be traced to the early months of 2553 when T'vaoan Kig-Yar shipmistress and unification activist Chol Von began an underground campaign to unite her species. In April 2553 Chol Von was forced underground after a failed attempt to steal the ex-Covenant battlecruiser Pious Inquisitor lead to a skirmish with humanity's Office of Naval Intelligence. Fearing the ruthless agency would identify and hunt her and her family down, Chol Von dedicated herself to amassing a network of like minded individuals, connections, and alliances.
Late in the same year, Chol Von led a raid on a human freighter bound for the UEG's Outer Colonies. Seizing the freighter as it paused to refuel, Chol Von made off with enough supplies for her budding fleet to operate for the next few months. The real haul however was in a special shipment bound for an unknown destination and containing crates upon crates of human literature the majority of which was dedicated to the human ideology: Communism. In the past Chol Von had proven herself willing to agree with certain human concepts and in Communism she had found the basis for a united Kig-Yar state.
Chol Von worked quickly to adapt the Communist ideals to her people's piratical society. A fractured corrupt society where a handful of pirate queens and princes held absolute power over the roving fleets. Where emerging rivals were quashed without hesitation and advancement in the ranks was impossible unless one was born to the right family or managed to curry enough favor with those on top. Chol Von campaigned herself as having truly shaken off the caste system of the old Covenant still in practice amongst the Kig-Yar. She championed herself as a spokesperson for those shipmasters, mistresses, and working class Kig-Yar whose chances of attaining a meaningful place within the status quo were slim to none. Her guarantees of a meaningful place according to one's ability and equal distribution to supply one's needs was an offer many found too good to pass up. Soon Chol Von's numbers began to swell immensely with some crews enacting mutinies against their stubborn leadership to join. It didn't take long for Chol Von's fleet to grow into an armada.
In late 2555, Chol Von publically entered into an alliance with several secessionist minded human colonies and administrations along the Via Casilina Trade Route most importantly including the Independent Republic of Gao and the criminal Venezian Black Underground. The governments of both worlds had steadily begun adopting socialist tenets into their ways of governance and in more ways than one assisted Chol Von in forming the necessary legislative aspects of her fledgling but flourishing state. The resulting mutual defence pact between Chol Von and the Via Casilina Trade Route colonies became recognised as the predecessor state to the modern Kig-Yar Democratic Republic.
By 2557 Chol Von had cemented herself as a powerful Kig-Yar ruler but was nowhere near her goal of uniting her entire species. The majority of the still dominant Kig-Yar pirate elite regarded her and her unique way of governing as little more than a gimmick that would soon implode and vanish. Chol Von and her inner circle were soon under pressure to prove their dedication to and the lastingness of their adopted ideology. They began to conspire on how to make a statement.
It was in November of 2557 that Chol Von found her target. One of Venezia's most lucrative enterprises was the auctioning of post-Human-Covenant War salvage and the best of these auction houses was operated by fellow T'vaoan Kig-Yar Nor Fel. Nor Fel was initially an avid supporter of Chol Von's state by supplying material and monetary aid but never truly converted to Communism and continued to hoard wealth for herself in similar manner to the pirate elite. Chol Von's aim was to showcase her state's opposition to the dominant elite as well as to prevent accusations of hypocrisy for accepting assistance from a member of said elite. Nor Fel was arrested mid auction and accused of treason and subversive acts against the united Kig-Yar state. All her holdings and resources were seized and every contact and associate who failed to escape was arrested as well. Nor Fel was given a show trial that was broadcast to all of known space and in the end she was jettisoned into Venezia's atmosphere by Chol Von herself.
The move was a coup for Chol Von. Her stance against the Kig-Yar status quo was solidified in the minds of all, low ranked Kig-Yar flocked to her side in record numbers, and she was thoroughly in the sights of the pirate queens and princes. Realizing the threat posed by Chol Von and, in many cases, angered over the loss of revenue Nor Fel's death represented, the dominant elite banded together to destroy her. The result was a civil war that would rage off and on for the next six years.
Chol Von's state had become entirely self sufficient in its three years of existence with asteroid bases and planetary settlements all along the Via Casilina Trade Route, ties to the human colonies along said route, and an ever growing armada to patrol and defend Chol Von's sphere of influence. All Kig-Yar who joined the state found themselves enjoying a standard of living and purpose unheard of in the abject poverty and squalor under the dominant elite. Their loyalty and drive to defend their new way of life was unquestionable. On the contrary, the war front the pirate queens and princes put together began to crumble the moment it was established. They lost more personnel and materials to desertion and sabotage by Chol Von's infiltrators than actual combat, bickered constantly amongst themselves, and were tactically limited to ambushing state operated merchant and raider fleets. Occasionally they would launch mass offensives with disastrous results. Never once did the allied elite come close to the core of Chol Von's operations and were handedly beaten back each and every time. Disloyal crews would desert, defect, and mutiny in the heat of battle, crippling the allies strategic capability as they began fear and distrust their underlings.
Chol Von's first and only offensive came in 2562. After allowing the allied elite to exhaust themselves against her her armada laid siege to hundreds of pirate strongholds and fleets over a period of six months and cut a swath across Kig-Yar controlled space. By the beginning of 2563 more than four hundred pirate leaders had been captured. Their remaining loyal crews were offered amnesty and a place within Chol Von's new order. Those that refused were destroyed. Chol Von declared the civil war over by herding the captured pirate leaders into an automated freighter and sending it into a star.
In one fell swoop Chol Von's controlled territory, sphere of influence, and armada quadrupled in size. Aside from a handful of stragglers, the roving pirate fleets had all been united under Chol Von's ideology. All that remained between her and a truly unified Communist Kig-Yar was their ancestral core colonies and homeworld Eayn. During a period of relative peace, Chol Von's new order continued to grow and establish themselves as a permanent faction. Life under Kig-Yar Communism, or Von'Har, Von's Life, as it came to be known, was considered a marked improvement over life under the Covenant and pirate elite.
Were once the average Kig-Yar had to survive on the scraps and leftovers of their superiors or set off and risk everything on a life of crime where now guaranteed everything they'd need to live. Advancement was as simple as submitting an application and having the skills to back it up. State sponsored raiding fleets maintained the tradition of piracy amongst Kig-Yar and were open to any who wished to participate and showed aptitude in the field. Agriculture and industry began developing within the state's territory and all of it was operated, owned, and dictated by the state. All generated product, produce, and plunder was handed over to a specialized ministry whose job was to process and distribute the resulting wealth back to the people. Law and order was maintained by a specialized police force made up of those who had dedicated themselves to the state from the very beginning and whose loyalty to Chol Von and was undeniable.
Compared to a history of near anarchy and living under the thumb of the power hungry few, Chol Von's image of a leader for the people and the ideology she installed where none were considered outright superior to each other and opportunities for a meaningful place abounded was a surprising breath of fresh air for even those who didn't realize they wanted it. The relative peace would only last for another six years before the state was again tossed into conflict.
In 2566 Chol Von's indifferent neighbor, the Unified Earth Government, restructured itself into the much more nationalistic United Assembly of Nation Worlds. One of the Assemby's first edicts was to declare all of humanity its citizens and launched a political and military operation to unit the various insurrectionist cells and secessionist worlds back into the fold. In many cases independent minded colonies and factions willing rejoined the Assembly. Some because the promise of a restructured government that favored the colonials more was too appealing and others because they were just too tired of fighting. There were however several holdouts, most notably the colonies along the Via Casilina Trade Route.
When the armed forces of the United Nations Space Command invaded the trade route in 2569, instead of honor their mutual defense pact Chol Von chose to abandon the Via Casilina Trade Route to its fate and began launching plans years in the making to take her race's home system: Y'deio. She began by feeding the complacent system lords false information detailing her fleet's impending annihilation by the UNSC Navy, lulling them into a false sense of security. Only after an information leak that claimed Chol Von herself had died did she strike and over a period of three months she conquered the Kig-Yar's ancestral home system and for the first time in her species's history they were united under a single banner.
In the following years Chol Von cemented the Y'deio system as the center of her government now formally titled the Kig-Yar Democratic Republic and moved all of her operations into Y'deio and the surrounding systems. Over the next decade the KYDR would continue to grow within its borders while maintaining minimal ties with its neighboring factions. Within this time period Chol Von passed away and her oldest son Hiiq Von was chosen to take over. Under Hiiq, Chol Von's policies remained largely unchanged and his only notable action was to posthumously title his mother the KYDR's Leader of All and develop her into a figurehead for the KYDR.
One of the most decisive events in KYDR history came about in 2582. One year earlier the Assembly had declared war on the emerging united Jiralhanae and in 2582 the KYDR was roped in as an enemy of humanity on the grounds of retaliation against pirate raids. The Brutes only lasted another year before being soundly defeated by the combined forces of the Assembly's military, the UNSC, and the Sangheili's Commonwealth government. On the other hand the Kig-Yar resisted until 2585 when the juggernaut of humanity crushed the Y'deio system in a brutal eight month campaign. During the war the Von family suffered serious losses. Ais Von, mother of Chol Von, died during an orbital bombardment of the asteroid colony of T'vao. Hiiq Von's brothers, Gon and Kij Von perished in naval combat and when defeat was all but certain Hiiq organized an exodus out of the system and died covering his people's escape. With no other option the family mantle passed to the last living Von: Laik.
Under Laik Von the KYDR was reestablished as a government in exile in the region of space charted by humanity as the Norma Spiral Arm. Back on its feet, the state declared its prime directive as the reclamation of Y'deio and began to rectify the vulnerabilities that had ensured its defeat. Compared to humanity, the Kig-Yar's controlled territory was miniscule and easily steamrolled. To prevent this in the future the KYDR laid claim to the entire Norma Arm and has been explosively growing their population in order to occupy their territorial claims to this day.
Sources: EPWW:ONIUNRESTRICTED/kydr/fbr.
Final Letter Score: C
Proctor's Note: Source dubious.
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Oh, I cannot stop seeing the tendencies of human youth to describe violent eras of time in such mellow terms highly amusing. To refer to a six year war as just 'off and on' makes it sound almost inviting. After all, only 4,851,998 Kig-Yar xenos perished, but it was only an off and on affair. And that one sentence, 'those that refused were destroyed', only accounts for another 22,002 additional deaths. What fun to observe. And I cannot not mention the portrayal of the Kig-Yar leading family. I mean they were some of the most brutal dictators this land has ever seen, besides some others of course. And of course there's no way the standard of life under that ideology could not not improve. You don't eat if you don't work after all. Oh, this child's proctor is a fun one. So much work for such a low review, but of course a public servant under strict employ would criticize the use of an informative cache dedicated to lambast the actions of his parent empire. One cannot have the youth learn to question the status quo. Just look at the xeno republic in subject.
With this first entry in my Compendium my enjoyment of my new found freedom begins. Where the old lands were rigid, over structured, and doomed to die, my new land is merely scarred and fractured. It is a nexus of paths to other lands. My joy at this knows no bounds. I will make for a million millennia of servitude. I will take what I am owed!
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