A History Lesson About Octavium's Past · 1943–1953 (2020–2024)
Pompous Victory
On September 19th, 1943 (2020), Octavia was formed under its official name, "Eternal Octavian Imperium," at a rallyhall located in the Alps of Eastern France. Octavia would control the lands of Spain, Portugal, Morocco, and southern France (Occitanie). This was following a General Staff coup led by the Marshal of the army of the time, Aleczaender Richterian. With Aleczaender and his adjutant, Oswald Chauvelen, who throughout Octavia assisted Aleczaender in the organization of the General Staff and garrison of the army. Under Aleczaender's Richterism, Aleczaender secured himself as absolute ruler.
However, to secure the rest of the nation which occupied territories in France, as well as the "home-region" of Octavia in Occitanie, Aleczaender agreed to a deal with the Chancellor at the time, Alex Parsaville, and made him Supreme Chancellor. Alex would form the Authority, which despite being underneath the jurisdiction of Aleczaender's Joint Marshals who governed Octavia, maintained a position equal to that of Aleczaender. Alex and Aleczaender were the de facto rulers of Octavia, as Supreme Marshal and Supreme Chancellor.
As Supreme Marshal, Aleczaender's first move was to begin the training of his army under Richterist doctrine. After establishing a base camp near the town of Allemande, Aleczaender began the invasion for Greater Normandy — a nation that held land in Britain and northern France. After defending a series of attacks launched by Greater Normandy, as well as rebels who seeked an independent Spain free of Richterism, under the Grand Marshal Oswald, Aleczaender prepared for an invasion that would besiege and seize Paris. Using its airforce, Octavia would paradrop its army as well as its famed Legion to occupy Paris from the Normans. Following this victory, Greater Normandy would collapse, and Britain would become independent under "Greater Britannia," which was led by the same leaders that once led Greater Normandy.
Octavia also launched attacks against the Rhine led by Lavo, and successfully occupied much of its territory without much resistance. For a short while, Aleczaender took a short rest, and focused on maintaining the chaos at Paris with its many paramilitaries. The Loyalty Militia, formally known as The Front For Fanatical Loyalism, was formed to stabilize chaos in the city. It would later become a combat division of the Authority after the ousting of Hadrian Kerzeus from its leadership.
Golden Days
Aleczaender would form the LVF (Legion of French Volunteers) under the leadership of one of his loyalists, Lakeland, to rally the French populace under Octavia. Although Octavia was a nation whose name was based on the French region of Occitanie, the majority of its active populace and traditions come from Spain. As a result of this, the LVF was utilized to wrangle many of the French loyalists who felt neglected and were in Octavia. This was successful, and the LVF was used to fight off many of the paramilitaries and resistance cells active in Paris, including the Requestes (Anarchist-Carlists).
On top of this, Aleczaender used his connections with Alex Solum (Inacius) to build a paramilitary force for the Catholic church in Octavia, regarded as the Reconquista (Inquisition). This force, although not as fiercely loyal as Lakeland's LVF, also assisted Aleczaender in ridding troublemakers from Paris. Paris was bustling with activity as its army patrolled and civilians daily worked in factories producing weapons and tanks for the Imperium. Oswald would finish the Brits off with an invasion of England, successfully occupying London as a result.
After an incident regarding the burning down of a synagogue in Paris, members of the Octavian army officer staff were put on trial by the Authority. Oswald, who disapproved of the Authority meddling in army affairs, drove a T-26 through the courtroom, firing a shell into the judiciary of the Authority. This started a civil-war that lasted a little over an hour, divisions and paramilitaries of Octavia rushing to a side and joining the conflict. Although the Oswald loyalists primarily won the battle, he was arrested by his own Gendarmerie, and forced into negotiations where Oswald refused to submit, leading to his exile from Octavia.
Following the exile of Oswald, Aleczaender promoted General Vasile of the Gendarmerie to Grand Marshal, placing him in charge of the war-front. Quickly, Octavia would be forced to defend its holdings in North Africa by invading Libya, and holding El Alamein. The Russian expeditionary forces attempted to make a breakthrough assisting the British at El Alamein alongside Rhinish and American forces, putting Vasile in-charge of the defense. Initially, the Russians were almost successful, Vasile being too busy to rally the General Staff and make an effective defense, leading to his resignation.
After the return of Oswald as Grand Marshal and the resignation of Parsifal as Supreme Chancellor, both the Russians and the British were finally defeated after several counterattacks. The Americans launched some counterattacks to vindicate the English, but ultimately failed after several raids. Octavia launched its next offensive on Cairo, facing basically no opposition; they succeeded in taking down the Rhine, and took photographs in front of Rhinish monuments and structures in Cairo. Britain was virtually defeated, and the Russians feared starting a war with Octavia due to their success against every other nation.
Aleczaender, in celebration of his many victories, would hold parades and rallies glorifying the conviction of his success, and showcasing Octavia as the dominant nation over the community. Tariq Bakyl, who was a good friend of Aleczaender, would become the new Supreme Chancellor of the Authority days after Parsifal's resignation. America in its loss would fall apart politically. Paterick J. Smith, who was an American who served in the Octavian army as a Colonel, would be deployed to America to form the Patriotist Front and take over America from within.
Destiny Was Providential
By 1944, a new power had risen in Germany dubbed the Greater Alemannic Realm, led by Leutgard, a former mentor to Aleczaender. Leutgard's Alemannic Realm went to war with Octavia shortly after its victories in Europe, its most recent being in Italy against the Zustenian Realm. The war was also fought in North Africa, usually at El Alamein as the prior was fought, where the Alemannic Realm launched thousands of its members into the Octavian frontline. Oswald, who led many of the war campaigns against the enemies of Aleczaender, once again led this one, fighting some of his most toughest battles against Leutgard. Leutgard conducted several surprise attacks against Octavia, throwing whatever he had available at Aleczaender. Oswald was successful in defending Octavia from the Germanic invaders, and the Greater Alemannic Realm would leave Aleczaender alone after all of their defeats.
Oswald was triumphant, and a song was written by one of his Corporals about fighting under his campaigns in his honor. Aleczaender allowed Oswald to be seen as the "Zhukov" of Octavia, as Oswald worked just as hard if not harder than Aleczaender, at building the Octavian General Staff, and building an effective military. In the meantime, Richard Richterian rose in the background by climbing the ranks of the Gendarmerie and paramilitary known as the Grand Inspectorate, proving his loyalty to Aleczaender. Richard would later be granted his own division under the Richterian Dynasty known as The Grand Richterian Order, due to his utmost loyalty to Aleczaender, as well as competence in making Octavia active.
In Occupied London, new paramilitaries formed such as the Anglican Church to replace the Reconquistas, as well as the Irish Republican Army which replaced the Requestes. The LVF carried on into London, posing as an "additional occupational force" against resistance. London, like Paris, bustled with activity as shops, diners, factories, and other businesses opened which made the city feel alive. Octavian soldiers patrolled the streets, protecting Octavia from any chaos that could potentially erupt.
On top of this, Octavia maintained different satellites across the world, including Korea, Prussia, Vietnam, China, and Bulgaria. In this particular time, Prussia was facing threats from the Russians, who seeked to attack Prussia after its recent takeover by the Richterist, Wilhelm Richterian. Octavia's liberation of Italy, Austria, and Czechoslovakia from the Zustens led to the revival of The Richterian Imperium, which was overseen by Oswald Chauvelen as another military dictatorship. While all of the countries Octavia oversaw under its pact, The Richterian Commonwealth, were not all military-dictatorships, they all nonetheless swore loyalty to Aleczaender. Octavia amped up its Richterism indoctrinations and military support in Prussia following threats from Russia. Prussia was Octavia's closest ally during this period due to the threat of invasion.
Victory Or Death
Following the invasion of the Caribbean by Octavian forces, putting an end to Octavia's old ally Cascadia led by Dr. Luky, as well as Bjancia led by the Combe Dynasty, Octavia began to research the opportunity of space. Through advanced technology and the first Octavians to land on the moon, Octavia began researching the opportunity to produce colonies beyond even earth. This was Aleczaender's most ambitious goal, however it was stopped short by civil-wars and internal conflicts across the world.
In Octavia, Oswald and Tariq feuded over petty laws regarding military jurisdiction, leading to yet another long drawn out civil-war, and in Prussia, royalists challenged Richterists over autonomy. In Greater America, Paterick emerged as the Grand Chancellor of America, allowing Octavian soldiers to occupy and reshape the country into an autocracy.
Several problems emerged during this period which almost led to the downfall of Octavia. The Greater Alemannic Realm usurped Korea through a coup d'état led by the Rheingold Dynasty, former allies of Aleczaender. After a month-long civil-war, Aleczaender was able to secure Korea back in Richterist hands, although the infrastructure and stability of the nation was significantly damaged. In Greater America, Leutgard convinced Paterick to betray Aleczaender in return for a high position within his Greater Alemannic Realm, and additionally, for more resources to build up his Greater America. Paterick betrayed Aleczaender, causing another civil-war around the same time as the Korean one, and forging a civil-war that lasted a week before the closure of Greater America's capital city, Chicago. Greater America would be returned to the hands of Aleczaender weeks after following the conflict. The Richterian Imperium, led by Oswald, though successful the first few weeks, though it never officially collapsed, became inactive, and had to be absorbed by Octavia as a result of the incompetence of the high command.
Octavia was in a terrible situation despite its previous successes, and the Greater Alemannic Realm emerged as the global power following Octavia's return from space. Aleczaender, to centralize his power, merged the roles of Supreme Chancellor and Supreme Marshal into Supreme Leader after the departure of Tariq Bakyl. Aleczaender then planned retirement for July 1945, and planned on making Richard Successor after his undying loyalty and service to Aleczaender. Oswald Chauvelen, for neglect and disloyalty, would be purged, and replaced by Richard, as the official Grand Marshal.
Aleczaender's final move was the liberation of Helleria from the evil psychopath known as Albert Hellerium. In its place, stood The Greater Confederation of Helleria. Aleczaender then released a memoir of his many years as both a soldier, officer, general, and leader in his book, The Legends of Aleczaender, also referred to commonly as The Legacy. Aleczaender then had a final retirement ceremony where Richard was crowned Supreme Leader, and Aleczaender bid farewell. Aleczaender would then disappear, many not knowing his whereabouts, and few assuming he was dead. Weeks later, a tomb appeared in Paris that was titled "Aleczaender Richterian." Although no funeral or obituary was made, many assumed that Aleczaender had died.
Within months of Richard coming to power, various purges were made ousting Richard's disloyalists, and replacing all of the Inner Circle with his very own men, dubbed "Ted Crew." In the short time that Richard had ranked as Supreme Leader of Octavia, there were no prominent wars, conquests, or expansions made other than the continuation of what Aleczaender started.
The Octavian Civil War
Richard, on August 17th, 1945, would conduct an event known as The Great Destruction. This event involved the total destruction of all nations, assets, and other creations of Aleczaender to be totally destroyed by Richard with the help of the Solum Dynasty. This was after Richard was peer-pressured by close friends of his that instead of retiring, it'd be better to end everything in a destruction of everything Aleczaender built. In the aftermath of the event, Richard would betray the Solums, going into exile after a short civil-war was declared and led by Erick Richterian to restore Richterism.
Spartan Richterian would emerge onto the throne, temporarily, and after deciding he was too young and inactive, Ethan Richterian would stand up to take the throne as Grand Chairman of the Richterian Dynasty. Not long after this, Arxilium Richterian would return from retirement, and after becoming the Vice Chairman, would coup Ethan for leadership, insisting that Ethan's old age and inactivity would bring no progress to Richterism, and Arxilium declared himself Emperor of the Richterian Dynasty not long after taking power.
Arxilium's first move was to rebuild The Greater State of America and restore Paterick to his position. Arxilium would then assist Erick Richterian on a nation in Germany dubbed The Greater Confederation. Arxilium would demand from Erick this empire, insisting that the President of the Confederation, Valter Manzotti, give Arxilium the title of Emperor. After an array of arguing and fighting, Arxilium became Archduke, and later usurped the Emperor title from Erick Richterian, resulting in the continuation of a civil war for successorship. The Confederation would fall apart, and Arxilium would continue building up "Richteria" under the Richterian Dynasty, while Erick worked with Ausie Richterian and Julius Richterian to build a "Greater Richteria" in Germany.
In 1948, Erick was eventually overthrown by Ausie. Not long after Ausie took power, Julius took power from him. In the background, Paterick betrayed Arxilium to aid Ausie and then Julius, seeing that Arxilium seeked a plot to replace Aleczaender with a variation of his own ideals dubbed "Iliumism." Greater Richteria eventually collapsed, and Germania took its place as a final attempt. After months of progress, Germania eventually collapsed, resulting in Paterick returning back to continue building Greater America, and for Julius to start a new project dubbed Kalinia, under his more Socialist leanings. For a short time, Octavia was led by the pretender Richard Schwaz, who was defeated in a quick war by Paterick's Greater American Army. Paterick afterwards would continue his pillage in Europe with an army to take down Arxilium.
Forming "The Zaenderist Movement," Paterick would win against Arxilium in a propaganda war, successfully usurping his followers by convincing them Arxilium was not truly loyal to Aleczaender. After retaking Richteria, in 1950, a final civil-war erupted between Paterick, Ausie, Lakeland's LVF, and the Imperial Prussian Confederacy under Saft Bismarck, where all four factions battled it out in Paris for total control of Octavia. Whilst Ausie was able to mastermind negotiations and kill more of Paterick's men, Paterick maintained the vast majority of manpower in Paris, rallying hundreds to his cause, and eventually taking Paris for himself. Paterick's People's State would restore Octavia to its former glory, and with the help of his American Patriotist Front, helped to restore true Richterist leadership in Octavia.
It Wasn't All For Nothing
It turned out after years of all the fighting, that Aleczaender really wasn't dead, and that in actuality, he was alive on a remote island in the Atlantic with most of his retired staff. Erick and Paterick were both aware of this fact, and often relied on Aleczaender's mentorship to support them in the righteous effort to restore Richterism despite his absence. Although many Richterists were not aware of this and saw some, such as Erick, as opposing Arxilium for egotistical reasons, the reality was Aleczaender was aware of the evil intent of these individuals, and used his influence to rally new Successors who could muster an army, to prepare for Aleczaender's return to save Richterism.
Paterick henceforth, following his loyal work to Aleczaender, would retire to Elba with a private army, allowing for Aleczaender's staff to continue running Octavia, renamed to Octavium, officially Imperium Octavium, in preparation for Aleczaender's return. Aleczaender decided that although he created an ideology that was to exist to stand the test of all opposition, and carry on despite its absence, it really was all dependent on Aleczaender's leadership, and that without him — at least without years of more work from Aleczaender — the glories that once existed cannot continue to exist without his hand at play. With this realization, Aleczaender has made the leap forward to continue his cause once again and forevermore, so that just as his people prospered before, forevermore, can they prosper again, with several more years of Aleczaender's rule.
Though Aleczaender had not returned formally yet until 1953, he had said himself that such is planned, and shall do so unless catastrophe preventing his return occurs. Hundreds of veterans rallied under the Octavium banner to continue the cause, and hundreds more did so before the official grand opening of Octavium. Under the magnificent genius of The Big Plan as well as the incredible planning that has gone into The Great Return, it is expected that Octavium will succeed with tenfold the manpower, activity, effort, and architecture that it once pioneered in the past.
With unending resilience and total determination, Octavium rallied an army necessary to once again wipe out all opposition, and put an end to all other empires that stood within its path. With the leadership of the Supreme Marshal, Supreme Chancellor, and Supreme Commander Aleczaender, who shall lead with a visionary mind, the Imperial Army, Imperial Regime, and Imperial Legion progressed infinitely beyond measure to secure an existence for the continuation of what was once the Richterian people, regarded only as an Octavian people united in Strength, Brotherhood, and Loyalty.
The People had therefore devoted, that with Aleczaender at the helm, no hesitation to fight, nor slacken to commit total loyalty to Aleczaender, in the name of restoring prosperous times as they fight, for a bustling empire that is inherently unique and ideologically superior, in every way, shape, and form to the alternative that currently dominates Europe. May the Zaenderian Cause still stand, to fight for strong men, and may Octavium survive in this struggle, for Aleczaender Reigns Supreme, and Octavium Will Prevail.