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Brief History:
The Mystical Empire of Phenixica has existed for roughly 1600 years and was created by 4 nations forming a Alliance during the War of Fire on Devenis.

The War of Fire was started by clashes in Trade laws between the Bis Kingdom and the Dragonese Empire. The Bis called for help and the other Kingdoms of Ruid, Grun and Monra joined in gradually as the Dragonese were winning the war and all the Kingdoms feared Occupation. It was a brutal war which saw the death of many Ethnic Phenixicans and Dragonese but several years after it started it ended in the Invasion of the Dragones isles by Admiral Jerald of the Alliance Fleet.

After the war the Phenixicans Kingdoms started bickering over what to do with all this captured land. They had taken control of 75% of the world but had no way of spliting it evenly between all the Kingdoms without another major war erupting. By now the Prince of the Bis Kingdom, Belcameron, had become a popular figurehead in all the Kingdoms and he gave them a answer of Unification of the 4 Kingdoms into a single nation.

It was a bold move, thousands of years ago the Phenixicans did infact exist has one Kingdom but a civil war had left that dream dead. Belcameroned forced the issue by diplomacy carefully putting together the Imperial Senate which would give all people a voice in the Kingdom and he himself took the title of Emperor from the Dragonese.

This Empire would go on to conquer the rest of the world by fortunate circumstances more then need for conquest. The world of Devenis was united under the single banner of the Phenixican Empire. But that was just before the invasion of Alien Invaders known as the 'Qwelva' who butchered millions before luckily the Emperor was able to hold back the tide thanks to advances in native technology and reverse engineering of Qwelva technology.

After the war was relatively peaceful for a thousand years as the Phenixicans colonized worlds and opened relations with other aliens species. The only ever major galactic war was the Expansionist War between the Allies and the Qwelva, but those days are gone now with the death of the Qwelva to a virus and other alien races now answering to a Phenixican Govenor.

NS History
Important events in recent history is thanks to the development of Warpgates which allowed for inter-galactic travel and exploration by the Empire into alien galaxies.

The most important event was 4 decades ago (by our calender) when the Phenixicans came across a early Empire of Coruscant (GE, during either it's first or second foundation) and even helped them in putting down a rebellion. At first this was a building friendship but things went sour when during talks between several nations to join together to form a Galactic Empire the Phenixican Representative walked out angry over the amount of control the Empire would have over the Phenixican Military.

This lead to a Cold-War between Phenixica and a few members of the GE who wanted to force Phenixica into the Empire. Fortunately Phenixica could hide inside the Citerian (my galaxy) without knowleadge of how to invade the Empire (or them going inactive) the invasion never took form.

Since those times Phenixica has been mostly isolationist in nature and avoiding alliances. The Cold War left them bitter and Xeno-Phobic of races outside the Citerian. This changed with the war with the Eternal Swarm where Phenixica counted on allies to help them fend off a attack on Deveis itself.

Reasons for application to the ESUS
Phenixica after the war with the swarm Terraformed and Colonized the planet Zerus. The Swarm's choosen Homeworld in the Milky Way. Phenixica has little military presence in the Milky Way if you exclude the one small fleet stationed at Zerus and most of all We understand we need a strong Alliance to expand and prosper in this Galaxy.

We are a Autocractic Empire in Theroy but in practice we are a Democractic Empire. Phenixica would benefit by learning from this Alliance and this Alliance would benefit by having me as a member because not only do I have a decent sized fleet behind me but we are also willing for Refugee's of members to colonize planets in our galaxy (or use my galaxy as a safe haven in general)
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Test #1: Sadly for you the Cold War with the Galactic Empire was more of a 'horrible series of invasions'. Your nation has been steadily loosing Space and the Emperor is mercilessly burning your worlds as an example. Not all is lost however as the Empire is offering you the chance to surrender. Roleplay the situation as your nation would react to the choice between extinction of conquest. Coming up with a way to ensure the peace is viable too(though closing off your galaxy is not an option, blame ROB. [not TFU])

Test #2: Itching? Flaky Skin? Weird Musty Smell from your Crouch? You seem to have been infected by a plague of some sort which is crossing the species barrier of your nation. Luckily it is at present confined only to one major city or region (your choice.). The military is forced to quarrintine the entire region and have ensured no one gets out. Roleplay a Soldier on in the Quarrintine Force, someone infected by the disease or both. Any resolution is fine.

Test #3: Hermes and IRON sure are crazy, dividing the Galaxy between them and forgetting that not everyone wants to have to choose sides. Lets suppose for some reason your in a strategically important spot and now both IRON and Hermes are trying to get you diplomatically to declare a side. Roleplay the negotiations with both factions. Both factions will threaten military force if you go to the other side and offer rewards if you come to theres.

These tests don't have to be part of your canon, or part of your nation (though it is preferred to be.) And so long as you finish them all eventually we will still mark them. So Goodluck.
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The year is 1435-AWD during the rule of Emperor Belcameron II. The recent invasion of the League of free worlds has left the Phenixican Empire scared for it's existance and so it should be. a year back a small scout ship patrolling around the MIlky Way outpost known as 'Imperial 001' was attacked and captured by the forces of the Galactic Empire. This was bad news from the start since what had been saving Phenixica so far is that all diplomatic relations witht he Empire had been diplomats sent to Coruscant and no information had been released to the exact location of the Citerian.

The invasion started with the ditch attempt to defend the Rend Warpgate, the only way the Empire could escape the Citerian by realistic means. The fleets were terribly outnumbered 20 to 1 and the butchering of the Phenixican Navy present showed quite quickly that in no shape or form the Phenixican Empire could survive. Afterwards the GE went on to conquer many of the worlds in the lower galaxy since they were trying to force the Phenixican Governments to surrender. New Mitra for example was glassed leaving 130,000 colonist dead and this sort of war also meant ground fighting was a rare occurance since it was rare that the Phenixicans could gather enough ships to counter the GE.

The only advantage was that some of the more important worlds of the Phenixican Empire at the time were still able to hide with Devenis the homeworld itself but that wouldnt last and a week ago a ultimatum arrived at the Imperial Palace offering a surrender before the GE conquered Devenis and force the Phenixican Empire into extinction for resisting the Empire.

The Imperial Senatorial Chamber, City of Phenixica, Devenis
Arguements were thrown all over the place as Senators and Admirals alike were in the same room, mostly throwing papers of dead figures and patriotic arguements of Death or Glory. The Emperor just sat on his throne overlooking a room resembling that of the British house of lords. It was almost as if he had no interest at all with what was going on with the lack of urgency that was beaming from him.

"Long live the Empire, I refuse to believe that we shall fail in our divine destiny! Let them come and let us burn every single one!" Shouted a Admiral who had been invited over from the Imperial Court

"We cannot win, our fleets have been decimated in attempts to try and put a stop to the brutal conquest of the Lower Galaxy and they have recently conquered the Tribal World of Bis. The only major blow we have made to the invading forces was the Last Resort protocol that was implemented on Silvak which destroyed the entire invading fleet sent by Mationbuds" This was John Krusi, appointed by the Emperor to be the Grand Senator of the Imperial Senate. But the war had created a schism between the both of them

"Have you read the demands? we are to be enslaved and our men used as conscripts for the Empire of Coruscants evil schemes. If we surrender then we will become nothing but tools of evil" came the reply of Perius Krusi, Imperial Commissioner of the Empire and in control of it's entire military and also a Knight fo the Burning Sky.

As these two powerful men started argueing with eachother the room became quiet as everybody listened since they were the voices you had no choice but to listen too.

"Better to get blood on our hands then to let every single citizen die because we were too stubborn to surrender, we are talking about 4 billion people here we cannot just let them all die"

"They will most likely die under the rule of Coruscant! We have seen what the Empire does to people who question their authority you think they will just walk into this system and leave everything alone? They will butcher most of our population and what is left as mentioned be nothing but slaves"

They continued on in this fashion for about a hour before the Emperor cleared his throat then dead silence. This was a man so highly thought of that nobody dare be rude.

"We do have a third option" he said, simply infact it was as if he had been waiting for somebody else to make the realization

"A third option?" John said

"Last Resort protocol is every world, not just the colonial ones. We have nuclear bombs embedded at the core of Devenis aswell which means we do infact have a third option"

Perius laughs at this "Your suggesting mass suicide! not only that but the complete destruction of thousands of years of our history!"

"No and yes...That would be the correct way to answer both those questions in order. We have enough ships and conscription means everybody on this planet knows how to fly a ship, all it would take is 5 trips backwards and forth to go into a more permanent hiding position in Sector 001"

"Does that system even exist?" asked a senator to which the Emperor smiled

"It is a little known fact that it does, you see a decade ago I ordered the construction of what we called a 'Fortress World' a huge ring like structure in space that is large enough to support it's own ecosystem. This project was funded by Hannica, Dvsland and Oraniku as to not draw suspicsion and allow us to continue our work unhindered. It's not complete with another decade to go but since the world is made to house around 6 billion people we have enough of it made to house our population"

So the plan was put in action and the hundreds of ships left in the Empire were told they had 2 weeks until the ultimatums deadline to move 4 billion people to Sector 001 unfortunately they were only able to move around 3 billion and the GE fleet arrived at the edge of the system. Moff's and powerful figures in the Galactic Empire came to Devenis to find the planet almost completely empty of life but they were kindly invited to the Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Palace, Devenis
The Neo-Classical Palace impressed the representatives who had came onto the world hoping that Phenixica was going to offer a surrender. Since the Emperor was still on the world they doubted that anything would happen and felt quite safe. They thought that the impending invasion meant that Phenixicans had fled all over the galaxy and they would be hunted down.

Darth Vader, Palpatines second hand man was at the head of this group and entered the a large chamber which had a desk behind it a window overlooking the city. The Emperor was just sitting on his chair as if this was any other formal occassion. Before Vader could get a few words out Belcameron stood and made a shouted over the speakers so everybody in the system could hear him.

REGUSLA ORU DEST (Phenixica for 'Freedom or Death')

With a press of a button on his desk Earthquakes started all over the planets surface, Volcanoe's eurpted and large cracks could be seen appearing all over the planet because the GE had forgotten one thing. Phenixicans are by nature extremely patriotic and many would gladly sacrifice their lives for Phenixica. Being a slave to Coruscant would mean they would be torn between two masters and they knew which one they would pick every single time.

The invasion by the Galactic Empire had to be postponed, the amount of ships lost in orbit around Devenis and the death of ranking officials also the sacrificing nature of the Phenixican people left them feeling that for the amount of resources it would take to conquer and occupy the Citerian would leave the Galactic Empire far to weak and with it's own problems they couldnt risk it.

((OOC:That was the rough plan if I was invaded was to simply lure them near planets and blow them up. Hoping to take a important official along with me. Being such a large yet sparely populated Empire I always thought would also make a invasion of the Citerian unpractical unless you could hit all population centers at one time. Even the fortress world was breifly mentioned in a post everything was ready for if I was invaded))
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Township of Vincent, New Mitra, Lower Citerian
A doctor walks through a rows of beds with people withering in pain as he looks under there arms to examine the black boils that were appearing. Bubonic Plague unheard of in the Phenixican Empire and this outbreak had been blamed on a influx of animals in the Milky Way and one was just unlucky enough to of been brought by a wealthy merchant on this world.

The doctor turns to a nurse

"You know I have been reading about disease from a report published by the PEACS you know that this plague wiped out a third of the population of a entire continent on Earth?"

"Is that really something positive to think about, half the city is infected with this disease and the military has had to send ships simply to be used to hospitals"

"Talking helps us to relax, it's only this one settlement of around 10,000 people it's hardly something to worry about. It only spreads by blood transfusion which luckily to us here just means Mosquitoes"

He takes out a small datapad and with a small pen like object shining orange light ove the patient he took readings to see if there was any improvement, there was no cure for the plague yet all they could do is treat the disease. Only people who have died so far has been the first few victems who didnt go to see a doctor in time.

"They are all stable anyway, give it time and the immune system will do our job for us. Getting paranoid is not going to help our patients in getting better all we can do is stay calm"

It might seem trivial but that fact is Phenixica has not come across the plague before, They had to research this alien condition from scratch. They would not let these people die when a cure can be easily found.


The Imperial Senatorial Chamber, City of Phenixica, Devenis
"I suppose the only course of action we can take it to simply wait out the plague, Vincent is a small settlement on New Mitra. I hardly think any serious measure has to be taken"

Yet again the Senators argue across the hall, the Empress was not in the mansion today as she was busy in the Imperial Palace dealing with the Imperial Court and the running of the military so the Senate was left to simply shout abuse until voting time. The next person to speak was Harren Frukz the Grand Senator.

"The plague is nothing but a nuisance, our tehnology in medicine is the best and the Phenixican natural immune systems makes short work of most forms of illness. That is why many of the species we come across that use Biological weapons are reluctant to fight us usually after the first time"

The decision was to allow things to simply go along it's course.

Vincent, New Mitra
"I just dont get it, I know it's only 3000 infected citizens but surely the Senate would vote for a bit more security around the place. If this spreads then the largest colony in the Citerian can become infected and we could possibly have 800,000 sick citizens"

the same doctor was going through his ward again, painfully taking down notes but things were improving as some people had become healthy enough to be transferred to other Hospitals just to recover.

The problem is, is that the Empire always had taken these things lightly because of Phenixican biology. Things like the common cold were simply not that common. Phenixicans get a cold adn it might last about 3 hours before going away and it's similar to all forms of sickness. Thing is the milky way was a haven for new diseases made for Terran biology and thus perfectly fitted to break the genetic barrier and cross over to Humans.

In the end the plague was able to simply go away due to the immune system but it took months of hard work and lives were lost. The Phenixican Empire were still oiling the rust and getting used to the fact that it's new colonies in the Milky Way were going to leave doors open for many events they havent had to face in either a long time or simply never before.

Phenixica was used to operating behind the limelight and far away from any real consequences. The colonization of the milky way was going to have to force a change.

((OOC:Quite weak, but realistic to how a somewhat stagnant government would deal with such a problem. The idea is that because of the recent expansion the Empire has to shake the cobwebs off and when it comes to disease in the Citerian everything has been encountered and a most of them have a cure. With something like the bubonic plague which is easy to treat they would get off lightly but imagine if say something far more deadly was to come over it would heavily cripple the empire))
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A brunette women wearing a long black dress and white shirt with glasses sat at a desk in a small room. Imperial 001 was to have some special visitors today who were to make there case and hope to gain the support of the Phenixican Empire.

IRON and Hermes were somewhat known by the Empire, simply because of the cold war erupting in the Galactic North. Both held little interest to the Empire as the expansion into the Milky Way at the moment was simply done for economic and trading purposes. But in the end they were trying to split the galaxy into two factions and they expected Phenixica to pick a side. Neither of them could offer anything interesting because Zerus was not in the Galactic North to benefit from the protection of IRON and the Hermes who were trying to create gates between systems was something Phenixicans who have much more advanced technology laughed at.

They had recently contacted the Empire in hope of winning over there support and the Senate agreed that a Diplomat would be sent to meet them on Imperial 001. It was in the Milky Way which would mean yet again outsiders would get no way of gaining knowleadge of the location of the Citerian. This was simply a gesture by the Empire as they had no interest in supporting either. Even if the term 'Empire' is tainted with a need for conquest in the Milky Way the Phenixican Empire is only interested in expansion by means of Colonial Posession which is why expansion into the Milky Way has been put on halt.

Meeting with IRON, Imperial 001, Milky Way
"Lady Victoria the representative from IRON is here and has asked to come in"

"Send him in" she said, while scribbling something on to paper. The man came in and sat down on the other side of the desk where Victoria was drinking water. She was a bit nervous but she was sure she could sort this out without it leading to blood shed.

"Hello, I am Counsellor Elane Victoria of the Phenixican Empire. State your case"

The man was obviously ahead of himself, thinking that the military power of IRON alone would make Phenixican join. He went on about security and the evil Hermes trying to undermine there efforts to create a more unified galaxy. Victoria took notes of what he was saying, but it was obvious that nomatter what this man said she was pretty much sent here to say no.

"As much as the Empire knows that indeed joining your organization will assure us a form of security in our efforts to further our expansion into the MIlky Way all I can say is that we also know that your alliance has a history of bullying people into submission. Your claim to all space in the Galactic North is nothing but wrong and shows that you have no real interest in respecting the many nations who do not wish to be part of your organization"

she takes a sip and passes over a piece of paper written in perfect English.

"This is simply something you can show the Republic about our formal position on the matter. We will remain neutral in this fight for power between both you and Hermes aslong as both sides respect our neutrality. Ships on both sides can dock at our ports which will be neutral zones and aslong as your willing to pay the price we will open trade. Military situations will be dealt on a 'who started it' basis to put it in a simple term and even then we will only take military action if the conflict or disagreement starts in Phenixican Space otherwise we will simply act as either observers or if neutral parties are threatened possibly as a peace-keeping force.

The Phenixican Empire will remain neutral in this arguement. As long as both sides respects our neutrality this will continue, any attempt to force Phenixica into the conflict you will find us less likely to help you"

The last sentence was said simply to let the IRON official know that Phenixica doesnt take kindly to being manipulated. The military might of IRON wasnt a threat to Phenixica because without the knowleadge of the location of the Citerian Galaxy they had no way of invasion. Plus the international backlash would be huge.

Hermes meeting, Imperial 001, Milky Way
The next meeting went along the same way, the Hermes diplomat coming in and stating how evil IRON was and this was starting to bore Victoria. Also about the Hermes gate project and all that but in reality Warpgates were far ahead of many forms of travel they had in the Milky Way. Warpgates allowed travel between other galaxies in mere seconds.

"I must say our knowleadge of Hermes is somewhat limited, but so far by what we can tell you like the IRON seem content to make the lives of independents in the Galactic North miserable. We do respect your attempts to bring wealth to your systems in the form of your gates which will allow for easier trade and more free movement in your space. Problem is your just as much at fault for the current situation as IRON"

She takes out some papers, intelligence have been watching both alliances for awhile nomatter how inactive Phenixica might seem we are always watching.

"From what we see both sides are doing nothing to try and stop a war from erupting. millions of lives can be lost and little has been done to try and mend the broken relationship. We dont want to be dragged into a war which can be so easily avoided. Do not get me wrong the Empress has nothing against either alliance but the problem is you both do nothing to actually impress us either.

So you get the same conditions as IRON. You can dock on our stations and land on our colony's aslong as it's for none military purposes. We are quite happy to trade resources and aslong as you respect our neutral stance in this matter this will not change. I know this is not quite what you were sent here to get but that is all we have on offer"

After both talks they had to agree to respect this neutral stance. Phenixica had been generous in allowing both sides to use services in both Imperial Stations and Colonies freely without restriction which they hope would keep them satisfied. Aslong as they didnt bring a war to the Empires doorstep then this will remain the case. The threat of military action was put forward by both parties but Phenixica knows that such threats are empty unless they can threaten the security of the Citerian which they cannot. Even if they did the sheer resources in conquering such a large and sparesly populated Empire could send either Alliance completely broke and with there forces so far away that the other side can take advantage and attack them. They would use the mutual hatred IRON and Hermes had for eachother against them.

((OOC:Pretty much i agree with them being crazy, if this ever did happen they wouldnt get my support but I would simply appease them by making the offer mentioned. They get the benefit of using Phenixican Ports and Colonies for services like Repair, Supply and Trade with no loses. Hopefully making military action atleast seem like a waste of resources. Phenixica doesnt want to enter a war, I am trying to avoid picking sides on this particular conflict. The reasons why I didnt do the alliance diplomats speaking is because I thought that if I did they wouldnt 'fit' the character of both alliances and I wouldnt know what rewards they would offer me that would actually interest me.

IRON and Hermes are simply too agressive for my tastes. ESUS I have always seen as some sort of UN of the Milky Way and much more interesting....and sexy))
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Test #1:-66%

This is the strongest one of the lot but a lack of any major character development, weak dialogue and a rather rushed feel brought the mark down. Many of the Senators lacked any form of personality and served only to have contrasting arguments and your only mention of the 1 billion deaths was a throw-away line before your patriotic finale.

Test #2:-39%

The low mark in this one is due to several reasons; the biggest being that you failed to meet the requirements of the test. The two key points you didn’t meet was the military quarantine and the fact that it was a major city or region, rather then a small hamlet that gets totally ignored. The other issue is there is at no point in the story any form of real tension, nor are we led to care about any of it. You didn’t describe the symptoms or any of the sufferers and the reader never gets any sense there are any actual patients.

Test #3:-59%

This test had no major strength but it was not bad. My two biggest concerns are the lack of character and ease at which everything was accomplished. You are presented with the two largest powers in the galaxy. They’re both very powerful, armed and gathering allies to get the better position and you send both of them off with a mere ‘both sides can use our ports’. The issue with character comes in here as well. Because you didn’t provide an IRON or Hermes character your options for negotiations were rather limited. If you had introduced a character from either you could have provided one side offering more pressure and had the negotiations be more then just a single person outlining a treaty.

Final Mark/Evaluation:-54.7%

That’s a non-pass. The biggest issues you had was the fact your characters and their dialogue was very weak and you didn’t take opportunities to expand on the drama. The other thing you might want to watch out for is phrasing and perhaps have someone proof-read your work to make sure you have no errors.

Hope the evaluations are helpful. You’re welcome to try and apply again at any time. Just use this thread when you’re ready and we’ll hopefully see you again soon.
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OOC: Psshhh. That was nothing like Hermes. If you're dealing with me, there's not enough conceited philosopher-king arrogance. If you're dealing with anyone else, there wasn't enough use of the word "faggot."
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