Age of Exploration

Invasion by Idetka (9,315-9,334 Y)

Invasion years (9,315-9,321)

After the Great Famine of 9,312, the Pazhil Dynasty was significantly weakened. It was during this time that Prince Saeran of Idetka launched his invasion of the island. Saeran's invasion lasted 14 brutal years, during which he was aided by mercenaries and privateers from throughout the Shattered Islands and even Meó.

The invasion ended in the near-complete destruction of the Pazhil imperial line, with the exception of young Princess Rzame, who was saved from an arrow by a kiya's neck and made her escape to the island of Suvi.

Eight Years of Suffering (9,322-9,329)

During her exile on Suvi, Rzame sought to amass an invasion force capable of removing prince Saeran from power in Unuvun. She was able to do so under the promise of abdicating from the royal throne, thus ending the Pazhil Dynasty's rule over Unuvun, and allowing the Htaevic King Arbin to take the title of emperor. Ever since ascending to the throne, the ambitious Arbin had wanted to reclaim the title of emperor for the Htaevic dynasty, in hopes of one day reforming the ancient Htaevic Empire.

Thunder on the Imperial Plain (9,330-9,334)

On 9,330/0/50, Prince Saeran was assassinated by Pazhil loyalists, causing Idetkan-ruled Unuvun to fall into a chaotic period known as The Thunderstorm. Idetka quickly named a successor, General Siho Endaya, however he was killed by Pazhil loyalists mere weeks after Saeran's assassination during the Storming of the Imperial Octagon.

On 9,330/0/83, Princess Rzame returned to Unuvun accompanied by Arbin, and many Pazhil loyalists were unsatisfied with her calls for peace, as they did not believe that Arbin had the legal right to take the Unuvi throne. They split off into their own faction, the Sayammians, a reference to the ancient democratic city state of Sayamm that existed in the 9th millenium. In their New Constitution, the Sayammians demanded democratic checks and balances on Arbin's power, with some of the more radical revolutionaries calling for the eradication of the monarchy altogether.

After the routing of the Idetkans, the fighting lasted for two more years until the Sayammians finally surrendered in the Compromise of 9,334. Emperor Arbin, exhausted from war, allowed for the formation of a parliament headed by a handpicked ambassador of his choice, much like the system that already existed in the Third Htaevic Kingdom.

War of the Crab Prince (9,349-9,358 Y)

Crab Prince Incident

After Emperor Arbin began to consolidate his power over Unuvun, tensions between his imperial cabinet and the powerful razuku that controlled much of Unuvun's land began to rise. Arbin was taking every opportunity possible to dismantle the control that the razuku had over their territory, and had managed to end several of the most ancient dynasties.

One razuku who had managed to keep control over his princedom was Prince Suekasui (sway-kaw-swee). He ruled over the small city-state of Rvarshen (ruh-var-shen), located on the northern edge of Unuvun, close to mainland Delezia. As a result, Rvarshen had experienced significant piracy over the past few centuries. Its convenient location made it a common stopping point for foreign envoys on their way to Zhavei.

In 9,349 Y, Prince Vahkètto of the First Meó Empire stopped at Rvarshen on his trip to Zhavei, where he was to discuss his recent conquests in the Shattered Islands with Emperor Arbin. During the early morning of 9,349/1/69 Y, mere hours before the Meó delegation was set to alive, Suekasui and his male harem all passed away in a massive sexual orgy. Shortly before falling into unconsciousness, Suekasui called in his royal court in order to name an heir. In his delirious state, Suekasui declared that his pet crab Azu would be the new heir to the Rvarshen throne.

After his death, his closest royal advisors fiercly debated whether or not they could actually follow through on his appointment. The legality of appointing a crab was unclear, but it was unlikely that it could be challenged, according to the castle lawyer Ufshi Kije at the time. Suekasui had no close relatives that could be appointed to the throne, and since he was homosexual, he had no eligible children of his own either. The Rvarshen royal court determined that Arbin would have bulletproof pretext for appointing a Htaevic puppet as the new razuku of Rvarshen, and that the only way to stop this would be to indeed follow through and coronate the crab.

Kije drafted a message to Arbin and stamped it with the Imperial Seal of Rvarshen. He reasoned that Arbin would have no choice but to accept the coronation of Azu onto the Rvarshen throne, as rejecting it would be rejecting the will of an Imperial Seal and would greatly harm Arbin's legitimacy as emperor, and possibly give the remaining razuku a rallying cry for rebellion. The message was sent off on the fastest kiya the royal court could find, in order to beat any other rumors of Suekasui's death.

During the night of Suekasui's death, a tavern worker, Hina Kenachetu, was hired to help clean up the disastrous mess left behind by the orgy. She had recently moved to Rvarshen, having fled Fihanoshai after murdering her step-father, step-sister, grandmother and the local shaman, and as such had no knowledge of Prince Suekasui's royal crab. She picked up Azu and dropped him off in a bucket in the kitchen, not knowing what else to do with him. Later in the morning, Kije and his fellow members of the royal court attempted a desperate search for Azu, but none were able to find him. They got news of Vahkètto's arrival in Rvarshen, and as such decided to have him dine first while they attempted to find the crab.

As many of the chefs had been in Suekasui's harem and had passed away alongside him several hours prior, several chefs from the Rvarshen city docks were drafted to make a meal for the whole royal court to enjoy alongside the envoy from Meó. One of these chefs, Rejirvei Sasual, specialized in cooking crabs and decided to boil Azu, conveniently placed in the kitchen, as the main course of the dinner. Sasual would use his notoriety to later found the Nautical Ihyai Company, one of the most powerful corporations to ever exist.

During the unveiling of the main course, several members of the royal court allegedly began to feel extremely nauseous, realizing that Suekasui had forbidden crab from being served in the castle ever since an incident several years prior. However, none of them spoke up as Vahkètto began to devour Azu's royal flesh. One quickly found pretext to get up and ran over to the kitchen, and spotted Azu's intricate crab armor near the stove. The dinner was artificially lengthened as the royal court secretly conversed, trying to figure out how to best handle this disastrous turn of events. It was decided that a castle gardener known as Sayesa Sayesan would deliver the bad news. Sayesan explained to Vahkètto that, not only did he commit regicide, but also technically cannibalism. Vahkètto became enraged, as his father had committed both regicide and cannibalism in order to inherit the Meó throne, and the prince had desperately seeked to distance himself from his father. He pulled out his sword and beheaded Sayesan on the spot in one, clean swipe.

War

And so began the War of the Crab Prince. The city of Rvàshen was bombarded by the Meó prince’s fleet, and the Unuvi princedoms responded in kind with a coordinate attack on Meo holdings along the coast of the supercontinent. The pirates tried to get in on the action, but were caught between both sides and utterly annihilated for being on neither of them. They would later learn their lesson and go on to rent their services to both sides to maximize profit.

Aftermath

With a total of over 100,000 green-haired casualties in the War of the Crab Prince, the jusha class of Unuvi society was exhausted by war. Htaevic Emperor Arbin carefully tried to rein in the princedoms under a new feudal state with the declaration of the Second New Constitution, a document that gave him the power to hand-select the powerful razuku, that controlled much of Unuvun's land. Additionally, the document expressly forbid the 'appointment of crabs and all other animals into positions of power.'

Arbin's calculated risk greatly angered many of the razuku and he called in the army of his Second Htaevic Empire to Yuuvei in hopes of being able to quash revolutionary fervor. It was during this time that the Sayammians regrouped and infiltrated the Htaevic government over Unuvun in a number of key positions, including several very high ranking parliamentary roles.

Restoration of the Imperial Line

On 9,357/0/12, Htaevic officials raided parliament seat-holder Chena Tise's house under the suspicion that she was aiding the revolutionary cause. Although Sayammian arsonists set fire to the house, they were able to recover key documents that held a list of Sayammians active in the city of Racheinu Chihyu. Emperor Arbin apprehended many of these individuals and declared a public day of execution the following week. In an event known as Foiled Execution, several dozen Kiya-riding Sayammians accompanied by several hundred rogue jusha and over one thousand peasants revolted at the scene of the execution, overcoming the Htaevic troops and preventing the death of all but two prisoners.

Simultaneously, the Sayammians wrote and released a document called Declaration of a Nautical Peace that called for the installment of 23-year old Fihano Pazhil onto the throne of Unuvun in order to 'usher in a nautical peace in which the green-haired folk of this maritime island shall become naïve to the horrors of war.' Thus began the Second Thunderstorm, a year-long revolt during which almost the entirety of Unuvun rose up against Emperor Arbin. Arbin, unable to quash the rebellion, fled the island from the port of Serzilea and returned to the Shattered Islands. After Emperor Fihano rose to the throne of Unuvun, he collaborated with his Sayammian supporters to draft the Unuvunese Constitution, a document that incorporated many revolutionary ideas such as a unified measurement system, as well as many old ideas derived from the governmental system of Sayamm and other similar democracies.

Exploration of Ivinis (9,368- Y)

Main article: Exploration of Ivinis

Initial exploration and settlement

In 9,368 Y, explorer Arnppe Vzhani left the port of Rae and begun sailing westwards towards the continent of Ivinis. At the time, Ivinis had begun to become filled with various Nokhtan settlements up and down its eastern seaboard. No indigenous peoples had been found, however there had been a wealth of new animals, plants and insects discovered in the preceding century. As such, Vzhani was granted funding by the Nautical Peace to chart out the southwestern coast of Ivinis in order to find potential places that the Nautical Peace could build settlements.

In 9,375 Y, the first colony ships were sent to the island of Rvitaria. Gradually, more and more were sent until the port of Yuechua was well-established as an Unuvunese foothold in Ivinis. It would later become the hub for further expansion deeper into Ivinis.

Settlement of the Vie river basin

Discovered for the Unuvi by Flicha Fihano, the massive Vie river captured the imagination of the Unuvunese. The Nautical Peace soon began sending colonists to secure the mouth of the Vie, and rapidly begun constructing a large port at Daifihanoshai as the true extent of the river system became known. Rivalling many of the large, fertile river basins on Pangaea, the Vie watershed would become the focus of Unuvunese colonization efforts for the next several centuries. As Nokhtan colonies began to sprout up to the northeast of the Vie, the Unuvunese began work on the grand Daifihanoshai Castle, one of the largest traditional Unuvunese castles still in existence.

Discovery of Lavaank

ensnared in the forbidden fifties -- an Unuvi merchant ship on the way to Edeto is caught in a horrendous storm and sent flying past the subcontinent, coming upon a new, virgin land called Lavaank by the local Tana people.

Second Age of Exploration

the sibling crosser -- Dadu Ultraheavy Industries releases the Strawberry 5, the wildly successful commercial spaceplane that can take up to twenty people to Haki and back. With one-way tickets to Haki plumetting to $80,000, the Nautical Peace's spaceports are about to get a whole lot more crowded.