General information (Pre-Great war):
Demonym: Kervel
Capital: Trevel
Key cities: Plouvenn, Lanneg, Pennker and Rac'hven
Official language: Erenez
Total population: 144,762,775
Total land area: 801,352 km² (309,403.74 sq mi)
Currency: Ner
First-level administrative division: Lez
Government: Centralized State of Comprehensive Industrial Development
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Ontological status (Post-Great war): Within the entity, a large complex was discovered on the surface. The surviving inhabitants had established a largely self-sufficient settlement, requiring no external supplies or humanitarian aid. However, prolonged exposure to the hazardous internal and external environments had left their overall health significantly below average. In response, a large team of medical personnel and nutrition specialists will be deployed to assess and provide care for the survivors.
Overview:
Kernevel, officially the Kernevel Supreme Industrial Combine, occupies the Seluca region of Eldervale, bordered by the Sulu Sea to the north, the Deadman Sea to the east, and Lugranda and Peyi Mil-Koule to the southeast and southwest.
She is a relentless workaholic who knows little beyond creating and building. Ambitious, disciplined, and deeply passionate, she turns nearly every idea into physical form, even when she has no idea whether the result will be useful. To her, usefulness matters less than the joy and meaning she finds in creation. That passion often comes at her own expense. She pushes herself without regard for her physical or mental health, stopping only when exhaustion becomes truly unbearable. Yet she loves her work, especially the work that gives her life purpose - and once she finds such a purpose, she will follow it relentlessly, even after the end.
About Kernevel:
ᝰ▬▬ Kernevel is often nicknamed "The Industrial Heartland of Eldervale", producing almost everything imaginable, including incredibly niche goods.
ᝰ▬▬ Considering one of the most resource-rich lands in the region, Kernevel's interior has historically been divided among several ethnic groups.
ᝰ▬▬ At the heart of Trevel stands the Thouarn, Kernevel's oldest industrial complex, dating back to the 700s. Its machinery was so intricate that parts of it remain undeciphered even today.
ᝰ▬▬ Traditional Kernevel belief teaches that every crafted object carries a piece of its maker. Because of this, recycling and repurposing are treated almost as a moral duty.
ᝰ▬▬ Many of Eldervale's major industrial revolutions and technological breakthroughs began in Kernevel, repeatedly reshaping the region's geopolitics.
ᝰ▬▬ Kernevel is famous for its strange ethereal grey fog, which covers much of the country for several hours each day before fading by nightfall.
ᝰ▬▬ The name "Kernevel" was actually coined by an unknown foreigner. It became the state's official name in 705, following the collapse of the World Government.
ᝰ▬▬ Despite bordering two seas, Kernevel conducts most of its trade by land and air, as its coastlines are poorly suited for major ports.
Brief modern history:
I. SECESSION AND THE FORGING OF KERNEVEL'S SOVEREIGNTY (1190-1192)
Culminating a protracted secessionist agitation, Kernevel formally abrogated its tricennial vassalage to the hegemon Penn-al-Lenn, actualizing unqualified sovereignty on August 12, 1190. Nevertheless, this nascent autonomy was instantaneously imperiled. Incessant frontier depredations swiftly spread into a theater-wide conflagration by November 9, 1190. As an embryonic polity, Kernevel was preliminarily inundated by Penn-al-Lenn's indomitable martial leviathan, forfeiting expansive terrestrial tracts throughout the conflict's incipient epoch. Compelled by existential exigency, the beleaguered armed forces ultimately consolidated an impregnable, heavily entrenched perimeter circumscribing the geopolitical nodes of Stankhud and Enezwer.
Battle of Plougaran (Kernevel), January 19–May 7, 1191: Executing a critical defensive interdiction, Kernevel repulsed the adversarial spearhead, clinching its inaugural tactical victory. To mitigate acute logistical deprivation, Kernevel pioneered unorthodox ramparts utilizing expropriated subterranean composites, specifically hyper-compacted loam.
Battle of Kastell-Erh (Kernevel), August 10–December 18, 1191: Wherein Kernevel definitively crippled the adversary's offensive projection. Amidst this martial crucible, the administration actualized a holistic, unassailable defensive cordon - megalithic earthworks that astonishingly persist into the contemporary era - anchored by the uncompromising maxim: "no step forward, no step backward." This fortified entrenchment precipitated the theater into an excruciating, intractable stasis.
A prolonged period of ferocious yet compartmentalized attrition ensued amongst this newly demarcated vanguard. This agonizing paralysis was definitively ruptured subsequent to the battle of Traezhloar, a terminal engagement that coerced a decimated and enervated Penn-al-Lenn into formal capitulation. On January 14, 1192, the former suzerain officially conceded diplomatically, irrevocably ratifying Kernevel as a legitimate, autonomous geopolitical entity and crystallizing its hard-won emancipation.
II. INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY AND THE RISE OF THE GOUENN-AOUR (1195-1199)
Capitalizing upon its geopolitical primacy as an indomitable bastion of industrial capacity and manufacturing, Kernevel orchestrated an astonishingly expeditious post-bellum economic resurgence within a mere lustrum. On June 5, 1195, the polity's foundational commercial conglomerate, Arvenn Inc., the pioneering corporate entity established under a Kervel. This seminal inauguration precipitated a proliferation of corporate syndicates, engendering multitudinous enterprise entities hyperspecialized across a myriad of mercantile and manufacturing sectors.
This precipitous modernization fundamentally reconfigured the nation's geopolitical and topological landscape. In 1198, the antiquated defensive nexuses of Stankhud and Enezwer formally amalgamated into the consolidated megalopolis of Trevel, promptly inaugurated as the sovereign state's premier administrative capital. By March 1199, Kernevel initiated an aggressive infrastructural campaign to systematically reconstitute its littoral maritime ports. Leveraging these augmented logistical hubs, the directorate ratified a series of lucrative international bilateral treaties for resource extraction, designating Moordale and the broader Eldervale macro-region as its primary export markets.
However, this unprecedented macroeconomic boom precipitated acute socio-economic stratification. The exponential accumulation of capital birthed the Gouenn-Aour - an elite, astronomically affluent stratum of industrial magnates. Unencumbered by nascent regulation, this oligarchic tier swiftly consolidated disproportionate hegemony, exerting near-absolute dominion over both the nation's socio-economic fabric and its bureaucratic apparatus.
III. TERRITORIAL EXPANSION, POLITICAL TURBULENCE, AND THE INDUSTRIAL ASCENDANCY (1203-1208)
In September 1203, the internal socio-political architecture of Penn-al-Lenn precipitously atomized, climactic in the systemic dissolution of Kernevel's former hegemon. Capitalizing upon this unprecedented geopolitical vacuum with aggressive expansionism, Kernevel immediately masterminded expansive kinetic campaigns into the adjacent oriental and occidental domains. By January 1204, the polity successfully consummated these annexations, cementing absolute, unchallenged naval supremacy over the Sulu Sea. However, simultaneous expeditionary thrusts directed toward the continental hinterland proved destitute. Severely hamstrung by an immature martial infrastructure and acute tactical ineptitude, this central offensive was decisively repulsed.
Domestically, the sovereign state cascaded into an acute constitutional exigency. In 1205, a national plebiscite installed Gwendal Abgrall as the paramount executive, a triumph swiftly unmasked as the byproduct of flagrant electoral machinations. As public indignation coalesced into vociferous civic agitation, the embattled directorate deployed a ham-fisted conciliation stratagem, indiscriminately disbursing substantial pecuniary inducements to pacify the dissenting proletariat. Rather than extirpating the unrest, this brash corruption exponentially exacerbated civic ire, starkly illuminating the grotesque economic stratifications perpetuated by the Gouenn-Aour oligarchy. Following a marginally averted assassination stratagem on January 2, 1206, Abgrall abruptly abdicated, precipitating a precarious administrative void as subsequent emergency plebiscites devolved into an intractable parliamentary stasis.
To navigate this debilitating interregnum, Ladvael Pennderv was commissioned to helm a caretaker provisional directorate. Prioritizing regional stabilization, Pennderv successfully ratified a holistic pact of non-aggression and bilateral synergy on August 6, 1207, with Tir-Uhel, a preeminent successor polity occupying central Penn-al-Lenn. By June 1208, subsequent to scrupulously transparent electoral mechanisms, the legislative deadlock was definitively resolved via the investiture of Sterenn Traezhaour. Under this stabilized executive, the state promulgated the visionary Fardan er Ger mandate in August 1210, a paradigm-shifting economic decree explicitly catalyzing the proliferation of decentralized micro-manufactories. This profound legislative framework irrevocably crystallized Kernevel's geopolitical trajectory as the paramount "industrial crucible of Eldervale." This manufacturing renaissance culminated in 1211 with the inauguration of the Subli-Mump in Pennker - a pioneering, polyvalent industrial nexus seamlessly synthesizing advanced fabrication, rigorous empirical research, and labyrinthine logistics into a singular, symbiotic economic macro-system.
IV. THE MORTALAK CONFLICT AND THE UNIFICATION OF PENN-AL-LENN (1215-1219)
In late 1215, aligned with the Tir-Uhel polity, Kernevel instigated a theater-wide offensive against the vestigial autarchs of Penn-al-Lenn, precipitating the Mortalak - one of the most ruinous conflagrations in the nation's historiography.
Battle of Vorascaid, 11 January –20 March, 1216: Kernevel subjugated the impregnable redoubt of Ochtthon via the deployment of Croinmug. This aerosolized biochemical agent catalyzed hyper-accelerated pneumoconiosis, culminating in the physiological rupturing of the victims' pulmonary architecture.
Battle of Soragaer, 26 June 26–October 18: The engaged wherein state battalions expropriated Mincara's critical subterranean logistical matrix. Kernevel ingeniously augmented this infrastructure into an expansive, clandestine tactical labyrinth, expediting the systematic subjugation of the oriental autarchs.
Battle of Buraloch, 9 April 9– 14 August 14, 1217: Kernevel executed a subterranean interdiction. Assailing the belligerents of Skarin, Nairven, and Kelruit simultaneously from beneath the lithosphere, the polity expropriated colossal stockpiles of industrial resources. Astonishingly, Kernevel constructed its inaugural subterranean manufactory directly within this kinetic theater, ensuring uninterrupted, in-situ logistical provisioning.
As the administration inaugurated the systemic industrialization of these annexed domains, Tir-Uhel formally relinquished its sovereignty, amalgamating into the expanding Kernevel dominance. However, acute demographic attrition subsequently arrested the expeditionary trajectory. This operational hiatus permitted the surviving austral autarchs of the Gles-Terran sector to coalesce into the formidable Southern Cross Alliance (SCA), precipitating the theater into an excruciating asymmetric attrition.
This strategic paralysis was definitively ruptured in 1219. Through astute diplomatic statecraft, Kernevel negotiated a critical influx of proxy infantry and martial materiel from allied Peyi Mil-Koule. Propelled by these augmentations, Kernevel achieved a pivotal breakthrough during the
Battle of Kinakina, 16 July–16 September, 1219: The state achieved a pivotal breakthrough although tactically marginal in scope, the directorate aggressively propagated the triumph as a paradigm-shifting kinetic victory, exponentially revitalizing domestic and martial morale. The fragmented SCA subsequently endured a cascade of catastrophic routs, precipitating their systemic dissolution and unconditional capitulation. Following the comprehensive annexation of the Gles-Terran region, the historically fractured expanse of Penn-al-Lenn was consolidated beneath Kernevel's industrialized dominion.
V. THE GRANI VELTA ERA, THE LOSS OF A PATRIARCH, AND ETHNIC UNREST (1224-1229)
With the factionalized domains coalesced and bolstered by a voluminous influx of foundational commodities, Kernevel confronted an exponential amplification in transnational fabrication demand. In response, the directorate enacted the Grani Velta, a sweeping legislative framework engineered to systematically proliferate expansive macro-industrial nexuses across the entirety of the ceded consolidated polity. This initiative ignited an age of unprecedented economic mobility, empowering multitudinous regional mercantile syndicates to aggressively scale and instantiate their own formidable, intermediate manufacturing infrastructures. However, this hyper-industrialization was precipitously arrested following the demise of Executive Sterenn Traezhaour, who succumbed to an acute cardiovascular pathology on August 26, 1224. Universally eulogized as a preeminent luminary within Kernevel's historiography, Traezhaour was venerated as the polity's "patriarch," his visionary statutory architecture having irrevocably forged the geopolitical and industrial trajectory of the state.
Notwithstanding this profound administrative vacumn, Kernevel's unremitting pursuit of manufacturing primacy yielded an epochal macroeconomic triumph in December 1226. The nation's export portfolio officially secured the Product Standard Verification alongside the prestigious Certificate of Conformance & Excellence - holistic transnational endorsements ratifying unqualified fabrication supremacy. To memorialize this monumental milestone, representing the culmination of decades of grueling labor, the directorate decreed an unprecedented, bi-weekly compulsory civic sabbatical, permitting the proletariat to revel in their transnationally validated industrial preeminence.
Yet, this halcyon era of economic opulence was swiftly fractured by virulent internal destabilization. Between 1227 and 1229, the two lezs of Kernevel, Keeirlark and Nidrustor, were ruptured by localized insurgencies instigated by dual disenfranchised ethno-demographics: the Corribean and the Stalgoolas. Although state security apparatuses expeditiously extinguished these ethno-nationalist uprisings, the kinetic engagements inadvertently sparked a volatile subterranean current of racial and socio-economic friction. These ephemeral rebellions inspired subsequent dissident coalitions, precipitating the clandestine propagation of myriad radical, ethno-centric subterranean syndicates lurking beneath the veneer of the industrialized polity.
VI. THE GREAT SELUCA WAR AND THE SUBJUGATION OF KERNEVEL (1230-1235)
In 1230, as the belligerent polity of Lesmont initiated hostilities against Acludion, posing an existential geopolitical exigency, Kernevel preemptively intervened. Forging a coalition with Tavrikon and Peyi Mil-Koule, the state precipitated its entry into the Great Seluca War.
Fourth Battle of Kay Wouj (Peyi Mil-Koule), 6 January – 16 April 1232: Following Acludion's 1231 capitulation, Kernevel and Peyi's synchronized assets executed a resolute interdiction. This pivotal bulwark successfully repulsed adversarial projection toward Chimen Moustik, a critical logistical conduit to Peyi's capital, affording the coalition invaluable temporal margins to augment their martial infrastructure.
However, this precarious stasis was violently ruptured in July 1232 when Lugranda opportunistically mounted an austral incursion, submerging Kernevel into a bi-theater conflagration.
Battle of Roz-Bili (Kernevel), 10 September 1232 – 9 February 1233: Kernevel narrowly arrested Lugranda's expeditionary echelons, yet ultimately forfeited several industrial agglomerations. This expropriation precipitated an acute ordnance deficit, while unprecedented attrition rendered the armed forces enervated.
As relentless depletion decimated the martial demographic, the beleaguered directorate aggressively relegated the conscription threshold to mere fifteen-year-old adolescents. Exacerbated by chronic logistical starvation, the exhausted polity was compelled to depend upon rudimentary, improvised armaments to sustain its disintegrating defensive perimeter.
Battle of Plouvenn (Kernevel), 8 August – 20 December 1234: Kernevel systemic collapse furthered amidst chaotic terminal-phase kinetic engagments, disoriented Kernevel units initiated regrettable fratricide, erroneously targeting allied formations. This debacle engendered the irrevocable forfeiture of the polity's terminal ordnance fabrication facilities. Categorically incapacitated, Kernevel capitulated subsequent to the definitive rout at Rosgwen on May 4, 1235.
Stripped of diplomatic leverage, the vanquished state was systematically partitioned, austral sectors were ceded to Lugranda, whilst the expansive remainder was subsumed beneath Lesmont's suzerainty. On May 20, the subjugated domain was reconstituted as the Free Republic of Kernevel, an institutional client state manipulated directly by Lesmont. The occupier comprehensively expropriated the nation's manufacturing infrastructure, installing a collaborationist domestic oligarchy to summarily liquidate any nascent reactionary agitation.
VII. THE LOWER MARCH REVOLT AND THE SMOG MARCH (1240-1243)
On May 1, 1240, the Strollad Arsav Nevez (SAN) - a militant consortium of disenfranchised veterans - instigated the Lower March Mutiny across the provincial domains of Bro-Enef and Awel-Graag. Synchronously, a succession of localized agitations - the Dead Pigeon uprisings - erupted in June and August. Hamstrung by myopic command structures and nebulous ideological precepts, these embryonic revolts precipitously disintegrated. Acknowledging the exigent demand for rigorous martial orthodoxy, surviving dissident cadres coalesced into the Emglev an Hen Urzh (EHU). This clandestine group engineered a nuanced operational doctrine, sustained via encrypted communications and logistical synergy with allied Peyi Mil-Koule.
Kinetic resistance reignited on June 17, 1243, when provocateur Tangi Le Gall from EHU spurred the monumental Smog March within the Trevel metropolis. Repudiating Lesmont's totalitarian economic dominance, this polyvalent uprising coordinated macroscopic labor stoppages, vehement civil disobedience, and the systemic subversion of critical manufacturing infrastructure. This dissident contagion swiftly metastasized across the northern and southern fabrication sectors. Though the occupying suzerain surgically quashed the mobilization - precipitating the mass internment of roughly 100,000 participants, including Le Gall - the crucible irrevocably solidified domestic defiance. Battered by relentless civic noncompliance, Lesmont's directorate was resignedly coerced into diluting its draconian commercial monopoly and ceding absolute operational dominion over Kernevel's industrial matrix.
VIII. THE NEW DAWN, FORGE NATIONALISM, AND THE ESCALATION OF OCCUPATION (1245-1254)
As the New Dawn movement's contagion permeated adjacent colonial holdings, Kernevel eagerly assimilated this insurrectionary zeal. On April 26, 1245, dissidents inaugurated this renewed defiance by incinerating the Stered Palace of Armel Berre, a reviled Gouenn-Aour family.
Battle of Pennvorgant (Kernevel), 22 May – 9 July 1245: Insurgent contingents commanded by Yannig Lersuzan operationalized the polity's maiden formal martial doctrine, albeit encumbered by rudimentary tactical miscalculations.
Battle of the Rozkelenn Industrial Hub (Kernevel) ,14 January – 18 March 1246: A strategic crucible wherein Kervel sequestered the critical manufacturing nexus for a month. Ultimately, this audacious occupation exhausted its momentum, prompting a punitive pacification by the occupying garrison.
Retaliating against these brazen seditions, Lesmont instituted La Grand' Purjie - a tyrannical suppression paradigm defined by capricious detentions, grotesque public executions, and lethal penal servitude. To circumvent this existential eradication, EHU enhanced the hypogeous network of surreptitious activities. This covert architecture yielded a seminal epistemological triumph in 1248 via the inception of Goulou an Deiz, a subversive publication destined to become an enduring national media pillar. This organ rapidly disseminated "Forge Nationalism" - a potent ideological synthesis championing indigenous cultural preservation and sovereign autonomy through inexorable industrial primacy. Consequently, the hitherto atomized Kernevel resistance acquired a unifying philosophical imperative.
Sparked by this dogma, a macroscopic infrastructural sabotage campaign erupted in early 1250. On March 10, legions of laborers systematically dismantled automated fabrication matrices, severely degrading the occupier's production yields. Forty-eight hours later, this defiance transitioned into massive civic disobedience, physically paralyzing the capital's logistical arteries. Despite subsequent mass internments, this systemic disruption endured until the apprehension of EHU operative, Aziliz Kervella, on April 11. Provoked by this intractable recalcitrance, Lesmont delegated jurisdiction to a drastic directorate designated Les Vigiles. In 1254, this autocratic apparatus executed a polarizing demographic resettlement decree. Ostensibly rationalized as spatial and industrial optimization, this coercive displacement of indigenous populations cemented aboriginal hostility toward the occupier.
IX. THE OCTOBER UPRISING AND THE FORGING OF THE YELLOW CIRCLE (1255-1259)
On October 21, 1255, an orchestrated scandal featuring a suborned Les Vigiles operative catalyzed the latent reservoir of civic indignation. Capitalizing upon this flashpoint, the EHU orchestrated a pan-national insurgency, instigating the monumental October Mutiny.
Battle of Naoned (Kernevel), 8 May – 17 June 1256: This seminal triumph exponentially amplified partisan resolve, precipitating the institutionalization of the Kervel National Armed Forces and transmuting atomized militias into a cohesive, professionalized martial host.
Battle of Montroulez (Kernevel), 16 April – 22 October 1257: Kervel insurgent force successfully expropriated three preeminent fabrication nexuses, robustly entrenching their logistical conduits. Nevertheless, the infantry endured wastage attrition whilst navigating the tortuous architecture of the contested manufactories.
The White Window (Kernevel), 10 June 1258 – 13 February 1259: The conflict's most protracted and sanguinary crucible. Waged within the Trevel metropolis, belligerents unleashed voluminous quantities of aerosolized particulate munitions, cloaking the sector in an impenetrable miasma and degrading the engagement into a harrowing, non-visual kinetic melee.
As Kernevel astutely transitioned to entrenched defensive paradigms, the occupying Lesmont garrisons were rigorously bled of their residual operational endurance.
Utterly incapacitated by the exorbitant fiscal and demographic hemorrhaging of the occupation, Lesmont unconditionally capitulated. On April 5, 1259, the ratification of the Emglev an Tizh Nevez accord formally enshrined the unqualified geopolitical sovereignty of Kernevel alongside contiguous polities. Nonetheless, the emancipated state inherited a catastrophically degraded infrastructure; structural ruination across major macro-industrial zones plunged Kernevel's manufacturing sector into a multi-year epoch of macroeconomic stagnation and compromised production fidelity. Prioritizing mutual security and rapid infrastructural resuscitation, Kernevel aligned with Acludion, Peyi Mil-Koule, and Tavrikon later that year to forge the Yellow Circle - a robust, polyvalent geopolitical consortium explicitly engineered to cultivate transnational synergy and neutralize future Lesmont aggression.
X. THE MORWENNA ERA, THE KERDOUARN TRIALS, AND THE BLOOMING ISLES (1260-1270)
In May 1260, succeeding a fractious bureaucratic impasse amidst the patrician hierarchy, Anaig Morwenna - progeny of the late patriarch Sterenn Traezhaour - was invested as state executive. Restoring civic equilibrium, her administration promulgated seminal protectionist paradigms in 1264, notably the National Industrial Sovereignty Act and the Domestic Supplier Mandate. These legislative edicts instituted guaranteed sovereign procurement for critical fabrication sectors and imposed escalating quotas for indigenous components, irrevocably contouring Kernevel's macroeconomic vector.
Synchronously, the directorate orchestrated a systemic excision of the venal oligarchic stratum. In August 1265, the administration convened the Kerdouarn Sedition Tribunal - the most expansive jurisprudential proceeding in Kervel historiography - arraigning over three hundred Gouenn-Aour magnates for treason, corporate espionage, and rampant peculation.
Adjourning in July 1268, the condemned were consigned to lethal penal servitude within the polity's most toxic manufactories. This watershed adjudication definitively entrenched Morwenna's autocratic jurisdiction over the surviving mercantile aristocracy.
By 1270, Kernevel repossessed the Skolpien and Tregor archipelagos following an octogenarian isolation. These dominions had historically endured the anomalous "petal ground" affliction - a preternatural botanical hazard wherein crushed ivory flora ballooned uncontrollably across the host, transmuting the victim into a macroscopic floral arrangement.
Notwithstanding this ecological peril, the state competently terraformed these insular territories, exploiting their sublime topography to cultivate preeminent geopolitical summits and lucrative hospitality enclaves.
XI. THE THIRD SELUCA WAR AND THE SERMANT BLANC TREATY (1271-1273)
On April 25, 1271, alarmed by Lesmont's unbridled territorial aggrandizement among the escalating First Great War of Eldervale, Tavrikon preemptively inaugurated hostilities. This aggressive diplomatic stratagem unavoidably embroiled Kernevel and the entire Yellow Circle syndicate into the Third Seluca War.
Battle of Carr-du-Mo (Lesmont), 22 December 1271 – 8 March 1272: The coalition detachments attempted a definitive strategic penetration into the Terrent region, to penetrate the Loutres River - a foremost logistical conduit. However, this kinetic momentum was precipitously arrested by the unanticipated martial intercession of Bellatorum, heralding their redoubtable induction into the geopolitical theater.
Battle of Kair-de-la-Lune (Lesmont), 17 May – 6 October 1272: A fiasco to rupture fortified adversarial perimeters, despite inflicting asymmetric attrition upon the defenders.
Capitalizing upon regional entanglements, Kernevel promulgated hostilities against Lugranda in November 1272, aiming to repossess its occupied austral sectors whilst the latter remained acutely ensnared in conflicts with Asklaton and Pyrrhassa.
Battle of C'hloc'h (Kernevel), 10 January – 21 May 1273: Kernevel's spearhead as intended expropriated the Ti-al-Lizeriou, the central directorate governing the annexed zone. This crucial psychological triumph fomented ubiquitous indigenous insurgencies, expediting the absolute emancipation of the southern territories and coercing Lugranda to ratify a treaty that functionally constituted a tenuous armistice.
In parallel, the principal northern front precipitously degraded. Through the execution of Operation Craigne - an audacious kinetic gambit - the unified apparatus of Lesmont and Bellatorum atomized Acludion's defensive architecture. Conceding the unassailable tactical primacy of the reconstituted adversarial front, the fractured Yellow Circle was coerced into unconditional capitulation. On August 15, 1273, a battered Kernevel ratified the Sermant Blanc Treaty, saddling the recuperating industrial polity with debilitating fiscal embargoes and exorbitant punitive indemnities.
XII. THE ADVENT OF BESPOKE MANUFACTURING AND THE RESURGENCE OF THE GOUENN-AOUR (1276-1288)
In 1276, Kernevel disrupted global fabrication paradigms via the pioneering Made to Order (MTO) schema. Eschewing rigid mass-production orthodoxies, this bespoke framework facilitated unprecedented transnational consumer customization.
By 1278, the directorate further calibrated this methodology, synthesizing commodities meticulously attuned to the sociocultural idiosyncrasies of its geopolitical allies - a shrewd mercantilist stratagem that procured exorbitant foreign capital.
However, this progressive age was precipitously truncated following Anaig Morwenna's 1282 demise. Her successor, Ewen Yann-Be, swiftly promulgated the Reizhiad-Uhelaat ar Stad. Ostensibly propagated as an ias an exigent modernization stratagem designed to fortify sovereign infrastructure, this duplicitous legislative mandate clandestinely conferred ubiquitous fiscal immunities and unmitigated regulatory cartels upon the archaic patrician tiers. Consequently, the despotic Gouenn-Aour plutocracy achieved a meteoric resurgence, aggressively subsumed supreme fabrication hubs and brazenly arrogated municipal administrative mandates, rendering central oversight thoroughly castrated across critical industrial sectors.
This plutocratic usurpation intensified in January 1288 with a macroscopic bureaucratic purge that birthed the Bodadeg-an-Uheldad Council - an aristocratic alliance endowed with plenary constitutional prerogative to unilaterally intercede in state affairs. To irrevocably cement their primacy and extirpate ascendant nouveau riche adversaries, this cabal ratified predatory fiscal legislation.
Most notoriously, the Taos-an-Ijinerezh Reform levied usurious, regressive tariffs upon even negligible commercial transactions, asphyxiating embryonic entrepreneurship and consolidating the absolute supremacy of Kernevel's entrenched elite.
XIII. THE SECOND GREAT WAR OF ELDERVALE AND THE FRACTURED PEACE (1291-1294)
In 1291, geopolitical friction along the Lugranda-Kernevel demarcation line intensified, as Lugrandon expeditionary units flagrantly violated sovereign territorial integrity. These compartmentalized skirmishes diffused during the regional ignition of the Second Great War of Eldervale. On January 12, 1292, Lugranda launched an attack against Kernevel, an offensive mirrored imminently by Lesmont's initiated belligerence against the entire Yellow Circle syndicate.
Battle of Lanneg (Peyi Mil-Koule), 28 January – 10 April 1292: By securing critical ordnance nexuses, the armed forces circumvented Lesmont's ambitions for a rapid subjugation, prudently adopting a purely entrenched defensive posture.
The pelagic theater proved equally arduous.
Battle of Bero-Eskor Island (Lugranda), 7 September – 26 November 1292: Kernevel for the first time endured a comprehensive maritime rout by Lugranda. Although terrestrial garrisons fortified the littoral perimeter against amphibious assaults, the beleaguered polity was subjected to a strangling naval embargo.
Battle of Gollock (Acludion), 4 February – 11 May 1293: Exposed insightful operational dissonance and command schisms among the allied belligerents. Which made the Yellow Circle consortium commenced internal fracturing. Capitalizing upon this disarray, Lesmont pulverized Acludion's defensive architecture, advancing relentlessly to the Tavrikon frontier.
Battle of the Aber-Vapor-Piz Industrial Hub (Kernevel), 22 October 1293 – 25 February 1294: Pitted against Lugrandon infantry within a circuitous manufactory, combatants navigated a harrowing, enclosed matrix of industrial machinery. While this ferocious resistance epitomized Kernevelian tenacity, it inflicted psychiatric trauma upon the surviving veterans.
This kinetic stasis concluded with the promulgation of the Pax of Seraphic, which Kernevel ratified on July 5, 1294.
Domestically, the accord fomented virulent indignation; the Kervel people denounced the Pax as a humiliating capitulation heavily favoring adversarial hegemonies. Post-bellum, Kernevel structurally decentralized. The Gouenn-Aour plutocracy usurped de facto governance, relegating the central directorate to a vestigial, nominal apparatus. Furthermore, as the national industrial matrix had inordinately overproduced ordnance anticipating protracted attrition, an exorbitant armament surplus inundated the fractured polity. This stimulated the perilous proliferation of heavily mechanized, autonomous paramilitary syndicates commandeered directly by the plutocratic elite.
XIV. THE MORNINGS OF PAPER BIRDS AND THE SHATTERING OF KERNEVEL (1295-1307)
On March 16, 1295, the patrician Rozec and Lanmeur dynasts mobilized their privatized mercenary contingents to subvert Kernevel's enervated central directorate. Although sovereign authorities instantaneously capitulated, the competing syndicates instigated a ferocious, septem-diurnal urban crucible across the Trevel metropolis, culminating in a tenuous Lanmeur primacy. This audacious putsch obliterated the precarious equilibrium amongst the Gouenn-Aour, instantaneously balkanizing the polity. The Gwenvarc'h lineage swiftly orchestrated the Rac'hven insurgency within Lean lez, whilst the oriental domains of Morlec and Lo Drennec seceded. Kernevel abruptly disintegrated into a mosaic of belligerent oligarchic fiefdoms, ushering the "Mornings of Paper Birds" - the most anarchic, poly-directional era in the nation's historiography.
Between 1295 and 1297, Trevel devolved into an incessant dynamic theater as Rozec and Lanmeur battalions contested savagely for every municipal sector. This attritional stasis was ruptured by the lbriec clan, a tertiary aristocratic cabal that effectively excised the exhausted Lanmeur administration. Fortified by substantive geopolitical legitimacy and covert martial subsidization from Peyi Mil-Koule and Acludion, lbriec's precipitous ascendancy coerced the decimated Rozec and Lanmeur factions to cement a defensive pact in October 1297.
In coordination in the east, the anti-patrician Ar C'hernevez coalition - heavily bankrolled by Ahawen - executed a merciless subjugation campaign, methodically eradicating Morlec on August 6, 1296. When ensuing eastern annexations ossified, the tyrannical patriarch Tanguy Lanmeur usurped command of the syndicate, orderly executing his lieutenants and his own progeny to extirpate any challenge to his newfound dominance. His fifteen-year-old heir, Gwenc'hlan Lanmeur, narrowly circumvented the purge via maternal intervention, securing sanctuary within the diminutive, nonaligned enclave of Aodrenn lez. Swiftly galvanizing the indigenous demographic, the youthful exile arrogated regional sovereignty within a biennium.
Propelled by retribution, Gwenc'hlan choreographed an audacious infiltration on March 11, 1297. Leveraging pecuniary inducements and internal subversion, he personally decapitated his sire within his bathing chambers. Gwenc'hlan instantaneously assimilated the territory, instantiating the Kernevel Insurgent Authority - a radical populist apparatus vehemently dedicated to the total abolition of the aristocracy. His severe patricide and meteoric ascension immediately apotheosized him into mythological folklore of Kernevel afterwards .
The chaotic contestation for the metropolis was abruptly suspended on August 11, 1299, by the unforeseen incursion of the Unvaniezh Morlaig Coalition, an indomitable consortium comprising four central Kernervel patrician lineages. These overwhelming forces annihilated the Rozec, Lanmeur, and Kernevelbriec detachments, commandeering Trevel. Yet, this triumph proved ephemeral, the coalition precipitously imploded beneath the burden of its internal avarice, plunging the pulverized capital back into a compartmentalized attrition.
Amidst the balkanized disunited topology of 1300, a putatively nonaligned consortium designated Ar Vro Wenn sustained dominion over unblemished manufacturing nexuses. Functionally, this entity operated as a covert instrument for the Faouennac'h dynasty to surreptitiously arbitrate territorial disputes. This subterranean overlordship was ultimately ruptured by noble-born fratricide. Telenna Faouennac'h engineered a putsch to unseat his elder sibling, only to be precipitously ousted via a counter-insurrection commanded by his younger sister, Yannor-Bri. Centralizing her unanticipated primacy, Yannor-Bri initiated expansive bi-directional expeditionary campaigns in October 1300. Her forward troops practically repossessed the annihilated detritus of Trevel, inflicting an albeit temporary, rout upon Gwenc'hlan Lanmeur's Kernevel Insurgent Authority.
Nevertheless, Yannor-Bri's chronological immaturity and profound dearth of statesmanship proved dysfunctional. Perceiving an emergent administrative vacumn, opportunistic martial officers orchestrated a barracks revolt, forcibly deposing the nascent matriarch. By mid-1302, the transient Ar Vro Wenn imperium irreversibly disintegrated, atomizing into a mosaic of militaristic micro-polities administered by rogue tacticians and vestigial aristocratic remnants.
Exploiting this resurgent entropy, the northern Lanvoric lineage cultivated a coalition with four contiguous factions to inaugurate the Kernevel Republic in March 1304. Subsequently subsidized by exogenous martial capital from Lugranda and Lepondunon, the Republic initiated its audacious Southern Expansion. This expedition, however, was terminally undermined by patrician hubris and operational incompetence. The thrust culminated in a calamitous decimation at the seminal Battle of Izelac on April 3, 1305, against a reinvigorated and fiercely vindictive Insurgent Authority. By September, the decimated Republic was wholly subsumed by the rebel regime.
Impelled by this conquest yet consumed by acute institutional paranoia, the Insurgent directorate inaugurated the Ar Skarzhadeg on November 30, 1305. This notorious inquisition precipitated the summary decapitation of upwards of 30,000 citizens accused of aristocratic affinities, routinely predicated upon contrived jurisprudence. This systemic bloodletting proliferated beyond the elite, liquidating an additional 20,000 collateral casualties. The unmitigated psychosis of this perpetual slaughter irreparably alienated the seditionist high echelon; attempting to arrest the auto-cannibalizing terror, Gwenc'hlan Lanmeur was mutinously assassinated by his own senior adjutants, facilitating Loevan Vorgennec's usurpation of the regime.
Spanning 1304 to 1307, the vestigial contingents of the Rozec and Lanmeur families amalgamated the occidental and austral domains. Generously bankrolled by covert subsidization from Peyi Mil-Koule and Acludion, this oligarchic cabal repatriated Maelle Bihan - an illustrious noble who absconded during the Kerdouarn Sedition Tribunals - to function as their nominal sovereign. They officially consecrated the People's Republic of Kernevel and instituted the Veur ar Lu, a preeminent military conservatory destined to indelibly codify Kernevel's professional operational dogma for ensuing generations.
Whilst the central territories languished in intractable decentralization, the dual surviving hegemons - the occidental People's Republic and the oriental Insurgent Authority - projected inward, absorbing the residual autonomous manufacturing junctions. When bilateral diplomatic mediation imploded beneath the weight of irreconcilable ideological animus, the terminal geopolitical brinkmanship triggered the Kervel Civil War.
XV. THE STALEMATE, THE RISE OF URZH AR MAEN DU, AND THE FINAL FALL OF TREVEL (1310-1316)
The Kervel Civil War deteriorated into an intractable, triennial stasis, comprehensively enervating both the People's Republic and the Insurgent Authority whilst yielding zero territorial realignments. This paralyzing equilibrium fomented widespread ethno-nationalist insurrections, compelling a precarious armistice in April 1310. On January 14, 1311, when Maelle Bihan, the Republican figurehead, was discovered asphyxiated in a suspected intra-factional assassination, nviting pervasive foreign intervention.
Capitalizing upon this putrefaction, Urzh ar Maen Du - an esoteric far northen faction commanded by the magnetic demagogue Mael Goff - commenced a meteoric control. Adamantly repudiating both the belligerent legacy regimes and their foreign underwriters, Goff leveraged sophisticated agitprop to subvert the populace. On August 8, 1313, he inaugurated the Great Unification Campaign. Through popular insurgencies, Goff amalgamated the entire southern expanse within a quadrimester, subsuming the central and northern sectors by mid-1315.
Harnessing this momentum, Goff activated the Gwarez Operation, a directive explicitly engineered to definitively eradicate the residual Republic and Insurgent factions. The chaotic age of the "Mornings of Paper Birds" ultimately climaxed at the decisive Battle of Trevel, 23 May – 9 December 1316. The defending Republican garrisons were neutralized, and the metropolis was anew pulverized into unmitigated detritus. Amidst the smoldering ruins, Goff articulated the seminal Kannad ar Peoc'h Nevez oration, terminating decades of implacable civic fragmentation.
XVI. PRODUCTIVIST FUTURISM AND THE REIGN OF THE MACHINE (1317-1340)
On August 23, 1317, Urzh ar Maen Du crushed the terminal Republican holdouts in the extreme occident, officially terminating the anarchic "Mornings of Paper Birds." Following a twelvemonth of systemic reconstitution, the hegemonic faction rebranded as Strollad an Dazont. This administration anchored its governance upon "Productivist Futurism" - an extremist ideological paradigm conceptualizing the sovereign realm as a singular, macroscopic thermodynamic engine.
To actualize this paradigm, the directorate by decree abrogated the Gouenn-Aour aristocracy in June 1319, markedly expropriating all private and civic capital. This macroeconomic monopolization was swiftly succeeded by the Reolenn ar Vuhez Voutin, a draconian edict legislating compulsory, regimented diurnal itineraries for the entire demographic, subordinating the proletariat into fungible cogs within the bureaucratic leviathan.
Geopolitically, Kernevel synergized with the Cloud Garden Coalition in August 1320 to neutralize mutual exigencies, whilst astutely preserving covert diplomatic channels with heritage allies. By 1321, the Steunv ar Fabrikou Unvan centralized manufacturing administration, dictating inflexible, standardized fabrication quotas across the territory, irrespective of regional topological feasibility. This hyper-industrialization peaked in 1325 via the Mil Fabrik initiative, compelling massive infrastructural expansion across all arable topography. The decree coercively resettled citizens into these manufactories, persevering paradoxically even as autonomous mechanization rendered manual labor entirely vestigial.
This era of rampant industrialization involved into techno-theocratic oddity during the October 1328 consecration of the Taneg installation in Trevel. Engineered as Kernevel's most labyrinthine complex, the facility was astonishingly elevated to the de facto paramount sovereign. Mael Goff pronounced this monolithic architecture as the corporeal avatar of "Ourn," an esoteric archaic divinity, asserting he received executive mandates directly from the apparatus. Salacious, ubiquitous folklore insinuated Goff's communion with Ourn entailed metaphysical carnal congress amidst his cloistered vigils within the mechanized sanctum.
Unstoppable fabrication had fused deleterious meteorological phenomena. Addressing acute internal and transnational condemnation, the administration operationalized the Oabl C'hlas Project in mid-1332 - an infrastructural marvel that effectively neutralized particulate atmospheric contamination, albeit leaving deafening acoustic degradation endemic.
By October 1338, ethno-nationalist partisans across the central provinces initiated a protracted campaign of infrastructural subversion against state manufactories. This intractable insurgency severely crippled fiscal-monetary output until November 6, 1340, when sovereign mediator Soazig Corre conclusively pacified the insurrections by yielding substantive municipal autonomy to the insubordinate ethnic cantons.
XVII. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE TANEG MACHINE (1345-1374)
By 1345, Kernevel spurred a paradigm-shifting industrial renaissance, propelled by the macroscopic integration of revolutionary propulsion matrices - specifically pulse, electrolysis, and polar engines. This epistemological leap exponentially accelerated fabrication velocities, rendering myriad commodities functionally costless.
Nonetheless, this macroeconomic utopia precipitated catastrophic ecological degradation, rendering expansive biomes entirely uninhabitable. Astonishingly, these avant-garde mechanics flawlessly actualized the speculative schematics delineated within Producing Stuff for Stupid Arses: A No-Nonsense Guide to Manufacturing Without Cocking It Up - an an abstruse, almost puerile codex authored by Yann Ne Doft in 546.
Unshackled from terrestrial constraints, Kernevel inaugurated its premier levitating "aero-manufactory" in July 1349. As constellations of these aerial logistical nexuses colonized the firmament, the polity officially achieved an unprecedented state of Flourish-Pangea (a state in which every development had reached its final and definitive stage) by 1350.
The geopolitical architecture ruptured on February 20, 1353, following Mael Goff's expiration from untreated pancreatic pathology. In an unprecedented succession paradigm, the Taneg installation absorbed absolute sovereign jurisdiction, autonomously dispensing administrative dictates via its mechanical nucleus. The megalith immediately initiated An Holl-Greantin, a macroscopic directive assigning immutable fabrication roles to every geographic sector, systematically transmuting the entire nation into a singular, continental apparatus. By 1354, all historical jurisprudential frameworks were abrogated, the Factory functioned as the unquestionable, absolute autocrat.
By 1356, the Taneg superstructure breached a staggering altitude of 30 km (18.64 mi). Exhibiting non-Euclidean spatial anomalies - possessing an interior volume disproportionately exceeding its exterior geometry - the structure began assimilating peripheral infrastructure to forge an enclosed, permanent biosphere for the proletariat. To guarantee psychological indoctrination, an August 1360 mandate compelled all citizens to legally integrate mechanical "component" nomenclature into their identities.
As Taneg aggressively projected its subterranean foundations in 1363, excavation crews exhumed a convoluted network of archaic, fully operational manufactories buried deep within the lithosphere, their provenance dating back millennia. Notwithstanding these archaeological triumphs, the enclosed synthetic biosphere proved perilous. In 1366, the non-fatal "cyan-fever" pathogen proliferated throughout the demographic - transmuting victims' lips, extremities, and sclera to a deep azure - precipitating anxieties regarding the tenability of enduring within the machine.
Unfazed by biological frailties, the autonomous factory executed Raktres Astenn on September 24, 1370 - a mechanistic imperative to physically project its structural footprint across the entirety of Eldervale, and ultimately, the planetary sphere. By 1374, contiguous sovereign states condemned Kernevel for breaching the Pax treaties, as the industrial infrastructure literally began bleeding across transnational demarcations. Kernevel's diplomats provided the rebuttal that the polity harbored zero martial ambitions, rather, the factory was autonomously "propagating itself." This unchecked industrial metamorphosis escalated transnational paranoia.
The nation continued its transformation into a factory until the outbreak of the Third Great War of Eldervale.
Ideology: Productivist Futurism
Productivist Futurism is a political ideology founded on the belief that civilization possesses no higher purpose than the continuous expansion of organized productive capacity. Culture, comfort, tradition, and individuality are regarded as secondary conditions. The primary measure of society is how efficiently it converts matter, energy, information, land, and human time into useful output. Every resource is therefore understood as unrealized productive value, and every idle machine, vacant facility, unstructured hour represents a failure of organization. Government and industry must cease to exist as separate institutions, for administration and production are merely different functions of the same total system. Society is not conceived as a collection of autonomous individuals, but as an interconnected mechanism whose components acquire meaning through their contribution to the whole. Each component must be assigned to the function in which it provides the greatest systemic advantage. Local efficiency is meaningless if it produces inefficiency elsewhere, every aspects must be evaluated according to the performance of the entire productive chain. The slowest essential process defines the speed of the system, making the identification and elimination of bottlenecks one of the state's highest duties.
Productivist Futurism recognizes no final state of perfection. Efficiency has no ceiling. Every successful plan merely reveals the limitations of its assumptions, beginning another cycle of measurement, revision, integration, and acceleration. Everything capable of measurement must be measured, compared, and redesigned. What cannot be quantified cannot legitimately govern administration; abstract concepts must first be translated into indicators before the system may recognize them.
Unaccounted time is classified as Temporal Leakage. A blank hour is treated with the same suspicion as a leaking pipeline. Cities therefore operate continuously through staggered human cycles: one population sleeps while another works, ensuring that infrastructure never truly rests. Personal identity likewise becomes subordinate to function, with names gradually replaced in official environments by positional identifiers. No component is permanent. Every obsolete portion must ultimately be replaceable without interrupting production, because the system must always outlive the parts from which it is constructed.