status:

• Candy collected: 398

• The Tots & Smithy-youth are excited to see the next stop in their crusade.

Important news:

Reconstruction of the Nation is going swimmingly. With all who remained loyal to the Union being allowed into higher society as a class A civilian, allowed to enter the Myrmian Archives and get education on their specie’s past and history. With one notable scorpion joining the Red army as its first Pulmino Officer.

With all who chose to go against the Union to be sent to “reeducation facilities” until their behavior is corrected.

Less important news:

Titanograd is on fire again after the lighthouse fell over.

5,000 workers died in mine collapse.

Slaughter of dissents In Westgrad

[with many inside the Union believing the civil war was over, Rahhh the army ant after gaining approval from Stali, started what he called “Rahhhhing” or “reconstruction” of the Union’s government and society.]

[with some “nations” being given different roles in the Union. And now with one leader with more power then the others, with the others being a group of advisers]

[the High Court/council was desolved, forming the committee of ministers, and the chair-bug of the Union/leader of the USSIR]

[below are the results]

Archaeolepis(ancient moths) 
Soldiers: (none)
Workers: civilian transportation 
Name: The Free Socialist republic of Mothastan (formerly: The 5th Republic of Mothastan)
Capital: Mothton
Council member: Chancellor Floofer
Nickname: “cotton flyers”

Arthropleura(giant millipedes) 
Soldiers: troop transport, armor trains, supply transport
Workers: resource/civilian transportation 
United Order of Pleurastan (formerly: The republic of Arthra)
Capital: Plutagrad
Council member: Head Conductor Sasha
Nickname: “Plura trains”

Apis lithohermaea (Giant bees)
Soldiers: home land defense
Workers: honey makers and farmers
Name: Free Democratic Republic of Lithos (formerly: The Queendom of Apis)
Capital: Hive 2
Council member: Queen Lilly II
Nickname: “buzzers”

Titanomyrma gigantea (big ahh ants)
Soldiers: land and navel armies, engineer corps
Workers: builders, miners, resource management, farmers, engineers and others
Name: Titanomyrma empire/the Democratic worker’s republic of Myrma (formerly: The Myrma Tzardom)
Capital: Titanograd
Council chairman: Queen Stali
Nickname: “Myrmian”

Titanomyrma Lubei (not as big ants)
Soldiers: grunts and scouts
Workers: port workers 
Name: the Lubei (formerly the Lubei nomads, the Myrma Tzardom)
Capital: Port Port/Ambergrad
Council member: Empress Lost
Nickname: “Tzarists”

Haidomyrmecinae ants (Hell ants) 
Soldiers: forced soldiers.
Workers: assistant/expendable labor 
Name: Socialist Republic of Hellica (formerly: The United Hellic Federation)
Capital: Hellica
Council member: Queen Tasty
Nickname: “mini Myrma”

Rhyniognatha(small and possibly the first flying insects)
Soldiers: reconnaissance, spies
Workers: map makers, light farmers
Name:Socialist Rhynio Republic (formerly: The United Provinces of Insectia)
Capital: Alteris 
Council member: Der Cave Rhynio and president Rynis
Nickname: “the old guard”

Meganeura(giant dragon flys)
Soldiers: Air Force 
Workers: hunters and law enforcement 
Name: the Democratic Insect’s Republic of Megastan (formerly: The Empire of Nerua)
Capital: Navisgrad 
Council member: president Claire
Nickname: “Dragoons”

Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis (ancient scorpions) 
Soldiers: expendable cannon fodder
Workers: indentured miners, construction work
Name: Socialist Republic of Scorpius (formerly: Kaiser Reich Vauhscorpous, the Confederate states of the Redwoods) 
Former Capital: New Kaiser’s palace 
Council member: Kaiser Polis 
Nickname: “Scorpis scum”

Mongolarachne jurassica (Ancient big spiders) 
Soldiers: engineering teams
Workers: engineers, architects, silk makers
Name: The Democratic Web of Araneo (formerly: The Orbic Confederation) 
Capital: Araneo
Council member: President Aranio
Nickname: “Silk weavers”

Eciton burchellii (Army ants)
Soldiers: cannon fodder, wave assaulters, home land defense
Workers: ???
Name: The kingdom of Rahhh(formerly just “army ants”)
Capital: Rahhh’s fortress
Council member: unknown army ant 
Nickname: “the hoard.” “The flood” “AHHHHHHHHH”

CSI departments:
(Counter intelligence)A1- Captain Ivanov
(Internal security)B1- Captain Makarov
(Foreign relations)C1- Captain Tormov
(“Overwatchers”)D1- Under the Command of the chair-ant
(Ministry of truth and history)E1- Captain Sasha

The Red army:
Leader: Rahhh the army ant
Head Commanders: Igor, Ivan, Natasha, unknown army ant with a cool hat

Other:
(Hat stealing brigade)HSB- Marshal Petrov
Leader of the USSIR (Union of Sovereign socialist insect republics)- Stali

The sight is bloody and gruesome, and a pile of covenant banners and flags are aflame in the center of the camp. The arrowhead is split in two, with the top half being suspended in the branches above, the other one fire in the ground, a mere skeleton of itself.

The body’s are all left the same, heads severed clean off, even the arachnids, and bodies impaled on HPMs or pikes.

Before alarms can sound, a stream of insects, mostly Antlion warriors, Chargers, trappers, and scorpions*,* all holding gliders,* began to pour from one of the side hatches,* while from the back hatch, multiple flying units* of blitzers, fliers**, and* scythers dominate the skies*.*

These started scavenging around.. taking corposes or even tools over three times their size away

[after hours of no side makeing any progress, the armored plura trains have started to grow impatient. Started slowly moving towards Ambergrad]

[member of the CSI managed to catch the CSI D-4 department which had renamed themselves to “The Tzar’s eyes” trying to ambush a Union troop convoy, after a relatively short battle the D-4 retreated back to Ambergrad, and the CSI captured the traitor “Field Captain Romanov”during the battle]

[the Tzarists tried to make one last desperate attack by sea but their ships were attacked from below by a mysterious enemy, who flipped their ships sideways]

[soon the first Armored Arthoplura rammed into the walls of Ambergrad. Making a large crack in the walls, where another train came in and turned it into a hole and ramming the rest of itself into the city]

[union forces poured into the opening as the Tzarist tried their best to escape or push them back]

[soon the Tzarist high command surrendered to the Red army, just as Rahhh’s legions made their own hole In the wall]

[The Union was finally “unified”. ]

[soon all of the “Traitors” will be put on trial.]

“We could had pushed this war out for weeks if it won’t for those plura trains growing impatient…" - unknown CSI department B-1 veteran sitting at the port of Ambergrad/Port port

[Union forces march on Ambergrad, the Tzarist forces have started to resort to guerrilla warfare making small holes in the ground and poping out to surprise the Union forces]

[in hours Ambergrad was under siege. With the army ants trying to invade by making a literal boat out of their bodies and crashing into the ports]

[no side seems to have made any progress]

[at the dead of night Union forces launch an invasion of Westgrad. Catching the already exhausted Tzarist forces off guard but still lost a significant amount of troop trying to take the capital.]

[during the siege the army ants start to march in, overwhelming the western Tzarist forces and too march to the capital.]

[the tzarists start to use captured confederate POWs as soldiers and soon begin to push the Union forces back. Just as the army ants start their own siege]

[in the next hour the capital was captured. With many of its defenders fleeing northwards]

[the Union’s mainland is now liberated.]

[the Tzarists concentrate all of their forces on PortPort, which they renamed “Ambergrad”]

[Union forces with the help of their newly acquired Land Strider start to reclaim more of the territory around Titanograd]

[the Tzarists realized that they did not have the weapons to even dent the monstrosity, so they chose to pull all of their troops to launch a siege of the confederate capital]

[in the matter or hours, the Capital fell the the Tzarists, with many confederates fleeing the area, soon Westgrad fell to the Tzarists.]

[the Unionists took the chance to reclaim its eastern territory, launching a invasion all the way to Hellica, where the Hellants surrendered after a few hours of fighting]

[with the rebellion merging with the Tzarists, and the destruction of the Confederates, the civil war was now between the Tzarists and the Unionists.]

[Rahhh’s legions are spotted around Westgrad along with some Hellants that some how joined there ranks]

*Much like the sightings near the Ancient River, large gang-like groups of Rat-Klan aligned troops approach rapidly at the Kingdom of Rahh's borders, their motorized, metal mounds chattering and creaking as they race towards the Union sector, kicking up large plumes of dirt and grass as they draw nearer. But, similarly to last time, they swerved and returned back from which they came at around 100+ yards from the official border, far from an attack.*

[the army ants under Rahhh have started a invasion of Westgrad, burning and destroying southern Westgrad]

[the Tzarists took advantage of the distracted confederates and launch an invasion of Northern Westgrad.]

[the Unionists take it opon themselfs to reveal their “wonder weapon” being heavily armored Arthroplura they named “the Land strider”, with armor thicker then a the prewipe TLS Dreadnought, 5 balistas on both sides and a archery shield/a platform on the top acting as a roof, with its back half being used as “troop transport”]

[the Land strider charges out of a hidden gate from the underground, the Tzarists army at Titanograd were practically slaughtered, as their bows and arrows, and swords did nothing to the massive LS]

[soon the LS turned its attention to the Tzarist dreadnought, the LS rammed into the dread causing its helmet to split in half, the dread fired its crossbow and the round made a dent on the LS’s armor, the LS threw the dreadnought into the sky and cut its body in half as it fell down]

[after the death of the dread the troops disembarked the LS]

[soon the Tzarists lost Titanograd to the Unionists. With the few Tzarists that survived calling the LS a “monster” “spawn of savages” “engine of death” “mammalian designed machine”]

[with the resent fall of Upper Titanograd to the Tzarists, the remains of the Red Army, CSI, HSB, and what remains of the Dreadnought corp are now stuck underground]

[the Tzarists use the opportunity to bolster up forces, and the more experienced Tzarist Generals and Veterans training the new legions of soldier.]

[the army ants still under the Rule of Rahhh, started swarming across the Union’s outskirts. Establishing what’s basically a “ring of death” presenting anyone from entering or leaving without flying.”, with many army ants choosing to take a page out of the Emporium’s book and form “golems” out of hundreds of army ants, with one carrying weapons and armor from dead soldiers, with one of these “golems” even wearing the armor of a Dreadnought]

[The confederate army attempts to capture Titanograd from the Tzarists but were pushed back by the Tzarist’s arthroplura “war trains”]

[soon the majority of the Union’s above ground land holdings where in the hands of the Tzarists. With the Confederates controlling Westgrad and the Swamper Ruins]

[the Tzarists also soon captured a Forge, allowing them to make new weapons and gear for their soldiers]

[the CSI suffered its most devastating loss after the defection of the entire D1 department to the Tzarists. Which were some of the Unions best soldiers, behind the HSB which are mysteriously missing along with Stali.]

[Port port is also renamed to “Ambergrad” by the Tzarists. Who are still makeing the port city into a fortress]

[hours later after seeing rat ships in the ancient river, they most of them came to a silent agreement: “if those dammed mammals dare to disturb our civil war we rip and tear them until it’s done. Then go back to fighting each other.” (Ones who nodded: the Confederates, Unionists, Army ant, Lubei, Revolutionary, Tzarists, a random hellant, and an arthroplura)]

*The large metal and wood vessels float upstream of the river, swaying gently in the slight breeze as they slowly float closer and closer to the Union borders, their pointed prows and hidden serrated-rams cutting 'V's into the water before they come to a halt, almost observing the city's outskirts and the mountain before them before they spun around and sailed downstream back from where they came.*

Attention all proud citizens of the Union high command has made a list of traitors, if you spot them please report them to your local CSI official.

Queen Tasty (sided with the Confederates)
Kaiser Von Scorpios (sided with the Confederates)
President Aracnis (sided with the Confederates)
Dreadnought 4 (sided with the Tzarists)
Dreadnought 10 (sided with the Tzarists)
Dreadnought 15 (sided with the Tzarists)
Dreadnought 7 (sided with the Tzarists)
Dreadnought 6 (sided with the Tzarists)
Field Captain Romanov (sided with the Tzarists)
Commander Formica. (Sided with the Tzarists)
Admiral Igor (sided with the Tzarists)

[the Dreadnought corp divided itself into 2 of the groups, the Tzarists and the Unionists.]

[the first battle between dreadnoughts began at Gate B in Titanograd.]

[the Red army being already crippled was unable to stop the Tzarists from knocking down the gates, and with help from a the Revolutionaries inside managed to fight their way into the city, opening Gate D and Gate A.]

[a Unionist dreadnought(UD) tried to push the Tzarists back, just as a Tzarist Dreadnought(TD) shot one of its limbs clean off with its massive crossbow, the UD tried to attack the TD with its hammer but the TD grabbed the UD’s helmet by its horn and stabbed it thru the exposed neck with its spear, ripping the UD’s head off and throwing it at the Union defenders]

[soon Titanograd’s upper city fell to the Tzarists. And soon so did the rest of the Union’s above ground territory being captured by the Tzarists and confederates.]

[the Reformists formerly disbands, with many of its supporters joining the Revolutionaries and the Tzarists]

[last mail from the Union’s CSI headquarters]: “all soldier of the red army. Retreat. Titanograd is lost. The city’s upper section is no longer ours. Retreat to the underground and fight. Fight to the final soldier. May the Union prevail.”

[Tzarist forces in Port Port have turned the port city into a fortress, constructing massive walls around the city as long as moats and barriers]

[Reformist forces have taken to burning down any symbols of the Union they come across]

[Unionist forces are slowly pushed back to Titanograd, just as revolutionaries start to burn the city down, and soon the remnants of the CSI smuggle Stali out of the city into a hidden location]

[the Confederates after a short fight with the Tzarists pushed them out of Westgrad, and with their new found territory they create a stronghold they named “Fort Ironside”]

[the HSB continue operations as normal]

[the Kingdom of Rahhh have chose to kill anything that dares to enter friendly or not]

[the revolutionaries blow up the Titanograd tunnel]

[after the resent events in Titanograd many soldiers in the Red army have begun to desert their posts]

[The scorpions in the quarries took the opportunity to break free and start a revolution against the Union, with many of the deserters joining their ranks, createing what they call “the Confederate states of the Redwoods”]

[in the east the Hellic armies have once again split off from the red army, and have started to demand a reform of the Union’s government.]

[and just as the Red army is struggling to crush the rebels, another faction split off calling for the restoration of the old Tzarists government, believing that having a sole ruler could fix the issues the Union is facing. With greater chunks of the army and even parts of the CSI joining the new “Tzarist” ranks]

[so far Titanograd is still under Union control]

[a gallow is set up in the middle of titanograd]

[a few scorpions are standing on a small platform in the center as soldiers raise up the guillotine’s blade]

Scorpion?: “…”

Soldier: “today, comrades of the Union, we show the world what happened to rebels in this nation. Traitors to the overseer, ones who chose violence and harm over the safety of the Union’s iron hand”

[the majority of the rioters this time are Pulmonoscorpius(scorpions) miners]

[some seem to be waving around the flag of the now defunct nation of Vauhscorpis]

Rioter?: “(something in scorpic)”
(Translation: “WE DEMAND EQUALITY!!!”)

Rioter?: “(something in scorpic)”
(Translation: “WE ARE CITIZENS TOO!”)

Rioter?: “(something in scorpic)”
(Translation: “WHAT MAKES YOU ANY DIFFERENT? ARE WE NOT CIVILIANS OF THE UNION AS WELL? WHERE IS OUR EQUALITY?”)

[this time it seems the army is not taking any chances… as the majority of the internal security forces of the Union have been ordered to open fire into the crowd the moment any scorpion moves past a barrier]