Russo-Greek World

When the Nedgodyai of Aiden marched toward the great city of Afiny, the entire world fell silent; for the last bastion of peace and prosperity was falling to darkness as flames of terror filled the warm summers’ night. The people wailed in fright and sorrow but were not loud enough to break the booming shouts of the Negodyai and their furious leader, Aid XV. He loved the sounds of pain and discomfort. He yearned for the destruction of the Afinskiy and the death of the Korol, Zolotoy II, and his kin. The heroine of Afiny, Afina XV, a descendant of Afina the Wise, stared Aid XV in his dead, grey eyes and exclaimed, “You are the son of Aid XIV aren’t you? You are just as ruthless and crooked as he was.” Aid snapped back, “At least my matre didn’t die to a bread maker made of clay did she Afina.” This filled the great and powerful Afina with pure rage only outmatched by Lyuttya herself. She and her men charged at Aid and his enormous army of Nedgodyai. The small but trained Afinskiy army was no match for the ruthless and bloodthirsty Negodyai. The Afinskiy and Afina fought the Negodyai with pure strategy and wisdom like a true Afina! The battle lasted 4 days and 4 nights. But, the Afinskiy Army were wiped out entirely. The beautiful body of Afina XV was skinned and used as a weapons stash. This gave weapons within the stash a bond that will make it razor sharp and unbreakable. Aid took the head of Afina and raised it above his head, showing it to the Afinskiy people and exclaiming, “I am the ruler of all you hold dear, you may still control this city for now, but I control for what you hold most; your destiny!” Aid then retreated to Aiden. Zolotoy II told everyone to “Devote your health and knowledge in defeating these bastards and preserving the Afinskiy Golden Age for 1000 years to come, for this is a mear trial of our influence.” The greatest mind Afiny, Vladius, Son of Mudry, built the Grom. The weapon spewed godly amounts of lighting and thunder that could decimate an army in a couple of shots. He built 5 of them and put these cannons on each side of the walls. Gregoros, Son of Gertsog and Vladius’ pupil, built the Plamya. The cannon shot a blaring hellfire only the great Gefest could create. It set enemies ablaze. These monsters were put at the entrances of the city, facing towards the rolling hills of the Sapfir Plain. The neighboring city of Fivy gave Afiny lumber, copper, steel, and soldiers to support them in the upcoming battle. Vladius and Gregoros trained the soldiers on how to use the Grom and Plamya. Vladius and Gregoros were awarded the Afinskiy Medal of Wisdom for their contributions to the Afiny. Fivy sends their greatest mind, Merideth. Merideth, daughter of Umny, designed and built the first Pushka or cannon. Merideth, using the blueprints of both the Grom and Plamya, and with the help of Vladius and Gregoros, created the first Pistolet. This “hand cannon” as Vladius dubbed it was a hand-held cannon. Over 100 Pistolets were made in under 2 days. Merideth taught the frontlines how to use the Pistolets properly so they don’t blow their hands off. In Aiden, the Aidskiy celebrated their brutal victory with a purge that lasted 5 days and 5 nights. All prisoners were executed and hung from The Temple of Aid the Great. The General of the 1st Nedgodyai Army, Smerter, was stabbed to death by drunken Aidskiy. The generals of the 2nd and 3rd Nedgodyai Armies soon fell. The Aidenskiy Armory was looted than burned to the ground. Nobles’ houses were completely destroyed and their wives were raped then slaughtered. All around the night sky was the glare of flames and screams of pain. Aid XV, naked, covered in silk blankets in his high Akropolis palace, looked upon his burning city with devilish delight. Wales of the innocent were heard around the world. News reached Afiny, The Afinskiy were mortified by the violence and bloodshed, but, none of the less, there was a unitary sigh of relief. It was 2 years since then, still no attack. It was 4 years since then, still no attack. This time of peace was responsible for various inventions by Vladius and Gregoros. Vladius created the Elektroshokovy Pistolet, which shot bolts of metal and lightning out of a hand cannon and knocks people unconscious. Gregoros created the Ognemet, which spewed flames out of a long hand cannon from a sack of benzin. The two men, with the help of Merideth, produced and marketed their inventions to the Afinskiy Army and taught them how to use them. Gregoros had to make a special suit called the Kostyum Plameni that made the wearer resistant to heat. The first Pozharnye were created and would be used in future wars. The Elektroshokovy Pistolet was not conventional on the battlefield. It only had one shot than took 30 minutes to recharge. But, it was useful in detaining violent criminals and lowered the mortality rate for Militsionery against such criminals. So, they were implemented into the Afiny Politsiya. Low crime and no war sparked an age of enlightenment. Temples were turned into kolledzhi, kolledzhi were turned into shkoly. The literacy rate surged, creating more scholars dedicated Afiny’s problems. The boarders were expanded by 3 miles and construction started on another wall. The Biblioteka of Kekrops was built and became a hub of scholars and philosophers from around the world. Adrik of Marafon, Miron of Krit, and Ivana of Slonopodobny were the greatest philosophers that taught at the biblioteka. Ivana taught Geometriya and Geografiya, Miron taught Zakon and Strategiya, and Adrik taught Tekhnologiya and Astrologiya. This Age of Enlightenment shaped the precursor of what of we associate to be the great Afiny Empire. Zolotoy II, in all of his greatness and prosperity he has brought to Afiny in his 20 year reign, died. The people mourned, for the greatest leader of Afinskiy history has fallen. His two sons, Serebryany and Stal agreed to end the monarchy and begin a new form of government called Demokratiya. Demokratiya was a system where everyone in the city of Afiny would vote on a predstavitel to represent them and their issues to a council of other elected predstavitel called kongress. The leader of the kongress is called the Prezident can veto any decision made by kongress and kongress can veto any decision made by the Prezident. The Sud Muzchin is there to decide whether or not a new zakon goes by the Afinskaya Konstitutsiya, or the law of the land. The separation between ‘Gosudarstvo and Kult’ which permitted that the Afiny Pravitelstvo cannot favor a different kult over another and cannot build religious buildings. They could build temples for all 12 pantheonic gods, like Gera and Zevs. The Afinskiy Banka stored all the money in the city and created new jobs for the bednye. A new economic system called ‘kapitalizm’ created competition between businesses and a free market for said businesses. The pravitelstvo monitored these businesses but didn’t interfere with trading and commerce, just to who they were trading with. A new class of people emerged do to this called the ‘sredniy klass’ who worked for the rich and powerful people in their businesses but weren’t poor and homeless like the nizhe klass. They were in the middle, and most people in this new class. People were richer, cleaner, smarter, and nicer. No war in site, all the people were happy. The new wall was finished and the new port was completed. The people of Afiny were rich and fortunate that they have such a good life. New philosophers such as Prichina of Sirakuzy, Dumal of Karfagen, and Vopros of Efes, pioneered western philosophy and the concept of reason and thought over the great divine deities of the time. Afiny was the center of thought around the world. People from Kitay, Rim, Vavilon, and Iyerusalim came to Afiny to study with smartest and most capable people in history. But, by the dawn of the “God Domeny” came the end of the Afiny Enlightenment. The city was at war with Aiden and their new king, Aiden XVI, the good king. His ambitions were not bloodthirsty or ruthless at all, he just wanted the great and beautiful Afiny under his dominion. But, this war was costly, for the unintelligent and primal Nedgodyai had only one advantage over the Afinskiy: numbers. The Aidenskiy Army was around 1 million strong, largest army on the face of this Earth. The 400,000 Afinskiy Army were skilled, cunning, intelligent, and technologically advanced. The Ognement Battalion led the troop, along with the Vintovka Troopers. 5 lines of 10,000 Pistolet Regiments came behind them. On the walls of Afiny were 10 Groms on each side and 3 Plamyas at each entrance. Snaypery line the walls as well, their to pickoff high-ranking officers if they are in site to lower Nedgodyai morale. All led by the great heroine, Afina XVI. The Nedgodyai charged with their mechi and shchity in their hands. The front line and Groms from the walls shot; then silence. 60,000 Nedgodyai were killed within minutes. Flames, Gunpowder, and Thunder were all over the battlefield. The flames spread, 2,000 more Nedgodyai fell, thunder crashed, 5,000 Negodyai fell, powder blasted, 1,000 Nedgodyai fell. No Afinskiy soldier died in the first hour, but 100,000 Nedgodyai were dead. Aiden’s Grand Army retreated. Aid XVI was shot in the skull by Snaypery Mertvaya Tishina, a 11 year-old girl from Krit. Afiny’s citizens celebrated for hours. The Celebration became known as the ‘Festival' Mucheniy’ for its gruesome context. The scholars and philosophers all but mourned for the tremendous loss of life in the battle. This period of mourning by these intellectuals inspired more people to question morals and create life saving inventions. This was the start of the ‘Meditsinskaya Revolyutsiya.’ Zhizn, a mathematician and scientist, created shprits and vaktsina, eliminating diseases like malaria, polio, and smallpox from Afiny and its neighbors. Dominik of Makedonskiye created Alkogol to prevent open wounds from getting infected and later amputated. The first official bolnitsy sprang up on every street corner in Afiny. Afiny was expanded 7 miles to fit its 2 million people. The city was over 20 miles long and 10 miles wide, their coastline was 10 miles and the 2 ports, Port Yunona and Port Germes, increased total equity for each citizen. Vaktsiny for foreigners coming in to Afiny was mandatory to prevent the spread of diseases. Improved sewage systems and water banks that filtered salt water to fresh water hindered the spread of pests like rats and cockroaches. However, Afiny toiled in debt from these grand improvements. The end of the Meditsinskaya Revolyutsiya was near. Jobs were lost, unemployment rate skyrocketed, riots and protests ran the streets but were controlled. But the flames roared still. Screams of people in pain and anger filled all the of the sound in the city, but the flames roared louder. The new Prezident, Dimitrius Augustus, a Afinskiy general, passed reforms that created more jobs, import tariffs, and higher takes for the rich and elite. 4 years later, Afiny was, once again, prosperous. The Vozrast Voyny started. Dimitrius made himself Prezident for 30 years. He expanded Afinskiy control from Gretsiya to the Balkany, Anatolia to Indya and Kitay, Yegipit to Ispanyia, and Galliya to Brtianiya. The Afinskiy Empire was hammered down, with Dimitrius, now Gaius Graecius Augustus, as its leader. Mandatory military draft for all peoples of the Afiny Empire over 18 and less than 60 was established. Provinces were given to Graecius’ brothers to rule as governors. Romulus took control of Western Yevropa, Tiberius took control of Liviya, Julius took control of Araviya, and Virgil took control of Parfiya. Graecius’ 2 sons, Hadrian and Ptolemy, took control of Indiya and Kitay. The Afinskiy Empire was 18,000,000 kilometers in the first 50 years of its existence. Expansion into Central Aziya, South Aziya, Southeast Aziya, Yaponiya, and Indoneziya followed. The maximum size of the Empire was 38 million kilometers. After Graecius’ death, the Empire split into six: The Roman Empire, The Tiberian Empire, The Julian Empire, The Virgilian Empire, the United Grecheskiy Republic, and the Aziatka Republic. Gretsiya and Afiny were controlled by Orion of Aiden. Afiny was the capital of this new state. Orion became Orion the Great. He improved the road systems running through Gretsiya, allowed religious freedom, freedom of speech, press, privacy and established a Demokraticheskaya Respublika. The nobility was abolished and normal citizens could run for a seat in kongress and for prezident. KNDG (Kongress I Narod Gretsii or The Kongress and the People of Gretsiya) was plastered all over the republic and allowed women to vote. The next prezident of Afiny was Afina XX, the descendant of Afina I the Wise. She created the Kollegiya Vyborshchikov, which was a group of representatives who were not in kongress who took the votes of the people in their respective county in a state and casted the vote based on that. The Kollegiya Vyborshchikov was heavily monitored to prevent wrongful voting and centrifugal forces from staining the country. People with disabilities that prohibit them from doing jobs were put on government programs to allow these people opportunities to get money. Afina XX expanded the republic, taking control of the Balkany and Western Anatolia. The next prezident was Marcus Herrmann. Herrmann abolished slavery, gave everyone who is born within Gretsiya citizenship; including former slaves, gave equal rights to every person in Gretsiya, and every citizen had the right to vote. Herrmann established various departments to help people and keep statistics on the various industries within Gretsiya. Herrmann was then assassinated by a Julian spy. After Herrmann was Vitse-Prezident Alouis Africanus, a Nubiyskiy general. Africanus limited prezidentskikh terms to 2 terms, 4 years each. He improved infrastructure, the road system via paved roads, invested government spending in scientific research and development, and standardized steam engines. Africanus desired to gain more land to fit the 19 million citizens of Gretsiya. Gretsiya declared war on the ailing Julian Empire and won. Gretsiya expanded into Araviya and the Levant. Afiny was expanded by 5 miles. The mandatory military service was abolished. 2 years later, the Goluboy Dom was finished, housing all the tombs of all prezidents. The last prezident was Arman Persici. Persici loved the Roman Empire and desired to ceide Gretsiya and was successful, bringing the Roman Empire across the entire Sredizemnoye Sea. Afiny rioted and rebelled against Roman Empire. Afiny’s superior technology and better trained army defeated the Romans and Afiny took control of the Roman Empire, making itself capital. This transition lasted 19 years and caused the deaths of over 15 million soldiers and 20 million civilians. The war was called ‘The Steel Plague’ due to people dying seemingly at random by squads of soldiers. Soldiers as young as 10 were drafted to fight for Rim against Afiny. Boris the Young, a Roman traitor and Afiny lieutenant, created the Gazovyye Bomby: a hand-held gas ball that, when thrown at enemies, releases a green smog that would suffocated people within the mist, making their lungs black and burnt. Casualties from the Gazovyye Bomby ranged from 2-5 million deaths. The Battle of the Black saw around 5 million deaths and the surrender of Rim. The battle was north-east of Rim along the Tibr River. Gazovyye Bomby attacks infected the 2nd and 3rd armies. When they retreated back to Rim, a plague ravaged Rim and killed 4 million people. A further 700,000 people died from the invasion from Afiny. Only 10,000 Afiny soldiers died in the invasion. The grandson of Romulus, Cicero I relinquished control of his empire in exchange for the security of him and his family. On the Ides of Spring, the treaty was signed and the war was over. Instead of establishing a monarchy, an empire was formed. Afiny was now an empire. The First Emperor of the Ivanian Empire was the descendant of Zolotoy I the Great, Ivan I of Moskva. All the laws established in Afiny applied throughout the empire. Ivan I was still constrained under prezidential term limits, making ‘emperor’ the title instead of  ‘prezident.’ Emperor Ivan I expanded the empire in the entire Britanskiye Ostrova, Skandinaviya, and parts of Indya. The next emperor was Mark Xi I of Pekin, a noble from Kitay. Xi established trade relations with ailing Tiberian Empire and met the queen of Tiberium, Hala Africanus. Hala and Xi created an alliance and merged their empires when they married. Statues of Tiberius and Orion leading the empire through war were placed on every every government building. The Empire was renamed to the Tiberian-Orionus Empire and the national motto was changed to NNIP, short for Narodnaya Imperiya (The People’s Empire). Hala and Xi created a duel-empire, giving them both equal power. Peace treaties were created with the Aziatka Republic. The prezident of Azia and Mark Xi’s uncle, Huang Manli, payed a visit to Afiny and approved of the peace treaty. He gave his thanks and left while Hala and Xi planned a voyage West to conquer new lands. Previous voyages by the Aziatka explorer Aditya Chatterjee (Aidan Christopher John) established the 4th and 5th continents of New Yevropa (North Amerika) and Adamus Eva (South Amerika). Voyages southeast by Yevropa Admiral Leif of Nor (Luke of Norway) discovered Lower Azia (Okeaniya) and Australia (Antarktida). Xi’s son, Antigone, set sail for New Yevropa. The seas were fair and the trip long but they made it to Virginiya and established Antigonus. When news got back to Mark, he sent more and more voyages to New Yevropa. Towns like Herrmannus, Philadelphia, Operanus, and New York were established. They became major trading ports along the Atlantic Ocean. The colonies became a province of the Empire, named East Amerika after famed explorer Leonardo Aemrika Del Santiago. Governor of East Amerika was Antigone’s son Pompey. Pompey was a brutal leader, regularly massacring thousands of natives and raping thousands more. Antigone and Xi led an expedition that led to the execution of Pompey and his entire administration. 5 years later, Hala died of old age and Mark Xi committed suicide for tradition. Antigone and his wife Helen were the new rulers of the Tiberian-Orionus Empire. Antigone gave autonomy for natives in Amerika, banned religious persecution, and renamed the empire to the Xi Dynasty. Afiny was now the largest city in the world and the most populous (40 million). The era of Pax Graeca set in.