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The Republic of Susset Declares its Independence
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-2000 AS-


Over the eighteen years since Sagacian authority in Susset collapsed, the city’s many merchants have continued making their living same as always. Despite the breakdown of the old Sagacian trade networks and the chaos in the Sagacian heartland, outgoing trade vessels from the city have continued to ply its goods to distant ports. Piracy among other acts of general lawlessness had greatly prevailed in the first few weeks after the Sagacian regime’s ignominious end. Soon, however, the merchants of Susset along with their hired soldiers had reestablished law and order, and the aforementioned trade along with it.

As the 2,000th year of the Sagacian calendar drew to a close, this tentative peace was disrupted when the leaders of Susset learned of the Talosian claim to the vacant Sagacian throne. The many shrewd and politically savvy minds among them realized that the former lands of Sagacia would soon be embroiled in a great conflict, and Susset itself would have no protection from conquest beyond a meager force of soldiers and armed citizenry. Additionally, the merchants of Susset had never felt any particular affinity with the distant rulers and stargazers of Solris in the first place. In their time, most believed that the senators of Solris and other, more distant Sagacian realms had spurned their trade and the region of Susset in general to pursue a dalliance with the stargazers’ temples and institutions. For these merchants and leaders, this policy of ignoring the concrete for the abstract was directly responsible for their resource-rich land becoming a backwater, and they had truthfully long resented the Sagacian kings and queens and senators.

Still, the Sagacian Empire had provided crucial unity and safety in a tumultuous world, so any hints of discontent in Susset were quickly quelled – until now. After the leaders of Susset had decided that they must assert their independence, they spent some time deliberating about the appropriate actions. On the last day of the retreating second millennium, the leaders of Susset finally made up their mind about what must be done. They would establish a claim for the new Republic of Susset, comprised of all the land that had formerly made up the Sagacian region of Susset. All the men the new republic could muster would defend the nation from any would-be foreign invaders. Additionally, they would send diplomatic delegations to all nations they knew of, from long-time trade partners Yavalang to those Talosian instigators, bearing gifts and seeking recognition of the new republic’s unalienable independence. At midnight, right as the third millennium dawned, Susset’s current mayor brought a huge assembled audience to their feet with applause by calling for a better and brighter future for the citizenry of Susset, to be an independent republic from now on.

And so, the leaders of the new plutocracy hoped, the new millennium would see Susset truly thrive as an independent mercantile republic. However, it wouldn’t remotely be easy. Already, rumblings of a huge Talosian army invading the eastern frontiers of the former Sagaican Empire reached their ears. Upon hearing this news, the leaders of Susset knew that their defense and diplomacy alike would need be both steadfast and vigilant in order to secure independence in these changing times.


OOC: With the permission of Narlus, former owner of Sagacia, declaring the independence of the Republic of Susset. Claiming the fourteen tiles bordered by lime green lines for the new plutocracy, which will have lime green as its color.

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