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 Kingdom of Imerina

 * Government: Absolute Monarchy (Kingdom)
 * Monarch: Queen Rangitamanjakatrimovavy (B 1493 - Age 31, alive) (R 1517-Present)
 * Consort: King Rafandrampohy (B 1495 - Age 29, alive) (Ruler 1513-1517, Consort 1517-Present)
 * Ruling Dynasty: Ammagari (Ndahimananjara branch)
 * Order of Succession:  Andriantompokoindrindra, the son of Ndahimananjara (B 1467 - Age 57) (revoked) | Andriamihaja, the son of Andriantompokoindrindra (B 1496 - Age 28) (revoked) [There is no current heir]
 * Economy: The economy of Imerina is based mainly on agriculture and fishing, there's also trade going on with the Swahili and various peoples on our home island including the other Malagasy states of Betsimisaraka, Mahafaly and possibly Bara. Contact has been established with the Ahuric Adnanite people and we have a major trade relationship, extending into influence and what could be seen as a de facto alliance with eachother. The Merina economy stands as one of the strongest and most developed in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, no longer seen as primitive. Obvious strain due to civil war.
 * Allies: N/A
 * Capital: Ambanja (de jure), Mahajanga (de facto) [Royal Court] | Toamasina [Traditionalists]
 * Demographics (including rebelling areas):
 * Population: ca 530 000 total
 * Ambanja: 2 000 (occupied)
 * Mahajanga: 8 000
 * Toamasina: 4 000 (occupied)
 * Morafenobe: 1 000 (can you add this city already plz)
 * Rural regions: ca 515 000
 * Ethnicities: 90% Malagasy (divided into 62% Merina and 28% others such as Betsimisaraka, Sakalava, Tsimihety, Sihanaka, Antankarana etc.), 5% Komoro Natives (Swahili?), 5% Adnanite
 * Religion: 82% Haintenism (traditional Merina folklore), 18% Zoroastrianism (there are also people who practice Haintenism with Zoroastrian influences and vice versa)
 * Wars and Conflicts (italics: Potential War):
 * Merina Civil War: After the outrage expressed by Andriamihaja, armies were raised and patrols close-by to the capital were started. On the 7th of October 1517, a patrol would notice a marching rebel army, led by Andriamihaja himself. Hostilities broke out and thus, the Merina Civil War began between Queen Rangita's royal court and Andriamihaja, accompanied by his supporters (called the Traditionalists).
 * 1520: In early 1520, Andriamihaja would have the main frontline constantly under attack for a while in an attempt to suppress the troops there, which was successful to an extent but quite many died. Still, this came just before a massive attack in the north. Rangita had seen an attack there coming, but not this early and armies had to retreat at an alarming rate. Quickly, Rangita prepared defenses as the Siege of Ambanja began. Unfortunately, the defense wasn't ready enough and it didn't take long for the rebels to break in. As the royal court fled to Mahajanga, the chaos within Ambanja rose higher. When everything got crazy as the walls fell, people started fleeing and there were a few places where cooking was occurring and you can see where this is going. As the last defending troops of the royal court fought the entire city's population smelled of something burnt and not much longer after that, the air was filled with smoke and the environment turned red. The Great Fire of Ambanja had broken out. It spread like wildfire (literally), causing the deaths of thousands from burning as well as suffocation from smoke. This was quite bad, for both sides because Ambanja is literally the capital. It survived the fire, but was obviously severely damaged and had lost population to deaths, fleeing and post-fire migration. In the meanwhile most of the Central Highlands were liberated at the same time by the Royal Court, in another event of "evening out" the battlefield. Whilst very much damaging, the Royal Court refused to give up and took shop up in Mahajanga. Meanwhile Andriamihaja was pissed, he was so close to achieving his goal and then it was taken from him. The once great capital that he expected to take was now a miserable rubble-ridden charred corpse of a city. Still Through the Fire and the Flames he carries on, as he was able to save his father from his prison and bring him out safely and he still has a chance now that the very north is Traditionalist territory. He also gets an advantage from assistance from neighbouring Betsimisaraka and to please the Betsimisaraka people both in the state of the same name and in Imerina he declares Toamasina the "centre of his kingdom", establishing it as an official war-time capital. Due to the fire causing such disarray the rest of 1520 remain mostly the same, attacks from both sides with varying degrees of success.
 * 1521: Immediately a new rova is being built in Mahajanga due to its important status. The Traditionalists are eyeing it up, take that and there is no way the Royal Court can recover because Morafenobe is not even close to as influential and "powerful" as Mahajanga is. A few starting assaults were done but even as shocked and exhausted as the Royal Court's soldiers were, they were capable of fighting back the less prepared and worse equipped Traditionalists, especially the untrained militia forces created from the recruiting of mere peasants. Now, a period of much bigger stalemate began everywhere other than in the easternmost part of the frontline. Both sides were trying to recover after such violence at Ambanja and both couldn't do much of anything for the majority of the rest of the year. But, the assistance of Betsimisaraka, giving support mainly by the border in the east, gave the ability for the rebels to push quite far, but in a narrow way, almost like a corridor. Towards the close of 1521, they were closing in on the Central Highlands, as the main frontline started to move more with the corridor being widened from the rebels pushing a bit closer in. Rather desperately, both Rangita and Rafa (Rafandrampohy) decided to contact Betsimisaraka (not knowing they are helping the rebels) and Mahafaly, asking for their assistance in this civil war on the side of the Royal Court.
 * 1522: 1522 arrives and the Central Highlands are in danger. The commanding warrior Ratsifandrihamanana promises the monarchy and himself to not let the highlands fall and a massive fight brews. From where the corridor begins an extending push to enlargen that attack was going on but now was facing more Royal Court troops and halted. Andriamihaja saw this as an oppurtunity to move towards Mahajanga but it was exactly what his enemies wanted him to do. Having spent a long time recruiting cavalry, something that Andriamihaja doesn't possess as much of, an army with some cavalry intercepted the main attack directed towards Mahajanga and before Andriamihaja could properly react, that extending push was attacked with a larger army with many more cavalry units in it, outspeeding and breaking the organization of the armies there and decimating them at the decisive Battle of Betsiboka. From there, the armies could start to cut off the attack, but Ratsifandrihamanana's troops were still in danger and if they fell, the Central Highlands were pretty much fair game and Andriamihaja could recover. During the defensive stance taken, a large outpost had been formed in late 1521, called Analamanga (HAHHAHASHGAGAHAHAHHA IT HAS THWE WORD ANAL IN IT FOUNNY MAYMAYY COIMEDYU PLATINUKMMD GOT THE WHOLE SCQUALD LAUGHING DLMAO), which means Blue Forest. As the Battle of Analamanga approached Ratsifandrihamanana told his men that the Blue Forest must stand. And so it did, a month long battle was observed and after the corridor had been cut off the Traditionalist army there stood no chance. Andriamihaja attempted to get them to retreat as fast as possible but it was too late. He just lost an important army. Never was he gonna give you up though and he started another wave of naval warfare, now with a few transport ships built by the Traditionalist. Attempting a "trireme"-like strategy of ramming and boarding ships, he sent them out as quite a distraction. Would it work?
 * 1523: Well yes, but actually no but actually kind of. A few enemy transport ships were successfully captured and a shift to the naval side of the conflict happened, with direct skirmishes starting again. At the same time the Traditionalists would attempt to create an even line of professional soldiers (such as the many Fossa Warriors on their side) and untrained militia units across the front so that no part is much weaker than another. With a focus on fighting in the north now that the Central Highlands were basically just in the hands of the Royal Court, Andriamihaja ordered a big assault there, desperate to get Mahajanga in his hands and while he got close, he was just short of it. I just said he was desperate and that isn't changing because he would use resources to purchase help from Betsimisaraka. The rebuilding of Ambanja was commenced, but it would take too long before the city could be of use and help again so this was the only way through, to him at least. He pushed as close to Mahajanga as possible and started an active campaign of defending the currently held regions as he built up the strength of his forces. With the right tactics and a bit of luck, he could maybe successfully siege and take Mahajanga and win the war. He had the time since on both sides there was quite an amount of exhaustion, giving him time to let his forces recover and prepare for that siege.
 * 1524: The civil war enters its seventh year and as the Traditionalist forces drew ever closer to Mahajanga, attacks from the Central Highlands were ordered but they were not very effective and if this attack on Mahajanga could be a success then that campaign would not save the city. In early April it came, the Siege of Mahajanga. The walls were held for months but the defense slowly started to break down. This was until early July when suddenly the city stopped the defense of the walls. Andriamihaja immediately ordered an attack, but it was a trap. As the Traditionalists entered the city they suffered a counterattack from the soldiers in Mahajanga, many of which had hid to get the Traditionalists on surprise. A retreat was ordered but Andriamihaja was not willing to give up and just a few months later in September he ordered a mass attack on the entire front to attempt to confuse the enemy so that the northern armies could gain ground and start a second siege that hopefully would work now that Mahajanga's defenses were very much weakened. And once more this was successful, in the north that is. They approached Mahajanga for the second time while the front further east was quite the disaster, with the cavalry tactics used by Rangita able to counter and decimate the forces there, causing a large push led by Ratsifandrihamanana. Still, the capture of Mahajanga would by all means mean a victory for Andriamihaja. Believing another shockingly brutal and quick attack could confuse the enemy and ease the capture of an already weakened city, that was what was ordered. However, the reckless attack was just that and the second siege failed. It wasn't a complete Natural 1 but not much higher than that either. This cost him greatly. Another important army was destroyed and he couldn't gain many more forces through any other way than recruiting peasants and buying a few mercenaries from Betsimisaraka. As the year came to a close, the Traditionalists were slowly being pushed up back to Ambanja and the victories of Ratsifandrihamanana were threatening Toamasina.
 * Military: Due to Imerina being a rural realm, a large amount of units can be raised for warfare, but usually about 1% of the population is the most trained and prepared soldiers that can be drafted. Parentheses means the deployed units in cases where not all units are deployed for war.
 * Deployed units: All (Royal Court only)
 * 1 500 Spearmen
 * 800 Bowmen
 * 1 000 Crossbowmen
 * 120 Light Cavalry
 * 30 Fossa Warriors
 * Navy:
 * 11 Ahuric military ships (4 controlled by the Traditionalists)
 * 2 Mer'ana class ships
 * 10 transport ships (5 controlled by the Traditionalists)
 * Diplomacy:
 * Ahuric Empire: Help us please.
 * Betsimisaraka and Mahafaly: See 1521.
 * Events:
 * Influences of the Ahuric Empire: With increasing diplomacy and interaction, the Adananita have set influence over us. More merchants start to adopt Zoroastrianism and/or parts of it into their rituals and traditions. More Zoroastrian texts are translated into Malagasy and the Sorabe alphabet, which is being more modified in these texts to accomodate various parts of the Adnanite language that we don't have, continuing the Adnanification of the Sorabe alphabet as well as leading to merchants learning the Adnanite language. The officially established class (or caste) of Merina merchants also trade in the Komoros with not only the natives there but also the Swahili on the East African coast, which sets up the start of spreading Zoroastrianism, the adnanified Sorabe and the Adnanite language to those lands.
 * Tombovelo - Telo: These next few years of Tombovelo's Bizarre Adventure oh wait no shut the fuck up with the dumbass weeb anime references, not a funny joke. I mean Tombovelo's trip/vacation to the Ahuric Empire. He visits what is otl Qatar and Bahrain and also the Elamite region. He would even meet, through his Zoroastrian studies and work on his own syncretist with Haintenism Merina weird thing interpretation meet a lovely woman that he fell in love with (Manto you are free to give a name) and would start a non-marriage relationship with during his stay. He loved the land of the Adnanites but like they say in Sweden: Borta bra men hemma bäst (Away is good but home is best) and he had basically done everything he needed to and also he had finally learned that "oh, some kind of insurgency is going on down there". So thus in 1524 he would start his travel back to Imerina.
 * Adapting New Technology: We've held on to foreign tech for quite a while and now we start adapting it and studying it more. Crossbows especially for the purpose of warfare in the future. Crossbows become a good weapon that starts to increase and seems more effective than bows. Still, the majority of our ranged units are bowmen since bows and arrows are simpler to make and you don't need to reload when using them. The phasing out of bows will take a long time. Seeing the success of cavalry in various battles, new tactics are developed for the cavalry units and more of these units are recruited. The breeding of horses, while having occurred for a few years have really started taking off after this.
 * The Growth of Analamanga: After being established, Analamanga became an important military outpost and a centre for the armies defending the Central Highlands. As the dust settled on that battleground, the many tribes that were discombobulated and forced to leave their homes due to the warfare were offered to live there, including both the Merina and Antankarana. In 1523, Rangita would send a few nobles there to inspect this new growing settlement and when they returned and described it to her, she was not only inspired, but saw potential. She was always curious of those newly settled lands and had never truly traveled there so the queen had a large amount of interest.
 * Rangita and Rafa's Relationship: Quite tragically it wasn't doing well, even though Rafa was still king (although consort and not regnant), he seemed much more like just an off-field commander and royal advisor rather. Unable to reproduce and caught in such a blinding and chaotic time did things to their relationship and they started to drift apart. To simplify, they didn't really love each other anymore, at least not as husband and wife. There was no bad blood or hate between the two but the passion and companionship and other love terms between them was being extinguished.
 * Discovery of Mozambique: Kind of irrelevant and boring but the discovery of the city of Mozambique on the east coast of Africa, under control by those weird pale skin dudes calling themselves Agoustans (or in Malagasy I guess it would be something like Aogosota).