Dictator-class Command Ship
The Dictator-class command ship is a unique and powerful vessel designed to serve as the flagship of the Diarcesian Mundana Forces naval fleet. Its trimaran hull design allows for greater stability and maneuverability, while its advanced technology and materials stakes its claim as one of the most formidable warships in the world.
The construction of each ship involves a complex process that utilizes cutting-edge materials such as carbon fiber composites and titanium alloys. The nature of these materials provides exceptional strength, durability, and resistance to damage from enemy attacks or harsh environmental conditions.
During trials, each new Dictator-class undergoes rigorous testing to ensure that all systems are functioning properly before being commissioned into active service. However, despite their advanced technology and superior construction quality compared with other classes in use by neighboring kingdoms’ navies like Sesbia’s Oceania-class and their steel alloy-based material, flaws may arise. For example, during operations, especially if battle damages are sustained, immediate repairs should be done once possible otherwise casualties will increase exponentially at sea battles between fleets since this class has no ability against heavy gun salvos.
This flaw was demonstrated with perhaps the worst Dictator (ship) in Diarcesia’s history. The DNS Tyrannus, which was involved in the Cutting of Kaisura during the opening stages of the North Ikuyo seccession crisis, suffered significant heavy gun damage from the secessionists who commandeered Gegonota cae Logica and also employed drones. The impact of this event brought shame and embarrassment to the Diarcesian Navy, as well as political consequences for those responsible for overseeing the ship’s design and construction.
Mervin, Monarch Diarcesian
Diarcesia’s worst dictator was Mervin, who ruled from 1857 to 1872. He was infamous for his brutal and oppressive rule, which led to the deaths of thousands of innocent people. His impact on Diarcesia was devastating, as he instilled fear and paranoia in the population while enriching himself at their expense in the form of expansionist wars in the name of spreading his Diarcesian Ideal (summarized as all the countries in the known world self-governing with the benevolent guidance and protection of the Diarcesian monarchy). His downfall started with his pyrrhic victory in the Siege of Puerto Rabo. The casualties incurred in that operation, in addition to the near-constant warfare for the greater part of the past century, pushed the war-weary Diarcesians to a tipping point.
In 1872, one of the largest protests in Arcesius’s history occurred demanding the Monarch to appear before them in person and address their grievances. Flanked by all of triarchs and separated from the protesters by soldiers, Monarch Diarcesian Mervin exited the Domus Arigotus. Instead of negotiating with the protesters, Mervin ordered the soldiers to have them dispersed by any means. Once the soldiers started shooting, two of the triarchs turned against Mervin and a 2 versus 2 fistfight started. This concluded when Triarchess Grere, an experienced pugilist, landed an uppercut on Mervin. Mervin toppled down the steps leading to the Domus’s entrance to his death. With Mervin dead and the other two triarchs barely conscious, Grere ordered the soldiers to cease fire and offered an olive branch to the Arcesian protesters. This lead to more democratic reforms that included the end of expansionist wars, many of the less-willing diereses—mostly overseas and a few in the mainland—seceding without incident, and converting the Fifth to Ninth nonarchs to elective positions.
One of the iconic moments of this event is the protesters’ mock salute of Mervin over his corpse.
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USA, 2025
Dictatorship:I have only one specific seafaring vessel defined, the Minnow. It is a mass-produced submarine chassis used for any number of purposes by the wealthy plutocratic underwater cities on the planet Sweetwater. Some of these cities are so scandalously prodigal that they’ll think nothing of abandoning these vessels to the surface at the slightest inconvenience, much like the fleets of abandoned luxury cars in Dubai. After breaching the surface and drifting with the currents, many of these derelicts are picked up by the poverty-stricken surface-dwellers of Sweetwater, both peaceful and piratical, who repurpose them for their needs. Minnows are infamous system-wide as technicals used by anti Allied Worlds insurgents.
Given yinrih are quadrupeds who stand around 30 inches at the shoulders, their subs are positively claustrophobic even for seasoned human submariners.
Dictatorship:
Partisan Territory is (ostensibly) ruled by Firefly the Apostate, who has cheated death for 33 millennia, making him unthinkably ancient even for the yinrih, who regularly live over seven centuries. He lives in a state of litchdom, suspended between life and death inside a modified metabolic suspension capsule called the Eternal Womb, his body dead but his brain alive.
However, even he has forgotten the location of his physical body, the Eternal Womb being squirreled away in some musty corner of the Capital Complex, which takes up the entire surface and interior of a dwarf planet. He fades in and out of madness born of his sheer age, as the vulpithecine brain is not built to store memories for such a long time. During moments of lucidity his mind prowls the capital’s network, drinking in the data flowing in from all corners of the Outlands. The acting government still uses his name liberally when enacting policies, saying such and such was ‘decreed by the Great Leader’ or ‘done according to his will’.
