The Empire of Anvegad



[b]EDUCATION OF DEFEAT[/b]

As the Anvegad Expeditionary Force returns from Soroyan captivity, all commanders and high-level officers of the AEF have been recalled to Anvegad High Command for an immediate post-war review hearing even as Chairman Volkov returns from signing of the peace treaty.

Despite initial heated allegations and accusations of incompetence between the army, navy, and central government, Vice-General Danalov firmly crushes all infighting among military and government officials attending the hearing before proceeding with a brutally rational dissection of the strategic hesitance leading to the defeat in Faresia. Allegations of who was behind the defeat were irrelevant. The one and only task they were to consider was how to plan and prepare for the next war to come, likely with much higher stakes than a few distant colonies. In a way, the defeat was a goldmine of new insight into the nature of industrial warfare across the globe, one that could not be squandered as further hearings, questionings, and war college studies are ordered to open further investigation into both the causes of the defeat and how to best evolve new tactics and designs from lessons paid in blood.

Many Old Guard officers have already resigned from their posts in disgrace or quasi-retirement positions in colonial garrison-tenants, while veterans of the AEF have been dispersed to training garrisons to pass on their firsthand knowledge of war with machineguns and trenches. Defeat has brought new realization of Anvegad's position in the world. What will be meant of it has yet to be determined behind closed-door meetings between the Chairman and his inner council.

“Let us thank the Soroyans for this defeat. May we learn from it, and be stronger for it. And we will overcome what comes next, at any cost.”
-Vice-Genderal Danalov

[b]OUTREACH TO MILLE-SESSAU[/b]

A diplomatic mission of industrial-economic outreach is offered to the neighboring Empire of Mille-Sessau, with the proposal of an international Anvegad heavy-gauge industrial railroad to bring together the two nation’s industries and economies like never before, and potentially be a stepping stone towards greater diplomatic connections between the two empires.

"Time, distance, borders, currency, terrain. Difficulties that no longer have to be endured with the age of the railroad. Though we share our differences and past conflicts, trade and railroads will bring us together."
- Opening statement by Ambassador Vente.


[b]RUSH TO VAKELLIA? 
NO THANK YOU SAYS INDUSTRIALISTS.[/b]

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With the decline of military adventurism after the defeat in Faresia and the resulting post-war review underway, several prominent industrialists have taken the opportunity to petition for Imperial funding to start up new factories and steel mills in the central territories instead of expansion in the colonies. With the Anvegad national railroad now firmly established and enabling new movement of goods and people across the Empire, a new age of industrialization appears to be underway for the nation turning inward instead of outward like many others rushing to be involved in Vakellia.

“Military heroism and valor had their day, but now we live in an era defined by industry and progress than. Just as generals and soldiers were at the forefront of the nation before, our factories will lead our nation to a better future. Railroads, factories, and steel are the future of the nation. As we will prove in the years to come.”
-Arden Kalmersten, Spokesperson for Union Steel.