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[b][color=red]EMPIRE OF MILLE-SESSAU[/color][/b][/center]

[b]Royal Senate, Aville, November 30th, 1920[/b]

"It must be done, I say!"

Millean Prime Minister Lucien Arbel waved his arm lackadaisically, but several of the members of parliament would not have it. He'd been ranting for the better part of an hour, but Deputy Speaker Pierre Frédéric Dorian smashed the gavel across the Survaekom wood and Arbel heaved a great sigh then settled back into his chair. "The Prime Minister has spoken then," Dorian said, peering around the room as if someone might feint a look of disbelief.

"The ink is not yet dry on the Samovian constitution," Sessauan Prime Minister Louis de Carné mumbled. "While Mille would have all the corners of the Empire folded over, Sessau [i]will not let it stand[/i]!" The room erupted into cheers and the Deputy Speaker swung his gavel again. "Not this time, Lord Speaker! It stands to reason that while the Empress may not understand the faculties of independence, I do! Where the Samovians fall, so too do the Ardenoisians! So too do the Lorians! Once the matter is settled, the empire stands as one, or not at all!"

A great many of the senators stood, clapping and hooting. It'd been a serious point of contention. The Samovians--with Soroyan economic aid--had weaseled their way into winning a war of independence where the Mille-Sessauan Army could not stop them. The government was torn. The Sessauan natives, mostly members of the [b]Royalist Party[/b] wanted a second shot at the Samovians. If the Samovians get away, the Milleans are next, they say. The Milleans on the other hand, representing a majority as the [b]State Party[/b], wanted to focus on internal politics and maintain the integrity of an already crumbling ethnic empire. With a weak monarch on the throne, it was the majority holding Royalist Party that was having it's way.

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[i]Royal Senate in Aville, November 1920[/i][/center]

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[b]Kormont Shipways, December 3rd[/b]

The [i]Sofie[/i] was the second of two planned Mormeaux-class dreadnoughts. The expansion of the Mille-Sessau Navy was at the forefront of the budget for the next ten years. The [b]Naval Act of 1919[/b] had offered a promise of 3 dreadnoughts, 6 armored cruisers, 10 light cruisers and 20 destroyers by 1929. A strong Mille-Sessauan Navy would be undaunted by Soroyan interference in Tervasa and would help buffer against Survaekom politics in the area. Historically a land based power, Mille-Sessau's observations of naval prowess in the Terrible War turned the nation's dated ideology around.

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[i]Mormeaux-class Dreadnought Sofie under construction, 1920[/i][/center]

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A deal struck between the Mother Nation and the [b][color=purple]Kingdom of Soroya[/color][/b] ended up with a pair of [i]Lux[/i] tankettes being sold to the Tervasan nation. Without a heavy industry or a well designed automotive industry, Sessauan engineers were delighted to get their hands on the tankettes. "They look more like death traps," Leftenant Armand Bouat said, stopping to pose for the camera. Automotive engineer Victor Denain was intrigued however with the rudimentary engine and fixed ball mount on the gun.

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[i]Mille-Sessauan engineers and army officers engineering inspect one of the Lux tankettes, December 1920[/i][/center]

Within days of the tankettes being received, Mille-Sessauan army officers recruited 35 mechanically adept soldiers into the [b]Official Mobile Corps[/b], or ([i]Corps Mobile Officiele[/i]) (CMB), with the Lux tankettes being used as functional trainers. General of the [b]Mille-Sessauan 19th Army[/b] Pierre Marie de Grave said that to mistake the weapons for folly would be suicide, but to obsess over them would be murder.