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| - January 2006 was a dark month to be one of the League’s auxiliaries. It was the closing weeks of the Second Great War and the League’s lines had long been broken: each nation’s army fought with wretched desperation in filthy trenches as enemy planes dropped bombs overhead. Yet to be both an auxiliary of the League and a member of the Order of Defensive Security was to be privy to a hell of a very different and exquisite torment. For it was in that month that the founding chancellor Ruben couped the legitimate chancellor, causing many loyalists to leave the alliance. Some became prisoners of war forced to join the victor’s alliance, some managed to flee to allied or neutral alliances, while others chose to continue the fight and not surrender. One of the latter was the nation of Aresia governed by Gaius Aurelian. One day, Gaius Aurelian collected the few survivors and proposed abandoning the country and establishing a new nation. If this attempt succeeded, the Aresians-in-exile would receive generous aid from the citizens of Crazy Rightists under their ruler, Marbles. A short while later the handful of exiles founded the Aethiopian Empire, and Marbles swiftly sent the promised financial aid. Because they had become such strong friends as a result of the war, however, they resolved to solidify their friendship by founding a new alliance, the Confederacy of Spartan Republics. The CSR was the first alliance to rise out of the rubble of the Order of Defensive Security, yet the idea of forming an alliance was not isolated to Marbles and Gaius Aurelian: Masta, the rightful chancellor, was planning an alliance while in exile with the ICP, likewise Turetel, the former Minister of Domestic Affairs, was also planning an alliance. Perhaps to give hope to a Planet Bob where many of its inhabitants had been ruined by war, the benevolent Admin created two new spheres: White and Aqua. Sensing an opportunity to quickly become a power in a sphere, Gaius Aurelian consulted with Marbles and the two agreed that the CSR would be a white team alliance. They were beaten to the title of first official white team alliance by the new-born Siberian Tiger Alliance, yet they entered a sphere bereft of long-established hostilities and plentifully stocked with other small alliances. By the time the CSR had moved to the white sphere, Turetel had founded the International Democratic Assembly, and Masta had founded, with former ICP ambassador to the ODS, Canik, the Stoners Reeking Havoc. Of these three, the SRH received the largest contingent of ODS exiles, the IDA also had several, whereas the CSR had only two ODS exiles: the founders. This meant that Gaius Aurelian and Marbles were heavily dependent on new members, and they managed to recruit several dedicated members: Insaneirishman, Emperor Achilles, and Robster, each of whom would at some time or another hold a government position in FEAR. Robster at one point became the Internal Chancellor of FEAR. For several weeks the three alliances pursued their own policies; the CSR even considering a merger proposal from grahamkeatley's equally young alliance TOOL. Despite their differing aims, all three wished to remain on good terms with one another. This led to discussions about a possible “Brotherhood Pact” between the three alliances. One day, however, Canik arrived at the CSR’s embassy and proposed a merger of the three alliances, even suggesting the acronym “FEAR” as the alliance’s name. Gaius, Turetel, Masta, and Marbles all liked the idea, so after some negotiation the new alliance was born: the Fellowship of Elite Allied Republics. FEAR’s first government structure consisted of elected ministers and an unelected senate consisting of the former founders of the three alliances, with the entire alliance being led by a Chancellor. By popular acclamation Masta was made Chancellor. The rest of that first government was: Bladegolem47 as Minister of Defense, Lord Boris as Minister of Intelligence, Darth Sexy as Minister of Domestic Affairs, Amoshi as Minister of Finances, and Insaneirishman as Minister of Foreign Affairs. FEAR was founded on February 24, 2006.
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