Anios

"Something other than human insurrection; no, not rebels. They were a fully-accomplished military republic, or even an empire, like the UNSC. Another nation. It didn't make much sense to us, as they fired upon us first with strange and overpowering weapons. They outclassed us and, in some cases, outnumbered us. And they spoke English."

- Sergeant Roland, K. R., UNSC Marine Corps Force Recon, on the Anians

Anios is a large, terrestrial planet whose diameter equates to nearly twice that of Reach. Resting in the Sagittarius Indi Star System, it is all but remote to its surrounding star systems. In its narrow isolation, very few species had known (or cared) about its existence. It has four satellites; two artificial planets and two naturally-formed moons.

Before the Forerunner-Flood War, Anios was a large Forerunner military hotspot; it served as a ship world, hosting armaments and extra technologies for its reserves. Upon the decimation of the galaxy and the Prehistoric Halo Event, no species were cataloged on the planet's surface or at the abandoned Forerunner sites.

Geography
Much of the planet's surface is similar to that of Earth's, variable: two arctic regions at the respective north and south poles, moderate climate between equators, deserts and other arid stages, a dozen mountain chains, and the region is plentiful of fertile land and minerals embedded in the surface.

Edera, the planet's largest continent, is vast and so large it was designated to be separated into three sections: North, South and East. Its climate is variable, having spread across half of the entire planet, but what lies underneath the surface is the more accurate definition of its richness. A 'goldmine' of resources were discovered, including several different kinds of metals found or not found on the Periodic Table of the Elements.

Rozgel is the southmost arctic region and most harsh, unforgiving and therefore ultimately uninhabitable region of the planet. It resembles keystone features of the Earthbound continent, Antarctica: barren, cold, and the planet's settlers had agreed not to colonize it for any other reason aside from scientific research. North Razgel is the continent that rests at the peak of the planet's magnetic polar expanse, or its North Pole.

Despite that Anios is nearly 84% land (Alpegi, Angeline, Indus, Antogi and Edera are separated by mere seas, opposing to the presence of a single ocean in the planet), it is still inhabitable by a space-faring race; one of its natural satellites, Vitrous, is more than 75% freshwater. Water supplies were easily transported between the planet and its smallest moon by its people.

People
"We want no part in this territorial warring of states. We will not participate in this Dark Age; even if the United Nations have won, it will happen again. No more! We shall not rest on the backfoot! Come! Follow me into a new age! A kind age! With those who are kind, those who are loyal to their nation, not only their beliefs! Let us leave for a decent world to live in!"

- The Duke of Vordek, Anian-U.N. Rally, June 2291

A relatively new and well-organized civilization, called Anians, were fleeing from the Humans' military campaigns in their original solar system, around the end of the Interplanetary Wars, as the United Nations battled fascist and communist nations in the earliest age of space expedition. By 2291 B.C.E., with the invention of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine, this large group of people found their window and escaped Human reach, seeking refuge; they utilized their newly-invented Slipspace-capable ships and jumped in random co-ordinates.

Lead by the ex-military imperialist, the Duke of Vordek, the people settled on the planet they called Anios; its capital, New Vordek, after their suddenly-elected commander in chief. Colonization was fast. Within a decade, the entire planet had been explored and mining facilities were starting all over the four largest continents retaining to Edera and Alpegi.

As the government warred itself several times and the assassination of the Duke was heavily pronounced, who was less beneficial to the citizens of Anios, there were several insurrections. The latest, known as the People's Liberation and Rebellion, split off from the imperial state and colonized Indus, beginning their lives in segregation from that point.

As politics stirred and accelerated in the absence of terrorism, by the time the people had settled, they had a name for their nation: the United Republic of Anios, taking on the adaptation of a representative democracy.

Early History
Upon colonization, the Anians were very conflicted; their commander had turned out to be a sour ruler, acting very fascist and perhaps too imperialistic for the peoples' need. There was no initial establishment for a government, so the autocracy was particularly quick to react and take over. It was, for a time, a military state. Scholars believe that even now, however, it may be considered as a form of military republic; progress may not have been the largest sight in their government's history.

Insurrection
"Enough of this tyrrany; enough of this "Anian Hegemony's" work! Enough of the destruction that the Duke of Vordek has caused among us, the men and women of Anios! Enough of this second-world society's oppression of public freedom of speech! Act now, my fellow Anians, as we will wage war for a better planet! Rise from the Dark Ages of Interplanetary War, citizens! Hear the cry of a once-autocratic monster! Today we speak for ourselves! Today we declare our independence!"

- Joahan C. Fitzgerald I, Freedom Initialization Rally, October 2315

The People's Liberation and Rebellion army was assembled in response to the autocratic tyrrany of the Duke of Vordek. An assassination was conducted, conspiring against the man until a successful attack left the commander of a Royal hegemony dead in New Vordek's central plaza.

After years of self-construction, the Anian hegemony declared the PLR outlaws and exiled them to the Indus continent, which was not yet fully discovered and colonized. In the centuries of peacetime, the Anian government built itself into what it is was declared by November, 2328, a representative democracy.

Discoveries
Upon extensive mining and science research facilities, Anios revealed its age-old secrets to Research Base Tether, as it was digging into the surface of Angeline. It discovered a metal that couldn't be destroyed by anything less than extreme force; it wasn't long before other stations discovered the same material, and it was found to be almost in excess of the planet's underground. The Anian Military was quick to extract these materials and use them for armor plating on hulls in warships, mass-produced vehicles and infantry.

The Forerunner Armory
"It's a jackpot, technologically speaking. We came in with two sticks to rub together against and walked out with a Smartphone. These Huragok, as they proclaim themselves to be, are incredible beings; more than willing to help improve basically everything that belongs to Anios. It makes you wonder, sometimes, how it is natural selection put their race in motion."

- Doctor Evan H. Salazar, ASE ONI Research Station Juliette, March 2330

Not only was Anios rich in strong materials, embedded in the swamps and forests of Alpegi was a massive Forerunner site, discovered in 2330. There were ancient Huragok present, as well, leaving the Anians with a surplus of Tier-1 technologies and enough Engineers to build their Navy for them. It was exactly as it was implied to have happened, growing the Anian Military and effectively branching the collective armed forces into three militaries: terrestrial, space and self-defense.

The Anian Armed Forces quickly developed and transformed the United Republic of Anios into a military republic, ultimately shaping its history.

The Relocation Wars
With the new technology, the Anian Army initialized an attack on the Indus continent in 2340, driving the PLR and its inhabitants out. For nearly two decades, they battled for the territory in what was known as the Edera-Indus Campaign. In July 2360, a truce was initialized, at a cost: all that were affiliated with the PLR were abolished and exiled from Anios, on a project called "Lima;" the Anians would, with their Tier-1 technologies, construct a planet that would orbit around theirs for the PLR to take refuge on.

It was a ten-year project that ensured the safety of all PLR and Anians, creating new jobs and increasing employment rates; almost no one suffered from the process. As the project neared its final stages, the PLR were beginning to assemble and leave.

Through smuggling, however, PLR had gained its hands on several plans that the Anians had for themselves, including the Dyson Network Project and Transcendence. They also had equipped themselves with enough Huragok to breed and maintain themselves in their timely isolation by 2365.