Fate of the Empire

After eighteen years of conflict, from 1020 to 1038, the outcome of the Imperial-Republican war was finally determined in a battle that lasted eighteen hours. Despite their impressive ability to hold, and the nuclear fire that the Republic unleashed mid-war, time was ultimately harsher toward them than the Empire. Kemerskai had grown old and died in the later years of the war, and in the wake of his demise infighting broke out in the political sector of the Republic. Momentum was all that kept them going, and with a casualty count that totaled over thirty million across both sides, the war became highly unpopular everywhere. With the Republic's siege of Griffenheim halted completely, their leadership was finally willing to accept a conditional peace with the Empire. Following a three-day negotiation, it was decided to simply allow both nations to keep what they still held, leaving the Republic with much of Northern Griffonia, and the Empire with much of the south. Both sides had been devastated during the war, and it would take much time and effort for either of them to restore the stability and order that had been so utterly shattered.