Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica

"I toppled an empire once, did you know? The Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica. Short war. They really should have known better than to pick a fight with the Covenant."

- Kalia Suuk

The Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica was a minor jāraja empire in the Andromeda Galaxy that was utterly obliterated by the Ankoran Covenant in the brief Covenant-Bos'Tuxica Conflict, after the Bos’Tuxan government aroused the ire of the Covenant by kidnapping a delegation of diplomats en route to talks with the Sulsuan Protectorate.

Suffering under the brutal rebuttal of Covenant invasion, the Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica was systematically broken down and dismantled by the ankoran war machine, ultimately culminating in the assassination of High King Hask Kai-Valgam and the Council of Bos’Tuxan Kings, and all known heirs to the thrones of Bos’Tuxica, by Covenant Ghost Kalia Suuk. The massacre of the Sovereignty’s leadership left the minor empire decapitated and without leadership under the yoke of Covenant persecution, forcing the surviving government to capitulate within the week.

What remained of the Bos’Tuxan government promptly collapsed soon after into infighting in the wake of the Crisis of Bos’Tuxan Succession, without a Council of Bos’Tuxan Kings to elect new leadership. The Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica’s remaining worlds would later be absorbed into neighbouring jāraja territories, or fall into anarchy.

Covenant-Bos'Tuxica Conflict
Main Article - Covenant-Bos'Tuxica Conflict

The brutal and swift Covenant-Bos'Tuxica Conflict lasted from May 2823 to August 2823, instigated by Bos’Tuxan slave traffickers launching a raid on the Covenant diplomatic vessel HCSS Sacroscant Intent. Kidnapping the entire crew, when the Covenant caught wind that their missing diplomats - all minor members of the state church - has been enslaved and were acting as domestic slaves for the Bos’Tuxan High King, a swift and brutal reaction was brought to bear.

In the course of three months, the Ankoran Covenant had occupied 90% of the Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica’s territory, having invaded and conquered many of the Sovereignty’s most populace and valuable worlds. By August 2823, only Bos’Tuxica itself remained unconquered, though stubbornly resisted the navies of the Andromedan Covenant Territories. It was at this time that Covenant Ghost Kalia Suuk assassinated High King Hask Kai-Valgam and the rest of the Sovereignty’s leadership, rendering the government headless.

An emergency military government immediately took control over Bos’Tuxica, though quickly surrendered in the face of the invasion of the sole remaining planet within their control. The entire enslaved population of the humiliated and brutalised stellar nation were returned to their homeworlds.

Crisis of Bos’Tuxan Succession
Main Article - Crisis of Bos’Tuxan Succession

As the dust settled from the Covenant-Bos'Tuxica Conflict, the Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica turned to solve the matter of its missing monarchy. Without a High King, it would be the responsibility of the Council of Bos’Tuxan Kings to elect a replacement - were the entire Council not also assassinated by the Covenant. Lacking kings, heirs, or a High King, the already war-torn stellar nation collapsed into civil war as various noble families and political figures vied for a royal throne and the title of High King for themselves.

It seemed, almost for a time in January 2824, as if ‘king’ Moas Mit-Zoros would be able to reconquer the entire territory of the Sovereignty of Bos'Tuxica, forcing his political rivals to bend the knee to his rule; though this rule would be short-lived when one of his slave-concubines shot the would-be monarch through the back of the skull in his sleep, leading to further conflict as his formerly reunited worlds broke apart into fighting once again.

This brutal period of civil war lasted until 2824, seeing the complete collapse of all semblance of government or order. Ultimately, the Crisis of Bos’Tuxan Succession led directly to the collapse of the Sovereignty, and its dissolution.

Dissolution
Without leadership, the dissolution of the Sovereignty of Bos’Tuxica came swiftly, Some of its worlds, such as Askani and Paradonia fell into anarchic rule, and feuding city-states, others, such as Suboramon and Cranodeth came to be ruled by local governments as the capitals of new, much smaller empires, known colloquially as the Bos’Tuxan Remnant. Others still were absorbed by neighbouring jāraja empires, as happened to Epensur, Antargion and Etaradur.