Uldarashi Navy

The Uldarash Navy or by its official name of Imperial Navy of the Empire of Uldarash, serves as an anti piracy force that patrols the waters surrounding the coasts of Uldarash. With her ships being manufactured, armed, and supplied from the Auroran city of Creedence while its command arm is located in Fornost (The provinces capital). Created in response to pirate raids against Aurora's main industry of fishing attempting it has lead drastic development in ship on ship combat.

Early History
In the year 16 A.S.S. following their failed up rising The Order of Aurora was forced to flee their home island of Tessel. After consulting guidance from Athaz, they found themselves on the continent of haven. When passing an ancient pyramid complex they met a man in his early twenties named Theodore exploring these minor wonders. Greeting him with initial hostilities in fear of Escharian agents, he was quickly warmed up to with his knowledge of the lay of the land being of significant aid. When they then stumbled across the Fornost mountain range Theo spent helped introduce these new settlers to his home town of Creedence, located a roughly half a days walk from Fornost and his father, the chief of the small town. Trade between the two towns was initially a dependency for the exiles, who had near no ability to farm or gather their own food in anyway. As such they were forced to trade off blades and armor in exchange for fish, kelp, and other food in order to survive.

Roughly one year after, the Aurorans hired the best fishermen and women of Creedence to take them out on the ocean and teach them to fish for themselves. It was over this week of training that they first came into contact with the Black Squids. When returning from their trip out to see with several mending books in tow a small ship of the sloop classification had positioned itself at the mouth of the clear water. The Creedens immediately surrendered the ship to their captors, who when boarding were noted as covering themselves in squid ink. Introducing themselves as the Black Squids, they made short work of whatever resistance the order attempted to mount before taking half of the catch and all valuable goods found on the venture. It was later explained that these pirates had been living off the work of these fishermen and other surrounding towns for nearly three generations, a fact that seriously troubled the Aurorans.

A little under five years after arriving on Haven the Aurorans approached Creedence with a proposal that would purchase five vessels, four smaller fishing ships, and one larger vessel with large nets for mass amounts of fish. This ship was converted into a form of early escort vessel, with the idea being that a ship of this size guarding other fishing vessels would deter any pirates from attempting to harass fishing in the area. With the purchase of these ships The Kingdom of Aurora felt it wise to create an individual branch of the Order of Auroran which was dubbed 'The Royal Auroran Navy' commanded by Admiral Theodore Robotevelt. For the time the ships would still anchor in Creedence as Aurora itself did not posses a port of its own at this time.

This tactic of intimidation was not enough to stop the pirates however, on the 36th day of the year 25 A.S.S. the Auroran navy was put to its first test.

The Battle of The South Domeri Sea:
In the early light of a clear morning two unidentified ships were spotted on the horizon, closing towards the formation of fishing vessels. Initially viewing them with little worry the fishermen casted their nets and lines for the day while much of the ANS Guardian's crew remained in their bunks. It wasnt until they had closed to roughly five kilometers out that the easily identifiable black sails of the Black Squids were confirmed to be flown by these ships. Action stations were called and ANS Guardian and the fishing vessels were orders to reel in their lines and nets and make away from the in coming ships. Two of the vessels were unable to bring everything back aboard before the pirates were already baring down on them at which point ANS Guardian had positioned itself between the fleeing ships and the pirates. They quickly boarded Guardian and bested what resistance the crew was able to put up before demanding the surrender of the three remaining ships. Much of the crew of ANS Guardian were cut down In a futile attempt to keep the fishing vessels safe. As punishment for resisting the pirates took the two fishing vessels and slaughter three of every four Guardian crew members, the three remaining ships limping back to shore with the wounded and what goods they had left.

Clearly something needed to be done, the fishing industry could not experience another crushing loss of equipment on this scale again and pressure was heavily placed on the navy to find a solution. After about a week of planning a public statement was made by the admiralty describing its plan to the people of Fornost and Creedence, this statement read:

==== "You had trusted us with the protection of your people, work, and life line and in that regard we have failed. We have however, found a solution to our predicament, it has been widely known for some time that an old Black Squid vessel was sunk off the western coast of the desert to the north of Fornost.  We intended to use our remaining budget on this project to resurface it, and sail it to Aezenfjord where we will purchase the schematics for their cannons and use whatever remaining money we have to buy completed cannons, mount them on the ship and give this thieving, murdering, low life bastards what fore." ====

On the day of the sinking of Lileanen operation revival was put into action, over the course 10 days floatation devises were attached to the sunken ship and they were able to get it off the sea floor before beginning to tow it to the newly constructed ship yard at Creedence. Once in dock many copses of the ships lost crew were found and burred along with roughly 100,000 dollars in presumably stolen valuables. With this extra money the ship was in action before the year was out and the crew began the longest voyage any Auroran ship had ever been on.

The Voyage of A.N.S. Revival
Half way through year 26 A.S.S. operation black powder was begun. This mission involved the newly appointed Admiral Theodore Robotevelt sailing A.N.S. Revival to the port city of Aezenfjord and purchase some form of technology to find a more permanent solution to the pirate problem. On this venture 23 men set sail from Creedence at sun down. Every day they would put in at anything along the coast to attempt to hide from the pirates during the day and once the night came again they would continue on their way. Sailing around Ummarnu until on the tenth day they passed through the straights of Ummarnu, the end of the operational territory of the Black Squids. From here it was full sail ahead making it to the waters of Aezenfjord

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