Two months had passed since the Battle for Zephys, and the Hyades Republic was barely recognisable from what it once was. In the aftermath of the bloodshed, the government had been torn apart and rebuilt from its very foundations.
Nearly every member of the Demon Cult embedded within the state had been exposed and purged, their executions or imprisonments serving as grim warnings to any who still harboured heretical loyalties.
The High Council was formally abolished, its marble halls sealed, and its authority dissolved. In its place rose a provisional committee composed entirely of figures known for their uncompromising hostility toward the Demon Cult and the Utopia Church.
At the helm of this newborn federation stood Gerrick Ironblood, the Grand Marshal of Hyades.
Elected as the new Republic's first President by unanimous vote.
