Dominal Base

The Dominal Base is a United States military establishment located in Celebus, New Jersey. Initially named after its founder, Henry Gorshing, it was renamed in 1914 as part of a rebranding effort. In response to the First World War, operators on the base began calling it the "Dominal fort," as the different sectors created a layout reminiscent of a domino setup. It began in 1832 as an initiative to defend against the Native Americans on the shoreline, but became an effort to protect the Occupant born the same year. Localized in the alternate dimension zone, the Dominal Base grew independent of its counterpart, Celebus, and became a network of intertwining military forts representing other Occupants. As of 2014, the base housed over 950,000 soldiers and operators combined.

First Settlements (1832)
Henry Gorshing was born on May 17, 1799 in Trenton, New Jersey, just over fifteen years after the end of the American Revolutionary War. His parents had been born at the height of the protests against the British Empire's actions within the colonies. In fact, his parents had been just children when George Washington crossed the Delaware River with the Continental Army during the war. Several months after Gorshing's birth, George Washington died at his estate and Gorshing's parents mourned with emotional solitude. Gorshing was raised in Trenton in the early 1800s, attending public school until 1817, two years after the end of the War of 1812, which had suspended a lot of the school's services temporarily.

After public school, Henry Gorshing entered straight into the military in September 1817, inspired by the American military prowess of the past decade; he was drivene by the desire to protect the country from an onslaught of Native Americans and British officers, which was to be fully expected after the invasion of Washington D.C. in 1814. He finished his training in Jackson, New Jersey, around 10 miles west of the shoreline, and was placed as an officer on the first day of 1826 under General William Celebus, who was stationed in Jackson for the time being for protective measures. While no actual chaos emerged from outside sources during this era, internal conflicts within the fort began to spring up between General Celebus and the Trenton general, who wanted to maintain the military link between the two forts. General Celebus wished to expand the base by pushing through open land to the east and exploring their settlement options. Up to that time, Native Americans had established an agreement with the Americans that the area on the shoreline would be theirs.

On October 29, 1831, General Celebus resigned from the post at Fort Jackson, New Jersey, without warning and used the following three months to gather willing soldiers and weapons. He attempted to persuade Henry Gorshing to come with him to open territory to fight the Native Americans, against the wishes of the federal government. Gorshing took his time to decide what he wanted to do, traveling to his parents' home in Trenton on February 12, 1832 to discuss the issue with them. On the one hand, if he remained at Fort Jackson, he would be promoted to General and maintain the base there with ties to the fort in Trenton. On the other hand, he wanted desperately to finally fulfill his dream of fighting against the forces he perceived to be antagonistic; he wanted to be somebody who explored and liberated regions of the United States against Native American aggression. He traveled back to Fort Jackson and made the decision to quit his post at the fort and join William Celebus on his journey to the Atlantic shoreline 10 miles northeast. The two men gathered weapons and a force of 120 willing men and women on the base, who also quit in a massive exodus on April 26, 1832. Two days later, the settlement force set out in waves for the Atlantic shoreline, finally reaching the area a day later on April 29.

The soldiers in the front of the settlement force took the Native American inhabitants by surprise, massacring them completely in a period of four days. On May 2, 1832, William Celebus, with his newly named General Henry Gorshing under him as a close ally, declared the region to be fair ground for settlement and the foundations began for the town soon after. Once shelter was made and a routine was established within the first three weeks, Gorshing eyed the massive forest two miles west of the settled land. He told Celebus that they would be better off if they explored the area west of the forest in order to take on any new resources they would need, an expedition that was approved on June 9. The trip would take place two weeks after, with necessay materials. Tragedy struck quickly, however, when their position was attacked on the night of June 11 by Native Americans looking for revenge, more than a week before their planned voyage to the forest. Celebus, holding down and defending the settlement with his other troops, ordered Henry Gorshing to leave the area through the forest with a force of 75 men and women. One of them was already nine months pregnant.



In the early hours of June 12, Henry Gorshing and his followers forced their way through the forest on the western edge of the settlement to escape the Native Americans to safety. As they reached the edge of the forest, the pregnant woman went into labor on a dimension site, giving birth with the help of many other women on their escape route. The baby would become the first Occupant of the Dominal Base; the birth of a baby on the dimension site produced a split reality, as the baby was born both in the other dimension and in the real world. Therefore, in all practical terms, in the real world, the baby was born to the woman by herself and in the other dimension, the baby was born to a phantom mother at the forest's threshold. This split is what made the baby occupant number one in the future Dominal Base, as the baby was motherless by the first day. Gorshing and the force desperately made their way through the forest and into a plain field that went on for at least two miles, surrounded on all sides by forest. This would become the site of the first sector of the Dominal Base.

Henry Gorshing Era (1832-1859)
On June 16, 1832, four days after the birth of the first Occupant, Henry Gorshing was unanimously named the leader of the settlement. The foundation of the base was started west of the massive forest the baby had been born in, and care of the newborn was supervised by multiple women in the group. The settlement force spent nine days beginning the foundations of the future Dominal Base with convenient materials found in the surrounding area. Once the rudimentary buildings were started, Gorshing led an expeditionary force back through the forest to the east to make contact with William Celebus at the settlement in Celebus, New Jersey. They trekked two miles through the forest and came upon a fully-scaled military base, which looked to be at least two decades old. Puzzled on the whereabouts of Celebus, he ventured into the military base, which was put on high alert by the authorities in response to their foreign presence. They immediately surrendered and told their story of the settlement just two weeks before on the other side of the forest. The leader of the military base there, nicknamed Jockey, organized a meeting with the expeditionary force that same day.

Jockey explained that the military base had been there since the 1790s; he didn't know who William Celebus was though. Jockey had been the leader of Base 629, named by the Gorshing force for the date it was found, since 1823, taking over after his father died. His father had been in charge since the base's beginnings in 1798. Realizing they were in another world or dimension, Henry Gorshing and his expedition labeled contact with William Celebus a cold case and headed back to their own establishment to continue working on Sector 1 of the base. Work continued until it was rudimentarily completed in early August 1832. It included defense walls, barracks, and a mess hall for dining services. It also contained a small church that the soldiers and women attended regularly every Sunday. While each building wasn't insulated, the summer heat provided enough warmth within the wooden walls. On August 9, 1832, small tents were set up for hospitals and other operations. Henry Gorshing was approached that same afternoon that supplies were running out quickly and a few soldiers had died of a virus that was spreading through the camp. Gorshing immediately formed a second expeditionary force and set off to Jockey's base to the east. When Jockey held an official meeting, Gorshing explained that the early Dominal Base settlement was running out of supplies and food, nearing a state of crisis. Jockey negotiated on August 12 an agreement with a neighbor base (the two had already been allied for over a decade) to provide the early Dominal Base with new recruits, supplies, and food, as long as the Dominal Base provided defense services for the two bases in the future. Thus, a double-parent primary alliance was born, supplying the Dominal Base with much needed services for operations.

In four years' time, the influx of supplies and soldiers from the two parent bases facilitated the rapid development of the base. Sector 1 was fully completed and furnished on November 4, 1836, complete with hundreds of new soldiers. This first sector, which was small in general, was designated the "recruitment center" for new soldiers, which would help direct operations around the base in an organized manner. On the same day, feeling a push in momentum, Gorshing led a second expedition force through the forest to the east to establish contact with William Celebus, skirting around the edges of Jockey's base. The search was a failure, however, as the two were separated indefinitely by the two dimensions. In fact, only a month later on December 12, William Celebus would die in the town of dysentery, causing a massive crisis of leadership within a power vacuum.

This expansion of the Dominal Base continued with the construction of Sectors 2 and 3 in 1840 and 1844, respectively. The two sectors expanded to the west instead of breaking ground through the forest to the east, which bordered the two parent bases. Gorshing was rated as such a great leader that many vocal opponents of his expansion policies were humiliated mercilessly for months. In 1845, when the Occupant was 23 years old, Gorshing negotiated a secondary alliance with Mary's Base, a military fort a few miles to the north. The two bases allied in such a way that allowed for the construction of new buildings and bureaucratic agencies for specialized operations. While there were many primary alliances, including the two parent bases and with neighboring bases, this secondary alliance had more specialized stipulations. Mary's Base was obligated to provide defensive services and add to the construction on the base whenever necessary, as the Dominal Base was to do the same. At the same time, the secondary agreement contained a loyalty clause, in which no other secondary alliance would be made with any other base for the duration of the alliance.

First Signs of Unrest
The first sign of unrest within the base against Gorshing's rule came in 1850, when the Occupant was 28 years old and still in a secondary alliance with Mary's Base. In a special announcement on February 27, Gorshing named John Foreman as the head general of the Dominal Base, designating him the successor upon his eventual death. The announcement was made in a courtyard on Sector 1, which had the largest population of soldiers. The majority of the Dominal soldiers believed this decision was one of Gorshing's worst, as John Foreman was known to be an especially unpredictable and ill-tempered supervisor of Sector 2 before the decision. In response to the announcement, gunshots rang out among the base's sectors in protest over the decision. Gorshing ordered the immediate detention of the shooters and a lockdown for one day.

Four months after John Foreman became the head general, on June 12, 1850, Sector 4 was completed, which was constructed for special purpose operations and other specialized activities, since the third sector was designated the main sector for generalized operations. To build upon the momentum, President Gorshing proposed a tertiary alliance with Mary's Base; it was accepted and negotiated the same day. Celebrations rang out all night in response to the amazing news - a tertiary alliance served as a contractual obligation that built upon the same stipulations of a secondary alliance, but was more secure. It is considered the highest alliance possible.

Henry Gorshing, however, soon deteriorated in his health. By 1854, when the Occupant was 32 years old, he suffered a heart attack that put him in the hospital for a few weeks. Moreover, he suffered a major stroke in 1858, eliciting a mournful response from his many supporters. Meanwhile, John Foreman continually made speeches throughout the base on how he would do his best to maintain Gorshing's policies after his death. On August 30, 1859, Gorshing was on his way to a meeting with one of the domestic agencies in Sector 2 when he collapsed just before entering the carriage. He was rushed to a hospital on Sector 3, where he fell into a coma and saw possible treatments. The same day, Foreman gave an address on how he would maintain his duties during his subsequent presidency, angering many Gorshing supporters who believed Foreman was communicating a type of death wish. Only a week later, on September 5, 1859, Henry Gorshing died on the Dominal Base, which was now complete with four sectors. The Occupant at the time was 37 years old, and living in good conditions. John Foreman took over as the President of the Dominal Base, amidst rising protests over his lack of leadership and arrogant nature. The advisers of Gorshing though stated that Foreman had to be president, as he was bound by Gorshing's declaration in 1850. Gorshing was buried at the center of Sector 3 and the entire base mourned in silence.

John Foreman (1859-1873)
There were many disillusioned soldiers on the base when Gorshing died and John Foreman came to power through succession, but protests didn’t truly begin until September 20, 1859, when he declared that in order to continue expansion and avoid stagnation, new secondary alliances would be pursued with other bases in the near future. This outraged the majority of the soldiers because it violated the tertiary alliance with Mary’s Base, which contractually obligated the Dominal Base to be exclusive in its alliances. Protests continued for an entire month, leading to the loss of operations in many room of the buildings on the base. To make matters worse, on October 20, 1859, John Foreman authorized the construction of the Alliance Agency, which would be responsible for pursuing secondary alliances. In the dead of the night, protesters attempted to burn down the wooden framework in the west wing of Sector 3, forcing John Foreman and emergency services to work throughout the night to put out the fire. Two days later, on October 22, continuing development on the Alliance Agency building resulted in heavy protests in the west wing of Sector 3. In response, 45 protesters were shot and killed by the Dominal police forces under Foreman, the first instance of violent police action against the soldiers. Protesters worked throughout the night to disrupt the construction, as it would mean that that the tertiary alliance with Mary’s Army would be null and void. A wall of armed police guards protected the contractors from their jobs constructing the building into the wintertime.

The Alliance Agency began its operation on January 14, 1860, with a groundbreaking ceremony. John Foreman attempted to force cooperation, but 700 protesters bombarded the event with gunfire. In the night, a bomb exploded in the west wing, about twenty feet from the building. Many people began believing that the Dominal Base was going under. The following day, President Foreman cruelly authorized the use of military force against the protesters; the Dominal police then massacred 88 protesters in front of the Alliance Agency, effectively quelling unrest as protest leaders backed off and reluctantly allowed operations to continue. As Foreman sent out willing soldiers to search for secondary alliances in the surrounding environment, it was only a matter of time before one was negotiated. On March 28, 1860, a new secondary alliance was initiated with Sarah’s Army, causing a new bout of unrest among protesters who supported the one-sided tertiary alliance with Mary’s Army and not Sarah’s. In the wake of an impending protest threat, Foreman invoked the use of military force again and suppressed unrest.

Mary's War
In an act of subtle chaos though, many protesters who had been shut down militarily by Foreman entered Mary’s Base stealthily and notified her soldiers of the secondary alliance with Sarah’s Army. On April 4, 1860, an ultimatum was sent to the Dominal Base to explain the situation within 24 hours. President Foreman remained silent on the issue, convinced that the situation would lead to the end of the tertiary alliance with Mary’s Army and expand their desires for more alliances. Instead, on the day that Foreman said nothing to explain his actions; Mary’s Army declared war on the Dominal Base and invaded with an entire military force. 203 Dominal soldiers were killed in this major initial battle of what would be considered Mary’s War (1860-1866). Minor skirmishes led to even more deaths on the side of the Dominal Base, which came almost entirely from Foreman’s arrogance. Sending fewer men into battle because it would be more efficient, the Dominal soldiers would be outnumbered and pushed back behind the battle lines. In early December 1861, a year and a half after the beginning of the war, John Foreman led an eighth of the entire Dominal Army into Mary’s Base, bombing a few of the major buildings with piercing explosives. While Mary’s Base suffered extensive damage in the blitz attack, she rounded up her troops and recovered almost immediately with strategic rerouting. On December 11, 1861, Mary’s Army engaged in a massive retaliatory gunfight with the Dominal Army in Sectors 1 and 2, killing a record 3,421 soldiers in just 23 hours. Instead of surrendering to Mary’s Army, President Foreman authorized the use of better explosives, but starting in 1862, soldier morale had dropped to an all-time low. By June 14, 1862, the Dominal Base saw its highest rate of suicide, with over 18 soldiers committing suicide each day. Mary’s Army showed no mercy though, continuing the barrage of the Dominal Base each week. Even worse, on July 2, 1862, Sarah’s Army cut off the secondary alliance after getting pulled into the conflict by association. This resulted in the withdrawal of many operators from the Alliance Agency building and facilitated its collapse when protesters burned it down a week later. Surprisingly, the Dominal Base handled a barrage from Mary’s Army for the next two-and-a-half years. Negotiations began between Mary and John Foreman in the summer of 1865 and a peace treaty was signed on January 1, 1866, ending the war. As a stipulation of the agreement, Mary’s Army was withdrawn completely from the Dominal Base, along with stolen materials and captured soldiers that would be used for labor. The following day, Dominal soldiers noted how ruined the entire base looked; there were indications that it could lose all function within 5 years and go stagnant, which was a very large fear.

Even in the months after the war, John Foreman only authorized the cleanup process, but he didn’t bother with the rebuilding process. With many run-down buildings on the base, many soldiers began protesting again into the next few years. In June 1869, a group of one hundred soldiers began work on a run-down building, attempting to demolish it from the outside. Foreman, fearing their work would collapse the structural integrity of other surrounding buildings, had the soldiers arrested. The condition of the base, however, began to improve on June 8, 1870, when President Foreman named Thompson Jacobs, a supervisor of Sector 2, as the new head general of the Dominal Base, which was met with praise and attention. While the base was still in ruins and falling apart fast from the effects of Mary’s War four years before, the soldiers on the base believed that Thompson Jacobs was a fine leader and could kick-start the rebuilding process. Indeed, Thompson Jacobs won over many of the soldiers through speeches and small acts of rebuilding. For example, he removed the plaque that had denoted the Alliance Agency building in September 1870 and modernized many of the carriage vessels that had been used for transportation the following month.

A year-long political crisis began on October 17, 1870, though when President Foreman was poisoned during his dinner by a resentful cook in the office’s kitchen. The incident sent him to the hospital in Sector 3, with many of the protesters on the base hoping that he would die from the sickness, as his rule starting in 1859 had ruined the base completely. By February 19, 1871, however, President Foreman recovered completely from his sickness, emerging from the hospital and encountering thousands of protests calling for his resignation. Denying the request politely, he made his way back to his office without ever authorizing military force against the protests. Visibly weak from his time in the hospital, his actions would be more or less received in the next few years by silence and secret collaboration instead of outward violence. On April 2, he assembled a contingency force designed to get revenge on any soldier or officer that deposed him by force in the coming years. He noted his waning strength and realized that his political position was in a vulnerable spot. On April 15, a young soldier named Walter Worley was named the head of the secret contingency force under President Foreman; his mission was to kill anyone who succeeded Foreman by military force. “I will only die,” he declared within a secret group meeting, “by peaceful death.”

Meanwhile, on June 6, 1871, the new head general of the base, Thompson Jacobs, was kidnapped by multiple armed and masked soldiers who brought him to a room in Sector 1 and attempted to force his participation in the preparation for a military coup against the hated President Foreman. Jacobs believed that Foreman would name him the next successor, but the coup force convinced him that Foreman would avoid Jacobs as a candidate because of his pro-reform stance in the recovery process. For this reason, a few months later, on September 17, 1871, Thompson Jacobs became the head of the new coup force prepared to kill Foreman in the coming months. After months of planning and a brutal winter, the date for the coup’s execution was set for mid-April 1872. Unfortunately, President Foreman took a tour to many neighboring bases, negotiating neutrality agreements and primary alliances in an attempt to win over the people. While many soldiers were unimpressed, the coup force realized they would have to target him when he came back to the Dominal Base in December 1872. The Occupant reached his 40th birthday in June 1872, visibly unhappy and silent most of the time. In the end, it was because of Mary’s War and the subsequent lack of recovery that damaged Foreman’s legacy enough to warrant a coup d’etat.

On December 26, 1872, Thompson Jacobs, backed by seven other armed soldiers, broke into President Foreman’s compound in Sector 3 and shot him in the back of the head before escaping through a window. The armed police guards that patrolled the building had been distracted by a fire the coup force set a hundred feet away. Foreman was immediately rushed to the hospital in a fit of blood, where he rested in a coma. Jacobs and the armed coup force disappeared to Sector 1 and awaited his death. Since he was in a coma, Foreman couldn’t name the next successor to his presidency, so on January 2, 1873, in the early hours of the morning, when he died of his head wounds sustained during the shooting a week before, Thompson Jacobs came forward and assumed the position to the dismay of the minority that had supported Foreman’s ruthless agenda.

Thompson Jacobs (1873-1898)
The day after his succession to the presidency - January 3, 1873 - President Jacobs gave his address to the Dominal Base on why the coup was legitimate and why he would stop at nothing to end the ruin that the base had become. The contingency force under John Foreman, which had committed itself to the murder of anyone who deposed him, immediately sprang into action in preparation for another assassination. Anticipating an attempt on his life though, Jacobs expanded his security force guarding his office house and tightened security defenses around the complex. On January 15, Walter Worley and five armed soldiers, all masked and under the provisions of the contingency force, broke into the presidential compound and attempted to assassinate Jacobs, who narrowly escaped harm. The security guards eventually forced the attackers away from the compound and back through Sector 3. Five days after his brush with death, Jacobs declared that the coup force would pay for their crimes, opening an agency in the decrepit Sector 2. In a show of utter resilience, on March 7, 1873, a second assassination attempt was made. Worley and his henchmen were ambushed by prepared guards, who killed off three of the accomplices and arrested Worley after he surrendered. To appease the contingency force, Worley and Jacobs came to an agreement that peace would be established. In exchange, Worley was made head general of the Dominal Base. On November 25, 1873, the two signed an agreement to work together in the recovery of the base following Foreman's assassination.

Recovery began with an immediate cleanup and the demolition of all ruined buildings, a process that lasted until April 1874. Worley's supervision of the tasks earned President Jacobs' trust. For this reason, on August 25, 1874, Jacobs approved General Worley's request for an expansion of the military as the next step towards reconstruction. He called on the border guards to open access to surrounding bases. By February 18, 1875, a speech by Jacobs denounced hatred towards Worley and encouraged total cooperation. The two agreed that no secondary alliances would be forged until a complete recovery was made. This task, while lengthy and tedious, lasted another eight years, with a rising approval for both the President and his General. The climax came on September 10, 1883, with the Occupant at the age of 51, when Jacobs declared the Dominal Base up and running. Celebrations rang out all night throughout the base. The traces of the Mary's War had been wiped from the base finally. From this moment onward, President Jacobs led a resurgence that has almost never been matched since.

On December 29, 1883, he approved the complete opening of the base's borders to other bases, nine years after the partial opening. As the Occupant was nearing 52 years of age, Jacobs was determined to find a secondary alliance for the base, in order to bring it back to its peak. It was only about a year then that contact with another interested base was made. On January 22, 1885, contact was established with Eleanor Pinchuck's army and socialization began between the two bases. With promising contact being made, President Jacobs ordered the reconstruction of many key agency buildings that had been destroyed during Mary's War, save for the Alliance Agency, which still evoked strong negative responses. By May 4, 1885, a month shy of the Occupant's 53rd birthday, a secondary alliance was negotiated with Eleanor's base, resulting in a split-opinion army. On one hand, many soldiers celebrated throughout the night at the success of the deal; on the other hand, others protested the decision, stating it would cause problems seen twenty years before. Ultimately, Jacobs went ahead with the decision.

Indeed, by February 1, 1886, a tertiary alliance was negotiated with Eleanor's Army in the early afternoon, with the official crowning ceremony set to take place in the summer. This ceremony, which took place on June 15, 1886, was made official with the attendance of surrounding bases, armies, and allies. President Jacobs gave a speech at the end of the night about how much he believed in the entire army. On November 30, 1886, a child base was spawned from in in between the two bases. Jacobs immediately issued an edict that pumped supplies and much-needed new recruits into the child's base in an effort to get it started on a new route towards greatness. In the words of President Jacobs, "this newfound ally of ours will be a testament to our empire."

The Dominal Partition (1988)
Resignation

On June 1, 1992, as a culmination of the emergence of the Celtican Army, President Mack Soeby resigned from the presidency, citing a breakdown in the Dominal Base's operations. "I feel as if there is a cancer among us all," he declared in his farewell speech. "And I cannot fix it." He was escorted off the base with tears in his eyes; he wasn't seen or heard from on the Dominal Base for several years. When he moved back to Celebus, New Jersey, he reunited with his son, James Soeby, for two and a half weeks before his disappearance.

A four-day struggle for power emerged as the resignation had been declared so suddenly. Soeby had named no successor to his presidency, so three of the supervisors vied for power. The supervisor of Sector 3, a man named Nicholas Bedford, led a major conservative faction, which proposed reducing the size of the army to cut down on tensions, against that of the Head General, Jade Kennedy, who had risen to the leadership position in 1987 before the Dominal Partition. She advocated raising the status of the general Dominal Army and strengthening each sector to guard against potential factional attacks. The four-day struggle culminated in a shootout at the entrance to Sector 3 on June 5, 1992. The soldiers under Nicholas Bedford fired on the forces of the Head General, killing 49 people, including Kennedy herself, who relinquished control of the post upon her death. Thus, Bedford led his conservative army to the top of Sector 3 and declared that the base was under his control, beginning his term as President.

Nicholas Bedford (1992-1994)
When Bedford took power on June 5, he immediately initiated a recruit surge on Sectors 1 and 2, only two days later. Dominal scouts were sent into the surrounding area, most notably Celebus and Moltoz, to look for candidates for operators. On June 19, the runaway teenager James Soeby encountered Celebus Police in the mountains of Moltoz; firing on law enforcement, Soeby stumbled upon the alternate dimension zone and entered Sector 1 of the Dominal Base. He was not only a missing resident of Celebus; he was also coincidentally the son of Mack and Elsa Soeby. Mack had taken control of the base just before the birth of his son, James, and had resigned just before his son went missing - the coincidences spawned conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, Bedford personally escorted Soeby to the recruitment barracks for protection and training as a recruit. Even more coincidentally, on August 4, 1992, the Dominal scouts recruited "the best candidate they had ever seen" onto the base - Gregory Court - the police cadet who had fired at Soeby during the manhunt. They claimed that Court had maintained such steady composure and focus during the crisis that he would do well in the Dominal environment. Thus, Court was sent through the recruitment program on Sector 1 as well - he and Soeby would meet each other only three months later in a bout of both celebration and surrealism.

Court Revolution (1994)
On October 23, 1994, Court led embittered factions of the ousted Celtican Army against the Dominal Base in a surprise joint attack from abroad and from within. Hundreds of Celtican soldiers sailed across the entrance sea to Sector 1, broke through the lookout compound as disguised soldiers from within caused chaos with gunfights on Sector 2 and 3, and overran the first sector by displacing thousands of recruits. In a pincer movement, many recruits were jammed into the middle of Sector 1 and forced to surrender.

Sector 1 fell to the Celtican rebels within an hour. A rush for Sector 2 occurred within the subsequent hour as the Celticans charged up the hill leading to the entrance. Dominal guards pulled back almost immediately, forcing a retreat to Sector 3. Loyalists stayed behind and bombarded the Celticans with machine gun fire. The Dominal Air Force was deployed from Sector 3 but Celtican forces flanked the Sector 2 bunker and made air superiority irrelevant. Court led the major force up the final hill towards Sector 3, withstanding missile fire from cycling fighter jets. President Bedford retreated to his presidential compound at the edge of the base, but by 7 pm, five hours after the beginning of the revolution, many soldiers had surrendered to the relentless Celtican forces. Court redirected his forces to take the Furnace Building beside the Center Platform in the Exterior Alley while he dealt with the presidential compound. At 7:45 pm, Court entered the presidential compound with his infamous handgun and cornered President Bedford, who was cowering in a closet. Bedford was forced into a contained laboratory and handed over the specifications for portal gun research. "Take anything you want, just leave me be!" Bedford was heard shouting from the contained lab. "I want everything," Court responded, "and I want your life." He then personally assassinated Bedford before making his way to the surrendered Center Platform, where he declared the end of the Bedford presidency officially.

At 10 pm, Court initiated the third Carbon Expansion, which spawned the fourth Occupant. After a brief spiraling event, the sectors of the Dominal Base emerged anew and Court announced his "Celtican Resurgence" to renew Celtican authority on the base.

Celtican Resurgence and the Police State
The day after the inception of the Fourth Occupant, there were brief moments of infighting between the Celticans in control of the Dominal Base, but Court quickly made all gunfire illegal for three days; he also halted all air traffic on the base indefinitely, citing confusion in the chaotic time as a reason to consolidate control. On November 1, he authorized the groundwork for a new jail underneath the Center Platform in Sector 3, which put all political prisoners under the authority of the Celtican Army. On April 23, 1995, after six months in power, Court authorized a new wave of mental operators to be recruited and trained to build up the new Dominal Base. The spiraling event from October 23, 1994 had caused the three sectors to be shaken up to the point where all buildings were either ruined or destroyed, so construction was most of the work. Base support came from parental bases and other primary family bases, which pumped in supplies, arms, and recruits. Further support into the winter of 1996 came from cousin bases and indirect linkages. On October 23, 1996, the Dominal Base celebrated its second anniversary of its new inception, with much support drawn from primary bases. While operation was still rudimentary at best, more operators were trained throughout this time to improve the coherence of the base's facilities. New barracks had been constructed to house more people and more efficient training facilities were manufactured by the beginning of 1997.

On October 14, 1997, a nearby base went into a spiraling event and emerged as a "sister base," a primary alliance that would need help adjusting. Court responded to the event by providing plenty of supplies and recruits. On October 25, two days after the celebrations of the third anniversary of the Court Revolution, he gave a speech to the entire base atop the Center Platform. "We must work harder to expand the base," he told the followers of the crowd. "These three years have been perfect though!" Someone shouted from the crowd. Court only laughed and responded, "Ah, the first three years are the simplest. There is more to come." Therefore, on May 30, 1998, Court introduced a new plan to increase the literacy, efficiency, and operating abilities of all soldiers. This "Pre-Education Program was implemented in full force on September 2, 1998, leading to a surge of new operators, like William Holt on the first day and Lieutenant Autumn four weeks later. By October 1998, Court approached his administration and indicated that with a massive surge in new operators, they would need to curtail some reforms and freedoms throughout the base to minimize any radical extremism. After the fourth anniversary of the Court Revolution on October 23, 1998, Court announced far-reaching measures to consolidate his presidency into what many considered a dictatorship and make the base more "efficient." These measures consisted of giving the Celtican Army full legal impunity, the ability to declare martial law, and the promotion of more aggressive soldiers to the front lines and the border regions. When these reforms were implemented on January 1, 1999, they were met with protests and unrest throughout Sector 3, which saw 900 people demonstrate. This set the stage for the most "efficient" false flag operation in recent decades.

On January 22, 1999, Celtican Police arrested two soldiers, Paul Larken and Jennifer Stenson, on Sector 1 and declared that they had been planning a coup against Court. Labeling the two soldiers as Dominal traitors, a trial in the next four days saw an overwhelming amount of fake evidence of a bomb plot placed on the two friends. In a rare show of public display, they were found guilty of attempting to assassinate Gregory Court and were hanged in front of tens of thousands on January 26. Their friend, Lieutenant Autumn, who had argued for their innocence over the previous days, went back into his room in the recruitment barracks, took his weapon, and went on a shooting rampage in the main square of Sector 3, killing 14 people in revenge. In the aftermath of the shooting, he escaped through an underground tunnel and integrated his way into the mountains of Moltoz, avoiding capture by Celtican Police. By February 2, 1999, the last Celtican scouts that scavenged the area declared the search for Autumn a cold case. In response to the rampage, Court declared several laws against "possible vigilantes," which gained rapid support from fearful soldiers. By March 1999, the social progress of the base entered a sharp decline, even if operational functionality and efficiency increased steadily. After the Pre-Education Program ended in June 1999, Court announced a true Education Program that would start in September and encourage soldier promotions, which gained a lot of support as well. By the end of August, the special forces and intelligence headquarters of American Regional Intelligence, 9th Division were reorganized to seek out vigilantes and anti-authority suspects.

On September 1, 1999, Court implemented the new education program called the Charter Oak Program, along with a morning operational routine. This education program doubled the efficiency of the mental operators and led to an immediate surge in new recruits, blossoming the social atmosphere of the base. Indeed, William Holt, the father of Jim Holt, was promoted to ARI 9D at the back of Sector 1, tasked with recruiting new soldiers. On October 23, 1999, the Dominal Base celebrated its half-decade celebration with a massive party that continued throughout the night with the support of all neighboring and allied bases. By Christmas Day 1999, social conditions improved steadily.

Diminished Celtican Rule
Beneath the surface though, there were fundamental problems with the Court administration. The 1999 massacre had encouraged many soldiers to escape through the same underground tunnel that Lieutenant Autumn had traveled. On January 15, 2000, the annual Dominal Base address reported that over 50 soldiers had escaped in the last year, due to the intimidation of the Court regime and the expanding repressive state that was founded.

On October 28, 2004, a major surge of soldier escapees from the Dominal Base into Moltoz, New Jersey occurred, limiting Court's support system and credibility. Over 340 soldiers escaped through the vast network of underground tunnels, bringing the total defections up to 3,500 soldiers. They escaped into the surrounding region and joined Lieutenant Autumn. Less than a week later - November 2, 2004 - two dozen loyal Dominal guards exposed the secret tunnel system that the surge of defectors had been using. Within two months, Celtican guards worked to close it off completely. Indeed, on January 8, 2005, the secret tunnel system was completely sealed off, ending the surge of Autumn supporters. It capped the number of defectors at 4,350 soldiers.

Autumn's War (2012-2013)
During the regime of Gregory Court, the Celtican Army was strengthened after the execution of two alleged traitors. The subsequent massacre of 14 Dominal soldiers by the embittered Lieutenant Autumn on January 26, 1999 and the failed manhunt solidifed the police state that justified tight controls as part of its defense agenda. After several years of hiding out in Moltoz afte Court closed off the underground tunnel system in 2005, Lieutenant Autumn gathered upporters of the massacre he had committed years before. He had dozens of sympathetic soldiers on the inside that relayed information about the Dominal Base, including the eviction of Gregory Court as President during the Battle of High Meadows in June 2008. Over the next three years, Autumn watched from the outside as Gregory Court's two younger brothers liberalized the base and opened up several defenses, making an invasion of the Dominal Base very easy. After Autumn's Army of 4,000 soldiers overran a mental base in southern California, Autumn gathered new recruits and scientists that develped the first cloning machine in 2009.

When John and Watson Court announced on October 22, 2011 that they were launching the Super Convergence to branch out to new armies, General Autumn reached out to his army and declared that the time to attack would come in just three months, after the connections were primarily established - that way, the alliances would be newly made, fresh, and particularly vulnerable. When the Omegle Summit was launched on December 27, 2011 by the Dominal Base to gather new contacts and allied bases, the scientists and engineers at Autumn's base completed the magnificent Lancaster airship, which could house thousands of soldiers and fire several hundred missiles at a time. On December 30, Christine's Army, a new contact, capitalized on Dominal vulnerabilities and swept through the Omegle Summit into Sectors 1 and 2, killing 454 people in an alleged territorial excursion. When the army was finally repelled the following morning, with thousands being killed on the second day, reconstruction began. By January 15, 2012, new information about a potential invasion surfaced, but the Dominal Presidents chose to focus on reconstruction. Six days later, Autumn's Army took off in the Lancaster airship and sailed through the sky to the Dominal Base.

At 9:30 pm on January 22, 2012, Autumn's Army invaded the Dominal Base completely with the Lancaster airship. After a deadly four day assault that killed several thousand Dominal operators, the Allies managed to gather enough support, especially from the Chemical Laser System, to push back the attack, leading to a two-month truce. This continued until the Allies unsuccessfully staged a light attack on March 25, 2012. A heavy yet sporadic back-and-forth battle of forces began in late April 2012 until a tentative stalemate was reached in July 2012. Allied forces withdrew completely from Autumn's base and an unwritten silence was established between the two armies until intense fighting erupted again in November 2012 during the Battle of Resurgent Autumn.

This second phase of fighting lasted until January 2013 when the third major truce was called, four days after Autumn's Army dropped a small-scale atomic bomb on Sectors 1 and 2 of the base. Despite the established January Armistice, sporadic shootouts between the two armies continued to occur on a progressively less frequent level until late August 2013 when negotiations concluded a bitter peace treaty that called for the "immediate and eternal removal of both parties from armed conflict."

Rise of the Dominal Army (2014-2018)
The SU14 Insurgency, also known as the 208 conflict, began on July 26, 2014 when clashes erupted over the alleged socialization of Dominal operators with Base 726 in an "inappropriate secondary manner." Shootouts between the operators and insurgents killed 59 people in the deadliest attack since late May. After initial fighting over this "disloyal betrayal of the alliance with Base 208," persistent clashes spread throughout Sector 3 by August 4, producing a surge in the number of insurgents, who called for the direct termination of relations with Base 208 or the cessation of socialization with other bases in a secondary manner. By August 16, the continued secondary socialization with other bases, over 893 people had been killed in sporadic attacks every few days since the beginning of fighting. Despite the announcement on the same day that the Presidents would terminate the secondary alliance with Base 208 in late September, the Summer Hiatus ended on August 23 and the insurgency simmered throughout Sector 4.

The insurgency evolved into an armed rebellion against the Dominal Base on September 3 when thousands of soldiers began socializing in a more secondary manner with Tamina's base (Base 903). A band of insurgents under the newly proclaimed leader, Antimina, took over multiple buildings on Sector 4 and prompted the deployment of full units of Dominal soldiers against the attempt to break through Sector 3 and physically break off the secondary alliance with Base 208. A final attack on the Sector 3/4 barrier, which destroyed the entire border, was repelled on September 23-24 and led to the collapse of the insurgency movement as the Court brothers terminated the secondary alliance with Base 208 on September 25, 2014.

On May 7, 2015, the Presidents authorized Operation Wayward Guard to root out rebel cells on Sector 3 dedicated to keeping operations at a stagnant pace.