The Carrillian Assembly is the second largest human-dominated independent political state in the Reavers' Deep Sector. The Carrillian Assembly is spread across parts of four subsectors and is composed of 21 member systems. One system, Yarhfahl, is a client of the Assembly, but is not an active member.
The Carrillian Assembly was formed in 519, when a number of worlds in the Drexilthar and
Fahlnar subsectors fought wars which threatened to plunge the region into a general interstellar war.
The Imperium, wishing to maintain this area as a buffer between
themselves and the Aslan, stepped in and "suggested" they
peacefully settle their differences. A series of conferences held in the quiet backwater
Carrill
system (Reavers' Deep 2330), specifically, Blair Rock, led to an agreement to form a federation of
systems for the regulation of trade, economic coordination and common defense. The Articles of Assembly were signed later that
year, and designated the Belt as the capital of the new federation. Blair Rock was renamed Capital and is the home of the Assembly
government. In the past 600 years, Carrill has grown from that sleepy backwater into one of the most populous and powerful systems
of the Assembly.
The Assembly has been a
stabilizing influence on the trailing half of the Deep for over 500 years. Throughout most of that time the
Assembly has concentrated on fostering trade and progress in the region, has seldom acted outside its borders, nor has it sought to
greatly expand its sphere of influence.
In the 1090's the Progressive Party came under the control of a
clique of young turks that began to agitate for the expansion of the Assembly into surrounding territories. An attempted coup by
young naval officers in 1103 was suppressed, but only after President Collin had been assassinated. Temporary martial law was
declared and Admiral Juzark took control of Capital.
During this crisis, a compromise agreement among the Navy, the
Conservative Party and the Progressive Party was worked out whereby Admiral Juzark stepped down and
High Justice Daldreem, Chief Justice of the Assembly Supreme Court, was put into power as
Assembly President. It was expected that Daldreem would quickly take the Assembly back to a representative democracy, but that has
not happened.
Daldreem has proven to be a charismatic, but ruthless, leader who,
under various constitutional pretexts has extended the state of martial law through the present.
Daldreem has embarked on a campaign of expansion, popular with the
Progressive Party, and is centralizing Assembly authority, popular with the Conservative
Party. Today, Daldreem and his cronies dominate the
Assembly government completely.
In 1109, a revolt against the Assembly began on
Ildrissar (Reavers' Deep 2326) after the
notorious Starport Massacre. Ildrissarians were protesting the
enforcement of new Assembly tariffs on internal trade when a contingent of Assembly Marines opened fire on the demonstrators
causing the death of 314. Daldreem used the protest and subsequent strikes, workstopages and withholding of
tariffs to mobilize the Assembly Navy and launch an invasion of Ildrissar. The situation
on Ildrissar is still in flux, with Carrill controlling the Starport and several cities and the Ildrissarian Patriotic Front
controlling the rest of the planet.
In 1110, Halley Libidon (leader of the Liberal Party), called for a
"Vote of Confidence" on Daldreem's rule by the Assembly Senate. A series of explosions and assassinations swept through Capital and
Daldreem dissolved the Senate and sent the representatives home to "protect our leaders from Ildrissarian terrorists." Since 1110
Libidon has traveled throughout the region seeking support for the return of democracy to the Assembly.
Halley Libidon was charged with giving aid and comfort to
Ildrissarian rebels, tried in absentia and convicted as a traitor in 1113. He continues to be uncaptured, but the bounty on his head
has grown to 200,000 crimps.
The media was brought under control of the Office of Public
Information in 1114. Two days after this event, all but three media outlets in the Carrillian Belt were officially shut down.
Source: Various Keith brothers publications and expanded on by Eris Reddoch