Serbovia
Establishing Nation
The Palace of Sun
Municipality of Imperatorskoje Zelo
Prefecture of Greater Karelingrad
Grand Duchy of Serbovia Proper
United States of Greater Serbovia
A visible vestige of Serbovia's Imperial legacy was the abundance of palaces and residential castles that had been erected first under the various kings and fiefs of the Divided Kingdoms, and then by the Dragovic Emperors of the 19th century. While many of the former remained under the ownership of their lawful heirs, the latter had been taken over by the Directory in the aftermath of the Serbovian Civil War. Though some had been repurposed as museums open to the public, the majority of these remained in government use as ministries, offices and official residences.
One such example was the Palace of Sun. Erected to the small town of Imperatorskoje Zelo forty kilometers northeast of Karelingrad as a summer retreat of the Imperial family by Emperor Alexander III Dragovic, it was one of the most well-known examples of the Renaissance Revival in Serbovia. The Palace alone spanned eight thousand square meters, and was accompanied by newer service buildings and an estate and hunting grounds of 50 square kilometers in total. Those multitudes today served as the holiday residence and summer retreat of His Excellency the Imperial Regent.
Today, however, it wasn't the Regent who had inspired the busy arrangements in progress at the Palace of Sun and its surroundings. Early in the morning, the Karelingrad Air Force Base begun receiving diplomatic aircraft from Touzen, Engellex and Cantigny - the memberstates of the Pasila Accord - with heavily guarded motorcades of Gendarmerie outriders and black limousines and SUVs ready to take their passengers from the base to the Palace of the Sun.
The Chancellery of the Regent had been kind enough to provide the palace for the purposes of a meeting of the PA Permanent Council, especially seeing that the Regent himself stayed at the Anichkov Palace for most of the winter. And having a huge estate all for one man wouldn't have been fairly budget-effective anyway. Indeed, the Palace would provide the visiting dignitaries and their staff members with comfortable accommodation but also room for the forthcoming meeting of the Permanent Council. After all, the organ in spite of its name had no permanent assembly base, instead convening on an ad hoc basis whenever necessary.
Based on an SRK threat assessment highlighting usual domestic terrorist threats and international tensions, Karelingrad had decided not to take any chances. A massive security operation had been mounted, with three security zones progressing from patrolmen of the Gendarmerie and the Grand Ducal Police donned in body armor and carrying automatic weapons pulling perimeter security along motorcade routes and roads leading to the estate to Life Hussars patrolling the entire estate and finally to Army Shock Reconnaissance and Gendarmerie Special Security Group special forces responsible for protection of the Palace of Sun itself.
As if that wasn't enough, the Union Army had seconded a flight of Yu-29 fighters and YuH-109 helicopter gunships to patrol the standing Imperatorskoje Zelo Air Exclusion Zone, and well out of sight of visiting dignitaries an air defense missile battery had been placed as a last line of defense against aerial threats.
Municipality of Imperatorskoje Zelo
Prefecture of Greater Karelingrad
Grand Duchy of Serbovia Proper
United States of Greater Serbovia
A visible vestige of Serbovia's Imperial legacy was the abundance of palaces and residential castles that had been erected first under the various kings and fiefs of the Divided Kingdoms, and then by the Dragovic Emperors of the 19th century. While many of the former remained under the ownership of their lawful heirs, the latter had been taken over by the Directory in the aftermath of the Serbovian Civil War. Though some had been repurposed as museums open to the public, the majority of these remained in government use as ministries, offices and official residences.
One such example was the Palace of Sun. Erected to the small town of Imperatorskoje Zelo forty kilometers northeast of Karelingrad as a summer retreat of the Imperial family by Emperor Alexander III Dragovic, it was one of the most well-known examples of the Renaissance Revival in Serbovia. The Palace alone spanned eight thousand square meters, and was accompanied by newer service buildings and an estate and hunting grounds of 50 square kilometers in total. Those multitudes today served as the holiday residence and summer retreat of His Excellency the Imperial Regent.
Today, however, it wasn't the Regent who had inspired the busy arrangements in progress at the Palace of Sun and its surroundings. Early in the morning, the Karelingrad Air Force Base begun receiving diplomatic aircraft from Touzen, Engellex and Cantigny - the memberstates of the Pasila Accord - with heavily guarded motorcades of Gendarmerie outriders and black limousines and SUVs ready to take their passengers from the base to the Palace of the Sun.
The Chancellery of the Regent had been kind enough to provide the palace for the purposes of a meeting of the PA Permanent Council, especially seeing that the Regent himself stayed at the Anichkov Palace for most of the winter. And having a huge estate all for one man wouldn't have been fairly budget-effective anyway. Indeed, the Palace would provide the visiting dignitaries and their staff members with comfortable accommodation but also room for the forthcoming meeting of the Permanent Council. After all, the organ in spite of its name had no permanent assembly base, instead convening on an ad hoc basis whenever necessary.
Based on an SRK threat assessment highlighting usual domestic terrorist threats and international tensions, Karelingrad had decided not to take any chances. A massive security operation had been mounted, with three security zones progressing from patrolmen of the Gendarmerie and the Grand Ducal Police donned in body armor and carrying automatic weapons pulling perimeter security along motorcade routes and roads leading to the estate to Life Hussars patrolling the entire estate and finally to Army Shock Reconnaissance and Gendarmerie Special Security Group special forces responsible for protection of the Palace of Sun itself.
As if that wasn't enough, the Union Army had seconded a flight of Yu-29 fighters and YuH-109 helicopter gunships to patrol the standing Imperatorskoje Zelo Air Exclusion Zone, and well out of sight of visiting dignitaries an air defense missile battery had been placed as a last line of defense against aerial threats.