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In 1096, the Western Christians arrived in Anatolia, not led by second sons and ambitious Princes but by Kings. Both the King of France and the Emperor of the Germans led the First Crusade against the Seljuks, returning Anatolia to the Byzantines, before cutting the Seljuk Empire in half. They carved over a dozen Crusader States from the Levant and Syria. Basileus Alexios, true to his word to Pope Urban II, united the Eastern Church with the Bishop of Rome.

In the ensuing years, through aggressive conversion of Turkic settlers and assimilation of the Crusader States, the Byzantine Empire resurged. They would expand south, into Egypt, the Nile and the Red Sea. For 5 centuries, Greek traders would dominate the Maritime Silk Road, spurred by the Empire to spread Eastern Catholicism. Competing with Muslim traders all the while.

Increasing tariffs and blockades by the Timurids encouraged alternate routes to Serrica. While Western Europeans found routes south and west, Byzantine Explorers found the direct Maritime Route to Serrica through the East Indies. The city of New Rhodes was established at a strategic chokepoint in the Moluccas and established the Byzantine policy of Settler Colonisation.

Inspired by ancient tales such as 'The Odyssey' and 'Jason and the Argonauts', Greek Explorers mapped and claimed much of the Indian and Pacific Oceans for the Empire.

This resurgence only slowed the inevitable, the Empire's death was slow and painful, with neighbouring Barbarian Despots using Christianity to claim the Imperial Purple.

The Byzantine Empire was cannibalised by the Caucasian, Avaric and Coptic Caesars, cutting off the last Mediterranean Emperor from the Colonial Empire. The Colonies fended for themselves, refusing the legitimacy of the Barbarian Caesars, yet unable to communicate with the Emperor in Magna Graecia.

When refugees arrived, with tales of the Fall of Sikelía to the Avars, the facade fell apart, the Colonies devolved to Civil War. The Governors of each Theme declared themselves Basileus of their own realms. Governor Justinian Gemitzis of the Konstantines, through fighting with the Shun Dynasty and defending from Northern Pirates had the most naval and military experience. Through his capture of the Colonial Capital of New Rhodes, he succeeded against his rivals and was recognised as Basileus, at least in the Pacific and East Indies.

His realm stretched from Taprobane in the East to Terra Australis to the South. By the 1880s the Greek Far East has reduced further thanks to the Swedish, French, Swiss, Galician and Britonnic Colonial Empires.

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In 1096, the Western Christians arrived in Anatolia, not led by second sons and ambitious Princes but by Kings. Both the King of France and the Emperor of the Germans led the First Crusade against the Seljuks, returning Anatolia to the Byzantines, before cutting the Seljuk Empire in half. They carved over a dozen Crusader States from the Levant and Syria. Basileus Alexios, true to his word to Pope Urban II, united the Eastern Church with the Bishop of Rome.

In the ensuing years, through aggressive conversion of Turkic settlers and assimilation of the Crusader States, the Byzantine Empire resurged. They would expand south, into Egypt, the Nile and the Red Sea. For 5 centuries, Greek traders would dominate the Maritime Silk Road, spurred by the Empire to spread Eastern Catholicism. Competing with Muslim traders all the while.

Increasing tariffs and blockades by the Timurids encouraged alternate routes to Serrica. While Western Europeans found routes south and west, Byzantine Explorers found the direct Maritime Route to Serrica through the East Indies. The city of New Rhodes was established at a strategic chokepoint in the Moluccas and established the Byzantine policy of Settler Colonisation.

Inspired by ancient tales such as 'The Odyssey' and 'Jason and the Argonauts', Greek Explorers mapped and claimed much of the Indian and Pacific Oceans for the Empire.

This resurgence only slowed the inevitable, the Empire's death was slow and painful, with neighbouring Barbarian Despots using Christianity to claim the Imperial Purple.

The Byzantine Empire was cannibalised by the Caucasian, Avaric and Coptic Caesars, cutting off the last Mediterranean Emperor from the Colonial Empire. The Colonies fended for themselves, refusing the legitimacy of the Barbarian Caesars, yet unable to communicate with the Emperor in Magna Graecia.

When refugees arrived, with tales of the Fall of Sikelía to the Avars, the facade fell apart, the Colonies devolved to Civil War. The Governors of each Theme declared themselves Basileus of their own realms. Governor Justinian Gemitzis of the Konstantines, through fighting with the Shun Dynasty and defending from Northern Pirates had the most naval and military experience. Through his capture of the Colonial Capital of New Rhodes, he succeeded against his rivals and was recognised as Basileus, at least in the Pacific and East Indies.

His realm stretched from Taprobane in the East to Terra Australis to the South. By the 1880s the Greek Far East has reduced further thanks to the Swedish, French, Swiss, Galician and Britonnic Colonial Empires.