Coridos Coup

The Coridos Coup was an attempted coup in 3972 BBY, during the Great Imperium War against the Order of the Sentinels leader Petro Kieranov and the administration of Emperor Filipon Blezzus II. The coup was bloodless but ended in a failure, leading to the guilty parties being arrested, stripped of rank and shipped to the front lines of the conflict.

Prelude
"The last time we had elements of the Sentinels control the Military it fell to revolution, do we risk it happening again?!"

- Legatus Coridos Candorious Nanov, the 4th OdestraLegatus of the planetary defense forces on the capital was briefly put in charge of the war effort when the Great Imperium War began against the Fence. His strategies involved exposing systems he saw as "less important" in order to fortify essential systems like Castrum Nitan and major resource planets like Chiev and Uzgaut. When the Fence began their offensive within the Hudron Systems, the Odestrian defense was such a monumental failure that command of the war effort was immediately shifted to the leader of the Order of the Sentinels, Supreme Commander Petro Kieranov.

With this, many Odestrian Sentinels were made Generals in the Legion the most notable being Panokkus Genzzus and his companions from Vindicator Team. Sentinel control over the military was not widely accepted by the general populace. Since the Odestrian Revolution there had always been a large fear of the Church of Odessan getting a hand on more of Odestrian society and the Odestra Knights of the Order of the Sentinels were not widely trusted by much of the Imperium’s population. With this, nationalist elements of the old command, secretly loyal to Nanov began to plan a way to overthrow Sentinel Command and return command of the Military over to the ''OdestraLegatus. ''

The "Coup"
In an attempt to remove Kieranov from command, Legatus Vilek Coridos attempted to frame the Order of the Sentinels for the War effort by plotting an intentionally botched assassination attempted on Emperor Blezzus. With this, the Sentinels would seem to have been plotting a coup or would have been framed for the War thereby making their control over the military void, at least in Coridos' mind. The coup was planned incredibly hastily and poorly with several issues arising including the leaking of several key notes from between the conspirators.

Ultimately, the poorly planned "coup" was stopped before it could even begin. Once SC Kieranov was informed of the attempt, he informed Emperor Blezzus then gave the order to storm the Rebel compound and arrest the rogue commanders. During the storm, Kipros Nilikkus was shot in both arms during a struggle and given medical treatment, but would not escape punishment for their collective treason.

Aftermath
Although the attempted coup was a failure, it wasn't long before news of it spread throughout the capital. While he was never officially implicated in it, Candorious Nanov was rumored to have some part in it, however, he dismissed any of these claims and called the attempted coup a poorly timed power grab by traitors.

While the normal punishment for treason was death, the battles against the Fence were taking their toll on the Odestrian Legion. For this reason, the traitors where stripped of their rank and shipped to the front lines of the conflict. This was not something exclusive to these men, this punishment became commonplace as the war continued.

This was not the end of the unpopularity of the Sentinels however. With their control over the legion many alien minorities believed that the war would turn into a religious crusade against the Fence and that anyone who was not religious in the conflict would be persecuted. While Supreme Commander Petro Kieranov attempted to stem rumors, what High Command needed was an offensive victory. However, with most of the Legion stuck on defense, an offensive attack proved infeasible.

Behind the Scenes
This event was created by Legion For Hire in order to add a slight conflict on Odestria during the early years of the war.