Translations:高堡奇驹时间线/37/en

The Changeling Civil War

• 1005: the bellicose Changeling Empire met setbacks in every direction — the Crystal Empire, the zebras, Tartarus, the reindeer — and the famine inside the empire grew worse. The changelings, who had once been made to submit to the Queen by carrot and stick, began to whisper.
• Some changelings still remembered the era of “sharing”. Sharing did not yield much love, but it was enough that changelings no longer went hungry. They picked up Thorax's old teachings again; quite a few even defied the ban and secretly reverted to their hatched state, and, regarding the imprisoned Ocellus as their spiritual guide, tried to oppose Queen Chrysalis.
• There were also more pragmatic changelings, gathered around the retired officer Pharynx, who believed it did not matter whether they “shared” or “plundered” — a return to Thorax's era, or even to the earlier hive era, was acceptable, because the ultimate aim was only one thing: that no changeling go hungry again. And Chrysalis, who could not deliver what she had promised, should pay the price for breaking faith.
• Of course not every changeling wanted to go back; many were “looking forward”. Among the hive's leadership many of Chrysalis's followers were defending her “plundering”, but in the face of endless doubt they too began to wonder whether the Queen had lost the iron resolve and sharpness of her earlier years — how could a ruthless ruler allow dissidents such licence? The leader of this faction was the head of the Changeling Central Intelligence Agency, 欺诈者. He believed in “plundering”, but did not think Chrysalis was still the best choice to lead the changelings to glory; perhaps the new age needed a more radical new leader.
• 27 October 1005, the Changeling Civil War. Hatching-faction riots brought on by severe famine. The rioting changelings broke into granaries and into prisons. They freed Ocellus and declared an independent Harmonist Republic of Changelingia in eastern Changelingia, with Ocellus as its leader. The troops sent to suppress them then split as well: many members of the Changeling imperial army struck out on their own. Refusing to fight the new republic, they left the front, chose the retired officer Pharynx as their military leader, and organised a military government called the Changeling Free Legion, forming a temporary alliance with Ocellus's Harmonist Republic. This failure to suppress the revolt made the hive doubt Queen Chrysalis's decisions even more, and the contradictions within the “plunder faction” broke out openly. The head of changeling intelligence, 欺诈者, declared that Queen Chrysalis had been corrupted by “friendship” and could no longer lead the country, that the Changeling Empire needed a thorough renewal, and founded Holy Changelingia. Queen Chrysalis naturally refused to recognise any of these forces; the Changeling Empire declared war on the Harmonist Republic of Changelingia, the Changeling Free Legion and Holy Changelingia all at once, and the Changeling Civil War began.