"At the beginning of the year 1440, a major shift in Kaeirean politics occurred as a result of the events of 1439.  The old triumvirate of the senior commanders of the Kaeirean Guard, headed by Lord Basiluddin, broke up.  The failure of Basiluddin's strategy to defeat Czarist Taltheran was only made worse by the threat of Mirrish intervention after the Kaeirean blockade on Tal City made the mistake of turning back Mirrish merchants.  The loss of status, both politically and publically, by Basiluddin worked to the benefit of the pragmatic Lord Jafaarsan.  Equally republican as Basiluddin, Jafaarsan had long feared Mirrish attention, and had long campaigned amongst the Senators for a more moderate policy, inorder to ensure the survival of the Republic.

And so it came to be that as the year 1440 dawned, the Senate was reconvened for the first time after the new year, though without Lord Basiluddin being present.  For Jafaarsan had swayed the other two Guard Commanders, and Basiluddin's secretary, Sir Karl von Kashaar, head of the Information Secretariat, to agree to Basiluddin being removed from office.  In the compromise they reached, Basiluddin was, after some earnest persuasion by Lord Fitzlyri, the Admiral of the Fleet, to take a leave of absence from the Senate.  In the carefully orchestrated opera that followed, Basiluddin publically annointed Sir von Kashaar to temporarily take his seat on the Senate (so as to ensure the Guard retained their allotment of seats) whilst Basiluddin sailed to Port Tirmar to oversea the military preparations there.  

In reality though, Basiluddin had recognised that the political forces in the Republic had irretrievably shifted, and had agreed to an exile of sorts, returning to his original occupation of soldiering.  When the Tirmar campaign later came to an end, Lord Basiluddin went into retirement, becoming the Chief Instructor of military strategy at the Academy of the Guard, in Kashaartown.

Almost as significant as the exiling of Basiluddin, was the appointment of Sir Karl von Kahshaar to the Senate.  Though it was publically a temporary appointment, in reality it was a permanent one, and recognition of the importance and power the Information Secretariat had come to assume in the Republic.  Sir von Kahshaar became Lord von Kahshaar and adopted the title Secretariat-General, establishing the precedent thereafter, of the head of the Secretariat taking a seat in the Senate.

So it was that the failure of 1439 led to the shift of 1440.  The old revolutionary Triumvirate, that had given birth to the original republican conspiracy and then the Republilc, was dissolved.  Basiluddin graciously stepped off the stage, and power was devolved to the Senate.  The distinctions in the Guard became clearer, with authority and jurisdiction in the Guard divided between the Admiral of the Fleet, General of the Guard, and Secretariat-General.  Lastly, the Republic began to evolve a new policy, abandoning the zealous expansionism of the revolution and designs on Taltheran, and adopting a new pragmatic policy, focused on upholding the sole republican government in Qaiyore, and developing the Republic's foreign and commercial ties."

Maqdum Jaansan, "Origins of Modern Republicanism" (Society of Scholastics (Tirmarport: 1520).

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