Ursus

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Ursus (乌萨斯)
Type	A bear-eared race designation and the nation historically known as the Ursus Empire 3 19
Alias(es)	Ursus Empire; later the People's Union of Ursus 304
Capital	Saint Petersburg 104
Ruler	Emperor Feodor during the late imperial period 104 140
Status	The Ursus Empire was overthrown and became the People's Union of Ursus after the revolutionary movement led by the former Reunion Movement 304
First Appearance	Chapter 3

History

Ursus was historically a northern military power. Under its previous Emperor, the Empire became heavily militarized; the war machine slowed only after Feodor's accession. The nation had also fought and defeated a god in an earlier era, with fragments of that god's power fused into the Imperial Guards. 142 180

Feodor sought to prevent further wars and raise Ursus through development rather than conquest. He advocated policies intended to grant Infected citizens equal status, but these directives were distorted as they moved through the imperial hierarchy, while noble and military factions continued to push the country toward conflict. 140 142

The Empire's position in the Far East collapsed after the Reunion Movement defeated Lieutenant General Lomonosov's Seventh Army at Oymia. Lomonosov chose suicide rather than surrender, and the destruction of his command structure forced Ursus to redeploy the elite Second Army toward the central region. 103 105

Chernobog became the next major crisis. Pro-war nobles led by Grand Duke Baikal were prepared to sacrifice the city and its inhabitants to provoke war with Lungmen and Great Yan. The Reunion Movement seized Chernobog, defeated the Third Army, and consolidated control over eastern Ursus. 139 180 225

The revolutionary forces subsequently reorganized into the Ursus Red Army and expanded into the tundra. Their Summer Offensive shattered the Imperial Sixth Army Group's defenses through artillery, armored vehicles, firearms, and coordinated infantry assaults. 264 341 342 347 349

Major Locations

Location	Significance
Saint Petersburg	Imperial capital and seat of the Winter Palace, Army Headquarters, First Army, Second Army, and the Imperial's Blades. 104 274 275
Chernobog	The heart of Ursus's Far Eastern region; later liberated and transformed into the People's Revolutionary Committee's center of power. 127 185 361
Oymia	Mobile city captured by the Reunion Movement before the Seventh Army campaign; its stores supplied the movement with Ursus military equipment. 97
Frozen Tundra	Northern region with large Infected populations and constant threats from twisted creatures; a major front during the Summer Offensive. 260 339
Karlan Mountains	Battlefield where the Ursus Red Army resisted and ultimately broke the Imperial Sixth Army Group. 341 346 347

Government and Political Factions

Faction / Institution	Role
Emperor Feodor	Late imperial ruler who sought internal reform and peace, while preserving Ursus and its state structure. 140 269
Imperial's Blades	Imperial internal guards with extraordinary powers. Their primary loyalty is to Ursus itself rather than any individual Emperor. 140
War faction	Pro-war nobles and officers led in Chernobog by Grand Duke Baikal; they sought to restore Ursus's expansion through war against Lungmen and Yan. 139
People's Revolutionary Committee	Revolutionary leadership formed from the Reunion Movement. Roy, Talulah, and Patriot directed its political, military, and international programs. 329 363
Ursus Red Army	Reorganized revolutionary army descended from the Reunion Movement, Infected guerrillas, defectors, and reformed Imperial personnel. 264 396

Military

Ursus Imperial Army

Formation	Strength / Function	Notes
Seventh Army	Nearly 40,000 troops: six combined brigades, three artillery brigades, one special-operations brigade, and two service-support brigades.	Guarded the western wilderness near Chernobog, resisted tundra threats, watched Kazdel, and could serve as a vanguard against Kazdel. Lomonosov committed 20,000 troops against Oymia. 97
Third Army	One of Ursus's elite army groups.	Led by Grand Duke Baikal during the Chernobog campaign; it deployed Ripperbeasts, Imperial Artillery Harbingers, and elite vanguards against the Reunion Movement. 168 198 199
First and Second Armies	The Empire's two elite guard armies.	Based around the imperial capital and directly controlled by the Emperor; their forces operated landships as mobile fortresses. 274 290
Sixth Army Group	Northern-border force.	Included specialized units intended to defend against monsters from the northern ice fields; it was defeated during the Summer Offensive. 339 344 349

Ursus generals were not required to be Ursus by race. Any distinguished soldier could rise to general provided they were neither Infected nor Sarkaz. 100

Doctrine and Culture

• Imperial soldiers were trained to value victory or death over surrender. Lomonosov declared that Ursus had no soldiers or generals who surrendered before taking his own life. 103
• The Empire's treatment of prisoners gave enemy troops strong reason to resist to the death: captives could be worked to death, exiled to labor camps, or buried alive when armies chose not to manage them. 103
• Ursus military supply regulations limited field armies to direct half-monthly distributions from headquarters, restricting prolonged unauthorized campaigns. 100
• The Empire invested heavily in weapons development; even its commanders expected new or improved prototypes to appear during battle. 199

Armaments

• Ripperbeasts — Military-trained assault beasts used as vanguards, capable of tearing through armor with fangs and heavy paws. 198
• Imperial Artillery Harbingers — Large aerial artillery platforms directed by artillery casters and treated as decisive-battle weapons. 199 203
• Elite vanguards — Heavily armored assault infantry equipped for melee combat and limited ranged attacks using wrist-mounted launchers. 199
• Landships — Mobile bases and fortresses fielded by the First and Second Armies. 274

Ursus Red Army

The Ursus Red Army emerged from the Reunion Movement after the liberation of Chernobog. It incorporated former Infected guerrillas, the former Shieldguards, newly recruited Infected, and Imperial soldiers who underwent reeducation or defected. 184 264 349

• First Artillery Division — Commanded by former Seventh Army officer Govorov after his reeducation and enlistment with the revolutionary forces. 264
• Sixth Infantry Division — Led by Mudrock during the Summer Offensive and used as the vanguard in the tundra campaign. 334 338
• Abyssal Hunter special forces — Assigned to fight twisted creatures in the far north and defend abandoned northern fortresses. 331 339
• Tank Regiment — The Red Army's first tank formation, ordered by Marshal Hellagur to breach enemy command headquarters during the offensive. 342

The Red Army's adoption of firearms, sustained artillery barrages, drones, self-propelled guns, rocket artillery, and armored vehicles allowed it to defeat Imperial forces accustomed to more conventional warfare. 204 329 332 345 347

Society

The position of Infected people was one of Ursus's central internal contradictions. Infected prisoners were historically sent into lethal labor systems or exile, while Infected civilians faced exclusion from education, work, and public life. 103 294 355

Feodor privately supported equal legal status for Infected citizens, but his reforms encountered resistance and were undermined by the bureaucracy and entrenched interests. 140 142

Living conditions varied sharply by region. Saint Petersburg and the western heartland largely housed beneficiaries of Imperial policy, whose comparatively stable lives made them resistant to revolutionary change. In contrast, Infected populations in Chernobog, the tundra, and remote regions formed the base of the Reunion Movement and later the Ursus Red Army. 287 333 396