Brasnya

Liberty to Brasnya and its four-armed citizens.

Brasnyais an EasternEuropean^[1]Russian state. Its capital isZyargy.It is somewhere in the process of breaking away fromRussia.The winters look harsh there.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Thousands of years ago, theMaximalshipAxaloncrashed in the region that would one day become Brasnya.

Near the end ofWorld War II,Sgt. SavageandGarrison Kreigerallied with the last surviving Maximal,Centurion.Together, they travelled to Brasnya, where they encountered the frozen wreckage of theAxalon.The abandoned glacier quickly became a battleground between Centurion, a horde ofIRON Troopers,and the reanimated body ofDomitius Major.The residualTalismanenergy within the craft activated and teleported theAxalonand Savage away, leaving a large crater.Strange VisitorsSeeking to possess the Talisman for himself Kreiger establisheda facilitybeneath the crater to hold pieces of Talisman technology which he used to create lesser copies of the device.The Iron KlawPower and Glory

After finding the real Talisman inEgyptduring the 1980s,The Secret of the Mummy's TombKreiger had it moved to his Brasnyan facility where it he studied it under the government's approval. After a decade, his experiments were shut down in 1994 when they seemingly resulted in the death ofMike Powerbut not before the experiments had caused Savage and theAxalonto dematerialize.When Eagles ScreamIn reality, Power had survived and slowly became one with the base as his body was increasingly replaced by Talisman prosthetics.Power and Glory

By 2006 or 2007, Brasnya had maintained a standing army with its own tanks for at least sixteen years. While separatist militants underGeorgi Koskafought with Russian troops before, the Brasnyan army had never fired a shot in anger.Russianand Brasnyan politicians always worked out a mutual face-saving deal instead. The Decepticons placedfacsimilesin both the militants and the Brasnyan government, including one that replaced Koska himself.Escalation #3Americanintelligence agencySkywatchhad a contact, MajorArkurin,in the Brasnyan capital.Escalation #6To the dismay of the militias, the "federalists" in power were rumoured to be working on a deal with Moscow.Escalation #3

Megatronaimed to use the conflict between Brasnya and Russia to initiate a new, global war that would leavehumansin a weakened position when the Decepticons chose to take action. To accomplish this, he turned himself into a gun, had Koska "fire" him at a Russian oil pipeline, then used a cloakedBlitzwingto take potshots at Russian and Brasnyan forces (who each thought the other side was firing) to instigate a conflict. This worked until theAutobotsintervened; the sight of giant transforming robots stunned both sides into standing down, and the Russians pulled out after being faced down byProwlandHot Rod.The situation cooled down.Escalation #5

Later on, Skywatch arrived in the area to examine it with intention of tracking down theTransformers.Devastation #1

After hackingI.R.O.N.'s systems,Garrison Blackrockdiscovered the location of Ice Man facility in Brasnya.Strange VisitorsAfter calling uponM.A.S.K.as extra muscle, the group travelled to Brasnya.Action Manmanaged to convince Atomic Man to stand down, allowing the team to capture Kreiger. The final release of Talisman energy from the cyborg's body however had the unexpected side-effect of causing the time lost Sgt. Savage to emerge.Power and Glory

Notes

• The name is probably a takeoff on "Grozny", the capital ofChechnya,a federal subject of Russia which has a violent history of separatism.
• Alexirefers disparagingly to "the federalists" inEscalation#3,either referring to a capital-F political party or a derogatory term due to their rumoured deal with the Russian Federation.
• Escalation#3refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway Soviet state", which is corroborated by#4.While on first sight this may seem to imply that theSoviet Unionstill exists in the present-day setting ofEscalation,#5and#6replace "Soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fi xing a major world politics flub. Simon Furman later stated at the German C.O.N.S. convention in July 2012 that any references to "Soviet" are to be considered an error and should read "Russian" instead.

References

1. ↑Spotlight: Ramjet

External links

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