Brasnya

Liberty to Brasnya and its four-armed citizens.

Brasnya is an Eastern European Russian state. Its capital is Zyargy. It is somewhere in the process of breaking away from Russia. The winters look harsh there.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

Thousands of years ago, the Maximal ship Axalon crashed in the region that would one day become Brasnya.

Near the end of World War II, Sgt. Savage and Garrison Kreiger allied with the last surviving Maximal, Centurion. Together, they travelled to Brasnya, where they encountered the frozen wreckage of the Axalon. The abandoned glacier quickly became a battleground between Centurion, a horde of IRON Troopers, and the reanimated body of Domitius Major. The residual Talisman energy within the craft activated and teleported the Axalon and Savage away, leaving a large crater. Strange Visitors Seeking to possess the Talisman for himself Kreiger established a facility beneath 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 in Egypt during the 1980s, The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb Kreiger 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 of Mike Power but not before the experiments had caused Savage and the Axalon to dematerialize. When Eagles Scream In 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 under Georgi Koska fought with Russian troops before, the Brasnyan army had never fired a shot in anger. Russian and Brasnyan politicians always worked out a mutual face-saving deal instead. The Decepticons placed facsimiles in both the militants and the Brasnyan government, including one that replaced Koska himself. Escalation #3 American intelligence agency Skywatch had a contact, Major Arkurin, in the Brasnyan capital. Escalation #6 To the dismay of the militias, the "federalists" in power were rumoured to be working on a deal with Moscow. Escalation #3

Megatron aimed to use the conflict between Brasnya and Russia to initiate a new, global war that would leave humans in 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 cloaked Blitzwing to take potshots at Russian and Brasnyan forces (who each thought the other side was firing) to instigate a conflict. This worked until the Autobots intervened; the sight of giant transforming robots stunned both sides into standing down, and the Russians pulled out after being faced down by Prowl and Hot Rod. The situation cooled down. Escalation #5

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

After hacking I.R.O.N.'s systems, Garrison Blackrock discovered the location of Ice Man facility in Brasnya. Strange Visitors After calling upon M.A.S.K. as extra muscle, the group travelled to Brasnya. Action Man managed 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 of Chechnya, a federal subject of Russia which has a violent history of separatism.
• Alexi refers disparagingly to "the federalists" in Escalation #3, either referring to a capital-F political party or a derogatory term due to their rumoured deal with the Russian Federation.
• Escalation #3 refers to Brasnya as a "breakaway Soviet state", which is corroborated by #4. While on first sight this may seem to imply that the Soviet Union still exists in the present-day setting of Escalation, #5 and #6 replace "Soviet" with "Russian" and "breakaway" with "former", thereby apparently fixing 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.

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