Brasnya
- Brasnya is a wanna-be nation-state from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Brasnya is an Eastern European[1] Soviet republic. Its capital is Zyargy. It is somewhere in the process of breaking away from the Soviet Union. The winters look harsh there.
Fiction
IDW Comics continuity
Brasnya had 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 issue 3 American intelligence agency Skywatch had a contact, Major Arkurin, in the Brasnyan capital. Escalation issue 6
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 issue 5
Later on, Skywatch arrived in the area to examine it with intention of tracking down the Transformers. Devastation issue 1
Trivia
- The name is probably a takeoff on "Grozny," the capital of Chechnya, a federal subject of Russia which has a violent history of separatism.
- Nobody knows why IDW has the Soviet Union still existing in a present-day setting. 80s nostalgia taken a bit too far? Furman forgetting the Cold War was over? A secret plot by the Machination?
- Page 1 of the last issue of Escalation calls Brasnya a "former Russian state". This is either a continuity flub or IDW belatedly backtracking on the idea of the Soviet Union still existing. Either way, Russian "states", known as Federal subjects, aren't really known for breaking away, while Soviet Republics are.
