Fortressian History

Fortressian History is the totality of the history of the Principality of the Pillow Fortress, from its earliest antecedents as various fictional worldbuilding projects through its immediate prehistory and planning phases up to its independence and through to the present day. Much of the earliest historical documents are lost due to poor record keeping, and even up until the founding of the Pillow Fortress Wiki many of the specific dates of important events are also unknown and must be reconstructed.

Archaic Prehistory

The Archaic Period of Fortressian Prehistory consists of all the worldbuilding and state building projects undertaken by the First Princess beginning in her youth and continuing off and on in different forms until adulthood. This period, lasting about twenty years, is archaic because no records or documents or items associated with these projects survive into the present, and so the First Princess's memory is the only guide, and since human memory is fallible and finite, its impossible to retrieve a 100% accurate accounting of this time, nor determine just what influences each worldbuilding project had on the next, and which if any have been carried on to the Pillow Fortress.

From the best of her recollection, these projects by the First Princess generally followed closely in form and function with both her intellectual development as a human being and her political understanding, with the earliest being purely fantastical, apolitical early childhood creations, through to conservative republics, libertarian minarchist associations and plans to revive the Republic of Minerva, to liberal democracies, to Soviet-style communist states. While the First Princess was aware of micronations during much of this period, none of these worldbuilding projects ever reached that level of development.

Late Prehistory

The Late Period of Fortressian Prehistory begins in the year 2013 and continues through to late 2017. During this period, the First Princess's worldbuilding projects are documented, and while all retain various fantastical and science fiction elements, many of them begin to converge, and overtime evolve closer and closer into what will become the Principality. This is the earliest period for which extensive documentation exists, and it will have to be studied and reviewed in order to determine an exact timeline of development. This section will receive many additional updates as the archives are pieced together.

Many of the terms associated with the Pillow Fortress appear for (presumably) the first time during this period, some surprisingly early, though often designating things very different than what they would come to in the Principality. "Pillow Fortress" was the name given to a stay-behind network to be activated in the event of the states' conquest by a hostile power, "Platinum Band" serves most often as the name of the sole military of the various projects, but in at least one instance was the name of the state, and "Libertine" is used in the sense of a political association, but here styled the "Libertine Society" rather than "Libertine Party". Many of the same government organizations as exist now are present in these past projects, but with slightly differing names and relations to other organizations.

The Late Period would come to a close when the First Princess's largest and most recent worldbuilding project would be lost due to the files becoming corrupted. There was a brief and subsequent attempt at a follow up, one radically different to all previous attempts, but this was unsatisfying, and for some time all such projects ceased.

Waiting for the Pillow Fortress

The Waiting Period of Fortressian Prehistory is the final stage before the Principality came into formal existence as a micronation, lasting from late 2017 to 19 January, 2018. As the fantastical elements of the worldbuilding projects had taken a backseat to the more grounded, state and nation building ones, it was decided that the next such project would not be fictional, per se, but rather take the form of a proper micronation. Work did not begin immediately, but rather it was decided that there had to be a sufficient inciting incident to justify the existence of a new state. Such a wait would not last long.