Alessandro I of Istalia

Imperial Prince Alessandro of Istalia (Eristano, 12 March 4532) is a member of the Istalian Imperial Family. He is the firstborn of Grand Princes Mattia of Istalia, elder brother of Michele I, and his Nadia (nee Carolani). Born as commoner like his father and the rest of his family, when his uncle was elevated to the Istalian Throne, he was created Imperial Prince of Istalia, tegether with the rest of the members of the Appiano De Borromei's family, newly declared Istalian Imperial Family.

=Biography=

Early years
Alessandro born on 12 March 4532 at the Eristano's State Hospital (Mezzodiurno) two months after his father Mattia moved with his wife to the Alaria's city to assume an university chairs to the local Academy of Fine Arts. Alessandro attended the public schools since the first grade with healthy profit. When youth he joined the soccer team of his profil school and High school, while started to be fascinated by the flight and by the military career, especially since his uncle Michele was reassigned to an Air Force base near Eristano. The two family started to spent a lot of time together and the young Alessandro came very close with his uncle, fascinated by his uniform and by his tales. Michele started also to flight with Alessandro in the free time on little single-engine aircraft.

Early Military Career
At the end of the High School, Alessandro fully expressed to his parents the desire to join the Air Force's Accademy of Turrino where he was admitted after the passage of the entrance exam. Here he followed the course to become military pilot of jet fighters. Graduated as lieutenant, he was assigned to the the 20° Interceptor Group of the 4° Fly Wing based on Tarranda, Mezzodiurno and then in the following years, reached the rank of Captain, decided to attend the course of the Air Force's Institute of Military Sciences.

During the last years of the Fourth Republic he joined the several officers of the Armed Forces concerned by the poor state of the Republic and the spreading of Metzist tendencies in the country. However, he expressed together with other young officers his concerns also about the arrival in Istalia of many "foreigners", later discovered to be Thallerist mercenaries. He didn't joined the military gerarchies which supported Julius Von Thaller in his anti-metzist uprising and for this reason he was reassigned in Alaria together with many opposers of the Thaller. When Julius von Thaller started its Thallerist Revolution supported by the anti-metzist mercenaries hired with the agreement of the Istalian Armed Forces, Alessandro left the Air Force, being the nephew of the persecuted Giulio Appiano De Borromei, previously a romulan local politicians who arose among the leader of the anti-thallerist resistence with the support of his son Michele who, instead, gathered officers from all the Armed Forces.

When his grandfather was murdered, he joined his uncle in his clandestine anti-thallerist resistance formed by armed forces officers and persecuted politicians which in few months, leading finally a general uprising of the Armed Forces, achieved to defeat the Thallerist forces and to free the Country. With the retourning of the Democracy, Alessandro rejoined the Air Force to continue pursuing his Military Sciences' study. In the meanwhile, however, like many others in Istalia, was fascinated by the political rising of his uncle and in 4554 he joined the new party founded by him, Glory and Rebirth, gaining supporters for the new political movement among officers of his Squadron and of the Institute of Military Sciences.

Political Experience
When the popular support for Glory and Rebirth took by surprise the Liberal Party, at the time leading the provissional government, it was reached an agreement between the two political parties and the right-hand of Michele Appiano De Borromei, former Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Filippo Sartori, was appointed Head of Government by President Giotto Caiola. The young captain Alessandro, despite his proselitism in favor of his uncle within the Air Force, was ready to fully return to his military career but Michele convinced him to join Sartori's Government and in 4554, at only 22 years, he was appointed as Minister of Food and Agriculture as representative of the young officers, being the first governments by Glory and Rebirth formed by many important ranks of the Armed Forces. After the elections of 4555, when Glory and Rebirth reported a landslide victory and Michele Appiano De Borromei was elected first Head of the State of the newly founded Fifth Republic, Alessandro was asked by his uncle to enter also in his first cabinet and then was appointed as Minister of Science and Technology.

The night of the 4558 Coup attempt, Alessandro was arrested together with many other officials of the State ready to be deported in an isolated military base in Alaria. The convoy which was deporting the arrested officials was intercepted by the loyal forces just before the sunrise in the outskirt of Romula and Alessandro, once freed, reached the uncle at Quattroregni Palace together with the loyal Ministries. During his tenure as Minister of Science and Technology joined the Head of the State in his "passion" for the nuclear physics which led the Government to fund a new nuclear laboratory and also a nuclear fusion experimental facility. During this term, however, the Government was particularly busy to contrast the rising fascist Nationalist Workers Party which threatened the young Fifth Republic. If initially he left to Sartori and the Glory and Rebirth's parliament members to contrast the fascists focusing on his duty as Minister, at the end of the term he fully dedicated himself to the electoral campaign for the newly founded Coalition for the Democratic Cooperation and for the re-election of his uncle.

Following the elections of 4561, despite the uncle and his party defeated the fascists with another landslide victory, Alessandro this time declined the invitation of the reconfirmed Head of the State expressing his desire to return in active service to the Air Force, also to complete his Military Sciences' study.

Late Military Career
In 4564 Alessandro finally graduated in Strategic Studies and Games specialization but then he prefered to continue his career as pilot for some other years. With the rank of Lieutenant Colonel he became the commander of the 20° Interceptor Group, his original air force's group, but then after just one year his uncle convinced him to move to the Department of the Air Force where in 4568 reached the rank of Colonel entering into the staff of the Chief of the Air Force Staff. In 4571 he was recomanded by General Polidori, at the time Chief of Air Force Staff, to the Defence Staff and Alessandro was considering the opportunity to move to Travertine Palace when the first proposals to declare his uncle as perpetual head of state started to be debated.

As Imperial Prince of Istalia
September 1th, with the foundation of the first Istalian Empire, Michele Appiano De Borromei was officially declared Emperor of the Istalians and Alessandro, with other members of the Appiano De Borromei's family, found himself elevated to the rang of Imperial Prince of Istalia and member of its first Imperial Dynasty. Becoming Imperial Prince, however, didn't distract him from the Air Force and in 4572, after also the advice of his uncle, he agreed to join the Defense Staff and to continue his career. As Imperial Prince, obviously, he attended the Inauguration Cerimony of his uncle, but for the following years he did not participate in any official event or ceremony, except when they involved all the members of the Imperial Family. Something, however, seemed to change in June 4576 when his uncle the Emperor demanded him as his Chief of Staff during his first official visit abroad to the Hulstrian Imperial Court. During the State visit, many noticed how Alessandro was overexposed by his uncle, more than just the Chief of the Emperor's Staff and, indeed, he entertained also a long conversation with the at time Kaiser Hans Friedrick Albert lll, just few years younger than Alessandro.

=Titles, Styles and Honors=

Title
Since 4571 Alessandro holds the title of Imperial Prince and the treatment of His Imperial Highness. The title of Imperial Prince was granted at the time of the Imperial elevation to all the members of the Imperial Family except, obviously, the Emperor and the Empress, thier three daughters, who held the title of Imperial Grand Princesses, and Alessandro's parents, Mattia and Nadia, to whom, due to Mattia's seniority, was granted, like for the daughters of the Emperor, the title of Grand Princes of Istalia.

Honors
When Michele I created the Order of the Istalian Star as first dynastic order of Istalia, Alessandro, like all the other adult member of the Imperial Family, was appointed member the Order and created Knight Grand Cross of the Order.