Oskar Sansinger

The UCNA's rise to power was ordained by me as the author, but it wasn't inevitable. If the wars had played out differently, the Grand Principality of Mexico could possibly have become the greatest state in the New World; if several wars had played out differently, Mexico might have been a global power, and the Yusufid dynasty reduced to a Caribbean empire centered on *Cuba. (It's extremely unlikely, because it ignores the butterflies that such a runaway Mexico-wank would've set in motion - but it's not impossible.)

History is the story not just of Great Times, though, but of Great Men. The UCNA's story was also the story of its first and greatest ruler, Yusuf I, and his friends [who?]. And once the UCNA had been established, the history of the G.P. of Mexico is likewise also the story of its great man - Yusuf I's nemesis and contemporary, one Oskar Sansinger.

A brief biography of Oskar Sansinger

The man who would become "Oscar I, prince consort of Mexico," was born to refugee parents: Güntherites from Pomerania, fleeing the partition and settling in the Northern Marches in the early 1760s [when?]

• Oskar winds up appointed to a military career. It's at this point that he meets the future Grand Prince of Mexico [who?]
• After the Moorish Civil War begins in 1787, Oskar sides with the Mexican separatist faction. Even if the Mexican War of Independence had flopped, this would've been enough to secure the collapse of Umayyad Seville. It didn't flop.
• The Yusufids try to challenge him for Mexico; it's a terrible idea. Oskar is directly involved with the campaign that leaves several of the best and brightest Moorish leaders in the New World dead. (Coincidentally, this means that the best and brightest of the surviving sane ones is a spoiled, rebellious kid in Cuba at the time, one Yusuf. He became important later on...)

Oscar I, Prince Consort: The Grand Prince's sons predecease him in the turmoil of early 19th-century Mexico. When the Grand Prince himself dies, there's a bit of a succession crisis, but the throne of Mexico formally passes to his second-oldest daughter, Grand Princess Maria Teresa. Oskar Sansinger, as her husband, basically rides her coattails to official power.

• Being her late father's designated heir didn't hurt the Grand Princess's claim. Her husband's pull with the Axamallan generals helped, though - quite a bit, because a fair bit of force was needed to make the succession stick.
• At this time, Oskar Sansinger adopts both the style and spelling that he's commonly known by: "Oscar I, Prince Consort of Mexico." (While Oskar's never happy about this power imbalance, he has more scruples than to launch a coup against somebody as loved as his own wife.)

Oscar's regency: After the Grand Princess's death [when?], Oscar I holds the throne as the regent of Mexico for his son [who?]

• The Guise inheritance: By 1831, the War of the French Succession is over, and the House of Guise is thoroughly deposed - the one serious pretender is living in exile in Rome, and unlike another pretender in Roman exile he has no Bonnie Prince Charlie to bid for France. Once the Pope [who?] formally recognizes the Burgundians, implicitly denying the Guisard pretender's claim to legitimacy, he's a king without a country, and without much in the way of assets.
  
  Oscar I arranges for one of the king's daughters to marry his son [who?], vaulting the House of Sansinger into full-blown Old World legitimacy.
• The Guise inheritance is, however, a step too far. Oscar's son (who takes after his mother, raised Catholic, Sevillan-speaking, culturally Mexican and born into the aristocracy) was already unable to command the loyalty of Mexico's (very Pomeranian) generals; on Oscar's death, they present the heir with a list of nonnegotiable demands. When he rejects them, they declare themselves absolved from their oaths of loyalty, triggering the Axamallan Revolt.

This is a work in progress. It will be expanded upon.