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Káámarakatu Raiapueakaoiso'o became the fourth Empress, though her succession was unexpected. She retreated on her mother's plans to invade the north. This characterized her reign, with a strong focus on inward development and defensive wars against Almadarian and Delapasian incursions. She expanded agricultural development, focusing on balancing sugar and spice export alongside internal agricultural improvements. Occidental and Kiraivic techniques were imported alongside improvements to existing strategies, developing modern Loa wet rice agroforestry. She also invested in significant manufactured goods, such as in firearms, processed sugar, textiles and ceramics. This led to a significant population boom. However, one of the most significant elements of her reign was the encouragement and tolerance towards Polynesians and Polynesian culture she demonstrated. The Empress led significant efforts to revitalize Polynesian culture, such as the establishment of a new writing system utilizing elements of the old Polynesian scripts and the transcribing of old works for the common people. Further, she enabled the Polynesians to exit the plantation system through examinations modeled off of the Imperial exams, which led to the quick establishment of a Polynesian merchant class. This was facilitated by the further establishment of independent companies to forge connections with outside nations to strengthen the Loa position in both the world and in comparison to the relationship with Kiravia. However, the latter years of Raiapueakaoiso'o were defined by a succession crisis in which her heir and only legitimate daughter dies unexpectedly from cancer. When she died in 1818, her daughter by a Polynesian lover ascended to the throne.

Káámarakatu Kantirao ascended to the throne as the penultimate and the most influential Empress. She was originally contested by the vassal kings and the court for her ignoble origins but in 1819, the three queens of Saikao, Imerai and Andirao as well as 34 members of the Imperial family were executed for a supposed plot to overthrow the Empress. Contemporarily, it was understood that they had no plot, and that this was done to consolidate her authority. Throughout her reign, there were constant purges of dissident nobles and stripping of noble privileges which resulted in the consolidation of the nobility from nearly two hundred landowning nobles, to seventeen at the time of collapse and eventually twelve in modern times. FUrther, Kantirao presided over a time of great turmoil, as the social autonomy of the preceding Empress resulted in a desire to achieve political independence, ceasing to be a vassal state to Great Kiravia. Analysis of her diaries indicate that she held this same sentiment and was preparing her entire reign to create the grounds of an independent Takatta Loa. The primary means to which she wanted to achieve this were education, industrialization and nationalization. During the 20s, she enacted a system of national education to try and promote literacy across the country, enforcing Insuo Loa as the national language.

===Bourgondii-Loa Wars===

Main article: [[Bourgondii-Loa Wars]]

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 Káámarakatu Raiapueakaoiso'o became the fourth Empress, though her succession was unexpected. She retreated on her mother's plans to invade the north. This characterized her reign, with a strong focus on inward development and defensive wars against Almadarian and Delapasian incursions. She expanded agricultural development, focusing on balancing sugar and spice export alongside internal agricultural improvements. Occidental and Kiraivic techniques were imported alongside improvements to existing strategies, developing modern Loa wet rice agroforestry. She also invested in significant manufactured goods, such as in firearms, processed sugar, textiles and ceramics. This led to a significant population boom. However, one of the most significant elements of her reign was the encouragement and tolerance towards Polynesians and Polynesian culture she demonstrated. The Empress led significant efforts to revitalize Polynesian culture, such as the establishment of a new writing system utilizing elements of the old Polynesian scripts and the transcribing of old works for the common people. Further, she enabled the Polynesians to exit the plantation system through examinations modeled off of the Imperial exams, which led to the quick establishment of a Polynesian merchant class. This was facilitated by the further establishment of independent companies to forge connections with outside nations to strengthen the Loa position in both the world and in comparison to the relationship with Kiravia. However, the latter years of Raiapueakaoiso'o were defined by a succession crisis in which her heir and only legitimate daughter dies unexpectedly from cancer. When she died in 1818, her daughter by a Polynesian lover ascended to the throne.
+Káámarakatu Kantirao ascended to the throne as the penultimate and the most influential Empress. She was originally contested by the vassal kings and the court for her ignoble origins but in 1819, the three queens of Saikao, Imerai and Andirao as well as 34 members of the Imperial family were executed for a supposed plot to overthrow the Empress. Contemporarily, it was understood that they had no plot, and that this was done to consolidate her authority. Throughout her reign, there were constant purges of dissident nobles and stripping of noble privileges which resulted in the consolidation of the nobility from nearly two hundred landowning nobles, to seventeen at the time of collapse and eventually twelve in modern times. FUrther, Kantirao presided over a time of great turmoil, as the social autonomy of the preceding Empress resulted in a desire to achieve political independence, ceasing to be a vassal state to Great Kiravia. Analysis of her diaries indicate that she held this same sentiment and was preparing her entire reign to create the grounds of an independent Takatta Loa. The primary means to which she wanted to achieve this were education, industrialization and nationalization. During the 20s, she enacted a system of national education to try and promote literacy across the country, enforcing Insuo Loa as the national language.
 ===Bourgondii-Loa Wars===
 Main article: [[Bourgondii-Loa Wars]]

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