Kiroquois War

The Kiroquois War is an ongoing military conflict between the Kiravian Federacy and Iriquona, as well as the Revolutionary Guerilla Triads ("RG3s"), an Iriquonan-based militant formation.

Background
During the First Colonial Expansion, Kiravian and Levantine colonising powers projected their influence deeper into the interior of Lesser Punth than the extent of their 2034 colonial boundaries. Kiravian troops had, at various points in time, occupied large areas of what would become eastern Iriquona, which at their maximum reached as far north as the Algonquon lands. Although the northern frontier of Kiravian-administered Lesser Punth eventually stabilised at the Deep Loire River and the Iriquonan-speaking polities beyond it coalesced - at least nominally - into a unified nation-state with defined boundaries, commerce, migration, and other interactions across the Deep Loire would continue.

Outbreak
Tensions finally came to a head in the spring of 2034 after a series of violent incidents along the border, beginning with the axe-murder of an entire Coscivian settler family at their isolated homestead in Hinterkævek Township, North Porfíria. The colonial government assigned blame to the Revolutionary Guerrilla Triads, although the group itself did not claim responsibility. It did, however, claim responsibility for a mortar attack against a telluride mining camp in the Northeast Territory, announcing that it was in retaliation for violent acts committed by Kiravian resource companies in Iriquona. Punth Joint Security Command raised the Regional Treat Advisory rating to Puce in the wake of the mortar attack, and closed all points of entry along the Iriquonan border. However, just two weeks later, RG3 cadres embedded in Kiravian territory ambushed a Kiravian Army supply convoy bound for Fort Mac Muireadhaigh while it was travelling through County Śatner, Green River Colony, some 42 kilometers from the border. Using [weapons here], the assailants inflicted 27 fatalities before escaping into the surrounding woodland. Border Force agents later apprehended eight suspected militants as they attempted to cross the Deep Loire into Iriquona.

According to Kiravian government sources, after the Iriquonan Foreign Ministry declined to allow Kiravian special forces into its territory to raid RG3 encampments near the border for the stated purpose of capturing any perpetrators of the ambush who had crossed into Iriquona, and further failed to respond to demands for the extradition of top RG3 leaders, Prime Executive Andrus Candrin ordered a "police action" with authorisation to use lethal force against enemy combatants in Iriquona.