Vandarch Canal Crisis
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| Ereglas-Acanya Provisional Republics |
Coalition of the Involved
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names General Donnal Gwyre (after Dec. 29) |
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 National Army Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea | ||||||||
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| Up to 16,000 | Approx. 320,000 deployed | ||||||||
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The Vandarch Canal Crisis was an attempted revolutionary separatist movement in late December, 1981 through January, 1982 in the Ereglas-Acanya region of the Province of Culriocha, Faneria. The regions, which bound the western portion of the Prevalian Isthmus to the west of the Grand Vandarch Canal Zone, were the main subject of territorial changes following the end of the Second Great War, leading to local resentment against the Fanerian government and the League in general. After the launching of an armed rebellion, revolutionary forces assaulted the Canal Zone, prompting an international scare and massive retaliation by both the Fanerian and other governments with interests in the Vandarch.
Background
By the end of the Second Great War, Faneria had broken ground on a canal in the Prevalian Isthmus intended to allow its warships in the Vandarch to traverse rapidly to the Nordska and Kilikas Seas. At the end of the war, the canal and several dozen miles both east and west were ceded by Faneria to the League of Nations as an international mandate. As a direct result, many local Fanerian citizens were forced to vacate their homes or remain in the International Zone, which retained relative ease-of-travel with Faneria on both its borders but created numerous legal issues with the growing populations of stateless people While Faneria practices citizenship-by-application, a lack of citizenship made legal documentation a complex issue and the Canal became populated by a number of varying communities.
Nationalist radicalization remained an issue in Faneria after the Great War, with numerous terror attacks and political scandals as the right-Starkist wing that lobbied for continued hostilities with the Levantine Union was slowly purged from government. The most notable incident of these was the Bonn Hotel Bombing in 1956, when militants from the paramilitary group GaelWind attacked an Aenglish-owned hotel in Sethsport. However, Ereglas and Acanya remained a hotbed of grassroots anti-League, anti-foreign sentiment due to both deliberate efforts by GaelWind operatives and the difficulties caused by the relocations. The Fanerian government failed categorically to address the issues of the local communities, concerned with more intensive separatism in Lyukquar and western Culriocha.
Beginning at some point around 1970, a revolutionary society called the Ereglasian Guard formed with the intent of launching a guerilla war for independence, hoping to spark a general uprising in the outlying ethnic Culriochan outside of Ereglas and Acanya themselves. The group was subject to mass arrests from 1974-79, after which it appeared to have been disbanded, though the counties remained highly unstable. In reality, the Ereglasian Guard had recruited General of the Brigade Donnal Gwyre of the National Army of Faneria, who ran the local garrison and ran cover for the group.
Initial Uprising
Assault on the Canal Zone
Fanerian Crackdown
Due to the confusion of the first several days of the rebellion, foreign press had perpetuated the idea that Faneria was attacking the Canal zone directly. While the governments of the other Vandarch-bound nations were appraised of the situation rapidly, it remained unclear to the public if Faneria's government was responsible for the attack on the Canal until the arrival of the Third Vandarch Squadron to the southern coast of Acanya, from which it began landing the Xth Brigade of the Xth Marine Rhon and conducting intensive bombardment of known militant locations. Successive deployments of ground forces to the Isthmus would reach a total of 34,500 soldiers supported by over a quarter-million naval, aerospace, and support personnel from across the Vandarch, particularly from the Urcean garrison in Hollonia and Diorsia. Heavy saturation of rebel positions and the siezed _____ Military Base totally destroyed the militarized vehicles and most of the rebels' modified technicals by the 6th of January, and arrests and capture of rebel outposts effectively concluded by the 18th.
International Support
Aftermath
Faneria
- inquisition into military brass
- rapproachment with Levantine Union
- beginning of full remilitarization, crackdown on separatist movements
Internationally
- trade disruption
- general improvement of Fanerian foreign relations\
- conspiracy theory that Faneria allowed or encouraged the revolt as a PR stunt (OOC: not true in this case)