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1906 royal train bombing | 1906 royal train bombing | ||
On April 28, 1906, a private train carrying *Rih* [[Ruaridh Suthar-Màrtainn]] and former *Banrih* [[Rethysear Suthar-Màrtainn]] to [[Sethsport]] was derailed over a bridge by Socialist extremists, killing both of them as well as the heads of the *Thronewatch* and the Vicar of [[Srathlann]]. The attack prompted a riot surrounding the Senate Chamber in Oirthidún, snowballing into a street battle between the army and armed citizenry. A state of emergency was declared, and the mob stormed a munitions plant, arming themselves as the fighting in the capital spiraled further into chaos. | |||
==Fhainnin Civil War== | |||
In response to the attack on the Senate Chambers, the Vicars of [[Vrael]] and [[Connsmonan]] declared their support for a temporary pause on the coronation of the next in line to the throne, one of Rethysear's nephews, Glen Wynnys-Màrtainn, along with a faction within the Senate known as the Reformists. Their movement was struck down, but the Reformists abandoned their seats, leaving the Senate to be unable to arrive at the threshold required to pass acts without them. Instead, the Reformists met with the Republican Front and other likeminded groups, accepting Cananach among others as members and rebranding themselves the National Republicans, calling for a general strike demanding the Senate pass the promised voting reforms as well as granting more powers to the Senate. | |||
The Royalist faction ultimately caved after thousands of deaths across the country and months of martial law when paramilitaries and elements in the military and police became increasingly unwilling to fight their own people, voting (under a great deal of duress, but voting nonetheless) to pass the voting reforms and additional extensions of the franchise to any citizen, landed or unlanded, as well as formally making women citizens - another movement which had added steam to the Republicans' voting bloc. The head of the Republicans, John MacRenyth, called for immediate elections, which were held without preparation within certain areas of Oirthidún only and conveniently brought a supermajority of Republicans into the Senate - bringing Cananach into the inner circle. The Royalists decried the blatantly fraudulent elections, and the Throneswatch stepped in to break up the Senate, facing off against Republican militias which ended in a firefight in which MacRenyth was killed. | |||
Cananach quickly claimed leadership of the National Republicans with his loyalists in tow, with the Free Faneria press supporting him in its publications as he fled to nearby Teindún, Faneria's largest city and a hub of Republican activity. Rousing the citizenry with a call to arms, Cananach spun the events at Oirthidún as a calculated purge by the Royalists, a position he maintained he truly believed for the rest of his life. Enraged, the locals fought off the pursuing contingent of Throneswatch and declared the city a safe haven for Republicans. | |||
''By December of 1906, numerous elements of the Army had defected from the Royalists, and an attempt to take Teindún by the Throneswatch and loyalist troops was rebuffed by armed veterans and mutineers. The Vicar of Vrael was killed by Royalist toops for treason, but the Vicar of Connsmonan declared open support for the Republicans, followed shortly by the newly elected Vicar of Srathlann, who campaigned as a Republican and barely avoided assassination, which he blamed on the Throneswatch. Further compounding the situation was the new King's refusal to rule; Wynnys-Màrtainn, seeing the situation and perhaps having had republican leanings himself, fled his palace and met with the general of the 6th Army, another Màrtainn descendant named [[Jonah Lohr-Màrtainn]]. Lohr-Màrtainn agreed to defect to the National Republicans, bringing most of his army with him and contributing to a significant collapse in Royalist morale as nearly the entire Màrtainn tree was either too distant to clearly distinguish inheritance, dead, or, in the case of its most prominent members, had simply defected to the Republicans out of fear for their lives or actual support.'' | |||
Cananach spent his time during the bulk of the Civil War setting up his own government, replacing institutions from scratch on paper and using his rubber stamp Senate remnants to approve any changes and reforms he wished. after the fall of Rihsport to the National Republicans in May 1907, he felt he could effectively do as he pleased, as republican militias and revolutionaries increasingly became better-equipped and just as experienced as the standing army that had split between the two factions. With Faneria's geographic core secured, Cananach called for and succeeded in a vote to dispand the Vicarial system entirely and replace is with a system of elected Governors without aristocratic trappings, as well as formally disbanding the Senate and creating a new legislature. It was no mistake that the new legislature and positions of power were packed with his closest followers first, allies second, and his enemies left excluded entirely. | |||
''Despite this, Royalist forces fought against the Republicans, but increasingly lost ground, losing the western Vandarch Basin entirely by mid-March, 1907. The Navy, which had largely sided with the Royalists, was forced to split between defecting to other nations or, more commonly, surrendering themselves. At this point the war was effectively decided barring a major change in the balance of power, but fighting continued in the eastern Basin for well over a year, as well as in the north, where a joint Royalist-Nationalist effort put down a secession attempt by the Vicar of [[Lyukquar]]. [[Rihsport]] fell to the NRP in May 1907, effectively ending Royalist resistance in western Faneria as the 3rd Veterans Corps rolled those who did not surrender up to New [[Kurikila]], forcing a surrender after a short siege. Immigrant communities and Republican partisans in [[Srathlann]] prevented the remaining Royalists from receiving foreign support, and by October, the only considerable Royalist forces remaining were retreating for the Fiannrian border, holding out in the northeastern reaches, or pocketed and slowly being strangled within the Deamhainn mountains.'' | |||
The Socialists made considerable gains during this period, and saw success fighting Royalist forces, but were unprepared to themselves be purged from the Senate and the revolutionary movement, with many of their supporters peeling away to join the Republicans or breaking down into infighting over leadership. Their temporary alliance with the Republicans had allowed Cananach's men to gain an awareness of their operations, making rooting out their cells a matter of tipping off local anticommunist veterans' organizations. In addition, some elements within the Republicans themselves were cast out, though not violently as the Socialists were. | |||
== Postwar Life == | |||
==Death== | ==Death== | ||
Cananach became seriously ill with a fever in March of 2025, and gave up his position as Despot to ________ due to his ill health. Despite care, his condition worsened dramatically, and he was hospitalized at St. Jude's Hospital in Oirthidún. He lost consciousness on the 7th of November and was declared dead on the 8th, with the cause of death being ruled as sepsis. An investigation was launched into his death and ruled out the possibility of assassination after rumors circulated ______ may have poisoned Callac, and medical records made public to deter theorists from gaining traction. | Cananach became seriously ill with a fever in March of 2025, and gave up his position as Despot to ________ due to his ill health. Despite care, his condition worsened dramatically, and he was hospitalized at St. Jude's Hospital in Oirthidún. He lost consciousness on the 7th of November and was declared dead on the 8th, with the cause of death being ruled as sepsis. An investigation was launched into his death and ruled out the possibility of assassination after rumors circulated ______ may have poisoned Callac, and medical records made public to deter theorists from gaining traction. | ||