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[[File:Mosaik 8483.jpg|thumb|200px|The four-pointed star, a recurring motif in early Cosco-Adratic art, has come to serve as the symbol of Coscivian civilisation.]]
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'''Coscivian civilisation''' is the heritage of values, norms, customs, ideas, social and political movements, and artifacts associated with the peoples of the continent of Éorsa. Coscivian civilisation spread beyond its home continent during the 9th and 10th centuries ''anno Domini'' to encompass new lands and peoples through migration, colonisation, cultural exchange, and assimilation, and today forms the dominant cultural paradigm in several nation-states, including [[Kiravia]] and [[Livensóla]], as well as the way of life of Coscivian minority and immigrant populations in many parts of the world, particularly [[Umcara]], where Coscivians comprise some 40% of the population.
{{Infobox military conflict
 
| conflict          = Operational Flyhook
Coscivian civilisation and a common Coscivian identity were consolidated under the First and Second Coscivian Empires that united the various peoples of Éorsa, who despite sharing certain ancestral, linguistic, and limited cultural affinities did not previously have any common consciousness, into a single overarching cultural and political system. This civilisation continued its independent social and technological development over the subsequent centuries, and remains a distinct, if comparatively minor, cultural sphere in the world today.
| partof            = the [[Cronan Theatre]]
 
| image            = Submariners crona.jpg
==People==
| caption          = Arcer submariners preparing to conduct a patrol in the Polynesian Sea.
{{Infobox ethnic group
| date              = 1934-1943
|group = Coscivian peoples<br>ꍞꎋꍹꅳꉊꋚ  ꑎꎏꐃ
| place            = [[South Crona]]<br>[[Songun Sea]]<br>[[Polynesian Sea]]
|image = [[File:Christian Rohlfs Wanderer.jpg|250px]]
| result            = Arcer Victory
|caption =
| combatant1        = {{navy|Arcerion}}
|population = '''3 trillion'''<br><small>approximate</small>
| combatant2        = {{flag|The Cape}}
|region1 = [[File:KiravianFlag.png|25px]] [[Kiravian Federacy]]
| commander1        = {{flagicon|Arcerion}} [[RAdm Michael Burnett]]<br>{{flagicon|Arcerion}}RAdm Lawrence Arthur Coxley
|pop1  = 883,663,723
| commander2        = {{flagicon|The Cape}} Admiral John Q. Placeholder III
|region2 = [[File:Flag of the Cape Republic.svg|25px]] [[the Cape]]
| units1            = [[Royal Arcerion Submarine Service]]
|pop2    = XY,000,000
| units2            = Capetian Navy<br>Various Marine Merchantmen
|region3 = [[File:Pauldustllahs flag1.png|25px]] [[Paulastra]]
| strength1        = 27 Submarines<br>6 Submarine Tenders<br>Various Minelayers
|pop3    = XY,000,000
| strength2        = Hundreds of surface vessels including escorts, merchantmen, and freighters
|region4 = [[File:Fh flag 2022.png|25px]] [[Faneria]]
| casualties1      =
|pop4    = X,000,000
| casualties2      = {{flag|Arcerion}}
|region5 = [[File:Flag of Caphiria (Small).png|25px]] [[Caphiria]]
|pop5    = ~51,000,000
|region6 = [[File:Flag of Cartadania.svg|25px]] [[Cartadania]]
|pop6  = 21,174,000
|region7  = [[File:Flag of Nizari Ismaili state (1090-1162).svg|25px]] [[Rumelistan]]
|pop7  = 11,291,540
|region8  = [[File:Flag of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.svg|25px]] Cærulean Archipelago
|pop8  = 619,000
|langs = Cosco-Adratic languages<br>Elutic languages<br>Intheric languages
|rels = '''Monotheism'''<br>{{wp|Christianity}}, Coscivian religions, Islam, Deism
|related =
}}
}}
The '''Small Cronan Sea War''', officially '''Operation Flyhook''' or amongst Arcer submariners ''''The Capetian Vacation''',' was a period during the [[Second Great War]] during which Arcer [[Royal Arcerion Submarine Service|submarines]] and their allies attacked [[The Cape|Capetian]] merchant shipping and naval surface vessels along the Capetian Peninsula and in the [[Polynesian Sea]]. The engagement lasted the duration of the Second Great War, with several distinct phases occuring due to technological advancements or fluctuations in the course of the war's fighting.


The '''Coscivians''' or '''Coscivian peoples''' are a {{wp|Meta-ethnicity|meta-ethnicity}} comprised of the various ethnic groups that have been historically included in Coscivian civilisation and whose respective cultures draw on and contribute to the wider pan-Coscivian cultural complex. Coscivians are not a biological race, and do not constitute a single ethnic group. Communities living Coscivian culture come from disparate genetic, ethnic, linguistic, and national backgrounds, and usually have strong ethnic and communal identities nested within a broader Coscivian cultural identity. Nonetheless, the existence of a '''Coscivian people''' (''Koskiplānon'', ''Koskidérum'') is widely recognised both within and without the Coscivian world, and a {{wp|Meta-ethnicity|meta-ethnic}} Coscivian identity has existed since the First Empire. How "Coscivians" and "Coscivian people" are defined can very greatly by context. In modern Western sources, terms such as "Coscivian people" or "ethnic Coscivians" most often refer to [REDACTED] (see below).
The campaign lasted nine years, with the first engagements by Arcer submarines beginning just a few short weeks after the war's announcement, as it was part of ''[[Operation Forefront]]'', the larger Arcer naval campaign in [[Crona|South Crona]], the [[Songun Sea|Songun]] and Polynesian Seas. Weak and disparate Capetian leadership early in the campaign meant that triple-digit losses were recorded of Capetian shipping with a number of notable surface vessels sunk.  
 
The Coscivian peoples trace their ancestry to multiple waves of prehistoric migration from [[Crona]], [[Levantia]], and the antediluvian Arctic, the genetic legacy of which is unevenly distributed across different Coscivian subgroups. The genomes of modern Coscivian-Kiravians show a tiny but detectable admixture from the extinct hominins ''Homo sapiens sariporensis'' ("Sarolasdra Man") and ''Homo vetus montanis''. 
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''Éorsan people''
The primary bearers of Coscivian culture throughout history have been the '''Éorsan peoples''', the historic inhabitants of the continent Éorsa where Coscivian civilisation arose. Modern studies of DNA markers have shown that there is significant genetic diversity among Éorsan peoples and considerable variation across different sub-populations. This corroborates with archæological, historical, and mythological/folkloric evidence that...Genetically, the Éorsans are descended from the Cosco-Adrates, the autocthonous P'ter aboriginals of Éorsa whom they culturally assimilated in the process of their westward migration, and - to a much lesser extent - the extinct hominins ''Homo sapiens sariporensis'' and ''Homo vetus montanis''. Upon settling in Éorsa, these Cosco-Adratic peoples began the process of forging Coscivian civilisation's core cultural (monogamy, nesting group identity), philosophical (idealism, monotheism), and political (the Coscivian Empire) foundations, which developed over several milennia before being exported from the continent in the 10th century ''anno Domini''. Today, Éorsan Coscivians constitute the majority in most major Coscivian nations, including Kiravia, and most Coscivian or Coscivised groups of non-Éorsan origin have some degree of Éorsan Coscivian admixture among their populations.
 
Peoples of non-Éorsan origin who have come to consider themselves Coscivians (and are recognised as such) and participate fully in Coscivian transnational society include the peoples of the Austroventic archipelago (Páuanem, Coldoriem, Kýanem) and Tiluria (Krôsanyem, Díopsem), as well as the Híronem, all of whom have been subject to Coscivian cultural influence and ascendancy for multiple centuries. Certain Kiravite Urom groups, for example the Kheokwém, have adapted their cultures to the Coscivian framework and generally regard themselves as Coscivians, though they continue to speak their traditional languages.
 
Other groups regarded as "Coscivised" or "quasi-Coscivian" include peoples subject to more recent Coscivisation as a result of Kiravian or Livensólan expansionism include the mixt Éorsan-Funapec ''Isōmiktem'' of [[Oceantropica]] and the ''Coscadem'' of [[Seawind Territory]]. The Ixōllem of the Mixogan highlands have no Éorsan blood to speak of, but have adopted the Coscivian religion [[Ruricanism]] and many other Coscivian customs. Livensólan missionary activity in Usaya has led to the adoption of Coscivian Christianity and Coscivian religions by non-Coscivians, as well as other trappings of Coscivian civilisation such as the Iatic script and calendar. Coscivised natives of Kiravian colonies are usually considered non-Coscivians for official purposes, but occasional exceptions have been made by legislation.
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The largest individual Coscivian ethnic groups/ethnic supergroups are the [[Kir people]], [[Cape Coscivians]] (taken collectively), [[Antaric Coscivians]], [[Ĥeiran Coscivians|Ensciryan Coscivians]], [[Taństan Coscivians]], Paisonic Coscivians, and [[Æonaran Coscivians]].
 
==Major Themes==
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===Primordial Universals===
*'''Monogamy and Patrilocality-''' From the time of the Adraīan Empire (and possibly before), the Cosco-Adratic peoples distinguished themselves from their neighbours by their strict adherence to monogamy, and may have been the first people in Éorsa to institutionalise marriage in any form, monogamous or otherwise. The word ''Coscivian'' itself may originate from the Old Kasavic root ''*gxasvē'', mreaning "spouse". Traditional historiography has traced the Coscivian self-conception as a society oriented towards ethical ends and a well-ordered society to the institutionalisation of marriage. Coscivians also practice {{wp|patrilocality}}, meaning that a bride becomes part of her husband's community (not only geographic but also tribal, ethnic, and in modern times national and class)  upon marriage.
 
*'''Monotheism-''' The Adraīans were a {{wp|lunar deity|selenolatrous}} and {{wp|henotheism|henotheistic}} people who believed in a multitude of spiritual beings but worshipped only the Moon. The religious beliefs of the Kasavs are less clear, though it is known that they believed in an impersonal force called the ''Wàz'', which survives in modern Kiravian superstition as ''ūsa''. The worship of celestial entities continued among the Ancient ʔptovi and other West Kasavic peoples, and though it is unclear when monotheism coalesced as a popular belief, it was the Ancient Eskean philosophers (particularly the Strabians) who argued in favour of an aphysical, conscious Supreme Being. A diverse assortment of monotheistic beliefs proliferated outward from Helska across the Intheric Basin, eventually giving rise to the organised religions now classified under the umbrella of Coscivian Monotheīsm. Even today, monotheistic religion (or at least belief) remains ubiquitous in Coscivian countries, with both neo-pagan revival movements  and staunch {{wp|atheism}} being extremely rare.


===Four Precepts and Four Rites===
Due to the lack of direct engagement by Arcer surface vessels against their Capetian counterparts, this portion of the conflict is considered the most dynamic and directly involved portion of the war on the naval side, as the [[Arcer Army|Army]] and [[Arcer Air Force|Air Force]] were embattled under [[Operation Lightfoot]] with their [[Paulastra|Paulastran]] allies.
== Background ==
Prior to the outbreak of the war, shipping through the [[Polynesian Sea]] into the Songun Sea was a major trade route for maritime traffic and freighters heading into the Malentine Sea. While larger and more stable export economies such as [[Arcerion]] and [[Paulastra]] could rely on strong industry and agriculture, the more impoverished nations relied heavily on imported goods from [[Sarpedon]] and [[Levantia]], meaning that the crucial naval route through the Eastern and Western Songun Straits, and then through the [[Warrington Strait|Warrington]], were key economic terrain. While several attempts had been made to create economic protections or otherwise enforce some form of freedom of travel for both the Songun and [[Warrington Strait|Warrington Straits]], ultimately the nations of South Crona were unable to come to a consensus on how to best implement a commercial and diplomatic strategy of cooperation prewar.
=== Geography ===
[[File:Geography Flyhook.png|thumb|Geography of the Songun Area of Operations (SAO) during the Second Great War. ]]
The Songun Straits are separated into two major waterways, the Eastern and Western, respectively. Between them and West of [[Cape Town]] is the Lower Songun Basin, which would see some of the most fiery convoy attacks and submarine actions during the Second Great War. North of this is the disputed Songun Sea. The Cape's islands in the Songun afforded it the geographical advantage in the Southeastern portions as it was able to more effectively conduct maritime patrols and anti-submarine patrols from airfields. However the geography and seafloor terrain of the Songun naturally pushed the Arcer submarines to the Western Songun, which was deeper and had more favorable currents and thermal layers.
[[File:Warrington Strait Shipping Volume.png|thumb|Shipping volume by raw tonnage through the Warrington Strait into the Malentine Sea between 1900-1934. ]]
The Warrington Strait was a secondary shipping lane although itself was the true key to central and Southern Crona, as it opened up into the Malentine Sea, a shallower and warmer body of water that six different sovereign nations (Arcerion, [[Telokona]], [[Malentina]], [[Kelekona]], [[Porlos]], and [[Istrenya]]) had maritime borders and extensive shipping and ports on. Due to this, Arcerion would fiercely defend the Warring Straits throughout the duration of the war, including the wo surface actions that took place under Operation Forefront.
=== The Royal Arcerion Submarine Service Pre-War ===
The Arcer submarine service consisted of twenty-seven submarines, several submarine tenders and support vessels such as rearmament and refueling ships. Arcerion Naval HQ placed a high emphasis on the ability to rearm, refuel and repair submarines underway at sea away from a safe port-of-call, as the littoral nature of the Malentine and Songun Seas meant that maritime patrol aircraft and sabotage on port facilities could prevent the effective deployment of submarines during wartime. Research and development prior to the war had resulted in newer mine technologies, prototype snorkels, and improved rangefinding and electronic surveillance equipment allowing the service to be modern and ready for the conflict.


===Worldview and Philosophy===
The drawbacks the service faced however, was an utter lack of real-world operational experience, owing to the dual nature of the service's relatively new nature (having only been in existence for 17 years) and the lack of an Arcer conventional conflict on the sea that would have allowed the service to effectively trial and test its doctrine, methods, and sailors. The service's rigorous standards of preparation and training however had created a culture of raiding and long-endurance patrolling that would benefit the disparate fleet. Arcerion had identified the difficulties of getting submarines into the Lower Songun Basin, and as such had provisioned plans to work with the [[Burgoignesc Security Forces|Navy of Burrgundie]] to conduct at-sea underway replenishment of its submarines, giving them the ability to operate beyond the Songun and away from the most Southern Arcer naval facilities at Chester-on-Moore.  
[[File:Tripitaka Koreana.jpg|thumb|An archive of Shaftonist texts from the Second Imperial period in Vólakelva, [[Trinatria]]]]
*'''[[Shaftonism]]''' and related {{wp|emergentism|emergentist}}, {{wp|transcendentalism|transcendentalist}}, {{wp|holism|holistic}}, and {{wp|personalism|personalist}} philosophies emphasising {{wp|ethics}} and virtue as life's central questions, focusing on humanistic aims and action according to higher principles.
*A '''schizo-sacramentalist''' conception of reality, reflected in language and art, that emphasises the holistic interrelation of states and processes and, from an Occidental perspective, does not distinguish clearly between the symbolic and the real.
*'''Parametrist''' schools of thought, similar in nature to {{wp|parametric determinism}}, as developed by X, Y, and Z, and reconciled with Shaftonist philosophy by Q.
*Reliance on '''{{wp|deontic logic}}''', with a strong sense of duty, jurisdiction, rights, property, and "standing" in both the personal and political spheres.
*'''Non-dichotomy''' and a general rejection of dualities and {{wp|binary oppositions}} common in other cultures (e.g. the {{wp|Left-right spectrum}}, {{wp|yin and yang}}).
*An '''{{wp|Philosophy of space and time#Realism and anti-realism|irrealist conception of time}}''', viewing time as neither a linear progression nor a cycle, but rather as a medium for change or a mere mental construct.
*A strongly spatial approach to philosophy, law, and social organisation, rooted in the "locative teleology" of the Eskean thinkers and manifesting in modern times as the "moral compartmentalism" debate.


===Civics===
The Submarine Service was also complemented during ''Flyhook'' by a number of smaller minelayers, torpedo boats, and surface raiding vessels designed for the asymmetric nature of commerce raiding. Although doctrinally it was not a codified part of Arcer naval heritage or practice, the fleet would grow to accomodate this with the adoption of a class of light cruisers late-war that would participate to support the submarine force.
*A legacy of several inclusive, decentralised empires and a ''{{wp|translatio imperii}}'' from the Adratic Empire to the Cyptom Empire, to the First, Second, and Third Coscivian Empires in succession, the Akuvaric Empire, and ultimately to the Kiravian Federacy.
*A longstanding principle of ''helvikor patrá'' or "liberty of worship" maintained since the 2nd century BC, long predating Western ideas of religious freedom.
*Strong traditions of local governance and a tendency towards {{wp|subsidiarity}}.
*A path of political development that largely bypassed the {{wp|absolutism}} of the Mediæval West and generally falls short of {{wp|liberal democracy}}.
*The [[Coscivian law|Coscivian legal tradition]], which developed from the efforts of successive Coscivian Empires to maintain their rule over a vast and varied territory. A key feature of this tradition is the application of ''Réstiálda'' or "Cultivated Law", a body of non-statutory law derived from {{wp|customary law}}, ancient juristic maxims, and a growing body of ''tōngan'' or "points of consensus" established by patterns in {{wp|case law}}.


===Art, Literature, and Design===
The leadership of Rear Admiral Lawrence Arthur Coxley, who was acting as Commander, Submarine Force, at the outbreak of the war would also prove pivotal as the emphasis on submerged operations (as most submarines of the period sailed on the surface) as well as the principles of mission command and reduced reliance on regular High-Frequency (HF) communications ensured that the Arcer submarine forces could remain at sea longer and patrol greater distances regardless of the logistical strain it was incurring at home.
[[File:RobieHouseWindows ChicagoIL.jpg|thumb|Polygonal motifs in a stained-glass window - Elginsar, [[Devalōmica]]]]
==== Arcerion order of Battle ====
[[File:Coevorden.jpg|thumb|Plan of a {{wp|star fort}}. Many such forts were built in the golden ages of Coscivian, Kiravian, and Livensólan expansion, and can be found at the centre of numerous Coscivian cities and towns.]]
{{flagicon|Arcerion}} '''Royal Arcerion Submarine Service''', Rear Admiral Lawrence Arthur Coxley (His Majesty's Arcer Naval Station Chester-on-Moore, Arcerion)
*Millennia-old tradition of '''{{wp|rhetoric}}''' (Iatic: ''vūroska'', Kiravic: ''kísrūkrāsta''), which is considered its own discipline and applied across genres and even media.
* '''Submarine Group 1'''
*Great attention to symmetry, order, and cohesion in {{wp|æsthetics}}, following from the emergentist, holist concepts of Shaftonism.
** Submarine Squadron 1
*A fondness for {{wp|synesthesia|synæsthetic}} expressions, reflecting unusually high incidences of synæsthesia among Western Éorsans.
*** HMAS David
*Recurring polygonal motifs, especially regular pentagons and octagons, parallelograms, and stars (especially four-pointed) in art and architecture.
*** HMAS Integrity
*Several distinctive schools of architecture, most prominently Coscivian Historicism, Coscivian Modernism, and Kiravian Exurbanism.
*** HMAS Castle
*A marked preference for {{wp|skyscapers}} and {{wp|high-rises}} in urban settings, even in areas where economic pressures do not necessarily demand them. This theme of verticality in Coscivian architecture can be traced back to the Inter-Imperial Period, when the mountainous and forested geography of Éorsa gave rise to the construction of {{wp|tower house|towerhouses}} as fortified dwellings. Structures inspired by towerhouses continued to be built through the Second and Third Empires, and became strategically useful during the colonisation of also mountainous and forested [[Great Kirav]] for protection from Urom and [[Cromwelute Wars|Cromwelute]] attacks. Contemporary Kiravian cities and towns tend to be noticeably more vertical than Western settlements of commensurate size, with even rural towns typically having a few blocks of {{wp|low rises|lowrises}}.
*** HMAS Halberd
*A rich and enduring tradition of engravings, woodcuts, and prints as the leading graphic artform, rather than {{wp|painting}} as in Western culture.
*** HMAS Speedy
*** HMAS Loyal
** '''Submarine Squadron 2'''
*** HMAS Opal
*** HMAS Redoubt
*** HMAS Superior
*** HMAS August
** '''Submarine Squadron 5'''
*** HMAS Granite
*** HMAS Onyx
*** HMAS Osprey
*** HMAS Powerful
* '''Submarine Group 2'''
** '''Submarine Squadron 3'''
*** HMAS Dredge
*** HMAS Sapphire
*** HMAS Fortitude
*** HMAS Dart
*** HMAS Bluefin
*** HMAS Banshee
*** HMAS Innis
** '''Submarine Squadron 4'''
*** HMAS MacCallan
*** HMAS Typhoon
*** HMAS Chester
*** HMAS Arthur
*** HMAS Reckoning
*** HMAS Forthright
* '''Submarine Squadron 5 (Oiler and Supply)'''
** HMAS Pearl
** HMAS Diligent
** HMAS Mermaid
** HMAS Unison
** HMAS Assurance
** HMAS Merchant
=== Capetian Naval Forces ===
-TBD-


===Cultural practices===
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*Affiliation with {{wp|endogamous}} ethnosocial groups (''[[tuva]]''), within larger linguistic, cultural, or religious cohorts.
== Campaign ==
*A long tradition of '''literacy''' and a critical role for literary canons in establishing the identity of groups and movements. Paper was developed early on in the softwood-rich forests of Éorsa, allowing for the early flowering of a vibrant (and democratised) literary culture. Written language has long exerted dominance over spoken language among Coscivian peoples, with the forms and style of the former acting as a prescriptive force on the latter.
[[File:Map 1.png|thumb|Numbered map of major areas of operation as determined by Rear Admiral Coxley at the outbreak of the Second Great War, including the two High-Frequency Transmission stations (blue squares) at HMNAS Chester-on-Moore and Port Hughes.]]
*Use of the '''Iatic script''' or related scripts derived from the Ancient Adratic, including Iatic numerals, which reflect a {{wp|vigesimal}} system.
With the outbreak of the war, the commander of the submarine force, Rear Admiral Coxley, was recalled to the National Defense Headquarters in Kurst, along with his staff to brief the Arcer Admiralty on the readiness of the submarine force for war. The initial plans he briefed were the establishment of 5 'Special Raiding Zones,' numbered one to five. He intended to use his four submarine squadrons, organized into two Submarine Groups, to
*Use of the Iatic or High Coscivian language as a transnational, transethnic {{wp|prestige language}} of scholarship, high literature, diplomacy, and law.
early war arco supremacy
*Use of {{wp|lunar calendar|lunar}} and {{wp|lunisolar calendar|lunisolar}} calendars derived from the Classical Iatic (the '''[[Coscivian calendar|Calibrated Coscivian Calendar]]''' being the most widespread today), and traditionally an eight-day week, rounding out to an even 45 weeks in a non-intercalated lunar year. In contemporary times, the rhythms of rural life in many areas follow the eight-day week, while the Occidental seven-day week has replaced it in most other contexts.


==Social Organisation==
mid war op lightfoot going on means subs pushed out further to polynesian for more effect
===Marriage===
===Kinship===
===''Tuva''===


==Religion, Spirituality, and Ritual==
late war and lightfoot withdrawal means emphasis on at sea refuelling pays off and raiding is continued
[[File:HenanBowuyuan.jpg|thumb|Sarostivist temple in [[Avidrona]]]]
For most of the past millennium and up to the present day, a majority of people living in the Coscivian World have been Christians, and in most of Coscivian civilisation a "Christo-Coscivian synthesis" of Christian theology with a native Coscivian philosophical framework, expressed through a primarily Coscivian cultural vocabulary... (shit, Starbucks is kicking me out, bbl)


A large number of people continue to practice religions of a Coscivian origin, whether in their pure form or in some degree of syncresis with Christianity or Islam. Largest among these are Sarostivism, Komarism, Iduanism, Ruricanism, and Læstorianism, though smaller religious communities such as Ēnedrism and Perigantism exist as well.
dashing submarine raid near cape town or the eastern straits


Some Coscivian communities, known collectively as ''Kēbavem'', have embraced {{wp|Islam}}. Coscivian Muslims are heavily concentrated in [[Sydona]], [[Great Kirav#South Kirav|South Kirav]], and [[Rumelistan]].
HMAS superior destroyed lated war
== Public Responses ==
=== Arcerion ===
good propoganda


Some aspects of Coscivian religiosity traverse individual faith traditions, and can be found in Coscivian expressions of Christianity, Islam, and other "imported" religions. These include an important place for {{wp|monasticism}} and similar separated, acestic, and contemplative institutional lifestyles, and a great deal of attention paid to the souls of the deceased (especially ancestors).
traditionaly army dominated country captivated by it


===Funerary Culture===
film made a la U571
All Coscivian groups and subgroups have a highly developed {{wp|funerary cult|funerary culture}}. Before the introduction of Christianity and its baptismal rites, not all Coscivian cultures had strong traditions for the reception of newborns into the family, tribe, or community, a fact that some anthropologists attribute to high {{wp|infant mortality}}. Thus, the two cardinal life-cycle events in Coscivian culture have always been the wedding and the funeral. Indeed, reverence for the deceased features in both the Four Precepts ("Thou shalt not diss dead opps") and Four Rites ("Commit the dead to an honourable rest"). The oldest and most influential works in the Coscivian literary canon have been {{wp|funerary texts}} such as the ''Itidhamtagránda'', popularly known as the "Coscivian Book of the Dead".
=== The Cape ===
bad responses


{{wp|Cremation}} has a long history in Coscivian civilisation and remains the leading method of corpse disposal in the modern Coscivian World. Cremation practices among the Cosco-Adratic peoples share several common characteristics, such as giving the body a special vestment or draping for cremation, retention of ashes or bone fragments after cremation, and memorialisation of the remains. While the the specific rites surrounding cremation, of course, vary widely with religion, ethnicity, location, and social stratum, these practices are highly conserved among Coscivian groups, and contrast with Western crematory practices that usually involve the outdoor dispersal of cremated remains, which is viewed as highly disrespectful and is prohibited by law in most Kiravian states. Burial and entombment of human remains also have precedent among Coscivian peoples, reaching back into Dark History and amply attested by archæological evidence. Among many Coscivian cultures, especially in mountain areas and boreal regions where natural conditions can make simple interment challenging, Coscivians developed traditions of entombing their dead in aboveground {{wp|cairns}}, {{wp|burial mounds}}, or cave ossuaries. Burials surged in popularity after the Three Evangelisations and remain the norm among certain groups, such as [[Ĥeiran Coscivians]]. However, the more widespread practice among Coscivian Christians is to bury the dead for three or four years, exhume the skeletal remains on the anniversary of the decedent's passing, and (after ritual preparation of the skeleton and observance of liturgical rites) place the remains in a church ossuary, catacomb, or charnel house for permanent repose. South Coscivians and Antaric Coscivians, among other groups, maintain dedicated mausolea at their ancestral home sites to hold the remains of their lineage at a single site.
negative press


It has been noted that the particular funerary cultures of Coscivian subgroups are strongly influenced by their ancient religious heritage, even among groups that have embraced Christianity or Islam with minimal syncretism. Communities of Iduan or Komarist heritage tend to favour cremation. Communities of Rurican heritage prefer to keep remains close at hand. Getting kicked out of Starbucks again, shit.
pressure on govt to stop it


==Contact with Other Civilisations==
merchant marine riots over going to sea with no escort
Coscivian civilisation did not develop in complete isolation.
== Capetian Merchant & Naval Losses ==
[P'ter]
Table for each year by tonnage and vessels sunk
[Bottle Culture]
== Arcer Naval Losses ==
[Earlier Levantine Contact]
2 subs and crew, include damage to other subs
[First Christianisation]
== See Also ==
During the 8th century ''anno Domini'', missionaries, traders, and migrants from {{wp|Scotland}} and {{wp|Ireland}} introduced Christianity to the [[Ĥeiran Coscivians]]. However, Coscivia fell out of contact with European Christendom less than a century later, due to a grand civilisational catastrophe?
Sumbarine service
[Third Christianisation]


[[File:Grand Staircase in AMSG.jpg|thumb|Polygons, mane.]]
arcer navy


==Coscivian and Occidental worlds==
operation Forefront
The [[Occidental civilization|Occident]] is the cultural sphere with which Coscivian-Boreal civilisation has had the most extensive contact. Historically, Coscivian-Occidental cross-cultural exchange was a product of geographic proximity, occurring via trade and transmigration between Great Kirav and Levantia. In modernity, it is more often a function of Occidental {{wp| cultural hegemony}} on a global scale. In the words of [[List_of_Kiravian_academics#S.P._Vérannív|S.P. Vérannív]], "The fundamental problem out of which 'defensive' Coscivian identity arose in modernity is that the Occident is the civilisation with which the Coscivian world has the most in common, and therefore the one against which it must define itself in order to complete its dialectical idesis." <!-- since the Hiberno-Scottish mission occured in the 13th century, as Coscivian explorers, traders, and colonists came into contact with the European peoples of [[Levantia]] and other regions in [[Ixnay]] and further afield. Civilisational conflict of any sort did not emerge in earnest until the 20th century, when the beginnings of globalisation forced the greater part of the Coscivian world to confront a Western-dominated international society and international order. A number of 20th-century developments in Western civilisation, such as {{wp|materialism}}, {{wp|utilitarianism}} and {{wp|secularisation}}; the growth of totalising ideologies such as communism, fascism, and nationalism; revolutionary and countercultural movements; and the proliferation of {{wp|consumerism}} and a homogenised mass-culture, began to stir antipathy towards Western civilisation and arouse fears of assimilation. Both social and political [[Anti-Westernism in Kiravia|Anti-Western]] movements gained momentum during the mid-20th century, and exercise a great deal of influence over cultural, language, immigration, and foreign policy in [[Kiravia]] and [[Livensóla]].-->


"Kiro-Occidental" is an inclusive compromise term intended to refer to a greater cultural world which refers to the traditionally "Occcidental world" of all Christian or Christian-descent nations of Levantia and the Latinic and Istroyan portions of Sarpedon while also making reference to the Coscivian civilization on equal footing to the Occident. The term has seen increasing academic and popular use, especially within Urcea.


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Existing Lore:
During the Second Great War Acer submarines saw extensive action against The Capetian Navy, operating in the Songun Sea and the Polynesian Sea. This was part of the larger Arcer [[Operation Forefront|naval mission]] to deny the Capetian Navy freedom of navigation and freedom of movement in the Songun sea, as well as conduct sea lane denial and commercial raiding to prevent [[the Cape]] from receiving the necessary materials and supplies it required to sustain its own war effort. Arcer submarines achieved the most success, as the Arcer surface fleet and Capetian Navy's capital ships never engaged directly in a major battle, the largest being a few smaller flotilla-sized actions between groups of escort ships that happened to make chance contact. Submarines operated under the umbrella mission of Operation Forefront, however under the command of Rear Admiral Lawrence Arthur Coxley, who was acting as Commander, Submarine Force, the Arcer Subsurface fleet operated under [[Operation Flyhook]], which was the sea lane denial, commerce raiding, and minelaying conducted by the submarine force at this time.


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Overall, Arcer submarines achieved great effect, sinking dozens of Capetian, Caphirian, and Corummese-flagged merchantmen, as well as a number of smaller Capetian warships of corvette and frigate-size. Moderate damage was done to Capetian major capital ships, although none were sunk, just forced into shipyards for repairs. During the war, four Arcer submarines were damaged by enemy fire or anti-submarine warfare, and an additional two were lost. His Majesty's Arcer Submarine ''Superior'', was destroyed by enemy surface vessels, likely due to depth charges and being unable to surface in 1951. HMAS ''Typhoon'' was lost with all hands during an emergency dive rehearsal as part of crew training in the Malentine Sea, where it sunk to 300 meters and was destroyed. The legacy of the war continues to influence modern Arcer submarine doctrine. An emphasis on torpedo and mine warfare are consistently emphasized as the most important aspects of the Service's capabilities, and while it maintains the ability to launch cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles, these are considered of secondary nature.
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Operational Flyhook
Part of the Cronan Theatre

Arcer submariners preparing to conduct a patrol in the Polynesian Sea.
Date1934-1943
Location
South Crona
Songun Sea
Polynesian Sea
Result Arcer Victory
Belligerents
 Royal Arcerion Naval Service  The Cape
Commanders and leaders
Arcerion RAdm Michael Burnett
ArcerionRAdm Lawrence Arthur Coxley		 the Cape Admiral John Q. Placeholder III
Units involved
Royal Arcerion Submarine Service Capetian Navy
Various Marine Merchantmen
Strength
27 Submarines
6 Submarine Tenders
Various Minelayers		 Hundreds of surface vessels including escorts, merchantmen, and freighters
Casualties and losses
 Arcerion

The Small Cronan Sea War, officially Operation Flyhook or amongst Arcer submariners 'The Capetian Vacation,' was a period during the Second Great War during which Arcer submarines and their allies attacked Capetian merchant shipping and naval surface vessels along the Capetian Peninsula and in the Polynesian Sea. The engagement lasted the duration of the Second Great War, with several distinct phases occuring due to technological advancements or fluctuations in the course of the war's fighting.

The campaign lasted nine years, with the first engagements by Arcer submarines beginning just a few short weeks after the war's announcement, as it was part of Operation Forefront, the larger Arcer naval campaign in South Crona, the Songun and Polynesian Seas. Weak and disparate Capetian leadership early in the campaign meant that triple-digit losses were recorded of Capetian shipping with a number of notable surface vessels sunk.

Due to the lack of direct engagement by Arcer surface vessels against their Capetian counterparts, this portion of the conflict is considered the most dynamic and directly involved portion of the war on the naval side, as the Army and Air Force were embattled under Operation Lightfoot with their Paulastran allies.

Background

Prior to the outbreak of the war, shipping through the Polynesian Sea into the Songun Sea was a major trade route for maritime traffic and freighters heading into the Malentine Sea. While larger and more stable export economies such as Arcerion and Paulastra could rely on strong industry and agriculture, the more impoverished nations relied heavily on imported goods from Sarpedon and Levantia, meaning that the crucial naval route through the Eastern and Western Songun Straits, and then through the Warrington, were key economic terrain. While several attempts had been made to create economic protections or otherwise enforce some form of freedom of travel for both the Songun and Warrington Straits, ultimately the nations of South Crona were unable to come to a consensus on how to best implement a commercial and diplomatic strategy of cooperation prewar.

Geography

Geography of the Songun Area of Operations (SAO) during the Second Great War.

The Songun Straits are separated into two major waterways, the Eastern and Western, respectively. Between them and West of Cape Town is the Lower Songun Basin, which would see some of the most fiery convoy attacks and submarine actions during the Second Great War. North of this is the disputed Songun Sea. The Cape's islands in the Songun afforded it the geographical advantage in the Southeastern portions as it was able to more effectively conduct maritime patrols and anti-submarine patrols from airfields. However the geography and seafloor terrain of the Songun naturally pushed the Arcer submarines to the Western Songun, which was deeper and had more favorable currents and thermal layers.

Shipping volume by raw tonnage through the Warrington Strait into the Malentine Sea between 1900-1934.

The Warrington Strait was a secondary shipping lane although itself was the true key to central and Southern Crona, as it opened up into the Malentine Sea, a shallower and warmer body of water that six different sovereign nations (Arcerion, Telokona, Malentina, Kelekona, Porlos, and Istrenya) had maritime borders and extensive shipping and ports on. Due to this, Arcerion would fiercely defend the Warring Straits throughout the duration of the war, including the wo surface actions that took place under Operation Forefront.

The Royal Arcerion Submarine Service Pre-War

The Arcer submarine service consisted of twenty-seven submarines, several submarine tenders and support vessels such as rearmament and refueling ships. Arcerion Naval HQ placed a high emphasis on the ability to rearm, refuel and repair submarines underway at sea away from a safe port-of-call, as the littoral nature of the Malentine and Songun Seas meant that maritime patrol aircraft and sabotage on port facilities could prevent the effective deployment of submarines during wartime. Research and development prior to the war had resulted in newer mine technologies, prototype snorkels, and improved rangefinding and electronic surveillance equipment allowing the service to be modern and ready for the conflict.

The drawbacks the service faced however, was an utter lack of real-world operational experience, owing to the dual nature of the service's relatively new nature (having only been in existence for 17 years) and the lack of an Arcer conventional conflict on the sea that would have allowed the service to effectively trial and test its doctrine, methods, and sailors. The service's rigorous standards of preparation and training however had created a culture of raiding and long-endurance patrolling that would benefit the disparate fleet. Arcerion had identified the difficulties of getting submarines into the Lower Songun Basin, and as such had provisioned plans to work with the Navy of Burrgundie to conduct at-sea underway replenishment of its submarines, giving them the ability to operate beyond the Songun and away from the most Southern Arcer naval facilities at Chester-on-Moore.

The Submarine Service was also complemented during Flyhook by a number of smaller minelayers, torpedo boats, and surface raiding vessels designed for the asymmetric nature of commerce raiding. Although doctrinally it was not a codified part of Arcer naval heritage or practice, the fleet would grow to accomodate this with the adoption of a class of light cruisers late-war that would participate to support the submarine force.

The leadership of Rear Admiral Lawrence Arthur Coxley, who was acting as Commander, Submarine Force, at the outbreak of the war would also prove pivotal as the emphasis on submerged operations (as most submarines of the period sailed on the surface) as well as the principles of mission command and reduced reliance on regular High-Frequency (HF) communications ensured that the Arcer submarine forces could remain at sea longer and patrol greater distances regardless of the logistical strain it was incurring at home.

Arcerion order of Battle

Arcerion Royal Arcerion Submarine Service, Rear Admiral Lawrence Arthur Coxley (His Majesty's Arcer Naval Station Chester-on-Moore, Arcerion)

  • Submarine Group 1
    • Submarine Squadron 1
      • HMAS David
      • HMAS Integrity
      • HMAS Castle
      • HMAS Halberd
      • HMAS Speedy
      • HMAS Loyal
    • Submarine Squadron 2
      • HMAS Opal
      • HMAS Redoubt
      • HMAS Superior
      • HMAS August
    • Submarine Squadron 5
      • HMAS Granite
      • HMAS Onyx
      • HMAS Osprey
      • HMAS Powerful
  • Submarine Group 2
    • Submarine Squadron 3
      • HMAS Dredge
      • HMAS Sapphire
      • HMAS Fortitude
      • HMAS Dart
      • HMAS Bluefin
      • HMAS Banshee
      • HMAS Innis
    • Submarine Squadron 4
      • HMAS MacCallan
      • HMAS Typhoon
      • HMAS Chester
      • HMAS Arthur
      • HMAS Reckoning
      • HMAS Forthright
  • Submarine Squadron 5 (Oiler and Supply)
    • HMAS Pearl
    • HMAS Diligent
    • HMAS Mermaid
    • HMAS Unison
    • HMAS Assurance
    • HMAS Merchant

Capetian Naval Forces

-TBD-

-Not great though-

Campaign

Numbered map of major areas of operation as determined by Rear Admiral Coxley at the outbreak of the Second Great War, including the two High-Frequency Transmission stations (blue squares) at HMNAS Chester-on-Moore and Port Hughes.

With the outbreak of the war, the commander of the submarine force, Rear Admiral Coxley, was recalled to the National Defense Headquarters in Kurst, along with his staff to brief the Arcer Admiralty on the readiness of the submarine force for war. The initial plans he briefed were the establishment of 5 'Special Raiding Zones,' numbered one to five. He intended to use his four submarine squadrons, organized into two Submarine Groups, to early war arco supremacy

mid war op lightfoot going on means subs pushed out further to polynesian for more effect

late war and lightfoot withdrawal means emphasis on at sea refuelling pays off and raiding is continued

dashing submarine raid near cape town or the eastern straits

HMAS superior destroyed lated war

Public Responses

Arcerion

good propoganda

traditionaly army dominated country captivated by it

film made a la U571

The Cape

bad responses

negative press

pressure on govt to stop it

merchant marine riots over going to sea with no escort

Capetian Merchant & Naval Losses

Table for each year by tonnage and vessels sunk

Arcer Naval Losses

2 subs and crew, include damage to other subs

See Also

Sumbarine service

arcer navy

operation Forefront


Existing Lore: During the Second Great War Acer submarines saw extensive action against The Capetian Navy, operating in the Songun Sea and the Polynesian Sea. This was part of the larger Arcer naval mission to deny the Capetian Navy freedom of navigation and freedom of movement in the Songun sea, as well as conduct sea lane denial and commercial raiding to prevent the Cape from receiving the necessary materials and supplies it required to sustain its own war effort. Arcer submarines achieved the most success, as the Arcer surface fleet and Capetian Navy's capital ships never engaged directly in a major battle, the largest being a few smaller flotilla-sized actions between groups of escort ships that happened to make chance contact. Submarines operated under the umbrella mission of Operation Forefront, however under the command of Rear Admiral Lawrence Arthur Coxley, who was acting as Commander, Submarine Force, the Arcer Subsurface fleet operated under Operation Flyhook, which was the sea lane denial, commerce raiding, and minelaying conducted by the submarine force at this time.

Overall, Arcer submarines achieved great effect, sinking dozens of Capetian, Caphirian, and Corummese-flagged merchantmen, as well as a number of smaller Capetian warships of corvette and frigate-size. Moderate damage was done to Capetian major capital ships, although none were sunk, just forced into shipyards for repairs. During the war, four Arcer submarines were damaged by enemy fire or anti-submarine warfare, and an additional two were lost. His Majesty's Arcer Submarine Superior, was destroyed by enemy surface vessels, likely due to depth charges and being unable to surface in 1951. HMAS Typhoon was lost with all hands during an emergency dive rehearsal as part of crew training in the Malentine Sea, where it sunk to 300 meters and was destroyed. The legacy of the war continues to influence modern Arcer submarine doctrine. An emphasis on torpedo and mine warfare are consistently emphasized as the most important aspects of the Service's capabilities, and while it maintains the ability to launch cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles, these are considered of secondary nature.

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