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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
The attack targeted the Hotel Bonn, a prominent business owned and run by a mixed Yonderine-Gothic immigrant family situated in the port city of Sethsport | The attack targeted the Hotel Bonn, a prominent business owned and run by a mixed Yonderine-Gothic immigrant family situated in the port city of Sethsport. Sethsport hosts a relatively large foreign population, including a large [[Aenglish people|Aenglo]] minority and several [[Coscivian]] and [[Gothic]] communities, as well as numerous localities with Gaelic subcultural elements. Hotel Bonn was a notable tourist destination made in traditional Yonderine fashion on the city's popular tourist area on the southern bank of the Deir River, and holds a prominent and visible spot for several miles from the north bank as well as a notable portion of the south bank due to the relatively few stories of the buildings immediately surrounding it (the average being 2-3 stories and the Hotel featuring eight floors). | ||
The modern incarnation of GaelWind was originally a fringe political party called the Steel Stars formed after the end of the [[Great War]], focusing on renewing claims to the former _____ and _____ regions in Fiannria as well as numerous minor revanchist claims across several other nations. The Steel Stars were a veterans' group originally, and made ties with several other similarly-minded organizations, including tacit ties to the more mainstream group GaelWind - a much older pan-Gaelic nationalist group that had fizzled out of popularity after Faneria's Central Republican Party formally adopted pan-Gaelicism as a platform element and absorbed most of its membership in 1924. Over the course of the late '50s and early '60s, the party was increasingly overtaken by Gaelic supremacists as the revanchists splintered off into the Starkist faction of the Republican Party, eventually leading to the Steel Stars merging with GaelWind, the Old Falcons, the New Ordered Faneria Society, and several other groups of varying repute to maintain a sense of coherency. GaelWind was easily the oldest of these, and the Stars adopted the name, forcing out the remnants of the original GaelWind leadership and undergoing an internal power struggle that saw the party council taken over by militant, virulent ethnic supremacists. After losing one of the its three seats in the national legislature (and keeping the remaining two partly through intimidation tactics), the party was in danger of losing its status as a recognized political party and coming under increasing surveillance by state security agencies. | The modern incarnation of GaelWind was originally a fringe political party called the Steel Stars formed after the end of the [[Great War]], focusing on renewing claims to the former _____ and _____ regions in Fiannria as well as numerous minor revanchist claims across several other nations. The Steel Stars were a veterans' group originally, and made ties with several other similarly-minded organizations, including tacit ties to the more mainstream group GaelWind - a much older pan-Gaelic nationalist group that had fizzled out of popularity after Faneria's Central Republican Party formally adopted pan-Gaelicism as a platform element and absorbed most of its membership in 1924. Over the course of the late '50s and early '60s, the party was increasingly overtaken by Gaelic supremacists as the revanchists splintered off into the Starkist faction of the Republican Party, eventually leading to the Steel Stars merging with GaelWind, the Old Falcons, the New Ordered Faneria Society, and several other groups of varying repute to maintain a sense of coherency. GaelWind was easily the oldest of these, and the Stars adopted the name, forcing out the remnants of the original GaelWind leadership and undergoing an internal power struggle that saw the party council taken over by militant, virulent ethnic supremacists. After losing one of the its three seats in the national legislature (and keeping the remaining two partly through intimidation tactics), the party was in danger of losing its status as a recognized political party and coming under increasing surveillance by state security agencies. | ||