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Beginning in summer [[1933]], various nationalist groups in [[Dericania]] began to send representatives to a secret conference in [[Corcra (City)|Corcra]] which would come to be known as the Provisional Assembly. This group wrote a proclamation and provisional constitution for the [[Deric Republic]], a new state which would serve as the culmination of the [[Derian identity|Derian national idea]]. The various organizations remained autonomous from one another, but agreed to degrees of coordination and a specific date for the issuance of the proclamation, 1 April [[1934]]. The Republican Front, also sometimes called the Republican Army, was established on that date as a coordinating apparatus for the various militias, cells, and other would-be combatants, and the Republican Front began to purchase weapons and ammunition as well as distribute stockpiled weapons from [[Caphiria]]. Unexpectedly, [[Fiannria]]n government officials made clandestine contact with Republican Front leaders beginning in November [[1933]], providing a limited degree of arms and funding. Fiannria did not pledge to recognize the new state, but its intelligence services had been tracking Caphirian activity in the region for some time and intended to use the Derian uprising as pretext to establish its official independence from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. | Beginning in summer [[1933]], various nationalist groups in [[Dericania]] began to send representatives to a secret conference in [[Corcra (City)|Corcra]] which would come to be known as the Provisional Assembly. This group wrote a proclamation and provisional constitution for the [[Deric Republic]], a new state which would serve as the culmination of the [[Derian identity|Derian national idea]]. The various organizations remained autonomous from one another, but agreed to degrees of coordination and a specific date for the issuance of the proclamation, 1 April [[1934]]. The Republican Front, also sometimes called the Republican Army, was established on that date as a coordinating apparatus for the various militias, cells, and other would-be combatants, and the Republican Front began to purchase weapons and ammunition as well as distribute stockpiled weapons from [[Caphiria]]. Unexpectedly, [[Fiannria]]n government officials made clandestine contact with Republican Front leaders beginning in November [[1933]], providing a limited degree of arms and funding. Fiannria did not pledge to recognize the new state, but its intelligence services had been tracking Caphirian activity in the region for some time and intended to use the Derian uprising as pretext to establish its official independence from the [[Holy Levantine Empire]]. | ||
March 1934 saw a flury of militia activity throughout Dericania, alarming the authorities of the various principalities there. Due to limited central control, some cells loyal to the Republican Front began a series of terror attacks on 14 March 1934. On 17 March, the State Treasurer of [[Lapody#Verecundia|Verecundia]] was killed in a car bombing, precipitating the need for Imperial action. The [[Imperial Diet]] met on 24 March 1934 in [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] rather than Corcra due to threats in the city. The Diet gave the Emperor authority to deploy the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] to Dericania in order to combat the terror crisis. Deployments were scheduled to begin on 2 April, accelerating the need for the Republican Front to take action. Accordingly, the Provisional Assembly of the Deric Republic issued its Proclamation of the Deric Republic on the morning of 29 March 1934 and issued orders for a "general insurrection of the Derian nation". By the end of the day, the majority of principalities in Dericania were actively combating Republican Front militia forces, signaling the beginning of open war. Who fired the first shots remains a point of contention, but it is generally accepted that Republican Front militia in the city of [[Hollona and Diorisia| | March 1934 saw a flury of militia activity throughout Dericania, alarming the authorities of the various principalities there. Due to limited central control, some cells loyal to the Republican Front began a series of terror attacks on 14 March 1934. On 17 March, the State Treasurer of [[Lapody#Verecundia|Verecundia]] was killed in a car bombing, precipitating the need for Imperial action. The [[Imperial Diet]] met on 24 March 1934 in [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] rather than Corcra due to threats in the city. The Diet gave the Emperor authority to deploy the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] to Dericania in order to combat the terror crisis. Deployments were scheduled to begin on 2 April, accelerating the need for the Republican Front to take action. Accordingly, the Provisional Assembly of the Deric Republic issued its Proclamation of the Deric Republic on the morning of 29 March 1934 and issued orders for a "general insurrection of the Derian nation". By the end of the day, the majority of principalities in Dericania were actively combating Republican Front militia forces, signaling the beginning of open war. Who fired the first shots remains a point of contention, but it is generally accepted that Republican Front militia in the city of [[Hollona and Diorisia|Rheydt]] began firing on palace guards at 8:48 AM Urceopolis time, making them the first shots of the uprising. Although the uprising appeared to be relevant only to Dericania and Levantia, these shots are regarded by most to be the first shots of the Second Great War. | ||
The uprising occurred strongest in the [[Lapody|Lapodard]] speaking portions of Dericania, and by the end of April 1934 roughly two thirds of modern Lapody were in the hands of forces loyal to the Deric Republic. Pro-Imperial forces were more successful in the [[Rhotia|Rhotian]] speaking portions of Dericania in the first months of the war, resisting total state collapse in many places for several months; despite this, the uprising was strong and numerous here as well. The scale of the uprising surprised Imperial authorities, and the intended 2 April deployment of the Royal and Imperial Army was insufficient in scope to combat the entire uprising. A general mobilization was proclaimed in [[Urcea]] on 10 April. The forces immediately available and en route to Dericania were halted in western Rhotia, both to secure the border of Urcea as well as to reevaluate where forces were most needed. [[Burgundie]] would eventually require significant aid. The first of the Deric principalities to collapse was [[Hollona and Diorisia]], whose elector fled to [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] in early May. As of late April, [[Fiannria]] was still actively involved in the distribution of arms and funds to the Republican Front. | The uprising occurred strongest in the [[Lapody|Lapodard]] speaking portions of Dericania, and by the end of April 1934 roughly two thirds of modern Lapody were in the hands of forces loyal to the Deric Republic. Pro-Imperial forces were more successful in the [[Rhotia|Rhotian]] speaking portions of Dericania in the first months of the war, resisting total state collapse in many places for several months; despite this, the uprising was strong and numerous here as well. The scale of the uprising surprised Imperial authorities, and the intended 2 April deployment of the Royal and Imperial Army was insufficient in scope to combat the entire uprising. A general mobilization was proclaimed in [[Urcea]] on 10 April. The forces immediately available and en route to Dericania were halted in western Rhotia, both to secure the border of Urcea as well as to reevaluate where forces were most needed. [[Burgundie]] would eventually require significant aid. The first of the Deric principalities to collapse was [[Hollona and Diorisia]], whose elector fled to [[Urceopolis (City)|Urceopolis]] in early May. As of late April, [[Fiannria]] was still actively involved in the distribution of arms and funds to the Republican Front. | ||