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== History ==

=== Auroran-Pacific War ===
On 22 October, 2017, Bursil Alliance Forces had entered the territory of the [[Matriarchy of Ethalria]]. The government of Matriarch [[Amalda Harimann]] retreated to the Rivendale Emergency Underground, a bunker from which what remained of the Ethalrian government attempted to coordinate a response to the invasion and seemingly impending collapse of their state.<ref>November 27, 2017. The Last Matriarch. Post #1 by [[User:Dylan]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/the-last-matriarch-t3569.html#p189781</ref> Harimann is alleged to have gone insane as she faced the prospect of defeat while the rest of her government attempted to continue resisting the invasion. She authorised the launched of the Big Duster, a massive nuclear-armed ballistic missile, however due to the loss of the Kelpade Outpost, her government argued that it would be impossible to execute that request. Moments after, she was informed that Nimvja Outpost was lost. By that point Morstaybishlian soldiers had penetrated the Emergency Underground and were fighting room to room with the remaining Ethalrian forces. Amalda Harimann fled the country to an undisclosed location, presumed to be in Gondwana.<ref>January 18, 2018. The Last Matriarch. Post #2 by User:Dylan. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/the-last-matriarch-t3569.html#p192706</ref> 

=== Independence ===
On 24 October, 2017, forces of the Bursil Alliance marched on the then capital of the [[Ethalria (Matriarchy)|Matriarchy of Ethalria]]. Then head of state of that nation, Matriarch Amalda Harimann fled the country. the remaining officials surrendered.<ref name=":2">March 18, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #9 by [[User:Dylan]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p209528</ref> The Bursil Alliance partitioned Ethalria into four new nation states: [[Vothetria]], [[Kothalria]], [[Thalria]] and [[Faethalria]].<ref name=":2" /> All these nations including Faethalria were given laws and a constitution that strongly resembled the political system of [[Great Morstaybishlia]].<ref name=":2" /> These four new nations were forced to pay reparations. The were condemned by the international community. Their armed forces were placed under the supervision of the Bursil Alliance, whose forces maintained an ongoing presence in their borders.<ref name=":2" /> On one hand there were people in the country who were deeply repentant and reflective of the role their former nation had played in the war. On the other hand there were people who felt like they were being conquered and the new governments that ruled them were puppet states of Great Morstaybishlia, extensions of its empire. Although these new governments banned fascist parties, nationalist and socialist parties were able to form, many of which retained the ultranationalistic, racist, populist, authoritarian, nativist ideologies of the former Matriarchy.<ref name=":2" />

Due to the harsh reparations, economic isolation and damage to infrastructure and public institutions precipitated by the [[Auroran-Pacific War]], Faethalria and the other Ethaln states faced socio-economic issues like high rates of unemployment, poverty and shortages of food and medicine.<ref name=":2" /> Increasingly, the public grew resentful of the nouveau-riche that had arisen in part due to Bursil Alliance patronage. 

=== Kostoria-Obertonian Annexation ===
On January 3, 2019, the Voice of Faethalria reported that a terrorist attack occurred in Rivendale, the capital city of Faethalria which led to the deaths of 33 people and the hospitalisation of 50 more.<ref name=":0">2019. Terror attack on Rivendale kills 33. ''Voice of Faethalria''.https://forum.theeastpacific.com/voice-of-faethalria-national-television-t15708.html#p207794</ref> Apparently the incident had been perpetrated by a Kostoria-Obertonian national by the name of Eric Schumacher who was associated with a nationalistic terrorist organisation known as the Southern Auroran Front.<ref name=":0" /> Jane Augusta, the President of Faethalria at the time, offered her condolences to the families but also called for a collective response from the United Nations of the Auroran Continent to combat the threat of terrorism emanating from Kostoria-Obertonia.<ref name=":0" /> Police investigations discovered that the bomb in fact contained radioactive material, which was in turn dispersed throughout the affected area.<ref>January 30, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #1 by [[User:Pagistar]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p207795</ref> On February 2, 2019, Justin Valeria, at the time the Member of the [[Council of the UNAC]] for Faethalria, explained at a meeting of that body in the city of [[Aura]] in [[Emberwood Coast]] at the UNAC headquarters in the [[Aura International Convention Center|Aura International Convention Centre]] that Jane Augusta had ordered a commission of inquiry to investigate the incident and found that the composition of the material of the bomb used in the terror attacks included materials that could be reliable traced back to the site of the 2017 Nuremkastel nuclear meltdown.<ref>February 2, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #2 by [[User:Pagistar]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p207867</ref> 

Gertrude Amaliadotter, then-President of [[Thalria]], as well as President [[Lupe Juentines]] of [[Vothetria]], represented their nations in person and jointly offered financial and military support to Faethalria to deal with the crisis. Furthermore, [[Walter Johannes]], then [[Prime Ministers of Great Morstaybishlia|Prime Minister]] of [[Great Morstaybishlia]], offered his nation's support with an explicit view to prevent future issues of this nature.<ref>February 13, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #3 by [[User:Dylan]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p208295</ref> Additionally, Member of the Council of the UNAC, [[Polly Newman]], echoed these sentiments and pledged support on behalf of [[Axdel]].<ref name=":1">February 15, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #5 by [[User:Pagistar]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p208728</ref> In contrast, [[Alyona Petrovavich]], President of [[Tuvaltastan]], offered support to [[Kostoria-Obertonia]] to deal with the threat of the [[Southern Auroran Front]].<ref>February 24, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. [[User:Tuva]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p208761</ref> On 14 February, 2019, Deputy President of Vothetria, [[Saoirse Mambat]] and her husband Fabian Marzi, were attacked at Florist Walk in [[Karinthus]], [[Vothetria]]. Mr Marzi was killed by stabbing during the incident. A shootout between the police and the attackers ensued. The attackers were killed and Mrs Mambat and Mr Marzi were rushed to safety. Unfortunately, police were too late to defuse a bomb that exploded and killed several people and destroyed a helicopter.<ref>February 14, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #4 by [[User:Dylan]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p208317</ref> On the same day, the [[Southern Auroran Front]] released a statement formally taking responsibility for the attacks in Karinthus and Rivendale, vowing to stave off any [[Ethalns|Ethaln]] retribution on [[Kostoria-Obertonia]] of which they claimed to be the legitimate government.<ref name=":1" />

On March 4, 2019, President Karl Strasser of [[Kostoria-Obertonia]] and his cabinet held a meeting with President Jane Augusta and her government via a teleconference. In this meeting, they shared intelligence on the Southern Auroran Front and set the high-level strategy for dealing with them which would entail a Faethalrian military incursion into the north of Kostoria-Obertonia under UNAC oversight. Furthermore, it was revealed that the SAF was working to embed itself in and fundamentally alter the democratic political system of Kostoria-Obertonia through co-opting the Kostoria-Obertonia Nationalist Party.<ref>March 4, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #7 by [[User:Pagistar]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p209090</ref> On March 10, 2019, Faethalrian and Vothetrian forces entered Kostoria-Obertonia, locating and attacking several compounds allegedly controlled by SAF paramilitary forces in the north of the country using ground forces and airstrikes. Insurgents not killed during the strikes were detained by the allied forces.<ref>March 10, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #8 by [[User:Pagistar]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p209330</ref> Following the successful defeat of the SAF, the government of Kostoria-Obertonia barred the Kostoria-Obertonian Nationalist Party which the party protested through demonstrations in the city of Ezkrau under the leadership of Jared Lodz and Alexander Vandel which police tried in vain to dispel.<ref>March 20, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again by User:Pagistar. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p209537</ref> The KO Nationalist Party got Guy Lieber, the head of security for the KO President,<ref>June 22, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #29 by User:Pagistar. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938-s15.html#p212041</ref> to force Strasser to cede power to Alexander Vandel as the new President of KO<ref name=":3">June 26, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #30 by User:Pagistar. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938-s15.html#p212173</ref>. Despite attempts to legitimise his government through the KO representative to the UNAC Council, the Council of the UNAC, at the urging of Franklin Barvata supported a Faethalrian-led UNAC supervised invasion of KO with a view to usurp Vandel's government.<ref name=":3" />  In the same month, President [[Lupe Juentines]] of [[Vothetria]] visited President Augusta in Faethalria to discuss the possible escalation of the crisis into a war. Despite, the protestations of President Juentines, President Augusta felt that while a war was not inevitable it was necessary to prepare for it and galvanise a coalition of UNAC member states to restore the government of KO under President Strasser.<ref>April 6, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #13 by User:Dylan. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p209897</ref> In April, 2019, he remnants of the Southern Auroran Front launched an attack on Rorikton in [[Thalria]] with a view to scare the public and dissuade President Gertrude Amaliadotter from assisting Vothetria and Faethalria in their operations in KO.<ref>April 22, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. User:Dylan. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938.html#p210369</ref> On 26 June 2019, Karl Strasser was executed by the Nationalist Party/SAF government.<ref>July 9, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #31 by [[user:Pagistar]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938-s30.html#p213032</ref> 

In a plot to overthrow Gertrude Amaliadotter and restore an ethnonationalist government in [[Thalria]], [[Lenski Sarinn]] supplied Vandel with Ethalrian-made weapons hoping to both paint Amaliadotter as a traitor to the UNAC alliance as well as provide Alexander Vandel with a reasonable chance of victory.<ref>July 20, 2019. Ethalria Will Never Rise Again. Post #33 by [[User:Dylan]]. https://forum.theeastpacific.com/ethalria-will-never-rise-again-t15938-s30.html#p213667</ref>