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The [[Morstaybishlian Empire]]’s control over the Norogradian Principality weaned as nearly four decades of ethno-nationalist conflict primarily under Prime Minister [[Ian Crowcasa]]’s administration tarnished his opinion polls. It began in the 1940s where the Jilkania Revolutionary Front, a minor Noroist secession party led attacks against politically motivated targets and the Morstaybishlian government responded with its [[Royal Armed Forces of the Empire|armed forces]] and increased police liberties. Through the 50s and 60s, similar armed conflicts between seperatistseparatist groups and the state occurred, and anti imperialist sentiments spread throughout everyday life.

ThoughA secret at the time, the largestlarge underground Noroist resistance group, the Norogradian People’s Liberation Party (NPLP) led by Winston Ulysses heldhad severalgarnered meetingskey supporters from within the Korstazian Colonial Defence force (KCDF). He travelled abroad multiple times, meeting with representatives from Ethalria and [[East Cerdani]] which allowed themagreed to beginallow smugglinghim to smuggle arms andinto manufacturedSouth weaponsWest Aurora, as well as giving themproviding the financial resources needed to semi-covertly begin manufacturing their own weapon designdesigns by the end of the decade. OutThe activity of the public’sNPLP eyehad not been entirely unnoticed by the NPLPMorstaybishlian accumulatedEmpire, with [[Ian Crowcasa]] stating in 1964 that a violent uprising would "certainly occur within the next few years", and that it would tip the balance of power on the continent dangerously towards Ethalria. In an effort to find a stop-gap solution to mitigate the effect this would have on the empires control of the area, they approved a large arrayfunding boost for the KCDF such that any popular uprisings could be handily put dowm, as well as protect from a predicted naval invasion in case of handheldwar weaponrywith Ethalria. Unbeknownst to the Morstaybishlian government, gearhowever, munitionsthe andNPLP vehiclecontrolled partsKDF andhad accumulated at least four times as much materiel as was publicly known, much of it stored thesein withincompartmentalised clusters of hangars and warehouses across the principality, successfully hiding them from Morstaybishlian police and tradespeoplemilitary businessesauditors. whoWith werethe funding boost, Ulysses ordered all current KCDF personnel be trained as officers far above their rank in league.preparation for training a large number of conscripts which would soon form the new Norogradian Army.

In the early hours of 31 December 26th 1969 under the Norogradianorders People’sof LiberationWinston ArmyUlysses (NPLA)the KDF mobilised, bombedbombing and immobilisedimmobilising major highways and rail lines leading into Staynes and southern Staynes. TheAs partyday roundedbroke, the KDF declared that the Norogradian Peoples Liberation Party was the legal government of the principality, and began rounding up non-loyal governors from each province, imprisoning or executing them. By 0911:00 they had successfully secured the Morstaybishlian colonial government buildings in a coup d’etatd’état. TheHowever Colonialseveral defenceareas forcewere thenstill enteredin a stage ofconsiderable disarray, in which pockets of KCDF forces loyal to the Morstaybishlian Empire continued fighting across the country for many days. untilSoon though, they had all had either surrendered or been destroyed. It was during this time that the leader of the NPLANPLP, Winston Ulysses, was killed by a lone wolf assassin from within the party ranks.

[[File:Narvga.jpg|rightleft|thumb|250px|Kiet Narvga, the Noroist revolutionary who became Commandant of Norograd on 1 January 1970]]

After a lull in the fighting was reached several days later, vice-commandant Kiet Narvga was installed as the de facto leader, quickly establishing a provisional government and armedreorganising forcesthe KCDF into the Norogradian Armed Forces. He led a small campaign which saw the remaining Morstaybishlian national guard driven out of the former colony, and declared that [[Norograd]] was now an independent republic. At the time Norograd encompassed all of South West Aurora, and had began the rapid establishment of concrete land defences in the [[Molvian Corridor]] and flatlands on the [[Valerica|Valerican]] and southern Staynish borders, later known as the Finch line.

On 1 January 1970, Morstaybishlia held an emergency meeting with its allies Salovia, Valerica and Kostoria-Obertonia; having already signed the Bursil Accords in 1968 which stated ''An attack on one is an attack on all'', Prime Minister Ian Crowcasa declared that Narvga’s coup d’etatd’état violated this and the nations agreed to intervene. Two days later, Kiet Narvga had flown to the Ethalrian capital and signed the Rivendale Pact alongside the host and Thorntonist Oscrelia, with intention to remove hard control of Morstaybishlia in the south and Salovia in the north.