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The first nuclear weapons research was performed by the Ethalrian Empire in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the first nuclear test was conducted on 5 June 1953 in the [[Azure Sea]]. Scientists of Morstaybishlia and Salovia were aware of the potential of nuclear weapons and had also been conducting research on the field.
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Having been long allies with Ethalria going back to the late 19th century, Salovia requested that Ethalria share their nuclear technology projects with them. Ethalria refused twice, but when offered a lump sum of ♅125 million (equivalent to ♅3.304 billion today) they accepted. Salovia received the blueprints and information on the Roter-Himmel Projekt, which was one of Ethalria’s initial nuclear tests and began reproducing it under their own project, Operation Courier's Tide.
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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 separatist groups and the state occurred, and anti imperialist sentiments spread throughout everyday life.
A large underground Noroist group, the Norogradian People’s Liberation Party (NPLP) led by Winston Ulysses had garnered key supporters from within the Korstazian Colonial Defence force (KCDF). He travelled abroad multiple times, meeting with representatives from Ethalria and [[East Cerdani]] which agreed to allow him to smuggle arms into South West Aurora, as well as providing the financial resources needed to semi-covertly begin manufacturing their own weapon designs by the end of the decade. The activity of the NPLP had not been entirely unnoticed by the Morstaybishlian Empire, 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. As a stop-gap solution to mitigate the effect any uprising would have on the empires control of the area, they approved a large funding boost for the KCDF such that any popular uprisings could be handily put down, as well as protect from a predicted naval invasion in case of war with Ethalria. Unbeknownst to the Morstaybishlian government, however, the NPLP controlled KCDF had accumulated at least four times as much materiel as was publicly known, much of it stored in compartmentalised clusters of hangars and warehouses across the principality, successfully hiding them from Morstaybishlian police and military auditors. With the funding boost, Ulysses ordered a rapid expansion to the navy and had all current KCDF personnel be trained as officers far above their rank in preparation for training a large number of conscripts which would soon form the new Norogradian Army.[[File:Narvga.jpg|thumb|
In the early hours of December 26th 1969 under the orders of Winston Ulysses the KCDF mobilised, bombing and immobilising major highways and rail lines leading into Staynes and southern Staynes. As day broke, the KCDF 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 11:00 they had successfully secured the Morstaybishlian colonial government buildings in a coup d’état. However several areas were still in considerable disarray, in which pockets of KCDF forces loyal to the Morstaybishlian Empire continued fighting for many days. Soon though, they had all had either surrendered or been destroyed. It was during this time that Winston Ulysses was killed by a lone wolf assassin from within the party ranks.
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