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The [[Morstaybishlian Empire]] granted a significant amount of autonomy to Axdel after the great war ended in 1917, making it into an imperial dominion as part of a greater package of liberalisations that came with the dissolution of Morstopackia. Sponsored by the conservative prime minister [[Orson Klarass]], the region was granted its own devolved elected legislature which had some control over its military and economic policy. During the following years the newly independent Axdelian defence force was tested against pro-independence fighters, with returning GW veterans on either side of street fights in cities like Barque and Montza throughout the 1920's. The Axdelian legislature was dominated by a coalition of pro-independence parties known as 'Kuesla Parliamentary' which focused on attempting to gain greater autonomy and eventually independence peacefully by improving the economy and increasing military spending. All of its bids for independence were voted down by the Morstaybishlian government, as the dominion was still vastly important both strategically and economically, and argued that continued integration with the empire would produce the best outcomes for all. Significant police crackdowns on radical political elements also frustrated any attempts to take direct action, driving the left wing out of the mainstream.
In the early-mid 20th century many left wing groups consolidated into the Noroist Peoples Liberation Party, a Noroist organisation
With public opinion becoming critical, [[Ian Crowcasa]] privately stated in 1964 that a violent uprising in Axdel 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 region and trusting the, Crowcasa approved a boost to defence spending that including a sizeable subsidy for the the ADF.
In the early hours of December 14th 1969, the NPLP's leader Winston Ulysses contacted trusted contacts in the Kuesla party and initiated the long-planned coup, ordering the ADF to mobilise, bombing major highways and railways leading into Staynes and South Staynes. As day broke, the ADF declared that the Noroist Peoples Liberation Party was the legal government of the dominion, and began rounding up non-loyal governors from each province, imprisoning or executing them. By midday they had successfully secured Morstaybishlian government buildings in a relatively clean coup d’état. However several areas were still in considerable disarray, in which pockets of ADF forces loyal to the Morstaybishlian Empire continued fighting for several days. Soon though, they had all had either surrendered or been destroyed. It was during this time that Winston Ulysses was shot six times and killed by an empire-loyal lone wolf assassin within the party ranks.
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 reorganising the ADF into the Noroist Axdel Armed Forces. He led a small campaign which saw the remaining Morstaybishlia-loyal forces destroyed or driven out of the region, and declared that Noroist Axdel was now an independent republic. At the time Noroist Axdel encompassed all of South West Aurora east of the Auric mountains, and had began the rapid establishment of land defences
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’état violated this and the nations agreed to intervene. Two days later, Kiet Narvga flew to the Ethalria and signed the Ribenstadt Pact alongside Thorntonist Oscrelia, with intention to remove hard control of Morstaybishlia in the south and Salovia in the north. In order to lend its support to Axdel, The [[Quariin]] Socialist republic would sign the pact and join the war on the 24th of January.
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