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During the war, Norograd constructed a tactical orbital nuclear weapon known as Kevatuul, named after the Kozam god of chaos. It was Intended to be used to destroy Morstaybishlian military installations and infrastructure whilst obscuring the distinct electromagnetic characteristics of the blast from spotter satellites. The project saw many delays as interest with Norogradian high command piqued and waned, though it was eventually built and assembled in orbit by late 1974. It's first mission was intended to be a supporting role in either a second attempt to reach the interior Staynish oilfields, or an invasion of South Staynes. Both were put on hold due logistical issues, though the south Staynish plan was approved for after the alliance with Ethalria was withdrawn.
However, before it could be used three Emberitian intelligence agents were discovered after attempting to sabotage the weapon via an undisclosed method. As Ethalria-Norograd relations were decaying rapidly with Norograds withdrawal and the fact that the agents were female, it was falsely assumed that the agents were Ethalrian. This caused a major panic in the military command structure, and thus the officer in command of a command site put through an order to drop all eight rods onto the Ethalrian city of Rivendale and sever military installations. This was later found to be against the orders of Keit, who had made no assumptions as to the identity of the agents, and those close to him have claimed he intended to strike parts of Emberwood as revenge instead. Of the four rods aimed at Rivendale, three detonated fully, with the fourth one suffering from a fizzled yield reduction of several orders of magnitude. The explosions caused the earth around the impact sites to rise twenty feet, pulverising concrete foundations and collapsing
=== Reunification with Lyrevale ===
[[Lyrevale Civil War]]<br />[[Lyrevale Continuation War]]
===Social Uprising and Civil War===
''see also: [[Axdel#The Norograd civil war|Axdel, Norograd civil war]]''
'''(Some info below is old and crap, fall of Norograd is instead precipitated after opposition to dictatorship post unification with Lyrevale)'''
At the dusk of the 1980's, Norograd entered its first stages of decline. Organised protests across the nation demanding national reform became more commonplace, violent, and twisted, occasionally evolving into riots. Worried by these events, Kiet Narvga initiated a scheme to increase national cohesiveness via passive eugenic programs. Such programs were inspired by similar successful implementations in other nations across Urth. The programme was kept out of the public eye, and involved 'diagnosing' undesirable individuals in the population with an obscure disease, and then sterilising them with false medication. Targeted individuals were those that showed association with violent 'freedom fighter' groups, as well as those with chronic genetic disorders and poor mental acuity. The ultimate goal was to make Norograd a cohesive, intelligent, and stable society capable of surviving for centuries, even without a centralised state as Kiet had hoped for future Norograd.
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