North Ethalria: Difference between revisions

Ethalria spread a renewed interest in the humanities, science, exploration and art during the 15th and 16th centuries. Ethalrian culture prospered, producing famous artists, polymaths, and scholars. During the Middle Ages, Ethalrian maritime exploration discovered new routes to [[Gondwana]] and [[Novaris]], piquing a new age of Auroran Discovery and colonialism. Huge sociopolitical reforms from their defeat in the [[Posolic Wars]] in 1826 saw Ethalria dethroned as a world power by Morstaybishlia, saw the end of its colonial empire and saw it transition into a matriarchy; where women came to dominate all aspects of life. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, Ethalria rapidly industrialised, creating a vast dispora. Ethalria briefly re-entered as a global power at the conclusion of the [[Great War]] following its reclaimation of [[Marislia]]. In the 1920s, the [[Ethalria (Grand Matriarchy)|Grand Matriarchy]] hid the [[Marislian genocide]] from the world, systematically murdering and expelling approximately 2.75 million ethnic [[Marish people]]. In 1941, Ethalrian scientists discovered [[Wikipedia:Nuclear fission|nuclear fission]], and in 1953 conducted the world's first nuclear weapons test, Operation Scharlachrote Morgenröte in the [[Azure Sea]]. In 1961, Ethalria sent the first person to space, Almut Fichtner, aboard Sternfinder-1. Ethalria lost the [[Auroran Imperial War]] in 1975 after surrendering to the destruction of [[Kevatuul (Satellite)|Kevatuul]], a nuclear-armed [[Axdel|Axdelian]] space weapon. The nuclear destruction of five Ethalrian metropolitan areas resulted in the signing of the [[Cynebury Accord]], banning the weaponisation of space. The Grand Matriarchy entered a civil war when the royal family was executed, ending a two thousand year line of monarchs, and split the country into the [[Ethalria (Matriarchy)|Matriarchy]] and the [[Ethalria (Republic)|Republic]] (also known as East Ethalria and West Ethalria). The two Ethalria's were partitioned into six following defeat again in the [[Auroran-PacificCerenerian War]]. Vöhmia and Kotheria were among these nations and went on to form North Ethalria in 2021.

===Auroran-PacificCerenerian War and aftermath===

The first nuclear detonation was conducted in 1953 by Ethalria in the [[Azure Sea]]. It was a [[Wikipedia:Nuclear_weapon_design#Implosion-type|implosion-type]] [[Wikipedia:Plutonium|plutonium]] device codenamed ''Scharlachrote Morgenröte''. In the 1970s, Ethalria's Wulesberg Project was a top secret development of a nuclear-capable satellite bombardment weapon codenamed ''Höllenfeuer'' (literally meaning Hellfire) that would pave the way for the weaponisation of space. It was due to launch on 1 February 1975 with the intent to obliterate [[Sani Bursil]] but Ethalria surrendered after ''Kevatuul'', [[Norograd|Noroist Axdel's]] own nuclear-capable satellite was comandeered by a Morst-Embertian black op mission and laid nuclear siege to Ribenstadt, Karinthus, Anzrelstätt, Rorikton and Wulesberg; the destruction of Wulesberg effectively ended the Wulesberg Project. Following the [[Auroran Imperial War]], the Ethalrian Republic committed to nuclear disarmament whilst the Ethalrian Matriarchy did not. Due to a policy of nuclear disarmanent of the [[Ethalns]] by [[Great Morstaybishlia|Morstaybishlia]] following the [[Auroran-PacificCerenerian War]], North Ethalria inherited no nuclear weapons.