Salovian Civil War: Difference between revisions

|place= [[Biramura]], [[Volova]], [[Nolova]], [[Nilovia]], [[Tuvaltastan]], and parts of [[Oscrelia]]

There is no singular catalyst for the civil war, considering the wide range of sociopolitical and geopolitical variables that preceded the war by centuries. However, the events often used as the prelude to the civil war are a series of events known as the [[Novugdidi Crisis]], which culminated with the assassination of Chancellor [[Ivan Strovani]] on 18 June 1985. His assassination is widely used as the symbolic beginning of the war (though other conflicts had occured prior to his assassination), followed by a string of uprisings focused around the [[Shagonar]] metropolitan region and the cities straddling the [[Khermali River]]. Though most of the riots were anti-Salovian in nature, there were a few pro-Salovian protests that had begun in cities like [[Chita]], Neril'stkeli, and Volutsku. By 1990, most loyalist civilian militants had been quashed by Volovan and Lovelian forces, and in that same year a second wave of uprisings and riots began in the northern Salovian strongholds of Chita and Irkula. By 1992, these revolutionary forces had captured the majority of strategic Salovian locations, and in 21 September of that year, Salovia officially collapsed with the exodus of its major governmental officials to the surviving military forces. By 2001, the new political landscape had reached its modern arrangement, and in 2003 all infighting ended with the MBE-EPTO Ceasefire. Two years later, the Treaty of Astravili was signed, officially declaring the end of the war and the formation of [[Biramura]], [[Kostromastan]], and [[Tuvaltastan]].

The civil war has had long-lasting and consequential effects on the geopolitical landscape of Aurora, most notably the debate on which nation would become the legal successor nation, this debate mainly concerning the Salovian colonies in [[Gondwana]] and the debate on which nation, if any, should replace Salovia's [[Auroran Continental Assembly]] membership. After months of deliberation, a trilateral agreement between Biramura, Kostromastan, and Tuvaltastan had been reached wherein Tuvaltastan would gain the Salovian colonies and the southern islands, Kostromastan would replace Salovia in the ACA, and Biramura would gain all remaining Salovian assets, including the right to claim ''de jure'' historical succession. Over time, Tuvaltastan would be seen as the ''de facto'' successor to Salovia, especially after its military operations to re-assert control over the small island kingdom of [[Avutili]], and its successful defense against Kostromastan in late 2009 and early 2010 after an invasion attempt on the easternmost regions of Tuvaltastan to gain coastline.

The fall of Salovia resulted in vast swaths of newly-ungoverned land becoming available to expand into, and the Lovelian forces took advantage of this and marched into the city of Akhalibisi in 1993, a symbolically significant event that effectively eliminated the final Salovian loyalist holdout. This acquisition was not without assistance, as the local guerilla group known as the Altai Rebellion was pivotal in Lovelian efforts to expand outwards to Lake Nilovi. As such, the Lovelian Liberation Front and the Atlai Rebellion reorganized into the Tuva-Altai Coalition, the precursor to Tuvaltastan. This reorganization greatly expanded the territory of both the Lovelian and Atlai groups, as the Altai Rebellion controlled territory along the Sea of Tranquility, meaning the Tuva-Altai Coalition (TAC) held dominion over two large regions of former Salovia. Over the remaining years of the Post-Collapse period, the TAC focused its military efforts towards unifying the two regions territorially, as the two areas were split by the Volovan forces.

The TAC's goal of unifying their two territorial regions together was finally realized in 2001, thus marking the shift into the Stabilization period. During this time, all participants in these conflicts would see a slow continuation of the status quo, with the Kostro-Nilovian Front (KNF) slowly losing territory to the TAC while holding the frontlines against both Biramura and Oscrelia. Split into two regions by the TAC, the KNF struggled to maintain its hold in areas south of Lake Nilovi, and by the end of 2002 the KNF-held territory had been reduced to two cities. By 2003, a ceasefire initiated by the MBE and the EPTO was signed among the four belligerants, and for the final two years of the war, no significant losses of life ocurred. In 2005, the Treaty of Astravili was signed, which finalized the borders of Biramura, Oscrelia, the newly-formed Kostromastan, and the newest organized region of Tuvaltastan.

(OOC: Pending Dylan) The Lovelians reached a deal with the government of Matriarchal [[Ethalria (Matriarchy)|Ethalria]] to fund and assist the relatively unscathed western part of the Lovelian territory. When they gained independence in 2005, Tuvaltastan was very economically and geopolitically close to the Matriarchy. Biramura postured itself as the true Salovian successor and buddied up with the MBE to cement that position. Kostromastan found itself close to the Ethalrian Republic (maybe? still gotta figure that out)

Though the Treaty of Astravili finally ended the Salovian Civil War, it did not fully resolve every dispute between Kostromastan and Tuvaltastan. One of the most major issues was the question of whether Kostromastan should be given a coastline, despite the fact that the Kostro-Nilovian Independence Front had lost all but a few coastal cities prior to the ceasefire. As such, Kostromastan began an invasion into Tuvaltastan in an attempt to gain coastline. This effort was eventually quashed by the young Tuvalt military, and militarily weakened Kostromastan.

Due to the relative stability in the Shagonar region, the western half of Tuvaltastan became the nation's economic powerhouse, soon overshadowing Akhalibisi in influence and economic strength. This allowed Tuvaltastan to quickly regain control over the Gondwanan colonies that once belonged to Salovia, and soon afterwards Tuvaltastan went on to regain control of Avutili.

After the Aurora-Pacific War, Kostromastan fell into disarray and was replaced by Volova, Nolova, Tula, and Astra, the two latter nations opting to join the more stable and more powerful Tuvaltastan. This marked the first territorial change in the region of Salovia since the civil war itself.