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Intervention of Northern Fortuna

Intervention of Northern Fortuna (Foresteall sylfum Benorţan Gewifum) 2020

"The attack on the ONCS Golden Knight was one of cowardice and claimed the lives of dozens of innocent Terrarians. As such the Order has officially sanctioned the use of military force to combat this terrorist threat and return order, stability and peace to this region."
- Will Treaty, Ranger-Commander of Foreign Affairs officially announcing the Order's intervention within the Northern Star Isles.

Intervention of Northern Fortuna



General Information

Date:
June 2nd - July 12th, 2020

Location:
Northern Fortuna

Demands:

  • Protection of the Order's tradelanes.

  • Returning stability to the region.

  • Enforcing Order interests.

Results:

  • Formation of the Assembly of the Northern Star Isles.

  • Increased autonomy to the Northern Star Isles.


Sides


Belligerents:

  • Star Islander Rebellion.
    Anchor's Home.
    Allan's Refuge.
    Temeraire Isle.
    Fairbay.
    Midlands Atoll.


People of importance


Monarchists

Secessionists

Falcon Proudspire

Pulcherrima Szépzél

Elizabeth Skythorn

Stevia Tengerész

Horace Warrens

Sara Takaréktalan

Eliza Firebrand

Lex Sztori

William Jones

Marnie Bronz

Brandon Thollow

Dyron Myre


Details


Strength:
  • The Order

    • 80k - 100k

  • Star Islander Rebellion.

    • 5k - 60k

Casualties and losses:

  • The Order

    • Military dead: 623

    • Military wounded: 2,167

    • Civilian dead: 9,158

  • Star Islander Rebellion

    • Military dead: 4k - 5k

    • Military wounded: 2,100+

    • Civilian dead: N/A


Prelude.

Discovery of uranium on Temeraire Isle.

Terrarian archeologists from Wandermere were excavating old Temerairan ruins in February 2020, with the permission of Chieftess Sara Tideless, when the team encountered a major problem for their operations. Deep within the ruined tunnels of the old structure laid an underground river bustling with life. Intrigued, the archeologists took samples of the flora and the water for further testing. They came to the discovery that all the samples they had taken had traces of uranium and were emitting a constant but low dose of radiation. Unsure of what they had found, they contacted the locals, who believed what they were describing was the lost Fountain of Life. Whilst debating what to do with the information and with the archeologists doing their best to come up with a plan to continue working with the locals, the Ranger Order received the information about the potential of an uranium deposit on the island.

Arrival of the Order.

Two weeks later a sizable contingent of Terrarian soldiers and ships arrived at the island and occupied the ruins, bringing with them researchers of their own. Fearing that the Order would soon tear down the ruin that could very well hold the Fountain of Life, Temerairans did everything in their power short of attacking the Order outright to hinder the progress. Supplies would be stolen, the road through the jungle would be littered with spikes to pierce the tires of passing vehicles. Several weeks went by as the Rangers would continue to be harassed by the locals. Eventually Senior-Ranger Horace Warrens, commanding officer of the Fortunan Expedition, met with Chieftess Sara and informed her of the uranium deposit that lay in the mountains several kilometers from the ruins, where they believed the underground river originated from, and requested that she sell the Order the rights to this deposit as her own people did not possess the knowledge to either safely extract the uranium nor to use it. The Chieftess agreed under the condition that the ruins will not be affected in any way by the mining of the uranium. True to their word, the Terrarian soldiers abandoned the ruins and allowed both the locals and the archeologists to return to the site. Whilst many of the Temerairans were relieved to see that this situation did not escalate, others were not so quick to forgive the Order's soldiers trespassing on their land and defiling their ancestral lands.

Local resistances and concessions.

The uranium deposit within the mountains quickly proved to be one of the largest the Order had ever found and full mining operations started in May. All seemed to go well until the Order refused to return the land it had been using for its growing military port, stating it was required to exported the mined materials off the island as the Temerairan harbour was unable to handle the Terrarian freight ships. Despite continued local objections, the Order refused to return Temerairan sovereign territory. The Order did not stop at just Temeraire Isle though as it had constructed two more military bases, without permission on the islands of Anchor Home, the region's most populous island, and on Midlands Atoll, which laid at the trade route used by the Terrarian freight ships. Star Islanders across the region protested the Order's actions against their sovereign territories and, despite it them being in the vast majority, many people were calling for military action against the foreign invaders.

The Order's Intervention.

Attack on the Golden Knight.

It was the morning of June 2nd when the ONCS Golden Knight was escorting a convoy of freight ships bearing the newly mined Temerairan uranium back to Terraria when an explosion rocked the vessel. Whilst it was not enough to sink the frigate, it did start to take on water. Less than a minute later one of the freight ships, the HTV Fortune, was hit by a similar explosion and the ship's captain sent out a distress signal from aboard the damaged vessel. Whilst also not yet sinking, Captain Brandon Thollow of the Golden Knight contacted Admiral William Jones of the ONCS Dragonguard and called in the attack. Now on full alert, the ship's sonar had discovered a submarine circling the convoy. As was discovered after the conflict's resolution, the Vadász of the Anchor Home Defense Fleet, one of the 3 submarines that was attacking the convoy, was under orders to sink as many vessels as it could before retreating.

Knowing that aerial support was just minutes away from his position, Captain Thollow ordered his ship to track the Star Islander submarines and keep its attention away from the vulnerable convoy. While in constant contact with the lumbering freight ships, Captain Thollow managed to keep the submarines from further hitting the convoy for several minutes until, at 09:33, the Vadász managed to hit the ONCS Golden Knight again. This time the torpedo managed to penetrate deeper into the vessel and it lost all power to its engines. Before the Star Islander vessels could capitalize on this and attack the convoy, 5 Firestar-class Attack Helicopters and 3 Skyjumper-class Support Helicopters from the ONCS Dragonguard arrived in the area. Quick action by the crew aboard the ONCS Golden Knight ensured that the helicopters knew the locations of the submarines the moment that they arrived and one, the Horgony was sunk on first contact while action was taken to evacuate the rapidly sinking ONCS Golden Knight. Just before disappearing along with the other remaining submarine, the Vadász launch its last attack on the frigate, which upon being hit set off a change reaction that led to the vessel's complete destruction. The helicopter under the command of Warrent-Officer Tavis Plainstar was caught in the explosion and went down at sea.

Rescue attempts were made but no survivors were found at the scene. All 71 sailors aboard the ONCS Golden Knight and the 5 airman of Warrent-Officer Plainstar's helicopter were presumed lost. Only after the arrival of the ONCS Dragonguard and the 4th Fleet would see 3 sailors recovered. It was several hours after the attack that agents amongst the Star Islander upper class were convinced that this attack was executed by no less than 3 of the 5 Star Islands, prompting Admiral Jones to declare a state of emergency and setting all Expeditionary outposts to high alert.

Declaration by the Lord-Commander.

"Rangers aren't supposed to dwell on family. And many of us try not to. During the War of the Alliances my sister was taken from me, an innocent soul aboard an unarmed vessel, without provocation. Any unprovoked attack on our populace will be met with our full might in response. There will be no diplomacy. I hereby declare that the Ranger Order shall defend its interests in Fortuna and return stability to the Northern Star Isles. Make it so."

This speech, spoken by Lord-Commander Falcon Proudspire just an hour after confirmation of the attack reached Talonwing Keep, would see the Order declaring a full intervention in the Northern Star Isles and the mobilization of the entire Expeditionary Corps to meet the terrorist threat. Within the speech itself, Lord-Commander Proudspire has compared the attack on the Terrarian convoy to the loss of his sister in the late 1960s, just days before the outbreak of the War of the Alliances in 1969 and would allow no quarter to be given to anyone attacking civilian targets without provocation.

Fighting Across the Isles.

Whilst the Expeditionary Corps had already based hundreds of soldiers within the Northern Star Isles prior to the attack on the ONCS Golden Knight, thousands more would be mobilized in Terraria, now including armoured vehicles and aircraft. However, before the bulk of Expeditionary troops could arrive in Fortuna fighting had broken out on all islands. Guerilla fighters on Temeraire Isle would attack inland convoys passing through the dense jungle and the uranium mine itself would also see relatively significant fighting, leading to the deaths of over 200 Terrarians and a complete halt of the mining operations on the island. Furthermore despite significant Temerairan attacks on the military port on the island, they were unable to either occupy or destroy it.

Two weeks passed as Terrarian reinforcements started arriving, slowly at first but when the first divisions starting arriving at the islands the Expeditionary Corps, now under the command of Expedition-Marshall Elizabeth Skythorn, they quickly overwhelmed any attack or defense the Star Islanders could muster. Hearkened by her superior resources, Expedition-Marshall Skythorn set her sights on occupying major population centers across the Isles. Despite initial belief that resistance would be fierce, the attacks on Horgony-Haza on Anchor Home, Repüléváros on Temeraire Isle, Menedéket on Allan's Refuge, Öbölvásár on Fairbay and Középföldek on Midlands Atoll would see the capitals of the Isles occupied with only minimal fighting between June 23rd and 25th. Meetings were held with the ruling families of the Northern Star Isles and Chieftess Pulcherrima Szépzél, Chieftess of Anchor Home, would lead her compatriots in stating that they had never allowed any attack on the Terrarian ships nor had they ordered the attacks on Terrarian troops across the islands.

Ranger-Commander Dyron Myre led the investigations into the Star Islanders and concluded that the guerillas still hiding in the jungles were indeed fringe factions, unsupported by their governments and operating fully independently. June 29th would mark the start of Operation Panther, which would seen significant jungle combat throughout the Northern Star Isles. During the fighting the rebels would prove to become increasingly more extreme in their actions, often times fighting with little to no thought of their own personal safety and most times would see every single rebel fighting against Terrarian forces to the death. In an effort to continue supplying themselves, the rebel took to raiding their own people's lands for supplies and Terrarian soldiers would often find burned-out villages and farms with nearly always their inhabitants slaughtered. Over the course of nearly two weeks the fighting would see each island fully occupied by the Order; Midlands Atoll on July 1st, Allan's Refuge on July 3rd, Fairbay on July 7th, Anchor's Home on July 10th and Temeraire Isle on July 11th.

Signing of the Star Pact.

In the end, the Order had complete control of the 5 islands and the Assembly of Clans, under Chieftess Pulcherrima, would actively call for negotiations to end the strife that had gripped their homes, stating that the people too would like to see an end to the bloodshed. Lord-Commander Proudspire arrived at the Northern Star Isles on July 12th to officially partake in the peace talks with the Star Islanders. The Order, currently the undisputed power on the Isles, took full advantage of its position during the meeting and enforced it's own agenda on the gathered Assembly. After several hours of debate an agreement was reached;
The Northern Star Isles would remain largely independent, would enjoy military protection from the Order, would allow the Order to continue its mining operations on Temeraire Isle and in return the Order would pay for the damages caused by the conflict, which would help the Star Islander economy recover far faster than it would otherwise. In the end the Star Pact was signed and officially ended the conflict.

The Order of Rangers of the Grey

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