Supranational War

The Supranational War, fought from 2468 C.E. to 2475 C.E., was a large conflict primarily between the Confederation of Social Alliances (Confederate Allies), and the LOTO military alliance and its allies (Supranational Alliance). The war lasted for just under six years and ended when the Communal Realms, the chief entity behind the Confederate Allies, effectively collapsed following the surrender of the CAAR and the fracturing of the SER.
==Origins==
The war grew out of the sudden appearance of LOTO in the Gormelen Community in 2455 C.E. and the brief Prosperio War between the National Federated Systems and the Social Empire that year. The appearance of such a powerful political/military bloc threatened the nations of the Communal Realms, as it upset the largely unipolar system that had characterized local politics for over a hundred years. LOTO was unwilling to acquiesce to the heirarchy that the Communal Realms had imposed on other races, which in turn began to tarnish the powerful image the Communal Realms desired to maintain. Additionally, the liberal-conservative governing systems and free market economies championed by LOTO were diametrically at odds with the directorial systems and command economies of the Communal Realms. As a result, relations were cold from the start, with LOTO pushing for more influence befitting its power and the Communal Realms doing everything in their power to prevent LOTO from upsetting the established great power heirarchy.
==Belligerents==
*Confederation of Social Alliances (Confederate Allies) 
The Confederation of Social Alliances as a political entity had existed for roughly thirty years by the outbreak of war in 2467. Its foundations, however, had been planted much further back, likely around 2380. The driving force behind the Confederate Allies was the Communal Realms, a dualistic political alliance of the Social Empire, a four race authoritarian federation, and the Cooperative Dominions, a two race political union. During the early-2300's, these nations had competed as rival powers, but allied in about 2365 and then proceeded to dominate local affairs as the sole great power. Resistance to this state was piecemeal and often ended badly for the other side, as with the Old Dravsikk Empire, who fought against the Communal Realms in the early 2410's and were utterly destroyed as a regional power.
The Confederate Allies of the Supranational War was an umbrella term for the Communal Realms as well as a number of races who, either out of coercion, economic necessity, of choice, chose to ally with the Communal Realms. These races were considered a part of the quasi-political "Alliance for the Protection of the Gormelen Charter," a rubber-stamp organization that was in essence a Communal Realms client organization.
*Supranational Alliance
Like its Confederate counterpart, the Supranational Alliance was heavily influenced by the decisions of its leading member, the Local Orion Treaty Organization. In addition to the eight races comprising LOTO at the time of contact in 2455, the Saxinstra, long time opponents (albeit nonmilitarily) of the Communal Realms were fast-tracked into LOTO membership just as the war began. Furthermore, the Geb-Abir Confederacy, a nation comprised of two races from the same system and with a small but notable colonial empire, also declared support for LOTO.
The power within LOTO was heavily concentrated with its most powerful and largest members, though LOTO's democratic assembly nature attempted to ensure that power was not overly concentrated. At the time of the Supranational War, the most important members of LOTO were Humanity's National Federated Systems, the Frielaedian Federal Democratic Republic, and the Lévíssá Empire.
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