The Tri-Split

"Maybe an entire species united was just a short lived dream." Queen Seldragia Bles talking to Drark shortly after the Tri-Split had happened.
The Tri-Split was an event which took place in early 2017 which fractured the Dragoian Empire into 3 distinct factions.
==Overview==
The Tri-Split was the somewhat unimaginative name given to an event in 2017 during which the previously united Dragoian species formed 3 clear sides instead of just one Empire. The event happened primarily because Field Marshal TwinBragia of the Royal Dragoian Navy (Previously Imperial Dragoian Army) had, in late 2016, started to make aggressive anti-Empire moves after spending the last few years building a loyal power base within the RDN who would defect and take nearly half the fleet with her, an event which caused chaos within the RDN when it finally happened in 2017.
Ex-Dragoian Revolutionary Army commander Duncan Dragonarl saw TwinBragia's upcoming defection as the perfect opportunity for his underground separatist movement to finally leave Dragoia (Planet) in a fleet of merchant ships as well as a few military ships whose crews secretly hated both TwinBragia and the Empire. Duncan and his fellow separatists decided that this was the only time the Separatists had a chance of leaving Dragoian Empire space without being instantly hunted down due to the Empire's ships being busy with engaging ships loyal to TwinBragia to bother with what were mostly civilian vessels.
In the Empire, tensions between TwinBragia and Seldragia had arisen ever since TwinBragia made her intentions to defect if the Empire didn't change it's ways clear in the last few days of 2016, at which point two clear sides had been formed with the occasional small scale firefight erupting between extremists within the two groups.
When TwinBragia actually did defect in early 2017, a little under half the Imperial Fleet sided with her, while the other half stayed loyal to their queen and the Empire. In the brief fleet action in the Dragoian System that ensued as TwinBragia and her forces escaped with only minor resistance, Duncan and his separatists took the chaos in orbit as the distraction needed to escape the oppression of the Empire, and rapidly boarded their civilian ships and left Dragoia (Planet) with a small military escort that broke away from the Empire fleet, heading to a pre-planned rally point outside the Dragoian Empire' borders. From that day forth, the Dragoian species was divided into 3 distinct and opposing forces. The separatists actions baffled many, as civilian ships in particular were not unknown to go missing and the commonly held belief is it would've been more effective for separatist aligned civilian ships to have broken off as individuals prior to the Tri-Split than to go in a group during it.
Following the event, numerous officers within the RDN started to question their commanders upon seeing just under half of the entire Dragoian fleet turn loyal to TwinBragia and defect from the Empire, claiming that those in positions of power, the vast majority of which remained loyal to the Empire, should've seen the obvious tensions and forcibly removed TwinBragia's loyalists from command positions. This dissension among the ranks of the RDN persisted for years despite numerous generals and admirals being dishonourably demoted for allowing the Tri-Split to devastate the newly formed RDN and hurt the Empire.
Unknown to all except Dragyia Agthe and TwinBragia, the Tri-Split was actually planned back in 2013, with Dragyia and TwinBragia deliberately arranging the forces of the newly formed RDN to allow for a large portion of the navy, both built and planned, to side with TwinBragia during a staged defection when the time was right. The thinking behind such a plan was simple, the Dragoians were inevitably not going to be a major power once they expanded beyond Dragoia itself, with both Dragyia and TwinBragia knowing that the only way to not be vulnerable was to do things both Seldragia and the Dragoian Empire itself would not, or could not, do. Both came to the conclusion of a well armed rebel force led by a supposed monster, TwinBragia, that would secretly funnel information and discoveries back to Dragyia all while being diplomatically deniable. Duncan's underground separatist movement was not factored into the plans at this point, but was expected to take advantage of any chaos in the Empire's armed forces for many years.
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