Fire Fox Wars

== History ==
The Fire Fox Wars were a series of conflicts on the planet Earth before the formation of the National Earth Federated Systems from July 8th, 2113 to March 3rd, 2115. During a peace summit in Rotterdam of major world powers on the interest of lessening conflict and promoting global unification, an agent of the Higher Seed movement barged into the room of United States President Franklin Quentin and shot him to death with a concealed, hand-held firearm, before somehow managing to disappear and avoid capture. A letter, written in German delivered inconspicuously to the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, identified Heinrich Bäumeras the orchestrator of the plot and claimed his actions were justified by a divine calling as an apocalyptic lynchpin to kick-start his "Seedist ascendance".
Baron Heinrich Bäumer, the founder of the High Seed movement, had used the High Seed Cult as a basis for launching a series of propaganda campaigns in northern Germany, notably Hamburg. Many devotees made pilgrimages to the city and decided to take up residence there. On July 8th, 2113 the Seedists took over the city, declared independence ,and proclaimed themselves the Holy State of the Higher Seed.
The state of Germany reacted by surrounding the city with its armed forces and maintaining constant aerial and sub-space domination by means of aerial and naval cruisers. However, on December 12th, 2113 the Holy State of the Higher Seed launched three cruisers, built painstakingly in captured German foundries and drydocks, that took part in the First Battle Over Hamburg, in which two German cruisers were destroyed, a third grounded in the suburbs and close to sixty fighters and bombers shot down. Total deaths numbered 632 Germans and 115 Seedists, as they were called. While these statistics shocked the world, it came as an even bigger surprise when Bäumer released a statement on January 5th, 2114 claiming to have developed what he called a "Light Drive". The "Light Drive" was allegedly a device that allowed FasTLiT (FasterThanLightTravel).
While it has never been proven that such a device ever existed, documents recovered from a Seedist safehouse outside Hamburg revealed equations and blueprints for a mechanisim that would in fact, have been marginally operational. They were the work of Friedrich Spitzeck, a renowned Austrian physicist and engineer who was taken hostage two days before the secession of the Holy State of the Higher Seed and forced to work in exchange for the protection of his family. After his release, Spitzeck claimed ownership of the "Light Drive" but was sure that the Holy State would have had no means to construct it before the end of the war
The United Nations and NATO became directly involved in the conflict and promised full support to Germany and its right to sovereignty over Hamburg. They sent a full three divisions of combined NATO troops, including naval and army forces to Hamburg, under the command of American Vice Admiral Blaine Whyte. The full force arrived at Hamburg December 30th, 2113 but refrained from offensive operations to avoid civilian casualities caused by those still living in Hamburg that were not aligned with the Seedists. A state of blockade and intermittent border skirmishing existed until March 3rd, 2115, when the remaining non-aligned civilian hostages were ubruptly allowed to leave Hamburg by the Seedists. Immediately after, a mass exodus of seven Seedist carriers and five Seedist cruisers launched from Hamburg and attempted to leave atmosphere in what became the Second Battle Over Hamburg. Five of the seven carriers and four of the five cruisers were destroyed, while fifteen NATO cruisers met the same fate. Total deaths numbered around 850,000 Seeds and 11,000 NATO. The reason for the disparity in these numbers was that fact that the carriers were stuffed full of High Seed Citizens, and most, if not all, of the escape craft were destroyed as they left their burning motherships. One of the very few escape craft to have survived was carrying none other than Friedrich Spitzeck and his family. The two Seed Carriers that did survive slipped beyond atmosphere, a feat never before achieved by a naval warship, and disappeared from Earth's view.
Vice Admiral Whyte himself was killed in the battle, crashing his disabled ship, the USS Declaration, into the city center and detonating the onboard reactors, destroying captured Russian nuclear missiles that the Seedists had programmed to launch on 23 cities around the world and preventing a worldwide nuclear catastrophe. The blast additionally destroyed most of the remaining Seedist ground forces that had not boarded the cruisers and carriers. However, the immense blast, equivalent to the force of four atomic bombs, leveled most of Hamburg and left the immediate area mostly uninhabitable for almost forty years. Whyte's actions gauranteed NATO's success in the battle and prevented widespread nuclear carnage, and earned him a Medal of Honor posthumously. Those Seedist vessels that escaped from orbit managed to avoid the anti-ship missiles fired at them by the Chinese Orbital Station Shaobing and eventually slipped beyond orbital sensor range, heading towards the edge of the solar system.
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