Scientarian Blockade of Masako

The Scientarian Blockade of Masako was a total naval blockade of the island of Masako in Oyashima. Following the Oyashiman-Scientarian War, many denizens of the island refused to capitulate to Scientarian domination, continuing a guerilla war for months after hostilities had ceased with the rest of the empire. The blockade's principal purpose was to restrict all movement on and off the island, so as to control all shipments of food, weapons, prisoners, reinforcements, and more to the insurgency. 
The secret purpose of the blockade was twofold. On the ships there were large alchemical devices that erected a particle barrier designed to make the island inaccessible to teleportation magic, essentially cutting off the area under blockade from instantaneous travel. But these machines had a secondary purpose which contained all magical energies emitted on the island and ensured that they worked towards creating a rift into the prison of Kalderus. Empress Adele Tellumnar wished to use this blockade to create a relatively small area where the conditions for releasing the monster could be done with little loss of life to her citizens, and through which they could successfully rescue Alek Tellumnar, who she believed was still alive in the prison dimension. 
The Blockade was mostly successful in it's mission, keeping most aid from the rest of the world from entering, and creating the conditions the empress wished for to release Kalderus. Their primary failure was in allowing the Unsinkable II to pass undetected through their lines using magic to submerge the steamship below the waves.
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