Battles of Kibris

The Battles of Kibris also known as The Kibris Crisis was a armed conflict between the Republic of Amarillo and the unrecognised state of Otello that lasted from the year 86TE to the 92TE. After a failed Amarillian attempt of invasion, the League of Vircon intervened and, together with Uraka, organised an attack that led to the dissolution of Otello and destruction of Kibris. 
==Prelude==
The squatter settlement of Kibris was built on the seas right outside the lands of Puerto Amarillo, the capital of the Republic of Amarillo. The mayor of Puerto Amarillo, Salazar Van Den Green, was not aware of the settlement for half a year, until maritime patrols were able to locate it. When they arrived at the settlement, they demanded that it was dismantled, or that the squatter himself, Mr. Ananas, joined them. Mr Ananas refused, claiming the island as his. Insulted, the patrol returned home, and started gathering troops for an excursion into the squatter settlement.
==First Battle of Kibris==
===Build-up===
Believing it to be an easy target, Amarillo brought its army, together with some volunteers from the League of Vircon, most notably Nujh. The combined strength of the Amarillian coalition was estimated to be around 10-15 soldiers.
On the side of Mr. Ananas, whos IGN is 222n00b222, he only had 2-3 soldiers he could field. Therefore, he decided to hire Eldham's most elite mercs, with the mercs in question being the Goblin Mercenary Guild, or GMG, who were renowned for winning every war they fought in, and GamingDerp, who was a skilled fighter. GMG were able to bring 4 mercenaries, as the time zones were not good for them. These were GreenskinGouger, Emmerman14, DrStudi, and Arcticfoxx. While outnumbered 15-7, the squatters still had a good chance, as the quality of their troops was much higher.
===Scouting parties and first skirmish===
Amarillo, having experienced naval commanders at their service, sent several scouts ahead to see the number of troops that Mr Ananas had. Once in range, they were immediatly shot at by the troops inside, giving away the element of surprise the mercenaries might have had. Hearing this, Lhytt Poliorcetes, President of Amarillo, tried to gather more allied troops, but very little time remained for this to occur. They managed to scrap together a few more troops, and with that, they sailed off to Kibris.
Upon arrival, the forces of Amarillo started circling the fortress, shooting at it with bows, to little effect. The defenders tried to return fire, but they also faced issues here. They had a lot of trouble hitting the fast-moving Amarillian troops, and therefore had very little effect. On the flip side, the coalition forces had no way of reaching the fort.
The skirmish continued for a bit, until some of the coalition forces moved towards a breach in the wall that was spotted by Lhytt Poliorcetes.
===Main engagement===
The main army of the coalition moved into the breach, while most mercenaries from Kibris side started engaging forces scaling the walls of the fort. The battle seemed indesicive at first, but after several swift kills from GamingDerp and GreenskinGouger, the coalition seemed to be on the backfoot. However, in the distance, more troops kept arriving, most notably those led by Vix Aulian, the king of Nujh. His forces were elite, some of which could even win against the mercs if they had backup. With the arrival, the battle took yet another turn, swinging in favor of the coalition. Soon thereafter, the fort was captured by coalition forces, but their position eithin the fort was eventually challenged by the mercs. From here, the coalition split up, and GreenskinGouger recorded her tenth kill. Slowly, one after one, the coalition forces conducted a withdrawal, as both sides were exhausted, and both sides claimed victory.
===Aftermath of the First Battle===
Kibris claimed victory, but the President of Amarillo, Lhytt Poliorcetes, disputed this. Neither side were fully able to claim victory, and the outcome still remains somewhat disputed. At first, Mr Ananas made a show of giving up the settlement, as The Republic of Amarillo showed it was able to continue war indefinitely until they won, and they also recieved greater support from Vircon as well as Uraka. Ananas, however, quickly returned to the fort after being booted out of his town, Iron, in Catania, being persistent as ever. More and more nations came to denounce him, but he stayed firm. 
==Inter-battle period==
===Operation Lapis===
Having failed in the invasion of Kibris, Amarillo seeked help to their allies in the League of Vircon to reorganise and launch an assault. The Secretary General of the League, Delta Aulian, visited Amarillo to begin the plans. At the same time, Otello was also claiming the town of Iron, de facto controlled by Mr. Ananas, in Catania, vassal of Uraka. Delta began talks with Catania to form a common front against their foe.
And so, during Autumn of the year 88TE, Operation Lapis was born. This operation was managed by Delta herself and had the participation of many officials of the Republic of Catania and the Uraki Imperium, overlord of the Catanians. The original plan was to launch a simultaneous attack on both cities. While the League of Vircon would invade the island of Kibris, Uraka and Catania would storm the fortress of Iron, ensuring that Mr. Ananas would have nowhere to hide.
Operation Lapis was named after the Lapis rebellions in Nidaros, a civil confclit betwen the town of Ekaway, renamed to Fort Lapis and the Kingdom of Nidaros. During those rebellions, Iron declared support for Lapis and later joined the rebels. Lapis finally surrendered in the town of Iron to the Hand of the Kingdom of Nidaros. Being the place where the first conflict the League had with Ananas, Lapis was chosen. The Operation considered as well naming a General Commander for the troops of the League of Vircon. Lhytt Poliorcetes was then chosen by the Committee to serve as Commander until the war was over.
The diplomatic tensions between Uraka and Barbossa that led to the Valorant War, made the allied coalition change plans. However, Uraka first convicted Ananas right after the Operation was born. The crimes were the following:
* Poor conduct and unreasonable disrespect, as well as harassment towards his governor and their officials.
* Secessionist plotting.
* Causing discord within his nation, and using intimidation tactics to get what he sants.
* Deliberately failing to resolve any issues diplomatically out of either excessive incompetence or maliciousness.
* Threatening his countrymen's towns with invasion.
For the previous crimes he was sentenced to unclaim and abandon both Iron and Kibris. He was also banished from the Uraki Imperium. Ananas told the Uraki authorities he would accept his punishment. However, Catanian spies in Iron learned that Mr. Ananas had no intention to leave their claims.
====Fall of Iron and Capture of Mr. Ananas====
Months went by and no news arrived from Iron. After sending a delegation, the Uraki Imperium announced that Mr. Ananas was in KoS (Kill on Sight) and commanded Niels to rally an army and assault Iron. The Committee of the League of Vircon approved as well a group of measures against Mr. Ananas. He was banned from every member state of the League, he was put on KoS in the League's territory and announced that any collaborator would be punished. 
The town of Iron reacted with plans to attack the coastal Catanian town of Port Haven. The plans, however, were never carried out. Now in open rebellion, the League, Catania and Uraka attacked. Iron was stormed by Niels' rallied army. Delta also led a group of Virconian elite troops as reinforcement to the Uraki army. The undergeared forces of Mr. Ananas fell when the Catanians stormed the main gate. Without much resistance, Catania took control of Iron.
However, Mr. Ananas was nowhere to be found. Fearing an escape attempt, Delta took the Virconian troops towards Kibris, to cut the retreat. The Amarillian defense troops also performed a blockade. After skrimishes and tensions, Mr. Ananas was located nearby and was captured by Vircon and transported back to Iron, to be under Catanian and Uraki custody to face his crimes. Operation Lapis kept going, with the preparations for a final attack on Kibris that would be launched two years later.
===Trial in Jorvick. The Uraki Imperium v. Mr. Ananas===
Soon after its capture, Ananas was brought to Jorvick, where the Uraki Imperium held a court case against him. He was accused of the crimes he had already been convicted, however, he was given a chance to defend his innocence. People from all around the Uraki Empire and the League of Vircon attended the trial, becoming the most followed court case in the history of the DrakeslandWatch the trial at Delta's channel: https://youtu.be/crgnQoBuDr0?si=XRQTRpEwgys3AbK3.
The court was formed by Snow and taint, who acted as judges. Catylist Reach represented the Uraki Imperium as Attorney of the state. Ananas was represented by Cornwallis, who offered to defend him. Several people were called by the court to present evidence and be questioned. After a long session, the court found Mr. Ananas guilty of Planned secession and Ignoring Imperial Orders and Authorities. He was charged to abandon Kibris and surrender it to the Catanian authorities. He was banned again from Uraka.
=== Skirmishes in Kibris ===
A small detachment of ten coalition troops, who had not been sent by either Amarillo, Vircon or Uraka, came to Kibris around a week later, seeking to dislodge the squatters before the war even began. Quickly though, backup was called in, and the mercenary GreenskinGouger, and one of her friends, BeekayGod, arrived at Kibris, and killed the entire army. Due to marriage ties between the commander of the coalition forces, Vix Aulian and GreenskinGouger, the leader of the mercenaries, the gear taken from Vix was returned in secret to him.
=== Amarillian "spying contest" ===
While Ananas was awesome at recruiting people, he was often less good at keeping them loyal. Noticing this, Amarillian president Lhytt Poliorcetes and Amarillian minister of foreign affairs Soronaca began trying to turn Ananas' followers into spy, starting a sort of friendly informal contest between them over who would have the most spies in Kibris. While the number of spies Lhytt and Soronaca recruited was impressive, most of them were actually rather ineffective and useless, with the notable exception of a young woman of Amarillian origin, recruited by Lhytt, who would provide quality intelligence to the Amarillians. This woman, Juniper Kyani, would later become one of Amarillo's most important political figure, and a religious figure, considered the goddess of Junicism. In the end, it is thought Soronaca recruited more spies than Lhytt, but Lhytt's were undoubtedly far more useful.
The Amarillian spying operations in Kibris are completely unrelated with the RSS, despite the organisation already existing at the time.
==Second Battle of Kibris==
===First contact===
Contact was made around an hour before the battle commenced, with scouts from Amarillo arriving outside of Kibris, and setting up smaller barricades on a nearby island. At the same time, Kibris was making attempts to negotiate, but all of these were declined by the league, who saw him as a criminal.
With the battle approaching, 222n00b222, also known as Mr Ananas, the leader of Kibris, took to the walls of his fort and yelled down at the Amarillians; I want peace, I have tried to achieve it; but all you want is war and death!
Lhytt Poliorcetes, President of Amarillo, responded with the following; You are a criminal and a traitor! We are past the point of negotiation! Now, only one option remains. There will be no terms! There will be no surrender! With those words, the battle commenced
=== Initial Skrimishes ===
The battle began with a prolonged ranged battleWatch the battle at Delta's channel: https://youtu.be/LJW-EvEJZ08?si=I3dRPjUn39oBNeEA, with arrows raining from the barricades of the joint force of the league of Vircon and Uraka, who will henceforth be known as the coalition. Very few casualties came from the first ranged battle, as it was easy to hide behind barricades. However, what did happen, was that a few Coalition troops got their orders mixed up, and launched a small attack on the back of the fort. Within seconds, they had been killed and looted by two of the Goblin Mercenaries, Zeno Maestro and Greenskin. These marked the first casualties of the war. Due to them not actually being in the Puerto Amarillo claim, these kills had no value to the course of battle. Slowly but surely, small groups from the coalition probed the defences of the defenders, but were ultimately unable to cause damage.
===Main Attack===
After a good 15 minutes had passed, the Coalition finally assaulted the keep, led by Delta Aulian and Lhytt Poliorcetes, who were bravely charging from the front. The battle quickly devolved into a swirling melee on the walls, with no side having a clear advantage.
The unfilled moat under the walls quickly became a death trap for the attackers, who, once falling into the trench, were killed by the rampaging GMG mercenaries. At this time, Greenskin recorded her third kill, and was running out of potions. With most elite of the defenders having depleted their strength on the first attack, the full force of the coalition was able to engage the squatters, turning the waters round Kibris red. They were outnumbered 3 to 1, and the forces of Amarillo had better gear on average.
In the middle of the battle, Mr Ananas abandoned his allies in Kibris, and fled. Greenskin, after regrouping with ZenoHUN, decided to make a counter-assault on Amarillo, with the intention of causing a distraction which would allow Kibris to regroup. This had limited success, with them being unable to cause a lot of damage due to Puerto Amarillo's "Home Guard" staying behind. At the same time, however, they had to fight civilians, which were able to alert the soldiers fighting at Kibris of the danger. However, displaying great tactial genius, Lhytt Poliorcetes ordered his troops to stay at Kibris, and allow Puerto Amarillo's Home Guard to do it's job. The reason for this was his ability to spot that this was a ruse that was aimed at trying to dislodge attackers from Kibris itself. And with the GMG forces mostly gone, with only 1034ms being left as a mercenary in Kibris, the fort was overrun. 
Spawnkilling commenced, with LoggyLag being killed over and over again to gain Amarillo more kills. Zeno and Greenskin would return back to their home with gear, returning later to try and retake the fort. This had limited success, with them being able to kill up to 5 coalition soldiers in total, but being driven back each time due to being outnumbered severely. After one hour had passed, the result was clear; the Virconian Coalition had won the battle."Ananas fucking left" -Defenders of Kibris
===Aftermath===
The victory was undisputed. After the battle, Lhytt Poliorcetes made almost immidiate demands for the total destruction of Kibris. Having no grounds to negotiate, Kibris agreed to all Amarillian demands. Mr Ananas, having lost the respect of many around him who helped Kibris, was no where to be found. He would go down in history as a coward to most people. Just 3 days later, Kibris was totally destroyed, with Soronaca Trechechi, Delta Aulian, Salazar Van Den Green and a young Juniper de la Pantera overseeing the operation. This was known as the "Glassing of Kibris" and thus concluded the Kibris Crisis.
== Legacy ==
The Kibris ciris, and specially the Second battle of Kibris were a core moment for most of the political figures in the League of Vircon, being their first major success in an armed and diplomatical conflict. It would be remembered and celebrated for many Drakaens. Mr. Ananas himself would become a legend among the peoples of Vircon and they would keep being involved in campaigns against him all around Eldham.
The Virconian coalition with Uraka allowed further collaboration between both entities. The League ended becoming a 'Protected entity' of the Uraki Imperium, making it an important ally and establishing a status of semi-protectorate. For the following years, many member states of Vircon would be vassals of the Uraki Imperium until a crisis between the organisations led to a division and the alliance was terminated.
=== Vassalisation of Otello ===
Twenty years after his defeat in Kibris and after having tried to establish himself in the far south-west of Eldham, Ananas returned to the Drakesland. This time, he was allowed to stay by The Kingdoms of Valreach. Mr. Ananas paid 50k for rights over a coastal island in the southern Drakesland and Otello became a vassal state of Valreach.
Mr. Ananas, head of state of Otello would later give the rights over his lands to Delta Aulian. After being crowned Queen of Otello, she transformed the coastal island into a Crown Dependency of Valreach. In addition, right after the fall of the First Uraki Imperium, Valreach obtained control over the Spice Islands, in the Drakaen Sea. These were incorporated into Otello.
=== Rising sea levels ===
It is suspected that the rising sea levels in the Drakaen Sea, that caused the Kelp war, were caused by the Kibris Crisis. Indeed, the initial rising water was around Kibris, and water sometimes flowed from the fort. It is however impossible to know if said water was placed by the fort's people or by the attackers using it to get in.
=== Nuevo Kibris ===
On the year 302TE, Liliana de las Mareas, leader of the Wrath Vessels, a free corsair company, occupied the Spice Islands. In honour of Mr. Ananas, Liliana founded the town of Nuevo Kibris in the coasts of the island. Soon after, her crew would crown her as Archduchess of Otello. However, she began negotiations with the Kingdom of Amarillo, which already coveted the islands, and joined them. Otello would be disbanded and the islands formed a new administrative union, El Virreinado de las Islas Especia (Viceroyalty of the Spice Islands) and Kibris became a Capitania General. Liliana would be named Capitana General de Nuevo Kibris and Virreina de las Islas Especia by Queen Josefina I de Poprhyropolis, monarch of Amarillo.
== Notes ==
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