First Werbian War

The First Werbian War, initially called the French invasion of Mawbol, was a war between several nations that occurred as a cross-world conflict. It started in May 2022 after a political crisis in Mawbol led to the Kingdom of France declaring war on them. The conflict remains unresolved.
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===Time system===
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Current date: July 2022
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==Prelude==
===Assassination of Perry Carpenter===
Seeing their popularity decreasing, the Democratic National Party would begin talks for a possible wave of speeches and public rallies all over Mawbol to increase party popularity, president Perry Carpenter quickly agreeing to these plans and beginning preparations for the first public rally in Yellow City on May 2nd, 2022. Following these preparations, the rally would officially be announced a day prior on May 1st, taking place in the central square of Yellow City. Most of the event would go as planned, with the president arriving to the rally at 8 AM and then holding a multiple speeches on the situation of the party, the economy and the ongoing factory demolition and modernization in Eastern Mawbol. As another speech on the situation in Marannia was coming to an end, the president and police would spot a hooded figure in the crowd, walking around with a gun. The police would quickly charge into the crowd in an attempt to capture the mysterious figure, though he would shoot two shots at the president before making a run for it, though he would quickly be captured and arrested by police. Meanwhile on stage, the president, having managed to avoid one of the shots, was slowly limping around the stage, when suddenly he tripped on something and fell over, passing out. The president would quickly be driven to Yellowia Central Hospital and given emergency surgery while the police interrogated the assassin, Alexander Fitzpatrick, who turned out to be a Mawbol monarchist and member of the Union Party of Mawbol Monarchists (UPMM). He would then be charged with high treason and the obvious crime of assassinating the president, being sentenced to life in prison for his crime.
It would take many more hours to find out the fate of President Carpenter, with no one being sure what would happen next. The news would reach government five minutes following events in the hospital, with them informing the government that, even with their best attempts, they had failed to save the president, with him dying in a hospital bed at 3:22 PM. The news would first be announced by Prime Minister Sir William John Yellow on Mawbol News, with other news networks reporting on the events soon after. The news would quickly spread through out the nation, with everyone united in grief and sadness at the death of the president, many even going to the prison in which the assassin was kept and throwing rocks at his jail cell window.
===Response of Mawbol's government===
Following the news of the president's death, the government would be thrown into turmoil, with the National Democrats accusing the UPMM of being behind the assassination, though the party would deny it, stating that they had no involvement in the tragic event and Fitzpatrick was acting on his own accord. After some heated and panicked debate, the parliament would agree to temporarily give the powers of the president to the prime minister, though he wouldn't yet be declared the acting president, the prime minister going on to use these powers in order to declare a state of emergency and put the Mawbol Armed Forces on high alert. At 3:45 PM, the prime minister would announce the tragic passing of the president to the nation along with the state of emergency. Over the next two days, the parliament would continue debating on what to do next, with some in the DNP suggesting a temporary suspension of the UPMM, though most MP's didn't support this. Finally on May 5th, the parliament would announce a new plan of action, declaring a continuation of the state of emergency and officially making John Yellow the acting president for the moment being. Quarantine meassures and strict police surveillance would be introcuded, with them on the look out for any other possible co-conspirators of Fitzpatrick, while other terrorist or extremist groups in Mawbol were quickly raided and had their members arrested.
===Franco-Mawbol Political Crisis===
On May 7th, 2022 the Kingdom of France accused the Mawbol government of violating the freedom of speech by cracking down on monarchist road groups such as the UPMM. With this in mind, the King of France sent an ultimatum to the acting President of Mawbol John Yellow, demanding he end the crackdown on UPMM members and apologize to the UPMM for "having an overly unecessary response to the insignificant murder". Two days later, Mawbol would send an official response to the Kingdom of France, in which they refused the demands of the ultimatum on the basis that "the UPMM has not been subject to any major crackdown, as any considerations of their suspension were quickly abandoned and any other actions against the party were only a side effect of trying to combat Fitzpatrick and his possible co-conspirators, so the government has no reason to apologize to the UPMM and the party itself has not requested any official apology, making the entire ultimatum void as it's demands lack any rational reasoning". Right after declining the ultimatum, President John Yellow would issue a official mobilization order, demanding for around 150 thousand new troops to be mobilized and armed in the following week to add on top of the already in active service 800 thousand soldiers, with the 2.2 million soldiers in reserve for now ordered to only be slightly armed until further threats from France arose. Seeing Mawbol's rejection of the ultimatum and military mobilization, King Louis Alphonse de Bourbon of France declared the mobilization of the French Armed Forces. The King wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of France, Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, asking if the Estates General, France's main legislative body, was supportive of a war with Mawbol. Prime Minister Macron, after secretly rigging the vote in the Estates General, determined that the Estates General supported the idea of a war with Mawbol. On May 12th, 2022 King Louis Alphonse de Bourbon publicly proclaimed to the people of the French capital of Paris that "Mawbol is an illegitimate terrorist state. They have no respect for their opposition and violate all ideals of democracy. Alexander Fitzpatrick should be seen as a hero for fighting against a corrupt government." Three days later, on May 15th, 2022 three million French soldiers ambushed a Mawbol commercial ship twenty feet off of Mawbol's coast. The 27 Mawbol civilians sailing the ship were all killed and the ship sank to the bottom of the ocean. At 5:02 PM, May 15th, 2022 the King of France announced that the Kingdom of France was now at war with Mawbol. The First Werbian War had begun.
== Timeline ==
=== Early war at sea (May 15th, 2022 - May 27th, 2022) ===
Mawbol would quickly respond to the French attack, calling all reservists into active service and ordering the mobilization of 250 thousand more troops by May 22nd, also quickly putting the Mawbol air and sea forces into full action and ordering all commercial and civilian ships to not leave the territorial waters of Mawbol without protection. By May 17th, 50 thousand troops had already been mobilized and most of the reservists had returned to active service, while the naval and air forces were already patrolling the waters of Mawbol and engaging the French navy in active battles to try and slow down their advance to give time for the mainland to prepare. Civilians would quickly be evacuated from costal cities and barricades would begin to be set up inside them. John Yellow would also make multiple speeches on the illegality of the French invasion and the killing of the innocent civilians aboard the commercial ship in an attempt to inspire the people of Mawbol. The French Navy, now having hundreds of thousands of ships deployed in Werbian waters, decided to avoid direct naval combat with the Mawbol Navy, instead opting to launch commerical raids. Meanwhile, the French Air Force bombed a few tons of explosives on several ports along the Mawbol coast, crippling Mawbol's navy and allowing the French Navy to pick off Mawbol ships one by one as they can no longer resupply or reinforce.
With the sea war being a strong disaster, Mawbol decided to force the French navy into a direct engagement against the entire remainder of their navy in hopes of dealing some damage before an inevitable defeat at sea. The battle would last four bloody hours, with both sides losing many ships, though the French would manage to win on account of larger numbers, leaving a few scattered Mawbol ships to quickly retreat and attempt to make it to the territorial waters of Neuver or Akail, with even fewer managing to actually make the full journey before being sunk or running out of fuel. Two days after the battle on May 25th, the Werbian Peace Organisation would hold a meeting in the capital of Neuver, discussing what to do in regards to the situation in Mawbol. All of the members of the WPO would quickly come to an agreement to begin general mobilization in all of their countries, with discussions of declaring official war for now remaining divided. Mawbol would meanwhile continue preparing it's coastal cities for the coming onslaught of French troops, barricading all possible streets and setting up air bases all over the cities in preparations for violent street and air battles for the cities. A Greater British trade fleet was caught in the crossfire.
=== First Battle of Marannia (June 2nd, 2022 - June 8th, 2022) ===
On June 2nd, 2022, having successfully defeated the Mawbol Navy and secured total naval supremacy, the French Navy landed several million soldiers from the French Army at Lyon Castle. A small group of Mawbol police officers were in the area and put up a small fight. After just thirty minutes of open firing between the French soldiers and Mawbol police, the Mawbol police surrendered and the Lyon Castle was now under French rule, marking the start of the French occupation of Mawbol. In a period of two days (June 2nd to June 4th), the French Army marches from the Lyon Castle to the important Mawbol city of Marannia. French forces moved predominatly along the coastline, allowing for the French Navy to resupply their forces with ease. Several miles werst of Marannia, the French First Army encountered the Mawbol Fourth Army and routed it, forcing it to retreat to Marannia. The French First Army and French Third Army then chased the retreating Mawbols into Marannia, putting the siege under a bombardment of artillery and tanks from land and cannon fire from sea. Nearly a third of Marannia was absolutely destroyed by June 7th, 2022. On June 8th, the French Army closed in and launched an assault against the Mawbol defenders, pushing past the city walls and massacring the Mawbol Fourth Army. By the end of the day, the entire Mawbol Fourth Army ceased to exist. After securing control of the city, the French Army started going around the city and looting it, murdering thousands of Mawbol civilians. Several hundred Mawbol women were raped by the French Army during the brutal military occupation and peaceful resistance to the military occupation was met with French troops massacring more civilians. The Marannia genocide, as the weeks of military occupation, brutal massacres, and raping of civilians became known as, continued for many weeks after the end of the First Battle of Marannia. After the events of June 8th, Massenania joined the war on Mawbol's side, while the Greater British Empire began sending supplies to the Mawbol Government. On June 10th, the Werbian Peace Organisation would hold an official vote on intervention in the war, with all members, excluding Sundir, voting yes. Two days later on the 12th, all WPO members (excluding Sundir) would officially declare war on the Kingdom of France and promised to do the same against any country that joined the war later.
=== Greator Idaho announces "Special Military Operation" ===
On July 1st, 2022 the neo-fascist State of "Greater" Idaho announced a "Special Military Operation" for the purposes of "aiding France's noble liberation of Mawbol and destroying Mawbol's corrupt government". Greater Idaho's ruling political party, the Idaho Republican Party (IRP), proclaimed the "Special Military Operation" to be a "temporary measure to fight international corruption" and to "aid the allies of the State of Idaho". The Idaho Federation of Reagan Republicans (IFRR) and Idaho Conservative Republican Party (ICRP) both endorsed the new military operation. The Oregonian Freedom Party (OFP) declared the operation illegal, announcing they would begin a fight for the liberation of Oregon. With this, President Freecoder of the OFP announced the formation of the Oregon Liberation Brigades (OLP).
=== Operation Classis ===
On July 3rd, 2022, the Greater British Empire announced that it was to exercise military troops in the Kingdom of France's world. However, the British soon began bombing raids on both in the air and on sea. The Greater British Empire would later declare war on the Kingdom of France. This would cause the Second French Empire to declare war on Britain, declaring that "France allies with France". The French Empire put their Sixth, Fifth, and Twelfth divisions in the Kingdom of France to defend it from the Greater British Empire.
=== Battle for the Seas (July 6th, 2022 - July 30th, 2022) ===
==== First Werbian Navy (July 6th, 2022 - July 10th, 2022) ====
On July 6th, following almost a month of preparation, a combined fleet of all Werbian nations under the control of Neuverian commander William Holder would set off from Neuver down south to the territorial waters of Mawbol in the hopes of managing to crash through the French Navy in a few decisive battles and deliver around 1.6 million Werbian troops to the Mawbol cities of Partland, Ikrayia, Mayortown, Rakul City and Mondale, from where they would then move to assist Mawbol forces fighting against the Kingdom of France and their occupation government. The campaign would at first see success following a battle on July 8th between the fleet and a small group of French ships, which itself would be followed by a another success the next day. Seeing this major Werbian break through, the French King ordered the deployment of twenty million more French ships into Werbian waters. The French Navy complied, flowing through several world portals and sailing for their new campaign. Around a hundred miles off the Mawbol coast, a large group of shis in the French Navy attacked the combined Werbian fleet. After a few minutes of the brutal navy battle that occurred on July 10th, 2022 the Werbian fleets were routed and forced to retreat, leaving many of their ships burning. The Werbian fleet would quickly retreat after the disastrous battle, returning to the territorial waters of Neuver and Bornia, where they would spend the next week attempting to recover and rebuild their forces, with Akail and many other smaller nations agreeing to contribute most of their remaining fleet to a second large Werbian Navy. 
==== Second Werbian Navy (July 10th, 2022 - July 20th, 2022) ====
After having intelligence reporting that ports in Neuver were building a new Werbian fleet, the French Navy sent three million ships under the command of the navy general Napoleon Bourbon. The French Navy then went on a series of raid along the Neuverian coast, attacking port after port, destroying ship after ship, and killing several hundred Neuverian civilians. Neuver would respond kindly to this, declaring the Kingdom of France an "illegitimate state purely based on imperialism and neglect of human rights", seizing all recognition of France as a independent country by July 20th. Meanwhile by July 23rd, the WPO's attempts at a second Werbian Navy had utterly failed due to the attacks on Neuver, leaving each member state to attempt to maintain the remnants of their navies on their own, while the organisation looked for a possible different way to support Mawbol. 
==== French massacre of Neuverian civilians (July 20th, 2022 - July 26th, 2022) ====
Now that the WPO's attempts at another combined Werbian Navy were thoroughly wrecked, the French Navy landed four million French soldiers on a city on Neuver's westernmost port city, ambushing the Neuverian locals. After several hours of bloody street fighting, the French forces fully captured the port. The French Seventh Army, which had been deployed to the city, then began looting and pillaging the port. After taking a hundred thousand dollars worth of goods from the port, the French Seventh Army rounded up all the civilians in the city and massacred them all. After the massacre, the French Seventh Army withdrew from the port, burning it down of their way out. This war crime lasted six days. Following these events, Neuver would begin mobilizing it's entire male population and declared a "righteous holy war against the clearly evil and inhumane" Kingdom of France, while the rest of the WPO continued attempting to find ways to support Mawbol and now also Neuver. 
==== Franco-British Engage at Trafalgar (July 29th, 2022 - July 30th, 2022) ====
On the morning of July 29th, a Greater British fleet spotted a Second French Imperial Fleet near Trafalgar while blockading the state. They soon decided to engage the fleet. The French initially suffered heavy losses, thanks to the tactics of the British Admirals. However, on the morning of July 30th, the head British Admiral died due to fever, and the French began to push back. In the afternoon of July 30th, the British 31st Fleet completely collapsed, while the British 29th fleet sustained major damages. The British were forced to retreat, however the event forced the Spanish Imperial Republic (WIN3W) to join on the side of the French.
=== First Battle of Borman (August 1st, 2022 - August ?, 2022) ===
On August 1st, 2022 the French Kingdom's army moved from their current positions in Marannia and started to march towards the city of Borman. After an hour of marching, the French were upon the city with 7,382 men and began a heavy artillery bombardment of the city. The bombardment was intentionally ruthless, firing with no regard for civilian or military infrastructure and only being done with the goal of destroying the city. One French soldier whose name was lost to history remarked in a letter to his wife, "The fighting here in Borman is fierce in brutal. I myself am ashamed of what we have done. I saw a civilian's head get blown off. I want to desert badly, but I know that I should never be able to see you again if I do so."
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