Dragonian Civil War

The Dragonian Civil War, also known as the Insurrection by the Dragonian Empire and the War of Liberation by the AcDragonians was an internal conflict fought primarily on Dragonia between the Divine Dragonian Empire and it's allies against the AcDragonian rebels, their allies and several other loosely connected groups.  The Civil War began once Dragonia carried through plans to ship off anyone who violated the marriage laws as laid out in Imperial doctrine instead of outright killing them.  Though on the surface the plan seemed feasible, activity by the Black Dragons complicated matters into an explosive conflagration that resulted in a conflict of massive proportions.
The war came as a surprise to not only Dragonia itself but Dragonia's closest ally of Corsair as Dragonians had shown a remarkable sense of unity that appeared unbreakable on the outside.  The war shouldn't have been wholly unexpected as it was only natural for the Dragonian people to want to have the freedom to live how they choose, including marrying whoever they want and not be bound by archaic laws that no longer had any place in Dragonian society since they had long established themselves as a star system hyper power.  Given the relatively unmatchable power of the Grand Army one might think that an insurrection on Dragonia would be put down with a brutal efficiency and the ones who fomented it would be executed within days however due to the sweeping nature of the Dragonian Purge, as the operation to re-educate and ship AcDragonians offworld became known as, quite a few very high ranking officials in the Imperial government and quite a few military Generals were also going to eventually be affected by it so they jumped ship into the AcDragonian movement before their time came. This infused the insurrection with an enormous amount of leadership both in the government side of things and the military and although a majority of their soldiers were grossly undertrained when put up against the Grand Army, there were a lot of them and the AcDragonian military did have reasonably competent leadership for what it was.
Relatively speaking, the war was quick - lasting only 15 months but the amount of combat that happened during that time was substantial resulting in about 3 million deaths on all sides. While typically war is a meticulous process, the AcDragonian Free State knew that given the inflexible nature of the Grand Army that it would take some time for them to properly organize their defense of the homeworld. In addition to that, the Sword Arm would recall their forces from external campaigns to assist the Shield Arm if the threat to the homeworld wasn't contained in short order. Given enough time the Shield Arm could eventually organize an impenetrable defense so the ADFS was on a limited time table.
The consequences of this conflict rippled far and wide. First and foremost was the immediate damage to Dragonia itself. The war resulted in three obvious and unfortunate truths - Dragonia is incredibly vulnerable to communications disruptions. Relying on the Osiris Network for all communication needs was discovered to be a weak point when the Free State was able to destroy a vast majority of the satellite constellation around the planet which irreversibly crippled the Grand Army as well as a majority of the civilian infrastructure and economy. The second thing was that Dragonia wasn't prepared for internal conflicts at all. It took too long for the Grand Army to organize their defense which allowed the AcDragonians to get into strategic positions and secure geo-advantageous areas which made fighting them more difficult than otherwise would be the case. While this would normally fall on the Citizen Defense Corps, the nature of the conflict saw the CDC shatter in the first couple of weeks of fighting with a substantially large portion of them defecting to the ADFS. Third, the Empire was woefully out of touch with the people and this was partially due to the archaic tenants with which the Empire shaped society. It was recognized by the Imperial Palace that unless some sweeping changes happened socially, this issue would repeat ad nauseum until one side was completely destroyed and it would most likely be the empire proper that fell because of it. This set into motion events that would culminate at the end of the Corsari Conflict - social reformation of the Empire.
An unintentional, though predictable consequence of this civil war was the weakening of both the Dragonian sphere of influence and the image of invincibility. This was noticed by elements on Corsair which was directly responsible for the rise for the The Empire of the Rhein to kick off the Corsari Conflict.
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