First Coalition War

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### Location

Central, Western and Northern Europe, with significant action in the Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East

### Result

**Coalition victory**:* Oblivion of the Federation of Spore Creatures
* Continued tensions in the Pacific Ocean
* El Roqueron's domination over much of Central America
* Circumstances leading to the independence of Francia
* Tensions between the Mudblood and Mage countries

The **First Spore Coalition War**, also known as the First Coalition War, the Great War, or the World War (at the time, now known as the First Great War or First World War though people have tried to claim other conflicts as the First Great War or World War) was a major conflict that was one of the largest in scale in history (alongside the 2nd Lunar Invasion, the 2nd Coalition War and the Prisarian Wars. At the time, it was only matched by the II Lunar Invasion). It was the first total war on such a scale, and both the Coalition and the Parreetown Concord threw their entire industry and population behind the war effort in some way; if they weren't outright drafted they worked in war factories and industries and often had rationing. The war led to the development of many new technologies, most notably planes, which were deployed to fight off the COB onslaughts in Europe to minimal effect as well as mechs and tanks from various nations such as Albion and Sporia. It marked a transition between mobile cavalry warfare to slow trench warfare, atleast on the Western Front, dominated by mechanical technology (with some magic) such as planes and mechs. In total, the war killed around 40 million people, though behind the 2nd Coalition War, Prisarian Wars and even the 2nd Lunar Invasion it was still devastating and ushered in a new political age for Eurasia.

The First Coalition War pitted the armies of the Coalition, known colloquially as the "**Coalition Powers**" and sometimes as the Allies (though this title is reserved for the Coalition of the 2nd Coalition War), which consisted of various nations in Europe and Asia led by the Declavan Empire and consisting of many major powers such as the Funtimes, Albionese, Arians, Voronians and Gammerians, against the Concord of Parreetown. The Parreetown Concord was known colloquially as the "**Revanchist Powers**" due to their poor history with Coalition members (primarily the Funtime Empire), led and almost exclusively commanded by the Empire of Saneatsu and the Federation of Spore Creatures. Despite the Revanchist Powers being only 2 great powers against many more (**Sporia and Saneatsu** against **Funtimea, Albion, Voronia, Germania, Gammeria, Aria, and Declavonia** at various points), they dragged the war for over 6 years, occupying vast Coalition lands before losing it all at the end of the war.

While the Coalition dates back to Spore hostility particularly in Africa during the dictatorship of Sondre Gunderson, being founded in 1908 between the Declavans, Gammerians and Germanians, the situation soon grew untenable between the doctrines of Spore revanchism and the European peacekeeping and status-quo. The Spores began general mobilization on February 1914, and many feared what they were plotting next. They were right to fear, as war started with a Sporian ultimatum to the Funtime Empire. This ultimatum was sent on May 30, to give up Outer Ostravikura, Kylens Island and the treaty port of Nevino 'immediately' to the FSC or Sporia will declare war, resulting in the June Crisis. This action was done in response to about a century of what is considered to be nothing more than outright abuse by the Funtime Empire (and to an extent the Declavans and Germanians) against the Spores pre-unification, and even somewhat after unification, which left the Spores bitter, defensive and hostile. After the Funtimes refused, the Federation of Spore Creatures declared war on July 9, 1914, which led to the Funtime emperor appealing to the Coalition for help after two decisive defeats in the Battles of Vyperi and Aselon, and subsequently the Declavan Empire and its allies demanded the Spores back down and pursue a peaceful solution or war. When the Spores rejected this, stating the war wasn't just about territory but about their prestige and their rejection of the European status quo, the Coalition mobilized throughout July and declared war at the end of the month. Throughout 1914, the warring European powers mostly decreed total mobilization. The year was very favorable for the Spores, with them being able to occupy the majority of western Algodonia and northern Germania, as well as their war aims in Kylens Isle and Nevino and a siege in St. Funtimegrad. Although Berlin was under threat, the Coalition forces refused to surrender and as the winter ended in 1915 the "Southern Coalition"'s strategy began to shift from hoping for a decisive defeat against the Spore forces (as the Spore military was relatively superior in organization and training to them, and was gaining multiple major victories that were reducing their manpower and morale) to digging down in trenches and grinding down the Spore invaders utilizing attrition. The Funtimes, meanwhile, did not shift their strategy. This resulted in the total occupation of Algodonia by 1916 due to a combination of a very successful Spore offensive and an Algodoo collaborationist uprising, as well as the total siege of St. Funtimegrad and the fall of Nevino-Talena to Spore forces. In the Western Front, things were very bad. The Coalition would suffer defeat in numerous battles primarily due to crushing Spore aerial superiority, allowing them to carry out offensives with what was basically mobile artillery in the air, such as Stettin, Dortmund and Frankfurt. Berlin would fall in 1915, resulting in the relocation of the Germanian seat of government to Breslau. The Coalition would be pushed into the Donau-Patribund, them granting military access, following defeat in Rodau. Though the Patribund was neutral, the Spores entered the north anyway starting the Donau-Patribund front. Despite the presence of Spore troops within their land, the Patribund didn't enter the war until the Coalition's victory in the Battle of Nuremburg later on. The Spore advance of terror was stopped in December 1915 following Germanian victory in Posen. In Africa, the Spores began advancing on Germanian Africa and came into conflict with the Declavans in the northeastern Cormandy region.

Other fronts were soon to open though. The Spores and Saneatsuans, the latter led by a nationalist and highly expansionist party known as the Samakyo Faction, would officially form a military alliance known as the Parreetown Concord, leading to the unification of the Revanchist Powers, on April 4, 1915. A week later, Saneatsu would launch a surprise attack upon the Funtimean Pacific Fleet and nearly sink or capture the entire thing, launching a massive invasion of the Funtimean Far East and completely cutting off their Pacific access by 1916. Their invasion would grind down by the end of the year due to supply issues with maintaining an invasion over such a wide and cold front, though. In September, the El Roqueronians, dissatisfied with Coalition support to their rivals in Central America, would join the Revanchist Powers and attack into Central America, prevailing within a few weeks. Afterwards, their support became not much more than token besides in the Pacific. Throughout 1916, war morale for the Coalition was at an all time low. The Spores continued to advance in Southern Erwinia, managing to invade Wintermacht's west, another member of the Coalition however being unable to secure much territory. While the situation in Africa was improving, continued defeats in both the Western and Eastern front had caused massive instability within the members of the Coalition, and they were really only encouraged and supplanted by changing Arian public opinion and fierce Declavan war support, rallies and speeches to keep fighting. Massive Spore and Saneatsuan advances on two fronts resulted in enormous mutinies within the Funtime Army, and minor revolts began to break out especially among the disgruntled Noob populace. These revolts would later escalate into civil war. Later on in the year, the Battle of Nuremburg, the longest lasting, largest and deadliest battle of the entire conflict, would begin, both the Spores and multinational Coalition putting their all behind it. Though the Battle of Nuremburg initially resulted in 3/4 of the city being lost to the Spores, and the Coalition being forced into a disadvantageous position, reinforcements and a cleverly planned attack from the west by Declavan general Sergios Leventilis would result in a change in the tide of the battle, and soon the Coalition would win in early 1917. This victory would result in the deaths of a massive chunk of the elite in the Spore army, a number of generals, and a humongous blow to the Spore morale. The tides would begin to turn by the time winter ended on the Western Front.

Throughout 1917, hope began to return to the Coalition as the Donau-Patribund began sending its own military to help (which resulted in the Nuremburg massacre). The first phase of the Albionese Invasion of Voronia would end, and both countries would join the Coalition. This would cement Coalition naval superiority in the North Sea, due to the overwhelming might and freshness of the Albionese navy in contrast to the exhausted Coalition navies. The Coalition would launch a counteroffensive, which, although it was slow, would manage to reclaim large bits of territory in eastern Erwinia, all the way up to Berlin. Due to guerrillas starting to cause havoc upon Spore supply in the Western Front, the Spore-Germanian collaborationist government of the Empire of Germania (not to be confused with the Marianian one) was established and a member of the House of Berwyn was made its king. This would only stall further Coalition advances, though, so the Spores began focusing eastward hoping to capitulate the Funtimes and then utilize the leftover troops from such a campaign to finally push in Germania again. In Summer 1917, that hope would arrive. After one defeat too many in the Battle of Kaunas, the Noobs would have absolutely enough. The Mudbloodist Noobs, led primarily by the SMLR, would launch the Grand Revolution against the Funtime Empire throughout June and July, initiating the Funtime Civil War. With the Funtimes now focused quelling a massive uprising all throughout their territory, the Spores continued to advance against both the Funtime Whites and the opposition, capturing the entirety of the territory belonging to the Algodonian autonomous monarchies by the end of the year. The Sondre dictatorship would round up hundreds of thousands of civilians, mostly Funtimean, and place them in 'internment camps' in Eastern Algodonia, a move which they were forced to recognize at the peace deal following discovery of these atrocities by the Coalition in 1919. In the East, Saneatsu began to lose resources for its war effort which drove it closer and closer to conflict with the Arian Federation, its main obstacle to expansion in the Pacific due to its guarantee on Buddia. War with Aria would break out in 1918. Throughout the year of 1918, the Revanchist Powers began to lose ground (except for El Roqueron, who would peace out) on all fronts as they had provoked too many powerful countries and grew exhausted. The Donau Patribund would reclaim most of its occupied western territory by 1919, and Coalition forces would become rejuvenated to launch the offensive to retake North Germania with Aria now in the war. The Spores would successfully sign peace with the Funtime Empire and SMLR, after launching an offensive forcing the Funtime Army to retreat all the way to Mostime, and annexing vast territories from them including St. Funtimegrad, the entirety of Algodonia and the majority of North Brenia and forcing enormous war reparations and concessions in the same way the Funtimes had done to the Spores in the Centuries of Humiliation. Though this greatly radicalized the Funtime White Army against the Spores, turning them to anti-Spore nationalism and radicalism, they were unable to actually act upon those grievances, due to the defeat of the Spores in the war, and eventually, defeat to the SMLR. Meanwhile, Saneatsu would occupy the Far East and Spore Africa would fall to the Coalition forces.

By 1919, the Spores were firmly on the retreat. Despite hopes that the elite battalions from the Eastern Front would help, they didn't. Infact, it would further worsen the Spore supply crisis and troops would have to be withdrawn anyway due to the Arian attack on Skipio. Though the war was against them, it wasn't all rosy for the coalition, either. Seeing their involvement, Naalsachte would revolt against Donau-Patribund starting the Alpine War. The Alpine War would continue even after the First Coalition War's end, and result in the formation of the fragile First Naalsachte Republic, which was quickly overthrown by Gredolists in 1925. They would manage to peace out with Albion and Voronia, though, following the renewed outbreak of hostilities between the two countries, and would attempt to attack into Germania once again with all they had. This failed miserably, and by the end of the year the front would start to collapse and the Spores would be on the retreat to their homeland. Saneatsu's Imperial Fleet would be utterly defeated by the Arian Navy, and these defeats would result in Saneatsu signing peace in January 1920. With the Spores in continued retreat throughout mid and late 1920, and their supply situation worsening (as well as their diplomatic situation; the Algodoos revolted against them for their lands gained in Byrla-Kyrnova), mutinies would occur. In September, the Spore Revolution of 1920 would occur leading to the overthrow and execution of PM Sondre Gunderson, and the Spores would surrender, ending the war. The Treaty of Berlin would precipitate the interwar period, a prosperous though radicalized and highly unstable period for the world. The post-war peace failed to weaken the Spore Mainland enough (even when it came under the domination of the Ants for about a decade) and enabled Omega Spore to come to power, triggering the Second Coalition War only 19 years later.