Borlish Insurgency

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The **Borlish Insurgency** was a conflict fought between a coalition consisting of Celesterra, The Third Empire of Cynedryca and The Federal Republic of Dougland against the terrorist group the Celes Fatherland Front. The conflict lasted from March 2, 2022, to April 13, 2022, and was the result of growing political tensions present within Borland. The coalition was formed as the result of the CFF attacking both the embassies of Dougland and Cynedryca due to hatred of their regimes and sanctions placed by both nations against the CFF. Soon after the attacks on the embassies, Douglandic and Cynedrycan troops entered the country and began a campaign against the CFF on March 13, 2022.

## Prelude

The Celes Fatherland Frong was newly formed in August 2018. They were involved in many dodgy deals and run private militias who carried out contracted killings on targets as well as set bounties on others. Vilen Heldt left the Conservative party and joined the Celes Fatherland Front due to "the conservatives not correctly representing her views". She quickly rose through the ranks in the fatherland front, being an influentual individual and eventually made her way to the top. Vilen was under survellance from SIN due to being found as a Fascist threat, but SIN failed to gather enough evidence to warrant her assassination or arrest.

A National election in March 2019 put the Conservatives back in control of Borland. Vilen was heavily annoyed at this outcome and decided to take action against the Conservative party. The Fatherland Front constituencies quickly became less intergrated with the rest of the constituencies, with the CFF constituencies answering directly to Vilen Heldt. The Borlish government attempted to arrest some of the CFF leaders for "undemocratic procedure" but failed in their attempt, leading to 5 Borlish police officers being killed.

Once the Celes government was involved, SIN quickly discovered that the elections had been illegally altered. SIN lied to Vilen Heldt that they were going to support her and solidified their spies inside the CFF, feeding back to the Celes and Borlish Government. In this SIN discovered that the CFF was preparing an insurgency against the rest of Borland, thanks to this the rest of Borland had time to prepare defences and plan for the insurgency. Relations between the CFF and other parties soured very quickly and the CFF began to prepare for a Blitz of Borland while the national government deployed NASAT and Armed forces to the region.

While all of this was happening, Vilen Heldt was strengthening her hold on the CFF controlled areas, those who disagreed with her regime were arrested by the CFF and thrown into concentration camps. During this, using SIN intel CPF units broke out over 100 prisoners from concentration camps and over the course of the war another 900, including Cynedrycan and Douglandic POWs, without being detected by the CFF. CPF captured important CFF military officials before they could unveil war plans to the rest of the CFF, which led the CFF to go in blind..

Around this time, the CFF announced plans to build up military infrastructure. The plans relied heavily on enslaving those who were kept in concentration camps, the CFF would go on to struggle to make these plans come to fruition after Celeterra blocked all trade to the CFF areas and some nations declared embargos.

## Rising Tensions

Heldt soon appointed one of the only competent members of the CFF, Hermann Ulrich. He became minister of war for the CFF on October 10, 2019 and began to formulate plans for the insurgency. He dodged 3 assassination attempts by SIN as well as 7 from other unknown organisations, all while devising a way to try and break the Borlish. He quickly drafted this and showed it to the CFF who approved it and scheduled an invasion for January 2, 2020.

Small clashes soon began to happen, supposedly ordered by Ulrich to test Borlish and Celes defences and response times.