Battle for Persia

### Outcome

The Libirachi Empire liberates Persia from Hǔnluàn rule* Apparent death of President Ashton Morre
* Appointment of Almac Docu to the Presidency

Commanders| * Grand Moff Wieker
* Grand Admiral Thrawn
* Major General Chen Wei
* Flight Marshal Dume Agathar
* Marshal Almac Davis
* Lieutenant General Anton Tupec
	+ Ashton Morre (March 30 2021 - July 30 2021)
	+ Almac Docu (August 1 2021 - November 14 2021)
* Major General Fahd al-Mutair

Strength| * **5th Libirachi Occupation Army**
	+ 200 *T-80* Battle Tanks
	+ 200 *T-14* Battle Tanks
	+ 100*FV 510 Warrior* TAVs
* **8th Libirachi Occupation Army**
	+ 300 *T-80* Battle Tanks
	+ 300 *SFQ2040* HMMWVs
	+ 300 *Xiaolong XL2060* HMMWVs
	+ 200 *T-14* Battle Tanks
	+ 100 *FV 510* TAVs
	+ 40 *2K22 Tunguska* SPAAWS
* **12th Imperial Special Forces division**
* **9th Sky Core**
	+ 90 *Mil Mi-35 Hind* attack helicopters
	+ 90 *CH-47 Chinook*s
	+ 40 *Shenyang FC-31* fighter jets
	+ 150 *Sukhoi Su-57* Stealth Air Superiority Fighters
	+ 150 *Chengdu J-20* Stealth Air Superiority Fighters
	+ 150 *F-22 Raptor* Stealth Air Superiority Fighters
	+ **7th Persian Land Defence Force**
		- 100 *M60 Patton*s
	+ **2nd Persian Defence Fleet**
	+ **3rd Persian Flight Division**
		- At least 60 *F-15E Strike Eagle*s

Casualties| * Grand Moff Alan Wieker

 Established by disgraced Marshal Ashton Morre in late 2019 in the Libirachi Empire, the Hǔnluàn began its life as a simple terrorist movement, although an agreement with Director General of the Imperial Security Bureau, Penny Fox, saw the group supplied with the weaponry necessary to upheave the political scale in Asia, beginning their crusade of chaos with an attack on the Persian Republic after being forced out of the Libirachi Empire in January 2020. Crippling the fragile republic, the Hǔnluàn seized power just days after Bovido Has and Libirachi declared war on each other, taking advantage of the frosty relations, Morre's group orchestrated the death of Bovido Archbishop Hazael Buller on March 30 2020. With a growing war in the pacific, the new Persian President (Morre) began solidifying power and began to erase the democratic nature of Persia, all the while executing those who opposed him. As the Libirachi Empire made a final push into the Bovido capital of Makassar, Hǔnluàn representatives lead by Persian prime minister Karen Sanders (under the employ of Ashton Morre) arrived in the Obadiah Has capital of Templar (a codename given to the city which the Obadiah Supreme Leader resides in at any given time, at this point Bangkok) to attempt to coax the Obadiah leader Justus Obadiah into joining an alliance with the terrorist leader. Although initially appearing promising, the negotiations began to falter by January 1, leading to a forced takeover and the house-arrest of Obadiah, with Sanders taking command of the nation's running. In a misguided attempt at showing superiority over its Asian neighbour, the Hǔnluàn launched an attack on the Libirachi High Command, succeeding in killing Grand Moff Alan Wieker, but most others were spared by the coincidence of the meeting being a virtual one. Outraged by the blatant attack on the Empire, the President of the Libirachi Empire, Xi Jimping, declared war on the Persian Republic and began formulating an attack. Withdrawing the 5th and 8th Occupation armies from southern Asia, the new attack force made its way towards the middle-eastern boarder overland. Meanwhile, Morre sought further support from Director Fox, who betrayed the terrorist's location to the ISB and withdrew assistance to the fallen Marshal. Arriving at the furthest edges of the Empire on March 1, the two Occupation Armies joined with the 12th Imperial Special Forces Division and crossed the Persian boarder on March 5th 2021, beginning open warfare between the two nations.

## The Persian Conquests

### Prelude

#### The Hǔnluàn

In the aftermath of the Invasion of Iran and the destruction cased by the nuclear warfare, Marshal of Ranjor, Ashton Morre, began a rebellion against the Government of President Nathan Jackson and escaped his arrest with the assistance of his most loyal supporters, building an organisation from the mountains of Imperial China. Recovering from severe injurys inflicted during his escape, Morre organised his cohorts into the Campaign of Chaos, or the Hǔnluàn in the Aurebesh language, and began striking out at the Libirachi government, unaware of the coup conducted by the Libirachi Imperial Army in late 2019. With several attacks, such as Explosion at the Ulaanbaatar Government Building and Explosion at the Xi Kanna Power Plant which left the government powerless, President Xi Jimping ordered the Libirachi Imperial Army to assault the group's Kamchala Base, ending the Hǔnluàn's opperations in the Libirachi. Fleeing the country, the Hǔnluàn began assaulting the fledgling nation of Persia, using the assistance of Imperial Intelligence Director General Penny Fox to supply weaponry to their front line terrorists. With civil unrest sparking up attacks on the Persian President Emanuel Parra, the Persian government resigned on April 4 2020 and invited Morre to take office as an attempt to stop the country falling apart. As Bovido Has and the Libirachi Empire began to fight in the Pacific, Ashton Morre solidified his power within the Persian Republic, first publicly executing Prime Minister Nicolas Burez and then declaring a state of emergency, with the military taking control of the nation away from the bureaucrats. In the process of rebuilidng a government, Morre began transitioning powers away from the Persian Congress and into the President's office, using the political abilities of Prime Minister Karen Sanders to enforce Hǔnluàn rule. During the first winter of the Has Wars, Sanders was deployed to the military dictatorship of Obadiah Has to persuade their command structure to join the terrorist group. Although initially appearing promising, negotiations between the two nations were cut short by Supreme Leader Justus Obadiah, who refused to surrender his powers of state to Ashton Morre. Forced with Obadiah leaking their intentions, the Hǔnluàn bodyguard forces took control of the Supreme Leader's palace, holding its High Command hostage and placing Obadiah as leader in name only, with Sanders and Morre holding total control of Obadiah Has.

#### Hǔnluàn Missile Strike on Imperial High Command

    While war in the Pacific front was was beginning to wind up, Ashton Morre's Hǔnluàn group started planning for a takeover of the Middle East, using their vast resources and the might of the Persian Republic to force out the Libirachi Empire and Bovido Has from their holdouts in the volatile region. Deploying two *Panavia Tornado* strike fighters from an airfield in Obadiah Has territory, the Obadiah Holy Hammers initiated a fight over into Libirachi airspace on January 17, engaging the Imperial Sky Core at Wuhan after sneaking past boarder patrols. The ensuring dogfight saw the destruction of 3 *Shenyang FC-31* multi-role fighters and one of the attacking *Tornado* fighters. Despite this, the remaining fighter made its way into Beijing airspace, chased by 6 *Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor*s. Gaining significant damage, the remaining *Tornado* launched its missile payload before being knocked out of the sky by a *2K22 Tunguska* SPAAW and crashing into the Grand Hotel Beijing, killing 60 civilians in the process. Despite shooting down the striker, the missiles deployed by the *Tornado* smashed into the ground floor of the IHC building, damaging it structurally, as well as hitting the 14th floor where Grand Moff Alan Wieker was holding a virtual meeting of the Joint Chiefs. The assault killed Wieker, Rear Admiral Alasdair Walker, adviser Bowen Shi, as well as 90 members of the High Command logistics and command division. With the loss of their foremost military leader, Supreme Commander Cassio Tagge took full control of the war effort, whilst Grand General Chen Bingde was promoted to the post of Grand Moff, and Marshal Guo Tijjan took the Grand General post.

### Battle for Persia

    Enraged by the Hǔnluàn assault on the Libirachi military leadership, Imperial High Command initiated planning protocols for an invasion of the Persian Republic to flush out Ashton Morre's terrorist group, using location information obtained by Imperial Security Bureau Director General Penny Fox to plot the fastest course into the Persian President's military fortress. Wrapping up the conflict with Bovido Has in the pacific, the Libirachi Empire deployed three land armies to the Persian boarder in preparation of the assault, whilst the 7th and 3rd Naval Legion Fleets, as well as the 17th Indian Task-force, under the overall command of Grand Admiral Rithnuro Thrawn made its way towards the southern coast of the Persian peninsula. Commanding the 5th Occupation Army, the 8th Occupation Army and the 12th ISF division respectively, Marshal Almac Davis, Major General Chen Wei and Lieutenant General Anton Tupec began their march over the Persian boarder on March 5th 2021, crushing the boarder guard positions just 89km away from the standing base at Al-Salman.

Having disposed of the Persian guards, the three armies began their journey over the boarder, utilising two squadrons (20 tanks each) of *T-80* and *T-14* battle tanks to clear the path ahead, whilst columns of *Xiaolong XL2060* and *SFQ2040* High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) transported the thousands of soldiers over the boarder. Re-enforced in the sky by the 9th Sky Core led by Flight Marshal Dume Agathar, 20 squadrons of *Mil Mi-35 Hind* attack helicopters and *CH-47 Chinook*s, protected by a *Shenyang FC-31* escort, flew further troops and supplies over the Persian boarder whilst waves of *Sukhoi Su-57*, *Chengdu J-20* and *F-22 Raptor* Stealth Air Superiority Fighters attempted to wrestle control of the skies from the Persian Air Force. Alerted to the invasion by reports from *F-15E Strike Eagle* squadrons, the Persian Republic Defence Force led by Major General Fahd al-Mutair began deploying forces to counter the Libirachi advance at the boarder town of Rafha, where the forces of the 7th Persian Land Defence Force was attempting to halt the Libirachi advance.

As the two armies collided at Rafha, the 7th Naval Legion Fleet commanded by Grand Admiral Rithnuro Thrawn was approaching the Persian gulf with the 17th Indian Task Force intent upon seizing all port towns necessary to the invasion with the assistance of the 9th Occupation Army stationed in the wastelands of Imperial Iran. Meanwhile, the 2nd Persian Defence Fleet under the command of Admiral Salback had begun to encircle Thrawn's fleet, forcing them further into Persian waters. Goaded into combat, the 7th Fleet became embattled in the Gulf, fighting the 2nd Defence Fleet for three weeks until March 26, when the last of the fleet surrendered to Thrawn. Finally able to escort the 9th Occupation Army, the 7th Fleet began transporting forces over from the Iranian Wastelands into Persia, overwhelming the local defence forces. Marching onward, the 9th LOA joined the 5th and 8th LOAs in their assault on the Persian Republic. Taking care not to destroy civilian buildings, the Libirachi task force overwhelmed the inferior Defence Forces, allowing them to march toward the capital of Nupersa, where they arrived on April 17th. Meanwhile, the 7th Naval Legion Fleet continued to bombard the coast, destroying emplacements and Hǔnluàn bases in the south, forcing the occupying force to retreat to Nupersia.

Surrounding the city, the Libirachi forces began several month long bombardment of the city, levelling much of the government facilities and forcing the Hǔnluàn out from their seat of power in the Nupersia Capitol building into smaller buildings, whilst the President of Persia began ordering strategic retreats back into the centre of the city. After a bombing raid on the acting capital building, the President was evacuated but his transport was intercepted by Libirachi commandos and detonated, apparently leaving President Morre dead, although it was never confirmed. With the loss of their leader, the Persian congress appointed Morre's Prime Minister Karen Sanders to the presidency, although she was quickly toppled and replaced with exiled Libirachi politician Almac Docu. As the new Persian government began to consolidate its power, the Hǔnluàn remnants began to shatter and their control over the city was finally destroyed in September 2021. Rallying his army to defend the capital city, Docu officially surrendered to the Libirachi Empire on November 14th 2021, beginning a 6-month occupation period (although it was cut short by the Invasion of Japan) and a transition period into a constitutional republic.