Second Arian Civil War

Clockwise: Fierce urban warfare in the Battle of Richmond, Syndicalist advance in the Great Plains, Atomic Bombing of Chekadora, Ricara mountain charge in the disastrous Jeweli Offensive, major aerial bombardment of the City of Licosis

### Date

November 12, 1934 - December 2, 1939 (December 11, 1939)(5 years and 20 days/5 years and 29 days)

### Result

**Total Savaist victory**:* Arians pursue closer ties with the Erishes
* Nuclear weapons revealed to the world after the Bombing of Chokadora
* Savaists begin radical reforms leading to the Arians becoming a superpower
* Swift recovery from the Great Depression
* Loss of approximately 7-8% of the Arian population
* Parreetown Axis-Savaist hostility leads to Arian involvement in the 2nd Great War following the Spore bombing of Nunavut Bridge

### Territorial changes

None (total Savaist takeover)

The **Second Arian Civil War** was a very multi-sided civil war which dominated the Arian Federation's landscape for the middle to late 1930s. It was the first ever use of nukes in warfare and the deadliest war in Arian history, just ahead of the North American front of the Prisarian Wars. Lasting for five years, it led to the deaths of 25-32 million people, mostly civilians, from nuclear bombings, famines and atrocities committed on all sides of the conflict. Started by a much worse Great Depression, it lasted over 5 years and resulted in a victory for the Savaists, who took over the Federation and began a very swift recovery program accelerated by entry into the Second Spore Coalition War. The civil war also saw a failed Voronian attempt to invade the Erish Empire to reclaim its Belizean colony, and afterwards Fynnder Sava, leader of the Arian Union State and victor of the conflict, would establish a dictatorship lasting until 1945, launching large-scale purges and post-war executions until democracy was restored in 1945. The civil war saw massive battles such as the Battle of Columbus, the Battle of Chicago, and the Battle of Richmond, which saw hundreds of thousands die on all sides of the conflict. The scale of the battles was comparable to those found in the Second Spore Coalition War's Eastern Front, especially on the front between the Syndicalist Organization of Councils and the Free Army of Aria, led by the Arian Union of Syndicalist Communes and the Arian Union State respectively. Atrocities were committed on all sides of the conflict, most notably by the Halisorian Ultranationalists, who nuked the cities of Chokadora, Topeka and Olympia. Every major side used chemical weapons quite liberally, especially once the Arian Military government and the Syndicalists got desperate. This led to areas of land being uninhabitable for decades, especially close to the stagnant frontlines of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, which made crops difficult to grow even in the early and middle parts of the Cold War. In addition, dependency on Azonium increased as Solarium, Violium, Crimsonite and other ores that grew there ran low on supply due to the very high use of these materials. The push and demand for renewable resources and magic-fuelled equipment began to increase due to fossil fuel upkeep, and the Arian Federation would become 100% renewable by 2004 AD, around 70 years after the start of the civil war. However, despite all of these debuffs, the civil war also led to the Arians unlocking their second 'awakening' stage and produced a plethora of war veterans to fight on the European and Asian fronts of the Second Spore Coalition War, in addition to readying the economy for war. Unemployment sharply decreased during and after the conflict, and economic reconstruction was done remarkably swiftly, so the Arian Federation came out of the civil war as a phoenix rising from the ashes, more powerful than it ever was before.

1. ↑ Assassinated
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Executed
3. ↑ Killed in action