Black July timeline

This is a timeline for events on July 1892 and afterwards: on the chaotic birth of modern Bujan and the punishment of the Terrans.

## June 1892, the Window Days

### June 28

* June 28, AT 1892 - Bujan finally wins its independence from Wannaenid oppression.
	+ The remaining Terrans and Salvationists surrender.
	+ "The Last Judgement", "Sudnyj Den" - All the remaining Terrans and Salvationists are put into prison camps all over Bujan, where they were tested for their loyalty.
	+ Some chose to return to their homeworld, more chose to go to Valtois. The brutal, quick deaths of Terrans who tried to fight back or were suspected of great crimes scared all the others into accepting a process of deradicalisation.
* Agents of the Jerde Alliance were granted access by the Bujanski government to "reset" all social media accounts. One by one, accounts belonged to criminals and serious offenders remained blocked, while every block from every other account was investigated by the cyber-team of 700 technicians.
	+ Those who blocked people over non-serious offenses were ordered to sit with the people whom they blocked, and reconcile with them. Most Terrans were angry with that order, cursing the government for forcing them to confront their offenses, yet they complied as they were frightened by angrier Terrans suddenly getting killed.
	+ They were sentenced to the "blocktowns", prisons where they were isolated for months, tormented with visions of their own crimes repeatedly haunting them. After that, they had to undergo penance and seek the forgiveness of the people they hurt. By then, they would have avoided being killed on that July.
* At the same time, the various liberated slaves - Heronoi, Arnadjanai, Ontemazei, Sagolin, and Terran, were settled in fortified neighbourhoods to protect them from any revenge attacks by the Terrans. They were collectively known as "vulnerable people" or "vulnerables".
	+ Liberated human slaves, however, were allowed to choose between living in refuge towns or whatever homes they could buy anywhere in the kingdom. They were usually from Slavic, Wonao, Vozonid, Namirian, and other Jerdiskar peoples.
	+ Free North Terrans were also exempted from being limited to certain neighbourhoods, although they were discouraged from settling anywhere aside from northeastern Bujan and Koscheigrad.
* The Bujanski government is given a vast sum of money to rebuild the nation and *every* single surviving inhabitant.
* All freedmen in Bujan become citizens.
	+ Every citizen in Bujan, whether Jerdiskar, liberated slave, Free North, or even Terran, is granted a "starting sum" in any bank account they had. Those without bank accounts who reached the age of 16 were immediately given new bank accounts of their own. The stated reason, according to the Royal Government, was to prevent poverty and radicalism.
	+ Those in prison are only given their cards, their restored homes, and their bank accounts when their sentences ended.
* All freedmen were given pamphlets explaining about their country, its laws, and the upcoming nationwide mourning and investigation.
	+ Among the contents of the pamphlets is an explanation about the Free North and its religion, which encouraged Bujanski to spare them from the purge. Although many Bujanski people distrusted Terran religions, the Free North has become an exception due to their loyalty to Bujan.

### June 29

* June 29 - All remaining online blocks not directed to criminals' accounts were immediately cancelled on midnight. The government order to remove the blocks was announced by radio and television screens.
	+ Some Bujanski decided to celebrate with night time parties.

* June 29-30, AT 1892 - The Terrans are given two days to explain their actions and apologise. Many chose to migrate to separate neighbourhoods, some went to their old homes, some migrated to other lands under close supervision, and some migrated to "refuge cities" to avoid persecution.
* June 29 - The northeastern city of Virimvon-na-Taeglovu votes to protect Terrans.
	+ To show that Terrans were welcome and forgiven upon entering the city and beginning their penance, orange flags were flown all over the city and several nearby towns.
	+ The town was known for being the first to raise the modern blue albatross flag of Bujan.
* June 30 - In the northwestern town of Konudar, one angry Terran tried to shoot up a "unblocking party", but only killed two people. He was shot dead, and the police brought his whole family and every Terran in his neighbourhood to be investigated. Only 25 people out of 41 were jailed for supporting the shooter's actions or for pro-regime activity before independence, while the rest were released to continue their penance.
	+ Almost everyone in the neighbourhood avoided and shunned those Terrans, forcing them to leave to a protected neighbourhood until August, when they might be allowed to return and report themselves in order to return to their homes.
	+ These actions forced them to condemn the shooter and apologise to the Bujanski. All 167 of them, men, women, and children, were blamed for the ATA's existence, even when they disowned the man and swore among themselves never to block a person ever again.
* The Konudar shootings angered the whole country, leading to calls to investigate *everyone* in Bujan - Terran and Bujanski - to hunt anyone who had any intention to destroy the newborn state.
	+ Angry mobs arrested hundreds of Terrans for expressing hatred against the country, or insulting any Bujanski. Those who called for bringing back their online blocks were beaten up, and some of them had their faces slashed.
	+ One blogger who said that "blocking is good, at least you aren't killed by a mob" had his home burned when an angry neighbour threw a grenade to his house. He fled, and was arrested by his neighbours, who scarred his face.
	+ More Terrans either fled the country, or went into hiding. Those who did flee were arrested on arrival, and they underwent penance amid the cold contempt and wary stares of their new neighbours. Not wanting to be tortured or killed in their new homes, nearly all Terrans who fled abroad complied and changed their attitude.
* A warning is issued on television broadcasts, informing that a nationwide investigation will be done for the next month. Pamphlets were issued all over the country instructing all citizens on how to behave and avoid being punished.

## July 1892

   On the first of July, martial law was set up while the Coalition began rebuilding Bujan. All national flags were taken down and replaced with simple black flags, and no entertainment events were allowed. The Prime Minister spoke in a broadcast in every public channel, announcing that everyone in Bujan, including himself and the royal families, will be investigated. For an hour, he also listed conditions for all Bujanski, especially those of Terran descent, to survive the investigation, and the new capital punishments for taking up arms against the kingdom.

The Terrans who remained already knew the punishments, hence some of them fleeing to other countries under close surveillance. Dostagir, his royal family, and every noble house in Bujan were the first to be searched, then the prime minister, then every member of the nobility, government, armed forces, and police forces, and then to every other Bujanski citizen. The searches, along with turning over any offenders and traitors to be tortured and killed, may had fuelled the creation of the ATA mobs to punish every Terran as guilty.

### July 1

* Phone Boy Incident - The one incident that sparked the creation of the Anti-Terran Action (ATA) was the Phone Boy, when a young man laughed and showed Bujanski passersby pictures of users being blocked.
	+ Most people ignored until he caused a panic attack on one motorcyclist, causing him to fall on the road. Then the Phone Boy went to another motorcyclist and showed the screenshots, taunting him and claiming that the Terrans will keep on blocking until they get whatever they wanted. A mob approached the Phone Boy and smashed his phone, and the second man drew his sword and cut the Phone Boy's head.
	+ He then led the mob, following another member who brought a list of Terran offenders. Upon seeing the mob kill several more people on the street, the Terrans fled to Buron City by train. Upon arrival at the train station, the Terrans met another mob, who forced them to kneel and apologise. They all showed their green and yellow flags, showing that they were under penance. They were then escorted to some apartments where they lived until they were able to return home on September.
* Unsatisfied with mass arrests of anti-Bujanski extremists instead of exterminating all Terrans, some embittered Bujanski formed militias to put offenders to death. The Anti-Terran Action (ATA) was created.
* July 1-2 - Koscheigrad massacres - ATA members stormed various businesses and buildings in the capital to kill hundreds of people over online offenses, grudges, and mistreatment by workplaces. Some workplaces had bombs thrown at them, while ATA members ordered crowds to leave while they shot at any fleeing offender in their hitlists. The death toll, not including ATA members who were killed, was 600.
	+ One of the first victims of the ATA in Koscheigrad was the manager of a lemonade company, who was notorious for firing dozens of workers for using phones during work. His shop was bombed, and he was shot by one of the people he fired. His family had to flee Koscheigrad to avoid violence, and because they were also marked as Terrans, forcing them to undergo penance as poor people.

### July 2

* July 2 - the first anti-Bujanski comments were found. The culprits were immediately found by the ATA and put to death.
* July 2 - "Terran Revolution" - Some Terrans and Salvationists formed terrorist groups, going to war against the kingdom and murdering anyone they found. The ATA grows with more members and better technology, and swiftly killed as many Terrans as they found.
	+ One of the reasons why the ATA exterminated every participant of the revolt was due to the Serpents' speeches, resulting in them assuming that any Terran who called for a "revolution" or brought up anti-Terran killings wanted an excuse to exterminate Bujan.
* One member of the Bujanski parliament became notorious by calling for every adult member of any Terran religion to be drafted and sent to die in attacks against the Wannaenid Empire. Because of the militaristic, hateful attitudes of the Terran churches and militants, therefore the parliament officer suggested sentencing all adult worshippers of the Terran gods to death. Although his policy was heavily supported by the ATA, it was rejected.
	+ Free North Terrans were exempted from this proposed military conscription, but they went into mourning by wearing black.
	+ This led to many Terran households, especially those outside the Free North Terrans, displaying signs to show their support for Bujan, and turning over anti-Bujanski militants to be punished by the authorities. Some Terrans refused to go out or even use the Internet out of fear that they would be killed.
	+ Another politician also ranted that every Terran who dares utter anything against the people of Bujan, or express any hate, should be lobotomised, drafted to the army, and sent to their deaths. He also brought a picture of one commander of the Serpents, a militant Terran group in Bujan, using her comments calling for the extermination of all Bujanski to justify hatred against Terrans in Bujan.
* Someone splashed black paint and threw bombs at the Statue of Forgiveness in northwestern Bujan. He fought several security guards, injured one, and was shot dead. The ATA claimed this as a public declaration of war against all Terrans in Bujan.
	+ The Statue of Forgiveness was built on the former site of a resistance camp, where many members reconciled with former enemies and abandoned their grudges.
* Several people were arrested for making statements accusing the King of Bujan of treason for allowing Terrans to live.

### July 3

* Battle of Nasarpollo - The Royal Bujanski Armed Forces aids the local army, supported by Terran defectors, to repel the ATA.
	+ This was the **first** battle between the RBAF and the Anti-Terran Action, who afterwards fought for the future of Bujan.
	+ This led to more towns and settlements declaring themselves as orange provinces, protecting Terrans who flee there in defiance to the ATA's terrorism.
* July 3-9 - Battle of Arokunga - The RBAF and Makkadal's military repel the ATA's raids to protect Terran refugees who fled to the island of Arokunga.

### July 4

* July 4 - Several Wannaenid commanders bring most of the military to Earth 96, destroying the Church of Q, Tyrska, Zetros, and other empires.
	+ A few parts of Earth 96 survive by fortifying their lands or building underground fortresses. They include Zaporizhia, the Caucasus Federation, the Baltics, parts of eastern Russia, Oman, Egypt-Palestine, the northern half of South America, the West African Alliance, the Southeast Asian Union, and the Republic of Alberta.
* Cursing one of the countries where the Terrans came from, several militias followed a frustrated warlord to cross a portal and exterminate Earth 96. By the time their stolen spaceships had reached the planet, it was already devastated by a bigger Wannaenid space fleet, whose ships were fighting each other. Among the blasted wastelands, they saw a fortified green area in Eastern Europe and sought to destroy it, but the Wannaenids annihilated every single ship from the exterminators.

### July 5

* July 5 - Expression Rebellion - in several cities in Bujan, including Koscheigrad, hundreds of frustrated Terrans protested against what they considered as losing some rights for the sake of "harmony":
	+ The right to "troll" (they consider it criticism)
	+ The right to be rude (to relieve themselves from stress, claiming that Americans have different ways to express themselves)
	+ The right to block people online without needing a reason
	+ The right to start and live with grudges
	+ The right to force people to move on and ignore those who offend others (instead of punishing them immediately)
	+ The right to hate, and the right to be selfish
* This led to mass arrests as the people around them condemned their terms, accusing them of attempting to bring back Wannaenid rule or being Salvationists, the selfish traitors who collaborated with Wannaenids.
	+ One contentious issue was that many Terrans angrily attacked Bujanski over being "uoka". As it was used too often during Wannaenid rule, every time a Terran angrily complains with that term too much, mobs of Bujanski people would ask back, "What do you mean by that term, idiot?"
	+ Among the things Terran people considered as "uoka", in an angry and hateful manner, included protections for poorer people, Bujanski culture, hatred of "family values" and theocracy over association with Wannaenid rule, and simply refusing to convert to Terran religions. It could also be due to a rejection of Terran imperialism.
	+ The Terrans who attacked Bujanski over "uoka" were then punished, shamed in public along with their families, and locked in prisons. After some failed revolts, they had no escape or victory, forcing them to surrender.
	+ The Terran Serpents' commander's comments were shown everywhere as a representative of the Terrans, depicting them as a militant people hell-bent on killing all Bujanski. It encouraged more people to join the ATA and kill more Terrans.
	+ It led to even more paranoia as any calls for "revolution", "uprising", "rights", or "liberation" were seen as calls for killing Bujanski people, associating anyone supportive of the Terrans with the same madmen who sought to exterminate Bujan.
* In some towns, the Terrans declared a second revolt and attempted to burn down buildings to create their own enclaves, but the ATA destroyed the revolts. The revolts also worsened relations between the Terrans and the natives, the latter who began to avoid Terrans as "insane". It led to even more killings, when the growing ATA started slaughtering entire Terran neighbourhoods over some offensive comments online, or assaults and bullying against natives.
* Some Terrans found some ruined Wannaenid and Tyrskan technology, and asked the government to investigate them. For that, they were rewarded with lots of money in televised ceremonies. The locals who hated them tolerated them grudgingly as loyalists, and some even allowed them to enter their stores as exceptions,
	+ Those Terrans, later known as Bridge Backers, used their massive wealth to pay their victims as their apologies, and spent more of their reward money on rebuilding southern Olan Province and a tunnel to Arienai.

### July 7

* July 7-10 - Alerted by the growing number of killings, several cities vote to ban the ATA and become sanctuaries for Terran loyalists.
	+ Mahapuri and the northeastern coast (where lots of Free North Terrans still live) are among those cities who granted Terran residents and refugees equality, due to those Terrans being seen as "freed from sin" or forgiven.
	+ Unusually for an ethnic Terran, the pastor who became one of the leaders of the Free North, was elected as a provincial governor due to his loyalty to Bujan. To make him a trustworthy exception, the King of Bujan was present, using a royal seal to confirm his service as one of a few Terrans in the Bujanski government.
* July 7 - Koscheigrad flies an orange flag in honour of loyalist Terrans who supported the Bujanski revolution. A few flags even had yellow crosses or saltires, showing their support for the Free North (who used orange crosses as their symbols).
* More and more Terrans, especially those under penance, wanted to speak to the people whom they had hurt. They wanted those they "affected" to protect them, horrified that the mobs usually went after online users. They wanted their penance to end now to avoid being targeted for violence!
	+ The King of Bujan even sent soldiers to secretly evacuate them to "orange provinces" by portal, so they seemed to "disappear" or "suddenly appear" somewhere else.

### July 8

* July 8 - The Heronoi towns in Chano Province vote to protect loyalist Terrans from the massacres, so they fly orange flags and set up portals.
* July 8 - Bimewjan District of Nojenso Province votes to spare the Terran loyalists instead of killing them.
* July 9 - All of Chano Province becomes a sanctuary for loyalists. Hundreds of Terrans were saved from death.
* Alarmed by the mass murders of Terrans, many countries stopped any relations with the Bujanski nation, isolating the country.
	+ Some eventually spoke with the Terrans who fled to their countries. Nearly all of them were frightened by such paranoid attitudes and the sheer distrust from their new neighbours.
	+ To avoid murders similar to the purges in Bujan, all Terran refugees were subjected to an "integration" programme to allow them to learn the norms of their nations. People were encouraged to meet with the Terrans, who developed an attitude of wanting to "undo" their crimes and improve their reputation. The Terrans also said that they no longer wanted to fight or kill, but to coexist.
	+ This led to improving conditions for the same refugees, allowing them to gradually earn the trust and forgiveness of the locals. Over time, the refugees became more assimilated into the countries' societies.

### July 9

* July 9 - Moral studies and counselling sessions become mandatory in every school in Bujan. More and more Bujanski called for establishing such services to prevent their own children from becoming like Terrans, whose dysfunctional behaviour made them lash out against society. They regarded the Terran attitude of toxic relationships, and forcing people to let go and ignore "blockers" to be abhorrent, so they wanted Bujanski children never to behave like them.

### July 10

* July 10-20 - The lowest point in relations between Bujanski and Terrans. Terrans considered the Bujanski to be coercive, demanding the right to be rude, hateful, and toxic in order to be "free". Bujanski refused to trust Terrans even while they were allowed to attend work as a basic right, seeing them as treacherous and chaotic. Eventually, the brutality of the purges forced more Terrans to abandon their attitudes, and accept penance and integration.
	+ The growing violence and death around the vulnerables' neighbourhoods made them more reluctant and afraid to go out. This led to the creation of more militias and armed groups to stop the mobs and protect loyalist Terrans.
	+ Ontemazei, especially, were the majority of the ATA's opponents, having pitied the loyalist Terrans for being so similar to themselves. They also encouraged the various resistance groups to form a network to protect Terrans from mob violence.
* Yet in Olan Province, there was one of the few happy moments in that bleak month. The victims to whom hundreds of Terrans were indebted to declared them "forgiven", extending the same mercy to every relative of their families: they were touched by how willing those Terrans were to rebuild Bujan and Arienai.
	+ With the end of their penance, some towns in southern Olan Province became "orange" - that meant that Olan Province would become more integrated with the rest of Bujan, and Terrans there would be protected by the people due to becoming more trustworthy.
	+ Even the Arienavian local government offered those same Terrans to become citizens.
	+ Regardless, all of them survived the July massacres, spared from a brutal death because they literally paid their way out of penance and shame. They also helped local resistance movements defeat the Anti-Terran Action.
* Starij Province is attacked by twenty-nine terrorist attacks. Djaripol suffers from ten of those attacks, Noshopol reports three, and Voripol has six, all from ATA groups that fought against Starij Province's decision to protect Terran loyalists and refugees.

### July 11

* July 11 - Some Terrans considered approaching the King to seek his protection, even as their kin refused to believe them. But the King noticed several Terrans bowing to him, pleading him to send soldiers to protect them and allow them to be integrated.
	+ He granted their wish, and ordered a willing fraction of the Royal Armed Forces to protect Terran neighbourhoods and homes. He also added that he secretly organised plans to protect Terrans from being massacred.
	+ This put him under two failed assassination attempts, as the mobs even dared accuse the King of Bujan for treason because he protected the Terrans.
* July 11 - Several armed groups attacked Bimewjan Island to reestablish the Khvostian state, but they were swiftly defeated. Notably, more and more local Terrans fought against the last Khvostian terrorists, ending their threat for good.
	+ One of the reasons was that the Terrans cursed the Khvostian militants for "bringing their people to ruin instead of greatness".

### July 13

* July 13 - the politician who called for lobotomising Terran extremists was murdered, his head split open by a criminal.
	+ On July 16, the criminal who murdered the politician got his own "reward": he was crushed to death by an old lamppost.
	+ Police investigations and brain scans revealed that he turned to crime out of anger. He was a young Terran intellectual who lashed out at society, after refusing to unblock several friends whom he blocked over some annoying mistakes in a fit of anger and power. Ultimately, his frustrations were due to his fear that no one would respect or accept him in independent Bujan.
	+ His life, crimes, and demise were then shown to every moral class in Bujan, due to his habit of blocking people for trivial reasons.
* The Free North, Koscheigrad, Mahapuri, and some Ontemazei groups begin to shelter hundreds of Terran people who were fleeing from the massacres. Most of the Terrans agreed to attend mandatory counselling and medical sessions, where they explained more about their mentality, attitude, fears, and motives.
	+ Driven by fear that their protectors might kill them, they even bowed and pleaded the Bujanski for mercy. Knowing that the Bujanski did not tolerate certain "rights" Terrans wanted to have, the Terrans agreed to unblock and reconcile with their enemies in exchange for avoiding being sentenced to death.

### July 15

* The eighth of ten attacks against Djaripol. Three people were killed in a shooting (including the shooter), and dozens were injured.

### July 19

* July 19 - the death of Johnny Orville, a Maeranoi immortal. Centuries ago, he was responsible for starving several people in cages and bragging about it online, and he managed to avoid being killed by surrendering to the revolution. The authorities investigated his online activity, resulting in his ID card blinking red, with his crimes shown in every screen in a subway station. A mob of passengers dragged him to an open square, where he was hacked to death with axes.
* Over time, more Terrans began to renounce their views, as they wanted to convince the Bujanski that most of them only wanted to live, not die for some stubborn cause. Certain practices, like petty blocking and rude comments declined as more Terrans and Salvationists of all ages practiced Bujanski culture.

The mobs became so uncontrollable by their rage, that they also targeted Bujanski for angering them, so the King ordered the army to arrest and kill the gangs. Following declarations that some cities in Bujan, including Koscheigrad, chose to protect repentant Terrans, the opponents of the purges were assisted by various allies appearing in portals: the knights of Rukania, the Seekers of Speki, Porashon, some armed "charity workers" from Irajon, and the Lampguard. They provided weaponry, armour, medicine, and books about conduct to help the resistance stop the massacres and help Terrans learn basic skills and ethics.

### July 24

* The Second Battle of Djaripol - a large force of ATA and Salvationist militants besieged the city from the west, but was repelled and defeated by the Royal Armed Forces.
	+ The main bus line, R-007, delivered supplies across town. For helping the poorer inhabitants to survive, including Terrans, it became known as the Old Faithful.

That civil war dragged on for the rest of July, that the Ontemazei had to intervene to protect the Terrans from being totally exterminated. Even while July began, homeless Ontemazei formed vigilante groups to protect penitent Terrans that could trust. The Bujanski were surprised to see rows of pink-haired men, standing guard and holding guns, to keep Terrans away from their killers.

## Green August

Bujan remained closed as the country suffers from civil war, between the government and opponents of the ATA, and the Anti-Terran Action itself in its extermination of Terrans in Bujan. Fortunately, its allies noticed that the Bujanski decided not to kill the Terrans, but to stop the ATA fanatics from killing them and the rest of Bujan. So the Coalition decided to help the resistance stop the ATA, and with the last ATA member killed on October, the country was officially reopened.

* 2 August - The Terrans detained in the walled neighbourhood near Konudar were brought back by bus. All of them survived Black July, only hearing reports in the news via radio and Internet, and they were supplied food, necessities, and whatever they requested to a warden.
	+ One by one, each of them had their penance finished. The warden wanted to show them how to live like Bujanski, and his guards taught them to understand the official languages. On the 11th day, he was found weeping as the ATA murdered many people in Konudar.
	+ They found the whole town in mourning, its colourful banners in black. Both the Terrans and survivors apologised and reconciled.

## See also

* Azdortil timeline
* Bujanski taboos