Rhual Uprising

The **Rhual Uprising**, also known as the **Mistralian Revolution** or the **Mistral Conflict**, was a period of unrest in SR-X following a coup of the Mistralian government led by the Rhual and masterminded by Lilavo Teravani. It is considered one of the defining events of its home timeline, as well as a principle example of major Deviation.

## Rhual Uprising

### Participants

* Citizens of [1]
* The Rhual
* Mistrali Reclamation Front
* MBD
* CMAF
* Teravani Arms & Security
* The Rangers

### Inciting incidents

Civil unrest following thele)|Fall of Beacon and of Haven

### Result

Mistralian Government reformed; dissidents quelled

### Casualties

* 8000-10000 dead (est.)
* 1500 missing (est.)
* 120000 inured (est.)

## Background

Following the murder of the Surlan family, Teravani Arms & Security had a near-monopoly on the weapons development and production industries, particularly in Anima. Utilising designs stolen from the now-defunct Surlan Innovations, Teravani’s dominance over the market was prevented only by Mistral’s anti-trust laws. Though Lilavo Teravani lobbied the Council for leniency, he was refused repeatedly, and began to search for other ways to remove the obstacle.

His search eventually led him to discover the Rhual, a small but vocal group of anti-government dissidents that had frequently and publicly expressing disapproval of the Council for years prior. At around the same time, the 40th Vytal Festival was coming to a close, and shortly thereafter, the Fall of Beacon would occur, presenting him with a golden opportunity: the missing Chartreuse Rhiel, who was found half-dead by one of the various emergency rescue teams sent to the scene. Her abduction from an area hospital was arranged in short order, and Teravani’s plan began to form—who better to aid him in his ambitions than the team leader and friend of the daughter of his most bitter rivals?

Chartreuse was placed into an intense psychological conditioning program that made use of a combination of torture, isolation, and Teravani’s Semblance—the ability to encode subliminal messages into his speech, including in recordings. After months of exposure, the program produced the desired result: a forcefully-dissociated psychopath with loyalty to Teravani and a burning hatred for Mistral. Naming this new personality “Moss”, Teravani then set about embedding her into the Rhual. With her influence (and funding through shell subsidiaries of the corporation), the Rhual began to rapidly radicalize and arm themselves, though only after the White Fang’s attack on Haven Academy would they truly be considered a threat by the Mistralian government.

## Main Conflict

After the Battle of Haven, anti-government sentiment rose sharply in Mistral due to the Council’s apparent inability to prevent the disaster. Fanning the flames with accusations of anti-Faunus prejudice, overly-oppressive taxation rates, and intentional underfunding of infrastructure in disadvantaged areas, the Rhual were able to instigate a civil uprising in a matter of months, leading to the deaths of two Council members and the capture of the remaining two. Shortly thereafter, anarchy overtook the Mistralian capital, and total governmental collapse seemed imminent.

A few weeks later, Rosé Liakos, Sangria Surlan, and Tawny Eslin would arrive on the trail of a rumour of a woman that looked like their former team leader. Meanwhile, Team EBNY would be chasing a weapons dealer to the same location. Shortly thereafter, the Mistralian government was totally overthrown, and the capital descended into chaos. RST and EBNY, together with Team BARK, would then form the Mistrali Reclamation Front in tandem with Specialist Arakta Byalo from Atlas. While battling their way through the city, they came into contact with Moss. RST, recognizing their former leader, identified her nigh-immediately.

As the MRF skirmished repeatedly with Moss and her forces, the situation in the capital worsened. The Rhual began to resort to chemical weapons and improvised explosives regularly, and the push to locate and cut off the suppliers of these weapons led the MRF to a number of unsecured Teravani warehouses. Records detailing a seemingly-intentional shift to lower security and possibly encourage outside attacks were uncovered, and the Reclamation Front’s gaze shifted towards Teravani Arms and Security.

As former MBD agent Coal Polik looked into Lilavo Teravani at the MRF’s request, their pursuit of Moss brought them into a trap that was very nearly lethal; Sangria and Tawny were captured, while most of the remaining members were heavily wounded and incapacitated. Only Rosé was left in a condition to fight. Pursuing Moss to a Rhual base in the former Council building, she observed that the woman seemed to be in severe psychological distress when not on the battlefield. Realizing there was a chance that her leader was still at least semi-conscious under the implanted personality, Rosé retreated and formulated a plan to capture Moss in turn.

Intentionally circulating a rumour that the remnants of the CMAF had come across a large cache of experimental Teravani weaponry, the MRF lured a number of high-ranking Rhual lieutenants into a trap. Their capture led to increased pressure on one of the more important fronts of the conflict in the lower levels of the city, allowing the MRF the chance to push through and find a route to the upper levels where the Council building was. This “blitz” was successful in both recovering Sangria and Tawny, as well as scattering a large number of Rhual forces and forcing the insurgents to retreat to the west end. Shortly thereafter, Moss’ capture led to an effective collapse in the Rhual’s internal structure as the power vacuum led to intraorganizational conflict.

As the remaining pockets of insurgency were suppressed, the MRF’s investigation turned to the Teravani involvement in the conflict, and Lilavo Teravani’s plan was eventually uncovered with Moss’ own assistance after trading her cooperation in exchange for a life sentence as opposed to the death penalty. Arakta Byalo’s Atlesian comrades had the businessman arrested, and he was sent to Argus just days before Atlas itself would be plunged into conflict by the actions of General James Ironwood.

## Aftermath

While the Unified Board of Vytal would not be able to convene and deliver a sentence until several years later, Teravani was held in custody on charges of treason, attempted genocide, and a slew of other malfeasances. He later received a death penalty, and Teravani Arms and Corporation was dissolved, with its former assets being repossessed by the government. The designs that had been stolen from Surlan Innovations were turned over to Sangria Surlan, who in turn submitted them to the public domain.

Following a lengthy trial, Moss was sent to a prison for the criminally insane, though a year after her committal, state-mandated psychiatry produced results in manifesting the original personality of Chartreuse Rhiel. Five years later, after maintaining continuous consciousness for a full year, Chartreuse was released on parole and relocated back to her home in Vale.

The conflict thus ended, though the instability it brought to Mistral is thought to be a contributing factor to a greater loss of life in the region during the Second Great War.