Ninety-five year Revolt

The tension is high between the colonial natives and the 1st Runick Empire, the natives are being oppressed whilst the Empire has gone mad with greed, power and pride. For context, read: United Territories of the Runick Empire.

All of this tension would come to a head at june 21st 296 BBS. An El Relvan tribe would raid and loot a large runick convoy which was carrying iron, silk and gold. Karphaer held a speech to the Runick people, telling them that their god-given resources had been taken from them unrightfully. By the way, the Runick people slowly believed through their own greed that they were the superior race, and that Angé, their upper god, had chosen them to rule all other races. So after the incident with the convoy, stationary armies were sent out to kill all natives they saw, and thirty-seven percent of the El Relvan populace would be slaughtered.

This was exactly the spark that would set ablaze this lake of gasoline that was the situation between the colonies and Empire. Riots broke out in El Relva, then spread to the south of Arvora. The Emperial forces were completely overwhelmed, whilst their weapons were of higher quality, a mere musket against twenty natives with axes and shovels still loses. Especially when rebels would raid Emperial armouries, giving the armies a taste of their own medicine. The revolts quickly spread across the entirety of Arvora and now to West Chungnam, Areia and even Bãssar and Malak. And whilst Esta Úmida would not revolt, that was only because they were the only ones treated well, as they were under occupation of the Southern Runick Trade Network, a government supported company which was a bit less violent than the government itself.

The Empire quickly began to lose ground, El Relva was completely free. And in Arvora the Emperial forces could only retreat either to the sea to the east, or to the Spinal Isles. Whilst the wars were still going on in the colonies, Karphaer Rephior would be stormed by a mob of people from both the colonies and from the Runick Empire itself. As the living conditions on the mainland had also worsened considerably, people were starving, and only the richest could still afford shelter or food. The royal guard also turned on Karphaer, they dragged him outside his crumbling palace, where he'd be decapitated.

The revolts still went on for another seventy years after Karphaer's death, with no clear winner, although it would be a great loss for both sides. Tens of thousands of lives were lost in the Ninety-five year Revolt, yet the balance began to upset itself, as Northland began supplying the natives with weapons, food and medicine. The Emperial forces were pushed out of Arvora and Chungnam, to the Spinal Isles, where the final battle of the Revolt would take place.

As the sun rose over the Arvorian wasteland in the east, an improvised native fleet of thousands of small sloops began heading from Arvora, the already free island of Backbone Isle and West Chungnam. As the natives began to land on the shores of Wildman's Isle, Parrot Isle and Viper's Isle, they were met with rows of bullets, the armies had fortified, their tactic was to fire in exact rows, they fired, retreated, reloaded and fired. There were always two rows, one firing, one reloading. This proved to be a great defense, but the native people would not give up that easily, they continued charging. and extremely slowly, through booby traps, firing squads and fortifications, they had reached the last of the Emperial defences, Fort Macaw. The natives had claimed a few cannons, and used them to swiftly destroy the walls of the Fort. Where the last of the remaining forces would surrender.

After decades of suffering, the Ninety-five year Revolt had finally come to an end. The now Runick Kingdom would remain to be in poverty and economic crisis for years, until a cult of radical Sargonists would form G.E.M. and take over the Kingdom and wage another massive war in the name of Sargon.