Libirachi Civil War

The **Libirachi Civil War** was a conflict between two unions of Libirachi fractions and allies; the Union of Aligned Nations and the Confederacy of Independent Nations. Following the Death of Empress Laura Fox on May 27 2022, the Libirachi Empire fragmented into various fractional states, as well as the remaining Empire. Controlled by regional Moffs, Governors and Military leaders, most of the fractions fell into one of the two opposing camps. Under the leadership of Lord Almac Docu, the Confederacy of Independent Nations (CIN) attracted various military powers, such as the self proclaimed Grand Moff Alex Pandion and his Imperial Faction, acquiring their strength and numbers in an attempt to take control of the Libirachi monarchy. In turn, the Union of Aligned Nations lead by Penny Fox, daughter of the former Empress, sought to re-unify the fragmented nation under her leadership beginning a new "golden era" of Libirachi dominance. Within the Union, Fox united the separatist nation of Locor (re-founded after the death of Empress Fox I), the remaining Libirachi territory as well as the Bovido remnant of Russia, founded from mainland assets lost after the collapse of Syli Dean's Tokyo Bovido. With the Bovido Hassian Civil War raging in the middle east concurrently, much of Asia remained in a weakened state from the end of the Has Wars in early 2022.

As the Has Wars came to a conclusion in July 27, 2022 just two months following the death of Libirachi Empress Laura Fox, the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Nations began making aggressive military movements around the Libirachi boarder, with various provinces like the Locor Republic, Alex Pandion's Imperial Faction and Ruthenia proclaiming independence in the weeks following Empress Fox I's death, leaving Regent Penny Fox in charge of a crumbling nation whilst Confederate President Almac Docu went on the attack, slating the political systems of the Libirachi Empire. Left with no choice but to form a Union to defend Libirachi sovereignty, Fox rallied together the Russian Federation, Canogally, Isgardia, New Zealand and the Locor Republic to become allies in its fight against the splinter groups that plagued the nation, greatly exaggerating the threat that the Confederacy posed to the other nations in order to gain support.

The subsequent Siege of the Locor Republic was the first battle of the new war and consisted initially of a military expedition into the Locor Republic by forces of the Confederacy of Independent Nations, namely Ruthenia lasting between September 13, 2022 and November 23, 2022, with the intent of blocking off all communications to the nation and causing it to fall to the Confederacy, before Libirachi intervention forced the hand of CIN Grand Marshal Ashton Morre, leading to a full blown invasion of the nation from September 29, 2022. With severe damage inflicted upon the capital of Dushanbe, the Locor governmental functions were eventually moved into their embassy in Beijing following the successful repelling of Confederate forces, although significant civilian casualties meant that the first combat of the Libirachi Civil War (2022 - 24) ended with much bloodshed, and the revelation that not only had former President of Persia and Hǔnluàn terrorist leader Ashton Morre survived the Has Wars, but was leading the Confederate Armed Forces into battle lead to much speculation as to the futuristic and advanced technology that that CIN possessed that had helped Morre survive his attack, with others even pointing out that Morre might have even staged his own death during the Battle for Persia in order to play a major role in the upcoming war, prompting allegations towards Confederate President Almac Docu that he had planned much of the conflict from the start.

Followed shortly by the Invasion of Sicily, penned by the Isgardian Communist League as the Sicilian War of Independence, the Confederacy of Independent Nations and the Isgardian Communist League led an invasion of the island of Sicily in order to attempt to seize the land from the Imperial Republic of Isgardia, only recently under the control of the Nationalist Party fraction led by Royal President Melinia Vicetti. Hot off the heels of the Isgardian Civil War, the island of Sicily had long been a hot-bed for communists and indeed during the war it had been the home of the People's Republic of Italy, a rebel government which had control over the island between 2016 and 2021 until the Nationalist fraction Melinia Vicetti stormed the island and overthrew the PRI. Eager to reclaim his dominion, PRI and ICL General Secretary Giovanni Pozzoli allied himself with the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Nations and devoted himself to the cause in exchange for the CIN liberating his island in their eventual war with the Libirachi Empire and it's allies.

With the outbreak of war in August 2022, the Confederacy began to secretly funnel supplies and military trainers into the island in order to slowly begin giving the Communist League military grade training and the skills required to overthrow the regime on the island. Starting off with an initial bombing attack on the coast of Cefalu on October 20, 2022 which destroyed large parts of the government district, the Communist League under Secretary Pozzoli began a campaign of insurrection against the Isgardian government, whilst the Confederacy of Independent Nations joined in with a naval conquest of the island, blockading Sicily between October 30 and November 27, 2022 whilst Libirachi and Isgardian naval forces led by Admiral Karyn Faro, Major General Fang Torrent and Royal President Melinia Vicetti of Isgardia began to attempt to re-capture the island, although they ultimately failed to liberate the island from the People's Republic of Italy, instead only succeeding in lifting the blockade around the island.

## Libirachi Civil War

### Prelude

#### Has Wars

With the death of Archbishop and Emperor Hazael Buller of Bovido Has, the nations of Asia (Libirachi Empire, Bovido Has, Persia and Obadiah Has) ended up at loggerheads with each other and war quickly broke out between them, sparking two years of brutal conflict in the Pacific and across mainland Asia. As Bovido Has crumbled and Obadiah Has fell, the Persian Republic began to re-build itself after being liberated from a hostile occupation and the Libirachi Empire strengthened itself after taking in the spoils of war, but the relative peace at the end of the conflict hid greater tensions within the various fractions within the Libirachi Empire and the political ambitions of Almac Docu who sought to take control of the Libirachi war machine.

#### The Death of Laura Fox

With the Has Wars coming to a close, a plot was formed in Persia under the leadership of the new President, Almac Docu, a former Libirachi politician in exile for rebelling against the government; under a cloak of darkness, a set of assassins infiltrated Beijing and poisoned Empress Laura Fox in the evening of May 27th 2022, leaving the nation without a head of state. Taking over *de-facto* power, President Xi Jimping connived a meeting of the Shadow Council, consisting of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Cassio Tagge, Grand General Guo Tijjan, Grand Moff Chen Bingde, Minister of War Damien Salamander, Minister of Defence Alastar Brigman and Director General of COMPNOR Penny Fox which unanimously selected the *late* Empress' daughter as the new regent of the Libirachi Empire, although she refused to waste time and resources on a coronation until after conflict stopped, instead taking over as Head of State from President Xi and the powers associated, despite not holding an official title with the authority to take the post. Meanwhile, as news of the Empress' death trickled out through the military command structure, several regions rebelled against the regime, such as the splinter nation of New Libirachi and *self-proclaimed* Grand Moff Alex Pandion's Imperial Fraction which seized control in the Lower Stan Provinces and Iran after failing to seize control in his oversector of Eastern China and the Acquired Provinces of Bovido Has. Whilst the Libirachi Empire continued its fight against the Bovido Line, the separatist groups united with Persia and several eastern European nations to become the Confederacy of Independent Nations, with Docu as its President. Facing a real threat of invasion, the Empire formed an alliance with the Russian Federation and Canogally to form the Union of Aligned Nations with Fox as its Chairman.

### Decent into fractions

#### Confederacy of Independent Nations

 Main article: Confederacy of Independent Nations
    Whilst the Has Wars began to de-escalate, President Almac Docu of the Persian Republic began forming a Confederacy of nations to fight against the Libirachi Empire as he planned the Assassination of Laura Fox, sending the armed forces out for a trial run in the Invasion of Obadiah Has, before withdrawing his forces back to Persia in anticipation of the Libirachi Empress' death. As the Libirachi Empire struggled to come to terms with the loss of its paramount leader, the Confederacy of Independent Nations officially formed, initially with its capital in Nupersia.

#### Union of Aligned Nations

 Main article: Union of Aligned Nations

In order to combat the rising forces of the Confederacy, Regent Penny Fox assembled the Union of Aligned Nations out of the Libirachi Empire, the Russian Federation, Canogally, Isgardia, New Zealand and the Locor Republic, creating a union of forces to ward off the influence of Almac Docu and his confederate forces. Based in the Libirachi capital of Beijing, the Union had an elected legislature, although due to the non-integrated nature of the UAN at the start of the war, very few policies were implemented that affected all nations other than the Declaration of Union (2022), the Military Budgeting Acts (2022, 2024), the Occupation and Human Rights Charter (2023), the Centralisation of Power Act (2024) and the Enabling Act (2025).

## Year One (2022)

### Outbreak of war

As the Has Wars came to a conclusion in July 27, 2022 just two months following the death of Libirachi Empress Laura Fox, the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Nations began making aggressive military movements around the Libirachi boarder, with various provinces like the Locor Republic, Alex Pandion's Imperial Faction and Ruthenia proclaiming independence in the weeks following Empress Fox I's death, leaving Regent Penny Fox in charge of a crumbling nation whilst Confederate President Almac Docu went on the attack, slating the political systems of the Libirachi Empire. Left with no choice but to form a Union to defend Libirachi sovereignty, Fox rallied together the Russian Federation, Canogally, Isgardia, New Zealand and the Locor Republic to become allies in its fight against the splinter groups that plagued the nation, greatly exaggerating the threat that the Confederacy posed to the other nations in order to gain support.

#### Preliminary Assault on the Libirachi Empire

 Main article: Assault on Hong Kong

Using the cover of night-time to sneak into Libirachi waters, a team of strategically placed operatives infiltrated Libirachi armed emplacements around the city of Hong Kong and sabotaged them in the evening of August 22, 2022, allowing for a full scale assault on the island city to begin the following morning, with hundreds of former Libirachi soldiers marching into the streets and seizing key locations around the city, before a Libirachi counter attack the following day led by Grand Moff Chen Bingde forced Pandion's forces back into retreat, fleeing the city although not before causing some serious damage to the island's critical infrastructure and defence systems, as well as causing severe civilian casualties, leading to outrage from both the Libirachi Empire and the international press, who condemned the assault as warmongering.

#### Declaration of War

*"Subsequently, the Union of Aligned Nations is at a state of war with the Confederacy of Independent Nations, effective from Midnight today"*
- Libirachi Minister for War, Damien Salamander
With an attack on the Libirachi boarder by members of Alex Pandion's Imperial Faction on August 23, 2022, Chairman Penny Fox of the Union of Aligned Nations enacted Article 21 of the Union Constitution, proclaiming that "the ancestral rights of our forefathers have been violated by such a brazen assault on the sovereignty of our nation, proving yet again to the millions of bystanders globally that Docu and his band of terrorists desire nothing but war; and war they shall receive". With the Libirachi declaration of war announced on August 24, the rest of the Union followed with similar declarations on the same day, with the Confederacy of Independent Nations issuing a joint declaration on August 25.

### Siege of Locor

 Main article: Siege of the Locor Republic

The Siege of the Locor Republic was a military expedition into the Locor Republic by forces of the Confederacy of Independent Nations, namely Ruthenia lasting between September 13, 2022 and November 23, 2022, with the intent of blocking off all communications to the nation and causing it to fall to the Confederacy, before Libirachi intervention forced the hand of CIN Grand Marshal Ashton Morre, leading to a full blown invasion of the nation from September 29, 2022. With severe damage inflicted upon the capital of Dushanbe, the Locor governmental functions were eventually moved into their embassy in Beijing following the successful repelling of Confederate forces, although significant civilian casualties meant that the first combat of the Libirachi Civil War (2022 - 24) ended with much bloodshed, and the revelation that not only had former President of Persia and Hǔnluàn terrorist leader Ashton Morre survived the Has Wars, but was leading the Confederate Armed Forces into battle lead to much speculation as to the futuristic and advanced technology that that CIN possessed that had helped Morre survive his attack, with others even pointing out that Morre might have even staged his own death during the Battle for Persia in order to play a major role in the upcoming war, prompting allegations towards Confederate President Almac Docu that he had planned much of the conflict from the start.

#### Communication Blackout

Beginning on September 13, 2022, all communications within the Locor Republic were severed with the assistance of an improvised frequency jammer utilised by the 2nd Confederate Army, led by Grand Marshal Ashton Morre, based at a military base in Ruthenia. Cutting all methods of contact with the outside world, the communications blackout was followed with an immediate blockade of all major railways and flightpaths into the nation by Confederate forces. Unable to reach President Vladimir Kalani on any official network, the forces of the Union of Aligned Nations realised that one of their members was under assault and under the guidance of Chairman Penny Fox, the Libirachi Empire began a counter attack, stealthily taking out the blockade forces at the Ruthenian boarder through a series of air strikes before beginning a march across the boarder in an attempt to restore communications to the nation.

#### Confederate Invasion

Despite the mission to destroy the frequency jammer ending in failure, the Confederate forces grew worried about the chances of success for their plan to simply blockade the nation into surrender, with Grand Marshal Ashton Morre ordering an invasion of the Locor Republic on September 29, 2022, with 2nd Army forces rolling into the capital of Dushanbe on October 2 where they attempted to forcefully enter the Locor government buildings in order to capture President Kalani. Unable to capture the top members of the Locor leadership, Morre's forces began an occupation of the capital city, coming up against fierce resistance from the populace, who sided with the Libirachi forces when Major General Chen Wei's 8th Libirachi Occupation Army finally entered the city on October 24, leading to an intense period of fighting between October 24 and November 23, when the Confederate forces withdrew from Locor back into Ruthenia, with the Libirachi forces having discovered about the survival of Ashton Morre.

### Bombing of Isgardia

 Main article: Invasion of Sicily

The **Invasion of Sicily**, penned by the Isgardian Communist League as the **Sicilian War of Independence**, was a conflict in the first year of the Libirachi Civil War of 2022 - 2024 in which the Confederacy of Independent Nations and the Isgardian Communist League led an invasion of the island of Sicily in order to attempt to seize the land from the Imperial Republic of Isgardia, only recently under the control of the Nationalist Party fraction led by Royal President Melinia Vicetti. Hot off the heels of the Isgardian Civil War, the island of Sicily had long been a hot-bed for communists and indeed during the war it had been the home of the People's Republic of Italy, a rebel government which had control over the island between 2016 and 2021 until the Nationalist fraction Melinia Vicetti stormed the island and overthrew the PRI. Eager to reclaim his dominion, PRI and ICL General Secretary Giovanni Pozzoli allied himself with the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Nations and devoted himself to the cause in exchange for the CIN liberating his island in their eventual war with the Libirachi Empire and it's allies.

With the outbreak of war in August 2022, the Confederacy began to secretly funnel supplies and military trainers into the island in order to slowly begin giving the Communist League military grade training and the skills required to overthrow the regime on the island. Starting off with an initial bombing attack on the coast of Cefalu on October 20, 2022 which destroyed large parts of the government district, the Communist League under Secretary Pozzoli began a campaign of insurrection against the Isgardian government, whilst the Confederacy of Independent Nations joined in with a naval conquest of the island, blockading Sicily between October 30 and November 27, 2022 whilst Libirachi and Isgardian naval forces led by Admiral Karyn Faro, Major General Fang Torrent and Royal President Melinia Vicetti of Isgardia began to attempt to re-capture the island, although they ultimately failed to liberate the island from the People's Republic of Italy, instead only succeeding in lifting the blockade.

## Year Two (2023)

### Loxenian Uprising

 Main articles: Loxenian Civil War and 2023 Loxenian Coup d'état

### Fall of Italy

 Main article: Fall of the People's Republic of Italy
### Collapse of Moff Pandion's forces

 Main article: Collapse of Moff Pandion's forces

## Aftermath

### Impact on international standings

#### Union of Aligned Nations

##### Allied Nations

Väldeminister of Avalonia(2021 - 2025)
President of Dunsteen(2017 - 2025)
President of Spain(2020 - 2024)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom(2021 - 2026)
Väldeminister of Avalonia(2025 - 2041)
President of Dunsteen(2025 - *Incumbent*)
President of the United States of America(2025 -2029)

#### Confederacy of Independent Nations

##### Heads of State

(2022 - 2023)
(2023 - 2030)

### Impact on Society

#### Culture

Following the conclusion of the Libirachi Civil War in 2024, much of the world's culture was somewhat altered by the tumultuous events which concluded 4 years of near constant fighting in Asia, with the nature of the war being far more political and cultural than the preceding Has Wars, with the fractured forces waging technological warfare against each other, taking advantage of social media and the press to attempt to sway the population of nations involved, most notably in Belarus and Ruthenia, where significant shifts in public opinion preceded the end of the war in the region.

#### Speeches

##### **United Together (2022)**

Together we stand, divided we fall; the way of our people lies at a grave crossroad and it is our solemn duty to defend them at all costs necessary, for our freedom is worth any sacrifice, and every advantage we posses must be used to ward off the new threat that lies in the west. Lest us not forget the failings of the last war, the instabilities caused by rampant fighting and slaughter, and cast your mind to this; whilst we may learn from our mistakes, as is the nature of our people, these barbaric tyrants in the west shall not and will take every given opportune moment to assert their newfound power over us if we do not rise to their challenge.
On the other hand, ladies and gentlemen, I repulse the idea that a new war is inevitable - still more that it is imminent. It is because I am sure that our fortunes are still in our own hands and that we hold the power to save the future, that I feel the duty to speak out now that I have the occasion and the opportunity to do so. I do not believe that the Confederacy desires war. What they desire is the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines. But what we have to consider here today, while time remains, is the permanent prevention of that and the establishment of conditions of freedom and democracy as rapidly as possible in all countries within the grasp of that tin-pot dictator Docu. Our difficulties and dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them. They will not be removed by mere 'waiting to see what happens'. Nor will they be removed by a policy of appeasement. What is needed is to defeat them definitively, and the longer this is delayed, the more difficult it will be and the greater our dangers will become.
From what I have seen of the now Confederate forces during the last war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength. And there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness. For that reason the old doctrine of a balance of power is unsound. We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of strength. If the Eastern free nations stand together in strict adherence to the principles of the Charter of Union, their influence for furthering those principles will be immense and no one is likely to molest them. If however they become divided or falter in their duty, and if these all-important years are allowed to slip away, then indeed catastrophe may overwhelm us all, placing us at the mercy of the merciless.

Addressing the Libirachi National Congress upon the death of her mother in May 2022 from the Libirachi Castle in Mongolia, Regent Penny Fox was quick to attempt to solidify her power against the political mechanisations of Almac Docu and the rebellious Moffs Alex Pandion and Laura Richardson, as well as the Belarusian dictator Stanford Desai, who collectively formed the Confederacy of Independent Nations in order to topple the Fox Dynasty. Rallying up the nation behind her, Fox addressed the Russian State Duma, the Canogallian parliament and the ruling cabinet of Locor in the speech entitled United Together in order to create political bloc to oppose the aggressor forces of the approaching war, likewise coming to settlements with the governments of New Zealand and Isgardia to form the Union of Aligned Nations upon the resolution of the Has Wars in mid-August 2022.

##### **Freedom Beckons (2022)**

We must now consider the period which is just drawing to a close as almost the last stage of our national resurrection, and prepare ourselves to finish worthily the marvellous design of the elect of twenty two generations, the completion of which providence has reserved for this fortunate age. Yes, the Confederacy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles. You are not unworthy of the men who entered the ranks of the proud armies of the Alliance of old and who contended not in vain with the proud conquerors of Asia. To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
To arms, then, all of you! all of you! And the oppressors and the mighty shall disappear like dust. You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. Let timid doctrinaires depart from among us to carry their servility and their miserable fears elsewhere. This people is its own master. It wishes to be the brother of other peoples, but to look on the insolent with a proud glance, not to grovel before them imploring its own freedom. It will no longer follow in the trail of men whose hearts are foul.
No! No! No!
Providence has presented us with Ashton More. Every Austrian, Belarusian, Libirachi, Loxenian, Russian and Persian should rally round him. By the side of grace every quarrel should be forgotten, all rancour depart. Once more I repeat my battle-cry: "To arms, all-all of you!" If August does not find humble millions in arms, then alas for liberty, alas for the life of of our people. Let all of us rally round the glorious hero of Persia and give the last blow to the crumbling edifice of tyranny. Receive, then, my gallant young volunteers, at the honoured conclusion of ten battles, one word of farewell from me.

Having officially formed the Confederacy of Independent Nations on May 27, 2022 on the same day of Laura Fox's assassination, President Almac Docu of the CIN addressed a rally on August 27 just three months after the confederacy's formation and just days after a joint Union declaration of war against the confederacy in a speech broadcasted to the 6 nations of the Grand Council as well as the thousands of soldiers and civilians who lined the streets of Dubai, where the rally was held.