Operation Götterdämmerung

The **Dynastic Invasion of Australia** was a military campaign initiated in March 2020. It was later dubbed Operation Götterdämmerung after command of the Congressional Expeditionary Forces was granted to Viktoria von Eisenfaust on April 25th. It was carried out as a result of Resolution 24601, and had logistical support from all available Dynastic Houses despite minor opposition to the resolution itself.

The invasion was preceded by a severe bombing campaign across the Australian continent. It was then followed with landings in key coastal cities like Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and the ruins of Darwin. Melbourne would take longer to fall and was finally controlled in April 25th, as Resistance forces withdrew inland across the continent.

After a series of engagements, Canberra, the capital of the Resistance, was taken on May 20th, and the largely unscathed northeastern cities would surrender short after. Inland engagements continued for a couple of days, but by June 10th the continent, outside of the most far-reaching areas inland, was largely pacified.

As a result of the campaign the United League of Nations was disestablished, and Australia was incorporated into the Dynastic System as the seat of the great Lordship of Oceania. Despite this success, the continent was left ruined, added to years of constant skirmishing and progressive depopulation in favor of bastions of defense. The Great Lordship of Australia was left largely dependent of Congressional forces for keeping order in these territories.

## Previous Situation

After the coup that disestablished the Commonwealth of Australia, the United Nations-aligned troops and exiled governments began a reorganization process around the World Emergency Council. The exiled states, as well as various groups with enough representation around language, culture, religion or politics, were given small patches of territory across Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania to govern with relative independence. The Australian political units were left with their own small territories, mostly in the form of Civil Governorships like Albury and Brisbane, opposed to the most prominent Military Governorship.

The World Emergency Council finally mutated into the United League of Nations in 2016, which kept the Governorships with vast autonomy, but imposed joint defensive policies that in time branched into the economy, civil services and education system of these territories.

Since 2008, the Australian Continent had been subjected to constant bombardment from both air and sea, and from 2010 some lone-wolf attacks carried by meta agents wrecked more havoc in urban areas. The depopulation the coastline was shortly followed by a partial depopulation of the inland. Outback-based communities thrived and slightly grew while becoming paramount for trade and troop movement in Australia. Large cities in the coast reduced their size between a forty and ninety percent, and medium-cities like Esperance and Onslow were completely abandoned, instead given to garrisons that operated with minor autonomy from nearby Military Governorates.

In 2012 New Zealand was evacuated, and Tasmania was lost in 2018. From that moment the U.L.N. depended on covert operations outside its territory of control. The implication of these operations in Resolution 24601 is still debated.