Santa Nella War

### Performers

First Ranger Legion vs. EA-backed Santa Nella Separatists including the ALF and affiliated Mercenaries

### Date

June 27th-28th 2020 (2 days)(Part of the Santa Teresa Cold War)

### Location

Santa Nella Colony

The **Santa Nella War** was a conflict occurring in the far away region of Santa Nella that would see the rise of the First Ranger Legion as a competing military power. The Anti-Legionnaire Front led by an unnamed figure, secretly backed and given support and even volunteers from the EA, would attempt an overthrow of the Santa Nella Governor-General, which would fail once the First Ranger Legion sent in the 1st Expeditionary Force to the colony and quell the rebellion. The war would end the next day with all Separatists surrendering. It was revealed afterward that some of the casualties was an EA Soldier, creating a total breakdown in relations between the two factions and the end of the Santa Teresa Cold War.

## Background

The Colony of Santa Nella was a very distant colony of the Ranger Legion formally conquered during the Second Legion Civil War after the Militarists decided to take any Reformist strongholds. Although there was no Reformist presence (the Reformist Movement has actually had a split within itself and faded to obscurity a few days earlier unbeknownst to the Militarists) there was a local population who were happy to help the Militarists against any Reformists, since the Militarists told stories of the corruption the Reformists caused .

## The war

The war would last for two days, and the ALF went on the attack. Using artillery and their strategic advantage over the 1st Expeditionary Forces, they kept the Rangers to the south, where they would remain for a long time. The Rangers would utilize hit and run tactics against the ALF and, although not to the scale the separatists did, they used artillery against the enemy. Even though the Rangers had a disadvantage in many instances, they fought on. An assault on the first day was ordered, but due to lower resources than the ALF and enemy artillery, they were forced to retreat back. The assault would prove to weaken the ALF’s morale, and a temporary ceasefire was declared by nightfall. The next day, a secondary assault would occur, this time being somewhat successful, as they managed to take control of the western half of the colony, despite wanting to take control of the North as well, which failed. A final push to capture the north ended in failure again, as the expeditionary force nearly collapsed into anarchy until they finally reunited and pushed north, finally taking it. The ALF realized that this would only devolve into a war of attrition if they did not surrender, and so, in the early afternoon of June 28th, a peace was negotiated.

## Aftermath

After the proposal was made and the war was officially a Ranger Victory, a shocking revelation was made: some of the casualties were Elementary Army. Although the use of mercenaries sparked debate over the ability of the ALF to actually win, the fact that the long time rival of the First Ranger Legion intervened in matters that could have shifted the Santa Teresa Cold War into the Alliance’s favor showed the Legion that the Alliance was anxious for an end to months of tensions, and in a few months more, it would end.