Johninian resistance to the War of the End-Times

The **Johninian resistance to the War of the End-Times**, its associated genocides, and, by extension, Project: Permanence, was not as organized an effort as in many of its occupied regions such as Gresia, Ospalar, Vestrax, or Rasvetla Slobia. Non-Kith Johninian resistance was largely constituted of various politicians and other leaders or individual acts of sabotage, assassination, or other forms of interfering in the war effort. Kith resistance was more widespread and organized due to the SRJ's orders to 'pacify' the Kith populations, but otherwise, the civilian attitudes towards the war and regime were almost always positive.

By far the most important action taken by Johninian resistors was that of Councilman Henry Hawke, of the Council of Supplements, who fled the SRJ to an ICO refugee camp in the Fulcrum-Republic of Motezor and was responsible for bringing evidence of Project: Permanence to the ICO International Court, thereby resulting in the formation of the ICO Emergency Force I.

To a more minor extent, much of the Council of Sentient Rights (and by extension, the SRJ's Tranquility Corps) defected to the ICO after their joining of the war, and a coalition of the Extended Perpetuity Initiative alongside select members of the Johninian Traditionalist Coalition undertook various acts to assist Kith populations in escaping the CIP as well as acts of more overt resistance. One Councilor under the People's Prosperity Union, Lyla Colton, was arrested by the CIP for openly criticizing the SRJ's growing ideas of 'racial purity' and supporting the ICO's actions pre-Emergency Force I, then executed after its formation.

## Overview

The scale of Johninian resistance during the war and its reasoning has been a topic of harsh debate since its conclusion. Johninian resistance and opposition often came from wildly different parts of Johninian society, with the majority of it consolidated among the Councilors and other governmental workers. Select underground civilian movements, usually working with preexisting anti-governmental organizations or banned political parties (such as the Extended Perpetuity Initiative), worked to disseminate information regarding the SRJ's war crimes abroad and attempt to incite a general plebiscite insurrection-- the former was met with general apathy and the latter disregarded. The Kith, due to their selection for genocide by the SRJ and large population in the Johninian heartland, were by far the most organized resistance group; however, they never posed any real threat of causing a governmental overthrow.

Those opposing the wartime Johninian regime were motivated by varying factors, be it ideological due to the SRJ backpedaling on its cornerstone ideal of equality, economic, an increasingly harsh CIP, severing ties to international agencies such as the ICO, and/or some attachment to the Kith (scientific or moral).

Individual Johninians or small groups of people acting as the "unorganized resistance" defied the wartime regime in various ways, most notably those who helped Kith and other 'undesirables' survive the Johninian genocides by hiding them, obtaining papers for them, or in other ways aiding them. More than 2,000 Johninians have been recognized for this.