Aquitar Tribe Invasion on the Ladian Empire (539HE)

## Context:

### **Rise of Noctia in the Locked Arquipelago**:

Over the last 2 centuries the Aquitar tribe alliance dominated the 3 islands of the Locked Archipelago known as Prima, Sigma and Triga for a long, long time. Unbeknownst to the Aquitar Tribe alliance members in 528HE a huge rift was being formed amongst their ranks by a certain group of members that were also responsible by the rise of a new power in another island belonging to the same archipelago: Noctia.

At first glance the massive genocide that occurred in Noctia seemed a normal part of the power cycle that happens in these underdeveloped areas, but a mere year after the "Noctian genocide revolution" word of the biggest armada of ships to ever be built in centuries of the Archipelago spread fear and instability ammongst the ranks of the Aquitar powerhouse...

The Noctian rulers declared themselves the Empire of Noctia and made it their mission to take over all islands whithin the chained water barrier. Within 5 years all smaller islands except Sigma and Triga were taken over by the Noctian Empire. The remaining options for expansions were either Aquitar territory or Actia island which had developed a culture that stopped itself from evolving over the last century or so. Since Actia was harmless, The Noctian Empire went for the Aquitar.

### **Aquitar strange and convenient legends**:

Sadly the seeds of defeat had been sown long ago, as far back as 50 years. Over the course of the years legends had been spread about the Aquitar ancestors descending and leading them to break the chained water barrier and opening the Archipelago. Specifically, one version not only foretold the Noctian uprising of 528 HE in great detail but also predicted the war declaration between this Noctian Empire and The Aquitar, their initial deafeat, their migration and conquest of Koruthar where they would recover their ancestral powers and come back to defeat the "evil" Noctian Empire and break the chained water barrier.

The war was extremely long as the Aquitar proved to have good knowledge of war tactics and shipbuilding. But despite their best efforts the Noctian Empire had strong mages and fighters capable of decimating people by the hundreds. In 538 HE it became abundantly clear that the Aquitar were about to meet their end. After a small inner fight took place the Aquitar decided to believe the legends that had proven true until now.

And so they parted for the Wild Tribe Continent trying to predict the behavior of the chained water barrier in order to cross it. They did not succeed very well as only a fourth of their force managed to cross it. To this date (538 HE) this was the biggest "successful" crossing of the chained water barrier.

After this they waited quietly for a year as the weirdly accurate tale foretold and launched an invasion on the Ladian Empire with 4 different forces each with at least 200 capable men... This event later became known as the **Aquitar Tribe Invasion on the Ladian Empire (539HE)**.

### **Vulcan team**:

After Batle for Tops I Infinite sent some members to recover the men Team Vulcan captured. These were also captured. Infinite then decided to send a professional, but a woman named Aelita took notice, she then infiltrated the house and killed the professional killer out off an unrelated falling out she had with the individual. But alas, she herself found out about Tops Gnidnal and got captured by the Vulcan Team.

Infinite folded his hand and approached Team Vulcan and managed to ally himself revealing the truth about the Stentor Empire and the war that had happened. He guessed that Tops is somehow connected to a weapon of mass destruction "capable of obliterating planets". Tops, having no memory, revealed only that she showed up from a beacon of sorts. After this revelation, Team Vulcan was presented to the people and Kichirô made a speech promising heroic deeds and fairness.

That same day the 6th of Gea of 539 HE the Aquitar invasion started and Team Vulcan was summoned with emergency to a beach near Lad Town in order to fight off a force of over 200 Aquitar...

## Battle for the ocean

### Beligerents:

Ladian Navy

Aquitar

### Strength:

Ladian Empire:17 carracks340 marines

Aquitar :47 carracks150 small vessels1020 men

## Result:

### Casualties:

Ladian Empire:17 carracks - destroyed340 marines - dead

Aquitar:7 carracks - destroyed74 small vessels - destroyed140 men - destroyed

On this day 17 carracks of the Ladian navy that were doing a training exercise were caught of guard by a force 2.7 times larger. The officers reacted quickly and tried to fight the Aquitar off, but these had come from the Archipelago and knew how to conduct themselves on the water very well. They employed surf boards and small vessels to launch skirmish attacks against the Ladian navy, but what proved to be the most effective were the wind magic and fireballs that the Aquitar had. These 3 elements were too much for simple trainee marines to contend with and so most off them sunk their own boats to avoid capture.

After this what remained of the big fleet split sending most of their forces to the north and a smaller but more powerfull one to Lad Town in the hopes of creating as much possible chaos on the capital of the empire.

### Beligerents:

Vulcan TeamLadian NavyLad Town GuardCarlus the BlessedTirawa Nagg