Salovian Civil War

(EXTENSIVE HISTORICAL REVISION IN PROGRESS; MUCH OF THIS PAGE IS INACCURATE)

The Salovian Civil War was a conflict amongst the polities of the former Grand Republic of Salovia. The three primary parties of the war were those of the Tuva-Altai Coalition, the Kostroma-Volova Confederation, and the Polity of Baykalia.

Background

Bombing Campaigns

Kostrom Bombing Campaigns

• Omsk Campaign (1991-1994): The Kostrom Airstrike Coalition (KAC) was established in 1990, and a year later executed the Omsk campaign, where they killed approximately 51,000 people.
• Rentorov Campaign (1996-1998): It was initially thought that the Rentorov campaign was a typical explosive campaign, and killed initially 12,132 people. However, the explosives contained the fungal spores of the disease wheat rust, designed to destroy crops long after the fire is doused. The wheat rust spores managed to destroy nearly all the crops in the area, resulting in the Great Famine of Rentorov, killing well over 3 million people through starvation, disease, and malnutrition. The international community declared the KAC a terrorist group because of this attack, and the KAC was soon after dissolved.
• Irkutsk Campaign (2002): Due to the KAC being dissolved, the very young Kostrom government took over the job of airstrikes, and in the year 2002, bombed the city of Irkutsk. The attack was relatively unsuccessful due to the Baykalian government's radar systems dotted throughout the territory. It killed 72 people.

Tuvalt Bombing Campaigns

• Novgorod Campaigns (1987-1988 and 1990-1993): The first campaign to bomb Novgorod was much more successful than the second campaign, but altogether, the two campaigns killed 727,943 people and injured another 27,000.
• Chita Campaign (1988-1989): Due to the vast farmlands in the area, this bombing campaign killed relatively less than other campaigns of similar stature, killing 31,052 people altogether. It also destroyed fifteen acres of farmland.
• Nal'Chik Campaign (1990): The shortest bombing campaign of the war, the Nal'Chik campaign, which lasted three months, killed 14,463 people.
• Irkutsk Campaign (1995): The Irkutsk Campaign had extreme difficulties finding targets, and as such only killed 993 people.
• Astrakhan Campaign (2000): Being the deadliest Tuvalt campaign during the war, the Astrakhan Campaign killed 1,986,187 people.

Baykal Bombing Campaigns

• Volgoda Campaign (1987-1997): The longest bombing campaign of the war and the only campaign done by Baykalians, the Volgoda bombing campaign killed approximately 1,473,000 people, 98% of which were men. It is very likely that Baykalians were attempting to kill off men in Volgoda, considering this statistic.

The Near-Genocide of the Baykalians

Before the Civil War, the Baykalians were the dominant group that had governmental positions, which gave the ethnicity a bad reputation, as the system itself was seen as thoroughly corrupted to the core. The Civil War broke out primarily because of the grip the Baykalian polity had over the Salovian Government.

Chemical Warfare

Although no one was killed through Chemical Weapons, many people who had been affected by the chemicals used had children who were deformed or disabled. Each group had used chemical weapons on the other two, with no casualties. As mentioned, however, there were repercussions, as many people had mutated children.

Subterranean Warfare

A unique form of warfare initially developed at the end of The Auroran Imperial War, subterranean warfare is warfare that takes place underground, as the name suggests. The primary use of subterranean warfare is similar to the use of submarines: the subterrenes, as the war vehicles are known, travel through the ground, and using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) send drilling missiles towards the subterrene's target, exploding the target in the process. Subterranean warfare made its "debut" in the Second Battle of Astrakhan, between the years 1996-2003, and resulted in a total fatality count of about 17,000. The nature of the warfare, however, was very slow and costly, especially when compared to other means of warfare like airstrikes and ground-based tanks. As such, war-time subterrenes have been abandoned in recent years.

The Anthrax Outbreak of 1987

Great Famine of Rentorov

Major Battles

Battle of Nal'Chik

Second Battle of Astrakhan

Battle for Novosibirsk

Cease-Fires and Peace Treaties

• The Astrakhan Ceasefire of 1991 was the first attempt at stopping the violent battles taking place throughout what is now Kostromastan, which had basically been the host to the majority of the war. Astrakhan, being situated in southern Kostromastan, was the battleground between Kostrom and Tuvalt forces. The ceasefire had been enacted by both sides. It did not last long (two months), however, and fighting resumed in Astrakhan for the rest of the Civil War.

• The Volgoda Ceasefire of 1993 was much more successful than the Astrakhan Ceasefire that preceded it, and managed to end the conflict between Kostrom and Baykal forces by the year 2002. The two forces signed a peace treaty in 2000 that would end the conflict between the two forces officially. Tuvalt and Kostrom forces, however, continued to fight after Tuvalts believed the area in which Kostroms live was part of Tuvalt territory.

• The Novosibirsk Ceasefire of 1998 was, in short, a complete and utter peacekeeping failure. Even though Baykalia enacted it, the fighting continued on regardless. Due to this failed ceasefire, the Battle for Novosibirsk took place, which altogether killed 650,000 people.

• The first Peace Treaty of the Civil War was The Volgoda Treaty, and was signed by Kostrom and Baykal forces on July 31, 2002. This treaty officially ended Baykalia's participation in the Civil War, and ended Kostrom fighting with Baykalia. It also made Baykalia the first nation to form from the War.

• The Nal'Chik Ceasefire of 2004, unlike its 1998 predecessor, was significantly more effective, and ended the fighting between Kostrom and Tuvalt forces in the majority of the battlegrounds.

• After a number small conflicts throughout Tuvalt and Kostrom territory occurred, the Tuvalts and Kostroms both signed The Treaty of Astrakhan on September 12th, 2005, which officially ended the Civil War, with three new nations of Baykalia, Kostromastan, and Tuvaltastan replacing Salovia.

Aftermath

The Salovian Civil War resulted in mass emigrations from each nation, moving to the neighboring nations of Caltharus, Xiopothos, and Ethalria, with a total of approximately three million refugees. The bloodshed resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory, and soon after each nations' founding, joined the Auroran Continental Assembly so as to better revamp the economies of former Salovia, and to rebuild the cities that were all but destroyed. Today, a vengeful resentment lingers towards the opposing parties in the minds of many civilians who remember the civil war, with border skirmishes occurring as recently as October of 2016. The governments of former Salovia have attempted to prevent these skirmishes by establishing a military presence on the borders.