First Rhanalanian War

The Conflict

Prelude

The Naa'rani humans, wishing to expand their empire beyond the continent, and wanting Rhanalan's natural resources, began sending teams of excavators to the region of Llida Rhen, near the city of Llydhona. These excavators were greeted with enthusiasm by the Rhanalanian natives. However, the local population was in for a nasty surprise when the excavators began raiding and pillaging their lands.

Leaders around the world, who weren't in the Naa'ran's stronghold, warned the government to stop what they were doing and bring their excavation teams home. The Naa'ran, being run by humans, declined to do so and began sending in their military in order to help snatch the land away. Seeing no other choice, End'orians, Vininsians, and Diaxacabardians sent their militaries to stop the Naa'rani from colonizing yet another country. Unfortunately, it was taken as a declaration of war.

The Engagement

The Raid of Cirae

During the main years of the war, the Naa'rani waged an unofficial war against journalists in a campaign known as the Bloody Journalism Campaign. One of the biggest massacres occurred during the Raid of Cirae, when the Naa'rani units dedicated to the eradication of journalists busted into homes and potential hideouts, kidnapping, raping, and/or killing not only their initial targets but civilians who were in the way or just happened to be there.

Invasion of Xathon

The end of the war was brought on during the Invasion of Xathon, the capital of Rhanalan. Rhanalanian Liberation Front had barricaded the capital, trying to keep it safe from the Patriot Defense Forces. The initial seige on the outskirts lasted four days, neither side willing to give up. However, the PDFs were brutal, using every underhanded and dirty tactic they could to tire out the RLFs.

Well into Day 4, the RFLs were low on miasma, food, and water. Even worse was this occurred during the heat of the summer. A call came in from the High Seer of Vininsia to wave the white flag, so to speak. At around 14:00, in the midst of the scorching sun, the RLFs laid down their magic foci, lifted their hands into the air, and admitted defeat.

Outcome

Although the Naa'ran did win the war, their global international law enforcers did call out the President for war crimes committed. He was tried in the international courts, but no one was brave enough to convict him. However, he did lose his position as President and was labled a war criminal despite the lack of a conviction.

Aftermath

With the Patriot Defense Forces having won the war, the native Rhanalanian population experienced the full extent of human colonization. Apartheid, assimilation, and culture-washing. This caused much tension in Rhanalan that will eventually boil over in the late 390s and early 400s, leading to the Second War of Rhanalan.

The Rhanalanian War caused the northern half of Naa'ran, named the Str'anan region after the old country it belonged to before, to want to seceed from the Union and return to their roots as St'rana. This eventually, in turn, led to the first Naa'rani civil war.

Historical Significance

Legacy

The War showed just to what extent humans will go to in order to secure power, painting themselves further in a negative light. This war gave not only physical trauma and injuries, but also mental trauma as well. It was the first time in hundreds of years that Enarians had experienced post war trauma disorder, or in human terms, plain PTSD from war.

Every world leader knew a round two of the Rhanalanian war would occur, it was just a matter of when. World leaders on the side of the Liberation Front vowed to send help once again when it was deemed necessary, and they made good on their promise almost 70 years later.

Conflict Type

War

Start Date

328

Ending Date

332

Conflict Result

Naa'ran's annexation and permanent colonization of Rhanalan.

Belligerents

Patriot Defense Forces

Rhanalanian Liberation Front

Strength

Combat Troops

Naa'ran: 365,788

Str'ana: 156,780

Hyr: 245,708

Medical

Naa'ran: 367

Str'ana: 95

Hyr: 278

Combatants

Rhanalan 456,867

End'oria 245,666

Vininsia 235,404

Diaxcabard 197,056

Medical

Rhanalan 321

End'oria 204

Vininsia 196

Diaxcabard 150

Casualties

45,870+ dead

67,860+ injured

Naval

U.N.S.S. = United Naa'rani States Ship

U.N.S.S. Indiana, destroyed

U.N.S.S. Anzio, destroyed

U.N.S.S. Belvoir, damaged

Journalists during the Bloody Journalism Campaign

including Ezekiel Beservera

Military

597,000+ Dead

389,000+ Injured

Objectives