The Great Federic Crusade
Bird... Did we start a war?The Merinos Crest, as it is called in the Federation, is often regarded as one of the worst things that could happen in modern days regarding the interspecific relations between Birdkind and Humans. Even though it is often considered as a single war, the Federic Crusade could be more accurately described as a more or less uninterrupted series of conflicts, sometimes only related to one another by the ideologies opposing each other: the human suprematists, often related to extremist forms of the City Anima Cult; and the transentient egalitarians, who fight for the right and recognition of Perrots and other sentient species everywhere.
Historical Significance
It was a small trip for a bird, but a giant leap backward for Birdkind.
Conflict Type
War
Start Date
5550
Ending Date
5556
Conflict Result
Military and ideologic victory of the Federation
Belligerents
Anima Humanists
Transentient egalitarians
Strength
Anima cultists:
- 10,000 warrior-monks
- ~50,000 conscripted soldiers from Merinos and Sheherp city-states
Light Temple:
- 16,000 warrior-monks
Merinian terrorist groups:
- ~7,000-10,000 guerilleros armed by the Merinos Common Cult and other religious groups.
Other forces:
- ~10,000-30,000 mercenaries
- >50,000 guerilla troops
Federic armies:
- 5,500 highly trained professionnal soldiers
- ~80,000 conscripted Perrot soldiers from the cities and surrounding farms
Merinian terror groups:
- ~5,000 guerilleros, Human and Perrots
Independant guerilla armies:
- At least 100,000 people, Perrots and Humans.
Moving town of Irr:
- No soldiers, but a massive supply of modern arms, armors, and vehicles.
Casualties
- ~6,000 Anima warrior monks
- ~12,500 Guardians of the Circle warrior-monks
- ~5,000 mercenary troops
- >100,000 civilians and guerilleros
- 26,000 Federic soldiers perished
- 20,000 Federic civilians
- >50,000 independant fighters
- >65,000 other civilians
Objectives
Destruction of the Federation, increased control on intelligent birds in as much city-states as possible.
Self-defense, recognition of bird rights all across the Cylinder
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