War for Independence Zatenheim
War that was fought between a number of Zatenheim nations from before they unified and made contact with the HF. Information era.
As Psi Kaus IV (their home planet) was a lava planet, all sides had access to a lot of resources. As such, both sides were equipped with relatively expensive equipment for a war of its era. This includes very large vehicles, and supplies were easily supplied to all sides. Food was their shortest supply, but even then the zatenheim could easily produce a lot due to the extreme daylight temperature allowing crops to grow extremely fast.
The war was an ideological war, fought between a large communist nation and several democratic nations. As democracy has effectively spread worldwide, democratic nations were made close to the communist nations borders. Rather than allowing democracy to spread to the border, the communist nation retaliated. Though this makes them technically on the offensive side of the war, both sides see it as a defensive war.
The largest nations on the democratic side have provided surprisingly little support (they had various internal problems at the time), so the nations closest to the communists have fought incredibly hard, though with many resources, against a side with many more troops than their own. They held out for years against this onslaught. The communists have taken a lot of land from the small democratic nations, but they are coordinating forces between each other very well. Some nations that were not directly under attack, but threatened in the war, have also contributed forces. In the end, however, communism has been spread to a few nations nearby, though they were not as successful as they hoped. The communists suffered about 800 000 casualties and the democratic nations suffered around 350 000.
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