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Later incidents were claimed by the SANE Joint Military Council (JMC) to be part of a cynical campaign by the Mingshi Emperor, utilising fanatical monks and Tegong agents from the Imperial Household, to target his own populace under the cover of SANE military actions. The Emperor's reasons for doing so have been the subject of much speculation, his increasingly doubtful sanity not withstanding. Yet it appears that, concurrent with the purges, the Emperor's paranoid mistrust of his own subjects meant that he considered himself to be as much at war with them as with the hostile coalition of foreign powers.
Later incidents were claimed by the SANE Joint Military Council (JMC) to be part of a cynical campaign by the Mingshi Emperor, utilising fanatical monks and Tegong agents from the Imperial Household, to target his own populace under the cover of SANE military actions. The Emperor's reasons for doing so have been the subject of much speculation, his increasingly doubtful sanity not withstanding. Yet it appears that, concurrent with the purges, the Emperor's paranoid mistrust of his own subjects meant that he considered himself to be as much at war with them as with the hostile coalition of foreign powers.
With the death of the Mingshi Emperor and the assistance of Calbion, Jingdao was able to stabilise its strategic situation and recover Penguin Island, which had been briefly occupied by an Alexandrian expeditionary force. Although the conflict had been poised to escalate dramatically, neither side had a particular appetite to press the war to its logical conclusion and instead, via the mediation of Stormark, a general armistice agreement was concluded which ended the armed conflict with the restoration of the status quo antebellum.
==Fiction inspired by the War==
*[[Darkness in the East]]: A Shirerithian alternative-history novel by prolific pulp author Cyril Clunge which details the course of the world war between the SANE and USSO blocs up to the point of a thermonuclear exchange.


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Revision as of 11:30, 12 May 2017

Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation
Date: 1617–AN (Elw Calendar)

5555 ASC (as A.R.S.E.) / 5719 ASC (as Jingdao)

Place: Apollonia, Benacia, Eura, Cibola
Casus belli: Independence of Kildare (5555 ASC)
Integration of Kildare into Jingdao
Nicki Minaj
Outcome: Ongoing
Participants
Imperial Republic of Shireroth

SANE

Free Associative Kingdom of Constancia

  • Maritime Free Republic
Jingdao

USSO (after 1645.6414 AN.AC)

Calbion (Battle of Penguin Island)
Blackrock Pact (defunct)

Commanders
(Currently)

Kaiseress Noor

Emperor Edgard II

Basileusa Cleo

Empress Asara

(Formerly)

Kaiser Sehml
Kaiser Redquill
Kaiser Ayreon III
Kaiser Verion I
Various lesser Kaisers
Kaiser Hjalmar
Kaiser Hjalmar Redquill

Kaiser Dominus

(Currently)

Xianfa Emperor

(Formerly)

Haigui Emperor
Dashi Emperor†
Zettai Emperor
Kattei Emperor†

  • Marshal Xi

Danya Emperor†
Sheng Emperor

Mingshi Emperor

  • Jing Zuo
  • Jun Chung
  • Thadeus Laing
  • Lo He-Shek
  • Kelii K'aarve
  • Haojin Shinjong†
Strength
Imperial Forces
  • Imperial Army: 600,000 personnel
    17,496 AFV's
    8,352 anti-air batteries
    2,400 SPG's
    2,400 field guns
  • Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces: 433,078 personnel
    562 bombers
    368 strike aircraft
    24 EW aircraft
    20 amphibious aircraft
    180 attack helicopters
    180 utility helicopters
  • Imperial Shirerithian Navy: 399,900 personnel
    150 strike aircraft
    160 helicopters
    20 hybrid airships
    77 maritime patrol aircraft
    5 aircraft carriers
    2 battleships
    57 surface warships
    120 submarines
    1,035 gunboats and auxiliary vessels
    3 logistics support vessels
  • Corps of Auxiliaries: 1,134,000 auxiliaries
    39,744 support vehicles
    156 landing craft

Alexandrian Armed Forces
Constancian Armed Forces

  • Home Guard:
  • Constancian Army:
  • Constancian Navy:
  • Constancian Air Forces:

Natopian Defence Force

  • Natopian Army:
  • Natopian Navy:
  • Natopian Spacefleet:

/ Neo Patrova Garrison

  • 2nd Army Corps (SHAM):
  • Samerican Militia:
  • Crowsilver Levies:
Imperial Household
  • Imperial Jingdaoese Headquarters: 10,000 personnel
  • Tegong: 100,000 agents
    Unknown number of Obedience Machines
  • Imperial Jingdaoese Air Force: 32,000 personnel
    Unknown number of strike aircraft and transports

Ministry of Stability

  • Imperial Armed Forces: 952,045 personnel
    4,402,302 reservists
    Unknown number of main battle tanks and field guns
  • Imperial Jingdaoese Navy: 351,045 personnel
    108,299 reservists
    1 aircraft carriers
    5 battleships
    26 surface warships
    120 submarines
    305 gunboats and auxiliary vessels
    65 strike aircraft
  • Young Wandering Society: 26,850,000 members
  • Magical Knights: 300 knights

Paramilitaries:

  • Grand Holy Order of the Temple of Cato: 5,000
  • Various religious orders: Unknown numbers of monks.
Casualties
Unknown number of monks
Unknown number of purge victims.
Notes

The Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation is a period of protracted strategic tension between the Imperial Republic of Shireroth and the Jingdaoese Empire concerning the fate of the former Duchy of Kildare which broke away from the Imperial Republic as the Apollonian Republic of Shireroth East (A.R.S.E.) before being subsumed into Jingdao. Although the original Shirerithian position was one of meek acquiescence during the reign of Kaiser Redquill, marking a low point of appeasement in Shirerithian history unparalleled since the reign of Kaiser Mog in antiquity, the subsequent annexation and reconfiguration of the A.R.S.E. by Jingdao, and that Empire's subsequent, widely perceived, expansionist and hypernationalist tendencies rekindled in a Shirerithian nationalism and a desire to curb the growth of Jingdaoese power and, if the opportunity presents itself, to restore Kildare to its ancient standing as an integral Imperial State of Shireroth.

Background

Course of the conflict

Kildari Secession

  • Treaty between the Allied Forces and the Feudal Faction[1]
  • Jingdaoese Takeover

Cold War

Following a deterioration of relations in the wake of the Hammish Civil War, culminating in a Jingdaoese psyops provocation[4][5] and a retaliatory Shirerithian cyber attack[6], reciprocal declarations of war were made in the year 6448 ASC.[7][8]

The War of Jingdaoese Immolation

Main Article: War of Jingdaoese Immolation

Alternatively titled the War of Nicki's Minaj after the video which led to the Jingdaoese declaration of war. The Jingdaoese war-effort seemed to be primarily preoccupied with the extermination of its own restive populace[9], while the declared Shirerithian war objective was the extirpation of Jingdaoese culture and heritage from the continent of Apollonia and the creation of a new independent Kildare in personal union with the Imperial Republic[10].

Jingdao's vast military and impressive coastal defence network was actively impaired by the increasingly manifest insanity of the Mingshi Emperor. Although the Imperial Jingdaoese Navy had been heavily committed to the Northern Mission to counter the Shirerithian garrison in Neo Patrova, an appreciable force of warships and submarines should have been available to assist in the defence of Jingdao's western seaboard from Shirerithian naval and airborne incursions. Instead, the navy remained inactive while Shirerithian corvettes and U-Boats launched a series of cruise missile strikes on military facilities, including munitions depots, air defence nodes and coastal defence missile batteries. This initial missile barrage was followed in short order by a coordinated attack consisting of three waves of strategic bombers targeting Port Nevermore (insert Jing name) and (insert other Jing towns from same province). The entire fighter strength of the Shirerithian 3rd Tactical Air Force, based in Natopian Arboria, had been committed to provide combat air patrols and top cover for the bombers. However, as with the passivity of the fleet, no opposition was encountered from the Jingdaoese air force and the bombers were able to conduct their obliteration raids upon Jingdaoese barracks and government buildings with impunity.

The raid on Port Nevermore inadvertently appeared to have struck a large chemical weapons stockpile located within the residential environs of the city resulting in mass casualties. It was however impossible to verify the chemical compounds involved or the casualties, except to note that they appeared to have been on a massive scale. This was further compounded by the unexplained destruction of several hospitals in the district after the raids had been concluded.

Later incidents were claimed by the SANE Joint Military Council (JMC) to be part of a cynical campaign by the Mingshi Emperor, utilising fanatical monks and Tegong agents from the Imperial Household, to target his own populace under the cover of SANE military actions. The Emperor's reasons for doing so have been the subject of much speculation, his increasingly doubtful sanity not withstanding. Yet it appears that, concurrent with the purges, the Emperor's paranoid mistrust of his own subjects meant that he considered himself to be as much at war with them as with the hostile coalition of foreign powers.

With the death of the Mingshi Emperor and the assistance of Calbion, Jingdao was able to stabilise its strategic situation and recover Penguin Island, which had been briefly occupied by an Alexandrian expeditionary force. Although the conflict had been poised to escalate dramatically, neither side had a particular appetite to press the war to its logical conclusion and instead, via the mediation of Stormark, a general armistice agreement was concluded which ended the armed conflict with the restoration of the status quo antebellum.

Fiction inspired by the War

  • Darkness in the East: A Shirerithian alternative-history novel by prolific pulp author Cyril Clunge which details the course of the world war between the SANE and USSO blocs up to the point of a thermonuclear exchange.