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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the one-word [[shire:Praeta|Praeta]] (the Shirerithian language of governance) expression for "Final Victory", specifically in the context of a hypothetical struggle between archonic and chthonic world-spirits as postulated by certain strands of dogma found in [[shire:Cedrism|Cedrism]], [[Nationalist & Humanist Party|Nationalist-Humanism]], and [[Ketherism]] (the last of which views it as a circumstance to be strenuously avoided or averted insofar as is possible). Under certain conditions, and from a certain point of view, it may prove to be indistinguishable from the end of the world.

==Fall Endsieg==

Fall Endsieg was a hypothetical plan for the destruction of Kalgachia, drawn up by [[shire:S.W.O.R.D.|Vexillation XI]] during the [[War of Lost Brothers]] when it appeared that an intervention by the Garden in support of the [[USSO]] and or [[Nova England]] was increasingly imminent. 

The plan called for an initial staged provocation, most likely to have been the targeted assassination of the Sxiro-Kalgachi Military Coordination Council, staged so as to look like a suicide bombing of Kalgachi instigation - the bomb was to have been coated in [[Deep Singers|genetic material]] intended to implicate a [[Kalgachia#The Nezeni|Nezeni]] on the [[Military of Kalgachia|KDF]] delegation.

This casus belli would have legitimated a Shirerithian reprisal attack in two stages, a cruise missile barrage launched by Bomber Command against sites of the Kalgachi Fortress Corps combined with a limited operation undertaken by III Corps of the Frontier Army to secure [[Slavegate]]. This staged attack would be intended only to test the robustness of Kalgachi air defences and to trigger mobilisation of the KDF and partisans. Ground mapping satellites placed in geosynchronous orbit by the [[Natopian Defense Force|Natopian shuttlecraft]] would then monitor closely for surface movements and subtle disturbances in the terrain indicative of subterranean activity.

The main attack would have taken place under the cover of a barrage of re-purposed Ikol ABMs launched from the Novaya Sorensk SDI facility combined with a thousand bomber raid staged by the Imperial Shirerithian Air Forces. During this period of further heightened activity and distraction for KDF air defence assets three [[wikipedia:Tsar Bomba|Kaïsar Auronzev]] (Kaiser Aurangzeb) thermonuclear devices would be released from high altitude targeting the Kalgachi mountain summits of the Splatterhorn, the Toastytop and Mount Octavian. The intention of this attack would be to inflict seismic and psychological trauma on the Garden, disrupting its organisational posture and preparedness.

Further nuclear strikes, combined with large scale raids by Bomber and Fighter Commands, would continue until reserves were exhausted or enemy air defences suppressed. III Corps would broaden its offensive to secure Bergburg and Kossarstadt in the west and Schelpogora and Oktokamensk in the east. Cohorts would be rotated out and replaced by Auxiliary regiments as attrition thinned out their ranks. Total casualties could not be projected accurately, considering the variables, but an attrition rate of 25-45% across all deployed forces was considered the probable cost for the complete destruction of the KDF and Kalgachi nation  - notably higher for those units deployed to clear out the frankly innumerable subterranean structures.

It was expected that Kalgachia would have struck back with every means at its disposal. Heavy losses to chemical and biological warfare was expected and the Imperial Forces themselves expected to expend unprecedented quantities of Mustard Gas, Sarin, and VX, in bunker and urban vaultquarter clearing operations. Meanwhile pestilence and blight could be expected to break out in just about every portion of the Benacian continent if even a tenth of the old Minarborian stockpiles had been recovered and replicated by the Kalgachi. The burden of the war, with the Imperial Army already committed on the Batavian and Dalmacijan fronts, would have fallen upon the [[shire:Corps of Auxiliaries|Corps of Auxiliaries]] and the [[shire:Republican Guard (Elwynn)|Republican Guard of Elwynn]]. The [[shire:Palatini Corps|Palatini Corps]] would have been held in reserve to safeguard the Imperial Republic in the Eliria-Shirekeep-Musica metropolitan core against an inevitable breakdown of law and order.

Forgoing the usual blithe optimism about a successful campaign lasting only days and weeks, the planners for ''Fall Endsieg'' foresaw a war of attrition lasting for years after the last semblance of Kalgachi sovereignty had been extinguished, envisaging a reversion of the Nezini and mixed-Kalgachi to the Deep Singer type, with isolated groups of survivors burrowing ever deeper into the earth to avoid extermination, requiring ever greater efforts on the part of the pursuers. The planners warned that ''"even a single surviving brood might form the nucleus around which a viable and vengeful new resistance to the Kalirion supremacy might be forged"''. This warning had been written at a time before [[Project Newrad]] had been even guessed at in Imperial circles.

The authors of Fall Endsieg warned that the medium to long term consequences of undertaking such an attack would unavoidably place Shirerithian society under a severe, even existential, strain, with immense consequences for its agricultural and industrial capacity, as well as for its unity. Although it never spoke directly of a new dark age, the planners did note that ''"the consequences of continental war may include damage to the technological knowledge base of our civilisation, forcing measurable, and in some cases significant, simplifications in the way that the component parts of our society interact with one another"''. In spite of this the planners concluded that the operation not only could be launched but must be launched, otherwise there would always be ''"a fraction of our sacred Benacian homeland that remains forever beyond our grasp"''. 

The plan had been dispatched to [[shire:Shirekeep|Shirekeep]] for [[shire:Waldemar Zinkgraven|Steward Zinkgraven's]] approval. Fortunately he had already departed upon the [[War of the Casks|Great Enterprise of Keltia]] and the document along with its courier was intercepted by the Magister Primum of the Imperial Army. The plan was reviewed by a secret committee comprised of the Magister Primum, [[shire:Liv Dravot|the Minister of Military Affairs]], and the [[shire:Isabella Simrani-Kalirion|Natopian Secretary of Defense]]. Their attention was inevitably drawn to the environmental impact assessment appended to the report, which detailed amongst other things the likely consequences of three mountains worth of black carbon being ejected into the upper atmosphere. A secret damnatio memoriae was issued against the plan and its proponents. Its immediate authors were executed by a roving commission of the [[shire:Chamber of the Crypteia|Saznan Darneï]] whilst those officers of the Vexillation who had contributed to its preparation or had any knowledge of its existence were condemned to [[Community Service Workers|servitude]], castrated, and dispatched to the most dismal monasteries to be found in the frigid hell of [[shire:Raikoth|Raikoth]].

Not long after the suppression of Fall Endsieg, Burgrave Zinkgraven received the unwelcome news that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the military and industrial sectors.

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