Timeline of the Union Australis

A timeline of notable events in Caradia in and after 1677 AN. After 5.XIV.1679 AN, this timeline includes all events relating to the Union Australis.

1677 AN

X

• 23. King-Saint Godrîc XI orders construction of a railroad across the Vețula Hills.

XIV

• 20. A terrorist attack is carried out in Sacred Square, Relacul, by an unknown terrorist organisation. Caradian police force is called in to deal with the threat. The first major report for the Caradian newspaper.

• 22. The death toll is confirmed at nine (six civilians, three police), and a radio broadcast is detected from Sacovia, from someone named Ròneau d'Àgrôvia, who declares The New Order of Sacovian Soldiers (Sacovian: L'Ordò Novi dè Sántaguiraz Sácòvique, LONSS) is responsible for the attacks.

• 23. Caradian leaders issue statements censuring LONSS and declaring support for victims. Living saint Òdalho dè la Corvèo writes a letter urging King-Saint Godrîc XI to attack LONSS militarily. King Godrîc agrees with the general sentiment against LONSS, and orders portions of the Legions to be mobilised. Grand Inquisitor Corvèrre announced that the Caradian Legions would have the support of the Flemic Church.

1678 AN

I

• 1.
  • State of Conflict declared against LONSS, marking the beginning of Operation Vendetta. First Tundra and First Hill battalions mobilised; Cannon Corps made ready in case of an emergency deployment.
  • CIC commissions CAAT for an icebreaker merchant vessel.

• 2.
  • Skirmish occurs between Caradian Legions and LONSS. Zero losses on either side, owing to the appearance of the Legion's CAAT V-9 IFVs, which caused the LONSS soldiers to flee.
  • Referendum promised to Trofegadh on 6.II.1678, possibly resulting in a name change of the town to Chivalho, and the Gcealick March to the Apuèstas March.

II

• 6. The referendum in Trofegadh passes, officially changing the city's name to Chivalho, and changing the Gcealick March to the Apuèstas March

• 7. CAAT finishes CSS Zariște, the icebreaker commissioned by the CIC. Plans begin to expand the CIC's reach to a global market.

• 28. The CIC pushes a plan to build a city outside of Caplona in order to provide a more accessible port for trading and military deployment. King-Saint Godrîc XI accepts the plan and begins preparation to construct a city on an island just off the coast of Eura.

IV

• 15. Fighting against LONSS accelerates as the Legions are slowed by more frequent attacks.

VI

• 5. The march into Sacovia halts as forces are stopped at Custelo Àgrôvia-Sôvio. A siege is planned as the Cannon Corps begin a march to te castle.

VII

• 2. Cannon Corps arrives at Custelo Àgrôvia-Sôvio. Siege begins on the castle.

• 13. Siege of Custelo Àgrôvia-Sôvio ends. Terrorist forces are diminished by the capture of their main base. Ròneau d'Àgrôvia is not found in the castle. Work begins to convert the castle into a military base.

• 18. Search for Ròneau officially begins. Operation Vendetta extended and shifted to the capture of the terrorist leader, despite his forces being greatly lowered.

VIII

• 2. Naval forces escort workers to begin construction of Porto Vormouna, a new port for military and merchant ships in Eura. The port is constructed to reduce the hassle of all ships having to move through the large ice sheets that surround Caplona to get anywhere else in the world.

XI

• 10. The first supply vessel sails into Porto Vormouna, marking it as capable of sustaining trade.

• 13. King-Saint Godrîc XI promises that the entire island of Caplona will be under Caradian control before 1681.

XII

• 23. King-Saint Godrîc XI announces his engagement to Miranda Flèchier, marking the first Sacovian consort since Duke Rando III.

XIV

• 12. King-Saint Godrîc XI declares all practise and proselytism of religions originating outside of the Duchy to be an offense to the crown, and punishable by forced labour or death.

• 21. Troops begin moving into Sacovia to secure the region and prevent further insurrection and prepare for eventual annexation.

1679 AN

I

• 3. Broția vân Tașide announces that it will begin publishing sermons for the Flemic Church in an attempt to reach a wider audience.

• 7. The Flemic Church announces that it is planning the first missionary expedition outside of Caplona. It states that the church has assembled a viable team, but is still searching for a viable nation to receive the mission.

• 8.
  

  King-Saint Godrîc and Princess-Consort Flèchier during the wedding celebration
  King-Saint Godrîc XI is married to Miranda Flèchier in a special ceremony in the Grădinile Regale at Sînpișul Castle. All major Caradian political figures are in attendance, along with many Caradian citizens.

• 17. The last of the captured LONSS fighters are tried and found guilty of high treason. Mass executions are scheduled for the beginning of the next month.

II

• 3. LONSS fighters executed in Sacred Square. Record high attendance for a public execution with roughly five hundred thirty thousand citizens showing up to view the executions.

• 11. Baron Pedro Coramen begins lobbying to begin diplomatic relations with nations on Eura near Porto Vormouna.

• 13. Custelo Àgrôvia-Sôvio is fully transformed into a military outpost. It is renamed Adăpost Citadel.

• 22. Military pulled out of the area around Chivalho.

III

• 2. Newly acquired territory in Sacovia organised into the Principality of Leucio. Rodrigo Coramen, brother of Baron Pedro Coramen, is named Prince of Leucio.

• 22. Construction begins on Adăpost Citadel, intended to create a city centred on the fortress to be the new capital city of Leucio.

• 24. The CIC and CAAT are merged into the Caradian National Strategic Commission (CNSC), which is meant to allow a better allocation of strategic resources and planning. The CIC and CAAT are retained as subsidiaries.

V

• 19. Proiect: Ceruri Arzătoare begins in Eura, starting with the development of rockets to be used to propel missiles.

• 23. Magistrate Andrei Socavul encourages Caradian citizens to conserve power and materials for use in the recent military development programs.

• 24. Expenditure of oil and coal in Proiect Ceruri Arzătoare results in a temporary blackout in Chivalho.

VI

• 2. Electricity concerns cause the Caradian government to recall half of the bound labourers in Porto Vormouna back to Caplona to mine uranium as the government searches for alternative power methods.

• 5. The Caradian government authorises the beginning and first test of Egidă.

• 6. The first test for Egidă shows the successful selective targeting program used by the Sacred Guard when applied to infrared. The Sacred Guard announces that the system requires refinement to detect speed for missile defense, but will serve as a framework for the more advanced detection system demanded by Egidă.

• 12. The Flemic Church finishes preparation for its missionary trips, announcing that there will be three missions which will depart on the fifteenth to the following countries: Natopia, Constancia, and Alduria. The church also prepared a fourth trip that was not announced to the public and was made up of Inquisition agents (who were also registered Flemic priests), which was to be sent to Alrig in an attempt to gain a foothold in Apollonia.

• 15. The Sacred Guard conducts a test of rockets for the missile development portion of Proiect: Ceruri Arzătoare in Sacovia. The test shows a successful propulsion method for short-range missiles.

• 18. The CNSC begins designing a short-range missile full prototype. The missile type is nicknamed the Răzbunare type missile.

• 19. The government of Porto Vormouna moves forward with the construction of the foundation of Argint Citadel on the outskirts of the port city.

• 20. The Black Armada begins a transfer of military ordinance and personnel to Porto Vormouna.

• 21. The Serfești undertake a mass classification of Caradia's military assets' statistics.

VII

• 4. The CNSC performs the tests of the Răzbunare type missile in Sacovia. Tests show the targeting system is effective but the propulsion needs upgrading to carry a heavier payload.

• 6.
  

  The CSS Saint, one of the capital ships of the Armada, being serviced before the journey
  The Black Armada prepares for "Voiaj spre Nisip", which is a plan to bring most of the Armada's ordinance to Porto Vormouna as well as escort transport ships which are to bring land-based ordinance and Legion soldiers. The Voiaj is scheduled to begin on 7.VIII.1679 after the Armada's ships are serviced.

• 12. The military begins the construction of nuclear power plants at the Argint Citadel site to alleviate the electrical strain.

• 19. The Sacred Guard conducts a test of railgun targeting systems for Egidă on the sheet ice outside Caplona. The railgun is determined to be accurate on high-speed targets out to 188.65km in a straight line.

• 22. Grand Inquisitor Corvèrre is found dead in his office. Early evidence suggests he was poisoned. Lord Inquisitor Yharim Lohrm takes over as Grand Inquisitor and launches an investigation of the incident.

VIII

• 3. The Legions of the Black Flame begin an operation to secure all of the unclaimed land in Sacovia in preparation for annexation in 1680.

• 7. The Voiaj spre Nisip begins, with the vast majority of the Black Armada beginning a transfer to Porto Vormouna

• 8. Operation Heartland troops discover a deep pit in central Sacovia that was the centre of a Dochvern ritual settlement. After the Dochvern were cleared, the pit was investigated. Early attempts to find its depth failed.

• 17. The Sacred Guard conduct a demonstration of the missiles developed for Proiect: Ceruri Arzătoare at Porto Vormouna, first demonstrating the range and destructive power of the missiles, and then providing a "realistic demonstration" in which missiles were fired from nascent missile launchers in Argint Citadel to the Salòdican coast and destroyed a derelict Trăsnet Class Destroyer that had been condemned to be scrapped. Baron Pedro Coramen attended the demonstration and urged that the missiles were developed enough at this point to focus most of the resources to the construction of Argint Citadel.

• 19. Operation Heartland continues after an outpost is set up at the Hadopelagic Crater.

• 22. Caradian troops in Sacovia encounter more focused and organised resistance.

• 23. The Inquisition investigation of Grand Inquisitor Corvèrre's death traces the poisoning back to a CPED sympathiser in Relacul. The sympathiser is subsequently removed by the Inquisition.

IX

• 2. Operation Heartland discovers a fledgling government controlled by the CPED in northern Sacovia, consisting of freedom fighters, former LONSS fighters, and Dochvern leaders.

• 5. The first movie to be created with an international audience in mind is published.

• 6. King-Saint Godrîc XI sends a letter to Baldwin Fehrrlic demanding Ald-Arbora submit to Caradian expansion.

• 8. Ald-Arbora returns the letter, flatly refusing all demands.

• 13. Skirmishes occur between Caradian forces and the Ald-Arboran People's Army in unclaimed Sacovia.

• 17. King-Saint Godrîc XI sends an official ultimatum to Ald-Arbora, demanding the surrender of all Ald-Arboran forces and submission of Ald-Arbora.

• 24. In response to the unanswered ultimatum, fifty experimental Răzbunare missiles are launched from Flacără Class Cruisers off the coast of Caplona at Ald-Arbora. Five missiles failed to detonate, two failed to reach the intended impact site and detonated in uninhabited land, and one was shot down by Ald-Arbora's primitive defense system; however, forty-two missiles impacted the city and destroyed all structures in the area. Estimated survival rate is 2.2%. The event is considered a successful test of the cruise missiles.

X

• 3. Operation Heartland officially reaches the ruins of Ald-Arbora. Thirty seven survivors are found among the ruins and subsequently sent to Sancta Reeducation Camp. Baldwin Fehrrlic, Raus Küscher, and Ròneau d'Àgrôvia are confirmed dead.

• 6. King-Saint Godrîc XI announces a celebratory military parade to celebrate the destruction of Ald-Arbora and CPED for good.

• 20. Caradian officials note an explosive population boom in the annual census.

XI

• 2. Caradia contacts the Ciric Confederacy on the basis of trading a shipment of Ferris Fortis for a temporary pledge of military assistance on Caradia's part.

• 7. Caradia sets up an embassy in the Ciric Confederacy's capital of Mourn, with a reciprocal embassy set up in Relacul.

• 13. Operation Heartland rounds up the last Dochvern tribalists in Sacovia and sends them to a waiting camp in Cearîm.

• 21. Caradia and the Ciric Confederacy sign a treaty of friendship because of the mutual trade assistance.

XII

• 9. King-Saint Godrîc XI announces that he and Miranda Flèchier have had a child; the child is named Rando V.

• 17. Caradia and the Ciric Confederacy begin talks of a military coalition in order to better control areas of interest in the antarctic regions.

• 19. Adăpost Citadel is retrofitted with weapons imported from the Ciric Confederacy.

• 22. Caradia pledges to provide escort for all confederate shipping for the next year.

XIII

• 9. Caradia and the Ciric Confederacy sign a pact of mutual military assistance.

• 16. The Ciric Confederacy allows Caradia to provide Serfești escorts as bodyguards for confederate officials.

XIV

• 5. Caradia and the Ciric Confederacy officially form a military and economical union to further the interests of states in the southern reaches of Micras; the new organisation is called the Union Australis.

• 7. The Union begins, as its first joint act, to create the Southern Control Zone as an expansion of the Ciric sea defence grid into all waters of the antarctic.

• 23. The Southern Control Zone temporarily suspends tolling and denial in response to foreign nations reacting against the pseudo-blockade. The zone was converted into a patrol zone until Union leaders reach a compromise about the zone.

XV

• 4. The Union downgrades the Southern Control Zone from its pseudo-blockade status to a patrol zone for Union ships; tolling and denial are indefinitely suspended.

• 6. In response to loosening of the Southern Control Zone, Caradia establishes its waters as a total no-go zone for all military ships not aligned with the Union.

• 8. The Union begins its conversion of the Ciric and Caradian currencies to a shared gold-backed currency called the Zaikir (Ƶ).

1680 AN

V

• 3. Caradia announces that the last pockets of resistance in Sacovia have been eradicated, and begins organising the new territory into the Principality of Leucio.

• 20. Caradian soldiers establish the city of Kaleksiss during patrols in Eura, buying the territory of the city from its leader, Mass Essaga, for 5,000 Zaikir and a promise to back the president in all future political issues.

VI

• 12. King-Saint Godrîc XI announces that Caradia will hold a military parade in Relacul to celebrate the remains of Caplona coming under control of the Duchy.

• 21. Prince Rodrigo announces that he will resign from the Council of the Union Australis in protest of the Union's downgrade of the Southern Control Zone. King-Saint Godrîc XI does not register an official opinion on this, as Rodrigo is dutifully replaced by Marshal Cozaru Faragul.

VIII

• 8. The Union Australis sends a cargo plane packed with clean and preservable food and water for victims of the recent earthquake in Sanama. Union leadership begins discussing the prospect of assisting foreign nations with disaster-prevention through the Southern Meteorological Service.

IX

• 1. Early warning systems reclassify a developing tropical depression off the coast of Eura as a tropical storm, and assign it the name Tropical Storm Zyklos.

• 2. A large amount of weather equipment and SMS personnel are airlifted to Porto Vormouna in order to research Zyklos and test hurricane-prevention methods. The storm's projected path shows the storm slamming directly into the Gulf of Aqabâ, but citizens are warned that these kinds of storms vary wildly in their paths and are highly unpredictable. The CSS Eagle, an aircraft carrier, is made ready to carry the SMS personnel and equipment to the storm should it veer wildly north away from Eura and toward Krasnocoria.

• 3.
  • Zyklos is recategorised as a category 1 hurricane.
  • SMS begins seeding the eyewall of hurricane Zyklos.

• 6. Hurricane Zyklos is successfully dispersed by the SMS.

• 23. The Union Australis decrees that dependencies and autonomous territories would be represented separately from their parent nations, and would acquire two representatives in the Council of the Union; Vatakan joins the Union officially following this decree.

X

• 3. The Union Australis announces the Central Naval Initiative, which is a plan to move most naval assets of the Northern Fleet of the Great Southern Armada from Porto Vormouna to a series of mobile naval bases in the middle of the sea between Tapfer, Eura, and Apollonia both to centralise the Northern Fleet and also to relieve Eura and Porto Vormouna of the strain (both resource-wise and diplomacy-wise) of bearing the entire Northern Fleet.

XIV

• 11.
  • The Central Naval Initiatie reaches completion with the Northern Fleet of the great Southern Armada moving to inhabit the Central Sea for easier deployment. Union government orders the fleet send corvettes to protect Union shipping vessels near Vatakan from the violence kicked up in the region.
  • The Union government bans the Iron Company from entering any Union land after a review of their past aggressive activity and their initiation of the Verionian-Raspur War.

XV

• 6. Vatakan city officials begin sending financial support against the Iron Company aligned-forces of the Verionian–Raspur War out of fear of the Iron Company's use of bioweapons.

• 19. Forays into gravitational technology suddenly bear new fruit; the Ciric Confederacy begins pouring a large amount of money into the project.

• 21. Confederate officials decry the overspenditure on scientific research, citing the government's declining treasury. The confederate government promises to reel in its expenses in the area.

1681 AN

I

• 6. King Godrîc XI releases a statement on the Verionian–Raspur War, saying that Caradia had no interest in the war itself but would support Alduria resource-wise should they enter the fighting because of the Caradians' interest in recent treaty negotiations with the republic; the king said that Caradia had a responsibility to "keep those who fight valiantly in a condition to continue their noble combat, and Alduria does surely burn with honour".

• 11. The Caradian Coal Company loses all of its own buildings in the city of Togărest, all of them being either bought or put out of business by the Andromeda Tech Corporation. Company executives accuse the corporation of "corporate imperialism".

IV

• 10. Caradian-owned companies close across the country as the Andromeda Tech Corporation buys out a rising mining corporation in competition with the Caradian Coal Company

VII

• 6. Caradian crown gives a monetary infusion to the Caradian Coal Company as they go out of business in Chivalho.

• 17. Crown unable to prevent stock dip of the CCC, forcing the company further into a downward spiral.

X

• 13. Xenoclasts hold a rally in Relacul calling for a disentegration of all relations with Cira, a return to isolation, and the expulsion of Andromeda Corporation.

• 15. Cei Credincioși hold a counter-rally against the Xenoclasts. Rally is gunned down by a contingent of the Legions of the Black Flame. 143 people are killed.

• 16. Ciric politicians express disgust over the massacre of the Cei Credincioși rally, ask King-Saint Godrîc XI to censure the event. The King steadfastly refuses, saying that "politickeering is against what the holy monarchy stands for".

• 21.
  • Andromeda Tech Corporation publicly announces its support for Cei Credincioși. They offer a portion of a manufacturing complex in Togărest as a headquarters for the movement.
  • Caradian Xenoclasts use connections to Grand Admiral Sàlveus Santágador to call the 3rd Eastern Battle Fleet of the Great Southern Armada to Relacul. Admiral Santágador cites an "immediate threat to the sovereignty of Caradia" in official reports to Magistrate Andrei Socavul and Prelate Sang Doc, both above his station in the Caradian military and Great Southern Armada respectively.

XI

• 2. King-Saint Godrîc XI orders Admiral Santágador to return the 3rd Eastern Battle Fleet to its regular port; Santágador announces he will comply, but will send the smallest craft first, rather than moving the whole battle fleet at once.

• 7. A full section of the Legions of the Black Flame assaults the Andromeda-owned headquarters of the Cei Credincioși; the attack is repulsed and its leader, staff sergeant Amos Ghiusescu, is killed by the building's security operated by Veiga Sec.

• 12. Admiral Sàlveus Santágador assumes leadership of the Xenoclasts personally.

• 14. King-Saint Godrîc XI censures Admiral Santágador for getting involved in a political movement; Santágador does not respond.

XII

• 8. Riot breaks out in Theogiorick regarding the conflict between the Xenoclasts and Cei Credincioși; Caradian military arrive to defuse the riot.

• 11. Trials from the Theogiorick riot indicate it being the fault of the Xenoclasts according to testimonies from the Legion officers who intervened.

• 19. King-Saint Godrîc XI makes a televised appearance, demanding an end to the ideological conflict and a return to normalcy. Calls arrive to the Caradian Broadcasting Company accusing them of editing the footage to make the King appear sympathetic to the Xenoclasts.

• 20. Godrîc removes and arrests Paloca Ceaesescu, owner of the CBC, proving accusations from the previous day correct.

• 21. Godrîc makes a second public statement, this time on the Xenoclasts specifically; he expresses his distrust of the establishment and says that they "have gone too far with their zeal"; he also says that they should "keep their hooks out of the military". He says nothing during the speech about the Cei Credincioși.

XIII

• 13. Cei Credincioși notably spreads through the Legions of the Black Flame and also the Caradian Skyfleet. Field Marshal Cozaru Faragul publically gives support for the movement, and Sky Marshal Vladimir Tvaranov is suspected of supporting it secretly.

• 17. Ciric government gives political support to Cei Credincioși.

XIV

• 7. Political fight between Xenoclasts and Cei Credincioși mostly calms down, Grand Admiral Sàlveus Santágador and Alina Palovescu meet in Togărest to discuss a resolution

• 22. Negotiations between Xenoclasts and Cei Credincioși fail, and the political fight heats up again.

• 23.
  • Admiral Santágador orders the Eastern Fleet move to Relacul.
  • Alina Palovescu requests assistance from the Confederate Navy in case of attack; Prelate Sang Doc signs the movement of the 1st and 3rd Western Battle Fleets to Togărest.

1682 AN

I

• 7. Order goes out from the headquarters of the United Southern Army to Caradian vessels of the Northern Fleet of the Great Southern Armada ordering them to remain in position and disregard orders from Caradia for the time being.

• 10. King-Saint Godrîc XI demands Grand Admiral Sàlveus Santágador cease contact with the Xenoclasts.

• 19. A cargo ship flying the flag of Cira is sunk 440 kilometers away from Relacul, where it was sailing, by the CSS Valour.
  • Ciric authorities request a recuperation payment from the Black Armada for the technology that was on the ship. King-Saint Godrîc XI orders payment when a second ship arrives in Relacul undamaged and successfully delivers its cargo.

II

• 3. 2nd Eastern Battle Fleet sails towards Porto Vormouna. King-Saint Godrîc XI orders the battle fleet to return to Caradia.

• 7.
  • 1st Eastern Battle Fleet moves to Theogiorick, 3rd Eastern Battle Fleet clusters in Relacul.
  • 2nd and 5th Legions of the Legions of the Black Flame as well as the 1st and 2nd Assault Divisions of the Skyfleet march to Adăpost Citadel.

• 15. Caradian armed forces appear to enter a period of mobilisation. Cira recalls patrolling portions of the Western Fleet to Stonewall.