1698–1699 UGB base construction programme
The 1698 AN–1699 AN programme of works undertaken by Benacia Command in the territory of the Unified Governorates focused on the construction of an expanded network of bases to support the operations of the Southern Banner Group in the face of changing political circumstances in Drak-Modan, Sanama, and Shireroth.
The work would see massive investments of capital, manpower, and resources into the Governorates of Florencia and the Trans-Elwynn.
Background
Concurrent with the duration of the Second Elwynnese Civil War it became increasingly apparent that the Vulture States of southern Benacia were loosening the bonds of fidelity hitherto shown to the Raspur Pact. Drak-Modan had sunk into a crisis born of its Draconian Supremacy Movement, Sanama had taken the opportunity of the Scouring to shrug off its obligations and withdraw from the joint-command structure of the Pact, and Shireroth had not only failed to support Elluenuueq during the civil war but had gone out of its way to provide recognition and shelter to the surviving rebels of Cimmeria and Raikoth.
The trends towards disloyalty on the part of the regimes in the Southern Banner Group's area of operations was a concern discussed by the Benacian Union at the Congress of Chryse, and the reports presented to the Congress by Davit Teimuraz and Jasmina Hosseini were not reassuring. An attempt at correcting the leftwards drift of the Sanaman coalition government had conspicuously failed, endangering the position of the Democratic Humanist Party there, while the augurs were pointing towards a Shirerithian intervention in Drak-Modan.
With the First Kildarian Liberation War becoming an ESB/N&H fronted intervention to ward off the rise of the Great Apollonian Empire from amidst the ruins of Jingdao, the position of the Pact in Benacia had to be assured if the forces to contain a resurgent USSO in Apollonia were to be found and sustained.
