Great Vanic Revolt
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The Great Vanic Revolt, also known as the Vanic Insurgency, began on 6.IV.1706 AN, in the aftermath of the self-burning and death of Lúsinda Sigrdrífasdóttir outside the Palace of the Elenaran. This led to an outbreak of pro-Vanic violence across Hurmu's Lake District and Southern District, and in Nouvelle Alexandrie's North and South Lyrica regions.
Background
Collapse of Stormark
- An island-wide conflict and campaign begins right up until New Alexandrian and Hurmu settlement, generally called in NAX "the Lyrican Wars".
- Lyrica spends time in the statelessness of the Green, deals with a series of vicious and destructive wars between the different groups left behind by Stormark and the collapse of its society and government. Groups commit various acts against each other, with the native Lyricans allying with the Alexandrians, Caputians, and Anticans (forming "The Lyrican Union" referenced later on in this article) against the Vanic regime of Stormark.
- The Lyrican Union began to obtain serious material and financial support covertly by the expanding Federation, and even persuaded the Lyrican Union to aid Nouvelle Alexandrie in expanding into Lyrica to restore order in the wake of the collapse of both Krasnocoria and Stormark, which destabilized the region and led to the rise of Çakaristan and Arbor.
- Groups in Lyrica rise up and overthrow the last vestiges of Vanic rule, viciously pursue aggressive campaign that resulted in the deaths of millions, mostly ethnic Storish people, or as they are commonly called “Vanics” or the “Vanafolk”.
- Constant warfare, societal collapse, and a massive national moral crisis led to most of the island being destroyed or severely depopulated.
Lyrica after Stormark
- Nouvelle Alexandrie expands and settles most of Lyrica. The warfare, famine, and chaos of conflict made it easy for the Federation to bring matters to a quick settlement and subjugation of the island.
- Over the course of an AN year, Nouvelle Alexandrie and Hurmu's subsequent expansions in Lyrica settled matters territorially along the current borders.
- Formation of Vanic guerrillas happened during the times of war - the Lyrican Union regularly targeted Vanic populations and would receive cruel and bloody retaliatory attacks by Vanic forces. This led to a spiraling cycle of massive violence which led to a massive Lyrican Union campaign to attack and destroy holy sites, military sites, equipment, and anything else that was of value to the defense and survival of Vanic communities across Lyrica.
1704 Opening of the Cortes plot
Dueling political demonstrations in North & South Lyrica
Political demonstrations and protests by both Pro-Vanic and Anti-Vanic organizations and groups began sprouting up in the aftermath of the foiled 1704 Opening of the Cortes terrorist plot by Freya's Battlers. The staunchly Anti-Vanic and pro-Federation Save Our Lyrica political group operates in North Lyrica, South Lyrica, and in the Islas de la Libertad begins to organize a series of massive protests and marches in Lausanne, Beaufort, Port-au-Vert, and Fauquier.
The Save Our Lyrica marches are considered controversial and face opposition from pro-Vanic nationalists and extremists who see the parades as sectarian and triumphalist. In reply, counterprotests and countermarches are organized by Vanic people in defense of their rights and their aspirations. These counterprotests and countermarches have led to violent clashes in the past that have led to injuries, but no deaths.
The case of Thorberg Osvaldsson
In the early hours of 4.X.1704 AN, an unarmed 23-year-old Vanic student named Thorberg Osvaldsson was shot by four Lausanne Police Department plainclothes officers. These four Lausanne Police Department police officers would claim that Osvaldsson was mistaken for a suspect in a rape case.
The four officers were charged with murder and acquitted at trial in Lausanne, North Lyrica in 1705 AN. A firestorm of controversy erupted after the event, as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both inside and outside of Lausanne. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.
Death of Lúsinda Sigrdrífasdóttir
On 6.IV.1706 AN, Lúsinda Sigrdrífasdóttir (in Hurmu records also known under the spelling Lusinda Klappland), born 1675 AN, was a 31-year old woman who approached the Palace of the Elenaran, symbolically undressed herself in broad daylight, and, while moving rhythmically to a Vanic fertility dance and singing Storish songs of praise to High King Harald, poured petrol on herself, making sure to give extra attention to her genital and erogenous zones, before torching herself with a cigarette lighter. While on fire, she kept on dancing for a few seconds, before letting out screams of terror. The screams subsided after a minute or so, when she fell onto the ground. A minute later, when first responders had arrived, she was declared dead.
The Hurmu Constabulary subsequently issued a statement denying rumours that an act of desecration had been performed upon the corpse of the deceased, decrying photographs of constables and morgue attendants taking turns to urinate upon the charred body as a "crude forgery" after they began to circulate online.
Outbreak of violence
Insurgency
Constancia
Leaflets scattered in certain cities in Nouvelle Alexandrie and Ransenar proclaimed that the Free State of Constancia had not been eradicated as previously thought, and had struck an alliance with the pro-Vanic movement in order to "liberate Constancia from the grip of tyrants and plunderers", under the leadership of President Pro Tempore Maria Georgiou, younger sister of the martyred Viktoria Georgiou.
Some insurgency activities and clashes were reported in the area of the Ecclesiastical Mountain Republic.
Hurmu
In 1708 AN Hurmu responded to the escalating lawlessness of its Southern District by relieving Ty Zim from his post as minister with responsibility for administering the district. In his place was appointed Jamshid-e Osman, the former minister for the Warring Islands and a man with extensive experience of negotiating with the Sea-Reavers and other unsavoury characters in order to secure peace and good order in a restive territory. At the same time a cabinet-level Special Commission for the Suppression of Vanicism was established in order to spearhead a national strategy for ending the Vanic insurgency that would be tasked with coordinating the activities of the Hurmu Peace Corps, the Hurmu Constabulary, and cooperation with allied forces in the region.
Nouvelle Alexandrie
The insurgency began in Nouvelle Alexandrie after the death of Lúsinda Sigrdrífasdóttir in Hurmu. It started with small targeted raids at the Federal Force's military bases or places near them where service members from these bases would visit during their leaves or breaks. The raids and attacks later expanded to the Federal Gendarmerie, the South Lyrican Regional Police, and the North Lyrican Constabulary.
With the full-scale eruption of the sectarian civil war in Lyrica, many militant attacks in New Alexandrian-controlled central Lyrica and near beaufort and Lausanne were directed at the Federal Gendarmerie and the military forces of the New Alexandrian federal government.
The insurgents in North Lyrica and South Lyrica have been composed of a diverse mix of militias, foreign fighters, "all-Storish" units or mixtures opposing the federal government of Nouvelle Alexandrie and the regional governments of North and South Lyrica.
The incoming administration of Felipe de Almagro adopted a military solution of waging a conventional war against the Vanic community on Lyrica. It was an attitude that stood in marked contrast with the stance taken by the preceding SDLA administrations (1703-1708), which had considered the Lyrican situation to be a counterterrorism and law and order issue primarily.
In 1708 AN the expeditionary units of the Alexandrian Legion, initially formed from the survivors and descendants of the Alexandrian and Caputian diasporas, were recalled from colonial postings and dispatched to Lyrica. Additionally nine divisions (eight infantry and one armoured) were raised from garrison troops and support personnel and earmarked for deployment to the ports of South Lyrica.
Anti-Vanic Groups, such as the Tirailleurs Alexandrin and Organisation for Armed Settlers, came under increasing government attempts to encourage their "voluntary" incorporation into the Home Guard Regiments envisaged in the 1708 election manifesto of the Federal Humanist Party. This initiative elicited a distinctly mixed reaction, with some socialist self-defence groups proving outright hostile to the attempted coordination.
Concerns during 1708 AN grew that the Federal Forces were being encouraged to rush a response that suited the political needs of the incoming FHP ministry, ahead of the operational requirements of a complex counterinsurgency operation. Especially worried were those who contended that the new divisions had been hastily thrown together using personnel drafted from administrative support functions and equipment diverted from the Euran theatre of operations or else taken out of storage in the National Qullqa System.
The FHP ultimately gambled that a surge of forces would be enough to end the "Great Vanic Revolt" once and for all. Operation Bellona duly commenced on 13.III.1709 AN.
Ransenar
Pro-Vanic groups
This is a list of active and known pro-Vanic guerrilla groups involved in the insurgency whose domains may be subnational, transnational, or international. A "pro-Vanic rebel group" is defined here as a polity that uses armed conflict in opposition to established government (or governments) for reasons such as to seek political change or to establish, maintain, or to gain independence. The main common purpose of these pro-Vanic guerrilla groups is to end New Alexandrian and Hurmudan dominance of Lyrica and re-establish an independent and free Stormark.
The list below also includes pacifist pro-Vanic civilian organizations that are legally registered and recognized. In Nouvelle Alexandrie, pro-Vanic organizations may be formed as long as they do not violate the Proclamation of Punta Santiago or the laws of the Federation. In 1709 AN the Federal Gendarmerie and Humanist Vanguard were sent to attack the Lyrican offices of the Movement for Vanic Rights. The Gaelen Office Building, headquarters of the movement, was torched by government forces in what was announced as a reprisal for the 1709 Goldfield bombing.
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| Freyja's Battlers | Somewhere in North Lyrica |
Hurmu Nouvelle Alexandrie
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| Vanic Front of Salvation | Fauquier, North Lyrica | Hurmu Nouvelle Alexandrie
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| Vengeance of Harald | Lausanne, South Lyrica | Nouvelle Alexandrie
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| The Apples of Freya's Eyes | Maigneux, North Lyrica | Hurmu Nouvelle Alexandrie
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| Movement for Vanic Rights | Lausanne, South Lyrica | Nouvelle Alexandrie
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Sources of support
Movement for Vanic Rights
Anti-Vanic groups
Anti-Vanic groups have proliferated in Nouvelle Alexandrie and Hurmu, especially since the start of settlement in Lyrica. Most of these armed groups are composed by paid veterans, settlers, recruits, ranchers, and farmers. With the return to office of the Federal Humanist Party in 1708 AN these anti-vanic armed groups were instructed to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown and incorporate themselves into Home Guard regiments that would be organised by the Federal Guards Service.
Sources of support
The Lyrican Union
Timeline
1706
IX.1706
- 9: Benacian and Surenid troops commence a counterinsurgency sweep in the Southern District, liquidating four work camps where Vanic permissiveness had taken root.
- 10: 41st Regiment of Peacekeepers (HPC), supported by volunteers from the Hurmu Constabulary and the 5th Vanguard Division, deployed from Huyenkula into the Southern District to support the operations of the Allied Mission.
- 11: Progress of the HPC peacekeepers, consisting of a convoy of Snatch Land Rovers and soft-skinned trucks, is halted by felled trees blocking the road as the force entered into a forested region. A work party sent forward to clear the obstacles was targeted by a sniper, and simultaneously the idling vehicle convoy was raked by small arms fire. The peacekeepers were forced to disperse, abandoning their vehicles in order to seek cover. With personnel at the head of the column pinned down by accurate enemy marksmanship, assault parties were formed to clear the ambushers by attacking them in the flank. Action continued until nightfall, by which time the insurgents were able to break contact and disperse. HPC casualties were twenty slain, and seventy-three wounded. The shortage of HPC helicopters obliged the 86th Medical Regiment to request ESB Aviation Group assistance with the evacuation of injured personnel.
XIII.1706
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- Giermund Thorbrandsson, President of the Movement for Vanic Rights is arrested by armed volunteers from the Humanist Vanguard in Lausanne, South Lyrica, following the issuance of a writ of summons by an FHP aligned magistrate in Beaufort, North Lyrica. Giermund Thorbrandsson stood accused of entering into treasonable correspondence and the organising of anti-state actions.
- In response to an appeal by Viric Merrick, deputy-commissioner of the Transprinitica district of Apollonian Hurmu, made discretely over the course of the preceeding few months, the 15 Kavallerifördelningen of the Benacian Union Defence Force began to deploy to Transprinitica. Viric Merrick received the BUDF rank of Salbnan-Afzælthvaszhaldan and command of the division upon the arrival of its first elements at Tyrador by sealift and amphibious landing. Attached to the Allied Mission in Eastern Apollonia, Hurmu & Lyrica, the arrival of the Benacian division freed up Hurmu Constabulary and HPC contingents to return eastwards to battle the insurgency in the Southern District.
- To preserve the chain of command, HPC General Headquarters – Home Command in Vesüha signalled Tyrador with a message detailing Viric's promotion to Chief Director of the Peace. Reply from Tyrador acknowledged Viric's assumption of office as Commissioner for Transprinitica.
XV.1706
- 30: The Tirailleurs Alexandrin, a volunteer militia built around the Humanist Vanguard begins to organise in Alduria and Lyrica as part of the wider response of civil society to the Vanic Revolt.
1709
III.1709
- 13: Operation Bellona commenced with attacks on Vanic homes, offices, and properties in the Lausanne region.
V.1709
- 24: Operation Bellona concluded.
