NKR insurrection

Revolt of the New Crandish Movement
Date	1752 AN–ongoing
Location	Western cantons of Lac Glacei; Mala
Belligerents
	Çakaristan
	Meckelnburgh
	Supported by: * Floria
Commanders and leaders
Units involved
Strength
Casualties and losses

The NKR insurrection is an ongoing internal armed conflict within the Grand Duchy of Lac Glacei, beginning in 1752 AN, following the radicalisation and militarisation of the Nü Krantisk Rapskaff (NKR). What initially emerged as a political and cultural movement advocating Crandish primacy escalated into a sustained armed challenge to the authority of Monte Glacei, and is now widely characterised as a civil war. The conflict is concentrated in the western cantons of Anglien, Balduvien, Saksenlant, Jutien, Kloss, Lorelei, and Heathersland, with sporadic violence reported elsewhere. While not directly part of the conflict itself, the far-eastern territory of Mala is at a focal point within the context of the conflict.

Background

Following the Karmic Collapse of 1744, Lac Glacei experienced increasing regional divergence. Western cantons with large Crandish populations suffered disproportionate economic disruption, while government policy under Grand Duke Augustin prioritised fiscal stability and infrastructure investment in the lake and eastern regions. This imbalance fuelled perceptions of neglect and political marginalisation.

During the late 1740s, political writing and local activism increasingly portrayed the Lac Glaceian state as an alien, pluralist administration imposed upon historically Crandish lands. These ideas coalesced into the Nü Krantisk Rapskaff, which rejected constitutional governance in favour of enforced hierarchy, cultural homogeneity, and permanent mobilisation.

By the end of the decade, NKR-affiliated "study groups" (Liznerrgang) had evolved from cultural societies into disciplined paramilitary formations. Although NKR leadership publicly denied the existence of armed units, by late 1752 AN multiple study groups were confirmed to be covertly armed, drawing on private stockpiles, sympathetic cantonal guards, and illicit procurement networks.

Outbreak and expansion

Open conflict followed the death of Grand Duke Augustin and the accession of Orion III in late 1752 AN. Early efforts by the new, young but highly inexperienced, grand duke to reaffirm constitutional order were met with coordinated resistance across the western cantons, and the incapacity of an antiquated grand ducal bureaucracy to react in a speedily manner.

NKR-aligned local administrations refused to implement directives from Monte Glacei, obstructed state officials, and asserted control over policing and public order through study groups and cantonal guards operating outside legal command structures. Municipal buildings were occupied, courts ceased functioning, and state insignia were removed from public spaces.

By early 1753 AN, armed clashes between NKR militias and the Glaceian Army Reserve Department (GARD) had been reported in Heathersland, Lorelei, and Kloss. Roadblocks, seizures of administrative centres, and attacks on infrastructure marked the transition from political crisis to sustained insurrection.

Conduct of the conflict

By mid 1753 AN, the imbalance between the Lac Glaceian state and the NKR in the western cantons had become pronounced. Despite numerical superiority on paper, GARD proved unable to reassert control beyond isolated strongpoints, major transport routes, and short-lived operations.

GARD had been structured primarily for border defence and emergency response, not counterinsurgency within a culturally familiar population. Units deployed to the west relied on local logistics and intelligence networks that had already been penetrated by NKR sympathisers. Movement plans, patrol schedules, and supply routes were routinely leaked, enabling ambushes or withdrawals ahead of state operations.

In several cases, GARD detachments failed to advance at all. Orders to secure municipal centres were delayed or abandoned after cantonal guards refused cooperation or warned that NKR forces were prepared to respond. By III.1753 AN, internal assessments acknowledged that GARD could no longer guarantee the safety of state officials west of Eesdeheito border with Anglien and Lorelei, while the NKR exercised effective control over large areas of the west. Study groups functioned simultaneously as military units and political authorities, embedded in local communities and sustained by a mixture of ideological support and coercion. Road networks were controlled through layered checkpoints, night travel was prohibited, and movement between towns required permission issued by local NKR commanders.

Arms and supplies flowed through resilient informal networks. Agricultural cooperatives, transport guilds, and sympathetic industrialists provided food, fuel, and equipment, while confiscated state depots and cantonal armouries supplied weapons. In several cantons, NKR authorities collected "voluntary contributions" in place of state taxes, issuing stamped receipts bearing Crandish symbols that became the only documents recognised at checkpoints.

GARD reprisals, when undertaken, proved largely ineffective. Lacking actionable intelligence, units conducted broad cordon-and-search operations that alienated civilian populations without disrupting NKR leadership. In Jutien, a failed operation in III.1753 AN ended with a GARD platoon withdrawing under fire and abandoning vehicles later paraded by NKR supporters. In Balduvien, an attempted arrest escalated into a street battle that left three civilians dead after state forces fired into a crowd, further eroding public confidence in the government.

By mid-year, fear rather than allegiance governed daily life in much of the west. Compliance with NKR demands was immediate and enforced locally, while the state appeared distant and unable to protect its supporters. Observers increasingly described the conflict as a war of exhaustion, in which the erosion of state legitimacy and the normalisation of coercive violence formed the core of NKR strategy.

Life under NKR occupation

By mid 1753 AN, daily life in areas controlled by the Nü Krantisk Rapskaff bore little resemblance to ordinary civil administration. In much of Anglien, Balduvien, Saksenlant, Jutien, Kloss, Lorelei, Heathersland, and Edelweiss, NKR study groups had displaced state institutions and assumed direct authority over movement, employment, education, and public expression.

Local governance was exercised through cantonal committees and study group commanders, whose authority rested on armed presence rather than law. Curfews were imposed, night travel was prohibited, and residents were required to carry locally issued movement papers. Homes and businesses displayed NKR insignia as proof of compliance; refusal marked occupants for further attention. Municipal records, where they had not been seized, were quietly rewritten or destroyed.

Public life became ritualised and compulsory. Mass assemblies, loyalty oaths, and marches were held on a regular schedule. Attendance was recorded. Children and adolescents were enrolled in youth formations affiliated with study groups, where instruction combined Crandish history, physical training, and ideological discipline. Teachers who refused to participate were dismissed, detained, or forced to flee east. State-approved curricula disappeared from classrooms, replaced by locally produced materials emphasising obedience, sacrifice, and national destiny.

Religious life was tightly controlled. Alpine Temple sites in Heathersland, Lorelei, and Edelweiss were desecrated, shuttered, or repurposed as meeting halls. Clergy who spoke against violence were beaten or publicly humiliated. In one widely reported incident near Zeivsbuurg, a priest was forced to recant before a crowd while an NKR commander declared the Temple an obstacle to national renewal.

Violence against civilians intensified as NKR control consolidated. Individuals identified as "collaborationists", including civil servants, teachers, clergy, and union organisers, were subjected to night raids, public detentions, and enforced disappearances. In Edelweiss, five municipal clerks attempting to evacuate tax records were executed near Trappsbruck in II.1753 AN following a summary "people's tribunal"; their bodies were left on display for two days.

Religious institutions associated with the Alpine Temple were targeted in Heathersland, where priests were beaten and at least one temple was burned after refusing to display NKR insignia. Non-Crandish minorities were disproportionately affected: Hurmudan-owned businesses were vandalised or seized, and Mala'anje workers on the mainland were expelled from housing, education and employment under threat of violence. In Kloss, an entire Mala'anje fishing community of approximately 340 people relocated to Qorali between III and V.1753 AN after repeated harassment, night raids, and the disappearance of two men.

Militarisation was visible even in civilian spaces. Armed patrols operated from farmsteads, temples, and municipal buildings. Checkpoints controlled roads and mountain passes, and night-time training exercises were audible in surrounding villages. In the southern cantons of Edelweiss, Heathersland, and Lorelei, NKR units conducted joint drills near mountain passes leading toward the Hurmu realm of Lontinien. Observation posts were erected, routes mapped, and rhetoric increasingly framed the southern frontier as an unresolved historical boundary rather than a settled border.

For most residents, survival depended on compliance rather than belief. Open resistance was rare and quickly punished. The Lac Glaceian state, distant and intermittent in its presence, offered little protection to those who defied local commanders. By mid 1753 AN, NKR control had become normalised in daily life, sustained not only by ideological commitment but by fear, habituation, and the steady erosion of alternative authority.

Border shootings and displacement

Refugees and displacement

By mid 1753 AN, population flight had become a defining feature of the conflict in the western cantons. As NKR authority consolidated in Edelweiss, Lorelei, Anglien, Jutien, Saksenlant and Balduvien, large numbers of civilians sought to escape conditions characterised by political coercion, ethnic exclusion, and arbitrary violence.

Those able to flee first were disproportionately individuals and families with resources, education, or external connections. Civil servants, professionals, merchants, academics, and skilled workers departed early, often using personal networks or pre-existing routes to leave NKR-controlled areas before movement restrictions tightened. Foreign nationals and dual citizens likewise exited at an early stage, assisted by consular channels or commercial transport.

Subsequent waves increasingly consisted of members of non-Crandish and non–Anglo-Saksen ethnic groups, who were subjected to systematic intimidation under NKR rule. Ethnic Gralans, Hurmudans, Lontinians, Glaceians, and smaller foreign communities reported harassment, loss of employment, confiscation of property, and threats framed in explicitly civilisational terms. Many were labelled "transient elements" or "non-contributing populations" in NKR discourse, making continued residence untenable.

External refugee flows followed three principal routes. To the south, civilians attempted to cross into Order of the Holy Lakes realm of Lontinien through mountain passes along the border with Edelweiss and Lorelei. To the north-west, refugees moved into Meckelnburgh Proper, often via forest tracks and minor roads to avoid checkpoints. Some attempted to flee to Iselande, but the knowledge of the high security around the Nurthaven and Antruusbuurg Canal dissuaded many from even attempting.

Internal displacement, however, exceeded external flight in scale. Tens of thousands moved eastward into Glacei, Jardinais, Jacaringia, and Cognito, transiting through Eesdeheito (where many also chose to stay). Temporary settlements emerged along rail corridors, road junctions, and disused industrial sites. Local authorities struggled to provide housing, food, and medical care, while schools and clinics in receiving areas became overcrowded, and repurposed as temporary refugee camps.

Conditions for internally displaced persons were precarious. Many arrived without documentation, having had identity papers confiscated or destroyed during NKR inspections. Employment opportunities were limited, and assistance was uneven. GARD lacked the capacity to secure evacuation corridors, and in several documented cases NKR patrols intercepted refugee columns, forcing returns or detaining individuals accused of evasion. Confiscation of property and enforced separation of families were repeatedly reported.

By mid 1753 AN, displacement had become self-reinforcing: flight reduced the presence of groups least aligned with NKR ideology, while the visible departure of neighbours heightened fear among those remaining, prompting further movement.

Border skirmishes with Lontinien

Following an assembly held at the Darbar Palace in IV.1753 AN, Lontinien responded to the appearance of rebel forces along its northern frontier by mobilising the Keshik with orders to conduct wide ranging patrols and to identify and pursue intruding armed groups.

The most violent incidents associated with refugee flight occurred along the southern frontier with Hurmu's Lontinien. As escape attempts increased, NKR study groups established observation posts, patrols, and ad hoc fortifications along known crossing points, including herding routes and seasonal mountain paths.

Refugees consistently reported that NKR patrols treated attempted crossings as acts of betrayal rather than civilian flight. On 3.VI.1753 AN, an NKR unit opened fire on a group attempting to cross near the upper Valdreich passes in Edelweiss, killing at least four civilians. Hurmudan border authorities later confirmed that multiple rounds struck rocks and trees on the Lontinien side of the frontier, marking the first verified instance of gunfire crossing the international boundary.

Further incidents followed in Lorelei, where tracer fire was reportedly used to deter night crossings. Survivors described being forced to abandon wounded companions to avoid continued fire. Hurmudan patrols recovered bodies near the border in subsequent weeks, though formal investigations proved impossible due to lack of access to the Lac Glaceian side.

NKR leadership denied responsibility, describing the shootings as "anti-smuggling operations" and accusing Hurmu of inflating isolated events. Testimony from defectors and intercepted communications, however, indicated that local commanders had received instructions to prevent population loss by "decisive means," and that unauthorised departure was framed internally as sabotage of the national struggle.

Within Lac Glacei, the shootings underscored the central government's loss of effective control over the southwestern cantons. Monte Glacei acknowledged "serious incidents" along the border but offered no concrete measures to protect civilians attempting to flee. By this point, it appeared that the southern frontier had become one of the most volatile theatres of the conflict.

In response to the reported instances of cross border gunfire, twelve regiments of peacekeepers from the Hurmu Fyrð garrison at Khojinacinggha were ordered to the section of the frontier facing Edelweiss, whilst the 2nd (Apollonian) Guards Division was instructed to begin concentrating forces at Vadimbaatar.

Proclamation of the Nü Krantisk Repüblik

On 4.V.1753 AN, the leadership of the Nü Krantisk Rapskaff formally declared the establishment of the Nü Krantisk Repüblik (New Crandish Republic), asserting sovereign authority over all territories from which Glaceian Army Reserve Department (GARD) units and Lac Glaceian civil administration had withdrawn. The proclamation marked the movement's transition from insurgent force to self-declared state authority. The declaration was issued from the old Arminian capital, Arminsburg, in Lorelei, and broadcast through NKR-controlled media channels, accompanied by the hoisting of a new republican flag and the announcement of provisional governing institutions. NKR leaders asserted that Lac Glacei had "abandoned its responsibilities" in the western cantons and that sovereignty had therefore reverted to the Crandish people.

The Nü Krantisk Repüblik claimed jurisdiction over Anglien, Balduvien, Saksenlant, Jutien, Kloss, Lorelei, Heathersland, and Edelweiss—areas where state authority had effectively collapsed or been displaced by NKR structures. In addition, the proclamation asserted claims over Jorvik, Norsmandy, and Eesdeheito, despite the continued presence of Lac Glaceian administration and security forces in parts of those cantons. NKR leadership justified these expanded claims on historical and ideological grounds, arguing that the named territories formed an indivisible Crandish civilisational space. The proclamation rejected the authority of Monte Glacei outright, declared all Lac Glaceian laws void within claimed territory, and ordered the dissolution of remaining state institutions. Cantonal committees and study group commanders were instructed to assume full administrative, judicial, and security responsibilities under the authority of the new republic. Monte Glacei immediately denounced the declaration as null and void, reaffirming Lac Glacei's territorial integrity and sovereignty over the claimed cantons. However, the central government acknowledged that it lacked the immediate capacity to enforce its authority across much of the declared territory.

Situation in Mala

Main article: Mala Self-Determination Crisis, 1753

The Mala First Nation, located on the far eastern coast of Keltia under joint Lac Glaceian and Imperial Federation sovereignty since the 1732 AN Memorandum of Understanding, became a focal point of the broader crisis as the NKR insurrection revealed the collapse of Lac Glaceian governance.

Persecution of mainland Mala'anje

Prior to the crisis, an estimated 4,600 Mala'anje resided outside the First Nation Territory on the Lac Glacei mainland, concentrated in the cantons of Anglien, Cognito, and Glacei. As NKR influence spread through the western cantons in late 1752 AN, these communities became targets of systematic discrimination. Reports reaching Qorali described refusal of service at establishments displaying NKR insignia, threatening messages sent to Mala'anje students at the Technical Institute of Anglien, and unauthorized inspections of fishing boats by NKR-aligned cantonal guards who confiscated equipment without legal authority. Three students withdrew from the Technical Institute in XIV.1752 AN after receiving threats. Formal complaints filed with cantonal and central authorities received no substantive response.

The situation deteriorated sharply after the accession of Orion III in late 1752 AN. As the insurrection escalated into civil war, persecution intensified into ethnic cleansing. NKR study groups conducted night raids on Mala'anje households in Kloss, and at least two men from the fishing community were detained and subsequently disappeared. Mala'anje were explicitly excluded from shelters during NKR bombardments, told they were "not Crandish" and should "return to their islands." The entire Mala'anje fishing cooperative in Kloss, numbering approximately 340 people, relocated to Qorali between III and V.1753 AN, arriving with little more than personal belongings after their boats and equipment were confiscated. By mid-1753 AN, the mainland Mala'anje population had been effectively eliminated from NKR-controlled territory through a combination of expulsion, flight, and disappearance.

House of Nobles response

Ali'i nui Kahunamea XI convened the House of Nobles in emergency session on 9.III.1753 AN, the first such assembly in over a decade. Prime Minister David Loloku presented an assessment citing NKR ideology explicitly rejecting pluralism, reports of discrimination against mainland Mala'anje, and Monte Glacei's failure to communicate or consult with the tribal administration since early 1751 AN. The House adopted a resolution requesting that Monte Glacei respond within 60 days to questions regarding the continued validity of the 1732 AN MOU, protection for Mala'anje on the mainland, and whether Lac Glacei could continue to meet its obligations. The Grand Duke's Council acknowledged receipt but provided no substantive response, consumed by the civil war in the west.

The 60-day deadline passed without answer. The House of Nobles reconvened on 10.VII.1753 AN and unanimously declared the Grand Duchy in breach of the 1732 AN Memorandum of Understanding. The resolution formally requested that the Imperial Federation, as co-sovereign under the MOU, enter into urgent consultations regarding "the future of joint governance arrangements and the constitutional status of the Mala'anje people." Ali'i nui Kahunamea XI announced the formation of a Committee on Constitutional Futures to "examine all options available to the Mala'anje people," including "alternative constitutional arrangements." The committee was expected to deliver a preliminary report by X.1753 AN.

Mala'anje resistance operations

Main article: Mala'anje Resistance

As the crisis deepened, the Mala'anje organized resistance operations with material and advisory support channeled through Vegno from Nouvelle Alexandrie. The escape network known as Ke Ala Moana ("The Path to the Sea") evacuated Mala'anje still trapped on the mainland using fishing boats making night runs from the Kloss and Anglien coast. Kapena Malu Keawe, a fishing captain from Kloss who had lost his nephew to NKR forces, coordinated routes and boat assignments from Qorali. The network evacuated dozens to low hundreds of people with success rates estimated at 70-80%.

Mala'anje who remained on the mainland provided intelligence on NKR activities, reporting troop movements, checkpoint schedules, and commander identities. Intelligence flowed back to Qorali and was shared with Nouvelle Alexandrie and Vegno through secure communications.

The Koa Kia'i ("Warrior Guardians"), a volunteer force of approximately 100-150 members led by Kaimana Loloku, Prime Minister Loloku's younger brother and a former GARD sergeant, provided territorial defense, coastal patrols, and armed escort for extraction operations. The Prime Minister publicly maintained no knowledge of his brother's activities.

International response

The Imperial Federation received the formal consultation request on 11.VII.1753 AN. IF military installations at Chi-Nam and Saigon Bases on Windsor Island continued to operate normally throughout the crisis.
The Federation of Nouvelle Alexandrie issued a statement on 11.VII.1753 AN expressing "grave humanitarian concern for the welfare of the Mala'anje people" and indicating readiness to provide humanitarian assistance and support "any peaceful resolution that respects the rights and aspirations of the Mala'anje."
- A cultural delegation of Mala'anje elders returned from a three-week visit to the Wechua Nation and Boriquen on 8.VII.1753 AN, where they met with Wakara community leaders and Wakara People's Party officials, gaining "new perspectives on how federal arrangements can accommodate and protect the rights of founding peoples." The parallels with Boriquen's 1719 AN accession to Nouvelle Alexandrie under the Plan de Hato Rey were noted by observers.

War by Meckelnburgh

Faced with a mounting refugee crisis in Meckelnburgh proper and Iselande, and in response to the reports of genocide across their borders in Lac Glacei, the Parliament of Meckelnburgh declared war against the "illegitimate" Nü Krantisk Repüblik on 14.IV.1753 AN following a plea to Parliament in joint session by Queen Ĉielero III. The declaration also interrupted the 1753 AN parliamentary elections, with the Queen declining to dissolve parliament at their discretion before a preliminary war cabinet could be prepared.

The Queen as commander-in-chief declared the general mobilization of Their Royal Majesty's Services at Arms, including the full battalions of the reserve of Their Royal Majesty's National Guard. The armored rapid response brigades of the National Guard of the United Kingdom of Meckelnburgh launched a blitz attack of the kingdom's tank forces south of Iselande and east from Meckelnburgh, intended to overwhelm the less organized forces of the NKR. Initial progress was successful, with Meckelnburgh having almost uncontested air superiority via the Royal Meckelnburgh Air Force.

Krantbuurg Front

As part of the initial blitz, the National Guard in tandem with the rapid-deployment forces of the 1st and 2nd Armored Brigades and the 5th Mobile Infantry Brigade made steady, calculated progress through Balduvien. Over 14,000 troops were involved in the initial offense. Meckelnburgh forces finally laid siege to Krantbuurg in VI.1753 AN. NKR forces in Krantbuurg were given one month's warning to surrender the city to Meckelnburgh troops or "The institutions of fascist Nü Krantisk governance will learn why an artillery corps is a valuable investment."

On 10.VII.1753 AN, forces of the NKR in Krantbuurg responded to the surrender demand with a reportedly offensive but unpublished response. That afternoon, the War Office approved "all measures in the field deemed effective to end the genocidal forces at minimal loss of civilian life." After work hours circa 1730, the 5th Regiment Royal Artillery fired a single volley of 155 mm guided shells 30 km into the city, engulfing the headquarters of the NKR in flames near city hall.

Iselandic Front

Forces of the North Arctic Battlegroup launched an attack in tandem to support the remaining front of Lac Glacei government forces pushed towards the Northern Sea south of Nurthaven. Lighter battalions of the Grand Ducal Iselande Defense Force moved south of Antruusbuurg to establish a narrow defensive line beneath Iselandic territory in Jutien. The isolated and desolate front was steadied by the subarctic Meckelnburgh National Guard units by V.1753 AN before an offensive push moved towards the allied-held city of Ter-Sog, where forces arrived in VI.1753 AN to defend it.

In a press conference following the North Arctic Battlegroup arrival in Ter-Sog, the National Guard confirmed forces would focus on stabilizing lines on the Iselandic Font in conjunction with the "rightful" forces of Lac Glacei government.

Operation Puttin' on the Ritz

In VII.1753 AN, the Expeditionary Strike Group of the Royal Meckelnburgh Navy landed a regiment of the Corps of Royal Marines in Rizactor, attempting to put a light force on the peninsula north of NKR-held Kloss and shore up Lac Glacei defenses for the allied-held city. With the arrival of TRMS Kestrel (CVL), a squadron of carrier-based fighters were positioned, finally placing all government-controlled cities in Anglien, Kloss and Saksenlant under Meckelnburgh air superiority.

Northern Sea patrol

Starting in VI.1753 AN, a task force of the Royal Meckelnburgh Navy with combined surface vessels stationed in Meckelnburgh proper began a defensive patrol in the Northern Sea, Straits of Artsessdun and the Clear Sea. The task force was given the instruction "to command the surrender of any rickety NKR vessels in the Northern Sea, and send to the Morningstar those fascists who refuse."

Home front

Public opinion for the war registered as over 80% at the start of the conflict in metropolitan Meckelnburgh and Iselande, while Branniboria was more lukewarm at 55%. A war bonds campaign launched in VII.1753 AN earned over Ʀ1 million for the war effort following coordinated military parades in Alexandretta by the Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment and in Fenixtune by the Volunteer Band of the Iselande Defense Force. An unofficial march in Hergilsey by an ad hoc band from the Regiment of Royal Artillery was noted as "the most patriotic cacophony in Meckelnburgh history."

Hurmudan intervention in Lac Glacei

Following the border skirmishes in Lontinien, the Secretary of State for Peace for the Realms of the Order of the Holy Lakes presented a resolution to the Senate of the Lakes regarding the establishment of a limited buffer zone in Edelweiss and Lorelei so as to prevent any further incursions by NKR-aligned rebel forces. Debate would continue through the sixth month (Enmaanuðr) of 1753 AN.

Build-up of forces

Whilst these debates were ongoing the Auxiliary Service of Hurmu and Civil Defence Corps of Hurmu received remarkable instructions to establish depots and magazines capable of storing sufficient quantities of tinned corned beef, hardtack, pemmican, and penicillin, sufficient to sustain seventy-five thousand men in the field for one hundred days. The Commissariat of the Hurmu Fyrð further received directions to requisition stocks of diesel and aviation fuel throughout Hurmudan Apollonia, to the chagrin of commerce, industry and civil society alike. The Commissariat was similarly directed to identify and requisition the required warehouse space for the establishment of General Depots in the Ghawlama area.

The 79th Depot & Logistics Regiment at Vadimbaatar was directed to serve as the sustaining element of the deployed force. Concurrently however, the regiment was discovered by the Inspectorate of the Fyrð to be drawing pay and rations for 10,007 men, a remarkable inflation over its nominal established strength of 1,200 men. The scandal was quickly discovered to revolve around a scheme by officers of the regiment to deduct wages from personnel under their command whilst auctioning trainees inducted into their regiment off to neighbouring understrength formations as well as to industry. Whilst absurd, this did at least represent a windfall of available manpower to support the upcoming campaign. New officers would however be required.

Beginning in the second month of 1753 AN, the Regiment of the Blackfriars' had already entered into negotiations with agents of the Secretary of State for Peace with regards to potential service in Lontinien and vaguely defined adjoining regions, the rise of the NKR in the previous year having already been the occasion for concern by the Hurmudan authorities.

During V.1753 AN a contract was negotiated between the ESB-Jagdverbände and the Secretary of State for Peace of the Realms of the Order of the Holy Lakes for a special corporate security mission in the Apollonian High North. Joining over subsequent months in Vadimbaatar were Florian mercenaries wearing the livery of the Apollonian Field Force of the ESB-Holïurs-Afzælt.

At the conclusion of combat operations in Banh Nam, the Honourable Air Corporation was placed on retainer by the Secretary of State for Peace on behalf of the Order of the Holy Lakes. Elements of the HAC were observed to gathering at Ghawlama International Airport in Lontinien by the eighth month of 1753 AN.

The rapid assemblage of corporate paramilitary forces in Lontinien was widely interpreted as a strengthening of the Fyrð elements mobilised during the initial border skirmishes.

The bars and brothels of Ghawlama also bore witness to an ever increasing contingent of "Vanguardistas", spending a generous deployment stipend upon their own dissipation.

As was previously noted, twelve regiments of peacekeepers from the Hurmu Fyrð garrison at Khojinacinggha were ordered to the section of the frontier facing Edelweiss, whilst the 2nd (Apollonian) Guards Division was instructed to begin concentrating forces at Vadimbaatar. These forces would mostly be in position by the start of the eighth month of 1753 AN, whilst the Keshik continues their earlier established pattern of forward patrolling.

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