Second Kildarian Revolution

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Second Kildarian Revolution
Liberation of Port Nevermore (1704).png
Liberation of Port Nevermore (11.IV.1704 AN). The local garrison joins the strikers in their occupation of the Provincial Parliament Building and proclaim a Kildarian people's republic.
Date 7.IV 1704 AN
Location Jingdaoese Community, Great Apollonian Empire
Status Ongoing
Belligerents
DARK Democratic Apollonian Republic of Kildare
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Great Apollonian Empire Great Apollonian Empire

Jingdaoese community Jingdaoese Community

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The Second Kildarian Revolution, or Revolution of 1704, was a conflict which erupted within the western and central states of the Great Apollonian Empire. It's commonly agreed that the revolution is a culmination of several different factors, ranging from dissatisfaction among the old guard with the growing power base of Diwang Hon Ben Erasmus and his attempts to transform the nation into his personal dictatorship, a military reform which unintentionally strengthened local Provincial Assemblies grasp over local military units and a crushed hope among the empire's several ethnicities for a better and more equal life. The influx of cheap goods on the market further worsened the stagnated economy and raised the fears of many farmers and labourers. Where in the past the authority of the Heavenly Light kept dissident voices quiet, it had now been shoved at the side. By 1704 AN, the Xinshi Emperor had withdrawn to Imperial Guang Palace and kept herself aloof from politics.

Pro-federalist (Greater Apollonian) and pro-empire factions quickly lost support among the classes and ethnicities of the nations during the late 1703's and early 1704's. Among those who revolted one could find dissatisfied Kildari whom had hoped that Great Apollonia would have brought more equality, military officers who had been dismayed over attempts from Agra to centralise power in hands of their Emperor, farmers and labourers who were afraid of the tax-free imports of cheap goods from the east.

It eventually resulted in the collapse of the short-lived, but largest empire of Micras and the establishment of the Democratic Apollonian Republic of Kildare, the Qyzyl People's Republic and Alrig Autonomous Republic. The eastern part of the empire continued as the Çakar Empire.

The revolution started of with a revolt from the workers and labour unions within the Empire, but was soon supported and hijacked by the Kakumei Society, which had retreated to Arboria in the aftermath of the Post-Chidao Troubles. Cooperation between its two rivalling factions was shaky at best during the early days of the revolution, but turned worse when Marius Gallo blamed Wang Wei to be influenced by honeyed words of the Tegong chief Shi Pupei.

The unnatural manner through which the Tegong seduced Wang Wei into an alliance between the Syndicalist wing of the Society for the Revolution and the dissident factions of the Jing military caused the Humanist faction based in Arboria to declare the "Realm of Kildare" and commence its own attack on the revolutionaries. Infighting ensued, with both sides fighting for the overthrow of each other and the federal authorities. However, after a few weeks of indecisive skirmishing, the Humanist faction deemed their involvement in the conflict to be futile and, encouraged by their sponsors in Arboria and the Benacian Union, withdrew back northwards across the border - preserving the Talons of the Archon as a force in being that would remain ready for future eventualities including the inevitable failure of the degenerate egalitarian ideology now being propagated.

During the Second Kildarian Revolution, the Alriggian Autonomous Zone, which had been in a political crisis since 1703 re-emerged as the, formally, independent nation Alrig. Alrig joined the side of the Apollonian democrats.

Causes

Timeline

1704

  • I.1704
    • 1: Diwang Hon Ben Erasmus praises in his New Year's speech on the Union Jing Broadcast the Tobu Emperor and the Greater Apollonian Empire. During the broadcast he announces that, in an effort to further unite the people and the nation's market, taxes between provinces and states will be lowered significantly, granting the Jingdaoese cheap access to goods fabricated in the east. The 'good' news immediately backlashes when farmers and labourers start protesting the lower taxes.
    • 5: With the holidays over, minor protests start to spread across the northern provinces. Announced strikes in Dalmacija are quelled before they can even start.
    • 15: Despite Hon Ben Erasmus's control over the Grand Secretariat, a report of the Secretariat of Revenue reaches the Gong Suweiai and warns them for worsening budget deficits. Plans of cutting in the pensions of veterans and limiting military investments anger the officer corps.
  • II.1704
    • 8: A soldier strike erupts at the military base of Yuncenglou.
  • IV.1704:
    • 7:
      • The storming of Sheng Garden begins, under influence and with support of the Kakumei Society. A mob of dissatisfied peasants and labourers gather in Daocheng and march towards Sheng Garden. Police officers are overwhelmed, while the military refuses to intervene on behalf of the Diwang. The mob eventually reach Changgong Headquarters, which they invade. A group of revolutionaries proclaim the capital and its surrounding lands under martial law and. Several important government officials are captured and some, after a show trial, executed on charges of corruption and treason to the Jingdaoese and Kildarian state a few hours later by the newly established people's council.
      • Hon Ben Erasmus regroups with his supporters and loyal army officers at the town of Dasha, near the capital. An ultimatum is sent to the rebels, but a shelling of the capital is made more difficult due to the presence of the Heavenly Light at Her palace.
    • 8: Worker councils are established countrywide. Most influential ones are located in the north of the country, where the old Nokarodo Faction held most influence. Government officials
    • 11: Soldiers of the local garrison join the protestors in Xianbeicheng, which is renamed to its old name Port Nevermore and storm the Provincial Parliament. A Kildarian people's republic is proclaimed, which rallies both Jingdaoese and Kildari into its ranks.
  • XII

Port Nevermore: insurrection and infighting

International response