ɴ/First Heboi War

The First Heboi War, also known as the Third Sutolladra War and the First Wonder War, was a conflict fought primarily between Heboi, backed by the Ceironian Union and the Defence Accord, against Vyllitareh, supported by the Republic of Suton and the Organisation of Independent States from 2434 to 2449. The conflict began as a guerrilla war on 4 March, 2434, when the Vyllitvahti engaged against the Heboian armed forces. Across the 2430s, the scale of the conflict increased to include all five countries of the island introducing Echeteh, Riyu and Nholobi to the war. In 2441, the war would would exist on an official footing with the Vyllitareh invasion of Heboi on 5 February. With the use of atomic weaponry in the bombing of Sehn City by Ceironia, the OIS declared war on the Defence Accord. Concurrently, Douglas Nimroy would experience the first successful reverse engineering of Paleokataric technology, becoming an enhanced supersoldier in the process. Through the widespread use of atomic weaponry, and a multiple year head start on the archaeological arms race, across 2447 to 2449 the Defence Accord would actively repel the OIS, leading to the surrender of Vyllitareh forces on 15 October, 2449 with the Fall of Sehn City. A truce was signed between the Defence Accord and OIS, but would be broken nine months later with the advent of the Great Northern War.

Following the call back of Imperial Ceironian troops from Heboi in 2433 due to growing political tensions within Ceironia, Hvede assumed responsibility for protecting colonial and aligned interests within the Concordat. With the outbreak of civil war in Ceironia between Tarasovian and Raesarist forces, Vyllitareh saw fit to rekindle hostilities. The Vyllitvahti (VV), a coalition of Vahti paramilitary organisations funded by Vyllitareh re-initiated a guerrilla war across Heboi, Riyu and Nholobi. Vyllitareh put into motion an invasion of Riyu and Nholobi in August 2435, these invasions successfully ousted the governments, turning the two countries into effective client states. Supply routes through Riyu and Nholobi that penetrated into Heboi and Echeteh were established known as the Veve Chain, further straining the armed forces of Heboi. Vyllitareh forces invaded Echeteh in December 2436 to support the Vahti insurgent group, the NVLFE, prompting Hvede to rapidly increase intervention in Heboi as Echeteh was a Hvedish dominion.

Immediately following the resolution of the Ceironian Civil War in February 2437, now High Marshal, Georgiy Tarasov, ordered the deployment of 8,000 military advisors and the providing of air-support to Heboi, along with logistical and humanitarian support. By 2439, Hvede had dedicated a total of 127,000 troops to fight across Echeteh and Heboi, however large swaths of the Ulithe Ranges had become occupied by the Vyllitvahti. With the Heboian capital of Uterheo being surrounded by the Ulithe, Vyllitvahti forces commenced the Siege of Uterheo in April 2440. At the beginning of the siege, the Vyllitvahti had over 260,000 active paramilitary troops in Heboian territory, meanwhilst the Ceironian Union had ramped up its intervention, with over 30,000 military advisors and 45,000 soldiers deployed in June 2440.

To resolve the Siege of Uterheo, Vyllitareh declared war on Heboi on 5 February, 2441. Vyllitareh National Forces invaded both Heboi and Echeteh throughout the the entire span of the island of Heboi. In response, Ceironia activated article six of the Defence Accord's clauses. A successor to the Concordat, the Defence Accord consisting of Ceironia, Heboi, Hvede, Ahitereira, Terras amongst other members were officially at war with Vyllitareh. As Vyllitareh was allied to Suton as a member of the Organisation of Independent States, the alliance swiftly responded. Opting not to rekindle a second Great War, the OIS merely reciprocated in its level of intervention within Heboi without declaring open war.

Across 2441 to 2447 the war, however being escalated, remained in a stalemate between Defence Accord and OIS forces. The nature of the war changed so that the Vyllitvahti were no longer effective, and were fully integrated into the Vyllitareh army by 2446. Meanwhilst, general Robert Eddardson, now head of the Ceironian forces in Heboi, re-investigated the Bara Chuoi cave site, discovering the first Paleokataric vault. On 21 April, 2447, the vault was breached, and use of the bunker's genetic engineering equipment began. Douglas Nimroy would serve as the first successful test subject, and undergo an augmentation process to become the first supersoldier in December of 2447, beginning the Renaissance. Operation Splinter saw the common use of atomic weapons by Ceironia for tactical and strategic purposes, with a total of twenty-six warheads being deployed throughout 2447 to 2449, decimating OIS forces and cutting supply lines. Across the two year period of atomic weaponry usage, and covert usage of Douglas Nimroy's abilities, Vyllitareh's wartime capabilities rapidly fell due to internal instability, supply shortages and the OIS becoming weary of continuing its involvement. In May of 2449 the OIS began to withdraw from Vyllitareh and on 15 October of the same year, the war would come to an end with Defence Accord victory.