Clone War

The Clone War, sometimes called the Great Serronan Trial, is an ongoing major military conflict within Eldham. The war officially began in the Fall of 272 TE as a conflict between the Vulerian vassal state of Eros and the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire before further involving many other nations.

It is the first major war to be fought in Serrona since the Furry War which broke out a century earlier in 171 TE between the Vulperium and United Socialist States of Eldham. It was also one of the first major near-global wars to happen since that conflict.

At the first major battle of the war, the Battle of Prosede-Winterose, the victor was inconclusive but the Vulerian army and their supporters successfully received more siege points and significantly more kills.

Establishment of the CATO
The Celestial Accords Treaty Organization, abbreviated to simply CATO, was founded in the Spring of 196 TE. This was a massive international alliance that was initially founded in opposition to the Eldham Alliance and initially featured the members of the Imperial Archonate of Sylvania, the Crownlands of Ashai, the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire, the Kingdom of Anglunia, and the Republic of Redoriv.

As some of these respective nations grew and other members such as Iversteiya joined CATO, much of the world was now in a formal military alliance.

Birth of Panserronanism
Starting in around Late 2021, a movement called Panserronanism began to be born in various nations across Serrona. This advocated that all Serronans shall be united in some capacity militarily, socially, or politically.

While feuds between the West and East of Serrona still existed and began to topple over in frustrations by 2022 with the rise of the Furry War, as the war ended and time moved on these wounds between Serrona's two halves began to mend. This saw a climax with the creation of the Serronan League before its unwilling dissolution caused by external threats in the Sylvanian puppet state of Leiden. Any attempt to birth a Panserronanist movement were readily followed by hostility by nations like the Imperial Archonate of Sylvania and the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire who were readily opposed to attempts to create another major power in the region, especially one that would not be directly allied to CATO.

Fearing the possibility of war, nations like the United Socialist States of Eldham, the Kingdom of Eros, the Valardom of Vulpinia, and the Ocean-Volks Union, made wide discussions of a possible Panserronanist alliance or nation-state. All that was needed for such an alliance to make fruition was the rise of war or a backstabbing from Iversteiya.

Ashai leaves the CATO
In the Summer of 272 TE, the Crownlands of Ashai formally left the Celestial Accords Treaty Organization. Ashai was at this point the single largest nation on Stoneworks by population with territorial extent even going into Rathnir's former Uldarashi lands. This leaving was prompted by a Sylvanian and Ashtrokan-Wandenreich hostility to Qadakh, a hostility that was sponsored by a mercenary organization called the Parahands. It was also around this time that the Hands/Parahands were placed in a 'Reign of Terror' which is a system on Stoneworks that means a nation that has engaged in mass hostility and has conquered what the admins deem to be 'too much land' will be stopped temporarily from doing geopolitics.

Ashai immediately began to seek new allies and had made friends with the various nations of Serrona at this time, and with increasing hostilities from Sylvania and the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich on the continent, it appeared obvious that war was on the horizon. This was ominously predicted in the Ashai's announcement for leaving CATO.

Looting of Earnside
Over a week prior to 272 TE, the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire had temporarily dismantled their claim on Earnside for reasons unpositive; the Vulerians claimed it was to exert control while the Ashtrokan-Wandenreichers made no public statements on the predicament.

Either way, this resulted in multiple players looting items from the city of Earnside; this was not in violation of Stoneworks rules as the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich had deliberately unclaimed the city's territory and did not make precautions for this. Allegedly, multiple Vulerian citizens had partook in the looting of Earnside.

This resulted in immediate hostility between Vuleria and the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire. Furthermore, this prompted hostility from their allies. Quickly, the entirety of the remaining CATO members, namely Sylvania, became involved in the chaos and the Crownlands of Ashai eventually publicly announced they were standing alongside Vuleria militarily. This was the first declaration of war and the formal beginning of the Clone War in the Fall of 272 TE. The war was first named at this point the 'Great Serronan Trial' by the same player who publicly announced the beginning of war, but the name 'Clone War' began to catch on in the public sphere and remains the most popular name for the conflict. The name 'Clone War' in reference to a Star Wars television series.

The first nations to declare military support included the Plague City of Manzig in Southern Serrona, Solemare, Sondor, quickly followed by Serrukan. War was now on the horizon and propaganda ramped up severely with mass public support for Vuleria while support for CATO was often considered 'lackluster'. In the Spring of 274 TE, Ashai formally declared war on the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire, and de-facto the remaining members of CATO including Sylvania, Iversteiya, and Anglunia.

Rise of the Eastern Revolts
The first sights of conflict would rise in Southern Serrona. In the immediate fallout of the Furry War, the Vulperium dwindled and eventually collapsed outright. This left the region fractured and balkanized. Eventually the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire came to make annexations of the former Batu territories in the Northwest of Serrona. To it's South, nations like the Kingdom of Eros and Valardom of Vulpinia had been strongly weakened but remained closely aligned. Other nations like Ashai, Iversteiya, and Sylvania had additionally made "cuts of the pie" and made annexations of territory in the region. Eventually Eros and Vulpinia had united under Vuleria.

This anger surrounding the Ashtrokan-Wandenreich annexations of Batu and Oceanum and the recurrent rise of Panserronanism made abundant fuel for future conflict and the rise of what would eventually be known as the Eastern Revolts. Eventually in the Winter of 273 TE, the previous AWE provinces would declare independence formally creating the Eastern Revolts and become vassal states of Vuleria. These included the Province of Sondor and the Interim Government of Serrukan which effectively placed half of the territorial extent of the AWE in active secessionist crisis.

The Ashtrokan-Wandenreich Empire failed to make active attempts to moderate the situation and neglected to make public announcements regarding the secession. This quickly meant that the Vulerians and the Eastern Revolts had mass popularity abroad and following numerous treaty violations from nations like Sylvania, many were open to engaging in active war with CATO in light of Ashai leaving the alliance.