The Phoenian Civil War

The Phoenian Civil War was a conflict that started on 9/13/21 when astapf, mayor of the town Rapture declared themselves free from Phoenia. The civil war brought lots of conflict and fighting not only in phoenia but foreign nations who took interest in the countries collapsing state.

The beginning of the civil war
At 7:00 Est (Eastern standard time) Rapture and the surrounding areas controlled by rapture declared themselves free from phoenia. This caused a lot of chaos within the nation of phoenia and huge debates within the senate started on what to exactly do. As rapture was on a series of sky islands it was almost impossible to get inside unless an invading force went through the city gates and a bridge.

The portavel honey incident
Around an hour after the war started astapf and his troops went to the nearby city of Portavel to tell the mayor, Slimicee to restock the honey on his shop in Rapture. He ended up saying no but they left without a fight. If a fight where to start it would see large destruction within the city.

The Rapture Republic
The rapture republic was declared right after the start of the conflict. The government would consist of a president (astapf) and a vice president (izoomu) who would run the country for a month before an election would be held to see who could be voted next in office. The country would of ended up being more stable than phoenia mostly because the senate and other political power figures would be limited and the government would have the citizens themselves vote on almost everything. This system would work for the 44 hours the Republic lasted.

Fall of the republic
44 hours after the republic was declared bandits and mercenaries attacked rapture and the citizens did a vote on what to do. They all had an 100% vote to gather there supplies and leave. Just as the bandits came to occupy the city they saw it was empty. Almost every chest had been looted by the government and they fled to anonymous locations across eldham. But some ended up remaining to instead fight the government. These rebels would form the Movement for the liberation of phoenia. This group would end up dissolving after the second Rapture raid.

The movement for the liberation of Phoenia
The movement for the liberation of Phoenia was set up by a few remaining Rapture refugees. Most where citizens forced out from the government. Many in Rapture who had not even fight where removed of citizenship thus causing them to rebel. The group didnt do much but raid Rapture twice with help from Astapf and a few others. The group stayed in the most rural far northeastern parts of the nation where they set up a small stone shack to live in and wait for Rapture to be open again.

The ambush
Many new citizens of Rapture started to settle the once used apartments to try and make a new life. Astapf and some members of his remaining rebels loyal to him and also a few from the Movement for the liberation of Phoenia ended up going to rapture and kicking all citzens out. Most where wounded and thrown off into the lake below to drown or swim up and save themselves. For this small time Rapture was owned by the Rebel forces.

The retreat
The rebels couldn't do much after the battle and thus most left back to there homes or the rebel camp. This was mostly due to the fact the remaining towns people hid in there homes or where killed by Astapf. Due to the loss of lives it was considered a massacre as most had iron armor or unenchanted diamond.

The second independence movement
Many eastern cities within phoenia ended up taking inspiration from the already established rebels within the country and with the partial support of the existing rebels declared independence. The cities of Swamp, Klatch, Ampolo and a few others declared themselves independent. This started another conflict and a three sided civil war as the existing rebels who although supported the new independence movements, Didn't agree with them in many things and thus caused small skirmishes with 3 sides involved.

The second Rapture raid
Rapture was raided again by astapf and his crew and ended up not doing as much damage. But they ended up staying for longer and fought bandits who ended up forcing the group out of Rapture again. These bandits also ended up harming many spectators such as LogicalAri and Maylin lee. Maylin Lee is the queen of wolfswood and this attack nearly started another foreign power from entering the war.

The great offensive
At the end of the day the rebels ended up taking Multiple key roads and also the current capital of phoenia DolGuldur. A day later the cities of Ampolo and Portavel would fall into rebel control as well as mikanie city and portsouth. This left only Solana to be left to fight.