Azad Collapse

The Collapse of Azad was a brief war, never actually declared, between Azad and Aristios over the disputed land of Baumstadt. After Azad demolished the ancient city of Baumstadt which was a disputed territory between the two nations. This led to Aristios demanding reparations from Azad which they refused leading to war.

Prelude
Azad and Aristios had had a rocky relationship as Azad, formerly known as the Aristii province of Astrya, declared independence during the civil war but never re-joined the Republic. During this time however the Western Peninsula of Azad was technically Aristios territory as the acting leader of Baumstadt did decide to join Aristios but no mapping guilds were ever notified.

Tensions
After a long period of time Baumstadt went inactive and the claim was lost. Seeing this Azad demolished the town for future projects but then Sirlad found out. The Aristii Government demanded 3 reparations the clauses being: Reparations for the damage to the city, Azad's withdrawal from the western Peninsula and for those who destroyed the city to go through Aristios's justice system. To this Azad said no. In preparation for the coming battle Aristios set up and manned the Fortress of Astrya Novum inside Azadian lands in preparation for potential conflict.

The Battle of Astrya
Azad had sent a small patrol to investigate the new fotress set up. A bandit chased away the squad (Pandsabotage, Super_Abbe, DudelyFudder). So they regrouped grabbing the head soldier to go and attack the bandit and scout the land. A foolish mistake that Pandsabotage made exclaiming "For Azad" caused both sides to think it was a sign of aggression. Imviplayss fired an arrow thinking the fort had attacked. The squad was obliterated and ended in less of a battle and more of a massacre.

Aftermath
After thus tragady some of the Azadi government left Stoneworks because of toxicity from members that will not be stated. The citizens of Azad were instructed to evacuate the country or take refuge in Isothonikos, which Abbadon had purchased. This left Aristios to reclaim the land and reform the Province of Astrya. As stated before, Aristios sold the capitol of Azad, Isothonikos to Abbadon for $100,000 as a place for Azadi refugees to go who did not want to join the Republic of Artistios. Aristios then gave the Azadi Island, Vulcan, back to the successor state to Ostartia: The Falholt Commonwealth.

After seeing the land annexed and reformed into Astrya an Azadi government official created New Azad and announced plans to build a new state in the Ocean. Aristios declared this a terrorist group and made threats to any who harbored them. Due to this Abbadon was forced to make them leave Isothonikos. Then they decided to go settle in Aquaris who denied due to fear of an Aristios attack. Currently the groups whereabouts are unknown and Aristii soldiers are patrolling Astrya on the lookout for them.