East Europan Civil War

East Europan Civil War
Part of the Eurasianna War and the Neocon War
Erebonian troops taking positions in Crossbell. Behind them is a Theimer tank
Date 1st Phase: 10 October 2016 - 28 June 2025 2nd Phase: 29 June 2025 - 15 March 2031 3rd Phase: 16 March 2031 - 1 November 2040 Location East Europa Result Allied Victory
Belligerents
Gneisenau Forces Gneisenau Circle (2015-2025) Democratic East Europan Union (2026-onwards) Finlandian Free State Gneisenau Partisan Force Heimdallr Council Forces Erebonian Empire Rubrum United Kingdom Gallia-Bruhl Zanarkand New Akiba	Imperial Forces Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance (until 2029)	Neocon Forces Republic of East Europa Quenmin Joyonghea Bethausia Concordia Holy Trabian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Louis Ferdinand I Friedrich Albricht Felix Claus Gruber Erich von Esling Georgy Semenov Nikolai Rokosovssky Kiriya Kitagawa Yonaharu Susaya Victor S. Arseid Carl Regnitz	Maximillian III  † Selvaria Bles  † Giorgios Held  † Radi Jaeger   Berthold Gregor Jr.   Rupprecht Grünspan  † Tania Nikoleva	Eugen Weinmann Arnold Keitel Rolf Steyer Torsten Wall Quyền Phương Anh Pan Nam-seon Khaing Zeyar Zin Robert Starkweather Giovanni Trujillo Raphaëlle Ménétries Abraham Seco
Strength
2025: 350,000 By 2028: 6,500,000	2025: 7,500,000 By 2028: 1,750,000	2026: 2,500,000 (including foreign support) By 2028: 5,000,000 (including foreign support)
Casualties and losses
approx. 74,524	approx. 264,214 5,000,000 defected to the Gneisenau Circle 1,000,000 defected to the Neocon Forces	approx. 174,124 50,000 defected to the Gneisenau Circle

The East Europan Civil War (10 October 2016 - 1 November 2040) was a conflict that took place during the Imperial Crisis, Eurasianna War, and the Neocon War. The Civil War was the longest civilian conflict in the history of Eordis that reflected on the Imperial ambitions of the Autocratic East Europan Imperial Alliance, the desire of East Europans for a free and democratic government, leading to the creation of the Gneisenau Circle, to the firm interests of foreign powers under the Global Neoconservative Movement.

During the Imperial Crisis, the Gneisenau Circle was established with the intention of many Imperial resistance members to overthrow Maximillian III and to replace him with his more pro-Allied brother, Louis Ferdinand von Reginrave. During the early years of the civil war, the Gneisenau Circle was ably supported by key Allied nations throughout IC. In 2023, the Neocon governments changed its plan for the civil war, opting to instead to create a republican puppet government in order to prevent any members of the Imperial family to rule again and to ensure total Allied control of East Europa. However, some Allied governments, with the Erebonian government being the most vocal opposed such plan, believing that a puppet government would only entice East Europans to revolt. The reason was dismissed and the plan to create a puppet government went on. Frequent disagreements to the future of East Europa precipitated into the Neocon Governments tagging the Erebonian Empire as a rogue state. Several Allied nations followed, including members of the Lucis Commonwealth of Nations (except for Concordia and the Soryu). After this move, the Neocon Government proceeded to tag the Gneisenau Circle as a renegade and terrorist group whilst forming the puppet government of the Republic of East Europa.

In response, the Gneisenau Circle eventually united the provinces under its control and formed the Democratic East Europan Union, being fully recognised by the entire Heimdallr Council. The DEEU was deemed as a rogue and unrecognised state which must be invaded by the Neocons as it only recognised the East Europan Republic as the sole legitimate government of East Europa. The Gneisenau forces fought both the Imperials and Neocon forces as the civil war went on. Following the fall of the Imperial government and the Neocon's take-over of the Imperial capital of Schwartzgrad, the Gneisenau forces waged an intense guerilla liberation war to free the entirety of East Europa from Neocon rule. Later on, the Gneisenau Partisans dominated massive sways of East Europan regions and eventually forced the Neocons to pull-out of East Europa in 2040, ending the 25-year long Civil War.