Great Eastern Insurgency

Great Eastern Insurgency
Date 21st May 1870 - 6th November 2023 (153 Years) Location Celesterra Status Ended
Belligerents
State Security Forces Celesterran Armed Forces 1870 Onward Imperial Police Force 1870 Onward Imperial Special Purposes Force 1900 Onward Borlish Police Force 1870 Onward	Insurgents Borlish Fatherland Front 1900 Onward Borlish Noble Armies 1873-1893 Borlish Peasants 1870-1893 Westlandic Republican Army 1891-1893 Westlandic Peasants 1889-1893 Tiwazian Peasants 1889-1893 Taranis Peasants 1890 - 1893 Supported by Great Zhi
Commanders and leaders
Void Envoy Emperor Nicholas III 1870-1895 Void Envoy Emperor Alexei 1895-1925 Void Envoy Ivan III 1925-1950 Void Envoy Nicholas IV 1950-2003 Void Envoy Alexander I 2003 Onward Hand Of The Envoy Vladmir Petrov 1870-1925 Hand Of The Envoy Prince Of Bear 1925-1950 Hand Of The Envoy Prince Of Crystal Waters 1950-1970 Hand Of The Envoy Alexei Reigh 1970-2001 Hand Of The Envoy Julian Reigh 2001-2023
Strength
In 1870 Army 200,000 Air Force 0 Navy 100,000 Other 200,000 Total 500,000 Serving in this conflict In Present Army 100,000 Air Force 50,000 Navy 50,000 Other 150,000 Total 350,000 Serving in this conflict	In 1870 Army 500,000 Air Force 0 Navy 0 Total 500,000 Overall In Present Army 250,000 Air Force 0 Navy 0 Total 250,000 Overall
Casualties and losses
Dead 100,000 Injured 250,000	Dead 2,300,000 Injured 2,680,000
Civilian Dead 700,000 Civilian Injured 261,000
Total Dead 3,070,000 Total Injured 3,191,000 Displaced 10,000,000

Borlish Revolt 1870

Borland revolted against imperial rule due to the high taxes placed upon them by the imperial government and their local nobles as well as the fact that surfs in Borland were often worked literally to death. Westland was also supposed to come to Borlands aid but aid never arrived. The revolt lasted a year and many of the local nobles were killed. Imperial response to the revolt was slow and the Revolt itself capitalised on this, first killing nobles then brefly setting up the "Republic Of Borland". Once the imperial armies arrived, the Borlish rebels were slaughtered along with thousands of Borlish men, thousands of Borlish women were captured and sold off across the country to become sex slaves. Naturally the remaining Borlish population was discontent but imperial armies remained for many years and killed anyone who tried to gather resistance again.

Inter Revolt 1870-1891

Borlish civilians continued to protest against the Celesterran government but in smaller pockets of people leading these revolts to have been too small to have been considered a full scale rebellion. The Celesterran government ruled with an iron fist, killing anyone who opposed the will of the emperor and enslaving their families. Rebels hung from public buildings as reminders to those who would want to rebel against the government. But in the underground, discontent was growing as peasants slowly built up an army right under the noses of the Celesterrans and the local nobles. Armies of local nobles even began to become sympathetic to the cause and joined forces with peasants, with many assassinations of Nobles taking place by the hand of their own soldiers.

The Grand Revolt 1891-1893

Peasant groups across Borland, Westland, Taranis and Tiwaz banded together and formed an alliance to revolt against their local nobles and the imperial government. Reasons for this included, continued high taxes from imperial government and nobles, continued forced labour, killings of peasants who were "suspected to be rebels" and continued trafficing of children into child slavery and women into sex slaves for the wealthy in the capital region. Peasant groups rose, with local armies joining the fray as many of them were sons of kidnapped women or brothers of children sold into slavery. Imperial garrisons were pushed out as peasants killed and looted noble homes as well as the palaces of local kings leading to the death of the king of borland, king of westland and the queen of taranis. More imperial armies arrived but rebelling peasants and local armies held them back. While imperial armies were much more experienced and much better equipped, there were many more of the peasants who would have gladly died to have been free from the life they currently had. Both sides eventually ended up in much of a stalemate but, imperial armies were becoming increasingly able to push through the meat shield of peasants with very small casualties on their side but HUGE casualties on the peasant side. Eventually the peasants had to give up due to the sheer number of them being slaughtered with ease by the Imperial Armies who had ended up using artillery and newly invented machine guns on large groups of peasant protestors. The peasants eventually ended up giving up and surrendering, leading to the "Eastern Rebel Massacre" where all 100,000 of the remaining peasants who surrendered were killed.

Inter Revolt 1893-1900

After the peasants gave up protesting, imperial armies slaughtered and burned down many towns in all four regions, leading to around 500,000 civilian deaths. Eventually the armies were called away to resume their post on the eastern border with Michu as tensions seemed to be rising between Michu and Celesterra. The Borlish Police force was left to deal with whatever strung out bands of locals tried to rebel. The Borlish Police were mostly successful in their attempts to prevent further revolts, employing similar tactics to the celesterran military, leading to further deaths of local rebels, along with the arrest of one of the rebel ring leaders who was publicly executed in Bordon.

First BFF Attack 1900

A small attack where a group of 5 Borlish men took to the streets, 2 with guns and the others had weapons such as knives and bats, 2 police officers were killed, 3 injured and a local bureaucrat was injured. The Uprising started with the bureaucrat being attacked by the men and then they continued to march through the city centre of Bordon, locals reported the incident to the police, two police squads consisting of fourteen officers each confronted the men. The men with guns shot two officers in the head and the other three men attacked officers flanking the ones who were shot. The men armed with firearms were killed by officers with guns, leading to the remaining three men to surrender. Upon questioning (and a lot of torture) it was discovered that the men were part of a new organisation called the "Borlish Fatherland Front" who were hellbent on securing a republic of Borland.