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In response to the Cuthish {{wp|landing operation|naval invasion}} of the [[Ochoccola Republic]] on 8 April at [[Battle of Oktamulke Beach|Oktamulke Beach]], [[Prime Minister of Mascylla|Mascyllary Prime Minister]] [[Monarchy of Mascylla#List|Michael Meilke]] ordered the deployment of the 2nd Carrier Group, then led by the {{wp|Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier|''Lütjens''-class}} {{wp|aircraft carrier}} MSS ''Hermann von Martinsen'' under the command of senior ''[[Mascyllary Navy#Officers|Admiral]]'' Karl Friedrich Maiberd, to Akawhk and Alvinia at large on 10 April, with the official intention of "policing {{wp|international waters}}" and "deterring any transgression against the {{wp|law of war}}." Tensions came to a head when the fleet arrived at Akawhk on 22 April, and routinely patrolled the Alvinia Sea some 30 km (18.6 mi) off [[Socapatoy]] and the Ochoccolan coast, directly hindering Cuthish naval and aerial activity. While Mascylla was officially not a party of the conflict, it secretly provided Ochoccolan forces with military-grade equipment and financial aid as well as {{wp|covert operation|covert}} [[DSA]] operatives serving as {{wp|foreign internal defense}} advisors, and supplied them with {{wp|signals intelligence|signals}} and {{wp|geospatial intelligence}}. | In response to the Cuthish {{wp|landing operation|naval invasion}} of the [[Ochoccola Republic]] on 8 April at [[Battle of Oktamulke Beach|Oktamulke Beach]], [[Prime Minister of Mascylla|Mascyllary Prime Minister]] [[Monarchy of Mascylla#List|Michael Meilke]] ordered the deployment of the 2nd Carrier Group, then led by the {{wp|Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier|''Lütjens''-class}} {{wp|aircraft carrier}} MSS ''Hermann von Martinsen'' under the command of senior ''[[Mascyllary Navy#Officers|Admiral]]'' Karl Friedrich Maiberd, to Akawhk and Alvinia at large on 10 April, with the official intention of "policing {{wp|international waters}}" and "deterring any transgression against the {{wp|law of war}}." Tensions came to a head when the fleet arrived at Akawhk on 22 April, and routinely patrolled the Alvinia Sea some 30 km (18.6 mi) off [[Socapatoy]] and the Ochoccolan coast, directly hindering Cuthish naval and aerial activity. While Mascylla was officially not a party of the conflict, it secretly provided Ochoccolan forces with military-grade equipment and financial aid as well as {{wp|covert operation|covert}} [[DSA]] operatives serving as {{wp|foreign internal defense}} advisors, and supplied them with {{wp|signals intelligence|signals}} and {{wp|geospatial intelligence}}. | ||
On the night of 24 April, at 01:49 a.m. local time, the [[Royal Cuthish Air Force]] destroyed a supposed convoy of Mascyllary vehicles without insignia operating near Pinhoti through an {{wp|airstrike}} by {{wp|McDonnell Douglass AV-8B Harrier II|X}} {{wp|attack aircraft}}, killing 17 [[Mascyllary Army|Army]] and [[Mascyllary Marine Corps|Marines]] service members; the circumstances surrounding the initial attack remain a matter of dispute between the Cuthish and Mascyllary government viewpoints. The {{wp|Spruance-class destroyer|''Hernach''-class}} {{wp|guided-missile destroyer}} MSS ''Friedrich Hainnecke'', which accompanied and supported the convoy as part of the 2nd Carrier Group, swiftly returned {{wp|anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft fire}} and launched multiple {{wp|Tomahawk (missile)|Sekara}} {{wp|cruise missile|cruise missiles}} to destroy the runways of Cuthish-controlled [[Widdelton International Airport]]. A 30-minute intense exchange of fire ensued, severly damaging the {{wp|capsizing|capsized}} ''Friedrich Hainnecke'' through fire by the cruiser HMS ''Stenworth'', striking a direct hit on HMS ''Meerlan'', and killing some 9 Mascyllary and | On the night of 24 April, at 01:49 a.m. local time, the [[Royal Cuthish Air Force]] destroyed a supposed convoy of Mascyllary vehicles without insignia operating near Pinhoti through an {{wp|airstrike}} by {{wp|McDonnell Douglass AV-8B Harrier II|X}} {{wp|attack aircraft}}, killing 17 [[Mascyllary Army|Army]] and [[Mascyllary Marine Corps|Marines]] service members; the circumstances surrounding the initial attack remain a matter of dispute between the Cuthish and Mascyllary government viewpoints. The {{wp|Spruance-class destroyer|''Hernach''-class}} {{wp|guided-missile destroyer}} MSS ''Friedrich Hainnecke'', which accompanied and supported the convoy as part of the 2nd Carrier Group, swiftly returned {{wp|anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft fire}} and launched multiple {{wp|Tomahawk (missile)|Sekara}} {{wp|cruise missile|cruise missiles}} to destroy the runways of Cuthish-controlled [[Widdelton International Airport]]. A 30-minute intense exchange of fire ensued, severly damaging the {{wp|capsizing|capsized}} ''Friedrich Hainnecke'' through fire by the {{wp|cruiser}} HMS ''Stenworth'', striking a direct hit on HMS ''Meerlan'', and killing some 9 Mascyllary and 14 Cuthish sailors. Because the naval engagement took place in a small and crammed area just 4.2 km (2.6 mi) off the shoreline, the {{wp|close-in weapons system|CIWS}} of MSS ''Alden'' mistook {{wp|chaff (countermeasure)|chaffs}} fired by ''Friedrich Hainnecke'' for protection as legitimate targets and several {{wp|friendly fire}} stray rounds from the firing further damaged the tilting vessel, amplifying the initial confusion among Mascyllary and Cuthish commanders. After ascertaining the politically volatile situation, the 2nd Carrier Group immediately retreated by early morning, and in response, Michael Meilke convened an emergency meeting of the Security Committee on 25 April. | ||
Several days of tension followed as the public in nearby [[Akawhk|Mascyllary Akawhk]] feared a potential military response by Cuthish forces in Ochoccola. On 30 May, Cuthland deployed a X {{wp|nuclear submarine}} equipped with nuclear {{wp|submarine-launched ballistic missile|SLBMs}} to the Alvinian Sea, and on the following day, its presence was due to be matched by a Mascyllary {{wp|Los Angeles-class submarine|''Pritnitz''-class}} submarine with an equal stock of weapons traversing the Agric Ocean. Simultaneously, Meilke publically threatened to invoke the [[BDTA|BDTA's]] commitment to mutual assistence and the ''{{wp|casus foederis}}'', citing the casualties suffered as evidence for an hostile act of war against Mascylla. After lengthy and careful consideration, and with the onset of the [[Battle of Socapatoy]] by 4 May, Meilke and X reached an agreement to withdraw nuclear weapons from Alvinia and pursue diplomatic negotiations. On 5 May, the crisis was formally ended. However, the political and cultural fallout of the Akawhk Crisis as well as the outcome of the Ochoccola War itself re-ignited [[Great Game (Aurorum)|Great Game]] [[Cuthish–Mascyllary enmity|tensions between Cuthland and Mascylla]] and transformed the political and security landscape of [[Alvinia]], and the events surrounding it remain controversial to this day. | Several days of tension followed as the public in nearby [[Akawhk|Mascyllary Akawhk]] feared a potential military response by Cuthish forces in Ochoccola. On 30 May, Cuthland deployed a X {{wp|nuclear submarine}} equipped with nuclear {{wp|submarine-launched ballistic missile|SLBMs}} to the Alvinian Sea, and on the following day, its presence was due to be matched by a Mascyllary {{wp|Los Angeles-class submarine|''Pritnitz''-class}} submarine with an equal stock of weapons traversing the Agric Ocean. Simultaneously, Meilke publically threatened to invoke the [[BDTA|BDTA's]] commitment to mutual assistence and the ''{{wp|casus foederis}}'', citing the casualties suffered as evidence for an hostile act of war against Mascylla. After lengthy and careful consideration, and with the onset of the [[Battle of Socapatoy]] by 4 May, Meilke and X reached an agreement to withdraw nuclear weapons from Alvinia and pursue diplomatic negotiations. On 5 May, the crisis was formally ended. However, the political and cultural fallout of the Akawhk Crisis as well as the outcome of the Ochoccola War itself re-ignited [[Great Game (Aurorum)|Great Game]] [[Cuthish–Mascyllary enmity|tensions between Cuthland and Mascylla]] and transformed the political and security landscape of [[Alvinia]], and the events surrounding it remain controversial to this day. |
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Akawhk Crisis | |||||||
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Part of the Ochoccola War and the Great Game | |||||||
The Mascyllary battleship MSS Alden fires her 16-inch guns in response to Cuthish fire on 24 April | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Cuthland Supported by: Mageiros League List |
Akawhk Mascylla Supported by: BDTA | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Cuthland |
Lukas III Michael Meilke Alexander Schuman Norbert Rüdt Karl Friedrich Maiberd Kurt von der Blücher | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
X |
MSS Friedrich Hainnecke damaged and capsized 26 military personnal killed 3 Mascyllary citizens killed |
The Akawhk Crisis (Hesurian: Akokh-Krise), also referred to as the 1994 Alvinian Crisis (Hesurian: Alwinische Krise) and Godrican Scare (Hesurian: Godrika-Schreck), was an approximately one week-long military confrontation that took place from 24 April to 5 May 1994 between Cuthland and Mascylla along with Mascyllary Akawhk during the Ochoccola War. The intense standoff was precipitated by Cuthish military action in the Alvinian Sea and surrounding Akawhk territorial waters after the Battle of Lyndon Ridge on 21 April and Battle of Pinhoti on X April, a brief and sudden climactic engagement between Cuthish and Mascyllary forces deployed to the region on the night of 24 April, and a continued state of heightened alert by both sides in the subsequent week.
In response to the Cuthish naval invasion of the Ochoccola Republic on 8 April at Oktamulke Beach, Mascyllary Prime Minister Michael Meilke ordered the deployment of the 2nd Carrier Group, then led by the Lütjens-class aircraft carrier MSS Hermann von Martinsen under the command of senior Admiral Karl Friedrich Maiberd, to Akawhk and Alvinia at large on 10 April, with the official intention of "policing international waters" and "deterring any transgression against the law of war." Tensions came to a head when the fleet arrived at Akawhk on 22 April, and routinely patrolled the Alvinia Sea some 30 km (18.6 mi) off Socapatoy and the Ochoccolan coast, directly hindering Cuthish naval and aerial activity. While Mascylla was officially not a party of the conflict, it secretly provided Ochoccolan forces with military-grade equipment and financial aid as well as covert DSA operatives serving as foreign internal defense advisors, and supplied them with signals and geospatial intelligence.
On the night of 24 April, at 01:49 a.m. local time, the Royal Cuthish Air Force destroyed a supposed convoy of Mascyllary vehicles without insignia operating near Pinhoti through an airstrike by X attack aircraft, killing 17 Army and Marines service members; the circumstances surrounding the initial attack remain a matter of dispute between the Cuthish and Mascyllary government viewpoints. The Hernach-class guided-missile destroyer MSS Friedrich Hainnecke, which accompanied and supported the convoy as part of the 2nd Carrier Group, swiftly returned anti-aircraft fire and launched multiple Sekara cruise missiles to destroy the runways of Cuthish-controlled Widdelton International Airport. A 30-minute intense exchange of fire ensued, severly damaging the capsized Friedrich Hainnecke through fire by the cruiser HMS Stenworth, striking a direct hit on HMS Meerlan, and killing some 9 Mascyllary and 14 Cuthish sailors. Because the naval engagement took place in a small and crammed area just 4.2 km (2.6 mi) off the shoreline, the CIWS of MSS Alden mistook chaffs fired by Friedrich Hainnecke for protection as legitimate targets and several friendly fire stray rounds from the firing further damaged the tilting vessel, amplifying the initial confusion among Mascyllary and Cuthish commanders. After ascertaining the politically volatile situation, the 2nd Carrier Group immediately retreated by early morning, and in response, Michael Meilke convened an emergency meeting of the Security Committee on 25 April.
Several days of tension followed as the public in nearby Mascyllary Akawhk feared a potential military response by Cuthish forces in Ochoccola. On 30 May, Cuthland deployed a X nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear SLBMs to the Alvinian Sea, and on the following day, its presence was due to be matched by a Mascyllary Pritnitz-class submarine with an equal stock of weapons traversing the Agric Ocean. Simultaneously, Meilke publically threatened to invoke the BDTA's commitment to mutual assistence and the casus foederis, citing the casualties suffered as evidence for an hostile act of war against Mascylla. After lengthy and careful consideration, and with the onset of the Battle of Socapatoy by 4 May, Meilke and X reached an agreement to withdraw nuclear weapons from Alvinia and pursue diplomatic negotiations. On 5 May, the crisis was formally ended. However, the political and cultural fallout of the Akawhk Crisis as well as the outcome of the Ochoccola War itself re-ignited Great Game tensions between Cuthland and Mascylla and transformed the political and security landscape of Alvinia, and the events surrounding it remain controversial to this day.