Hayop Tapa Wars

Hayop Tapa Wars
Part of Age of Pearls
Date 873 CE to 982 CE Location Ozeros Coastal Southern Ochran Result Armistice & Integration Territorial changes Territorial expanse of South Ochran under the Tahamaja
Belligerents
Tahamaja Empire	Bayarid Empire

The Hayop Tapa were a series of conflicts from 873 CE to 982 CE, between the Bayarid Empire and the Tahamaja Empire, centering territorial claimancy in the Southern Ochran territories that bordered the Ozeros Sea. Five wars took place on both sea and land, and forty five years of warfare. It is the crisis and conflict of the Hayop Tapa wars that provoked the development of gunpowder as a tool of conflict by the side of the Tahamaja, resulting in this war involving the first gunfire conflict within recorded history. The wars culminated in the ten year Tahun Siyam peace, and signified the last significant conflict between the two empires.

The First Hayop Tapa centered on mutually demanded claims over the territories of the Kingdom of Lusoña, as the Asing Mesa Declaration by the Tahamaja in 843 CE coincided with the Bayarid Conquest following the election of Great Khan Khaduur in 856 CE. The two empires saw this as an entanglement of their spheres of influence, serving as the predominant maritime and terrestrial empires in conflict with one another. This conflict primarily took place on the Aranas Peninsula and its surrounding waters. This conflict only lasted three years, and saw the retreat of the Tahamaja from these Southern Ochrani holdings.

The Second Hayop Tapa war began in 896 CE, with the Bayarid Empire attempting to utilize its Southern Ozerosi holdings and ports to develop naval capacities, with the interest in expanding across the Sea into continental Malaio holdings. This mobilization was short lived, and resulted in a near immediate expulsion of Bayarid forces from maritime Ozerosi territories by 898 CE. This conflict would inspire the Tahamaja to further develop its Malaio based holdings.

The most prolonged conflict in this series of wars began in 910 CE, with the area of conflict maintaining a relatively unchanging frontier in the division of coastal and terrestrial holdings between the Tahamaja and Bayarid armies respectively. This conflict, lasting a fourth of a decade, would see the largest loss of resources and manpower between both nations.

The development of gunpowder allowed for the Tahamaja to more effectively maintain and expand from its coastal territories, resulting in provocations that would preclude the Fourth Hayop Tapa war in 953 CE, coincidentally taking advantage of an internal succession dispute for the Bayarid Khanate. This resulted in a rather sweeping campaign in the seizure of South Ochrani territories into the Tahamaja.

The final mass mobilization of troops would occur following the Dueling Kurultai, where Great Khan Aynur came to power and attempted to wrestle back control of its coastal territories against a newly elected Pelautama, who had been intended to claim their next capital to be in the former coastal heartland port of Kali Kembar. In 970 CE, another intense campaign would be fought over the southeastern coasts of Ochran in what is contemporarily the territory of the Republik Bebas Ketiga. This conflict finalized with a Bayarid reclamation of Kali Kembar and its surrounding territories, but a failure to push Tahamajan coastal domination over surrounding provinces.This would lead into the mutual signage of the Tahun Siyam treaty, which was seen as an experimental effort to identify if mutual governance was a compatible and functional way to function within these territories.

Tahun Siyam Treaty

Main article: Treaty of Tahun Siyam

A 16th century replicate of the original Treaty of Tahun Siyam. The original treaty was written on palm-leaf, and bound by silk from the Great Khan's own selections. Copies were created, and distributed throughout both empires, allowing for the preservation of the original text and wording into the current day.

Following the fifth Hayop Tapa war - fought primarily in the Kardish regions of Southern Ochran - the Pelautama and Great Khan convened in the city of Kali Kembar to discuss a more stratified cessation of hostilities. The conflict, indicative of a stalemate in the capacity for either party to properly wrestle control of the region without suffering massive losses, was visible to both rulers in a more visceral way than prior conflict, in part due to the presence of both the Blue Horde and Duyun Kalangan within the Segara Kembar Bay. (Trans. Twin Seas) Following a year of recovery, both rulers met within the city, and deliberated for several weeks in regards for how to proceed. Negotiations were initially poor, but eventually fell into an agreed upon armistice to take place over the following decade. Adhering to the advice of a few select negotiators from across the Ozeros and Ochrani steppe, it was decided that the region surrounding Kali Kembar would serve as an experimental realm of shared influence between the two empires, separated in authority by land and sea, with cities following suite. Stipulations of this involved a project of dualistic governance within the city and regions surrounding Kali Kembar, where the harbors would serve as the administrative center of the Tahamaja, whilst the city barracks would serve for the Bayarid assemblage. It was agreed that at the end of the armistice, both the Pelautama and Great Khan would convene once more to make a conclusive decision on how the relations of the two empires would fare.