Great Pacific Revolt of 1886
| The Great Pacifican Revolt of 1885 | |||||||||
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| Part of Atlantean Colonization of the Pacific Ocean | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Tui Tonga Empire | Atlantean Republic | ||||||||
| Kingdom of Vanuatu | Houpo'e | ||||||||
| Tahitian Kingdom | |||||||||
| Various Pacifican principalities | |||||||||
| Irregular Peasant insurrectionists | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Emperor Aitonui XIV King Necumejili
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Grand Admiral Azara Karstig High Admiral Ilzakt Yolastig Fleet Admiral Azaviz Munastiak Fleet Admiral Avetanprion Kemanstaniziz
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| Units involved | |||||||||
| Personal Levies of Pacifican nobles and princes; Independent Peasant Warbands | Atlantean Republican Navy; Atlantean Republican Navy Marines | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 2,000,000 (Teihotaata); 800,000-1,000,000 (Ucastiak); 750,000-800,000 (Lamanstig) |
150,000 Initial; 350,000-500,000 peak 600,000 Houpo'e Warriors | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 6,000,000 - 7,000,000 Military and Civilian deaths (Teihotaata); 150,000 Military casualties, 800,000 Civilian Casualties (Ucastiak); 200,000 Military and Civilian Deaths (Lamanstig) | 80,000 Military Casualties, 12,000 Civilian Casualties | ||||||||
The Great Pacifican Revolt of 1886 was an unsuccessful general insurrection in Atlantean controlled Pacifica. The revolt was carried out by an eclectic mix of Pacifica actors all seeking to eject Atlantean influence from the continent. These included major Pacifica monarchs and nobles like King Necumejili of the Kingdom of Vanuatu, or Emperor Aitonui XIV of the Tonga Empire who had previously submitted to Atlantean suzerainty, and decentralised and spontaneous peasant and worker uprisings in major cities and the countryside. The revolt saw initial successes in the years of 1886 and 1887, in which the combined strength of independent peasant warbands and the personal armies of Pacifica nobles were able to take control of the majority of the Pacifica countryside, and managed to push Atlantean forces to the coastal regions of Dragon bay, as well as capturing several major cities along the Dragon river. However, as Atlantean troops began arriving in earnest to put the revolt down, and the Navy, unrestrained by the government in Atlantis proper, began adopting draconian and brutal policies of repression including scorched earth tactics, forced labour, forces conversions to christianity, mass murders and rapes, etc, Pacifica gains began to be reversed. After Atlantean forces defeated the standing armies of the nobles and the monarchs in the Riverine Expedition in early 1888, the peasant warbands quickly began to falter and disappate as harvest season, low morale, and military defeat rendered the revolt untenable. In the aftermath, the 'Eiki system in which Pacifica nobles and monarchs retained their titles and fiefs but submitted to Atlantean suzerainty was abolished. The Kingdom of Vanuatu, the Tonga Empire, and all Pacifica principalities were abolished, while their land was divided up and distributed among Naval officers and other prominent business and political figures in Atlantis as private property or were directly administered by the Navy.
Many historians in Pacifica and Internationally have characterised the Atlantean response to the revolt as a genocide. However, the Atlantean government and many Atlantean academics maintain that the actions of the Navy during the revolt were largely appropriate and necessary to quell an insurrectionary force, and argues that the label 'genocide' is inaccurate.