Blackhelm Confederate Revolution
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 Pro-Chancellor forces Griffincrest mercenaries |
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Lucius Blackhelm Claudius Griffincrest |
Octavius Eaglebrand Cornelius Pureheart | ||||||||
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The Blackhelm Confederate Revolution was an armed conflict fought between forces loyal to Chancellor Lucius Blackhelm and forces loyal to the Blackhelm Confederate Senate.
Background
Sacrament Laws
Resistance to Genocide (November, 2010)
Immediately following the passage of the Sacrament Laws, Chancellor Lucius Blackhelm began hosting a series of emergency meetings, aimed at convincing the Senate to overturn their rulings and abandon course. During this time, too, many groups of Muslim activists and militias began to form, taking to the jungles and going underground, and launching sporadic attacks against government forces attempting to enact the laws.
Violent confrontations also broke out at a Griffincrest oil processing facility in Sacrament provincrz when mercenary guards refused entry to Blackhelm Confederate soldiers seeking to enforce the laws. The two sides wound up exchanging fire, and the army unit was forced to withdraw.
After two weeks of stalled negotiations, Chancellor Blackhelm issued a blanket veto, seeking to cancel the Sacrament Laws and prevent bloodshed within the Confederacy. The Senate, however, rejected the veto and ordered the Blackhelm Confederate Army to mobilize and enact the law. In response, Blackhelm ordered the Blackhelm Confederate Imperial Guard to arrest the Senators. Guardsmen moved swiftly to the Blackhelm Confederate Senate, but the Senators inside had already been tipped off and barricaded the building.
The Imperial Guard and the Senators, as well as a number of Senate-loyalist soldier, then engaged in a several hour long siege, which finally ended when reinforcements from the Senate-loyal Blackhelm Confederate Army arrived and drove off the Guard after an intense firefight, which left several dead and wounded on both sides.
Open Conflict (December - January, 2010/2011)
After the failure of the Imperial Guard to capture the Blackhelm Confederate Senate open warfare between forces loyal to the Chancellor and those loyal to the Senate erupted across the Blackhelm Confederacy. Mercenaries loyal to the Griffincrest Corporation joined with the Chancellor's loyalists and by December 15th had captured the city of Redemption after a week-long struggle. Within the capital of Paradise City, fighting commenced on a block-by-block basis and often large crowds of civilians would join in the clashes. Civilian loyalists to both sides waged tremendous street fights all across the capital, while security forces were often too busy dealing with opposing armed troops to intervene in the chaos.
In the midst of the fighting, multiple armed groups arose across the country and began instituting their own forms of gangland justice, proclaiming themselves to be the new law in many areas where security forces were otherwise engaged. In a bid to counter these armed groups, pro-Senate troops often joined with local Town Guard units and law enforcement to restore order. Many of these groups, however, reorganized themselves as militias and swore allegiance to the Senate, pledging to fight against pro-Chancellor and Islamist elements in return for being given de facto control over their areas of operation.
Despite the few successes seen by the Chancellor's forces - mostly due to the assistance of Griffincrest mercenaries - the majority of the country was in Senate hands by the end of December. The entirety of the armed forces, with the exception of the Guard and Honor Guard had joined the Senate, and many of the elite Honor Guard personnell remained besieged in key locations across Paradise City, with most of them repelling attempted crossings to the Chancellery Island. Realizing the situation was deteriorating rapidly, Lucius Blackhelm sent word to the Senate leaders that he was ready to talk on January 14, and talks began the following day.