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The Riokian War was a war fought between the members of the Flying Nation in the Sky. It began as a playful threat of invasion by Octavius which was misinterpreted as a declaration of war by Rioki. Rioki then recruited UN nations to aid him in the upcoming war. The FNS quickly divided itself into two factions and engaged in the war. However, the war promptly ended with the Treaty of Riokianai.

The Prelude

The Misunderstanding

On May 3rd, 2005, Octavius threaten to declare war on Rioki over Rioki's membership in the UN. While Octavius was only joking when he made the threat, Rioki interpreted it as a declaration of war. He immediately sent out a call to the UN, asking for nations to assist him in the coming conflict. He immediately began organizing with several other nations. In the mean time, Rioki entered negotiations with Octavius.

Beginning of Preparations

The next day, troops from the mid-sized nation of Space Union, and the tiny nations of Ergoth and Zealonia arrived in Rioki territory, offering themselves as allies to Rioki. Octavius decided that although his original comment was made in jest, he would follow through with the war anyways. He posted a list of grievances with the UN and declared that unless Rioki reject these UN resolutions by leaving the UN, he would declare war. In retaliation, Rioki began mobilizing his forces.

The Ducassi Incident

A tiny nation called Ducassi entered the situation with a bang. He threatened Rioki's capital with nuclear and chemical missiles, despite the fact that his nation obviously had neither. Despite his readily-apparent lack of capability to produce either, he thought that he would be able to enter the war on Octavius's side and hold the other UN nations at bay with threats of nuclear war. After pressed, he quickly revealed that he did not in fact have nuclear weapons, however he still claimed that he had half the earlier number of chemical weapons. In addition, he now claimed that he had terrorists and guerrilla fighters in his employ. The nation of Space Union then threatened him with invasion if he continued his aggressive tactics.

Ducassi then sent out a message stating that one of his terrorist groups had blown up five of the banks in Space Union's capital and was now holding an office building hostage, despite the fact that all of the banks in Space Union's capital were still standing and no terrorist activity had taken place in the capital. After being educated about this fact, he then claimed that only two banks were blown up and told them their independently confirmed evidence was wrong. In addition, Ducassi declared that both sides were bound to start a cold war and declared himself as a peace keeping force. He withdrew his non-existent terrorists from Space Union and his fictitious supplies from Octavius. In addition, he claimed to have set bombs in all capitals, despite the lack of terrorist activities or hostile bombs in any of the countries, that were absolutely impossible to deactivate, despite the experienced bomb squads in possession by many of the nations. Octavius disavowed any relation to Ducassi and the UN forces proceeded to ignore his empty threats. Sure enough, Ducassi never contributed any physical force to the war.

Escalation

The next day, May 5 2005, Walther joined Octavius in an alliance against Rioki. The two nations began immediate mobilization, in addition, James Katt, leading the new nation Purple Pandas Mark II, joined Rioki. Later that day, the small nation of Trolsk sent troops to Rioki's aid. The following day, the large nation of A Crazy Wacko Redhead joined Octavius and Walther and the three nations formed the Tri-Military FNS. For three tense days, militaries mobilized and negotiations escalated. Octavius's massive ships took to the skies above the FNS while Rioki and Space Union waited for the Tri-Military to make the first move.