Invasion of Xirnium

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The Invasion of Xirnium is one of the most complex campaigns in NS history. It began when Xirnium, then an unstable regime, presented an offer to the international community to trade its citizens as slaves in exchange for nuclear weapons. Several outraged nations, including Concremo, Kahanistan, and others, in addition to imperialist regimes like Kraven and Mini Miehm, invaded Xirnium, some motivated by genuine compassion for the Xirnium people, and others for land, slaves, or other less noble causes.

The first major military engagement of Xirnium forces was the Battle of Xigrat. A convoy of Kahanistan Imperial Marines, lightly armed, and weakly supported in the air, fought off several waves of Xirniumite soldiers, using unorthodox tactics, before being forced to surrender. The survivors, including the commanders, were held in a POW camp for several days while negotiations ensued, resulting in Kahanistan making a separate peace with Xirnium in exchange for the cessation of the nukes-for-slaves program and the release of the 103 Xigrat survivors.

During the Kahanistan - Xirnium fighting, Yallak offered Xirnium protection, which involved Xirnium becoming an autonomous province of the Yallak Imperium. While Yallak apparently at first did not trust Kahanistan initally after it later became an ally of Xirnium, the Adamantine Alliance signed several weeks later seemed to spell the end for any mistrust.

Meanwhile, relations between Kahanistan and The Kraven Corporation rapidly deteriorated into cold war on unrelated grounds. The main cause of the conflict was ideological: Kahanistan was, and is, a liberal, secular, socialist democracy, where the citizens are free to choose their own religions and express their political views freely. Kraven, on the other hand, had degenerated into a repressive, totalitarian, militarized state, imposing its Civil Law Doctrines on nations it conquered, which the leadership of Kahanistan found repugnant.

Xirnium took advantage of the cooling of Kahanistan - Kraven relations and formally requested Kahanistan military support in their defense against the Kraven - Mini Miehm - Gyrobot coalition. While Kahanistan was currently fighting the Ottoman Alliance, the actual combat was sparse enough that Kahanistan could spare two-thirds of a million soldiers to aid in the defense, reinforced by a further million when the Ottoman conflict ended.

At approximately the same time, Kahanistan and Xirnium signed the Adamantine Alliance in Yallak. While this affected the war little as both signers were already engaged in military hostilities against the invaders of Xirnium, Saint Fedski later joined the alliance, though the troops contributed to Xirnium were minimal.

Facing savage resistance from the fanatical Xirniumite troops in their counteroffensive, Operation Divine Retribution, the largest (to date) military operation by Xirnium, and pinned in on both sides by Kahanistan Republic Guard troops on land, and their fleet nearly destroyed by Yallak at sea, and aerial bombardment by almost all of its allies, Kraven's dreaded Sardaukar, the few who survived, self-destructed, and the majority of Capitol Police were massacred.

See also:

Nukes for slaves program

Talks early in the war, end of nukes-for-slaves program

Xirnium Invasion itself