Citrus War

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Conflict:

The Citrus War

Date:

Febuary 17th - April 12th 2006

Result:

Declaration of Peace (NPO), Surrender (ODN)

Combatants
New Pacific Order	Orange Defense Network Flag of the ODN

(Also known as the NPO-ODN War)

The Citrus War lasted from February 25 to April 12th, 2006, a total of 45 days. It was the longest war in the history of Cybernations until the Holy War of Farkistan, and the only major war to consist of just two alliances. At this time in history, the world was much smaller than it is today. GATO and NPO had the Unity Covenant, The Legion was neutral, as was the GPA, and the NAAC had become a protectorate of the NPO only a couple of weeks before the Citrus War began. These were the only real alliances that existed on February 25th.

After a couple of days of being battered by the NPO war machine, it was widely assumed that the ODN would soon crumble and perish. However, they did not. They faced (by their own admission) the most efficient and calculating force in history. After fighting and earning the respect of other alliances in the cyberverse, they eventually succumbed to the forces of NPO.

History

The oldest nation in history - KD - lobbed the world's second nuclear weapon at Sei of the NPO. KD was allegedly a member of the ODN at that time, though nobody within the ODN could recall communicating with KD or seeing him around the forums. The ODN was unable to do anything but condemn the attack, since the rest of the members' nations were much lower in strength than KD. At the same time, nobody within the ODN thought KD as a member, and this hang-up would leave a shadow over the war for most of its duration.

Other things that contributed to the declaration of war was the ODN spy, Kernwaffen, who inserted himself into the NPO of his own volition, and a plotting of war against the NPO by three or four members of the ODN government at the time on IRC.

After the NPO declaration, over half of the ODN membership fled, including all of the government (except Portugal and Pope Hope), and the alliance operated in a near-anarchic state until March 12th, when new elections were held after the existing membership created a new charter deemed 'The Citrus Declaration'.

Membership in the alliance bounced back to pre-war levels within a couple of weeks of the wars onset, and by the time of the ODN surrender, the number of nations in the alliance had tripled, and the number of alliances in the world had probably done the same. Some major alliances today that were founded during the Citrus War include LUE, GGA, and IRON.

The ODN was given terms of surrender three times. The first one was repealed on March 2nd by the NPO due to their claims that another spy had breached their headquarters (former NPO member Harrissy), and the second one was voted down by the ODN on March 24th, mostly because of a clause that forbid the ODN from owning nuclear weapons & also required ODN members to individually sign an oath of non-aggression to the NPO Emperor. The ODN then decided to counter-offer with a term of surrender that wasn't quite as harsh.

This was rejected outright by the NPO, and resulted in the resignation of a handful of ODN members who desperately wanted the war to end, including Senator Kernwaffen. However, fighting continued, and the flames on the CN forums were fierce throughout most of the war. Thanks in part to the ODN Secretary General (Generalissimo), who was impeached by the ODN Senate II on April 10th, and was replaced by Deputy Secretary General Pingu.

The ODN accepted the NPO's third terms of surrender by General Assembly vote (68%) on April 12th, which required ODN nations to take an oath of non-aggression and pay a reparation sum of 500,000 dollars (back then, it was a lot of money) but allowed for nuclear weapons to be owned by ODN nations.

The ODN finally shed the surrender treaty three months later at the end of the Great War as part of the NPO peace terms.