Great Rebellion of Tartarystan

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The Great Rebellion of Tartarystan was one of the largest and bloodiest revolutions in recent history. It was notorious for depopulating the entire country of Tartarystan of more than nine-tenths of it's population and for the intense ethnic cleansing that every side practiced.

Great Rebellion of Tartarystan
Summary
Main Participants
Altaic Imperial Forces Dravidian Forces Indo-Aryan Forces Japanese Forces Korean Forces Sino-Tibetan Forces
Military Strength (approx.)
~.72 million troops and reserves ~1.2 million forces ~2.3 million forces ~.6 million forces ~.6 million forces ~1.8 million forces
Demographic Strength (approx.)
~3 million ~21 million ~40 million ~4 million ~4 million ~31 million
Casualties (approx.)
Military dead: 94,869
Military wounded: 265,213
Civilian dead: 7,426
Military dead: ~1,191,000+
Civilian dead: ~19,100,000+
Civilian fled: ~910,000+
Military dead: ~2,260,000+
Civilian dead: ~38,100,000+
Civilian fled: ~10,200,000+
Military dead: ~580,000+
Civilian dead: ~2,200,000+
Civilian fled: ~200,000+
Military dead: ~580,000+
Civilian dead: ~2,200,000+
Civilian fled: ~200,000+
Military dead: ~1,740,000+
Civilian dead: ~21,100,000
Civilian fled: ~8,300,000+

Prelude to Rebellion

Hundreds of members from the People's War Group mounted a failed assassination of the Emperor after the National Assembly passed laws even more virulently racist than the ones already in place. Every single member in the assassination attempt was either killed, or captured and extra-judicially executed by the Imperial Guard, much to the chagrin of human rights organizations. 273 members of the People's War Group perished along with 17 deaths for the Imperial Guard and 40 members injured.

In an emergency session, the National Assembly voted 834 - 74 - 92 to order the military to reform launch "reprisal" strikes against several cities the People's War Group drew their membership and support from. This bill was surprisingly vetoed by the Emperor, but the veto was overridden given the overwhelming consensus. Tartarystan drew condemnation from human rights organizations when the Imperial Tartar Army (ITA) attacked the cities of Mohenjo, Daro, Hoysola, Maurya, Madho, and Bahadur with chemical weapons. These six cities were fairly similar in most ways. They were all mostly Indo-Aryan speaking, had no Altaic citizens, and were mostly ghettoes. According to local sources, the Imperial Tartar Army assaulted these cities with VX gas, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide, sarin, soman, among with many other chemical weapons. ITA forces immediately followed it up with artillery strikes, as well as napalm launches that burned all six cities. Most survivors were shot trying to escape though a few escaped after hiding in the wreckage and were lucky enough not to get torched. Urban planners have moved to the burnt ashes of these cities are rebuilding "new" cities for the burgeoning Altaic population as Tartarystan followed a strict system of urban planning.

Absolutely disgusted by blatant expansionism, ethnic cleansing, and Imperial violations of human rights, various underground revolutionary movements, Indo-Aryan, Sino-Tibetan, Japanese, Korean, and Dravidian all came together in the United Revolutionary Alliance, a five-way alliance against Imperial authority. The URA immediately launched huge revolutions in the countryside.

The War Begins

In the first stage of the war, Imperial forces were routed almost without a flight. The Imperial Army fled the vast territory of Tartarystan to only a few fortified cities. With more than ninety percent of the country under their control, the United Revolutionary Alliance declared victory and decided to redistribute the land formally owned by Altaic aristocrats to the indigenous peoples who comprised the five nations of the United Revolutionary Alliance. However, disputes and historical ethnic tensions went over the boiling point as each side demanded a ridiculous amount of land and disfranchisement of the other five. Dravidian forces started with the massacre of tens of thousands of Indo-Aryan civilians, and the People's War Group responded in kind! Another war had begun.

Second Phase of the War

In the second phase of the war, Dravidian forces fought with Indo-Aryan forces in a war of racial extermination. Korean and Japanese minorities immediately commenced massacring each other in their multiethnic and bilingual section of the country. Sino-Tibetan forces carefully exterminated the small minorities in their segment of the country and defended it ruthlessly. The brutality of the Second Phase of the War was unmatched by anything in Imperial history. In the end, Indo-Aryan forces prevailed against Dravidian and forced the surviving Dravidians to join them. However, both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian military forces had taken a million losses each, reducing the combined army to barely above 1.5 million fighting men. Korean and Japanese forces completely decimated each other with their fighting. Sinic forces quickly dropped upon both forces and utterly crushed both, forcing the reminder of both to join them. Sinic forces controlled about 1.8 million enemy forces as they entered the next stage of the war.

Third Phase of the War

Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan forces brutally massacred each others civilian populations but left their respective militarises relatively safe. After the population of both populations collapsed completely, the two armies met in force. In a brutal battle that left 500,000 Indo-Aryan forces dead, and 300,000 Sino-Tibetan forces, unifying forces on both sides seized control of each army and combined them into one fighting force that controlled the entire countryside of Tartarystan. After replenishing most of their losses, they controlled about 4.36 million troops in total to face the true enemy, the Imperial government. The infighting has absolutely torn apart revolutionary populations and military power. Four out of every five murdered civilians died in the second and third phases of the war, most of the rest in the last.

Battle of Tataria Magna

The combined army of 4.36 million members of the New United Revolutionary Alliance faced off against a newly reinvigorated army of 720,000 Imperial Altaic troops and reserves. In the most climatic battle of the war, the NURA threw its soldiers and revolutionaries at the major capital of Tataria Magna. The Imperials used every trick they could muster. The NURA had no air or armored support and resorted to mass human wave assaults. The Imperials used mines, machine gun emplacements, air strikes, artillery, armored support, strong tactics, and usage of many fixed defences to wreak terrible losses on the NURA. In addition, the Imperials were unhesitant to use chemical weapons against masses of NURA troops. At the end of the battle, huge swarms of NURA troops lay dead, dying, or soon to be executed by Imperial forces. Imperial forces suffered around seventy-thousand dead and around a hundred and seventy thousand wounded, a number representative of about a third of the entire army. NURA forces were even worse. 2.4 million NURA troops had died in the sustained attacks on Tataria Magna. Forces from British Londinium, the Kiravian Empire supported the Empire while forces from Vetalia and Zintharia highly opposed them.

Last Phase of the War

The collapse in the United Front was precipitated by Kiravian intervention. When the Kiravian Empire noticed the similarity of the Indo-Aryan population and that of themselves, they allowed Indo-Aryan citizens to move to Kirav. This sparked a huge collapse in power for Indo-Aryan forces as almost the entire Indo-Aryan population signed its allegiance with the Kiravian Empire and switched sides. The People's Will, an anarchist Sino-Tibetan group, seized control of the United Front.

People's Will leaders were finding it an absolute nightmare to order a simple attack on a small Imperial force. Though repeated orders were sent, individual People's Wills units refused to obey them. It made sense. The first ones to assault, or the Forlorn Hope, are almost guaranteed to perish. No single company wanted to go first and all refused. The People's Will found it impossible to enforce their will because they had no system of organized hierarchy. And members of the newly formed Indic Liberation Army were harassing the prostrate People's Will's cells with brutally effective ambushes. The People's Will was hardly an army, it was more of a collection of different and nominally independent cells who simply proclaimed their support for the Anarchist the People's Will championed. It was the United Nations of guerilla groups. And it was brutally ineffective in the same manner. The Kiravian-backed Indic Liberation Army was formed with many People's War Group veterans and were brutally effective against the greenhorn People's Will cells who didn't really do much yet in the war. Worst of all, many People's Will cells secretly fled the nation and did not return under the guise of gathering foreign support. Individual People's Will cells not actually endorsed by the main People's Will HQ, carried reprisal actions against the Indo-Aryan population for their harbouring of the ILA, completely alienating the People's Will to the local population.

The Imperial Government of Tartarystan promised the local Sino-Tibetan population that they would transport them to their colony, Ilha Qiong, and grant them independence if more than 90% of the surviving Sino-Tibetan population moved there. More than 94% of the surviving Sino-Tibetan population decided to accept the offer and were sent to Ilha Qiong, which later became the Ilhan Republic of Qiong. The remaining were mostly comprised of radical anarchist militants who were wiped out by Imperial forces soon after. With this action, Vetalian troops commenced a withdrawal.

Peace and Aftermath

The Great Rebellion of Tartarystan turned Tartarystan from an ethnically diverse and multinational state into a rather homogeneous state of Altaic citizens, being 99% Altaic. The entire countryside was depopulated and almost every major city was completely destroyed. The Imperial government completely rebuilt these cities from scratch, designing them to be as modern, efficient, and effective as possible. The Altaic population exploded as Altaic citizens streamed and settled the uncolonised countryside. Impressed by the new and "rebirth", six out of the seven other smaller states (four Turkic, two Tungusic) on the continent of Tartarystan voted for unification with the Empire. The sixth state, the Kingdom of Thrinacia, refused mostly because the ruling group was Achaean, not Tungusic. Tartarystan quickly embarked on a campaign of mass modernization, turning the antiquated feudal empire into a modern nationstate.

The newly unified Tartarystan declared itself as the Most Serene and Holy Altaic Empire of Tartarystan.