Hogsweat-Scandavian War

OOC Reasoning

I (Scandavian States) have often been accused of Imperialism by the more liberal elements within my region. While to some extent this is true, I have after all tried for a long time to play the part of a benevolent moncharchial empire, I have never actually launched a war with the express purpose of gaining land and population. Some would point to my annexation of Kuwait, however as it was RPed the annexation was not aggressive and came after nearly a hundred years of protecting Kuwait from the expansionistic Al Anbar. However, after the collapse of UnAPS, I was no longer compelled to be so scrupulously careful in the way I conducted wars, and I also wanted to have an excuse to RP with some of the newer nations without setting off a potentially devastating region-wide war. After asking for volunteers, Hogsweat quickly stepped forward and we began to plan ways to start the war.

The basic premise is this: after an ill-timed comment about the then seriously ill Emperor by the Hogsweatian delegate, Duchess Asiya Saleh (the Imperium's head diplomat and the Emperor's niece) responds in a rather emotional way that unintentionally slanders the other deledate and then storms off before he can appologize. This unwittingly sets off a chain of events that lead to Hogsweat sending one of its Virginia class SSNs to bombard the island city of Galicia with cruise missiles. After the strike destroys 4 buildings and kills 50,000 people, coincidentally enough of New Years Day, the Imperium begins combing its spy satellites for information it finds that the captain of the sub was a rather imcompetent one; he had surfaced before firing his missiles.

Some would say that the root cause of this war, a pair of insults thrown at each other relatively senior members of two governments, is not sound reasoning for a war. I would counter that very few wars have had sound reasoning in the past and that it is only within the last century or so that wars fought in the name of opposition to tyranny and other such noble causes have become relatively common. For example, one of the most brutal wars in humanity's history, the 30 Years War, was fought because Protestant and Catholic Kings and Emperors simply refused to admit that there are differing ways to warship God, that different interpretations of the Bible might not be "heresy."

Events to Date

The war is not yet completed and is in fact just really starting. Right now the only things of note are the blockading of Hogsweat and the subsequent (and ongoing) bombardment of military installations within Hogsweatian coastal cities, as well as the bombing of militarily and economically important facilities within the Hogsweatian capital of Dorsalgrad. Of course, the first true Imperial military action was the kinetic bombardment of Hogsweatian naval bases and the sinking of two Doujin class superdreadnaughts by the same method, which marks the first time any vessel within that class has been rendered totally combat ineffective during combat.

A more detailed picture of the current war can be viewed at the Haven regional NSWiki. Events have been dated using the Imperial Scandavian Calender.