The Second Moonstone War

The Second Moonstone War Summary
Date:	7th April 1945 –5th November 1952
Locations:	Northern Freethinker Mainland and adjacent areas.
Outcome:	Freethinker Victory
Casualties (approx.)
Military:	8,500,000+ dead
Civilian:	3-4,000,000 dead
Total:	~12,000,000(ref#1) dead
Main Participants
Freethinker Commonwealth	Midlonian Empire
The Freethinker Commonwealth	Midlonia Mainland Board of Civil Protection

The Second Moonstone War (also known as the Second Midlonian War or Second Independence War in the Freethinker Commonwealth) was a large, expansive and decisive armed conflict between the Kingdom of Midlonia and the Freethinker Commonwealth that took place between 7th April 1945 and November 5th 1952. It was, by far, from casualty figures and adjusted monetary expenditures, the bloodiest and costliest war either nation had participated in.

Causes

Relations between Midlonia and the newly established Commonwealth soon normalised after the end of the First Moonstone War.

Publicly, there was little indication at first of rising tensions, although an informal arms race had begun to develop as Freethinker strategy began to reform around control of the oceans, resulting in a new, powerful navy that increasingly rivalled and began to surpass that of their former Motherland. Increases in both air and land power and a rise in relative power against that of Midlonia spurred a large though generally hushed up rebuilding and rearming program in Midlonia from the late 1930s onwards.

Timeline

7th April 1945: Third Battle of Navarre, effective destruction of the Freethinker Royal Navy surface fleet in the Navarre Naval Base by a combined missile and aerial attack at dawn (approx 0530 local). Official start of the Second Moonstone War. Running of the Northern Gate by the Midlonian Armada.

8th April 1945: The Midlonian Armada enters the Navarre Basin and lands strong ground forces on four strategic beachheads on the Southern Basin shoreline. Effective organised resistence to the landing operations is effectively crushed within the first few hours. The Battle of the Spire results in the completion of the first Midlonian objective, the taking of the Spire of Navarrok and the near annihilation of the Syrens of the Spire.

12th April 1945: The Canal Dash is conducted, saving some of the remaining Freethinker Home Fleet though the overall operation to deny the use of the Grand Shipping Canal fails.

20th April 1945: The Third Battle of Navarre ends, with complete occupation of the city by Midlonian forces. Remaining Freethinker army and air forces begin regrouping and reorganising to the south of the Carassian Mountains.