I'm back!!! And I apologize for being away for so long with this project, I felt it was already done and most of us had integrated this to our histories and moved on. However, something came up (at the time of writing) a few moments ago, and it was too interesting for me to pass up when I heard it.
So Athara Magarat had proposed that the Third Central Argus War be triggered by a !Franz Ferdinand situation in Dormill and Stiura, starting a war of succession between Noronica and another claimant (currently I've heard that Razzgriz has expressed interest in being the other claimant and that's how I'll write it) that spirals out into both that war, and the Great Gael War which would have overlapped it otherwise. So I want to propose a new timeline, or if you're reading this on the Great Argus Wars thread, just the timeline of events that I already wrote for the Great Gael War thread so I can save myself some time.
- 1893: Verdon Invades Ostehaar by sea, catching the young nation off-guard and undefended. A brief battle opens up nearly all of Southern Ostehaar to Verdonian conquest.
- 1894: Dormill and Stiura, seeing the invasion as an open invitation to follow suit, invades Ostehaar and forms a three-way front between itself, the Osters, and the Verdonians.
- 1895: The Treaty of Sertomir and the Treaty of Waalwijk are signed establishing Verdonian and Dormill-Stiruaian zones of control in Ostehaar respectively, no treaty is signed between the United Republics and Verdon, starting an unspoken war between the two over makeshift trenches.
- 1901: The Peace of Rio Pena effectively ends Dormill-Stiuraian dominion over eastern Argus, this devastating political defeat drives President Nicholas Favre to double his efforts against Verdonian occupied Ostehaar, to little avail as the nation lacks the finances to start another war as soon as the last one.
- 1905: The Canal War begins, with Dormill and Stiura fighting the Khas-Kirat for control over the Central Argus Canal. Verdon (likely) intervenes in the favor of the Magarati, forcing the Dormill-Stiuraians to focus their efforts in Gael rather than in Argus, eventually resulting in yet another peace.
- 1908: Revolution stirs in Dormill and Stiura as President Favre tries everything he can to assert the power of Dormill and Stiura, and again initiates new operations in Ostehaar to much the same lack of success as before, facing resistance at home, the National Congress steps in and pulls troops back to the border, making overtures of peace with Verdon that temporarily eases the situation.
- September, 1909: The Revolution against Favre begins, causing turmoil along the Dormill-Stiuraian lines, little progress is made by the Republicans over the winter as Verdon reinforces itself in better positions.
- November 11, 1909: Tilija Hangma, last living member of the Magarati House of Mgar at the time, is killed in Courlaroux by an unknown bullet during the fighting. She was there to ease the relationship between the Untied Republics and her Empire. Her death would precipitate across the Isles as several would-be Hangs begin vying for the throne.
- 1910: Dieudonne Blaise is elected President, and continues to make overtures of peace with Verdon and Ostehaar, seeing that the Khas-Kirat Succession Crisis is on the verge of becoming a Succession War, threatening Dormill and Stiura's position in Argus.
- Summer 1910: After tense negotiations in Nolon City, the United Republics formally grants support to the Overlord in the succession. Secret discussions between President Blaise and Prime Minister Harold McKenzie also concern the situation in Miklania, but end inconclusively.
- Late Summer 1910: Fearful of the power of the Republican-Noronnican Alliance, Verdon begins diplomatic overtures with Razzgirz. Both nations already desired to see an end to Dormill and Stiura's presence in the Southern Sea, and the succession crisis between Razzgirz and Noronica galvanized an alliance between them.
- 1911: The lines are drawn between a third Triumvirate of Dormill and Stiura, Noronica, and X and the Western Eterna Coalition of Verdon, Razzgirz, and Roendavar, war seems inevitable but neither side has pulled the trigger yet.
- March 1911: In an effort to end the war before it begins, Dormill and Stiura begins a blockade in the Southern Sea, specifically targeting ships of the Coalition and forcing them away.
- April 5, 1911: Unwilling to be the belligerents in the war, the Coalition deploys Merchant Raiders against the Dormill-Stiuraian blockade, forcing the DSN to sink three ships, damaging another two, and forcing the rest away.
- April 6, 1911: Using the attack against the Merchant Raiders as a casus belli, claiming that the ships were unarmed, Verdon declares war on Dormill and Stiura. Razzgirz, the same day, declares war against Noronica to claim the Khas-Kirat throne, beginning the War of the Khas-Kirat Succession (also remembered as the Great Gael War in Gael, and the Third Central Argus War in Argus).
- 1913: The first two years come and go, the situation in Ostehaar has turned to the advantage of Verdon while the Verdonian heartland are coming under the bombing sights of Dormill and Stiura's new air force following the successful invasion of Roendavar.
- 1914: The War in Argus progresses for Noronica, aided by Dormill-Stiuraian forces pulled away from Gael after intense fighting in Ostehaar. In Gael the front has stabilized on all sides, only the naval war remains a fluid battle with both the Noronnican and Dormill-Stiuraian Southern Sea Fleets try to push back the Western Eterna fleets and begin a blockade.
- 1915: With even less movement on the front in Gael, the two sides begin to consider peace, and talks begin in the presence of a ceasefire. In Argus, however, no such ceasefire comes as more nations become involved in the conflict, pulling more resources away from Gael.
- 1916: The Second Miklanian Civil War ends in defeat for Noronica, its fleets in the far west crippled. The situation causes a crisis in the government of Noronica, leading to the United Republics briefly taking over operations in Athara Magarat. In Gael, the ceasefire holds tenuously, even the naval conflict has died down to some extent with the two sides infrequently allowing for the movement of supplies between them.
- 1918: In Argus, the War is nearly over. The Third Central Argus Coalition had been decisively defeated in battle and there are already talks that they will come with terms. Athara Magarat has been secured, and the Overlord was finally placed on the Khas-Kirat throne.
- 1920: The War in Gael suddenly heats up again as Razzgirz, still at war with the Triumvirate, attempts to instigate an Ipachi Uprising in Dormill-Stiuraian Samudera, Dormill and Stiura responds by sending the DSN deep into Osean waters and shelling two Osean cities.
- 1925: Five more years passed, although no permanent peace has been reached, a second ceasefire was reached between the sides in the War in Gael, peace was achieved in Argus through the Treaty of Lituvo, which recognized the Overlord of Noronica as Hangma of the Khas-Kirat Empire and otherwise ended the conflict without reparations demanded on either side, rendering the Third Central Argus War over. Later on, just before the Second Oster War begins, a new round of talks gains significant ground, but its members are killed by Osters disguised as each other's bodyguards, beginning the Second Oster War.
- 1927: After significant losses on all three sides, a permanent peace of status quo ante bellum is adopted, restoring the borders of Ostehaar and Verdon, additionally levying reparations from both Verdon and Dormill and Stiura to Ostehaar. Separate settlements are made between the allies of the three powers are made through 1930 These settlements would officially end the Great Gael War and the Khas-Kirat Succession War.
). The northerners led by Arun Valley (who had long-standing marriages with the Noronnican royal family) would support Noronica (who already have Myagdi Island, a Noronnican-Magarati hanagte, within the empire) while the southerners led by Second Tamsaling Hangate (whose 17th Century ruler, the then Mahang, Moktan Hang had been blood brother of the prince of Tachil and intermarried with the Osean Ran dynasty) would support Razzgriz (who also hold city-states of Unovi and Yitoria; territories within the empire).
