Guerilla War in Vesvai (SUNALAYA ONLY) (IC, COMPLETE)

[Vesvaian Rebels]

Training camp of Vesvaian dissident and expat guerillas, New Vesvai

While under-resourced Vesvaian guerillas were trying to wage insurgency on the other side of the border guerillas on New Vesvai’s soil were preparing a real army. They finally got a remote training camp as their official base too provided by the New Vesvaian state. New Vesvai has agreed to arm, equip and train the guerillas in their struggle. The training camp was most often populated by Vesvaian guerillas and by New Vesvai’s soldier from the Vesvaian Revolutionary Army. VRA troops acted as military trainers for the guerillas and brought them all arms and tech needed. The training camp was frequented by agents of New Vesvai’s Intelligence Directorate. The Head of New Vesvai’s Intelligence Directorate Kaleo Aitebi was planning a visit. New Vesvai’s government officials haven’t dropped by the camp yet. But it was possible that pretty soon New Vesvai’s Prime Minister Adi Letago.

The first non-military and non-intelligence visitors the training camp got were people from the National Council of Vesvai based in Acenu and National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai based in Deramia. They spoke to the guerillas during the breaks between their training. Guerillas were informed that the National Council and the National Council of Rebellion communicated with each other again and prior to arriving at the training camp for the guerillas. They talked about the necessity for a strategic military step that would finally allow the guerillas to infiltrate the other side more effectively. Because the borders were sealed more tightly and more than usual because of the virus pandemic. They were referring to an eventual formation of a stronghold that would help serve as a tunnel for guerillas into Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai from New Vesvai’s territory.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

A couple of military helicopters from air bases closer to the south-western regions had risen to do a search for guerillas from the skies. The trick was to fly low enough because flying too high could have made the helicopters an exposed target for guerillas to fire at. That would especially be deadly if the guerillas had something like rocket launchers, bazookas or other anti-air weapons. Considering the previous military-guerilla encounters the troops saw that the guerillas were well-equipped. They managed to match a professional army in battle. So they could’ve had anything in their disposal even if it was hard to realize how they could’ve gotten those weapons across the border or maybe what local black markets they accessed. That was not the question for the helicopter crews to figure out. Of course flying low also lowered chances of effectively fighting the guerillas hiding out. Flying high would not only make it easier but the risk of becoming an exposed target would mean that the Union troops would find guerillas hiding out even easier if they started attacking the copters. But that wasn’t the risk worth taking for the copter crews. Since they were brushing through south-western regions close to New Vesvai’s border because that’s where guerillas were most active it was important not to even risk trespassing into New Vesvai’s airspace. The helicopters would get shot down without warning most definitely and probably even without a warning.

[Sunrisia]

Orentan, Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia

Last night, President Addél Dîlectên had a video conference with Captain General Alexej Reitzik, Chairman of the Military Council of Baggnagia, and this morning he had a video conference with Prime Minister Adi Letago of New Vesvai. The second New Vesvaian–Sunrisian video conference concerned if the government of New Vesvai had any knowledge about guerilla relation to the police high-jacking and blowing up of a statue on the territory of Vesvai Island belonging to the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai? President Dîlectên told the Prime Minister of Vesvai that the Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia would be reluctant about aiding any insurrection like New Vesvai requested, if the forces on the ground engage in terrorism and not legitimate warfare with conventional rules.

Prime Minister Adi Letago of New Vesvai informed the President about the decentralization of the rebellion for independence in Vesvai and how many guerillas have disassociated themselves with the high-jacker, statue destroyer or destroyers, or any other criminals or vandals. However, this was interpreted by the government of New Vesvai and the guerillas in contact with that government that the guerilla activity has helped inspire an insurrection among locals within the Union’s territory as well. Moreover, the Prime Minister of New Vesvai said that his government, intelligence services and military were helping prepare legitimate, rules of warfare abiding rebels, who would take over the insurgency and not allow any out-of-control criminal elements to cause trouble in the name of an independence fight. This was some new and useful information for the President.

Not long after a video conference with Prime Minister Adi Letago of New Vesvai, President Addél Dîlectên attended an intelligence briefing led by the operatives of the Prime Intelligence Division (PID), concerning the topic of what is happening on the Island of Vesvai. Everybody in the meeting had respirators or medical masks, gloves, sitting at 1 or 1,5 meter from each and there were hand sanitizers on the table. Over there, the commander-in-chief was provided with more details, including what the Prime Minister of New Vesvai was talking about. PID said they have been in contact with their counterpart in the Intelligence Directorate of New Vesvai, who shared all necessary information and plans. Since President Addél Dîlectên was strict about knowing, who the Vesvaian guerillas are, what they stand for and about their moral ethnics, the briefing painted a clearer picture. After the intelligence briefing will conclude, the President will attend a security briefing with National Defense Consultant Líbêll Aûctórên and Minister of Security of the Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia Vîsár Inpétăs over the Rezua problem. No new full-format National Defense Council meeting needed.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

Headquarters of the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai, Perloveu, New Vesvai

Members of the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai and its Chairman Acido Soran started understanding and seeing that the other similar organizations had clearly created a better relationship with New Vesvai’s government. The National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai based in other cities have both developed a working relationship with New Vesvai’s government. That was because of their admitted links to the guerillas waging a fight for the separation of the rest of Vesvai Island from the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai. Originally the National Liberation Committee thought it was going to get off easy because it really didn’t have any links to guerillas. The National Council and the National Council of Rebellion really had those risks by admitting their clear links to the guerillas. In case New Vesvai’s government didn’t approve of guerillas they might’ve been in trouble. But since New Vesvai is now officially supporting the guerillas by giving them arms, tech, training and headquarters the National Council and the National Council of Rebellion had their risk pay off. The National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai got left out as an organization that really has no links to the guerilla insurrection. As bigger and more famous than both the National Council and the National Council of Rebellion, the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai ended up in the background. Chairman Acido Soran concluded that the National Liberation Committee needs to join this struggle fully not just on a political and social front like it did before. The National Liberation Committee must stand alongside the National Council and the National Council of Rebellion in support of guerilla freedom fighters. With this round table decision Chairman Acido Soran was getting ready to call counterparts in the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai, and New Vesvai’s government to see if the National Liberation Committee could get information on this training camp for guerillas in New Vesvai’s outskirts. That would be the first grand step in extending an arm of partnership to fellow-minded National Council and National Council of Rebellion. It’s not a popularity contest but a common fight for Vesvai’s independence. Pro-independence forces needed to work together as a team and a coalition.

[Sunrisia]

Vesvaian rebel training camp, New Vesvai, Wednesday evening

Several Sunrisian helicopters carrying soldiers of the Sunrisian special forces and the Sunrisian Rapid Reaction Units (RRU) have arrived at the remote camp that the military of New Vesvai had set up to train Vesvaian rebels. There were several helicopters sent, because everybody that travelled were very spread out, instead of being stuffed in 1 or 2 helicopters. This was due to the RETRIT-20/PVAX-20 pandemic and the requirement for social distance and avoiding gathering too many individuals in a single place. All soldiers came wearing respirators, medical masks, glasses, gloves and had hand sanitizer almost as part of their gear. Out of government officials, they were accompanied by National Defense Consultant Líbêll Aûctórên and Minister of Security of the Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia Vîsár Inpétăs. Both were in respirators and gloves as well. Another category of people that joined this journey, were neither military nor government officials. They were intelligence agents, mostly PID. The whole purpose of the trip was to see first-hand, on behalf of President Addél Dîlectên, if the Vesvaian rebels were appropriate for state sponsorship from the Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia, like they are getting from their same nationality brethren New Vesvai.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

The Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai stationed on Vesvai Island did quite a bit of scouting on in the south-western regions. They found no guerillas. It was expected to be difficult but not that difficult. The troops knew that guerillas had infiltrated their half of the island. They looked in the fields and the forest but had no luck in finding any sorts of camps or hideouts. The bet was to find exactly that because the Union army got attacked by the guerillas on two occasions and they attacked in large armies. But after these attacks they had either hidden well or scattered around. They might’ve adopted the strategy of working alone or in pairs all around the south-western regions. The fact they have infiltrated and hid among civilians was an indefinite fact. Commanders of the Union army insisted that military resources should be focused on securing the border with New Vesvai for now. If the central government in Fortwel really wanted a military operation then they would give the order. The Home or Interior Ministry should get involved too. For now central government in Fortwel and main island government in Aurisi left everything up to the local authorities who were using military resources and commanding them. Commanders said let the local police handle it or get the central government involved.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

Training camp of Vesvaian dissident and expat guerillas, New Vesvai

Guerillas tried getting the Sunrisians to give more frequent visits and get better accustomed with the cause. That was going to be the thing that was going to guarantee or raise chances of Sunrisian support in addition to existing New Vesvai support. Methods of getting the Sunrisians on guerilla side were advised to the guerillas by New Vesvai’s officials. Another momentous occasion on the training camp territory that happened was the arrival of members of the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai. Chairman Acido Soran arrived too. They had to go through a lot of secure channels to find out about the training camp and its location but they finally did. They had to contact the National Council of Vesvai, the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai and New Vesvai’s government to achieve this. A previously disassociated organization with Vesvaian guerillas now wanted to join the cause for real and support those in the field.

On the training camp territory Chairman Acido Soran and the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai met with members of the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai. This was their first face-to-face. The same thing was with the guerillas. Acido Soran looked at the fighters training and preparing there on that camp. These weren’t bandits but honorable freedom fighters wanting an independent Vesvai. That’s all they wanted. That’s everything Acido Soran saw in them and his perspective changed. At that moment his push to align the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai with the guerillas no longer caused doubt for him. He finally got to see the reality for himself that were outside rumors or any form of propaganda.

[Sunrisia]

Vesvai Island Operations Briefing, Orentan, Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia, Thursday evening

A special briefing was organized on Vesvai Island Operations. It followed a previous briefing, a couple of phone calls and video conferences between President Addél Dîlectên and Prime Minister Adi Letago of New Vesvai, as well as yesterday’s visit by the personnel of the Sunrisian special forces, the Sunrisian Rapid Reaction Units (RRU), National Defense Consultant Líbêll Aûctórên, Minister of Security of the Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia Vîsár Inpétăs, and PID agents to a training facility of Vesvaian rebels over in New Vesvai. The Vesvai Island Operations Briefing led by the PID, with attendance of President Addél Dîlectên, National Defense Consultant Líbêll Aûctórên, Minister of Security Vîsár Inpétăs, high-ranking officers of the Sunrisian Defense Force (SDF) and other officials, was meant to finally formulate a strategy and decide on what Sunrisia is going to do in this situation.

President Addél Dîlectên has decided that the final say will be made here and now. There would be no extra National Defense Council meeting, no national address or any request for legislative support from the Convet of the Nationalist Republic of Sunrisia. This entire chain of approvals could only waste a lot of time, expose covert operations and even generate opponents that could undermine the mission. As commander-in-chief, President Addél Dîlectên has decided to take responsibility and announced that Sunrisia would cooperate with New Vesvai in arming, equipping, training and providing intelligence support to the Vesvaian rebels in their fight for independence of the Vesvaian state, with the exception of the separate New Vesvaian state, from the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai. The plan would include the possibility of even bringing smaller quantities, over the RETRIT-20/PVAX-20 pandemic, of Vesvaian rebels to Sunrisia, in order to train them at local bases.

The effort would be an operation run by the PID and the Sunrisian Defense Force (SDF), sanctioned by the Dîlectên administration and personally commander-in-chief the President. It would be an individual Sunrisian mission in support of Vesvaian independence, but also in partnership with the leadership and responsible state institutions of New Vesvai that are also engaged in the same effort and who had initially asked for Sunrisian help on behalf of the rebels. The agenda was to create a professional and responsible Vesvaian rebel army, instead of allowing for rogue guerillas and out-of-control paramilitaries cause havoc in the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, possibly harming innocent people.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Commanders of the local units of the Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai made it clear that the police should take lead in anti-guerilla action in local districts and regions. Until there’s no central government order from Fortwel or local central government order from Aurisi to begin a military operation then the military will take a back seat. But that position hasn’t gone out to all the troops yet. Many those in the army on land were going through fields, forests and villages in pursuit of the guerillas. Some of these troops were braver because they didn’t have the same level of encounter with the guerillas as the troops that had their truck come under fire or those that thought a guerilla army initially. These troops felt more confident like they were in a hunt for an under-resourced and underpowered prey. But there was a question of who was the hunter and who was the hunted in this situation? Just as the Union troops felt they were commanding the field and the guerillas were frightened of them a similar attitude was on the other side. The guerillas were hiding, lurking, watching. They saw the Union troops as a prey that they were getting ready to take care of at the right opportunity. The question wasn’t so much the weapon. But who would get to whom first.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

It was difficult for the guerillas to infiltrate the territory of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai. All because closed borders on both sides over hostilities between New Vesvai and the Union and to contain the international virus spread. The guerillas that were already inside were active tough. Contrary to the popular belief the strength in numbers in guerilla case was not in the traditional understanding. They did not need to strike as a single army to be strong and take on the Union army. It is true that there needed to be as many guerillas as possible and they needed to coordinate. But striking as a single centralized army would only make them an easier target. The Union army would only have it so much easier to ask the central Union government for a military operation against the guerilla army. That’s why it was decided that the strength in numbers phrase would be applied in another way. There would be as many guerillas on the other side as possible. They would coordinate. But their battle tactic would be the opposite to an army formation or mobilization. It would be a guerilla tactic. The rebels would fight spread out and infiltrate the enemy lands. It will be that much more difficult for the Union army to fight an invisible enemy in a slow-burn hunt or battle than in a clear confrontation on the field.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Because the guerilla problem was left up to the municipal authorities to deal with many different cities and towns in their jurisdiction considered curfew or other measures. It wasn’t exactly clear what those measures could help with but maybe they could create comfortable conditions for police and military to hunt for guerillas. Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai continued to have problems with the internet connection to this day since they were first reported. But that brought the positive side of preventing vandals or those same guerillas for using the internet as a resource for self-organization. The neighboring cities and regions coordinated by consulting with each other on what form of action each considered taking. Aurisi straight up unofficially or very openly but behind the scenes told municipal authorities in the south-western regions to deal with the guerilla problem by their own strategy. Right now there wasn’t an island-wide or Union-wide national strategy on the guerillas. The Union wasn’t moving forward with declaring an official operation to deal with this. As a Vesvaian Union’s Prime Minister Jonathan Mollisal was probably the most likely person to bring this to Union government attention and encourage action. But looks like he wasn’t aiming to do so at the moment.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

Perloveu, New Vesvai

Chairman Acido Soran and select members of the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai have recently returned from the training camp for Vesvaian guerillas in New Vesvai’s remote province. They returned to their headquarters in Perloveu, New Vesvai. The National Liberation Committee declared to itself that it was now in partnership with its counterparts in the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai. It was also in greater strategic partnership with New Vesvai’s government than it was in before. Because New Vesvai’s government was supporting the Vesvaian guerillas too and not just the pro-independence political bodies made up of Vesvaian dissidents. Initially New Vesvai’s government was giving political asylum to the National Liberation Committee of Independent Vesvai, the National Council of Vesvai and the National Council of Rebellion of Vesvai in different cities on its territory. But now New Vesvai was also sponsoring the guerilla fighters directly engaged in the independence fight in the field. There’s also been information coming in that the Sunrisians might come in to help in the same light too. The National Liberation Committee was now together with all allies in this fight. The National Liberation Committee decided it needs to organize a closed conference where all people associated with the political movement of the National Liberation Movement. The conference would be aimed at informing the people of the fight’s next level.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Internal troops of the Union army got reports and intel that guerillas could’ve planted mines on the roads in south-western regions. The mines were not reported to be on rural areas or civilian roads. They were strategically placed on the roads more used by military vehicles in those parts of the state. But municipal authorities thought it wouldn’t be beneficial to let this information be public. If people were told that the guerillas only strategically placed mines in military-used roads then it would paint the guerillas as having a moral side to their character. That wouldn’t be useful for the propaganda aimed at fully painting guerillas as terrorists and paramilitaries for the local authorities. That’s why any local news sources were instructed to say that the mines were planted by guerillas to harm innocent civilians as a terrorist attack. The Union army also wouldn’t tell journalists that mines were strategically only aimed against troops with smaller percentage of being used against civilians.

The military’s de-mining teams would handle removing them. Until that job is completed it would be more convenient for the military to use aircraft. But that triggered the past problem of making the troops easier targets for the guerillas to shoot at Union military aircraft. It would be especially dangerous for the troops if the guerillas do have a foreign sponsor giving anti-aircraft weapons to them. But the military will still use roads and hunt for the guerillas on land and not just from air. The roads and parts of roads with confirmed mines will be isolated by de-mining crews and military vehicles will simply be going around them.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

Guerilla training camp, New Vesvai

Vesvaian guerillas will now have a bigger chance of standing up to the Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai even in open battle in the field. Guerillas were now receiving arming, equipping, intelligence aid and training from New Vesvai and from Sunrisia. Both those nations are determined to turn the guerillas into a prestige rebel army instead of a collection of decentralized and disorganized armed fighters running around. But that would be a lengthy process. Until that Vesvaian rebel military could be ready the cause will have to rely on those already on the territory across the border. With chips on their shoulder from Vesvaian dissident political bodies in New Vesvai, New Vesvai’s government and Sunrisian government the guerillas haven’t gone past the rules of warfare or law of war. That’s what expected of them further. The rebel army in preparation would be ready to take on the Union troops in an open fight but right now they’re leaning towards further engaging in guerilla warfare. They don’t plan to invade the Union in an open war for the foreseeable future. Guerilla warfare will definitely be slower for a fight for independence but with the resources they’ll now have the guerillas will have even bigger chances of winning using guerilla methods than in an open fight.

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

But those on the other side don’t presently have access to all the resources their brothers based in New Vesvai have. Guerillas that had already crossed into the Union have to often improvise on the spot. But they largely have to rely on local attitudes too. Fortunately for the guerillas locals have been receptive and supportive. People are welcoming and hosting the guerillas at their homes and giving them anything the guerillas could need at that moment. Locals are viewing the guerillas as freedom fighters. That includes many Vesvaians giving the guerillas shelter or hiding them in their homes when authorities show-up to question locals about seeing any guerillas. The apparent popular support for Vesvaian independence among locals is reassuring and gives optimism. But this has been the case in the south-western regions which is where the guerillas have been most active so far. They don’t know how the people react the further up-north the different guerilla groups will try to travel. Especially if there are locals like the police car high-jacker and statue destroyer who could associate themselves with the guerillas by supporting the same cause but going about other methods. There was a risk of radicals using terrorist methods that could paint the rest of the guerillas in a bad light. There’s no question the local authorities and the Union could use this to paint the guerillas as terrorists even more. They were open to the idea that the Union could even stage some false flag domestic terrorism itself to frame the guerillas for it. But right now those concerns could not stop the cause from progressing. All of this was possible but there was no guaranteed way of stopping it right now. That’s why the guerillas simply had to do now what they could do. Keep moving.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

Borders between the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai and New Vesvai

The Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai stationed locally could only do so much. There was no official order for a military operation by the central government so the troops could only be out there in the fields doing what they had the legal capacity to do. Everything else depended on local authorities and other state institutions. The police in different parts of the guerilla-ridded south-western regions were a secondary major player after the military. If not the first major player. It depended a lot on the national border police to enforce tighter border control to contain the virus spread. But the other major objective for this was to keep guerillas from coming to the Union. Neighbor New Vesvai was still suspected as the source of where the guerillas came from, as their host and their major sponsor. But the state had not proof for this as of yet and didn’t want to cause a public stir.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Guerillas that managed to keep radio contact among each other without their signal jammed entirely were planning a third ambush of the Union army. The very first ambush was the one where the Union army and the guerillas fought out in the open but the guerillas had to pull back eventually and go into hiding. The second known ambush was the attack on a Union military truck that was in the middle of heading down the road. Now was the time to send a third message to the Union troops. In their communication using coded vocabulary for meet-ups and to identify each other the guerillas were discussing an assault on the Union’s aerial units. But the guerillas couldn’t agree on it unanimously because shooting down helicopters could cause a lot of destruction and a lot of causalities. Their discussion was down-graded on at least taking on a single helicopter. Even then that wouldn’t mean shooting down that helicopter but possibly high-jacking it for guerilla use. Even if the Union army or their intelligence caught these plans by listening to guerilla radio transmissions it was still unlikely the army would know where, when and which copter the guerillas might try to go after. If any.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Not much luck has been coming in the way of the Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai. At least it seemed that way. The military and the police were both participating in the questioning of people on their sightings of guerillas anywhere and at any moment. Maybe many locals were assaulted or robbed of resources by the fighters? But expected complaints did not come. Questioned locals didn’t say if they had seen any guerillas or if they were assaulted or robbed by any of them. None of them even found their things missing which most probably would’ve been guerilla action. This caused suspicion for military and for authorities in different regions and provinces. Were the locals indeed not affected by guerillas somehow or were they lying? Surely the residents of guerilla-ridden south-western regions had to have been. But the pursued answer to this question never came.

At this point the Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai and even police had to rely on intelligence agencies and spies to track the guerillas and lure them out into the open. Not only but intelligence gathering could also include surveillance in these difficult times to find out how many citizens are telling the truth and how many are lying and cooperating with guerillas. The troubles on Vesvai Island don’t rule out the possibility of many pro-guerilla attitudes being present in the area. Quite the opposite. But law was and is law.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

The guerillas were stuck in-between two strategies they could take. There were two approaches. They could keep advancing in separate groups, pairs or individually to keep the Union army and police from finding them easily. Or they could make the mission easier for all of them by meeting up and operating as a team. Both approaches had their strategic benefits and their strategic flaws. Both approaches appeared to be better in some instances and worse in some instances than one another. But it was still clear to them that their shared battle for the same cause still meant they had to work together. They had to keep lines of communication. There was a risk of having trouble with that over signal-jamming by the military and surveillance by them. This is how the opponent could track down the guerillas easier and that’s by using the radio communication signal. But the guerillas didn’t have many options. The best they could do was keep the communication open while also keeping their movement. That way the military or the authorities couldn’t immediately come to their location if the guerillas were moving all the time. While having various opinions on strategy and specific action to take there was an agreement on keeping lines of communication open and keeping movement from location to location.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Union army said that the overabundance of land mines has made it risky to use trucks after all. So helicopters were being prepped for scouting the south-western regions for guerillas. If the army got lucky they would even come across guerilla camps. Of course the military knew that carrying the mission out from air made them easier targets. That was a risk recognized a while back. But that is the reason why the army’s going to take additional precautions. The troops on board would operate a powerful mounted machine gun and have bazookas or other weapons with themselves. As soon as enemy bullets would start coming at them from below the military would fire back with all force. Many helicopters wouldn’t be just to transport troops either. The military’s considering deploying mostly attack helicopters to search for guerillas. That way the copters could immediately fire back and defend itself in case it came under guerilla attack.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Guerillas were doing scouting for Union troops. In the quiet of the night many of the fighters were hanging out in self-made hiding spots or even up trees. Many had sniper rifles with them. They were ready to shoot Union troops. But that readiness was not to just randomly shoot Union troops whenever they saw them. At this point the guerillas weren’t really looking for a fight against the Union troops. In case the military came after them the guerillas were ready to shoot in self-defense. But not fire the first bullet just to cause a fight. Without a doubt this was contradictory to the guerilla mission. Their task was to kick the Union forces out of the territory or at least take control of it from the Union. Taking Aurisi was the finish line but that finish line was far from reachable. Especially with using slow guerilla tactics like the pro-independence forces have been. But even with their mission the guerillas weren’t seeking out a fight against Union forces. They weren’t looking forward to killing. The paradox was that many Union troops were Vesvaian themselves but they were loyal to the Union while guerillas were pro-independence. So they were ideological enemies and it made sense to be ready to take out the ideological enemy. But there was always a chance or hope that the Vesvaian nationality factor could somehow prevail over the ideological Union vs. Independence conflict among Vesvaians.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

The Armed Forces of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai stationed on the island strategically concluded that they must prevent the advance of guerillas up north. It’s been determined that guerillas are active in the south-western regions. That’s how the military intends to keep it. Guerillas were fighting slowly and not with full-fledged warfare. That’s what made their progress slower. But the military couldn’t take any risks. The guerillas mustn’t be allowed to become active in more parts of the Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai. They especially mustn’t reached Aurisi where the local Vesvaian government’s in although Fortwel is where the main Union government is based. But it’s a small chance that the guerillas could ever reach that far because that’s on a completely different island. But overthrowing the Union doesn’t appear to be their objective. Guerillas are pro-independence so it’s clear their objective is to take control of Vesvai Island. That’s why the Union forces must keep them from advancing up north and especially reaching Aurisi. That’s the capital of Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

Instead of acting alone the guerillas were now assembling into teams and battalions. Most of them concluded that acting as a team was more effective than acting alone. They weren’t just going to be lone warriors but they are going to be an army. It was especially vital now that they had scarce access to reinforcements and military supplies. The closure of borders by Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai over the virus, guerilla threat, tensions with New Vesvai and the conflict between Rezua and Sunrisia. That is what made the fight more difficult for the guerillas. They were outnumbered and under-resourced. Those already on the soil of Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai were for now the only hope that the struggle will continue to a winning end. Unless the situation somehow changes until then. Keeping contact over radio the guerillas were discussing which parts to meet up in to finally get together. Obviously this would make their single location more traceable for the Union army. Assembling in a single location goes against the previous strategy of being less easy to track. Because the guerillas were spread out and always moving so the Union troops couldn’t trace them that easy. Coming together will go against that strategy. But because the guerillas will be together as an army it will not make it as easy for the Union forces to take them on. The guerillas will be less vulnerable together than apart.

[Nemohsis]

The United States of Nemohsis wondered if it was too late to sell its arms to any factions involved in conflict. Currently, the most sold Nemohsian product is the weaponized bio-robotic T-Rex, but it seems like the vast majority of buyers are zoos, WhoTubers, and wealthy dictator-scientists.

[Oblaren and Vesvai]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

The Union army was conflicted about the capacity of weapons they were allowed to use on the field. Because the central government hasn’t given orders for a military operation and what’s allowed for warfare the Union army was acting on its own. At most the politicians that were commanding their actions were local municipal governments in the regions, districts and provinces. Even the island’s capital Aurisi wasn’t vocal. Fortwel had no orders that were given as of yet either and that was the primary place for the Union army to expect orders from. That’s where the commander-in-chiefs were. Just like the Union army concluded on its own what to do and where the Union army also took on the responsibility of what kind of weapons and tech it will use to win the fight against the guerilla terrorists.

[Vesvaian Rebels]

South-Western regions, Vesvai’s part of the Union of Oblaren and Vesvai, Island of Vesvai, Union of Oblaren and Vesvai

While discussing their assembling the guerillas also had several strategic tactics on what specifically to do on the battlefield that were also being discussed. But because their radio signal was probably traced by the Union army they avoided talking about it too much. The logical approach was to discuss the next guerilla move after they actually meet and get to talk without being listened to. That unvoiced planned was to try and take a Union helicopter which was a previously discussed move. Some guerilla scouts told the rest that the sky now had many more Union army helicopters in it. So the plan to take a helicopter could be brought to reality now much more surely than before. Strategically using a helicopter may go against the guerilla’s stealth approach. But because of their lack of resources and access to them their only hope could be to try and steal military hardware from the Union army. Whenever there was a chance of course. Because the guerillas wanted to keep using the stealth warfare it would be difficult to steal a lot of resources at once. After all the guerillas could only realistically do that in open battle and what’s what they preferred to avoid. Their chosen approach was to use select and carefully calculated moves. Taking a helicopter was currently on the table as next such move. Even though it seemed like it will most likely cause a big battle in the encounter with the Union army. Unless the guerillas planned to single out a particular helicopter and take it.