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== Etkian Coup == | == Etkian Coup == | ||
<small>Main Article: [[Etkian Coup]]</small> | <small>Main Article: [[Etkian Coup]]</small> | ||
== 270 Coup (Fall of the Empire) == | |||
<small>Main Article: [[270 Rennian Coup]]</small> |
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The Balkavanian EotLP brought prosperity and stability that had never been possible to promise in the old EotLP. But it took a lot of in-fighting to prove so. Ren wanted his nation to be stable, and happy in the new EotLP, but others didn’t see it so; there were many inside the EotLP who would’ve been happier to stay and fight Smelly Cabbage back in the old EotLP. It would end up taking three Coup attempts before people realised what they had was good, before they realised what they had was worth being happy about. After the series of events faded, they would leave a legacy of a strong nation, who could weather internal troubles. But they would cost a lot.
First Attempted Coup
Groups within and without the military were angry that the EotLP had made no move to try and stop Smelly Cabbage from uprooting them, despite the fact that there had been nothing for them to do. However, angry people struggling for jobs rarely listen to such logic. They organized, and planned, and on the 10th of 237, organized rebels from among Ren’s army tried to kill Emperor Ren and his closest advisors, by attacking Him during a speech in the new capital of Rennia with rebel ground forces, and then hijacking his transport-the Octan-Lancer 7-seat Passenger Ultrajet, the Crown Jewell-which he fled onto. Luckily for Emperor Ren and the Empire, Air Force Captain Poe Dartmoor shot the hijacker, and flew the Crown Jewell away from the situation, and Zin Evanki (of later fame) followed, supporting them from his R-100. They were then attacked by three fighters stolen by the rebels, two R-100s and an O5 Firebird. During the ensuing dogfight, Dartmoor successfully used the Crown Jewell’s defense systems to down one of the R-100s, while Private Evanki destroyed the other fighters. The Crown Jewell was badly injured during the confrontation, though, as the pilot of the Firebird had attempted to ram Emperor Ren’s plane, and had scraped off a large chunk of the roof of the Plane. Evanki and Dartmoor escorted Ren to Cagne Island, where they met with General Krennic, who had heard of the altercation, but was unaware of Emperor Ren’s survival. The larger Rebel group pushed the small Military Detachment in Rennia out of their headquarters & surrounded them. General Krennic & Emperor Ren organized a counterstrike to take back their capital city, which they launched three days later, on the 13th of 227. The Rennian Air Force, which had mostly been located at Military Bases where there had been no record of insurgency, began to buzz the new Rebel Headquarters, while three small detachments of soldiers, one led by General Krennic, one led personally by Emperor Ren, and one led by a little-known Roman Turncoat, Sargent Tiberius Rex. Unfortunately, in the planning stage of the counterstrike, they had vastly underestimated the size of the Rebel Forces, and every member of both Krennic & Ren’s detachments were captured. However, Rex came to the rescue, as he personally led a charge which broke the Rebel column, and freed the Emperor and & General of the Rennian Armed Forces. Once reunited, the three detachments together attacked the Rebels. They put up fierce resistance, though, until a Rennian Sniper who had evaded being captured by the Rebels for several days dropped the Rebel leader, known only as Punkor. Within another 15 minutes, the rest of the rebels caved. Without the head, the snake lost its brain. The entire ordeal took less than a work week, but it exposed the angry nature of the Rennian People, after the Smelly Cabbage incident. Lancer & Osborne replaced the downed aircraft, and they had begun reconstruction of new Aircraft as well. 150 R-100s, 50 O5s, 50 R-200s, and 150 OA1s had been produced before the Smelly Cabbage Incident. Each of the EotLP’s Aircraft Carriers was equipped to house 150 R-100s, 50 O5s and a motley assortment of other aircraft, and they had three. And, furthermore, Air Force Bases had been established all around the nation, as well. Emperor Ren wanted all of the Aircraft Carriers to be combat ready, and supply the rest of the Air Force Bases. 1000 R-100s, 500 O5s, 75 R-200s, and 400 OA1s would be required. Osborne & Lancer didn’t have trouble filling these orders, though.
Second Attempted Coup
Internal struggles were not over after the first coup, though. Although the economy steadily grew, and people’s lives began to form a new normal, there were still many who were angry at the move. Smelly Cabbage had reportedly done nothing with the empty territory, and many took this as proof that Emperor Ren had acted irrationally and unjustifiably. In 238, Emperor Ren made another decision that enraged these people; he offered the new EotLP as a refuge to anyone else displaced by the Smelly Cabbage Incident. The EotLP’s population jumped from around 3 million to close to 5 million within the year. The kinds of people who would have preferred to stay in the old EotLP because “it is our home still, no matter what the false Emperor may say” (exert from an anti-Ren propaganda poster). It all came to a boiling point at the very beginning of 239, when Emperor Ren announced that they would (finally) begin forming diplomatic relations with the Nations that they had overrun in order to carve out their new territory. Despite the fact that the dissenters claimed to hate the idea of the Balkavanian EotLP, they were also now mad that Ren had not conquered more of the Balkavanians during the Smelly Cabbage Incident. They organized all of their followers, many of whom were in the military, and launched an attack on Emperor Sergio Ren. On the 20th of 239, Ren was doing a routine troop inspection in the Capital, Rennia, when a group of his troops turned and fired on him. He was struck by several bullets before Krennic, and the now-Colonel Tiberius Rex managed to get him to safety. Rebels began flooding in the gates of the Military Complex, and Loyal Soldiers had no way to know who was on their side or not. Mayhem ensued, until a Loyalist realised that the Coup-ing soldiers identified each other by a blue flower painted on their helmet. After that realization, the Rebelling soldiers lost their advantage – camouflage. Three squads of Rennian Commandoes arrived at the scene of the battle within half an hour of the first shot. They cleaned up the last few straggling Rebels, who had been outnumbered from the start, and the entire event finished within an hour and a half. Once the grounds were deemed safe, the emergency doctors began to move the injured Ren out of the building they had been sheltered in, to try and get him to the hospital for emergency procedures. He was loaded onto a gurney, and wheeled outside. Outside, though, there was a single Rebel Soldier, who had traded his marked helmet with an unmarked one off of a dead loyalist. As Ren was wheeled past him, he drew his handgun, and began to empty its clip into Ren’s body. General Krennic tackled him immediately, receiving several bullet wounds as well, before a group of three commandoes violently subdued him. Ren survived the second attack as well, after undergoing intensive surgery, and Michael Osborne implanting several pieces of tech into his body to keep him alive. He never made a full physical recovery, but was conscious again after 4 days, and was released from the hospital after 12 further days. Krennic was less seriously injured, and recovered after just under a week in hospital. Although fewer total casualties were recorded in the Second Coup Attempt, both General Krennic & Emperor Ren suffered major wounds, and came a lot closer to death’s door than they had ever before.
Etkian Coup
Main Article: Etkian Coup
270 Coup (Fall of the Empire)
Main Article: 270 Rennian Coup