Rennian Settlement of the Balkavanians

Background

Invasion

General Krennic convinced the Emperor that it was a good idea, and the EotLP Navy set course for the Balkavanians after nearly a year out at sea. With just under a few days of warning, on the 25th of 236, the EotLP Navy came upon the Balkavanians. Their navy entered the archipelago through the Bijelo & Krvavo Strait, surrounding Solemion Otok. They quickly approached Cagne Island, which at the time was an independent nation, who controlled the island and the nearby coast. The Royal Cagne Family, whose navy was entirely overshadowed by the 149 Rennian Battle Cruisers, 33 Light Attack Ships, and 46 Reconnaissance Ships, made the decision to surrender their lands without resistance to the EotLP, in exchange for some continued form of power. Duke Nikolas Mezis Cagne II was granted this deal on the 28th of 236, and became the first Rennian Noble (a position which Ren invented based strongly on Empress Octavia Silenus). He was given the title The Very Honourable Count Sir Nikolas Mezis Di Cagne, and allowed to continue ruling the Island of Cagne in some forms for the years to come. Thanks to Cagne’s Deal, The EotLP gained both its first royally owned ground, as well as their first port o call in over a year

After gaining a small foothold in the Balkavanians with the Cagne Duchy, Emperor Ren & Krennic began looking towards Krjstendodjl, Cklserolva, Kibylj, Mezhdomnoven, and Srebvona. On the 30th of 236, Emperor Ren and General Krennic demanded land that extended in a square area up to the Lonac Bay. The five nations each refused individually, within hours. As a counter, Emperor Ren announced that all military personnel and civilians engaging with Military personnel would be considered hostile to the EotLP, and just under 3 days after their initial demand, His troops began invading. Covered by huge amounts of fire from their coastal ships, the EotLP Army swept through the area ahead of it, focusing first on taking the small amount of land they wanted from Srebvona, then sweeping North to continue their land grab, against which the inferior Kibylj Army stood no chance. The only area of Cklserolva that they had demanded was sparsely inhabited, and due to the lack of decent infrastructure in the south of Cklserolva, the EotLP Army swept through their land as well. Another batch of EotLP Soldiers took the land they wanted from Mezhdomnoven, launching out of the Cagnoy region of Cagne, and then the two massive Armies coalesced towards Krjstendodjl, and took with ease the land they wanted. As the entire world watched, the Rennian Army then stopped. They began digging in on the borders of what they had claimed they wanted, but did not progress an inch further. Ren offered harassment-free passage out of the new EotLP for any citizens of old countries still living there, and offered full citizenship to any who wished to say. To uphold his word, he granted all his military officers the right to detain or dismiss any soldier or officer found to be provably harassing refugees. The Rennian Army began to take control of the few Military outposts that had been in the areas they conquered, and began waiting. Despite what nearly everyone had predicted or expected, General Krennic and Emperor Ren made no efforts to take any more land than he had already, despite clearly demonstrating that he had the capabilities to do so. On the 5th of 237, the EotLP was properly re-founded, with new geography.

Defense of the Mainland

Astonished at what had transpired in the span of just a few days, with the EotLP Army and Navy capturing a jaw-dropping 56,000 km² with almost no casualties, several of the defeated countries launched counter-attacks. However, Srebvona's undersized and outdated military could not stand up to the EotLP's, who had spent nearly the entire year since their eviction from the EotBTH training and prepping. Srebvona only launched thee assaults across their new, 80 km border with the EotLP, on the 6th, 7th, and 9th of 237, but all three were decisively defeated, and the Rennian Military demonstrated their civility and sheer superiority by capturing all but 17 of the Srebvonan Soldiers who attacked, and returned them all unharmed back to Srebvona. After such a raw defeat, Srebvona made no attempts to attack further.

Kibylj did not engage on ground level, but began shelling and bombing the EotLP holdings that they had previously owned on the 8th of 237. However, the EotLP responded in kind, bombing 16 air force and infantry bases across Kibylj over the night of the 10th, crippling their Military. Ren offered to completely stop his own bombing if Kibylj would respond in turn, and representatives from the two countries signed an agreement to do so on the 11th, ending the conflict between Kibylj and the EotLP.

Cklserolvan troops only made it to their border with the EotLP on the 13th, and began a slow attack on the EotLP, but this was successfully repulsed by the EotLP Military, with huge help from their aging Buffalo Tanks. Due to the terrain and lack of proper infrastructure between Cklserolva's north and south, none of their tanks could reach their border with the EotLP. On the 20th of 237, they agreed to a ceasefire with the EotLP.

Mezhdomnoven made no attempts to take back the area they had just conquered only a few years before, as it had been a show mostly of dominance over the Cagne Duchy, rather than an actual intentional, useful, invasion.

Krjstendodjl made a few attempts to take back their land, but their flawed military strategy, which mostly consisted of strength in numbers, failed them, and hundreds of their soldiers were killed by Rennian defenders, and thousands more were captured, and returned to Krjstendodjl later. Similar to Srebvona, after receiving their soldiers back, Krjstendodjl made no further efforts to retake their land.

Post-Invasion Settlement

The Rennian Military guarded the resettling of the new EotLP, and protected those already living there as well.

Ren's first decisions were on Population locations. Ren ignored the locations where small towns already existed, and instead, by decree, chose several pieces of either poor farmland, or coastal locations, to settle as cities. Rennia, the capital, was placed in the Northwest corner of the Nation. The Northwest was decided to be the more population-heavy region, with three major coastal cities founded - Stravna, Tisery, and Karebyr - and one internal city founded in the same area - Dobskova. At the request of Empress Octavia Silenus, the Sinitolians were permitted to settle in their own region. Ren removed the moniker of Empress from Silenus, though, naming her The Very Honourable Countess Dame Octavia Silenus Di Sinitolia. Ren also refused the areas' request to be called New Sinitolia, and instead assigned them the moniker Qaret. Qaret had significantly less freedoms than Sinitolia had previously, and found themselves removed from the name of the country, which became the EotLP once again.

The Osborne GC and Octan Corporation were both given large swaths of land to exclusively control at a regional level. Both unloaded the equipment, technology, and supplies that had been following the EotLP Convoy around for the previous year on their own private cargo ships, and began to rebuild the country, starting with their regions. Emperor Ren authorized the country to be divided into four sections of Infrastructure; The South Wing, the East Wing, the Centre, and Cagne Island. The south wing was contracted to Osborne to construct Infrastructure and Public Transit systems, the East to Octan, and the Centre was contracted to the Government. Qaret refused Osborne's highway construction efforts, and attempted to take charge of their own infrastructure, but were overruled by the Emperor, who gave them permission to build all lower-level roads entering Qaret, but mandated that they accept the A-level Highways that ran through their Land.