Phoenix Republican Uprising

The Phoenix Republican Uprising
Date	February 5322 - May 5322
Location	Central and Spinward Large Magellanic Cloud
Result	Phoenician Dynasty Restored Decisive Jardin Republic Victory
Belligerents
Phoenix Empire	Jardin Republic
	Phoenix Democracy Movement
Commanders and Leaders
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Miziuru-Saria	Anais Le'Reinne
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Fel de Moya†	Maurice Le'Reinne
Angus Feril	Ellison Mugombe†
Roscoe Hillenholler	Hector Bermudez-Wu†
Sakura-Zel†	Sebastien Phoenicia-zel-Zarya
Strength
	12 Ships
Casualties & Losses
Millions	Millions

The Phoenix Republican Uprising was a major Phoenician civil war in the year 5322 AE, concurrent with the ongoing Jardin War. Mutineers in both the Imperial Navy 5th Fleet and critical defense facilities deposed the Phoenician Dynasty and declared the Phoenix Republic. They were shortly joined by Jardin forces on the offensive. The war was waged entirely on the territory of the Empire.

By the year 5322 AE the social contract in the Phoenix Empire had reached a particularly dissolute nadir, with insurgencies against various feudal lords becoming common and devastating Imperial planetary pacification campaigns increasingly regular. High Nobles had become particularly entrenched in their rights and privileges. Disillusioned by participation in the suppression of local revolts and the lack of social mobility, several key Royal and Imperial officers began forming revolutionary cadres among critical military formations. Forced to act prematurely by the discovery of a secret arsenal, they launched the [date] Mutiny. Most of the Royal Family was killed, captured, or forced into hiding.

Jardin forces took advantage of the situation and launched mass offensives down the Red-Blue Lines, aided by further mutinies and disorientation in the Imperial Navy & Army, soon claiming their terminal points in Phoenician space. A Jardin expeditionary force, the Liberation Army, was formed to link up with the Phoenician Revolutionary Army and capture most of the key wormhole loci in the Empire. Isolated from each other and faced with their own troubles, the Imperial Circles began considering independence.

The most successful counterattack was launched by the combined fleet rallied at the Osakan Reach, which in a months time fought three major set piece battles that decided the course of the war: Third Bastion, Hestia, and Broken Kybelle.

Following the victory at Luxor, Imperial forces had reclaimed the capital and broken the short lived Phoenix Republic. The remnants of the Phoenician Revolutionary Army, led by a defecting Commodore Joachim Mornstein-Montfort, managed an organized retreat to Jardin controlled space where they would remain and eventually resettle. For their part, the century old Le'Reinne government would ironically themselves soon be overthrown by violent popular outrage over the Estelle Scandal despite having secured an immense strategic advantage over the Empire at relatively little cost.

Empress Miziuru-Saria signed the Treaty of Haven(?) with the freshly elected Desmond government which recognized Jardini territorial gains along the Red-Blue Lines, released the families of Phoenician Democracy Movement to asylum in Jardin, and formally ended the Jardin War.

Aftermath

Though the conflict lasted less than a year and ended the war on a string of dramatic victories the Phoenix Empire was devastated by the bloody civil strife. Imperial forces had suffered tremendously, facilities were damaged or sabotaged, the Grand Duchies remained ambivalent to the restoration of central authority, and civil unrest had reached a hitherto unprecedented pitch.

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