[Outbreak]

On November 3rd, 1205, a pitch-black shadow burst through Dnieper Gate on the southwestern border of the North Ambria province. It was the black Heavy Panzer Soldat Hector, driven by Brigadier General 'Black Whirlwind' Wallace Bardias of Sutherland's provincial army. The giant cross-spear wielded by the occupant scattered the Northern Jaegers and the autonomous weapons they used called 'archaisms' that guarded the gate, and a golden Panzer Soldat leading a 100-strong battalion stepped into the province from the Empire of Erebonia.

Driving the golden machine was Lamare's provincial army commander, 'Golden Rakshasa' Aurelia Le Guin. That day, the old Noble Alliance forces that both commanders served declared war and attacked North Ambria. That was the beginning of an aggression later called the 'Northern War' that was over in less than half a year.

[Background]

The indirect cause of the fighting originated in the October civil conflict in the empire the year before. That civil war saw the Northern Jaegers based in North Ambria not only fight the Imperial Army beginning in Kreuzen province, but also burn Celdic under direction of the Noble Alliance. They were led by Duke Albarea of the Four Great Houses, but the perpetrators were the Jaeger corps. This was seen as a problem after the war and in June of the next year, the empire made a claim for reparations to the North Ambria province.

The other side of that coin was that the Northern Jaegers and North Ambria were not of the same organization, though the fact that citizens were caught up in the fires meant that it couldn't be helped that they were slandered as inhumane. However, the chronic financial troubles the independent province faced meant that the reparations were too much, and while the diet was entangled, the Northern Jaegers took shocking action. After occupying the diet, they were supplied by a large amount of archaisms by the international criminal organization that acted behind the scenes during the Imperial civil war called 'Ouroboros.'

On July 5th, the Northern Jaegers that were occupying the diet issued a refusal to pay reparations. The Imperial government took the situation seriously and attempted negotiations through many channels, though they failed to make headway. Finally, Erebonia made a 'certain offer' to the old Noble Alliance forces in Juno Naval Fortress of Lamare. That offer was for those forces to attack and suppress North Ambria, and that achievement was a large step forward in the difficulties plaguing provincial army negotiations. Thus Le Guin and Bardias of the old Noble Alliance forces abandoned the naval fortress at the end of August, and after two months of planning with the Intelligence Division and Railway Military Police, the war began.

[Development]

The old Noble Alliance forces that broke Dnieper Gate suppressed Northern Jaeger bases in small towns like Kilva and Livli, closing in on the capital of Haliask. This was over a mere three days. However, the Northern Jaegers deployed large archaisms all around Haliask, even releasing them inside the city as they prepared to resist to the bitter end.

General Le Guin surrounded the city and was tasked with negotiating for the empire. At the same time, the Leman Bracer Guild dispatched many high-ranking bracers in an attempt to make a breakthrough. On the Imperial mainland, the Ashen Chevalier, Rean Schwarzer, was called on by the government and deployed in his beloved knight, but there was only one week left in the grace period put in place by General Le Guin.

[Conclusion]

On November 12th, the Ashen Chevalier, high-ranking bracers, and elite Railway Military Police infiltrated the city in an effort to restrain the large archaisms and Jaeger corps, but because evacuating the citizens from the attacks of the jaegers took too long, time ran out.

On the morning of November 13th, the Panzer Soldats, led by commanders Le Guin and Bardias, pulverized the defenses of Haliask, scattered the jaegers, and attacked the city. They took control of the Haliask diet building on noon of the same day.

Thanks to the work of the Ashen Chevalier and the bracers, civilian casualties were extremely low, and thanks to the generals' overwhelming attacks, Jaeger corps deaths were lower than expected.

That day, the thousands-strong Northern Jaegers completely surrendered.

[Annexation]

Afterward, Imperial dignitaries also arrived on the scene and detailed negotiations to end the war began. Thanks to the dependency on foreign currency brought on by the Jaeger corps, however, the independent province didn't have the ability to rebuild itself. Despite protests by the guilds and the Septian Church, and apprehensions of surrounding nations (Calvard denounced it entirely), it was decided to bring the province into the empire on November 30th.

Then on December 23rd, with the blessing of Emperor Eugent III, the North Ambria province of the Empire of Erebonia was created.

- M. Nielsen