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OOC- OK, just a short history lesson on how the whole Quinntonian Dra-pol thing came to be, I realise that most of you weren’t even involved when these events were happening, and you are counting on Dra-poel propaganda to make your decisions. I am going to try and present the facts as they really happened, Dra-pol, if I leave anything out or mis-represent anything, let me know. I know everyone can interpret these facts any way they want, but, I am getting a lot of hostility over things I never said or did, so…..


Several years ago, maybe fifteen or twenty, Quinntonian naval elements were monitoring a boatload of refugees near the Korean Peninsula when they lost contact as they were coming near to the uncharted northern part. The people in that nation were known to be a “Hermit Kingdom” and though I guess I had pretty good relations with ROK in the south, there was no contact with the north.
Upon further investigation, we found that there was significant wreckage and much of it had washed up on shore, so we put together a couple of units, some prayer warriors, and a Pastor, and went ashore to see if there had been any survivors. Unbeknownst to us, our teams found while we were on shore that the boat had been sunk by what appeared to be pre- WWII rockets.
Apparently, after WWII, the Dra-poel government had closed its borders, after fighting off invasions from the Japanese, and Russians, as well as a very few Quinntonian planes and ships. They then informed their people that the rest of the world had died in a nuclear war and that they were the only nation left alive. They had spent much of the rest of their time forcing de-urbanisation on the people and having their secret police, the Banat; destroy any evidence of an outside world at all. It was this xenophobic regime that had spotted the ship of refugees and, with their government telling them that they weren’t human, but rather demons that were not at rest because of the nuclear wars, and probably trying to eat their souls or something, they sank the ship, with no survivors, 350 refugees and crew.
So, an admittedly armed group of about25 people went ashore and started tromping through the bush looking for survivors when a little girl holding a hunting rifle, who was on “demon guard duty” spotted them and fired a shot, hitting one of the men, before darting off into the woods. We returned fire with our M-16s. He was evacuated as the rest of the unit, about 16 people, chased the girl. While tracking her, the troops came upon a village and tried to communicate with the people, who were understandably very frightened, and when the troops tried to leave, the local Banat agents tried to arrest them. A short firefight broke out, and two Dra-pol died. The Quinntonian left, but then decided that they needed to definitely find any survivors, and so, called in a helicopter. The chopper that was coming in to pick then up was then shot down, with all hands.
At this point, jets were scrambled just to flyover the nation and find what could be a government building, we found three major cities, and decided to airlift into the main one, which turned out to be the capitol.
At this point, we were fairly cautious, and so dropped in two platoons of men, about 88 of them, and they were backed up with some attack choppers and I think we even dropped in some light armour.
Granted, looking back on that, it may have been stupid, but as we advanced on the city, the Dra-pol Army was called out to fight us, and the air force was scrambled almost in its entirety. This became known as the Three Days War, in which Quinntonian casualties numbered around 20, and the Dra-poel, who were fighting using WWII technology and tactics, like the “human wave”, were taking massive casualties. The WWII era fighter planes were decimated by our choppers and jets, I think we pretty much crippled the air force and I don’t think we took more than 1 or 2 chopper losses. I don’t remember what the losses to manpower on the Dra-poel side were, but I would not be surprised with a number in the hundreds.
You don’t have to believe us, but we never intended to do that, they just kept coming, and we couldn’t leave, because the choppers kept taking heavy ground fire, so we just kept shooting, and they kept coming, we had never seen anything like it, they just kept coming. But they were only armed with rifles and knee mortars, and we were armed with M-16s and the best of everything from grenades to rockets propelled high ordinance. But mostly, it was the machineguns. They just kept coming and we just kept firing. We had to, it was horrible.
But, in the end, we saw that in order to stop the fighting we would have to force a negotiation, and so we stormed the Central Directorate Building, and forced, through a massive language barrier (nobody spoke the bastardised Korean that was Dra-poel) explained that it was all a misunderstanding.
This put a stop to the fighting. In return, we offered to help Dra-pol modernise, they were facing massive famines and had no infrastructure or modern medicine, so we decided that we would help to rebuild them. We had at one time or another, over 250,000 civilian contractors working in the nation, building roads, bridges, train-tracks, hospitals, schools, even a University. We spent literally billions upon billions on feeding, clothing and educating the people. Dra-pol was literally adopted by the Quinntonian people. Of course, we continued hearing horrible things about the torture and execution of political prisoners, but naively thought that if we showed them that people didn’t need to be controlled to be productive and kindness was profitable, they would change on their own.
WE later found out that the majority of the funds and material that were meant for civilians were being re-appropriated for the military, at least those that were under government administration. But, we decided that we would try and bring Dra-pol onto the world stage.
WE made a deal, a signed treaty, that would place the harbour and the city of Hamhung, and surrounding areas, under Quinntonian protection, to be recognised as sovereign territory by both parties, but to have a Quinntonian military base put there in order to protect the industrial areas and harbour from harm. Contrary to popular belief, this was not done at the point of a sword, it was a very friendly agreement between what we thought were allies.
This place was the greatest Quinntonian engineering feat in history, we constructed, in three short years, an international class airport, designed to serve both military and civilian needs. An international harbour, again designed to serve naval and civilian aircraft needs. Also, an entire city was built, with a massive industrial center that would rival any in the western world. It was to be the hub of a new, revitalised Dra-pol, and have the industrial capacity to supply their needs for years to come. It was all built with the understanding that eventually Dra-pol would come to administrate it. We asked for workers, and Dra-pol “asked” people to come and work in the factories. We began t pay them, though we later found out that over 95% of their pay was siphoned off to the Dra-poel government. They were provided with food, apartments, luxury items as reward for working well, TV and radio was introduced, and they began to enjoy their time here, many sent for their families, and after awhile, Dra-poel started streaming across the border in droves, swelling the city to almost 8 million people. WE just kept pouring funds into it, and the rest of the country, hoping to create enough work so that these people would all have work. WE even started educating the tope 3,500 Dra-poel picks by the government in our best universities, free of charge. It was a great time, Quinntonians working side by side with their Dra-poel brothers.
After the initial conflict, Kurosian I had disappeared, faking his own death and put his son, Kurosian II in charge. At some point, Kurosian II decided that we were to leave, and get this, instead of asking us to, he ordered the arrests of every Quinntonian outside of Hamhung, which was by this point called Quinntonian Dra-pol. He then ordered them to be publicly tortured and executed. That meant that in about three days time, over 100,000 Quinntonian teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers, missionaries, aid workers, etc. were martyred. Then, began to raise an army, while we closed the border around Quinntonian Dra-pol, and called for help. The Quinntonian people were shocked. We had no idea as to what to do. But, our Prime Minister, then and now, Jesse Obed, gathered together the Quinntonian people for a response, we got the military ready and sent them out.
Then they came, there was some internal politicking going on as Kurosian I got together an army and marched it against his son, but, that was really not our concern right now. The Dra-poel army marched up to Quinntonian Dra-pol and found that the Quinntonian were ready, reinforcements had not arrived, but those that were there had dug in and fought back with all the rage that would be expected of them. And the Dra-poel Army used those damned human wave attacks again. They began to send them and when they were rebuffed again and again, he resorted to using chemical weapons on the civilian population, killing another 100,000 in the first days of the siege. Well, through the hep of some allies and the fact that we had major air superiority and naval superiority, we enacted a blockade on Dra-pol and finally reinforced our position, and our navy sent pretty much all of theirs to the bottom of the sea, and we destroyed anything that even looked like it had wings in the sky. But the now Kurosian I, continued the human wave attacks. Now one must understand that Quinntonia was hurt, and with the martyrdom of all of those people, some that were carried to the frontlines so that they could be crucified in sight of our troops, and the use of WMD, and the fact that we had all sacrificed so much in order to help these people, who then betrayed us in such a brutal fashion, we fought harder and longer than we had since WWII, the whole nation and its economy was mobilised for war, and we fought hard. This was called the Three Years War.
The funny thing was, the people who fought the hardest for us were the Dra-poel ex-pats who knew what going back to the old regime would entail. They died in droves, and many went back across the line, hoping to be shown mercy, though I doubt that it happened. In the end, we ordered a cease-fire, which has stood more or less to this day. Over 800,000 Quinntonian and Dra-poel military casualties are listed, with over 1,000,000 crossing over and becoming unaccounted for or being among the many unallied civilian deaths. It was reported that Dra-pol claimed over 2,000,000 military casualties.
Since then the Peace or “Westgaard” line, named after the Governor-Bishop of Quinntonian Dra-pol through all of this, was constructed, a series of fortifications and high-tech sensory outposts that sprawls across the border and deep into the earth. In sight if the city is a massive Dra-poel army that is ready at a moments notice to swoop down on the vulnerable city.

There is also the nasty business of the supposed assassination in a bathroom stall of Kurosian I and the fact that Kurosian II is in a Quinntonian jail cell for crimes against humanity i.e. war crimes.


Well, that pretty much brings us up to date, I know it’s long, and I doubt if anyone will read all of, but for those of you that do, this is the story.

WWJD
Amen.

Quinntonian Drapoel has only existed for some twenty years or so? How can you justify such a ridiculiously huge number the population being christian? Were they forced into this?

Also, this entire ordeal would be viewed to be an example of Quinntonian Imperialism in Yaman. Quinntonia was the first to violate a national border in the saddening series of events, and dealt with an isolationistic regime in one of the worst ways...through violence. Then, to top it off, they thought it would be a good idea to send christian missionary/aid workers to a socialist regime, and create a region in that nation(now QDP) with heavy capitalist leanings...what did you think was going to happen? A sudden switch of the political alliance of the entire country to democracy?

Perhaps Quinntonia is a lot more like America than I originally thought...

Also, could you please respond on the Dragon kills the Knight...I can't really move forward until I resolve the issue of Quinntonia trade routes and the sudden appearance of FA-22's.

I don't think that I still have much written down from that era. Let me get the rust off my brain!

Just for reference, though it doesn't matter much, when I first started the RPs that ended in the present state of affairs, Dra-pol was not only using listed NS population, but was originally not even in Korea. It's geography was initially vague, so making the change early on in the described chain of RPs did not really have a big impact- it's just well that it happened before Quinntonia took possession of some land. That's just for the sake of anyone who remembers reference to tropical jungle back then, which probably doesn't fit desperately well with most of Korea...

Hm, yes, lets see. I'm just trying to remember a few things from the Drapoel point of view. Kurosian I didn't just go into hiding, fake his own death, and set his son up as Director for nothing. I think that came... hm... in the Three Day War? But that was also known in Quinntonia as Kurosian's Rage, wasn't it? I can't remember which Kurosian that referenced! Yes, erm, anyway, Kurosian I fled because the Quinntonians (and their allies? Depending on when it happened, exactly) seemed bent on removing him from power, or he wouldn't have done it. He hoped that his death would satisfy them and that they would go away, and he could come back and it would be like before: in time, people would forget.

Of course he failed to appreciate that the Quinntonians didn't want to leave and let Dra-pol turn back into itself. When they made it obvious that they were staying, his son thought he saw a chance to keep power, believing that his father -if he came out of hiding- would have made himself look foolish in the eyes of the Quinntonians, who Kurosian II took to be a powerful tool.

As such, Kurosian I had to use the ultra-loyal Banat to raise an army against his own son while the Quinntonians were building Hamhung and Hungnam.

Kurosian I staged a fire fight... I'm trying to remember the details. Ah! A Drapoel convoy- he had the Quinntonians tipped-off to some sort of illegal shipment, I think implying that Kurosian II was delivering arms... possibly into Hamhung, I'm not sure. Quinntonian special forces intercepted the convoy, which was staffed by cripples, idiots, and elderly retired soldiers that Kurosian I thought expendable, and at least one of whom was what you might call a willing suicide soldier. When the convoy was stopped by the Quinntonian detachment, that man fired on the special forces, and the resulting battle obviously saw the Quinntonian special forces obliterate the convoy's guard of rejects. The convoy was actually full of food and medical supplies, because Kurosian I had set the whole thing up.

Kurosian II heard that the Quinntonians had attacked a humanitarian convoy and killed all of its guards, and, being a brash young power hungry man who'd spent his life -like most Drapoel- in isolation under his father's influence, he lashed out rather than ordering a detailed investigation. That is why the Quinntonian aid workers and others were arrested and killed.

The result of that massive slaughter, of course, was a Quinntonian declaration of war, which became the big one. The enraged and inexperienced Kurosian II flung all of his soldiers against Hamhung where they died by hundreds of thousands. While they were doing that, Kurosian I's Banat army was assembling in the north for a swoop against Kurosian II's power base, restoring the father to the Directorature.

Kurosian I was -so far as his people were concerned- back from the dead, and the armies previously following Kurosian II's orders to attack Hamhung or resist the Banat suddenly switched back to support the miracle Director. He then handed his own son -the Butcher of Hamhung- over to the Quinntonians, at once insuring that he would never again betray his father and that the Quinntonians got their man, enabling a peace negotiation with Kurosian I back in charge and more popular than ever.

That is why Kurosian I is remembered as the Greatest Leader.

He was assassinated on a good will mission to China, national press reporting that he died defending a Chinese government building from anti-socialist terrorists. In truth he was beaten to death in the toilets of a hotel at which he was giving a speech, killed by shadowy Quinntonian agents, though this could never be proved as they escaped. At the same time, Secretary Hotan -back in Dra-pol- was attacked by three assassins and badly injured, though he managed to kill all of his attackers and eventually made an almost total recovery... making sure that he too got an almost mystical reputation, and built-up an even greater hate for the Quinntonians.

The Drapoel take on the Hamhung issue isn't just inflated propaganda, it really is how a very different perspective perceives the situation based on its own experiences.

Hope you don't mind if I add another post with a run-down of Drapoel history from the Drapoel perspective- I'm in the mood, now! :)

North Yaman- I think that the Quinntonian fighters are based in Hamhung and probably just flying patrols over that small area, but I could well be mistaken. If I am, the PAAF will be up shortly!

As to the Christian population of Hamhung... well, a lot of Drapoel had pretty tough lives in the technologically limited CPRD, and when they were given cooshy jobs in the city -given that the biggest cities in Dra-pol at the time had a few thousand residents and only classical Korean architecture- many were more or less dazzled by the whole 'Quinntonian experience', I suppose. Some will have gobbled up anything the Quinntonians fed them, while others no doubt mixed Christian teachings with ill-remembered traditional beliefs harboured in private under the CPRD. I'd imagine that such a religious nation as Quinntonia might inspire a burst of faith-fever in the natives who stayed, many of whom were there because they were on the brink of becoming enemies of the Drapoel state, anyway. Perhaps the next generations will see apathy set-in, but at the moment I expect that some of the Drapoel ex-pats in Hamhung are amongst the most enthusiastic Christians of all... though they're probably causing trouble by channeling that into developing new Christian theories and doctrine of their own, or something :)

I think there was also a period, during the relative calm, in which we took to kicking-out anybody who was getting a bit preachy, and they'd likely end up in Hamhung.

Quinntonian Drapoel has only existed for some twenty years or so? How can you justify such a ridiculiously huge number the population being christian? Were they forced into this?

Also, this entire ordeal would be viewed to be an example of Quinntonian Imperialism in Yaman. Quinntonia was the first to violate a national border in the saddening series of events, and dealt with an isolationistic regime in one of the worst ways...through violence. Then, to top it off, they thought it would be a good idea to send christian missionary/aid workers to a socialist regime, and create a region in that nation(now QDP) with heavy capitalist leanings...what did you think was going to happen? A sudden switch of the political alliance of the entire country to democracy?

Perhaps Quinntonia is a lot more like America than I originally thought...

Also, could you please respond on the Dragon kills the Knight...I can't really move forward until I resolve the issue of Quinntonia trade routes and the sudden appearance of FA-22's.


Oh, get serious! Are you seriously defending the actions of a mass murdering regime who has publically TORTURED AND EXECUTED hundreds of thousands of people?

And as for the converts, think about it, we offer them freedom, security, a better life for them and their children, and here there is hundreds of thousands of foriegners fighting and dieing heroically for them. WE have offered to ship them all out of there, they refused. This is their home, and we respect that. We offered to leave, they pleaded with us to stay, seeing as how most of them would most likely be facing the death penalty for their help in defending this city. They were starving, scared and forced to work hard labour for little reward, all the while watching the military get fat and swagger around, threatening, arresting. People disappearing in Banat house arrests in the middle of the night.
All of these newfound things, which they value so much more than the people who were born with them were provided in the name of Jesus. Is it any wonder that they became curious? Who is this Jesus, and why does he want you to help me for nothing in return?

For some RL examples, look at the Chrsitian movements that have sprung up in Africa and behind the iron curtain, even in South Korea, the largest Protestant Church in the world in in Soeul. In Kazahkstan, thousands of people are being led by a few pastors with a handful of Bibles between them. Christianity is growing in Nugeria at unprecedneted rated, there is a 200,000 member Lutherna church there. There are now more Anglicans and Catholics in Africa then N.America and Europe combined (practicing, I mean).

In Ukraine and Moldova, there are so many Cristain churches srpinging up that they are having trouble just paying for the bread for Communion.

I'm only claiming half, and I am saying that many returned to their ancestors ways, this a people that is starved for spirituality.


And Dra-pol, thanx for chiming in, I am having trouble rmembering all of it, too, and I did change some names and stuff so that it would fit with AMW, hope you don't mind. I don't think he went into hiding because I was going to remove him from power, though. At that piont I had never even met him, for all I knew, KII was it.

I just laughed out loud, I haven't thought of "the butcher of Hamhung" for awhile. And Kurosians Rage! LOL! I do remember that when we atsrted this RP, I had 27 million people to your 44 million, we've come a long way.



WWJD
Amen.

Mh, yes, maybe the Quinntonians weren't specifically trying to remove Kurosian Snr. but that was certainly his fear, and there was some sort of conflict that drove him into hiding... as I say, it may have been the Three Day War, perhaps when light tanks and aircraft showed up and Kurosian thought that it was the end for the CPRD. A tragic misunderstanding, in retrospect. If the little expedition into the capital hadn't been mistaken for the spearhead of an all-out invasion, KI would never have put KII in the Directorature, and the Butcher of Hamhung would not have had power- KI probably would still be alive today, and so Hotan would never have been in charge to invade the ROK, either. Of course that would also mean that now, with KI an old man and surely not long for the world, KII -the madman- would still be the legitimate heir by most accounts. The world would still have to deal with him as ruler of the CPRD- which not having had him until then, would probably have a better reputation and more backing, too. Hard to say which way would have been worse.

All right, that Drapoel history from the Drapoel perspective. There's a long reach way back into pre history, just to allow better appreciation of what makes the Drapoel who they are.

Pre-history) The Drapoel believe that their ancestors were born countless thousands of years ago; from Paektusan; a small, relatively dark-skinned people. Later, modern Koreans arrived with more advanced metal working skills and drove right down the peninsula, where they eventually found themselves trapped by furious Drapoel (the modern Drapoel have taken to calling the original ancestors the Choson, by the way) natives who eventually consumed the outsiders into their own culture after adapting their technology.

Pre-C19th history) The Choson Drapoel Empire covered the peninsula and was remarkably enduring. Using the terrain to their advantage and becoming quite adept at stealing and adapting technological advances from China and Japan, the Drapoel began their isolationism thousands of years ago, repulsing repeated invasions by the Japanese, the Manchus, the Mongols, and heck, probably somebody from Lyong at some point! The repeated experience of attack from without only deepened Drapoel introspection, eventually ensuring that the people began to fall behind in technological and political terms. Their defence succeeded only by ever increasing brutality in dealing with enemies -external and internal- and by snowballing militarisation of Drapoel society over many centuries.

The late C19th and early C20th) By now technologically retarded to a significant degree, the Drapoel were finally unable to repulse jealous attackers any longer, and Western as well as Japanese expeditions and traders several times penetrated the peninsula, learning a little about how vulnerable the land was.

The Russo-Japanese War brought the Japanese into Korea (the same way as in reality, broadly speaking), and the young Emperor Wiman was unable to stop them. His control had been weakened by European and other traders, diplomats, and missionaries entering Korea against his will, and for the first time in thousands of years, opposition movements were showing under the surface.

The Japanese did not get an official treaty of annexation or anything of that sort -Wiman knew that it would end him entirely to begin negotiating with them. He hoped to rule as a sort of vassal. The people were the same as ever, though, and resisted outright despite massive technological inferiority. The Japanese didn't make much progress beyond coastal regions and much of the south. The more mountainous spine and north remained strong centres of nationalist resistance, and also contained many of the anti-monarchist opposition movements, which as yet were small and low-key.

1931) One opposition leader known only as Sulo declares a Suloist constitution; Suloists become dominant amongst anti-monarchist cells involved in fighting the Japanese (at this stage along side but independent of Wiman's forces). Suloists become identified with communism as the Sino-Japanese War breaks out. he Suloist guerrillas have more success against the Japanese than Wiman's armies ever managed.

1937) The Suloist Constitution is enacted, with Sulo's guerrillas in control of much Korean territory.

1938) On the 2nd of February, after turning mass support into a peninsula-wide partisan army, the Suloists proclaim the monarchy over-thrown, create Sulo Director, and the capital is moved from ancient Paegam to the tiny walled city of Da'Khiem, which Sulo uses as a more forward base of operation to drive the Japanese Empire out of Korea, enlisting Chinese and later Soviet (and perhaps some Lyongian?) help in 'modernising' his armies.

1940s) As World War Two rages on, perhaps its most desperate and brutal fighting occurs in southern Korea's uplands, with the rising Choson People's Republic and the ailing Empire of Japan clashing head on. Sulo's forces take untold casualties in liberating much of Korea from the Japanese before foreign forces arrive to conclude the second world war. Many Drapoel feel cheated as their country is split by new occupiers, but Sulo recognises that his exhausted people are in no condition to fight, and so they retreat behind the 38th Parallel to consolidate their free republic.

1950) Sulo feels that the optimum balance has been struck between his own force's recovery, the continued weakness of the less vigorously restored south under foreign guidance, and the perception amongst his people that the gigantic global war -begun with the Japanese invasion two generations earlier- was still raging. People's Army forces rush into the south, helped by thousands of Suloists in the south still working hard against the foreigners.

Mid C20th) Over the next couple of years they very nearly succeed in concluding their combined liberation and revolution war to their favour, before foreign naval and air power drives them back to their starting point. Resigned to the temporary defeat of their liberation cause, many Suloists also flee north. Most 'Choson' -the small, darker skinned Drapoel who claim 'original descent'- tend to favour movement north, owing to past persecution by the Japanese and a stronger sense of identification with the liberation and the revolution. This begins to create the slight ethnic and linguistic split that characterises the CPRD-ROK animosity.

Sulo tells his people that their returning armies have come back from the edge of hell after Japan's atomic devestation, and the carpet bombing of so much of Korea. The myth of the outside's collapse originates under Sulo.

Sulo founds the Red Bamboo to carry out secret operations against the outside world and to enforce total ruralisation of the populace, and cities built on the coast under Japanese rule are emptied on the tips of bayonets. Though the direct fight for independence is over, Sulo finds ways to rid Dra-pol of the occupation of foreign influence- cities included.

Late C20th) Completely isolated, little is known of Dra-pol. Sulo dies, cause unknown, and is replaced as Director by Kurosian, who is known as a more thoughtful and better read leader. He emphasises the revolution more than the independence, which may be owing more to the fact that the independence was believed to be over with the outside a wasteland.

Kurosian was a much more popular ruler than Sulo, in the end. Sulo had carried out ruralisation, but not with a real plan in mind. He emptied the cities because he hated them- Kurosian neglected to rebuild them because he had plans for the countryside. He travelled abroad in secret and absorbed knowledge usually unknown to Drapoel. He spent time in China, the USSR, Spyr, and elsewhere (eventually sending the Red Bamboo to South East Asia to advise revolutionaries there, and probably met original Suunists). He brought back ideas on naturally occuring community in agriculture and trade, taking much from the ways of free Russian peasants before the pre-revolutionary authorities and later the Stalinists ruined things for them. He also brought back a mistress- Madame Kurosian, as she is known (although not to many), is housed in secret in the former imperial capital, the Forbidden City of Paegam. She is a strikingly beautiful white woman of unknown nationality, and gives Kurosian I a second son- a bastard child named Koshiako and condemned to grow up in secrecy and isolation in a palace atop a mountain at Paegam.

Dra-pol ticked along in an unremarkable fashion, and the people were the happiest they'd been at least in three generations, if not longer.

The modern era)

-The refugee incident is seen in the light of late C19th landings by missionaries and traders- the precursor to Japan's invasion and perhaps the worst days of Dra-pol's long history, days still remembered by older generations. The boat is told to turn back, perhaps to head for Lyong, but -being in desperate need of repairs- can not. It is fired on by a patrol boat with heavy machinegun and unguided rockets, and, in its awful condition of repair, sinks quickly.
Most Drapoel are not told about the incident for fear that it would spread panic and confusion.

-Foreign soldiers land under a heavy sea fog and are taken for demons of the destroyed world and fired on by a terrified young girl with a Japanese WWII rifle.

-A small army detachment responds to a message brought by bicycle and arrives in time to collide with the Quinntonians as they approach a small farming co-operative. The firefight is described by Quinntonia, and leads into the insertion into Da'Khiem, which sparks the Three Day War.

-As described, Kurosian I fears the worst and fakes his own death, hoping to satisfy the enemy and then lead a partisan resistance.

-Kurosian II, his son, betrays him and tries to maintain power.

-Quinntonian missionaries and aid workers arrive en masse and Hamhung is established under the watch of the illegal Director Kurosian II.

-Kurosian I stages the mentioned convoy incident, causing the Quinntonians to fire -in genuine error- on a humanitarian operation within the CPRD's territory.

-Kurosian II is enraged and has the Quinntonians in most of Dra-pol killed, and tries -without success- to re-take Hamhung and Hungnam.

-Kurosian I takes advantage of the ensuing war to over-throw his son and hand him over to the Quinntonians, in whose captivity he remains.

-With Quinntonian allies landed on both coasts and the PAAF and coast guard destroyed, and never seeking war to begin with, Kurosian I accepts peace talks. By now the conflict has a momentum all its own, and he can not negotiate return of Hamhung and Hungnam after so many deaths.

-Secretary Hotan is attacked and wounded by white soldiers adorned with Christian apparel, Kurosian I is assassinated by unknown assailants. All concerned suspect Quinntonia but are hard pressed to absolutely prove their involvement.

-Hotan makes the infant Koshiako Director, shocking the people who did not know of Kurosian's second son. This wins Hotan even more respect, for he did not take power himself.

-Later, Koshiako reveals himself a Suloist, and threatens to re-start war with Quinntonnia and to destroy most of Kurosian I's progress. Hotan removes him, and is eventually proclaimed Director in his place.

-Hotan, a staunch Kurosite and ever loyal supporter of the late Kurosian I, attempts to complete the war of liberation by freeing Hamhung and southern Korea. He achieves partial success on the second count, but an uprising in Hamhung fails to win sufficient popular support and is put-down by the Quinntonians and Quinntonian Drapoel. The war is forced to a close after Drapoel advance divisions run short of supplies and fuel, and ballistic missiles fired against the 38th Parallel's defences trigger a nuclear exchange in which both parts of Korea suffer greatly.

Fin.
Well, the timeline, anyway...

The Drapoel continue to feel that all Korea is one. They fought in the south as well as the north while they were one, and many are of southern origin. They believe that their liberation from the Japanese was interrupted by other nations after the war, and see that when they tried to correct this in the first Korean War, their nation was carpet bombed in ruthless fashion.

They feel that Quinntonia was allowed into Hamhung and Hungnam by an illegitimate leader who had no right there anyway, and they believe that they themselves -the people- are responsible for bringing him [KII] down when they supported Kurosian I's return. They tend to feel that Quinntonia holds the sins of Kurosian II and the Suloists against them, Hotan, and the Kurosites, when they in fact captured Kurosian II and should be rewarded if anything.

They also believe that the nuclear war was the enemies' fault for launching ballistic missiles against northern Korea, which was at the time trying to end nearly a century of foreign occupation on the peninsula.

Drapoel Kurosites today really do not tend to believe that their faction has done anything wrong from day one, and that the Emperor, the Japanese, the Suloists (including KII), the Quinntonians and their allies, have all been the perpertrators or initiators of all incidents of aggression and atrocity. The Kurosites have always acted to punish atrocity, or to resist aggression and occupation.

Of course they've all but deified Kurosian I for bringing stability, coming back from the dead, and then as a martyr for the betrayal of his son, the splitting of his land, and his eventual assassination. They look on Hotan hardly less fondly for his unfailing devotion to Kurosian I, his easily admirable physical courage in battle, his moves towards industrialisation to make Dra-pol stronger and an easier place to live, and of course his mercy as exemplified in his peaceful release of 'Crusader' alliance troops captured in the big war... and his near martydom, survived only by his own amazing strengths and talents.

Just to clear up, the invasion of ROK, where there ws a nuclear exchange, did not involve me at all, I just supplied some ROK troops and stuff, not one Quinntonian soldier was involved, though it did look dicey for awhile.

WWJD
Amen.

I don't know whether to call this a tag or a bump, but it's good that AMW already has history, and that it is behaving like... well, like history is prone to...

Yes, unfortunately (sort of!) the nuclear conflict was pre-AMW, and the other involved state no longer exists. Perhaps in future a new player will come along and be willing to incorporate a brief nuclear war into their history, until then it remains sort of vague... what's a few megatons between friends, anyway?