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The Kois (1000-1767)
Originally, there were five Koian states; Põhja Koi, Lõuna Koi, Lääne Koi, Ida Koi, and Kesk Koi; and three Korellan states; Suur Korella, Kesk Korella, and Väike Korella. At this time, the Koian moths were solely in Ida Koi, and confined by constant threat of war. Sometime during the early 1300s, Lääne Koi began to become one of the more militant of the nations, invading and successfully conquering Kesk Koi. In response, Surr Korella and Kesk Korella jointly invaded Lääne Koi, ending in bitter defeat for both of them and being occupied by Lääne Koi. Põhja Koi invaded Lõuna Koi sometime in the late 1300s, causing them to become a formidable power against Lääne Koi.
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Beginning of the Industrial Revolution (1767-1831)
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A New World of Staol (1831-1840)
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The First Staol War (1840-1844)
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End of the Industrial Revolution (1844-1866)
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The Second Staol War (1866-1869)
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Interwar Period (1869-1886)
Rebuilding
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An Unstable Republic
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The Civil War
Early-1884 came along, the political corruption and public resentment growing steadily higher. The Riavanov became so corrupt, many of the corporations funding the politicians even began to pull back. On Fessera 17th, 1884, the Riavanov raised income taxes from the moderate 25% to a staggering 60%. The population lashed out, with public protests spreading across the nation. The protests soon turned into riots when the Prime Minister declared a state of Martial Law, ordering the military to step in and put down the protests. Protesters in Minusinsk, Lõuna Koi threw rocks at the soldiers, prompting them to return stone throwing.
Elsewhere in Lõuna Koi, the protesters also began throwing rocks, but the soldiers returned rubber bullets on the crowd, prompting mass confusion and chaos. The turmoil soon turned into a full-blown riot, injured protesters being dragged to safety while some of the more extreme groups present took advantage of the firing to return their own fire on the soldiers. As the stones and rubber bullets were thrown, soon came the molotovs. As the soldiers were hit with the flaming alcohol, their weapons were switched out from riot control to riot suppression. As real bullets started to fly, the crowds dispersed, the wails of the injured filling the air. The next morning, after all had been cleared, there were twenty-two killed and fourty-six injured.
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The Depression of 1886 and The Third Staol War (1886-1897)
Early 1886
With the creation of the Military Dictatorship in Põhiliin, the state of civil war was officially declared over. The Staol trade was significantly disrupted, several lines having been damaged during the fighting. Reconstruction was put foremost on the list, trying to repair the raillines. The price of Staol increased drastically, consumption having remained unchanged while the supply had dropped due to the delays. With the invention of the steam-powered automobile in Luclistan, the government ordered several of the prototype vehicles. They were quickly outfitted with Staol injection-engines and these prototypes were turned into the first boxtrucks. However, their creation didn't come soon enough, the price of staol rising to astronomically high levels before crashing, plunging the world into its first major economic depression.
The Depression of 1886
With Staol prices crashing, much of the world's industry came to a halt as staol practically fell off the market. For the first year, using the remaining funds of the nation, the Ida Koian government rebuilt the staol lines, trying to get much of it back on the market. But with the future looking grim, many of the extraction companies closed their doors. The government attempted to buy up the mined reserves, but it soon ran out of funds with the growing economic crisis. The rail companies, seeing that freight was becoming few and far between, began shutting down in late 1887 and early 1888. With much of the country's industrial base grinding to a standstill, the first major nationalization of sectors began. As the Grand Staol Company was closing its doors, the government stepped in and bought the company, though moreso an I.O.U than actual cash, before beginning its own extraction of staol.
The first year was rough, railroad companies closing forcing the staol to remain at the mines or storage facilities more than getting to industrial complexes. Soon enough, the government I.O.U.ed the Kesk Liini Railroad Company, and began to transport its own staol. With the two companies working in tandem, the economy, while down, would begin to work again, with some of the closed factories able to reopen their doors. The International Staol Railroads were left unused, the government focusing on restarting the Koian economy before allowing any staol to cross the border.
1891 came along and several more meteors fell around the world, giving some nations their own deposits and allowing their economies to restart and leaving behind some of the unlucky few.
The Third Staol War
Having ignored the treaty set up in 1869, the nation of Lusatia turned its navy to Ida Koi in 1892, opening fire upon the port city of Sosolkovo in the state of Lõuna Koi. With the military being scrambled, to defend the port and the tiny coastal ships being sent to fire upon the more impressive Lusatian navy, the Tyvian army takes the lacking defenses on the border of Väike Korella and invades, the tiny nation quickly falling to the stronger invaders. The city of Sosolkovo would fall quickly to the salvos from the enemy ships, the small coastal navy of Ida Koi unable to stop them. However, the landing forces never got to land in full force as coastal batteries managed to keep most of the landing ships from being able to move close to land in large groups.
The town of Neftezov, located on the Koian side of the Ajad River (river between the state of Lõuna Koi and the then nation of Väike Korella), fell under siege by the Tyvian Empire in late 1892. The small defense there was ordered to hold until the civilians were evacuated. The troops there remained defending even after the last of the civilians were evacuated further into friendly Lõuna Koian territory. A small reinforcement garrison was sent in of Koian troops, the moths fighting alongside the human troops stationed there. The other towns along the river fell one-by-one, letting the Tyvian army march around and encircle the town, cutting them off from supply lines after six months of siege.
After five months of attempting to land, the Lusatian navy would finally manage to land 10 miles outside of Apargut, 50 miles southwest of Sosolkovo. The landing force would find little resistance there, the coastal batteries few and far between. However, once they left the beachhead, they'd be met with the much larger (but less trained) Lõunan militia. The battle took thirty-one days, ending in a stalemate that prevented either side from moving further.
At the other end of the state, the Tyvian army began to haul in the first chemical mortar shells. They'd use them on the entrenched Neftezovin soldiers, firing conventional and chemical upon the unsuspecting troops. The barrage, which came early morning Stay 11th, 1893, lasted for two hours, shelling the town. When no return-fire became apparent, 4,000 Tyvian soldiers marched towards the town expecting to meet no resistance. As the soldiers came within 200 feet of the town, one Koian moth soldier arose, coughing up blood and staining their uniform from inhaling chlorine gas. Around them, several more arose, all in similar bloody states. Approximately 100 total rose, before mounting a counter-charge against the Tyvians. With bloody soldiers having apparently risen from death charging at them, the soldiers fled in panic, moving back to their original lines. Many of the 100 were gunned down by the entrenched soldiers, only about five surviving at the end. The town fell later that day, with the last surviving five being taken prisoner. Three of them later died of their injuries while in prison, the other two managing to recover and be returned at the end of the war.
With the war raging on, the nations involved saw re-invigoration of their economies, ending the depression by mid-1894. The strengthened industrial base of the Koians allowed for the army to truly fight back, keeping the stalemate with the Lusatians along the Southern Coast, and press back against the Tyvians. The war finally came to an end with a white peace after the Koian military was able to push the Tyvians back through Väike Korella and the Lusatians were forced to vacate through the seas they came in, though Väike Korella was then incorporated into Ida Koi rather than regaining its independence, officially uniting the nation to its borders today.
The end of the war saw the Staol Trade reopened, the now government owned sectors pumping it out to ensure a war wouldn't begin again.
Turn of the Century and the Great War (1897-1951)
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Modern Day (1951-Today)
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