Return to Gable

[Ayzek]

Early in Quartyr, the government of Maharsa had struck hard at the rebel forces in its southern countryside. Maharsa, under the leadership of President Dakarai Babette, had been waging a war against revolutionaries for over a decade and was on the verge of total victory. While the insurgents had once pushed the government halfway up the country, they had been pushed to the plains of the Kasimnini valley--from where Babette intended to finally push them out.

Gable's forces at the border had been trading fire with the rebels since mid-1588, and the skirmishes only escalated in the months following Maharsa's offensive. By Fein, the government was received reports of Maharsan rebels striking as far south as the farmlands around Ganeisa, where they massacred a Nzane village. The massacre mobilized not only the government, but the Nzane people themselves, who took up arms to defend themselves. They were largely coordinated under the National Party of Gable's paramilitary wing.

The firefights between Gableese villagers and Maharsan rebels drew the media to the countryside, and its impoverished condition finally received public attention. But it was arguably too late.

In Septum, the government ordered more men to the north. The bulk of the troops were sent to reinforce the border itself, though others were deployed to the central valley and highlands to combat Maharsan rebels that had were already inside.

The people were not pleased to have a sudden influx of city-slickers, largely Fuugo and Bano troops with the occasional ethnic Lanlanian mixed in.