Geopolitics
Immediately Prior to the Fool's War
After
the first decade of Autarch Miraxus II's rule, tensions between
Elysium and the Amazonis Bloc began to flare up again. The initial
cause was the defection of the city of Lucky Strike, a former Elysium
vassal. Miraxus I had persuaded Autarix Heliora III of Lucky Strike
to break with the Amazonis Bloc and sign a mutual defense and trade
pact, a deal sealed by the marriage of one of his sons to Heliora
III. However, when Heliora IV succeeded her mother, she decided to
break the treaty, realigning with Amazonis, and no amount of Elysian
persuasion was able to change her mind.
Tensions
were further exacerbated by suspicions that Amazonis was covertly
training and arming Elysian rebel groups, most notably the Republican
bands operating out of the northern wastes. These suspicions were
correct, though the Elysian government grossly overestimated the
amount of influence Amazonis had on the Republicans, believing them
to be merely pawns of the Bloc.
By
5026, Elysium and Amazonis were clearly drifting towards an armed
confrontation. Elysium began to hire Isidian mercenary troops en
masse and stepped up production of weapons plutonium, and new
fortifications were built on both sides of the border.
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