Goodbye LJ...

[windandwater]

This is just to make it official for those who don't know, but I'm leaving LJ completely. For the rest of this week at least. Tomorrow is the Bar Exam and it runs for three days, so don't expect to see me about at all until Thursday night. Or even until the weekend since I plan on spending Thursday after the Bar drunk and crying. No online time for me at all. *whines* It will be hard, but I know I can do it.

So, because I'm a total h0r like that, I am declaring this to be a spam post. Go ahead. Run wild! Give me fics, give me links, give me pics, just babble to your heart's content and rape my inbox so I have something to see when I finally DO come back to the wonderful world of LJ. I don't even care if you write me a drabble and post it one word at a time. XD;

Though, I've tried to make a spam post before and it failed a bit miserably, so I don't have very high expectations this time around. Feel free to prove me wrong though!

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Re: Spoil of War, prologue

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Spoil of War

Introduction



[... with their ambitions in the east and the south momentarily thwarted, Oz turned its attention back towards the west in AC 185. The low countries made a tempting target; a collection of small, loosely related states with relatively weak governments, rich in natural resources but with little in the way of a military. Over the next few years Oz began encroaching on the territory between the Victoria and New Edwards rivers. The Nito and Sanee governments sent protests, which Oz ignored.]

[In 188, the massacre of a small village along the base of the Pentares mountain range finally spurred the fiercely independent, non-militaristic countries to the point where they admitted they could not stand alone against the force of the Oz empire. They formed a loose, provisional alliance, calling themselves the Five Kingdoms.

At first the alliance was in name only. None of the countries were willing to give any authority to the others. Each still maintained its separate military, which stood little to no chance against the Oz army headed by General Khushrenada. Some unauthorized resistance groups emerged from the conquered areas, but they could do little more than slow Oz’s advance.]

[Not until 194 did the Five Kingdoms, in desperation, give full military authority to King Jay of Ichine. Immediately he reorganized the existing military, dispersing the local officers and combining the resources of all five countries into something he hoped could stand against Oz. He raised an army of approximately 11,000 troops to oppose Oz's standing army of 50,000. Luck was with the Five Kingdoms, however; at its head they finally managed to find a military mind equal to Khushrenada's.

Although the Shen dynasty was in no position to pursue their successful rebuff against Oz advances, they still bore hostility towards Oz. They dispatched a brilliant young officer to lead the army of the Five Kingdoms; Chang Wufei was only twenty-one, but had already fought in the battle of Long and showed much military promise.]

[The Allied army first began its organized resistance of Oz in 195. For the next two years they fought a steadily improving campaign to slow the Oz advance into Allied territory, culminating in a victory at Baruji in 197. For the first time, the military forces of the Five Kingdoms won a decisive battle against Oz and the Allied army took over the Oz encampment at Baruji Ford.

In the course of the Battle of Baruji Ford, Khushrenada was killed by Colonel Heero Yuy, a cold but fanatically committed officer under Chang's command. It was in the Oz encampment at Baruji that Yuy made a discovery, though seeming at the time insignificant, that would in the end change the course of the entire war.]



--excerpt from “The Unmasking of the Eve Wars”

ed. Bennett Nack