[center][u][b]The Year 1902[/b][/u]
[b]World Tension[/b]: [i]10%[/i]
[color=red][b]Vatanno-Galvia stations troops on Salardian border[/b][/color] ([i]+2%[/i])
[color=red][b]Deltora Allies with Soroya[/b][/color] ([i]+8%[/i])
[color=red][b]Survaek Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]+3%[/i])
[color=red][b]Honneria Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]+3%[/i])
[color=red][b]Vatanno-Galvia Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]+3%[/i])
[color=red][b]Grand Survaek Empire declares war for Honnerian Serranthia[/b][/color] ([i]+10%[/i])
[color=red][b]Grand Survaek Empire allies with Empire of Anvegad[/b][/color] ([i]+5%[/i])
[color=red][b]Soreno increases Border Tension with Kalpia[/b][/color] ([i]+3%[/i])
[color=red][b]Anvegad Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]3%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Deltora signs a Defensive Alliance with Murenheidt[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Soroya signs a Defensive Alliance with Kelric[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Soroya Guarantees Muranheidt[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Zellonia signs Trade Agreement with Tramel[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Zellonian signs Trade Agreement with Vatanno-Galvia[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Anvegad signs a Defensive Alliance with Khernikovia[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])[/center]

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[u]JUNE[/u]

[b]June 17th[/b]: The [b][color=lightblue]Kingdom of Aontas[/color][/b] begins construction of an immense statue, dedicated to King Matthias. So large and eminent is the statue that even in it's beginning stages, artisans and observers from as far as Anvegad and Deltora journey to see the beginning of such a work. It is expected to be finished at the beginning of next year.

[b]June 21st[/b]: Heavy dust storms delay General Hjarkin and his [b]Second Army[/b] from being able to depart from the Honnerian city of [b]Keyvah[/b]. They instead rest and relax for a few days. Similar dust storms further north turn the Survo-Honnerian front to a standstill. Men huddle in holes and trenches while the storms whip about incessantly. The fighting lulls.

[b]June 28th[/b]: Inventor and theorist Erwin Osgood in the [b][color=lightblue]Kingdom of Aontas[/color][/b] presents his ideas on potential lighter than air travel and presents them to a council of the Aontan Military High command for potential consideration.

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[u]JULY[/u]

[b]July 1st[/b]: The [b][color=maroon]Survaek[/color][/b] submarine [i]Akir[/i] has it's engine repaired and sets sail from [b]Foedinei[/b].

[b]July 4th[/b]: The [b][color=maroon]Survaek[/color][/b] [b]First Fleet[/b] bombards Honnerian positions just west of the colonial capital of Wadke. 114 Honnerians are killed.

[b]July 16th[/b]: Twelve men of the [b][color=gray]Kalpian Occupation Army[/color] [/b]in the [i]Sorenan Corridor[/i] are killed while on patrol. Soldiers that discover their remains believe that they were in an ambush. 40,000 strong, the KOA cracks down on travelers through Sorena and Kalpia, inspecting their papers with more scrutiny.

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[u]AUGUST[/u]

[b]August 5th[/b]: The [b][color=maroon]Survaek[/color][/b] submarine [i]Akir[/i] sinks the [b][color=gold]Honnerian[/color][/b] destroyer [i]Ostrich[/i], 185 miles northeast of New Byrnia.

[b]August 9th[/b]: Dust storms dissipating, General Hjarkin and his [b]Second Army[/b] perform a days worth of exercises and marching before heading north to besiege Wadke from the south. The army heads north, while the [color=maroon]Survaekom[/color] [b]First Army[/b] continues it's long and dutiful siege of Wadke in the north.

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[i]Survaekom soldiers preparing to head north from Keyvah, 1902[/i][/center]

[b]August 10th[/b]: General Hjarkin receives orders from the Emperor of Survaek to resist further attacks and instead starve the enemy out.

[b]August 11th-21st[/b]: The [b]First Army[/b] under General Nej Hjarkin orders his men to general stations. Blockaded, the Honnerians at Wadje wouldn't be able to last very much longer. It was much to the detriment however that General Hjarkin was an immediately impatient man. He ordered on the 11th an assault along the [color=gold]Honnerian[/color] defensive line, spending much of the morning battering their position with 4.7-Inch Shaeyer Model cannons. The [b][color=red]Battle of Kalas[/color][/b] was a short and bloody affair that lasted the 11th, 12th and 13rd. Though over fourteen thousand Survaekoms died, the Honnerian defensive line had been bled almost completely dry.

Hjarkin ordered no more attacks, but on August 21st a white flag went up over the city as the [b]First Fleet[/b] appeared along the coast. Rather than be bombarded into submission, the Honnerians simply gave up.

[b][color=red]Battle of Kalas[/color][/b] ([color=maroon]Survaek[/color] Victory)
[u][b]Casualties[/b][/u]
[b][color=maroon]Survaek[/color][/b]: 14,642
[b][color=gold]Honneria[/color][/b]: 25,653 (+29,347 prisoners of war)

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[i]Honnerian soldiers in defensive positions during the Battle of Kassi-Fi, 1902[/i][/center]

[b]August 25th[/b]: The [b]First Army[/b] receives the surrender from the Honnerians, including their prestigious [b][color=gold]Honnerian Golden Guard.[/color][/b] In the town of Wadke the Survaekom Army finds thousands of atrocities. With the enemy closing around them, the Honnerians had apparently began looting the town. Along with this, those Survaekom sympathizers were killed with reckless abandon. Over 5,000 civilians are found dead, their corpses often left in the street for all to say. When question, Colonel Korr of the [b][color=gold]Honnerian Golden Guard[/color][/b] denied ever giving the order for the murder of civilians, but said that order broke down just before the surrender.

General Korr, and the remaining 12,543 soldiers of the Honnerian Golden Guard are sentenced to death by firing squad. The remaining Honnerian regulars are kept as prisoners of war.

[b]August 28th[/b]: In what the Honnerians refer to as the [i]Southern Betrayal[/i], the entire [b][color=gold]Honnerian Golden Guard[/color][/b] is executed. The Survaekoms referred to it as the [i]Day of Righteous Justice[/i]. The mass graves outside of Wadke are unmarked and a foul stench lingers in the air for weeks.

[b]August 29th[/b]: Reports of men and women gathering north of the town of Ladd in the Sorenan Corridor are reported to the [b][color=gray]Kalpian Occupation Army[/color][/b]. They send several platoons to investigate.

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[u]SEPTEMBER[/u]

[b]September 2nd[/b]: A patrol of the [b][color=gray]Kalpian Occupation Army[/color][/b] comes under attack from partisans. 17 of the 30 Kalpians are killed before the partisans disappear into the woods.

[b]September 7th[/b]: Meeting in Port Key, [b][color=darkblue]Anvegad[/color][/b], the [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b] and [b][color=gold]Second Republic of Honneria[/color][/b] negotiate the [b]Treaty of Port Key[/b].

[b]Treaty of Port Key[/b] ([i]1902[/i])
[indent]I. The entirety of Honnerian land in continental Serranthia will for once and forever be returned to the Survaek Grand Empire.

II. The Second Republic of Honneria will concede any future claim to this territory.

III. The Grand Survaek Empire will facilitate the transfer of all Honnerian prisoners of war back to their homeland no later than 1904.

IV. Any ethnic Honnerian who wishes to return to mainland Honneria or who refuses the pledge of loyalty to Survaek will be given passage back up until 1905.

V. The Honnerian government will be responsible for indemnities relating to the intentional destruction and sabotage of oil fields during the course of the war.

[x] Honnerian Foreign Minister Arthur Causewell
[x] Survaekom Foreign Minister Aedis Haerk[/indent]

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[u]OCTOBER[/u]

[b]October 2nd[/b]: The [i]TPS Vigilant[/i], a [b][color=darkgreen]Deltoran[/color][/b] destroyer that picks six 5" guns in three turret mounts, two in the front and one in the rear is finally completed.  So powerful is the [i]Vigilant[/i] that Deltoran military theorists think it can go toe to toe with some nation's light cruisers. Undergoing sea trials, it will join the fleet in December of 1902.

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[i]TPS Vigilant at sea, 1902[/i][/center]

[b]October 4th[/b]: A barracks of the [b][color=gray]Kalpian Occupation Army[/color][/b] west of Ladd is raided and 3 soldiers are killed. 

[b]October 5th[/b]: A submarine laid down by the [b][color=maroon]Survaek Empire[/color][/b] is completed. Named [i]Sunray[/i], it undergoes sea trials and will be ready to join the fleet in January, 1903.

[b]October 10th[/b]: At a joint meeting of Anvegadian and Survaekom officials, Foreign Minister Aedis Haerk reveals to the Anvegadians that during the [b]Survo-Honnerian War[/b], a Survaekom submarine searching for Honnerian merchant vessels accidentally mistook Anvegadian vessels for fleeing Honnerian ships. The Survaek submarine [i]Akir[/i] attacked and sank the Anvegadian destroyer [i]ANV Venom[/i]. Minister Aedis Haerk apologized on behalf of the Empire and offers $1,000,000,000 as reparations in 1904.

[b]October 15th[/b]: A second submarine laid down by the [b][color=maroon]Survaek Empire[/color][/b] earlier this year is completed. Named [i]Swordfish[/i], it undergoes sea trials and will be ready to join the fleet in January, 1903.

[b]October 21st[/b]: A submarine laid down by the [b][color=darkblue]Anvegad Empire[/color][/b] is completed. It undergoes sea trials and will be ready to join the fleet in January, 1903.

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[u]NOVEMBER[/u]

[b]November 11th[/b]: A destroyer laid earlier this year by the [b]Empire of Zellonia[/b] is completed. It undergoes sea trials in the Zellonian Strait and is now ready for use. It has been named the [i]ZNS Apollo[/i].

[b]November 13rd[/b]: Anti-government guerrilla fighters from [b][color=red]Nasong[/color][/b] cross the border into [b][color=orange]Xian[/color][/b] and inflict heavy casualties on villages surrounding Beiqling during the night. Border patrols reveal they are simply anarchistic revolutionaries striking out against nearby Xian. Nasong does not officially recognize any guerrilla problems within it's borders.

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[i]Hmu peasants who lost their home during Nasong raids, 1902[/i][/center]

[b]November 20th[/b]: A submarine laid down earlier in the year has been completed and set to sea by the [b]Empire of Zellonia[/b]. The submarine has been named the [i]ZRS Sea God[/i].

[b]November 23rd[/b]: Another 10,000 volunteers complete their training for the [b][color=purple]Soroyan Royal Army[/color][/b]. Without the rifles to equip them however, they join a long list of reserves, waiting to be called up. A large order of Cruska Guns also completes it's orders as well.

[b]November 26th[/b]: After a long and rousing speech, Chairman Volkov of the [color=darkblue]Anvegadian Empire[/color] receives a standing ovation in the Long Hall of the capital. "[i]Deplorable,[/i]" he said, "[i]That over 200,000 Anvegadians suffer and toil under Murenheidtan work conditions. Perhaps then, it is time we return the Anvegadians to their homeland, or bring the homeland to them[/i]."

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[u]DECEMBER[/u]

[b]December 1st[/b]: The [b][color=pink]Kingdom of Kelric[/color][/b] accepts the invitation from the government of [b][color=purple]Soroya[/color][/b] to join the [i]Sociatatem[/i].

[b]December 4th[/b]: Industrialists in the [b][color=lightblue]Kingdom of Aontas[/color][/b] begin immense industrialization plans, they are slated for completion sometime next year.

[b]December 9th[/b]: The [color=gray]Kalpian Army[/color], still riding high from it's previous military prospects, receives a completed work on [b]Indirect Artillery[/b] barrages from Lieutenant Krupp, an observer of [b][color=darkgreen]Deltoran[/color][/b] military practices in the last few years.

[b]December 20th[/b]: A submarine laid down earlier in the year has been completed and set to sea by the [color=gray][b]Kalpian Republic[/b][/color].

[b]December 29th[/b]: Stronger bulkheads, steam pipes and boiler designs have been unveiled so that future [b][color=purple]Soroyan[/color][/b] capital ships will be much more reliable in longer sorties.

[b]December 31st[/b]: Blizzards cover Aontas, Sorena and Khernikovia.

[center][b]1903[/b]

[b]WORLD TENSION 0-15%:[/b]
- All unaligned nations have +5% National Unity.
- All unaligned nations have +10% GNP boost.
- All Status Quo nations have +20% GNP boost.
- Status Quo nations have +10% National Unity.
(PLEASE USE THESE MODIFIERS IN YOUR BUDGETS / SHOW WORK)

[b][color=red]SEND 1903 BUDGETS[/color][/b][/center]