[b][/b][h1][center][b][u]January, 1901[/u][/b][/center][/h1]
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[center][All IC player posts [u]following[/u] this post will take place between February 1st and February 28th.][/center]

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I. [b]Running a Nation[/b]

X. [b]Contracts[/b]
A. A [b]Contract[/b] is handed out from your government and is a military requirement that you seek to fulfill.
 For example, you can put out a [u]Contract[/u] for a new Rifle, a new Battleship, a new Field Gun, etc.

B. [b]Contract Form[/b]
[code]1. [b]Contract For[/b]: [Bolt-Action Rifle], [Field Gun], [Heavy Field Gun], [Submarine], [Destroyer],
 [Protected Cruiser], [Armored Cruiser], [Battleship]
2. [b]Requested Design Specifications[/b]:
3. [b]Intended Number to Purchase[/b]:
4. [b]Deadline[/b]:[/code]
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[h2][center][b]The Multi-Continental Railroad Expands[/b][/center][/h2]
Started in 1899, the Multi-Continental Railroad was the token dream of Tsar Pyotr II. Expected to traverse nearly 13,000 miles in total--from Glavnya to Tougata, the MCR was an engineering feat alleged to be one of the greatest in modern history. With nearly three years under its belt, the rail now stretched over 700 miles from the capital of Glavnya to Sloslia, and from there on to the sister city of Sloboda. Passing through the Dachne Marshes, another 280 miles of track would take it to the industrial hub of Dachne, and from there it was rough terrain. The Multi-Continental Railroad employed over 30,000 workers and 1,100 engineers in total. 

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[i]Kalpia KN Model 1890 locomotive on the Glavnya via Sloboda track, 1899[/i][/center]
Continental engineers in Kalpia and Oslad were uncertain if the track could be completed in any reasonable amount of time, given that the continued rising costs of the locomotive would make it's long time use tentative at best. The workers toiled on however, as on January 15th, 1901 the Glavnya Rail Company ([i]GRC[/i]) purchased a charter for the rail line from Sloboda to Dachne, priming it for the laying off track beginning in February.

[h2][center][b]The Center of the World[/b][/center][/h2]
On January 7th, 1901, the Taran Author Janoris Lovewell published his book, [i]The Center of the World[/i], an analytic look at the [b][u]Serene Empire[/u][/b] and her place on the global stage. Copies sold into the thousands the first week. A pro-Taran perspective, it dealt alternatively with the growth and subtraction of what Lovewell referred to as the [i]Center of the World[/i], the Spotlight of Tara, and the space by which all other nations surrounded. With a [b][u]Global Domestic Product[/u][/b] of $84,000,000,000, the [b][color=beige]Serene Empire of Tara[/color][/b] was the singular most formidable nation on the planet. She, argued Lovwell, came first. All others, second. The final chapters of the book detailed the [b][u]Great Powers[/u], of which he placed Tara at the fore. The other Great Powers: [b][color=lavender]Violette[/color][/b], [color=crimson]Radena[/color][/b], [color=purple][b]Tyria-Redania[/b][/color] and [b][color=lightblue]Kalpia[/color][/b] were measly, but owed an explanation for their subservience.

With the beginning of the [b][u]Veletian Civil War[/u][/b], the [b]Five Great Powers[/b] temporarily became the four, but not before Lovewell's book was published. In it, he had this to say:

[list][*][b]The Five Great Powers[/b]
[list][*][b][u][color=beige]The Serene Empire of Tara[/color][/u][/b]: The greatest nation in the world, without equal. With the largest navy, a vast colonial empire and financial investments in sixteen countries, Empress Liliana (The One Bless Her) had led Tara into an age of prosperity never before seen.
[*][b][u][color=lavender]The Empire of Violette[/color][/u][/b]: Called the [i]Le Petit Frére[/i], the Little Brother. Violette has, since her defeat in 1791 in the [b]Taro-Veletian Trade War[/b], been condemned to playing second fiddle to the Taran Empire. While competitive, Violette has been marred by an inability to do what is absolutely necessary, having to compete with both Tara abroad and the Continental powers.
[*][b][u][color=crimson]Radenan Tsardom[/color][/u][/b]: The newcomer to the bunch. The Tsardom benefits from an immense surplus of human bodies and resources, but it was the opinion of Lovewell that Radena would not long last as a Great Power.
[*][b][u][color=lightblue]Kalpian Republic[/color][/u][/b]: The largest potential enemy of the Taran Empire and the most industrious nation in the world. Kalpia's great [u]Continental Army[/u] is held back by it's "idiotic leadership in the Heinstag."
[*][b][u][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/u][/b]: The decadent power. "One need only kick in the front door," Lovewell wrote "and the whole thing will come crashing down." [/list][/list]

[h2][center][b]Shadow Games[/b][/center][/h2]
[i]Knock, knock[/i].

The eye shutter slid open just long enough for the beady eyes behind them to recognize who knocked. The door swung open and the two men entered, the door closing quietly behind them. This door in question was the third door on the left of the Persuant Avenue off Crown Plaza. The light drizzling rain kept only the most stubborn citizens on the street, and few wandering eyes remained aloof at such a dark hour. Inside was the back room to a small time café, the patrons long gone from the calming music and drinks. A lantern sat on the edge of the bar top, the shutter on it's kerosone lamp half pulled for fear of too much light seeping past the drawn curtains. The two men shed their heavy black jackets and hats then turned to the table where two other men--one in a thin button down and the other in a buttoned grey military jacket.

"Did anyone see you?"

"'Course not," one of the two men standing. "Hazel here rounded the building three times. There ain't no one out here. Hasn't been since the occupation." He wasn't wrong. The streets since the [i]occupation[/i] had been less than full. There was no military curfew, there was no military presence at all, but things had changed. The sun burned a little less bright, it seemed.

"So Hazel, you and yer frien'--"

"Jack. Just Jack."

"So, you and Jack--your contacts good?"

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[i]Persuant Avenue, Memoital, 1900[/i][/center]

"Radenan," Jack spat, pulling a chair from the table and plopping into the seat. Hazel dropped into the seat nexdt to him an fished a scroll from his pocket. Unfurling it, it was a map of the Norran States, albeit a bit dated. "He's out of Polnov."

"Military?" The man in the grey military jacket asked. The symbol on the side was [i]ZRA[/i]--the Zellonian Royal Army, but his features made no mistake, he was Memoital.

Hazel shrugged. "Looks it, but the Radenan government has no official stance on Zellonia's annexation of the Commonwealth. If he [i]is[/i] military, he'd never admit it. He's facilitating the exchange."

"How much?" The military man asked, leaning forward, shoulders hunched.

Hazel and Jack eyed one another. "Can't say."

"Can't say, or won't say?" The soldier asked, but Hazel and Jack just shrugged in unison.

"Gah'dammit," the man said, slamming a fist against the table. "We're on the same side!"

"Three thousand. It's three thousand per shipment."

"Up it to five thousand," the man said. For the first time Jack realized the emblem on the side of the man's jacket was not that of an enlisted man, he was an officer. "The Memoital Army may no longer exist, but it's soldiers do. We're moving up the time table of the operation. There are no Zellonian soldiers stationed on this island. The time to act is soon."

[h2][center][b]The Founding of Cape Emeraude[/b][/center][/h2]
Thirteen days before the [b]Republican Revolution[/b] in the [b][color=lavender]Empire of Violette[/color][/b], the official proclamation of the founding of Cape Emeraude in Masilia was received in Confluence. With a population of only 51,000, the island colony seemed more of a Utopian getaway than an economic benefit to the Veletian Empire. It's governor, former captain of the Marine Nationale, Gerard Munot was a sadist and pragmatist. His family was settled in a massive mansion on the island's Northern coast while plantations were established. When the [b]Republican Revolution[/b] arrived, Cape Emeraude would pledge allegiance to Empress Tsirine.

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[i]The first Veletian immigrants to Cape Emeraude, 1901[/i][/center]

[h2][center][b]The Kalpian Rail Network Finishes[/b][/center][/h2]
Nearly four hundred kilometers of rail in the Kalpian Republic finished, called the Tarist Hub. Out of Tarist, four different rails were established. The most industrialized nation in the country, Kalpia itself maintained a high standard of understanding the necessity of being able to move goods around the country at a moment's notice. The inclusion of local rail networks however forced a static decline in the demand for automobiles, which was already at a record low due to government interference in the blossoming automobile market.

Lacking a technological base at first, the Kalpians imported their engineering and hardware from Tara, but quickly learned the skills needed to operate and expand the railways. In many cities, the new railway shops were the centres of technological awareness and training, so that by 1850, Kalpia was self-sufficient in meeting the demands of railroad construction, and the railways were a major impetus for the growth of the new steel industry. However, Kalpian unification in 1856 stimulated consolidation, nationalization into state-owned companies, and further rapid growth. Unlike the situation in Violette, the goal was support of industrialization, and so heavy lines crisscrossed the Voreni Lowlands and other industrial districts, and provided good connections to the major ports of Karp and Liubeth. By 1890, Kalpia had 9,400 locomotives pulling 43,000 passengers and 30,000 tons of freight, and forged ahead of Oslad. The total length of Kalpia railroad tracks expanded from 21,000 kilometers in 1871 to 45,000 kilometres by 1900, establishing the largest rail network in the world, and effectively surpassing the 32,000 kilometers of rail that connected Oslad in the same year.

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[i]Kalpian Republic, 1901[/i][/center]
Industrialisation progressed dynamically in Kalpia and Kalpian manufacturers began to capture domestic markets from Taran imports, and also to compete with Taran industry abroad, particularly in Violette. The Kalpian textile and metal industries had by 1890 surpassed those of Tara in organisation and technical efficiency and superseded Tara manufacturers in the domestic market. Kalpia became the dominant economic power on the continent and was the second largest exporting nation after Tara.

Technological progress during Kalpian industrialization occurred in three waves: the railway wave (1877–86), the dye wave (1887–96) and the chemical wave (1897–1900). Since Kalpia industrialized later than Tara, it was able to model its factories after those of Tara, thus making more efficient use of its capital and avoiding legacy methods in its leap to the envelope of technology. Kalpia invested more heavily than the Tara in research, especially in chemistry, motors and electricity. Kalpia's dominance in physics and chemistry was such that one-third of all Marnish Science Prizes went to Kalpian inventors and researchers.

The Kalpian trade system (known as Monzerne), being significantly concentrated, was able to make more efficient use of capital. Kalpia was not weighted down with an expensive worldwide empire that needed defense. By 1900, the Kalpian chemical industry dominated the world market for synthetic dyes. The three major firms TASF, Malchern and Heinstedt produced several hundred different dyes, along with the five smaller firms. In 1901, these eight firms produced almost 90% of the world supply of dyestuffs and sold about 80% of their production abroad. The three major firms had also integrated upstream into the production of essential raw materials and they began to expand into other areas of chemistry such as pharmaceuticals, photographic film, agricultural chemicals and electrochemicals. Top-level decision-making was in the hands of professional salaried managers; leading Chandler to call the Kalpia dye companies "the world's first truly managerial industrial enterprises". There were many spinoffs from research—such as the pharmaceutical industry, which emerged from chemical research.

[h2][center][b]The [i]Sakura[/i][/b][/center][/h2]
Without any combat experience or engineering breakthroughs, improving the [i]Taizen[/i]-class seemed optimistically impossible. The design of the Sakura class was a marginally modified and improved version of the Majestic-class battleship of the Zellonian Royal Navy. They had the same armament and similar machinery as the Taizen class which was intended to allow them to work together as a homogeneous group. The Sakura-class ship had an overall length of 412 feet, a beam of 75.5–76.75 feet, and a normal draught of 26.25–26.5 feet. It would displace 17,100–17,500 long tons (15,090–15,240 t) at normal load. The hull had a double bottom and was subdivided into 261 watertight compartments. The crew numbered about 741 officers and enlisted men.


The ships were powered by two Taran built G.L.T. vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller, using steam generated by 25 Morris boilers. The engines were rated at 14,500 indicated horsepower, using forced draught, and designed to reach a top speed of 12 knots. The Sakura-class could ideally reach a top speed of 16.027 knots (35.238 km/h; 21.896 mph) using 14,667 indicated horsepower (10,937 kW). The ships carried a maximum of 2,000 tonnes of coal which allowed them to steam for 5,650 nautical miles at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).

The main battery of the Sakura class consisted of the same four Taran built LT-1 40-calibre eleven-inch guns as used in the Taran Leviathan-class. They were mounted in twin-gun barbettes fore and aft of the superstructure that had armoured hoods to protect the guns and were usually called gun turrets. The hydraulically powered mountings could be loaded at all angles of traverse while the guns were loaded at a fixed angle of +13.5°. They fired 850-pound (386 kg) projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2,300 ft/s.

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[i]Sakura-class Pre-Dreadnought, 17,100 tons, the heaviest ship ever designed[/i][/center]
Secondary armament of the Sakura class consisted of twenty 40-calibre Type 41 six-inch quick-firing guns mounted in casemates. Eight of these guns were positioned on the main deck on the side of the ship's hull and the other six guns were placed in the superstructure. They fired 100-pound (45 kg) shells at a muzzle velocity of 2,300 ft/s. Protection against torpedo boat attacks was provided by twenty HG 12-pounder guns. The 12-pounders fired 3-inch, 12.5-pound projectiles at a muzzle velocity of 2,359 ft/s.

The waterline main belt of the Sakura-class vessels consisted of Tsirine armour 8 feet high, 3 feet 7 inches of which was above the waterline at normal load, and had a maximum thickness of 9 inches (229 mm) for the middle 220 feet (67 m) of the ship. It was only 4 inches (102 mm) inches thick at the ends of the ship and was surmounted by a six-inch strake of armor that ran between the barbettes for 220 feet. The barbettes were 14 inches (356 mm) thick, but reduced to 10 inches (254 mm) at the level of the lower deck. The armour of the barbette hoods had a maximum thickness of 10 inches (254 mm) while their roofs were three inches thick. Diagonal bulkheads 12–14 inches (305–356 mm) thick connected the barbettes to the side armor, but the bulkheads were only six inches thick at the lower deck level. The casemates protecting the secondary armament were also six inches thick. The flat portion of the deck armor was 2.5 inches (64 mm) thick and four inches thick where it sloped down to the bottom of the armor belt. This significantly improved the ships' protection as any shell that penetrated their vertical armor also had to penetrate the sloping deck before it could reach the machinery compartments or magazines. Outside the central armored citadel, the sloped deck had a thickness of 2 inches (51 mm). The forward conning tower was protected by 14 inches of armour, but the aft conning tower only had three inches of armor.

[h2][center][b]Kalpian Settumu, At Last[/b][/center][/h2]
In 1855 J.C. Godeffroy & Sohn expanded its trading business into the Settumu following negotiations by August Hansherr, Godeffroy’s agent in Tarist. He sailed out to the Maran Islands, which were then known as the Felinn Islands. During the second half of the 19th century Kalpia influence in Mara expanded with large scale plantation operations being introduced for coconut, cacao and hevea rubber cultivation, especially on the island of Nuro where Kalpian firms monopolized copra and cocoa bean processing.

The trading operations of J.C. Godeffroy & Sohn extended to other islands in the Maran Chain. In 1865 a trading captain acting on behalf of J.C. Godeffroy & Sohn obtained a 25-year lease to the eastern islet of Niuoku of Setku Atoll. J. C. Godeffroy und Sohn was in 1879 taken over by Handels-und Plantagen-Gesellschaft der Südsee-Inseln zu Hamburg (DHPG). Competition in the trading operations in the West Marans came from Ruge, Hedemann & Co, established in 1875, which was succeeded by H. M. Ruge and Company until that firm failed in about 1887.

Tensions caused in part by the conflicting interests of the Kalpian traders and plantation owners and Taran business enterprises and Hironese business interests led to the first Maran Civil War. The war was fought roughly between 1889 and 1891, primarily between Marans though the Kalpians military intervened on several occasions. The Veletians and the Tara opposed the Kalpia activity which led to a confrontation in Mareneik Harbor in 1897.

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[i]Kalpian West Marans, established in 1901[/i][/center]
During the colonial years new companies were formed to greatly expand agricultural activities which in turn increased tax revenues for public works that further stimulated economic growth; “... over all, the period of Kalpian rule was the most progressive, economically, that the country has experienced.” J. C. Godeffroy, as the leading trading and plantation company in the Marans, maintained communications among its various subdivisions and branches and the home base at Tarist with its own fleet of ships.

In 1900, the remainder of the West Marans were claimed although only the coastal regions were event remotely habitable. The completion of the island chain was finished with the Kalpo-Survian Non-Aggression Pact, with each government recognizing the sovereignty of it's own respective colonial islands.

[h2][center][b]Hironese Industry Act[/b][/center][/h2]
At the end of January, the construction of four basic line factories began in Senryu, Furuu, Tomamae and Yoichi began. The mass industrialization of the Home Islands would hopefully bring new prosperity, jobs and inventions to the Settumese power. These factories would be unavailable until the summer of 1901 and their presence would be the first towering structures in the sleepy fishing village of Tomamae and Yoichi.

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[i]Pre-Industrial Hironese Workers, 1896[/i][/center]
Many industries in Hiron were performed by skilled craftsmen (and women) who would soon see their jobs overtaken  by simple Continental machines. Those centuries old crafts people turned their noses up at the idea of working in a factory, but local mayors and governors reiterated that the factory was the future, and that avoiding it's coming would be spitting in the face of the Emperor himself. These four factories, completed in June, would reduce unemployment by nearly two percent as well as increasing wages of the poor by a considerable amount.

[h2][center][b]Xiang Says No[/b][/center][/h2]
[center][i]"A reminder that the Xiang know that because your government is different, your intentions too are not dissimilar. May this be a warning."[/i][/center]

The fate of Suno Izirio and Takana Takano was revealed on January 31st, 1901 when the Xiang warlords released to the factional press in Du Nam that "enemies of the state abroad had been destroyed." The Xiang, still riding a wave of victory after defeating the [b][color=brown]Grand Kingdom of Meung[/color][/b] and sending them reeling back into Meung, took a page out of their predecessors book by lining the soldiers up in a field--dressed as peasants--and cutting their heads clean off.

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[i]The Fate of the Hironese Diplomats[/i][/center]

[h2][center][b]The Maneira Grand Prix[/b][/center][/h2]
On January 29th, on a rainy day in Maneira, the Maneira Grand Prix started. While Parnand was a successful automotive manufacturer, only Wincenty Co was in the market for a sporting car, the Yenson 31 HP. Fourteen drivers from as far west as Violette and as fast east as Dachne, Radena took to a three and a half mile long course for a ten lap race. The Maneira Grand Prix was a rowdy event even in the drizzling rain. It was the Itheraen Driver Grecias Corintas who won a hard won victory, just barely beating the Osladian driver and engineer Gregory Yorkan.

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[i]Itheraen Driver Grecias Corintas wins at Maneira[/i][/center]

- [[b][color=yellow]Itheraen Kingdom[/color][/b] gains +2% Demand to Automobiles.]

[h2][center][b]Eisenstadt Station, Can You Hear Me?[/b][/center][/h2]
While Eisenstadt had been heavily damaged during it's invasion only months only, a Redanian inventor named Pásztor Mihály--a soldier of the 44th Imperial Landswehr at the battle--had finished his prototype Mihály Device. A number of wireless electrical signaling schemes based on the (sometimes erroneous) idea that electric currents could be conducted long range through water, ground, and air were investigated for telegraphy before practical radio systems became available, but it was Mihály who perfected it.

The original telegraph used two wires between two stations to form a complete electrical circuit or "loop." In 1854, however, Carl August von Durritch of Tarich, Kalpia, found that by connecting one leg of the apparatus at each station to metal plates buried in the ground, he could eliminate one wire and use a single wire for telegraphic communication. This led to speculation that it might be possible to eliminate both wires and therefore transmit telegraph signals through the ground without any wires connecting the stations. Other attempts were made to send the electric current through bodies of water, in order to span rivers, for example.

Taran Henry Williams (1871) and Donovan Morris (1872) developed an electrical conduction systems based on the erroneous belief that there was an electrified atmospheric stratum accessible at low altitude. They thought atmosphere current, connected with a return path using "Earth currents"' would allow for wireless telegraphy as well as supply power for the telegraph, doing away with artificial batteries. A more practical demonstration of wireless transmission via conduction came in Janos Fehrich's 1879 magneto electric telephone that used ground conduction to transmit over a distance of a quarter of a mile.

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[i]Pásztor Mihály and his Mihály Device, 1901[/i][/center]

- [[b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] receives [b][u]Wireless Telegraphy[/u][/b] Technology. See Dossier for use.]

Mihály, who had tested the design several times in the previous year with merchant ships whom he had installed his transistor device, finalized his success by sending and receiving a signal nearly eight kilometers north along the Veletian coast to the [i]SS Wanzer[/i]. 

[h2][center][b]New Zellonia Struggles[/b][/center][/h2]
The small island of New Zellonia in the Mahjab Sea had been given a promising subsidy of nearly $10,000,000. This facilitated the basic operation of and expansion of an administration building, a port and working harbor as well as a half dozen basic services on the island. The money however, facilitated by governor Albert Cooling, quickly ran out. On January 16th, Cooling sent a letter to King James Conrad, considering the [b][color=pink]Kingdom of Zellonia[/color][/b] did [u]not[/u] (for whatever reason) possess a colonial or foreign office. It said the following: "[i]We shan't last the year. The expenses in running and administering nearly 30,000 unruly and wholly ruinous natives has run our allotment dry. If by the summer we receive no additional funding, I believe New Zellonia will no longer exist[/i]."

[h2][center][b]Quiet in Radena[/b][/center][/h2]
The implementation of a curfew seemed to successfully curtail further retribution between Radenan and Meung citizens. The increased funding of the local constabularies allowed for them to temporarily expand their force and cover larger areas. With the streets emptied when the sun went down, local law enforcement found themselves much more at ease. The situation it seemed, at least for now, had quieted considerably.

[h2][center][b]Ding, Ding, All Aboard[/b][/center][/h2]

Electric trams were first experimentally installed in Sloboda, Radena, invented and tested by Carl Garovich as early as 1880. These trams, like virtually all others, used either a trolley pole or a pantograph, to feed power from electric wires strung above the tram route. Nevertheless, there were early experiments with battery-powered trams but these appear to have all been unsuccessful. The KR-01 tram, invented by Kalpian design Kirth Lantoway in 1899 was finally granted his 1900 patent and exclusive rights to begin operations in Liubeth, Kalpia.

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[i]Kalpian KR-01 Tram[/i][/center]

On January 25th, the Lantoway Tram Corporation began operations in Liubeth with nearly thirty electric trams. These were a viable alternative to the trains--which could hop town to town, or horse based carriages which were modestly expensive by comparison. The tram was an invention that skimmed just below the radar but would prove to be wildly successful. With the ease of getting around, the Lantoway Tram Corporation ([i]LTC[/i]) proved in the first month that people--now about to move around the city with less difficulty--were, if nothing else, a tad bit happier.

- [[b]Liubeth, [color=lightblue]Kalpia[/color][/b] receives [b]Tram Network[/b] (+1% Approval, -1% Unemployment).]

[h2][center][b]The Treaty of Markenburg[/b][/center][/h2]
With the [b]Republican Revolution[/b] in the now fractured [b][color=lavender]Empire of Violette[/color][/b], the [u]Tyro-Itheraen War[/u] turned entirely to the Itheraen Front.