The Shattering

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The Shattering Second Continental War
Sarconia burns in the aftermath of the Second Continental War. Photograph taken September 2nd, 2082.
Location		continental doren
Belligerents
Reciprocity			Combined Provinces of Doren
Strength
At least 34 Slow Bombs At least 50 large artifical satelites hundreds of smaller orbital objects, true number unknown			a dorvic kid with a baseball bat trying to hit the asteroids back
Casualties and Losses
too damn many			too damn many

The Shattering is an eponym for the attacks which took place in the eastern hemisphere on January 18th, 2081, in which the Reciprocity lake states deployed their entire arsenal of Slow Bombs and space fleet as a scorched earth measure as the Tau Coalition's frontlines collapsed in the last moments of the Second Continental War. The resulting deaths numbered around ()-() million, and completely broke the Reciprocity and Doren for the next twenty years. Other nations like Aenia and Fegeland suffered less severe yet still devastating strikes which impaired their economies and political systems for years to come.

Shock rang out across the entire Solar system, both directly as refugees fled Kerbin, and indirectly as the emotional response to the sheer loss of life defined politics for decades to come.

Background

See also : Second Continental War

The attack

Strikes on the Reciprocity States

With Dorvic forces making great headway into the Reciprocal states, the long prepared scorched-earth measures were activated. Three Slow bomb type projectiles landed in Bitterwater lake, Sweetwater lake, and the Wolf's Jaw bay respectively. The majority of the other Slow bombs landed directly on Reciprocal territory, killing an estimated 1.5 million civilians, displacing another ten million, and completely destroying eleven cities. Toxic vapours were also released as polluted water evaporated and contaminated soil was churned up.

Continental Doren

While asteroid type slow bombs landed in the Reciprocity and elsewhere, the vast Reciprocal space fleet made up the majority of projectiles which hit Doren.

Doren, Aenia, Behin, Lonely, Aquaria, and Fegeland were all hit by hundreds of thousands of tonnes of space debris, either directly dropped onto them or ejected from the planet following another strike and landing down as secondary impacts.

On may 23rd, two months after the initial strikes, a delayed class E slow bomb was fired into Doren. This is a lone outlier from the other objects which targetted specific points of interest, instead landing in the badlands between Kalini and New Rostrum.

Strikes on Aenia

As Asteroids and other projectiles landed in Doren and the Reciprocity, Central Aenian Air Defence Command discovered one of the Class E objects, Ulysseys 1994XF04, was veering off it's planned course for unknown reasons. They were able to predict the impact location as just off the Caledonian Coast, and this information was passed down to all civil authorities. Only a small fraction of the citizens were able to evacuate for a variety of reasons.

At 3:17 AM Ulysseys 1994XF04 detonated only 9 kilometres west of Comberth, the resulting fireball reached up to the stratosphere and vapourised many residential areas, while the shockwave levelled buildings further away. This shockwave also produced a tsunami, which levelled the remainder of downtown Comberth. In hours, 330,000 Comberthians perished, and another 1.7 million were displaced. Additionally, the majority of the Federal government were killed in the attack.

Immediately after the Ulysseys Disaster, smaller orbital debris rained down onto the Tioga region. Fires ripped through towns and the regional capital Los Canas suffered severe damage.

Political responses

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Zokesia

Zokesian armour entering Phosphor encountered no resistance as Doren's massed armoured forces were massacred almost to a man in the initial strikes. The coalition forces here stayed for years aiding in relief efforts.

Minor ripple effects

When news reached the Chevspendi, mass hysteria ripped through the tribes as religious authorities and scholars interpreted this as a divine omen of the end times and the nearing of the completion of the prophecy of Ataqi Ouli. This hastened the subduction of the Cynazdic oligarchy and directly culminated in the Chevspendic invasion of Egercia and the formation of Sahrland.

Environmental effect

See also : Asteroid Winter