The Traction War (also called The Green Storm's War) was a conflict between the Traktionstadtsgesellchaft and The Green Storm, a radical splinter cell of the Anti-Traction League which had become a totalitarian military power under Stalker Fang.
Background[]
Anti-Traction League's Formal Pronouncement[]
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End of the Golden Age of Traction[]
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Prelude[]
MEDUSA Incident[]
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Green Storm Coup[]
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Early War[]
First assault on the Great Hunting Ground[]
The Traction War began in 1012 TE, when the Green Storm launched a massive offensive on the Great Hunting Ground. Many Traction Cities were taken by surprise and destroyed; those that survived fled across the Great Hunting Ground.[1]
Formation of the Traktionstadtgesellschaft[]
In response to the attack, Arminius Krause, burgermeister of Traktionstadt-Weimar, allied with eleven other German cities, and the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft was founded as a unified front against the Green Storm.[2]
Red Winter[]
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Battle of the Bay of Bengal[]
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Rustwater Salient and Altai Front Stalemate[]
By 1022 TE, the conflict had largely settled into a stalemate, though both sides continued launching attacks and sorties at the other’s territory.[1]
Battle on Cloud 9[]
In 1025 TE, the Green Storm launched an all-out assault on the raft city of Brighton, which had docked on the shore of Africa, alongside Kom Ombo and Benghazi.[3] The Storm were ordered to attack Brighton alone, sending only a small harrying force of Tumblers and their accompanying fighter-escorts to stop the two traction cities from sending aid.
Unbeknownst to the Green Storm force commanders present, the true goal of the assault was not to destroy the cities, but to find the Tin Book of Anchorage,[4] which had been located aboard the raft city by Cynthia Twite, really the Green Storm spy known as Agent 28.[5] The Stalker Fang memorised the Ancient access codes contained in the Tin Book, which she intended to use to activate the orbital superweapon ODIN,[6] and end the Traction War. Before she could do so, however, the Stalker Fang was attacked by Shrike, acting under orders from Oenone Zero, and believed destroyed.[7] The Green Storm suffered heavy casualties in the battle, including an air-destroyer and numerous fighters, and ultimately withdrew.[8]
With the Stalker Fang believed dead, leadership of the Green Storm fell to General Jiang Xiang Naga, who attempted to bring about the end of the Traction War under peaceful terms. Under Naga’s command, the Traktionstadts were driven back west past the Rustwater Marshes, and driven both by Naga and Kriegsmarshal von Kobold of the Traktionstadt Murnau, a tenuous peace settled over the Great Hunting Ground.[9]
Months later, during a diplomatic mission to the static city of Zagwa, Oenone Naga (neé Zero; now Naga’s wife) survived an assassination attempt by extremists still loyal to the Stalker Fang, who wished to frame tractionist forces and restart the war.[10] Soon after, at a conurbation of the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft, Lord Mayor Adlai Browne of Manchester, would give a speech intended to reignite the war, claiming that the Naga’s mourning would make him an easy target, and that they needed to create “Not so much a battle plan, more a menu.” Despite the best efforts of Kriegsmarshal von Kobold, who believed Browne was motivated less by his love for the spirit of Municipal Darwinism and more by a desire to see the weapons trade that had made him rich continue, the Traktionstadts made plans to return to the front, Murnau among them.[11]
While Panzerstadt-Winterthur was lost early in the assault, and Darmstadt and the Dortmund Conurbation were bogged down in the Rustwater Marshes, the remaining forces of the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft easily overcame what little resistance they encountered on the way into Green Storm lands. Manchester joined the assault late, once the Green Storm could no longer field any meaningful resistance, and staged an attack on Green Storm Forward Command.
As Manchester made its final approach on Forward Command, the majority of the harvester-suburbs involved in the attack, as well as several traction cities including Manchester, Breslau, and Moloch-Maschinenstadt were destroyed by the Stalker Fang’s first successful activation of ODIN. The surviving Traktionstadts, led by Murnau, retreated before what they believed to be a Green Storm superweapon.[12]
At the same time, the Stalker Fang turned ODIN on the lands of the Green Storm, destroying Tienjing and Batmunkh Tsaka, sending the Green Storm into disarray as they scrambled to counter or escape what they believed to be an attack by the Traktionstadtsgesellschaft.[13]
Battle of Crouch End[]
In the ruins of London, General Naga confronted the Harvester-Suburb Harrowbarrow, the last surviving Tractionist force in Green Storm territory, aboard the airship Fury. After evacuating the Fury, General Naga would fly into Harrowbarrow’s open jaws, destroying the Harvester and, with his sacrifice, ending the last battle of the Traction War.[14]
Aftermath[]
Oenone Naga, as leader of the Green Storm, would broker a peace treaty with the surviving members of the Traktionstadstgesellschaft and the remnants of the Green Storm, restored to the Anti-Traction League once again. In sight of the impending collapse of Municipal Darwinism, Murnau settled on a hill west of the Rustwater Marshes and went static. With all witnesses to the Stalker Fang’s involvement dead, Lady Naga declared that ODIN’s strikes had been brought about at random, by a malfunction of the ancient superweapon.[15]
Technology and Application[]
Green Storm[]
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Traktionstadtgesellschaft[]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Traction Codex, Timeline
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 8: "On the Line"
- ↑ Infernal Devices, Chapter 22: "Murder on Cloud 9"
- ↑ Infernal Devices, Chapter 26: "Waiting for the Moon"
- ↑ Infernal Devices, Chapter 21: "The Flight of a Seagull"
- ↑ Infernal Devices, Chapter 34: "Finders Keepers"
- ↑ Infernal Devices, Chapter 31: "The Moment of the Rose"
- ↑ Infernal Devices, Chapter 28: "The Air Attack"
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 4: "Lady Naga"
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 6: "Rain-Coloured Silk"
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 24: "Manchester"
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 38: "The Million Voices of the Wind"
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 41: "Back in Batmunkh Gompa"
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 51: "The Chase"
- ↑ A Darkling Plain, Chapter 53: "The Afterglow"