Grand Campaigns

The Grand Campaigns, also known as the Great War, was a or series of interconnected wars originating in Artemia and Kesh that lasted from 1915 to 1925. The war involved most of the world's major powers and is considered to be one of the clearest cases of in world history.

The Grand Campaigns are considered to have begun on 15 April 1915 with the Goetic invasion of the ethnically Goetic department of Husseren-Wesserling in eastern Ovancia, with Boaga declaring war on Goetia shortly afterward in an attempt to regain territories previously lost to Goetia in the Boaga-Goet War.

However, this allied faction would split in 1920 as republican rebellions would rise in Ovancia and the Goidel-dominant regions of Airgialla and western Tiperyn.

The world would see several concurrent civil wars, some of which would draw major powers out of the conflict. These included the Celt insurrection in Tiperyn from 1920-1926, civil war in the Vojiskiy Empire beginning in 1922, republican rebellions in Ovancia beginning in 1920, the Goetic communist revolution of 1924 and the collapse of imperial rule in Kodeshia and eventual civil war in 1927.

The conflict would have mixed results for each faction.

Arms race
As imperial ambitions and political movements that were considered radical escalated, Artemian powers entered a multiple front arms race. Although this encompassed developments in both land and air technology, the primary front was naval. Concerns within the Goetic and Mero-Curgov governments regarding the naval supremacy of Tiperyn in Tethys and the Eurybian lead to evolutions in shipbuilding that culminated in the launch of the Mero-Curgov battleship Juganauda in 1908. The advent of the all-big-gun battleship marked a turning point for the Goetic faction in arms development and constituted the greatest change in naval warfare until the 1959 development of the.

Concurrent Conflicts

 * Main article: Vojiskiy War

Aftermath
The Grand Campaigns is often regarded as the transformational event that defined modern geopolitics and its primary actors.

Reshaping Artemia
The outcome of the Grand Campaigns' various sub-conflicts defined many of the borders in Western Artemia that persist to this day. Many of the historically great Artemian colonizers collapsed or suffered territorial losses during the war, ending an era of colonial imperialism and opening the gates to a new era predicated on anti-communism and so-called "small wars". Through the Grand Campaigns rose the communist Goetia, while the once mighty Ovancian Empire fell to communism to form URSA and several other smaller breakaway states. Boaga, which suffered greatly at the hands of the Goets, was not only restored to its pre-Boaga-Goet War borders, but also acquired all of the disputed territories on its borders with Goetia, URSA and Austrasia, which remain to this day. Agrana y Griegro also seized some Goetic lands, which has led to ongoing ethnic conflicts in the country's north. The war is largely regarded as the beginning of the end for Mero-Curgovina as a great colonial power and the key event that led to the ousting of its monarch. In the east, the Vojiskiy Empire and Samot-Seratofian Empire collapsed, each breaking up into several states, including the Volkovist UPRZ.

The only great Artemian colonial powers that took part in the war to be exit in unambiguously stronger geopolitical positions were the Crown Alliance's Agrana y Griegro and Tiperyn. Although Tiperyn lost the archipelago of Airgialla to Goidel socialists during the conflict and has been suffering from an on-and-off insurgency in its western states ever since, its influence over North and East Kesh in particular grew as a result of the conflict and set the stage for the Great Kesh War in the 1950s. Insennia, one of the successor states to the Ovancian Empire, also became the host to a permanent Tiperyner military presence on the continent. Boaga—although not a significant historical colonial power—also expanded its territory with aid from the Crown Alliance and Kaya—after previously having little influence on the global stage—would grow in influence beyond Southern Avalonia as a result of the conflict.

Start of the Red Wave
The Grand Campaigns is considered to be the start of the Red Wave—a series of interlinked leftist uprisings throughout the world. The conflict saw the fall of Western Artemia's two largest continental empires (the Ovancian and Goetic Empires) and Artemia's largest contiguous country (the Vojiskiy Empire), each leaving behind leftist successor states. Tiperyn also lost the Airgiallan archipelago to an alliance of liberals and leftists with Brigantic support, representing the country's only loss of home islands since its formation in the 14th century. This significantly shifted the balance of Western Artemia, with URSA and Goetia emerging as large communist states in ideological opposition to all neighboring states. The Volkovist UPRZ acted similarly in Eastern Artemia. The resulting global struggle between these new communist states and the liberal and non-communist illiberal worlds is considered by many to be the defining conflict of the 20th century.

Communist uprisings became a large threat, especially to post-colonial states and the monarchies that remained in Artemia. Tiperyn for example has been engaged in several Goidel insurgencies in its west throughout the past century. While the conflict is primarily ethnically driven, most militant groups are socialist ideologically. The middle and small powers of Veikaia, Albel and Aftarestan also fell to socialism during the post-Kesh War uptick in leftist uprisings from the 1960s and 1970s. The Arbenz Revolution started in the late 1960s and resulted in the complete leftist takeover of the country in 1991, defeating a coalition of liberal and illiberal states. Leftist groups remain prominent—with support from large communist states such as URSA, Goetia and Aftarestan—and small wars are ongoing in Santa Magdalena and Nasiria.