Retford Civil War

This civil war happened late may - early June 2018

Prelude
The General staff after a heated argument with the Communist President of Retford stormed out of the room. Shortly after Military police were massacred by a generals body guards for attempting to arrest the general and his officers. This sparked outrage among the army. The generals crime was standing up to the Communist government.

Multiple incidents happened where Military Police interfered with Military officials but the final straw was the arresting and murder of Field Marshal George Pendragon. This sparked national anger and the Military had finally had enough.

The Protests
Following the public murder of Field Marshal George Pendragon thousands came to the streets in Soral to protest against the governments actions. At the same time the Army was splitting apart between Loyalists and the Retfordian Army. The Communist supported government opened fire and gunned down thousands of Retfordian citizens in Soral. The communists left the bodies to rot and made no attempt to clean the mess. Their were reports of soldiers desecrating bodies. With this fatal act, the majority of the army under the command of Luscious Pendragon revolted against the communist government and laid siege to the capital and started to encircle loyalist forces. In the following days the Army crushed multiple loyalist forces and made small attempts to take the capital but were limited due to an order not to fire artillery at the capital. 300,000 Native Ranthorrr people from Frosgore under the leadership of then Defense Minister Nikola, crossed the border to join the Retfordian military in their fight against the communist state.

On the 12th Military forces stormed the Capital and took the parliament with heavy losses. The President and the communist state officially surrender and are later given the death sentence by a UN court.

Aftermath
Many feared the army would install a dictatorship but instead the army with the help of citizens created the Constitution of Retford. Elections soon followed and the country underwent major political and economical change. Retford soon became a very Patriotic and Militaristic nation. To show their military and patriotic power, Retford launched a major parade for its independence day on the 26th of June.

Luscious Pendragon would go on to retire after avenging his fathers death. He as of 12th of October 2018 has become the Prime minister of Retford after accepting the Presidents request.