Drought and record heat kills crops and famine spreads across the Polis states.
Drought and record heat kills crops and famine spreads across the Polis states.
The famine dragging into it's eighth year, territories on the Kencilia Peninsula revolt and breakoff from their Polis rulers. The first of these territories was Hamikar formerly of Tillerpolis. The weakened Polis states could not offer much resistance.
Not long after the secession of Kencilian territories crime syndicates rose to power. Most of these criminals include former merchants and fishermen and they took to the seas to raid Sapporo merchants carrying grain and Polis merchants carrying riches.
Sapporo had been trading extra grain to the Polis states but rampant piracy is costing Sapporo. After repeated pleas for the Polis states to do something about it the Sapporo sentate votes to stop all trade with the Polis states.
Sapporo Legions pour into Tillerpolis's northwest territories ransacking villages.
The Sapporo Empire declares war on Tillerpolis landing on their west shores, after their troops crossed the western border and ransacked remote northwest villages.
Sapporo diplomats pay Kencilian Pirates to attack Polis ships instead of Sapporo merchants, or to sit out the upcoming wars.
In exchange for smashing a peasant up rising, Duopolis joins the Sapporo Empire.
Vero navy ambush Sapporo transports in the Vero Strait. Sapporo invasion force was smashed and few ships came back to tell the tale.
Sapporo Army lands on the island of Knosys and the Navy blockades the city.
After a three year long siege Sapporo's armies finally break through the walls of Vero and spend the next two weeks pillaging the city until the last king of Vero comes out of hiding to formally surrender, ending the Polis wars and firmly handing control of the Marionas Sea to the Sapporo Empire.