New Soltrian Documents Released

It was the greatest unknown of the Franklinite-Soltrian War: the initial rationale for it. It appeared to be irrational without these documents, but newly released memorandums, documents, and letters from the run-up to the war. For the sake of concisement, we will not publish every letter here, but all of them have been posted at the Executive's Website.

The documents collectively reveal a fascinating story behind the build-up to the war, starting with the Soltrian Coup of March 2009. After the coup, the socialists had a behind-the-scenes debate on how to most effectively fulfill the promise of "spreading the socialist message".

A few advocated domestic development and exhibition as the best way. However, most wished a more aggressive route: war. Eventually the war proponents won the debate, and began plotting on how to win it. They reasoned with military planners that the only way to sustain a conquest of any one state on the island was to conquer all of them and eliminate resistance. A build-up was in order for the military, which started the Allies down a path to war.

Upon the final completed plan, Franklin was determined to have the strongest military, and thus the most potential resistance. It was decided: Soltria would attack Franklin County, and then proceed to complete the conquest of the whole island, and we all know how it went from there.

The present government has explicitly expressed no interest in re-enacting these plans, and states they will focus on domestic improvement. In fact, the present government is composed of the original legislators who opposed the war in the first place.

This story has been transcluded from the Special Reports page on the AFDES Wiki.