World War III

140s
In year 142, the Toma Empire declared war on the Eirikur Republic, effectively starting a third war. The Toma opened two theaters of war as they invaded the north of East Eirikur, to liberate Be'Be'Nacion. Eirikur responded by carpet-bombing the Toma forces in the first ever major usage of a missile barrage, which paralyzed the Toma for a few weeks. In 149, the Eirikans launched a counter-attack on Toma as Aerok placed troops in Northwest Eirikur.

150s
In 150, the Toma evacuated from their western half and prepared to fight in their motherland for the first time in their history. In the Glubian Republic, millions upon millions of citizens rose up, and for the first time the Piperian military was sent to a foreign conflict with another nation-state. Thousands of Toma citizens built barriers on their ocean borders and the Jorda Strait. This blocked a seemingly imminent Eirikur invasion as Glubia crumbled under the might of the Eirikur Paramilitary Force (EPF) that was sent from the south.

Eirikur was accused of massive and indiscriminate massacre of civilian populations, which Eirikur did not deny. Due to the threat Eirikur posed and the incentive to liberate Be'Be'Nacion, the Republic of Cedhed declared war on Eirikur. This, combined with a new treaty combining the military command of Aerok and Toma together into the temporary Toma-Aerok Confederacy, began to threaten Eirikur's conquests. Aerok joined the war effort using airship carriers (helicarriers, or levcarriers), providing much needed support the joint invasion with Toma and Cedhed forces being obliterated.

After 36 Cataton warheads were placed in a bunker in eastern Eirikur, an Aerok EMP set off all of them at once, effectively destroying all of Eirikur, some of Hanne, parts of Kaia, the eastern Nalani Islands, and most of Fortunata, leaving it the most devastating attack in Valtan history at the time. Eirikur surrendered shortly after and their empire collapsed.



DEATH COUNT
A vast majority of the war's casualties were civilian, with an astounding 840,000,000 dying in the last 5 years alone. There were an estimated 600,000,000 military deaths, most from the Toma Empire. 25% of the Toma population was slaughtered, 12% of PGC was killed, 2% of Aerok, an incredible 78% of Glubia, and during the final confrontation an unprecedented 93.5% of West Eirikur, leaving 33% of the world's population dead.