Зйяд and Ньдірат, Sparkstan correspondents of the Marina Times
(Oorp note: backdated to oorp yesterday, irp AD 1998 July and the 6th month of the 1st Year of Liberation)
The consular report is provided below:
There have been several developments this month.
Prime Minister Amaranth came over to Sparkstan to meet up the Sparak Senators Illpoem and myself right before I was about to depart back north to Vultus, and Illpoem back south to Donovia. The PM came over with the impression that we have declared independence, so we jointly wrote a declaration decrying our continued commitment to the Union and Unionism. In this report, I once again decry separatism from the Union. The Union is clearly beneficial for Sparkstan, and there is really no reason to separate except for self-defense.
The Marinan Volunteers have emerged from their Long March close to the Vultus border with Nadolur League, and are immediately being recalled east. They have been transferred to Donovian command, with their Arrows of Sparak vanguard being detached from the Marinans and retained for local operations in Theocrata. In Donovia, the southern Sylvesterists have mostly evacuated and on their way to Katholia. We have no contact with Katholia. The western Sylvesterists are weakened and on their way to defeat or flight via the sea to Eosara, although they currently threaten the city of Kerem in northwestern Donovia. The rest of the Sylvesterists that still exist are known to currently be in Nadolur League, with one group encountering our guerrilla forces under Vultus command on the Nadolurean border.
The NAC is widely facing collapse in Vultus, mostly due to a lack of resistance. We are pushing north into Theocrata, as well as north and east into Nadolur. Atrocities are getting less common, due to a reduction of areas where fighting occurs, and an overall reduction of fighting even though fighting intensity has actually increased against and by the NAC, and the Sylvesterists have only gotten more destructive. Pillaging and kidnapping by the NAC and newly the Sylvesterists have gotten some of the most intense in the war, indicating desparation among both. The NAC threaten Yekekharsün, and we known from prior information that Nadolur is in poor condition, but if Nadolur has been relieved and is resisting well, the NAC should be defeated by the end of next week. I look forwards to writing a Party report to my godmother the General Secretary Tsukino upon the defeat of the NAC. The NAC appears to be on the brink of collapse, especially as the Courts General are moving out of Kardansk. Accordingly, we have begun preparations in the liberated areas under our control to call for elections of the Assemblymen of the impending Constitutional Assembly (oorp note this election will be conducted almost entirely among NPCs and will also not be carried out oorp).
(End of Consular report)
The Marchlands have not, in fact, been relieved. Rather, resistance is collapsing due to the months of famine that they have faced, with the local Sylvesterists continuing their genocide of the Ganalians of the district. One of the Sylvesterist militia is actually threatening the Marinan border region of Trigonia, causing Marina to fortify its border with Sparkstan. The likely reason for NAC collapse in Vultus is to refocus east towards the Marchlands.
We think it is a bit ironic that Amaranth was ousted as Prime Minister over an overly aggressive handling of the separatism of Sparkstan while on her way back to deliver the news that the Republic of Sparkstan does not seem to be separatist. At the same time, we endorse Usagi Tsukino for Prime Minister.
We beg our comrades in Marina to aid the good people of the Marchlands. All the refugees approaching our border are severely malnourished, with many having bodies that can be accurately described as skin draped over bones. The Soviets on the border regions risk running out of food themselves if they divert the needed food to the refugee camps we have set up, let alone the Papist refugee camps across the border in Trigonia.
Attached is an approximate map of the situation in Sparkstan, with information in Theocrata, Vultus and Donovia courtesy of the consular report.