Second Imperio-Mandagoran War

The Second Imperio-Mandagoran War was a military conflict fought from 27 December 2021 to 21 January 2022 between Imperium and Mandagora, then governed by Faciei Negrae, a militant group in the country. It was the second and most recent conflict between Imperium and modern Mandagora, emerging 4 years after the end of the first war in 2015.

Aftermath of the first war
The First Imperio-Mandagoran War ended on 27 September 2015 with the fall of Sorá, capital of Mandagora, and the overthrow of the first Faciei Negrae's Mandagoran government by Imperium, which keep the country's military occupation of the country until the election of a new democratic government and executed the leaders of the previous government in a supermax prison in Atrocaea for their crimes against humanity. The new government was formed on 6 October (with a system similar to the Imperium state governments), established a free trade agreement and signed a perpetual non-aggression agreement between both countries. This allowed peaceful relations between the two countries, after thousands of years of tension and conflict between Imperium and many of the multiples kingdoms that ruled modern Mandagora.

Second Mandagoran Republic
Although Imperium destroyed all militant groups' sites on Mandagora during the war, several militants hid in distant parts of the country and they managed to survive. These groups merged to rebuild Faciei Negrae alongside surviving militants from the original organization in late 2015 and they began to restore their power through the spread of Anti-Hegemonism among the communities most affected by the war, which allowed them to slowly consolidate territory under their control.

Although initially non-violent, the Faciei Negrae returned to their militant ideology in March 2017 and began murdering their critics and law enforcement officials, mainly in the northwest. This crime wave led by the Faciei Negrae and other like-minded militant groups prompted the intervention of the Mandagoran national government in early June 2017, in what became known as the Northwestern Insurgency. This insurgency prompted the initiation of an Imperial Air and Space Force's operation in southern Turrium to ensure that Imperium's territory was not affected by the conflict.

After 24 days of aerial surveillance, the Air and Space Force withdrew the mission and declared its neutrality in the conflict, as long as the border between the two countries is respected. The insurgency continued for more than 2 years until on February 4, 2020 Faciei Negrae captured Anamoros, the capital of Northwestern Mandagora. The fall of Anamoros motivated the emergence of new movements organized by militant groups around Mandagora. After constant attacks around the country, the Mandagoran Civil War emerges on 17 November 2020, after an attack on a military base near Sorá.

Sorá was captured by Faciei Negrae and allied militant groups on 3 September 2021, causing the capital to be moved to Ajusco, in the Palmas region. The mobilization of the conflict to the east, near the Duronia border, caused great concern for Imperium, which convened an emergency meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Imperial Forces and the Intelligence Community on 5 September. This meeting determined the installation of an automatic air defense system, called the Palm Oasis Defense System. The installation began on 10 September, while the Mandagoran democratic government continued to lose territory to Faciei Negrae, which established Black Mandagora as the state that would administer its territories.

The advance of Faciei Negrae meant the acceleration of the PODS and the deployment of increasing numbers of Imperial troops and the Duronia National Gendarmerie near the border throughout September and early November 2021. At the height of the Civil War, Bahia Oculta declares its independence on 25 December 2021 and requests military support from Imperium to guarantee its territorial integrity. Imperium accepts their request in order to reduce the presence of Faciei Negrae near the border, and deploys a military operation in Bahia Oculta on 26 December 2021.

War declaration and first attacks
Before the beginning of the military operation in Bahia Oculta, Faciei Negrae declares war on Bahia Oculta and Imperium and launches a missile attack in northern Bahia Oculta on early 27 December 2021. The attack was countered with PODS missile interceptors from Campos de Neptuno, and a ground attack between the two armies took place in the area. In the midst of the attack on Bahia Oculta, the Senate held an emergency session and unanimously approved the declaration of war on Faciei Negrae, officially starting the war. The Senate also agreed to strengthen the military presence on the border, completely evacuate 7 cities and towns in Duronia and issue a global alarm to all constituent states and allied countries of Imperium in the face of possible terrorist attacks.

Immediately afterwards, an exclusion zone was declared in Duronia to prevent casualties from possible clashes, and shelters were established in San Helvio, Villa Vesta, Bosques del Emperador (the capital of Duronia) and Resafa. The Intelligence Community estimated that the evacuation would last at least 3 days due to the large population in the area, so the Ministry of the Soldiers decided to temporarily move the PODS launchers to the exclusion zone and the rest of the habitable area of ​​the border between both countries, as well as reinforcing the system with new detection and launch mechanisms. Meanwhile, Faciei Negrae took advantage of the global focus on the conflict in Hidden Bay and the evacuation of the exclusion zone in Duronia to advance their battle to overthrow the Second Mandagoran Republic by capturing Ajusco, located on the west bank of the border lake with Imperium.