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// Day 1: Once Borderless (Part 2) 
// Story: Morgan of Equis 
// by Kitsune_Kenshi 
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The war raged.

However, peace tends to find its way around. Despite Griffonia gaining the uppertalon throughout the war, they seemed to have forgotten that they were alone. Griffons ran out of supplies, rebel fighters from occupied territories fought back, and the Allies were slowly outnumbering the Griffons. The once invincible Griffon military collapsed within a few years. The Allies captured and reverse-engineered the Griffonian technologies and formed their Air Forces; it was known that the Griffonian Air Force during this period was nearly invincible; Tartarus, even brought a super warplane at the end of the war attempting to reverse the tide. 

They failed.

Griffonia surrendered after 4 years of war. They were forced to sign treaties, suffered severe punishments, and got their military forces taken apart by the victorious allies.

This marked the end of the first global warfare of Equis. It was later known as the Griffonian War. Sadly, once a fire began, it spread. The aftermath for Griffonia is tough, way too tough for its civilians and its economy; not only did they lose the trust and all trading partners, but their privileges were also stripped from them as well. Everycreature, survivors or not, grew hatred towards the Griffons.

Pretty ironic huh?

Equestria was greatly weakened after the Twilight 1994EF04 crisis and the Griffonian War, however, thanks to the help from its allies, Equestria was able to recover 10 moons earlier than the Griffonians. Princess Luster knew what was coming for her country and the world around her; she knew the fact that this world is no longer the friendly world she knew of like the ones during Twilight's reign. And that the nation needs to prepare itself physically and mentally for it.  

While Equestria and its neighbors began their post-war recovery operation, the Dragonlands on the other side of the ocean had other plans. Empress Ember already made it clear that no aggression is to be made against the Griffonians due to the fear that another conflict may occur, the dragons have already lost so much in the war. However, this decision created tension and unwillingness among her subjects, especially the Anti-pony political parties. Ember has already secretly pissed off many of her underground rivals, by establishing long-lasting international relationships and friendships with the Equestrians, many rumored that the young Empress lost her will to fight due to the amount of time she spent with those weak-minded ponies.

The aggressiveness grew significant when a certain incident occurred; A Saddle Arabian Tornado suddenly trespassed the borders of the Leviathan Gulf heading straight towards the inland Dragonland. Dragon Air Defense Force immediately send two Su-27 to intercept. When they got to the Saddle Arabian Tornado, they signaled the reconnaissance aircraft to leave; and of course, instead of leaving, the Saddle Arabian aircraft decided to ignore the Dragons. As the dragons prepared for a warning shot, they suddenly found themselves on a collision course with the Tornado, which banked towards them without any warning signs. The result was; a midair collision occurred with a single Su-27 splashed, the Dragon pilot bailed out in time, however, the Tornado pilot was killed. 

The Saddle Arabian ambassador came to a meeting with Ember demanding a reason for the dragons 'purposely' ramming down their Tornado when it was on its 'normal' training routine. Ember, instead of showing her 'aggressive dragon' side as the rest of her subjects wanted, Ember backed off with peace treaties and further investigations. The Saddle Arabians demanded a large amount of economic compensation and other bullshits. Well, of course, some dragons found out the real deal due to some political shifting.  And yeah, they're not happy.

That's when the Empress's underground rivals decided it was their time. Rumors were spread all over Dragonland about Ember secretly contacting Saddle Arabian high military officials about exchanging highly classified intelligence for some 'advanced' military gear or some shit. And what's more bullshit? They believed in that crap. As tension continued to boost with more rumors and aggressiveness, active protests and attacks were starting to occur. Furthermore, an assassination plan was secretly operational against Ember by those rival parties. 

Fortunately enough for Ember, she had Garble. Yeah, that hero of Dragonland. He joined the military later and worked his way to the top. Became an intelligence officer and secretly became a spy. He was later sent to Saddle Arabia after the Griffonian War; he returned 2 weeks ago and heard about the rumor. The man was in full try-hard mode diving into the core of the rival party, digging up some info, and was able to get out alive.

Ember was then escorted toward her safe house. However, on her way out, she was shot by a rival sniper. With this set of fire, tons of rival members stormed her palace and took over complete military control; including the nuclear-capable ICBM silos. The high ranks that were supportive of Ember were executed publicly, and the rival party named themselves 'Jormungandr'. A week later, the entire Dragonland was taken over by the Jormungandrs, with its leader Styx Grumbler being the dictator leader. 

As for Ember? She survived, however, at the cost of an eye. Garble contacted the Equestrian Intelligence Agency secretly to accept Ember into Equestria undercover. She's traumatized though; both due to the betrayal of her subjects and the fact that she just whizzed by with the reaper itself.  

Dragonland, no, that time it was called 'Slangerjord', and now owns the entire Dragon military. Equestrians and their allies were terrified, not only the fact that the Dragons had 3 nuclear-powered submarines capable of firing twelfth ICBMs all armed with nuclear warheads, but also that their ICBM silos are ranged to wipe out Manehattan and several other major cities. However, direct military actions were forbidden by Princess Luster to prevent another war; she looked to the other side of honor; the mercenaries.

The Hikiro Mercenary Corp; which was not world-wide known yet. This mercenary corp is a Kirinese military organization, they have the best Mercenary squadron, will at least until they disassembled a few moons later.  Hikiro's Peril Squadron was the ones paid to wipe out the Jormungandrs; say, they did make the job easier; although did lose two pilots at the end of the showdown, did save the world though, blew up several silos and sunk their nuclear subs. Ember returned to her throne after this entire mess was completely over, she executed all of the surviving members of Jormungandrs and their families. That set off the alarm for her hidden rivals; Dragonland was finally at their peace.

For another 10 moons, Equis is seemingly at peace once again. There are Surprisingly hardly any huge conflicts around, however, the borders were planted. There's no turning back. 

Saddle Arabia and Zebrica lately, are having unusual military actions again, much to the Equestrians' concern; the two conflicts decades ago must've planted PTSDs throughout the continent; Equestria and its allies all had their focused on the two countries which were now considered rogue nations. The Zerbican and Saddle Arabian ambassadors moved out of Equestria two weeks before it happened. They cut off economic trade with Equestria and their allies, now completely into aggressors. They left off the ultimatum for Equestria, their reason being: Equestrians interfere with their national political ideas and religions, and had too much of their military forces dispatched to their country. The part that pissed them off the most, well, massive casualties in the past decades done by the Equestrians on their 'Peace' expedition to clear out 'Terrorists' threats in the Saddle Arabian territory. 

Their attack on the Dragon Fleet in the Leviathan Gulf triggered both sides; at least 3 'Gemstone' Class destroyers were sunk, only 1/4 of the crew made it back alive, and their flagship, DNS 'Ember' class heavy cruiser was severely damaged, it survived though, it's now under repair in a classified location. The Dragons weren't expecting such a fierce attack done by the Saddle Arabians, however, it was later known that the Griffons were secretly shipping weapons in support of their war partners. Did I mention the Griffonian politicians were easy to bear a grudge?   

There it is.

Yet another war.

Equestrians and her allies; The Kingdom of Hippogriffia, Federation of Yayakstan, Republic of Kirina, Changeling Kingdom, and Chrystal Empire; though not being a big fan of making this even worst, tried their last afford to peacefully negotiate with the rogues. It failed, of course, their negotiator was shot down the moment he entered Saddle Arabian airspace. 

Saddle Arabians and Zebricans expanded their territory, taking out every small nation on their way, the Griffonians used their landscape advantages to continuously fire off Long range cruise missiles in an attempt to drag the Equestrian Army down from intercepting their partners. This later became a stalemate for the Equestrians as the Griffonians destroyed their supply routes, the Saddle Arabians and the Zebricans were like flies; every now and then their troops launched small attacks on the Equestrians' outpost; by the end of the year, the Equestrians were down from 500,000 to 120,000 at most.  

Seadroy's squadron was formed recently; about four months ago; their job is to locate and destroy Griffonian long-range weaponry launch sites. 

Well, I was caught in one of their operations, however, due to intelligence failures, Seadroy's squadron suffered great losses. Then I showed up. You get the rest of the story.

Anyway, that's the current war effort.

Sucks for the Equestrians. 

To be honest I'm still not sure whether I'll be with them until the end of the war; seemed like a long way off...