1st Crusade

1st Crusade Part of: Date 25th May 2023 - 28th May 2023 Location Coral Sea Islands Result Crusader Victory Coral Sea Island's Collapses International Diplomatic Victory Crusaders Disbanded Status Ended on the 28th May 2023 Territorial changes * Coral Sea Islands disbaned, no replacement government instated Belligerents Conservative State Of Balkan (kingdom of croatia) Cork Texas Celtic Union Yorkshire Rodonia Denmark Switzerland Thailand Yugoslavia Pomerania Coral Sea Islands Commanders and leaders * grandhappy killenoob08 Grisu BANN * LucidHowie Strength Around 50 Around 8 Casualties and losses 15 (5 by accident when preparing) 10 Other Casualties and losses Civilian deaths: 1 Total casualties: 26

The 1st Crusade up until 19th January when writing, has been the largest war in RoNations by size of soldiers and nations. There was only ever one battle which was the initial invasion of the Coral sea which resulted in a victory for the crusaders.

Prelude

The Coral Sea Islands (Full name: The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands' was a small nation set on the coral sea islands up north of the island of Australia. This nation was a majority lgbt populated state and even had the pride flag as its flag. This didn't set well with the existing nation states who worried that more like this could spring up and ruin the community of RoNations and force it to become more diverse friendly, so a crusade was launched by nearly every nation at the time.

Participants

Nations Who Joined

Here is a list of every country that joined and why.

Flag	Country Name	Why Did They Join
	Conservative State Of Balkan	The Conservative State Of Balkan joined for the main reason of keeping lgbt stuff out of the RoNations community and maintaining a status quo on the server, additionally the CSOB was conservative and thus fought against it.
	Cork	The Free State of Cork joined primarily as it thought a nation based on a sexuality was stupid and could lead to a lot of issues down the line, additionally Cork didn't want an extremely powerful coalition forming with a member of it being on its doorstep and so sought to join to increase diplomatic relations with other states.
	Texas	Texas joined as to expand conservative values and pump up its military.
	Celtic Union	The Celtic Union's declaration was "we join as we are ideologically opposed".
	Yorkshire	No reason apart from being ideologically similar to Cork and Celtic Union, also joined to strengthen relations with Celtic Union, Cork, Denmark, Switzerland and Netherlands.
	Rodonia	No reason apart from being ideologically similar to the CSOB, full declaration of war was "We will join this war as well".
	Denmark	No reason apart from being in the Shield Of Nations alliance with the Celtic Union
	Switzerland	Decleration: "A war against the G&L government began. Switzerland will not lose this war and it will not end in a draw. Reasons may not be given, all information about the beginning of the war is top secret and publication ends in execution or in a seven-figure fine."
	Thailand	Joined to help their ally Switzerland.
	Yugoslavia	No reason, full declaration: "We declare war on GLKCSL"
	Pomerania	No reason, full declaration: "We declare war on the GLKCSL."

Nations Who Didn't

One odd stand out nation wad the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom at the time was looking to expand its territory back to the days of the British Empire and so the coral sea islands would have been a good base for Asian colonisation however the UK chose to stay out for a few reasons, number one was it was more focused at home on on defending Northern Ireland and two it didn't want to be on the same side as the Celts, additionally their time was more stretched and so was unable to join the crusade. Britain did however not trade nor diplomatically recognise the Coral Sea islands.

Support for the Coral Sea Islands

The only nation to give diplomatic support to the Coral Sea was sealand.

The War

The coalition (except for rodonia, texas, switzerland) all sent troops to invade, the total invasion force was around 30-37 people, with the GLK only mustering 4 people. The invasion started on the 28th of May from a aircraft carrier. There was 2 initial invasion divisions and 3 invasion groups, the naval invasion and airborne invasion with additional air support from Cork mil-24 helicopters.