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 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) 0 Other Casualties and losses Civilian deaths: 1 Total casualties: 51

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.

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.