Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/The Embry Civil War

Rage of the Bear
By (insert date), things had been going poorly for the Ursan Union, who were on the verge of defeat. Just as the Eagle Commonwealth seemed poised on the tip of victory, however, another power stepped into the fray. That power was the Voshkod, already a long time supporter of the Union cause, which they had secretly planted in the first place. Now, it intervened directly, under the pretext of liberating the Islanders from the EC.

With the Aquilans also busy dealing with a Voshkod invasion of their own, only the EC forces stood in the way of the massive Voshkod Army when they launched the mammoth Capital Strategic Offensive Operation. Voshkod forces streamed across the seas in huge numbers, in a massive charge that aimed to overwhelm and destroy the Commonwealth forces in Shady Sands, sweeping in from east and west and overwhelming any Commonwealth presence in a brutal and swift campaign lasting a few weeks against poorly led and poorly equipped forces. In short order, Shady Sands was under Soviet control, and a valuable breathing space had been bought for the Union forces.

The Voshkod were far from done. As the rest of the Voshkod forces swept across the rest of the archipelagos, engaging EC forces in battle where Kimball’s army of barely trained conscripts was comprehensively defeated in lopsided engagements, and securing large swathes of territory. The besieged Commonwealth were beaten back by the combined Voshkod and Union forces, many of its divisions destroyed or forced to surrender. The tide had been turned against them, with the Voshkod forces securing territory for the Union, who themselves increasingly grew in strength, even as the Commonwealth struggled with the onslaught of the Voshkod forces.

Relief for the Commonwealth finally came in (insert date). On the orders of (insert character), the Voshkod forces withdrew in order to reinforce the beleaguered Voshkod forces in the Aquilan theatre, leaving the Union and Commonwealth to fight it out amongst themselves. The Commonwealth had managed somehow hold off the combined Union and Voshkod onslaught, primarily due to the difficulty of advancing in a archipelagos with such poor infrastructure but such large seas; which did more to slow down the Union advance than the Commonwealth ever did, but at considerable cost. The Voshkod had given time for the Union to consolidate their gains, and now the balance of power had shifted.