The Kodiak Commune

This article is a timeline of the events surrounding and during the Rebellion.

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• November 19 - Daniel Anderson, leader of the Kodiak Social Alliance, is poisoned in the KSA party room in Rykkburgh
• November 22 - Strikers in the southern provinces shut down key infrastructure such as the postal service, energy and the railroads. They demand more workers rights.
• November 25 -

• The strike in Skjokalade escalates with the strikers aligned with the 'People's Vanguard' destroying a gas power plant, plunging the province into a blackout. A post office in the province was also destroyed.
• President Kryos meets with striker leaders to negotiate an end to the strike. He was subjected to a failed assassination with his car was blown up, leaving his driver dead. Kryos was left with severe burns and extensive trauma. He also went into a coma.

• November 27 -

• Chancellor Edmund Maltravers orders in the army and police to stop the strike.
• Kodiak Commune is proclaimed as the 'People's Vanguard' takes regional centres.
• Right wing politician Everett Grey, MGA proclaims the National Militia, a private army, to combat the Commune.
• Everett Grey shoots himself in response to the General Assembly motioning to impeach him.

• November 28 - Acting Defence Minister Bill Simmons orders the army and police into Commune gains in Karputska.
• December 11 - Chancellor Edmund Maltravers orders a 6am to 6pm curfew for MGAs and civil servants.
• December 18 -

• Chancellor Maltravers orders a national curfew from 6:50pm to 7:30am.
• Chancellor Maltravers declares a state of war against the Commune.

• December 28 - Kodiak Commune gains considerable ground in Skjokalade, and capture various military hardware.

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• January 14

• Former Kodiak Chancellor Partick Barber defects to the Kodiak Commune and assumes the role of Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
• Commune forces attempt an assault on Kavergrith province. The Kodiak Army pushes back and relcaims the village of Mollyrood.

• February 16

• Chancellor Edmund Maltravers introduces The National Defense Authorization Act Amendment to the General Assembly.
• Kodiak Commune fast cruisers attack naval forces off the coast of Skjokalade. The Kodiak Navy loses two destroyers, the KNS Valiant and the KNS Guardian. The Heavy Cruiser KNS Godsith suffers heavy damage. 23 sailors died in the battle.

• March 1 - President Kryos exits his coma sustained in an attempted assassination on him.
• March 3 - Crystal City comes under siege by Commune forces, with them pushing into the city centre.
• March 12 - The General Assembly Declaration of War Against the Kodiak Commune (663)
• April 8 - The leaders of Kodiak and the Commune enter into a three day ceasefire to aid in the evacuation of civilians and government forces from Crystal City.
• April 27 - The Resolution to Investigate Foreign Assistance to Internal Dissenters, (664) is introduced to the General Assembly
• May 1 - Chancellor Maltravers orders the removal of troops from Skjokalade
• June 7 - The Kodiak Commune captures Skjokalade
• June 11 - The Kodiak Commune form the People's Council, a legislature made of delegates from Skjokalade. They also nationalise industry in Skjokalade.
• June 30 - The Government of the United Kingdom declares its support for Kodiak.
• July 4 - The Empire of the Walbard Union declares its support for Kodiak.
• July 7 -

• The Kodiak Army attempts an assault on Commune territory. The assault resulted in minimal changes and heavy casualties.
• Workers' International threatens to remove The Kodiak Worker's Party from the organization citing 'revisionist and anti-socialist rhetoric'.

• July 29 - The Ministry of Defence reassigns the army high command. The KWP accuses the government of political bias in the reassignments as the two officers reassigned were KWP supporters.
• August 3 - Major General Trenton Hayes, of the 1st Training Division, resigns his position as he claims his reassignment was the government engaging in political manoeuvring.
• August 4 - Recently dismissed Brigadier General Alistair Crane defects to the Kodiak Commune alongside around two battalions.
• August 19 - Chancellor Maltravers places Deputy Chancellor Bill Simmons in control due to OOC reasons.
• September 10 - Minister for Social Services Urisko Searls disappears under suspicious circumstances.
• October 6 - The Kodiak Army under Field Marshall Falkenridge recapture the village of Mollyrood. Patrick Barber, leader of the Commune, is captured in this assault. He is found severely beaten.
• October 10 - Bernard Glocke, MGA nominates Field Marshal Falkenridge for the Guelderlaand Award for the capture of Patrick Barber. It is passed 10:4 in the General Assembly on November 19.
• October 14 - Minister for Industry Edmund Marwood is removed from the Assembly Chambers by the President. This was seen as silencing the opposition by the NUP, whilst the KWP defended the actions of President Kryos.
• November 6 - The General Assembly confirms Alexander Paramount, MGA as Minister for Social Services.
• November 13 -

• The Kodiak Army advances on Crystal City, with both sides sustaining heavy casualties.
• A pro-Commune uprising occurs in Astroberg, but is supressed by local law enforcement. Five rioters die in the police response
• Patrick Barber is arraigned on charges of treason. The KWP protests Barber's poor treatment in remand.

• December 2 - Deputy Chancellor Bill Simmons introduces the Amendment to The Policing Act, 645, a bill to increase the funding of the State Bureau of Investigations. It was passed 6:5 on May 25, 665.
• December 5 - A report by James David, a senior fellow at the University of Sadore, links younger male supporters the KWP and KSA to supporting the Commune.
• December 11 - A terrorist attempts to take the life an NUP MGA by setting off an explosion outside the members' offices in the General Assembly. Two security personnel were injured.

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• January 1 - John Edwards, MGA proposed an investigation into civilian deaths in the Astroburg Uprising. It was passed 10:6 in the General Assembly on June 2.
• January 3 - The Kodiak Army alongside troops United Empire of Walbard, regain control of Crystal City. The Commune government hastily evacuated the city. In the retreat, Commune forces sabotaged key infrastructure such as the airport and seaport as well as placing traps.
• 17 July - Commune supporters attack and seize the Graz Convention Hall, at the time hosting a National Unity Party campaign drive. The initial attack cost the lives of six and wounded twelve. Some attribute the attack as a retribution for the capture of Patrick Barber. Other protestors gathered in the city square.
• 18 July - Additional police were called in to defend the Seathenia Provincial Courthouse from the protestors
• 19 July - The Commune supporters in the Convention Hall. (WIP) The following are confirmed dead: Edmund Marwood, Minister for Industry and member for Pine Ridge, Peter Ashford member for Graz-Central, Charles Reddington III, Member for Beauclarke, Eleanor Hargreave-Smythe, Member for Budd, Reginald Fortesque, Member for Grey, Beatrice Winterbourne, Member for Grey-South, and Arthur Ravenscroft, Member for Staro.