Great Serrataran War

The Great Serican War or the Third Great War, often abbreviated as the Serican War or GW3 respectively, was a that lasted from 1944 to 1947. It involved a sizable majority of contemporary great powers, who largely coalesced into two alliances which respectively backed the primary belligerents of Phoenicia and Arsytia, the war primarily taking place on their mutual borders on the continent of Serica.

The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the of population centers and the military deployment of a total of nine atomic bombs.

Debatably, the Great Serican War was the deadliest conflict in history, totaling nearly XX million deaths on both sides, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to atomic bombings,, (including the Purification Program), and.

The commonly accepted cause of the Great Serican War is the Phoenician invasion of Arsytia on 1 May 1944, stemming from rising tensions between Phoenicia and Arsytia as well as border skirmishes between both countries. EXPAND HERE

Prompted by an inconclusive stalemate by the last year of the war, the Great Serican War was concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Gamtoi on 21 September 1947, the capital of the neutral Goldlands, by both belligerent sides. The agreement would end the war by , seeing the retainment of wartime borders between Phoenicia and Arsytia and the establishment of the Serican Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Hostilities continued until October, ending as the military forces of both sides finally withdrew behind their respective DMZ boundaries.

The Great Serican War changed the geopolitical landscape and social structure of the globe. Arsytia and its allies formed the Tavaric Treaty Organization soon after the conflict as a military deterrent against future conflict with Phoenicia. Phoenicia underwent a political transformation that would see the unification of its constituent statelets in 1960 into a single unitary nation. Barenia and Phoenicia emerged from the conflict as rival, setting the stage for the Cold War still ongoing in the modern day. Coupled with the devastation of the Great Hatarian War just a few years prior, the influence of Hatar's colonial powers waned further, triggering the decolonization of Hatarian imperial holdings primarily in Capricornia and Ozara.