Kalistani Major History

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Republican Dispatches:  News from the Front
War Comes to Kalistan:  Indralans invade at Eveari
Ananto Fights Alone
Eveari, Ananto District
December 4, 3988


The remaining Kalistani regulars in port city of Eveari seeking cover as the firefight draws closer to their position

Outnumbered and beleaguered Kalistani Regulars are struggling to maintain control of the Anantanese port city of Eveari today as they are being mercilessly bombarded from both the sea and from the Indralan beachhead inside the city.  To date, Kalistan has lost between 500 and 750 patriotic defenders of the City, who struggled, in several pitched battles, to maintain control over the City's main port facilities and electrical generation and desalinization stations.  Ultimately, Kalistan was not successful in holding these sites, and they were decisively over run by Invading forces. 

Ahead of the fighting, the Governor of the District of Ananto, Socialist Franco King issued the evacuation order for Civilians in Eveari and Dulnerstaad, but the invasion and occupation occurred so quickly that most of the populations of these two cities ended up behind enemy lines before they could flee to the south.  The Government of Ananto extended the civilian order to Kaliburg, and seaworthy vessels are being prepared for the evacuate of up to 100,000 civilians from the capital at a moment's notice.

In addition to losing large parts of the city to the Indralan forces, Kalistan has also lost three freighters in the Naval Ship yards that were in conversion process for Naval service.  The ships were destroyed by incoming Indralan fire, and the half sunk hulks will remain in the Naval Ship yards until they are cleared.  Also lost at the facilities is a small stockpile of naval ordinance and supplies for Kalistani naval units.  But the loss of the port was more significant in that it cuts Ananto off from the mainland-  Eveari was Ananto's primary port facility, and was the only one which could handle modern super container ships.  Any supplies that arrive on the island now will need to come through Kaliburg, and then on smaller ships.  These will be more vulnerable to Indralan reprisals like their recent destruction of a KALNAPECO oil platform in the Odufar Sea.  The noose is fully tightened around the neck of Ananto, and supply being cut entirely off, the LAFA packs will no longer be able to accomplish much around the Island, and so have been ordered to move to a new theater of operations in the waters off the mainland.


Kalistani positions outside Dulnerstaad, where heavy fighting took the lives of 385 Kalistani Regulars in the last few weeks

It is unclear whether Regulars will be able to hold out in Eveari-  Large parts of the city have already been destroyed and the momentum of the Indralans is stunning, even to the defenders.  If Eveari falls, there will be little to stop the Indralans from flooding into the entire Bluegrass Valley, and if Dulnerstaad falls, there will be nothing to stop Indrala from targeting Kaliburg itself.  To this end, Kalistani regulars have been ordered to fall back to positions in the Blue Grass plain, supporting the defenders with artillery fire and providing a safe rallying point should the defenders be forced to evacuate. 

There is no telling how long the battle for the city will continue, but without an expectation of reinforcements, it may only be a matter of time before Indrala succeeds in occupying the entire town and plain, while Kalistan is forced to seek refuge in the Mountains.