First Californian War

The First Californian War was a war between the Angels Republic and the Nevada Republic, the Shoshone tribes, and the Locatelli family of Vegas. It lasted from 1994 to 2001.

In 1975, the California and Nevada Trade Agreement (CANTA) was founded. By 1979, its members included Sacramento, the Cisco Republic, the Nevada Republic, the Versago Republic, the Tilden Republic, Riverland, San Diego, the Cascadian settlements, and the Angels Republic. The organization was short-lived though. In 1981, the Angels Republic, the most powerful member in CANTA, created the Californian Unification Treaty. The so-called treaty proposed that all members of CANTA unite into one country. Tilden, San Diego, Versago, and Riverland all agreed, but the rest refused. Shortly after losing half their members, southern California was united, CANTA was dissolved, and Sacramento was in chaos. Cisco and Nevada declared war on each other in 1983, as the two raced to take control of Sacramento.

The election of Michael Calvert in the Angels Republic was a surprise to many in northern California. Calvert's rhetoric towards his northern neighbors was less than friendly, and he campaigned on the promise of glory for the republic, and hoping to conquer the rest of California. Cisco General Brian Salazar and Nevada General Andrew Baxter launched simultaneous coup d'etats against their presidents, Adam Paulson and Gabriel Jones respectively. They signed the Maverick Treaty, which considered the war a stalemate and founded the Maverick Pact. The Maverick Pact divided up the region they called Maverick (the area around Sacramento) between the two nations. It stated that they would govern themselves and their respective territory in Maverick independently, but that they could move troops and trade freely between each others' territory.

The Maverick Pact lasted an even shorter time than CANTA, as many in Cisco were dissatisfied with the Maverick Treaty. They believed they got the short end of the deal. General Salazar believed he would be a national hero when returning to Cisco, but people hated him. Around this time, support for the Angels Republic in Cisco had grown. Many wanted to join as a new state. In 1994, Salazar was assassinated and a national referendum to join the Angels Republic was passed. The Angels Republic accepted them, but the Nevada Republic said that, since they were no longer a member of the Maverick Pact, their territory in Maverick was no longer theirs. Cisco and the Angels Republic challenged these claims.

Later that year, Nevada sent troops into Cisco's part of Maverick, sparking the war. In 1995, the Shoshone tribe joined the war to help combat Angels Republic aggression. In 1998, the Locatelli family was caught selling weapons to Nevada, so the Angels Republic attacked them at their heart in Vegas.

In 2001, the war ended with Angels Republic victory. Nevada, the Shoshone, and the Locatelli family were extremely weakened and Cisco soon became a new state in the republic.