SPOC Guidelines to War

The SPOC Guidelines to War is a series of documents, laws, and treaties that manage the prospects of war, expected to be followed by all factions and kingdoms of the known world. First introduced in 905 F.C., it was officially ratified the following year, and has gained rewrites and updates throughout the years since.

Summarized Outline
Throughout the years, these articles have been broken and kept by many different organizations and kingdoms throughout the continents. While many factors are in the matter, this has given a mixed feeling for all of its users, such as weapons that are longer ranged than the stated 25 mile international water zone.

Naval

 * 25 miles from the coastline is officially International waters

- Merchant ships, you can only confiscate war materials, not food and supplies for a civilian population - Civilian fishing/Civilian recreational vessels, this is obvious - Peacekeepers/Private Health vessels - Do not attack vessels that belong to a nation that has expressed "Neutrality" - If survivors are found, be good to them and rescue them from their potentially icy grave.
 * Do not attack the following vessels:

Army

 * Do not use chemical weapons on civilian populations.


 * If you are using aerial bombers and or artillery, focus on Military targets, such as Bases, Trenches, Munition depots, and the like.


 * Do not rape or torture non-combatants.


 * Do not kill POWs (Prisoners Of War)


 * Do not pillage (excessively)


 * Do not burn or destroy population centers, food suppliers, or medical buildings necessary for the civilian populous.


 * Help the injured on all sides of the conflict.

Aerial

 * Any space directly above a kingdom including a 25-mile radius around it is international air space.

- Merchant freighters, you can only confiscate war materials, not food and supplies for a civilian population - Civilian housing/Civilian recreational vessels, this is obvious - Peacekeepers/Private Health vessels
 * Do not attack the following vessels:


 * Do not attack ships that belong to a nation that has expressed "Neutrality"
 * Do not purposefully only damage ships so they may crash with a live crew.

Main Page: Soup Affair
After the invasion by the Dwarf Realms to the lands of Shadow Den and Ahnear Dens, occupied by Lycan, the dwarves occupied it and began building a variety of underground cities and dwarven focused land development. As this came to be, racism began to fill the air, especially after most of the able bodied Lycan had fled the lands during the invasion. Soon, the minority of the land was being rounded up, and covered up by dwarven media. However, after private investigators explored the dormant surface homes, they soon found uncovered military sponsored dwarves cannibalising on Lycan, cut up and cooked in stew.

After found out by the world, major state news organizations such as the Duskcreekburgh Global Security Corporation, Bretonnian Broadcasting Corporation and Strahlend Media Enterprise, reported the instance with disgust and outcry. The Dwarf Realms Media (formerly known as S.N.N.) hadn't responded to any accusations made by the media or international community during the time, and was lost to time.

Main Page: Human Souls Cleansing Method Event
The newly built cities of Floating Isles, Orkenta and Rentes, were soon targeted by Duskcreekburgh and affiliate Fire Nation forces. While Rentes had successfully defended itself from major sabotage, Orkenta was ablazed by Duskcreekburgh Scare Initiative troops. After a week, the land was invaded by a large fleet of ships, which forced the garrison to surrender the city. With the deal of military forces able to evacuate, the Duskcreekurgh army quickly rounded up populations in the urban environments, and began to categorize them into two categories of men and female & children. The city of Orkenta was a 92% human populated region, which was considered inferior to Duskcreekburgh culture and religion. Under the command of Lord Xulder, the dragon commanded an army of around 75,000 soldiers, and a multitude of vehicles and around 100 different aerial ships of different sizes, to commit war crimes against the populous, coining it "Human Souls Cleansing Methods Event." Seperated into time zones, the event had horrific casualties of around 6,000,000 civilian casualties, locked inside walls and fortifications constructed ahead of time. Besides murder, orders by low ranking officers were to brutally torture, rape, and mutilate bodies of humans.

This event was publicly released and told throughout the world by state runned news organization Duskcreekburgh Global Security Corporation, which praised and supported the actions by Duskcreekburgh troops. The global community was outraged by these actions, but did little to threaten the aggressor. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the last king of the Ice Elves, King Ziaron, may have watched from a booth with Lord Xulder at the destruction of Orkenta.

Strahlend Targeted Terrorism
Main Page: The Dark Winter Terrorism

During The Dark Winter, a small fleet of Strahlend cruisers were 25 miles off the coast from Tehigurt, claiming to be practicing freedom of navigation for trade ships. As tensions soured, the Ice Elves attacked the ships with dragons and archers, destroying the ships and declaring war on another power. Directly after this attack, the Kingdom of Tehigurt began to dig small tunnels networks (after going closer to the city), and directly dug up in the middle of the city of Strahlend. Afterwards, a couple dragons came from underneath, and attacked the civilian populous of the city, destroying miles of land and killing around 400,000 civilians. While the garrison fought, and successfully repelled the attack, the city remained in poor condition, and leaving a mark in the minds of Strahlend. Soon, racism became government backed towards elves and non-humans.

With Strahlend Media Enterprise reporting the events as soon as the destruction happened, multiple state funded news organizations began to praise and pray for the people of Strahlend, multiple kingdoms beginning to fund rebuilding efforts and alliancing. However, during the mass executions and deportation of elves, the average view of Strahlend lessened in supporting it.