The last big military throw-down in Litanaea. Ended. Mm, call it between forty and sixty years ago. Vetrans are still arround, but they're old men who were fresh faced lads int heir twenties when the treaties were signed.

Bits and pieces of it are known as the Annexation War, the Afrene War, the War of Milnese Agression, The Land War, etc, etc.

The very short version is that both Miln and Afrene used to have Empirical ambitions, and duked it out on and off for a century or so, before finally having the mother of all throwdowns when Miln landed a large ground invasion force on Afrene proper. Stuff happened, and the war dragged on for the unimagineable length of six years, most of which was spent in a resource sink of a stalemate.

Still trying to decide if the entire Magna Carta/ Constitution issue in Afrene happens before or after the invasion - I can see arguments for both, and it's mostly a flavour issue.

Irregardless, the war eventually ended in Treaty as both sides realized that it was both a massive resource sink, and distracting them from other issues - In Afrene's case, impending peasant revolt, and Suminthur being Suminthur on Miln's end. And so both sides put down their signatures, and slunk off to lick their wounds.

Since Then, Miln's been...fairly quiet on the Empire building front, having prefered to consolidate what it had, and start rebuilding it's navy and army. And in the last two or three years, they've just gotten their act together enough to impliment the trade blocade on Sarantica. Afrene...Afrene's just puttering along, paying off the last of it's war debt, and making polite political noises about maybe possibly getting it's territory back please.

Note: This war, in the general, set all the pieces in place for the Litanaean industrial revolution to finally get really rolling. The treaty between the two super powers left both of them no longer pouring resources into their militaries at quite the same rate, freeing up money and people to start seriously thinking about those interesting toys that had been coming out of Cho and Thevia. The end of Afrennen hostilities opened up proper trade negotiations with Thevia, who's new farming innovations meant that, even with their war-depleated population, Afrennen suddenly had a surfit of workers. Etc.