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John Peter Key and the foreign minister Aaron Scott were sent on the long flight to Aether flying economy class on Wizz Air. Other passengers barely noticed the understated politicians and their support teams.Over the flight they avoided discussing business. They put on good jumpers as the weather was far different from the Duchies at this point. On arrival they met the delegation.

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Remember the Tragedy
25/11/2005

Aetherian Civil war
After 5 years of war both sides were eyeing the capital Aetheria, the last remnants of the old government where there trying to still reunite the country.
Both radicalist sides of the war where preparing for a battle for the capital.
For over 2 months the city saw death, destruction and suffering but in 13/01/2006 the biggest catastrophe possible, happened.
The P.S.A. faction who fought against the remnants and the A.D.G managed to reactivate the old missile silos in the central regions and ordered a massive bombardment over the capital, 27 Cruise missiles hit the city, annihilating any resistance and destroying the city to a unimaginable point.
A city, home to over 1 million people destroyed… 100 thousand people died with the bombardment, the biggest ports in the city destroyed, building collapsed, airports totally lost, roads cracked.
After the destruction all became worst with the biggest ports and airports destroyed a great famine took over the country in the middle of the winter, Velkia although the second biggest city didn't have the capability to receive big amounts of humanitarian aid, while controlled by the A.D.G.
People suffered for more two years, battles over the farm fields happened, only to leave scorched land everywhere.
The Ex-capital to this day is abandoned, the last time of the civil war is remembered has the “O inferno na Terra" (Hell over Earth)
-Everything happened so fast... in a moment there were shots, explosions, screams... I was hiding in the basement of my house, when the first missile fell everything changed, the shots stopped, the screams stopped, the only thing that was possible heard was the deafening sound of explosions. I don't even know how long it lasted but it seemed like an eternity... after the bombing there was only silence, it felt like the world ended, after almost 3 hours I had the courage to leave the house and I felt that it was really the end of the world. A gray fog ravaged the city, everything around me was destroyed houses, buildings even the streets were destroyed. Looking for a way out of this hell I came across a square full of bodies, both civilians and soldiers, the soldiers who hadn't died couldn't stop screaming, begging to die... begging to get out of the hell they had just entered... at that moment I was sure that the p.s.a. I didn't believe in god but followed the devil... after leaving that mass grave I ran, I ran without stopping to my mother's house, looking for my daughters, but... we can take a break if you want.(Interviewer) No, let's continue the streets were deserted but I don't know why but I felt that something was wrong I felt the need to get to my mother's house as soon as possible, until I saw a column of smoke in the distance and I ran, I ran to my lungs started to burn, my legs weakened from so much fatigue but when I arrived.... my world was over, the house on fire with a single sign... "sinners deserve to burn" that day I lost two daughters and my mother. Today I have nothing.
-Testemony from José Carlos de Almeida 64 years old
Survivor of the tragedy of Aetheria
Remember.

-Photo taken from pilots from the A.D.G during the bombardment. 13/01/2006
Public Document made by the Department of Aetherian history and culture.