Alsakan Crisis

The Alsakan Crisis was domestic crisis when a the core world of Alsakan experience serve domestic. It was the most serious period of domestic unrest in the core in the first decade of the tenth century after reformation. The crisis over lapped with several other crisis, and contributed to the intense tensions of the early period.

Background
Following the Alsakan Gang Crisis, and the Glittersim Crisis the situation on Alsakan was very much in flux. Gains by Union back politician rapid made significant gains in the government. The main effort of the Unionists was shift a significant portion of investment and saving wealth away from major banks, toward community credit unions. However, the Unionists government was riddled with scandal and quickly fell.

Early Crisis
With the installation of the Labour Government it looked as if stability was set to return to Alsakan. That was not to be case. Within months a series of major events rocked the government. A number of government politicians were arrested on trumped up charges with questionable evidence, while members of the newly formed federal police, Metropolitan Police Research and Technology Division, revealed that had been offered bribes by criminal elements. This was immediately followed by attacks on a number of federal police officers by criminal elements, including an effort to assassinate its leader. With local police seemingly corrupt and the federal police under siege, law and order broke down in the lower city, resulting in a state of anarchy.

The government was able to act to contain the local crisis using the planetary military and with support from the grass root union organizations. The planetary government on Alsakan struggled to pass a series of reforms to head off a renewal of the crisis. Banking reform continued to be pushed through to support the Alsakan credit unions, while investment in living space and other infrastructure was pushed forward.

Concern began grow, however, as it seemed that trade unions, and Syndicialist style guilds began to exercise increasing control on the planetary government. This contributed to a reactionary conservative movement in the middle and upper class, distressed that the lower city was gaining power through perpetual crisis. Increase dissonance lead to a renewed feeling of crisis, as various players became increasingly worried about the outlook of the planet.

Deepening Crisis
Continuing efforts by the Labour government to address issues met with mixed success; tensions with the IGBC persisted and a catastrophe was only precluded by Republic support. Efforts to get industries to remain on Alsakan proved successful but controversal, the same can be said of the governement's effort to tackle unemployment. Housing reform was far an away the must successful reform undertaken. In retrospect the government was criticized for not attacking the fundamental causes of the crisis, however, at the time it the government seemed to be addressing a broad spectrum of issue.

Indeed it is possible that, but for external influences, the crisis might have faded into history. The Strug Pathogen Crisis came to Alsakan when on a ship that broke quarantine from Thyferra and headed to nearby Alderran. Several individuals were infected on Alderran and former Alderrani Intelligence Officer, turned whistle blower, Deraund Trevin fled the system and went into hiding on Alsakan. Metropolitan police took custody of Mr. Trevin after he surrendered himself, however, tension between the Metropolitan police and Republic Marshals escalated when Mr. Trevin was abducted and murdered.

Fighting
What followed was a period of intense violence. The search for the murders of Deraund Trevin resulted in escalating conflict with criminal elements on Alsakan, who began to operate as if under central control. High fighting broke out between police forces and criminals. The confusion was furthered by an in house investigation into the corruption of the Metropolitan police, which resulted in several arrests of senior leaders. Republic agencies began to arrive to reduce the stress on Alsakan police and military assets. Republic Marshals took custody of individuals relating to the murder of Deraund Trevin, while an Republic Self Defense Force Task Force arrived to provide protection.

It was beneficial that Republic assets arrived, because the crisis continued to worsen. Hundreds of individuals arrested in the course of security operations were released in a massive prison break, seeming demonstrative the corruption of the Alsakan security forced. Faced with this the Alsakan government increasingly turned to the military, freed by the presence of the Republic task force, as an answer to the crisis. This lead to the escalation of fighting. Many criminal elements began to carry military grade weapons and the fighting took on the character of an urban insurgency. Ideologically the conflict seemed to take on many elements of a revolutionary rhetoric, however, the fundamental character of the crisis never fully assumed that kind of character. Reasons for this can be variably given but it seems perhaps the most critical one is that the conflict, especially in its later stages, was driven and perpetuated by the criminal elements of the Alsakan lower-city, without foreign help. The presence of military grade weapons, and organized nature of their activities belies a true grassroots revolution.

The conflict's insurgent character increased with the criminal faction conducted terror attacks on the homes of government leaders, and police officials. The intense pressures of the crisis began to breed fantastics on both ends of the spectrum, and personal vendettas and grudges began to harded in enduring hatred. Fighting increased in intensity, with Alsakan Marine being employed and running into well armed and organized resistence, resulting in heavy casualities, but incremental progress. The organized crime backed, military group, 'Black October' launched a serious of ultra-violent attacks, targeting government officials, there families, and other 'spft targets. The Alsakan government responded with an increasingly militant approach, ultimately using military aircraft in a close air-support role, they dropped military grade ordinance on sites held by the Black October and other insurgent groups. However, the Alsakan government also brought in additional civilian support, in the form of Corellian Security, to help handle the more moderate elements. This combine approach proved successful, as it destroyed the military power of the insurgency, and began to win back the civilian population, who were becoming unhappy with the high level of violence.

Rather rapidly the criminal insurgency collapsed. Following the destruction of Black October, it seems that the coordinating forces leading the insurgency seemingly vanished overnight. This resulted in infighting between various criminal factions. This combined with the success of Alsakan government final brought the crisis to an end.

Aftermath and Legacy
The Alsakan Crisis was contemporary with several other crisis in the early tenth century. It was a defining crisis for Alsakan and resulted in a period of reform.