Presidency of ViolentVampire
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ViolentVampire's tenure as the 2nd president of Cascadia began with his inauguration on September 17, 2022. Vamp, the Mayor of Neah Bay who previously served as treasurer under President SayerQT, took office following his landslide victory in the September presidential election over Neah Bay city councillor PavTheYT. Vamp entered office amid growth and economic development, as well as good relations with most of Cascadia's neighbors, however with mild instability in New Mexico and the USA, of which Cascadia was constituent. A month later in October, he was re-elected president against San Diego mayor PesosInhaler with nearly 90% of the vote, following major successes as President.
Within hours of Vamp taking office then Oregon King Wdym___ messaged Vamp demanding that Cascadia kick the town of Yakima. Vamp refused but offered generous territorial concessions in exchange for Cascadia keeping Yakima. Wdym rejected this offer, a move that would have major impacts on the region. With Oregon’s aggressive posturing over Yakima, Vamp moved to improve Cascadia’s defensive position by signing various non-aggression pacts, joining the Pacific Coast Alliance, and attempting to reform both the New Mexican Empire and the United States of America. Vamp, Arathorn, and xBest’s attempted at reforming the New Mexican Empire into a new union built on an equal partnership between Cascadia and New Mexico. The then Emperor of New Mexico, PrimeCyber was initially receptive to the idea but during the negotiations she removed all Cascadian citizens from New Mexico’s government including Grand Councilor Arathorn52 who had been elected in a landslide. This blatant disregard for democracy and New Mexico’s own constitution forced Cascadia to declare independence from New Mexico on September 29th 2022. Meanwhile the Oregon government had continued to demand that the town of Yakima be kicked from Cascadia while repeatedly refusing all offers for negotiation from Cascadia. In an attempt to isolate Cascadia from its neighbor Alberta, Oregon's king took some of his dms with Vamp out of context to make it appear that Cascadia was planning an attack on Alberta. Vamp was quick to counter these claims showing the context of the messages to Alberta which revealed that it had been Oregon who had tried to convince Cascadia to work with them to surround Abbotsford, an offer which Vamp strongly refused. Wdym would eventually grow frustrated with Cascadia’s refusal to kick the town, declaring war on Cascadia on October 7th 2022. Upon learning of Oregon’s declaration of war Vamp quickly started planning a response. His first actions were to call up Cascadia’s allies to help them in the conflict and to open talks with Oceanside to see if they would be open to staying neutral. Over the next few hours Vamp and his cabinet would lay the groundwork for a prolonged war effort, creating and beginning to train a national guard, stockpiling armor and weapons in an armory, coordinating with allied militaries and forging a new alliance with the Holy Empire of Rus. Four hours into the war Oceanside approached Cascadia with an offer to join Cascadia provided they got 96 gold to help with claims and protection from Oregon Vamp quickly agreed to these terms. Around the same time Bon_Kranch offered to sell Washington to Cascadia for 2,300 gold, an offer which Vamp also accepted. Facing fierce opposition from Cascadia and her allies as well as domestic pushback, Wdym___ asked Vamp for peace just 6 hours after declaring war. Vamp agreed to peace provided that Oregon made some concessions. Those initial peace talks would eventually become the Treaty of Oceanside. Following a swift victory over Oregon the remainder of Vamp's first term would be focused on incorporating the newly won territory into Cascadia and dealing with an increase in dynmap hunters.