Invasion of Katoomba

The Invasion of Katoomba was a large scale collation invasion of the Australian town of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region. The invasion was headed by the Badu Park Municipal Government, the Republic of Xahastan, the Empire of Douglas Grant Park and a collation of smaller micronations and groups. The invasion is regarded as the largest use of force by any micronations in Australia. The conflict became so intense that the Australian Defence Forces were deployed to stop the invasion.

Background

The root cause of the invasion of Katoomba, stems from Japitty himself. Japitty Cumquat was born in Katoomba, in 1974. A year after he was born he, according to his parents 'fell down' while trying to take his first steps, causing a young Cumquat to graze his knee. This single event is quoted as the single reason Japitty Cumquat has a detest for the town of Katoomba. Even after his parents moved down to Sydney, he still was known to hate Katoomba. Even someone just saying the word Katoomba triggered a fit of anger in Japitty. The distaste of Katoomba can be seen throughout his music with lines in songs like Add Adult to Injury (A Love Song to My Dearest Allan) and Katoomba such as: "Katoomba is the worst", "Katoomba, it's just the worst" and "I hate Katoomba". Moving forward to the Invasion of Sydney Park, soon after defeating the United Colonies and dividing their territory, Japitty and the rest of the inner west micronations became "hungry for war" and began to look for new 'targets'. Japitty Cumquat then suggested the town of Katoomba as a target.

History

Planning

Japitty Cumquat suggested the town of Katoomba as a target. Many of the other micronational leaders rejected the proposal citing: "thats impossible". This sent Japitty Cumquat into a fit of rage where he began to start screeching and breaking things. After this outburst most of the micronations agreed, reluctantly to Japitty's plan. Japitty then stated his plan: The forces of all the micronations, Johnston's Creek Liberation Army and all members of the Japittyist religion would combine to create a 'super army' to 'overpower' the Katoomba Police and capture the town. The micronations somehow agreed to this plan. Japitty also suggested that the force use recently captured council trucks and equipment seized from fleeing federal police in the invasion of Sydney Park to bolster the force. The forces began to assemble. After assembly the forces began to pool there military equipment which lead the combine forces being equipped with over: 500 AK-47s, 250 Heckler & Koch G36 5.56mms (captured from Australian Federal Police), 110 M16s, 26 M60 machine guns, 67 RPGs, 6 T-55 tanks, a MiG-23, an Il-28 bomber and one Russian 36 Pounder Gun, plus a nine kilograms of Semtex and and a barrel of blasting jelly (stolen from demolition depot). Japitty then assumed command of the force and dubbed it the: "Royal Municipal Federal Democratic Socialist Japittist Task Strike Force against Katoomba.com" (RMFDSJTSFK.C).

First landing at Katoomba

On the 4th of June 2022 at 6:30 in the morning the RMFDSJTSFK.C set off from the inner west of Sydney on the A32 highway causing a major traffic jam behind them. The forces were headed by a contingent of T-55 tanks and a slew of stolen and captured vehicles ranging from stolen pedal bikes to hijacked buses and stolen garbage trucks. Following behind this column of vehicles were members of Japittyist religion who had detoured from Festivalo Number Blue to 'follow the lord, Japitty the Unwilling'. It was reported that out of the 30 participants Festivalo Number Blue, 28 were killed by oncoming traffic, one was shot under orders of Japitty Cumquat 'for the lols' with the final member actually making it to Katoomba but dying in combat against members of the ADF. The force arrived at Katoomba 10:48 (they arrived at Katoomba so late because Japitty Cumquat demanded to stop at Valley Heights Rail Museum and the Loyds IGA Springwood to 'stock up'). As soon as they got to Katoomba Japitty's forces began to shell the area causing major damage to the town, with almost the entire civilian population of Katoomba fleeing during the shelling. The only people remaining in Katoomba were members of the Katoomba Police and a slew of elderly Vietnam veterans who 'swore to protect Australia against the commie bastards'.

The RMFDSJTSFK.C was slow to move into the town, giving the Katoomba Police time to create a defensive line to stop the invasion force. The RMFDSJTSFK.C soon commenced the actual invasion by sending a line of T-55 tanks accompanied by foot soldiers from Badu Park, led by Testicle Garcia. In theory the heavily armed contingent should have easily broken the improvised defensive line of the Katoomba Police, but due to a horrific command blunder on part of Testicle Garcia, who demanded all tankers charge on foot using "melee weapons" (their fists), the force suffered heavy casualties and was unable to break the defensive line. After learning that the defensive line was not broken, Japitty Cumquat ordered the execution of Garcia on site. This order caused Testicle Garcia to 'defect' from the RMFDSJTSFK.C (handing himself into the police). This further enraged Cumquat, causing him to verbally berate the surviving members of the contingent. Soon after the failed attempt to break the defensive line, the Katoomba Police chief phoned the commissioner of the NSW police requesting 'lots of backup'. The NSW Police, after realising the dire situation in Katoomba, contacted Federal Police who sent a large convoy of vans and helicopters, containing over 100 federal policemen to 'stop the violence and arrest the parties involved'. Soon after realising that the AFP were sending re-enforcements, Japitty Cumquat order that all his forces (including aerial units) charge the defensive line to 'overwhelm them'. This strategy proved incredibly effective with defensive line being broken, Katoomba Police suffering mass casualties and Testicle Garcia being captured.

Advance to Katoomba City Centre

After breaking the defensive line the RMFDSJTSFK.C quickly moved to the city centre, encountering little resistance from the local business owners who chose to stay in there businesses despite the abhorrent danger of doing so. Japitty Cumquat soon declared Katoomba to be 'disestablished' and renaming the town "Cumquatvilé City". Japitty soon instructed the remaining citizens to have a 'democratic vote' on whether they wanted Japitty as the Mayor. Japitty Cumquat received 99% of the votes (by forcing the residents at gunpoint to vote for him) .