NPD

The National Protectors of Doggerland (NPD) (Doggish: Nasjonte Beskermers fan Dogslân, NBD) is a paramilitary force active in Doggerland since the early 20th century. Since its inception, the organization has remained dedicated to preserving Dogger culture, language, and Catholicism in Doggerland. In addition, the party has varying support for kicking out Dutch influence and peoples, tightening Dogger immigration, and banning Calvinism.

The King Era
The organization was founded in 1923 by Padean VeGiobain, Rob Veharrais, and Tòmas Dunaid (known as the Three Kings) who had served alongside one another in the French Foreign Legion. The men, who had been radicalized by watching their culture and language slowly die out, originally took part in acts of civil disobedience such as a 9-day hunger strike outside of a Calvinist church in Port Nandels and a 100-man protest against Dutch-speakers in Lijke Oere.

On January 9th, 1926, after 3 years of protest, Tòmas Dunaid alongside 6 other NPD members burned down a Dutch-Calvinist church in Mistlân. This would result in the national government stationing police in Doggish villages to try to discover the perpetrators. Feeling oppressed, the traditional Doggers started to develop an anti-government sentiment, and some young Doggish men rushed off to join the NPD. Because of this NPD militiamen led by Tòmas Dunaid and Rob VeBharrais would initiate violent attacks on the police and government officials, much to the dismay of Padean VeGiobain. All of this resulted in the beginning of The Terror Years where the NPD under the Three Kings leadership would lead a devastating and violent 9-year campaign against the Dutch and Calvinist church.

On April 7th, 1931, Rob VeBharrais and a squadron of the NPD found themselves surrounded in the city of Port Nandles during a raid. The group sought cover in a brick office building, taking the workers hostage. The police raided the building at 7:30 PM resulting in initial heavy casualties, yet the police pushed onward. All 17 NPD militiamen died, including Rob VeBharrais and 13 police officers died.

With Rob VeBharrais dead the leadership of the NPD fell down to Tòmas Dunaid and Padean MocGiobain both of which were ideologically opposed. Padean VeGiobain desired to restore Doggish culture, language, and the Catholic faith in a primarily peaceful way while Tòmas Dunaid wanted to eradicate the Dutch and English from Doggerland and bathe Dogger soil in blood. VeGiobain, forced into violence, tended to be more reserved and target mostly Dogger police and military while King Dunaid's forces held nothing back burning down businesses, shooting innocents in the streets, and assassinating low-level politicians. In 1934, Tòmas Dunaid and his forces clashed with police in the city of Pokovo shortly after the Great Pagan Strike during this clash Dunaid was shot multiple times in the chest and killed.

By late 1934 Padean VeGiobain remained the only central leader in the NPD and under his command, most NPD militiamen would be moved to the mountains in the north where they would take over small villages and clash with the Dogger military. This was a relatively peaceful time compared to the last three years, but even then, churches were burned, women in villages ran by the NPD were raped, and some cities laid in rubble.

In the spring of 1935, the Doggish police ambushed VeGiobain and some of his forces while they were moving through the mountains. VeGiobain told his men to stand down and peacefully surrendered, not willing to let more Doggers die. On October, 5th, VeGiobain was found to have committed suicide in his cell but conspiracy theories still exist about his death.

Leaderless, the NPD faded into irrelevance with the only news coming from them being the occasional terrorist attack from the 1940s-1960s.

The Long Penance Era (1966-1982)
The Long Penance is the name of the second era of the NPD. The origin of the name comes from the Christian tradition of Penance which means to repent your sins. The first published use of the Long Penance in reference to the rapid spike in NPD terrorist attacks came from former NPD militiamen turned Catholic priest, Pàra VeRoibeirt while writing the Catholic's Declaration in 1974. The Long Penance happened over the course of 16-years and is one of the most violent conflicts in Doggerland history.

The Penance Era NPD was different from the King Era NPD in that it was a coalition of libertarians, Catholics, neo-pagans, and liberal conservatives all united by their common ancestral roots and shared hatred of the Calvinists and Dutch. The Penance NPD was a loose coalition of ideological branches united via common ancestral routes and goals, in addition, unlike the King Era NPD, the Penance NPD used a multitude of untraditional warfare tactics such as chemical warfare and the use of child soldiers.

The four main branches of the Penance were lead by Peigi VeCathachaidh a libertarian and separatist, Ciaran Mocileanach a liberal republican, Utse Witteveen an anarcho-communist and Sworick religious leader, and Alof VeCinnéide a Catholic religious leader.

The renaissance of the NPD started in Port Nandles where the city council gave a deadline to the Holy Angels Catholic Church to completely renovate the 200-year old building after designating it a safety hazard. On September 23rd, 1966, Reverend Alof VeCinnéide lead 150 Doggers from the church to city hall in protest of the designation. The march was met by heavily armed police officers and Dutch counter-protestors. At 6 PM after two hours of increasing tension, a petrol bomb was thrown into the crowd of Doggers resulting in violent clashes between police, Dutch counter-protestors, and Dogger protestors. Alof VeCinnéide alongside 20 other people were arrested. As a result of this, further protests from the Doggish community were planned in both Port Nandels and in other cities to voice their discontent with the government and Dutch. Eventually, the protesting lead to rioting, and some organizers took up the mantle of the NPD once again. On December 24th, rioters in Mistlân pulled out concealed arms and opened fire on police and counter-protesters killing 13 Calvinists and 3 police officers, as a result, the Dogger government deployed 7,000 soldiers to various cities to quell the riots and Prime Minister Jeroen Kost stated that police could take 'whatever means necessary' to stop the wave of instability that rocked the nation.

The 1970s & Increase in Violence
By 1970 an estimated 1,000 people had died from the conflict in Doggerland which was quickly heating up. The NPD had started to use suicide bombers in 1970 and in 1971 began using armored technicals to power through lines established by the Dogger military. As a result, Jeroen Krost authorized the use of tanks against the NPD and established a 6 PM curfew with a shoot-on-sight order for anyone seen violating the law; this resulted in the further radicalization of Dogger citizens.

On June 15th, 1971, the NPD led an assault on Carlé Abbey Prison to rescue arrested Catholic protestors including Reverend Alof VeCinnéide. During the assault 13 NPD militiamen were killed, 32 out of the 50 guards were murdered and all 130 prisoners were released including the aforementioned VeCinnéide. As a result of the attack, Prime Minister Krost signed the 'Dogger Safety Act' which would create military checkpoints along Dogger roads and authorize the building of work camps for suspected NPD sympathizers and militiamen.

On June 28th, 1971, while giving a speech to soldiers in Fort Åleselle Prime Minister Krost was shot multiple times in the chest by NPD-sympathizer, Private VeAnndrais, who was then promptly killed by the surrounding soldiers. According to VeAnndrais's diary, the Dogger Safety Act was the final straw to break the camels back, and when he heard that the Prime Minister would be visiting he knew it was his only shot to make his people proud. Later that evening, almost all Sworicks and other culturally Dogger soldiers in Fort Åleselle would defect to the NPD.

As a result of lacking military presence in the area, more weapons and ammunition, and trained officials, and a sympathetic populace almost half of Fort Åleselle would become 'liberated' by the NPD including the local news station. Starting on August 17th, 1972, the NPD started to take advantage of the station and began to broadcast propaganda over the airwaves and routine executions of Dogger military personal. As a result of these victories, the tide seemed to shift more and more to the NPD's favor and some started to accept that a new, Dogger-centered, government may be slowly forming.

On July 19th, 1973, a group of NPD followers in Nandels Port raided a gay bar and harassed the patrons as well as some LGBTQ+ activists in the Bastek Riots. The protestors started assaulting the patron and started destroying the bar. The fight was eventually taken outside where rocks and bottles were thrown by both sides. Eventually, Nandels metro area police were called in to break up the fight. But, when the police arrived, the NPD started attacking them. The police mistakenly thought the LGBTQ+ activists and the patrons were causing the riots. They started tear gassing them, allowing for NPD members to try to escape. Soon, the police realized that the NPD was at fault and started arresting them. But, 4 patrons were taken captive by the NPD and imprisoned in a hideout in Bloca. Eventually, an elite police team was able to find them and shoot the 6 NPD captors and take in the victims for questioning. In total, 4 people died in the riots and another 15 were seriously injured. Many, many more suffered minor injuries.

On April, 8th, 1974, NPD forces protesting in Peltsburg hijacked a military tank and drove it through the streets of the city running over military personal and armored vehicles, killing 23 Dogger soldiers, before leaving the city and moving towards Fort Åleselle. The tank was intercepted and destroyed by Dogger military forces halfway through its trip resulting in the death of all 4 NPD crew members.

When the Doggerland Mob boss Johannes Brink was arrested on August 27, 1975 for his involvement in the hijacking of a truck that was transporting bank money in Nandels Port, Brun-Nord, the mob became convinced that the NPD was behind law enforcement finding out about it. This was a horrible assumption considering the NPD would never talk to law enforcement and vice versa, and that the mob lowering the amount of politicians and cops on their payroll led to many mob arrests. The mob subsequently had their crews in Glavell, Bloca and Crohall go after the NPD in those areas, even doing terrorist attacks on Dogger Catholic churches. The NPD responded to the attacks by almost taking out all of the Crohall Crew of the mob and doing terrorist attacks at Dutch Calvinist churches, but the fighting stopped after two months.

By 1976, after suffering waves of defeats in the north, Doggerland would begin bombing runs and shutting off electrical and water grids in NPD-ran villages. Villages and towns under Dogger military control would be handed out rations and bottled water keeping the populace relatively well fed and watered. In the summer of 1976, Doggerland would initiate a full assault on Fort Åleselle attempting to regain control of all aspects of the city. With consistent bombardments of the city and a lack of electricity and water, the local populace began to be less than friendly to the NPD who went from 'Dogger liberators' in their eyes to 'hostile invaders'. Because of this, after only one month of fighting, most of the NPD in the area had begun to move towards the solitary mountains, burn their NPD clothing and try to become civilian again or were already dead. All of those that surrendered were executed in the town square.

The 1980s and fall of the NPD
By 1980 what was left of the NPD were small strongholds in the mountains filled with gung-ho soldiers not willing to admit they lost, yet while their forces shrunk their presence was still felt in the devastated cities that they left behind. Those that were put into work camps had either been released or moved to regular prisons, the curfew was lifted, and rebuilding in the north saw fruition yet the projects were small in scale and couldn't make up for the collateral damage dealt. An estimated 12,300 people died by the time the last NPD stronghold collapsed in 1982.

The modern NPD
The main NPD organisations of the 70s and 80s have mostly disintegrated or gradually merged into newer, more peaceful and mainstream organisations. Despite this, many small organisations and groups claim to be part of a "New NPD", "Provisional NPD", "Fighting NPD" or an alliance similar description. While these organisations were long believed to be effectively toothless, only being behind infrequent assassinations of minor political and civil figures, the 2021 Port Nandels Stabbings and 2021 Mistlân Bombings have led to Dogger society taking these groups a lot more seriously. It has yet to be seen whether the NPD will ever recover its former strength.