970-1104 (217- 351 AD) (L'Uniona Homanus)

The Battle of Timor
The small island of Timor, on the edge of the area which had fallen under the dominion of the Javanese Republic, was made into a center of the Tribal Alliance’s military. This area became a center of the what the Western Alliance, chiefly the Japanese, believed would be the first area from which they would attack their islands and reestablish a new Empire among those islands. The island of Timor, after many months of debate among the Japanese and the leaders of the other members of the Western Alliance, was invaded in 972 (219 AD) after its build up had been going on for some time.

Timors invasion was chiefly led by the Japanese coming from the islands of the Phillipines. The Sulawesi, a chief objector to this move, were sending only a small regiment. The Timor people were not naive. They had been expecting a move like this and made it clear to every resident that it is their duty to fight. They did so and the island of Timor was hardly a battle from the perspective of the Tribal Alliance. In meetings and communications between the leaders of these coutnries afterwards, laughter and dismissal were the themes in the reactions to the Western Alliances Actions. But, the Battle of Timor was more significant because of its humiliation and the clear defeat of the Western Alliance. This enraged them into proving that they were not as impotent as this gesture made them seem.

The Great Asian War
At this time the Alliance system revealed that it had some flaws indeed. The Japanese being such a large Empire decided to make sure that all of its allies had the resources to take on whomever they chose. In doing this they also made sure that when war broke out that it would break out hard. The Zealots of Borneo were now able to take on their neighbors for reasons which required no more explanation than the approval of Thenmobala. The Manokwari had a similar effect and the Jayapura people between them and the Motu became a sort of client state of the Manokwari after their independence was taken away by the military force given to them for their alliance.

The Sinicans similarly had set up trading routes going from their country down through the Khmer Empire and them over to the Javanese, the Tanimbar and into the Australian colonies held by the Motu and Tanimbar. This made the nodes in this chain of resources very vulnerable if any one of them was to be disrupted and that was one of the first goals of the Western Alliance against their greatest enemy. The Japanese were keenly aware of the fact that attacking any single one of these coutnries would result in the others coming down on that battle and forcing them into defeat again. So, the Western Alliance began to prepare for attacks in almost all of these areas at the same time.