Io Accord

The Io Accord was the meeting of the Euro-American Union and the combined nations of Venus to discuss the terms of ending the first war of Venus. The Accord was held in the Old Republic Tower of Io. There is much debate about what was actually accomplished by the meeting, as some would call the affair a treaty while others would claim that it was a slight of trick by the EAU to avoid almost any responsibility for the war.

The EAU did pay war reparations, however it was considerably less than the damage caused in the fighting. Anubis Tactical, the military firm that carried out the majority of the attacks, also scapegoated most of its blame onto a shell company. Instead of paying out large sums of money, the EAU made many contracts with the Venusian nations to help them rebuild from war. However, many of these contracts actually left Venusian businesses indebted to the Company, both financially and politically.

Ishtar was particularly upset about the deal because it felt that Aphrodia had been bought out by their enemies to forsake a unified Venus, which is exactly what the Company wanted by starting the war in the first place. The EAU and the Company had escaped most of the responsibility of the damages. Furthermore, the contracts the Company was making to actually preform the repairs were extremely slanted in their favor. Ishtar was not very concerned in its own reparations as it was not particularly interested in accepting EAU aid. The public's reaction was much different from that of the oligarchs who were happy to take the money that nobody wanted.

Struck the hardest by the attacks and the majority of immigrants living in its borders, Aphrodia was quick to accept the terms to end the fighting and start rebuilding. Many Aphrodians also believed that Ishtar had made a deal with the Company to assist them in their attacks only to be double crossed. The Anubis Strikes were carefully constructed to sew suspicion into the minds of Aphrodians to distrust Ishtar. Also, although the nation of Ishtar had a strong culture of independence, its oligarchical tendencies have always bothered the Aphrodians who believe those rulers to be the puppets of the Company. Many Aphrodians see their dependence on the Company to be an unfair deal, compared to the Ishtarians who simply pretend like their dependence doesn't exist all while hypocritically judging their neighbors for it.

The Io Accord succeeded at ending the large scale combat of the war. However, its failure to solve any political problems, but instead worsen them, was the mechanism that set in motion the Cold War of Venus. Though not as violent on such a scale as the first war, this cold war would still claim many lives and set in motion what could potentially be a far worse outcome than what Venus had ever seen.