The Independence of Karti was a political upheaval in the Ozmo littoral, culminating in the severing of Karti from Perantsa and the establishment of a sovereign republican system on 6 July 1977. The conflict was triggered on 3 November 1970 following a wave of civil unrest in Meppo, sparked by years of resentment over resource exploitation, limited political rights, and enforced cultural homogenization under Perantsian rule. Coal miners in Almazar initiated the earliest strikes, refusing conscription into Perantsa’s military brigades and demanding profit sharing from lucrative cobalt and coal industries.
Local militias coalesced into resistance networks, supported by exiles abroad and youth collectives in Meppo. Government crackdowns—internal security patrols and curfews—failed to quell the movement; surveillance and repression instead intensified popular resistance.
By 1972, clashes along rail lines reaching Zorinsk halted exports. The fighting mixed pitched territorial offensives with notable failures, including the failed encirclement of Meppo in 1975, which broke Perantsa’s efforts to retake Karti’s economic heart.
Neighboring Rakshaw and Baksi opportunistically supplied volunteers and material aid, hoping to tilt postwar trade routes in their favor. Perantsa controlled the seas through Molbra and its key port of Vezza, using it as a forward base to supply garrisons still clinging to Karti’s littoral towns. Support eroded when Molbra’s heavily Perantsian population voted in a referendum to remain a Perantsian exclave, leaving the mainland resistance to consolidate around inland plateaus and worker hubs such as Meppo and Almazar.
On 6 July 1977, banners were raised in Meppo to mark the formal birth of independent Karti. The new state quickly leaned into constructing a highly centralized presidency while branding independence as the victory of workers and miners against foreign extraction. Molbra remained fortified, commemorating instead its loyalty to Perantsa, symbolizing the split outcomes of two lands tied geographically yet diverging politically.
The episode reshaped the balance of power on the Ozmo coastline, as Karti seized control of its corridor between Rakshaw and Baksi, while Perantsa sought to secure its maritime advantage through Molbra. Independence remains one of the region’s most decisive and contested 20th-century transformations.