The Second Faunus Revolution

The situation only needed a small push to lead to war. A series of drought years and crop failures crippled Menagerie's economy and starved its population, the suffering bringing ever-increasing hordes of Grimm. The island nation teetered on the brink of chaos.

Newly elected High Leader Adam Taurus painted a picture of a great and fertile land waiting for them...it they could only claim it. Every ship, dinghy, and aircraft was rounded up, and the newly consituted Army of Menagerie launched a massive assault on the city of Mistral, seeking to claim it as their own territory. While the army attacked directly from without, the White Fang was reactivated and launched a campaign of chaos and terror against civilian targets from within, impeding the kingdoms' ability to respond to the threat.

The conflict was short-lived. Mistral's traditional ally Atlas brought its full military might to bear. Menagerie was bombed into a smoking wasteland, fully half its population dead and the rest displaced. The White Fang was brought down by espionage from within, all its major leaders rounded up and executed in a single coordinated sting.

The newly elected Mistrali and Atlesian councils led the way with the simplest and most final of solutions. Faunus living in their territories, along with the surviving population of Menagerie, were rounded up and sent to "processing centers" in the frozen north of Solitas. Upon arrival, all males were vaporized en masse, regardless of age. Females were evaluated for their usefulness; the old and infirm were sent off to the killing fields to die with the men, while those capable of working were sorted and priced. The strong--horses, goats, buffalo--were for manual labor. Rodents who could dig and monkeys who could climb were eagerly snapped up by the construction industry. Cows and chickens were sent to farms to produce milk, eggs, or meat. The most attractive young women, catgirls and foxgirls prominent among them, were to be pleasure slaves for the elite. All were sold off to businesses and wealthy individuals who jumped at the thought of cheap or free labor, with the proceeds being used to fund the costly logistics of winnowing the Faunus. Those with potentially dangerous Semblances or other skills were surgically neutralized before sale.

Vale and Vacuo, historically more tolerant of the Faunus, protested at first, but the constant terrorist attacks committed in their cities by the White Fang left the human population unsympathetic. Similar programs were eventually enacted, with the common rule that all male Faunus be killed on sight. Never again would their race be allowed to breed and multiply on their own.