Somber War

The Somber War was a military conflict involving most nations originating in the Commonwealth that lasted from 9 October 2017 to 8 April 2018.

The war drew in all the server's economic great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Western Alliance versus Nox. The Western Alliance was reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: Yoahtl, Southshire, Gensokyo, Okashima, Vinland and the USA later joined the Western Alliance.

The trigger for the war was the declaration of war by Lexington on Hjaltland and the Commonwealth and the subsequent obsidian bombing of Westminster, the capital city of the Commonwealth. This set off a diplomatic crisis for Nox and many nations, such as Tvtopia, Mexington publicly stated their support in favor of the Commonwealth while others declared and/or kept their neutrality. It was followed by a formal declaration of war by the Commonwealth

After the Nox bombing of Westminster was halted and Lexington City was captured and Nox fighters retreated into their bunkers, the war turned into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that changed little until the end of the war. Somewhere around early 2018, Yoahtl, Gensokyo, Southshire, Okashima, Vinland joined the Western Alliance.

Followed by a couple attempts at breaching the vault, during early April 2018 a new plan was formulated by the Western Alliance and after a two day siege the Lexington vault is broken, culminating in the end of the war. The end of the war brought peace to former warring nations, the disbanding of the Western Alliance in favor of SATO and the end of Nox.

Prelude To War
The conflict between Hjaltland and Lexington is much older than CivClassic and has to be viewed in the context of events from Civcraft. Hjaltland was made up of many 2.0 WP characters, like Diet_Cola, G3rg and TangentialThreat, while Lexington on the other side housed many members of Nox, like VitaCoco, FrenchFrys, MCIsFtw/Reanial and most notably sintralin. Neither group had been invested in Devoted, so CivClassic picked up where Civcraft had ended. Relations were cold from the get go and both sides were aware that escalation was likely to happen eventually. Multiple events reinforced that belief and eventually led to Lexingtons declaration of war.

Animal farm conflict
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Commonwealth raids
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End claims
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TangentialThreat's shenanigans
During early August 2017, Savion (located in the -,+) had been repeatedly altraided. Shapha2002 realized that he could not hold up against these raids and decided to completly abandon Savion. He contacted Hjaltland to join them and Hjaltland sent multiple accounts to Savion to assist the evacuation and secure the area during it. After this was completed on August 17th, Frensin decided to scout the eastern world border cardinal spot on the way back, because world border cardinals are a prime location for vaults. Even though Hjaltland knew that both Anguish and Mir were somewhere in the east, the exact whereabouts were unknown. Frensin ended up stumbling into Anguish, who asked him to leave to which he obliged.

Unsatisfied with the information gained, Frensin sent TangentialThreat to further scout Anguish on an unknown alt. Anguish stemmed from Devoteds Ruin and Hjaltland had little insight into their inner workings, so Hjaltland wanted to determine Anguishs strength and industrial capabilities and vault progress. Part of the motivation was also that Hjaltland saw Anguish as the main suspect behind the raiding in Savion. TangentialThreat was given order to either skybridge or mine in under ground to avoid detection and to collect information based on screenshots and mapping data.

He joined voice chat the next day, sheepishly admitting that he had messed up. Instead of scouting and running off, he had attempted to infiltrate Anguish by posing as a newfriend on the account 'CaitlinFoo'. Anguish saw through his impersonation and Tangent was asked to log onto Devoted with his CaitlinFoo account to prove that he was not an alt. Devoteds single account policy prevented Tangent from doing so and instead of safelogging and giving up on the account, Tangent ended up being pearled by Anguish. Tangent cracked rather quickly when being questioned by Anguish, name dropping Hjaltland and Frensin. Negotiations in voice chat were setup between Hjaltland and Anguish within the same evening, but they went rather poorly, partially due to intoxication on the end of Hjaltlands negotiators. Meanwhile Tangent had started griefing Lexingtons end claim in a bit of a tantrum, which didn't help his case, so shortly after his pearl got sent to Lexington. Going into negotations this had been seen as the worst case result by Hjaltand, because given Tangents history with Nox and Titan, Hjaltland assumed that Tangent would be perma pearled. Due to Tangent not listening to orders, getting himself pearled in an incredibly stupid way, messing up relations with Anguish and leaking secrets in an attempt to buy freedom, Tangent was removed from Hjaltland groups and channels as he was being transferred to Lexington.

A few weeks laterTangent made contact with Hjaltlands leadership again, notifying them that he had infiltrated Lexington. He had talked down his sentence to two weeks and was allowed to live in Lexington afterwards, developing and running macromod scripts for them. Towards Lexington he made it seem as if he hated Hjaltland and they believed him that. [Editors note: Hjaltland is still in awe at this incredible misjudgement after years of history detailing Tangents character]. Tangent also relayed that he had come up with a plan to steal all of Lexingtons groups through malware hidden in a macro that he'd give sintralin. Hjaltland had no intention to go to war with Lexington at the time, but given the tensions and the Nox/Titan/HCF history it was very clear that Lexington was not a friend. Criticially striking them was seen as a good thing, especially given that the action was zero risk for Hjaltland. Due to this, Hjaltland decided to not spill the beans and save sintralin, but let Tangent complete his infiltration.

After multiple weeks of setup, sintralin ran a treebot on September 22nd, which was given to her by Tangent. Hidden in the over 500 line long macro was a section that merged all of sintralins groups into one of Tangents groups, once the treebot was far enough into the farm. Sintralin realized what was going on and cancelled the script before all groups could be merged, but she lost multiple groups before doing so. A lot of Lexington was now under the group 'GoodWizards', which was owned by Tangent. This action sparked a lot of controversy and many players demanded admin interference to both revert the damage and ban TangentialThreat for spreading malware.

Server owner TealNerd refused to revert it, stating that the groups were taken through legitimate means and that sintralin was at fault. Admin Ribagi decided to overrule TealNerd though and gave the groups back to sintralin. This spiked even more controversy as the rule set still stated that such actions were legal and the admins explicitly said that similar future actions would be legal. Even though the groups were taken from him, Tangent was not banned.

Tangent eventually returned to Hjaltland. Here his attack on Lexington was seen as a good thing with the safety of Hjaltland and the server in the back of his head, so he was allowed to become a citizen again. To avoid both negative PR and possible repercussions from Lexington, Tangent used both ingame and on discord the account "SergeantMajor", who was framed as a random newfriend by Hjaltland.

Commonwealth Campaign


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Fall of Lexington
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