TNSC-Acadia Conflict

The No State Commune (TNSC) and Acadia had a slowly growing conflict that ultimately ended with Acadia destroying TNSC, leading to the fall of TNSC. =Backstory of events pre-Acadia=

In late July 2021, the player RainOfPain125 from CivRealms and CivUniverse started playing on CivClassics, choosing to settle close to the north of Acadia with a group of newfriends and establishing The No State Commune. This immediately resulted in an uncomfortable situation for Acadia because of previous events on CivRealms with prominent members of Acadia including Cortwade and JuniorTide having past drama with Rain, the two of whom TNSC considered to be "violent anti-communists". =Events leading up to conflict= Despite the way lots of Acadian government members treated Rain formerly in Norlund, détente was always the most clear and obvious option for all members of TNSC. Acadia claims they had the same idea, that they initially meant to settle for an uncomfortable peace. Conflict between the two nations started from the very beginning, despite their best intentions.

JuniorTide's house covered with signs
JuniorTide reported and provided a screenshot of one of his Acadian homes sporting signs on the front such as "NORTH KOREA BEST KOREA" and other kinds of left-leaning statements. He accused Rain as the one who made them. Rain replied reminding JuniorTide that he was an Anarchist and is against the North Korean dictatorship. On top of this, Rain had only very recently joined CivClassics and was still in the +,+ territory, which was nowhere near JuniorTide's home. Despite having no evidence to support his claim that Rain put signs around his home, he publicly threatened to "glass" him which came off as extremely aggressive to TNSC.

Pentigrass-Icenia incident
At some point a new user joined CivClassics named Pentigrass, he was invited by Rain and was new to the Civ genre. It's claimed he was told multiple times to treat people kindly and to not raid or steal anything along his journey to TNSC land. Despite these alleged warnings he started to break into things until he was caught and pearled in Icenia.

Frustrated with himself and being pearled, he claimed that Rain ordered him to raid and steal to support TNSC, believing that if he blamed Rain it would give him a "lighter sentence". He would later admit directly to Rain about how he lied to throw Rain under the bus. Despite Pentigrass admitting his own wrong doing, many who opposed Rain stuck with Rain inciting violence and raiding among the community. With this belief, members in Acadia and other nations believed that Rain was an enemy that needed to be dealt with.

hawkeye0066-Acadia incident
This idea of Rain being a nefarious untrustworthy malicious raider was further propagandized when another member of TNSC who was new to Civ, hawkeye0066, against TNSC warnings decided to start raiding and stealing things in Acadia just like Pentigrass. He was caught, and was told by TNSC to return what he stole and turn himself in, which he did. This situation was almost immediately resolved with hawkeye being quickly released after his apology and return of items. In fact people in Acadia offered him a house and citizenship.

Rain's Mining Trip
On July 27th, 2021 Rain was mining for ore underground at bedrock level when he stumbled across mines that other players had already dug out. However, the users seemed to only be interested in diamonds because they had left all other ores - iron, redstone, lapis - ores which TNSC required. While mining along these pathways he came across an underground bunker, walking around inspecting it to find a sign of ownership until Egi logged on. Egi seemed concerned at first, but seemed more peaceful as he reminded Rain that he was in Acadia territory, demanding that he leave and mine elsewhere, orders which Rain followed. =First TNSC Crisis Acadia Raids TNSC's Bunker=

By July 28th, 2021 when Rain logged in he found that TNSC's only bunker was robbed. The snitch logs implied Acadia was responsible, members of the raiding party consisted of JuniorTide (Citizen of Acadia & Icenia), Egi (Acadian Minister of "Defense"), and Polygondwana (Poly is probably an alt). The three man raiding party destroyed the bunker and stole the stockpiled gear. Sometime after the assault TNSC players logged on and found the bunker in ruins, realizing that Acadia was responsible Rain and TNSC issued an angry international dispute to the CivClassics subreddit.

The raiding party received little to no consequences as a result of raiding the newfriend bunker, never being held accountable for their toxic actions. On the same day that the raid was revealed to the international community, a vote was held in Acadia against Egi for "Impeachment of Egi as Minister of Defense due to unauthorized use of force against TNSC". The vote failed with only 1 in favor, 6 against, and 2 abstaining. Icenia seemed to commit absolutely no punishment against JuniorTide, not even removing him from Icenia, or denouncing him, demoting him, etc. Polygondwana is a name nobody is familiar with, so it is assumed that they are an alt.]

Results

 * +200 diamonds stolen
 * +150 essence stolen
 * +10 E4U3S1 & E4U3F3 pickaxes stolen
 * Chest vault broken into, all chests in one room destroyed, all chests in center room destroyed
 * Farm built over to prevent crops from growing
 * Surface terrain griefed and made ugly
 * TNSC members upset

Acadia's Justifications
In the aftermath Acadia would come out with an official post attempting to justify their invasion, however TNSC was quick to disprove almost all of their claims.

"Rain was breaking into our bunkers"
Rain was accused of running around near the Acadian bunkers to try and bust open a vault and free someone's pearl. This claim that Rain was breaking into any bunkers or vaults is never substantiated or backed up in any capacity beyond logs of him walking past the bunker. To further prove this claim wrong Rain uploaded a video of his entire mining trip start-to-finish that brought him near the Acadian bunkers, proving to the community that he was never at any point trying to break in. The video also shows his conversation with Egi that night.

"Rain's goons were raiding everyone"
It is still unclear as to why Acadia used this to justify their invasion, as both incidents of TNSC members stealing from others were handled properly and seen as resolved on all sides.

"TNSC had high-value tools"
Acadia claims to have learned that TNSC possessed many hundreds of diamonds and many high-value tools just mere days after declaring The No State Commune, leading to concerns that they were being supplied by a possible hostile sponsor. However in reality, the commune was gifted a box of goodies from Rain's good friend Avo as a sign of socialist solidarity and friendship, providing them all with good pickaxes for getting resources - hence why they had so many diamonds. =TTastic, Okx, MrJeremyFarmer Raid=

After announcing to the international community what Acadia had done, many TNSC members did not know what to do - whether they should quit the server or move far away from Acadia and so on. Though it didn't take long for others to take advantage of the demoralization of TNSC.

Later in the same day, a raiding party sponsored by an unknown organization or nation attacked. At first Okx came to pearl Rain and Zombie, but the two of them fought hard enough to get him to retreat away from the bunker. Okx was already caught wandering around TNSC hitting snitches, and failing to provide a reason for his unannounced visit.

Not long after, the full raiding party came consisting of TTastic, Okx and MrJeremyFarmer with intent to pearl everyone as a result of recent events. Their mission failed as Zombie, Rain and other TNSC members evaded any pearling attempts.

TNSC took to the international community again on the same day, proclaiming the raiders to be shitters in their view. After taking a break to think and breath, TNSC returned to the international community a day later on July 29th to clear things up and provide all the evidence everyone would ever need, mostly via video proof. This post would be received negatively by the international community as a whole.

It was unclear what nations which Okx, TTastic and MrJeremyFarmer belonged to. It is believed that Okx was apart of Yoahtl, which led to a small diplomatic incident between TNSC and Yoahtl with Rain accusing Yoahtl of harboring raiders.

Results
= Rumors & Consequences=
 * UnknownKarnij & hawkeye0066 are logboxed
 * Bunker secured and looted further by shitter forces

Zombie was funneling commies into Acadia
Due to Rain and Zombie's friendship, and Zombie being a member of Acadia, which made her the target of accusations of foreign collusion. Shortly after Acadia's raid on TNSC a user FE_Flags who ran the Workers of Acadia Party (WAP) accused Zombie, claiming that she created a big shadow scheme where Rain would recruit new commies into WAP in order to sway elections, and in return Rain would get diamonds. Rain claims there was no evidence to support that such a deal ever occurred, and Rain claims such a deal was never proposed.

Acadian Senator Tsar Ivan, run by FE_Flags, spoke with Zombie_Striker directly, in which an admission of funneling Acadian funds into the hands of RainOfPain125 in exchange for recruits into Acadia which never came. However the counter-argument is that the conversation was intended to expose Flags as a traitor who was willing to betray Acadia, considering that this was never acted upon and was merely discussed. This would make Zombie look like a "good commie" and could overall improve the outlook of leftism in Acadia. Bear in mind Flags was already considering leaving Acadia.

"Zombie sabotaged Acadia"
A player in Acadia accused Zombie of breaking a factory after the raid on TNSC's bunker, claiming it must have been an act of sabotage but no hard evidence was provided. TNSC joked that the user should obby bomb Acadia, but of course she and the other members never intended on doing it.

A member of Acadia Bloof_ would later go on to threaten Rain on CivMC, believing he had told Zombie to sabotage Acadia's diamond factory among other things.

Outcome
As a result of these two raids, =Second TNSC Crisis=
 * Zombie_Striker quietly left CivClassics to distance herself from the drama and the rumors made against her after the two raids.
 * RainOfPain125 ran far away and logged off, only logging on once or twice before the server was closed.
 * TNSC was renamed to Consortium to try and rebrand itself.
 * Acadia, Icenia & Yoathyl never held any of the raiders Egi, JuniorTide, Polygondwana, Okx, TTastic, or MrJeremyFarmer accountable for their actions

After Rainie's temporary disappearance the other members of TNSC had decided to rebrand their nation as Consortium with Hawkeye as their new leader, and relations between Acadia and Consortium were friendly, though there was not much contact with them as activity in Consortium had long been very low due to the raids. According to Hawkeye, the TNSC members considered Rainie to be a dictator and they had effectively overthrown him after the events of the TNSC crisis.

During his absence Rain was named as the Eternal Chairmen as a joke. They also invited Rain to the town on alts so that he could view their progress and builds. Rain logged on his main account for a moment to give his final speech on CivClassics. Many members were in attendance to witness the event including hawkeye0066, KingBudgie, LeDuckyBoi, Ghostman526, and MoNkEy_ClaUsE. Consortium members spammed public chat with "solidarity forever" as Rain gave his speech, hailing him as the glorious supreme leader that would bring them to salvation, before he logged off for the final time a minute later.

Acadia was shocked by the sudden, short reappearance of Rain, whose temporary ban had apparently been finished after one month. As Acadians never knew the length of the ban, they were surprised to see Rain back again so quickly. This stirred up problems with Acadia once more, as Acadia now believed that they were hiding Rain somewhere. Egi and Tuomasz came over to Consortium for a "diplomatic tour" and to discuss the situation and the relation between Acadia and Consortium going forward. Choosing to believe Hawkeye, Acadia asked Consortium for the location of the logbox, so that they would be able to pearl him if Rainie ever logged in on his main account again.

They told Acadia and other nations that they did not know where he logged, and yet those nations refused to believe it. In a final attempt to save themselves, the members bluffed, saying they know the coordinates where he had logged off and would only tell them if they were compensated and things remain peaceful.

Negotiations proved fruitless for Acadia as they were not willing to pay, so they decided to go looking for the logbox in Consortium themselves. Egi, Ferro, and JuniorTide conducted a search for the logbox on September 23rd. During their "diplomatic tour" the Acadians briefly pearled all Consortium citizens so that they could "continue their search". The search was unsuccessful, and another round of negotiations followed where eventually Hawkeye led Acadia to Rainie's supposed logbox. The logbox was guarded almost 24 hours a day for several days by Ferro, Tuomasz, and PMC allies Asu and Ch1pR, but Rain never logged in on his main account again, nor would most Consortium members who by this time had grown fully inactive due to being chased off by Acadia.

The attention Rain's reappearance amassed on the server a discussion starting to appear around whether Rain's ban was sufficiently long enough given the seriousness of doxing. As per Rain's request, the staff team published an official statement clarifying Rain didn't intend to dox or hurt anyone which is why, unlike most doxers, his ban was temporary.

Unfortunately, especially as far as public information goes, a lot of what exactly happened with Rain after the first TNSC crisis is shrouded in mystery. It is unclear whether Rain's ban was kept on one month only or as Rainie would later claim, that it was extended to three months, which would mean that he was banned again not long after his reappearance. If his ban was not extended, it is also unclear to what extent he had been active on an alt-account during September/October which he, contradicting his other statement, claimed he was. Neither was it ever publicly established whether Consortium had actually broken ties with Rainie as Hawkeye claimed, or whether the logbox was real or a fabrication. =See Also=

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