Estalia–Rhode Island War

Estalia-Rhode Island War
Date July 24 - Ongoing Location Estalia and Rhode Island Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Estalia	Rhode Island
Casualties and losses
1 Pearled	10 Pearled

The Estalia-Rhode Island War, sometimes known as the Generic War, is an ongoing war between the nations of Estalia and Rhode Island on CivMC.

Prelude

The war was largely the result of existing animosity between players of the two nations predating server launch. Despite attempts to remedy the issue, notably through the signing of a Non Agression Treaty between both sides, tensions would continue to rise and eventually escalate into war.

The Bob_the_BuiIder Incident

On July 23th 2022 Rhode Island citizen Bob_the_BuiIder, despite warnings, trespassed at an Estalian XP compound, the following day, July 24th, he would once again trespass at the same XP compound.

This action would prompt Estalian players, Walkers and ThePayman to follow Bob_the_BuiIder's movements into the city center of neutral Nara. Bob_the_BuiIder would respond to the perceived threat by quickly boating back towards Rhode Island territory, the Estalians would follow, with their force being boosted in the ocean by Ez2Clutch and several other players, while some attempts were made to break Bob_the_BuiIder's boat.

Following Bob_the_BuiIder's arrival at Rhode Island's iceroad and territory, all Estalians would abandon pursuit, with the exception of Ez2Clutch who would continue to move onto Rhode Island territory, pinging farm snitches. Rhode Island fighter Capri interpreted this action as an attack, and launched a strike against Ez2Clutch, who was then joined in defense by several other Estalians. During the following group fight, Capri would be pearled, this event would mark the beginning of hostilities in the war.

In the statement presented at the start of the conflict, Estalia would claim that the Estalian forces had no serious intention of pearling Bob_the_BuiIder. While Rhode Island would claim that Bob_the_BuiIder's chasing by Estalia was a purposeful breaking of the Non-Agression Pact, and that Ez2Clutch had sought to provoke and bait Rhode Island into starting the fight.

War Breaks Out

On July 25th Rhode Island would perform an attack on a Estalian Slime farm and bunker, justifying it as a response to the events of the day prior. Attempts to stop the conflict through diplomatic means failed, and the war would continue through a series of back and forth attacks and raids by both sides on each others farms and infrastructure, with Rhode Island losing a significant amount of pearls while Estalia suffered no losses.

The war, and its origin as a conflict born out of old pre-launch grudges, was seen with great cynicism by a large part of the community, who would see it as a predictable repeat of similar conflicts on previous servers, mockingly giving it the title of the "Generic War".

On July 26th, the nation of Kallos would publicly declare its neutrality on the conflict, a few days later Kallos would become one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, a movement of nations who sought to distance themselves from the conflict, and which notably included as founding members several other nations that had previously been part of Rhode Island.

On the 1st of August, Rhode Island would perform an attack on the Estalian trading hub of 0,0, obbybombing and breaking several bunkers, traps, shops and, notably, griefing the Gregy165 statue and three of the signs placed by players at 0,0. The attack and its perceived nature as grief of non-military infrastructure would spark international outrage, including an official condemnation of the attack by Pavia. In a statement released the following day, Rhode Island would justify its actions by framing most of the infrastructure targeted as being of a military nature and apologizing for the grief of the Gregy165 statue and signs.

On the 4th of August, Shadno, a neutral Icenian trader selling stone to Estalia, would be pearled by Rhode Island. This pearling would spark a diplomatic incident between the two nations with Icenia releasing a public statement on the matter, condemning the attack and framing it as a continuation of a series of provocations by Rhode Island players against Icenia. Icenia would receive broad support in its condemnation, with many seeing the incident as an attempt by Rhode Island to drag the neutral nation into the war.

As of 7th of August, Estalia had successfully disabled a nether portal bunker used by Rhode Island, after several days of fighting.