Estalia–Rhode Island War

Estalia-Rhode Island War
Date 24 July 2022 - Ongoing Location Estalia and Rhode Island Status Ongoing
Belligerents
Estalia Supported by: Titan Industries	Rhode Island
Commanders and leaders
Risunsky Gregy165 Ez2Clutch†	Capri† Vanax Adderral
Casualties and losses
4 Pearled	12 Pearled
1 non-combatant 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 23 July 2022 Rhode Island citizen Bob_the_BuiIder, despite warnings, trespassed at an Estalian XP compound, the following day, 24 July, 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 25 July 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 26 July, 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 1 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 4 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.

ThePayman would be pearled by Adderral on 5 August, during an attack on a nether portal bunker co-owned by Rhode Island, this would be the first pearl lost by Estalia during the war, with Rhode Island having lost 9 pearls of their own by that point. As of 7 August, after several days of fighting, Estalia had successfully disabled the bunker.

A scuffle broke out on August 8th between players from Rhode Island and Titan Industries when players from Titan managed to lure out Adderal, Vanax, and T0mmyShelby0 and proceeded to ambush them. Adderal and Vanax would be able to break away, but T0mmyShelby0 would end up pearled by Raedars.

On August 9th, u/6ft5_king stated on a reddit post that the Estalians Ez2Clutch, Swift, and Carson had been pearled, marking a large victory for Rhode Island.