Fall of Lexington

Fall of Lexington
Part of the Somber War
Western Alliance fighters the breach inner rings
Date April 7th 2018 - April 8th 2018 Location Lexington Vault 0,-13000 Result Decisive Western Alliance victory (see Aftermath section)
Belligerents
Western Alliance Falstadt Commonwealth Mir Yoahtl Southshire Impasse Gensokyo Okashima Vinland USA Tvtopia	Nox Lexington Anguish
Commanders and leaders
BlueSylvaer Frensin coni_s2 Maxopoly Thoths Walkers	sintralin John3112
Strength
30 infantry at peak	8 infantry at peak
Casualties and losses
No pearls taken	5 pearled

The Fall of Lexington was a two day siege of the Lexington vault on the world border, it marked the end of the Somber War with a Western Alliance victory. The final siege employed several "new" vault breaking techniques, such as the use of Skybridges, building an entirely new vault on chat range of the enemy vault.

Prelude

Initial attack from east compared with final attack from west. On the far left the Western Alliance vault is visible

After the failed attack on the Lexington Vault on December 30th, 2017, the war again entered a lull. While Nox forces were still rarely spotted outside of the North World Border, efforts made to free the substantial number of pearls they held were limited. Hjaltland became increasingly isolationist as a civil war erupted, Frensin's Revolutionary Sect for the Restoration of the Federal State of Falstadt rejected BlueSylvaer's Republican government. By January 25th, the nation was reunified under the banner of the U.F.R. Falstadt. Some Lexington pearls were captured in the meantime, and some crises averted (like jayms' short-lived pearling at the hands of Vaape), but none of the involved vaults were touched.

The Western Alliance did not rest, though, as its leaders clamored for the release of their friends from the enticing clutches of sintralin. New alliances were formed, with nations like Yoahtl and Vinland secretly joining the coalition. At the end of March, a group of these individuals began constructing a vault 1 kilometer west of Lexington's, affectionately named "Tinian". The skybridge technique utilized in the second assault on Anguish and the previous assault on Nox had been perfected, and was nearly ready for deployment.

Battle

During the night of April 6th, 2018, the Alliance began work on the bridge. A thoroughly-bastioned structure from Tinian all the way to Lexington, it would provide an easy and safe method of transportation between the front and the coalition base. In the (American) morning, the attack began. Stiff resistance was met, but there was little the defenders could do against the bridge's slow crawl. Averaging around 20 attackers from the nations of Falstadt, Mir, Commonwealth, Yoahtl, Impasse, Southshire, Vinland, Okashima, Gensokyo, and others, the defenders were ill-equipped and too few to make a concerted defense. At roughly 7:25pm EST on April 7th, the defenders made a final push to repulse the skybridge. After taking no prisoners, they were thrown back into their skybunker. Sintralin, on the account anarchofascist, was pearled at 7:30pm by awoo.

Resistance crumbled at this point. The remaining defenders frantically burned any valuables they couldn't carry themselves, disappearing into the wilderness moments before the attackers leaped victorious onto the vault's skybunker. Currently, any fighters who were not pearled in this assault are being hunted by the remaining Western Alliance forces.

Aftermath

WA fighters posing after pearls have been freed

With the fall of the Lexington vault on the world border, Lexington was forced to accept an unconditional surrender, the former Lexington territories are now beeing managed by The United Federal Republic of Falstadt to make sure the location is safe, neutral and to make a monument to act as a reminder to the brave soldiers, breakers, merchants and citizens that "fought to remove the blight of Nox from the server".

Depiction of the fall of Lexington by Metriximor

A few of the former Nox fighters managed to escape and are now wanted.

The victory of the Western Alliance was celebrated all throughout the server, since this victory marked the end of a long lasting war that almost killed the server population.

Freed players

• DootDaMoop (MrLlama)
• JimComey (tankbuster44)
• Lazersmoke
• PQV28 (Peter5930)
• S4NTA
• SergeantMajor (TangentialThreat)
• SerQwaez
• _theJKH_
• WhiteXnt (BlackXnt)
• Xavter
• xFier

Pearled Players

• anarchofascist (sintralin)
• Augusta (MC/Vespasian)
• Frenchfrys
• Shopork
• VitaCoco