Finite War

The Finite War
Date November 26th, 2022 - Ongoing Location Temporal Isles
Belligerents
"The Coalition:" Arnen Gang Shi	"Temporal Isles:" Temporal Isles Valyria Ocala
Commanders and leaders
Gwua Gamer_Time69 Ch1pr DockerImage dredd_kiji K0mmi	PhysicsGamer Doommad IbisMan

The Finite War, also known as the Arnen-Temporal Isles war, is an ongoing war fought by the nation of Arnen and its ally Gang Shi against Temporal Isles and its ally Valyria. It originated from hostilities between Arnen and Temporal Isles which faced a major escalation when several Estalians were hired by Temporal Isles to disable an Arnen bunker. It started on November 26th 2022, with an official declaration of war from Arnen and faced a climax with the destruction of the Temporal Isles vault and its complementary skybunker by Arnen and Gang Shi forces.

Prelude

After Temporal Isles peacefully seceded from Icenia, there was many rumblings internationally over what had happened. Some felt that PhysicsGamer should have been charged for his actions during the Generic War, including negotiating neutrality for his state with USA (CivMC), despite their status as a state. Verbal jabs were exchanged, and several incidents occurred that were of little note. During this time period, Valyria and Temporal Isles began to work together closely to build up infrastructure from perceived Icenian threats. Things finally reached a boiling point after Temporal Isles citizens began trespassing on an Icenian exclusion zone and throwing eggs to spawn mass amounts of chickens which tanked player FPS. Several Icenians expressed discontent and griefed Temporal Isles small skybunker in response and a Gang Shi fighter known as Dark_Muffin also entered the territory, attacking PhysicsGamer, leading to a protracted fight between Dark_Muffin and a steadily increasing number of Temporal and Valyrian fighters. At this point, many were spectating the incident, and DockerImage built a deepslate skybridge towards Temporal Isles' bunker. On the skybridge, PhysicsGamer was able to pearl Tolype_Velleda, who had been firing upon Temporal fighters from the bridge. Temporal Isles and Icenian leadership felt the tensions were getting too intense, and PhysicsGamer came to an agreement with ChrisChrispie in private for a mutual ban of Temporals and Icenians from one anothers' territory, with the intent to lift the ban when tensions cooled off. Due to this as well as another incident involving Yoahtl, Icenia stripped Gamer_Time69 of his citizenship in Icenia. Gamer_Time69 would later join Gang Shi due to the former connection with Titan Industries, later leading to Gang Shi involvement in the war. The SEC was still displeased with Kallos' role in the incident, and the decision was made to pearl DockerImage and hold him for a week for skybriding the Temporal Isles' skybunker. DockerImage was upset by the SEC's actions and thus decided to form his own nation free of SEC and AP oversight named Arnen.

ChosenTwice Incident

On November 25th, chosentwicelol and several other Estalian associates were caught on snitches in Arnen. Chosen was wanted in Icenia for killing a naked Bloomean a few months prior, and burning nearly 400d worth of wealth, and although reparations had been paid for said actions, the Icenian government still wanted his pearl, as he had not faced trial in the Icenian courts. There were also longstanding grudges dating back to CivClassics where many Icenians felt that Chosen hadn't received proper punishment for his crimes in Icenia. On CivClassics, Chosen had been given Icenian militia roles due to his longstanding affiliation with Mir when Icenia was being raided by Ez2Clutch, and instead of helping catch the raiders, he joined their crew. This event was known as March Madness and a video of this conflict can be found here.

As a result of Chosen being involved with the raiding in Arnen, Icenia and the SEC formed a temporary coalition with Gang Shi and Arnen and sent a pvp force to intercept the raiders. A brief teamfight ensued with Icenians opting to retreat to their nearby defensive infrastructure. At this point, Chosen and the remaining rogue Estalians kited to Temporal Isles, where it was discovered by onlookers that they had group access to the skybunker, which at this point had been upgraded into a small vault, and logged off for the night. This infuriated Icenia, as PhysicsGamer had been expected to know about the status of Chosen in Icenia, although it was later established that PhysicsGamer did not know of the actions of Chosen that had occurred prior. Conversations between the SEC and Temporal Isles ensued, with Icenia expressing its frustration at a POS player being given safe haven in Temporal Isles. The SEC was legally bound by its charter to pursue de-escalationism before declaring open war, and thus an agreement was struck that if ChosenTwice was removed from groups and told not to participate, Icenia would remain neutral in any further conflict that Gang Shi and Arnen would choose to pursue. This included removing Gang Shi and Arnen fighters from their groups and strictly policing the border they shared with Temporal Isles for any violations, though in practice during this war, policing of the border amounted to stern warnings, with no force used when Gang Shi fighters kited into Icenian territory. Icenia also rapidly mobilized its pvp force and expedited construction of existing massive fortifications on the border of Temporal Isles due to the high density of farms related to XP production in that region.

Conflict and Refugee Status

After the extreme tensions of the night before, both Arnen and Temporal Isles released statements with their side of the story relating to the conflict. Arnen described in their post the rogue Estalians who had broken into their bunker and demanded reps for the actions taken by these players. In Temporal Isles' post, they described that Chosen and the rogue Estalians had been hired as Arnen had come to attempt to pearl Blu9710, their Chancellor at the time, and had placed a unreinforced obsidian in the future site of their capitol building the night before, and Temporal Isles was seeking protection as a result of these actions, and leaked screenshots of Gang Shi having planned an attack with Arnen days before. Due to Arnen and Gang Shi's defensive agreement, Gang Shi also declared war on Temporal Isles after Arnen did when Gwua brought pumpkin pie as a gesture of peace on thanksgiving and was instead jumped by two Temporal Isles pvpers. Gang Shi pvpers flooded into the region, immediately dominating proceedings by pearling DefectedHeart, a Valyrian pvper who had come to assist his allies in Temporal Isles. At this point, the rogue Estalians minus Chosen returned to temporal isles to help with fighting, and several other Estalians who had been kicked out a few weeks prior for raiding also joined. The conflict seemed to be reaching a boiling point.

When things seemed to be heating up for a prolonged siege of Temporal Isles' skybunker, which at this point had developed into a 2 ring vault with sky defenses, one of the rogue Estalians Tommy789 betrayed Temporal Isles and pearled two of their pvpers. At this point, Temporal Isles and Valyria, having been exhausted by the near-constant harassment by Gang Shi and Arnen fighters, failed to login to defend their vault as Gang Shi and Arnen forces rolled in and broke vault bastions and began disabling the vault. The attackers managed to destroy the vault on the same day, with Arnen forces coming back the next day and disabling all the remaining defensive infrastructure in Temporal Isles. PhysicsGamer put out a statement after the destruction of the Temporal Isles vault, agreeing to a reparations deal made by DockerImage in order to free the pearls of the Temporal Isles combatants, saying that he failed Temporal Isles and that he wished he had been able to defend the vault. This reparation deal, however, was later rejected after demands were made for primary owner on the group on which the vault was built, and became unnecessary when Gang Shi later left the war and released the pearls.

Following this, the remaining Temporals including PhysicsGamer, the leader of Temporal Isles, and Valyrians fled to Pavia, where they were taken in as refugees and given Pavian citizenship. Pavian leader BritishWanderer made statements a number of times in global chat directed at Gang Shi that any attack on Pavian citizens, referring to the refugees, would invoke the Elysian Pact. Despite these statements, however, a number of Gang Shi combatants came to Pavia's vault multiple times, seeing PhysicsGamer on radar inside the vault, and lingering for a time in each instance.

Gang Shi Leaving the War

On November 28th, 2022, Gang Shi came forward with a proposal, if Consul PhysicsGamer would eat a pumpkin pie in front of Gamer_Time69, they would cease pursuit of the war. PhysicsGamer agreed, and awaited the arrival of Gang Shi players on the north side of Pavia's vault, while Pavians, Estalians, and Valyrians stood around PhysicsGamer in anticipation of the arrival of Gang Shi, ready to act if they made an attempt on his life. A Gang Shi convoy including Gamer_Time69 and jbblocker arrived in Pavia, and put forward the terms of the agreement, in which Gang Shi agrees to release Defectedheart, sentence Jaimiemie and Blu9710, and end Gang Shi involvement in the war, provided that PhysicsGamer ate the pumpkin pie. After 5 long minutes of conversation, PhysicsGamer ate the pie, officially ending the war with Gang Shi.

Continuation of the War

On November 29th, 2022, PhysicsGamer was contacted by K0mmi, who claimed to represent Arnen, regarding a cessation of the war, dropping all demands for peace terms. A white peace was quickly accepted by the Temporal Isles. Based on this, on December 4th, 2022, PhysicsGamer made the decision to return to the Temporal Isles, beginning to assess the damage and clean, destroying snitches found and removing grief. Quickly, he was instructed in direct messages by Arnen players including DockerImage and K0mmi to leave the vault, threatening to destroy the Temporal Isles. These demands were refused.

Later that same day, Ocalan leader IbisMan was speaking with PhysicsGamer in VC. He arrived at the Arnen skybunker, and refused to leave when told to do so. Afterwards he began attacking DockerImage and then kited to the Temporal Isles vault after placing down unreinforced grief in the Arnen capital city of Malcour. In response, Arnen elected to treat Ocala as a participant in the war after being told by IbisMan that Ocala would be joining the war with Amedy refusing a peace agreement with DockerImage.

Peace negotiations were attempted again on December 7th and 8th, 2022, with the Temporal Isles demanding that peace be made with all current belligerents at once, with Pavia agreeing to be a third party for a peace treaty. dredd_kiji, an Arnen co-leader offered to make peace with Temporal Isles and a treaty was drafted, but was not responded to by Temporal Isles who instead remained hostile to DockerImage in DM's, telling him to "fuck off". However, on December 8th 2022 IbisMan began attacking Arnen and Icenian figures at an Icenian nether portal bunker. Due to this Arnen withdrew from peace agreements which were also in part to Temporal Isle's nearly nonexistent responses to Arnen's diplomacy.

See also

• List of Conflicts on CivMC