Finite War
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 giving groups of an Icenian bunker to USA fighters. 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 came over to mess with Temporal Isles. Eventually, Kallos got involved as well and built a small deepslate skybridge towards Temporal Isles' bunker, which led to the pearling of Tolype_Velleda. As a result of this incident, Temporal Isles banned all Icenians from their claims, and Icenia's government stripped Gamer_Time69 of his citizenship with an advanced senate motion as he was one of the ringleaders of the incidents. Gamer_Time69 would later join Gang Shi due to the former connection with Titan Industries, leading to Gang Shi involvement in the war.
ChosenTwice Incident
On November 25th, ChosenTwice and several other Estalian associates were caught on snitches in Arnen, a new spinoff state from Kallos due to discontent with how the SEC had managed the Temporal Isles conflict. The SEC had taken the approach of de-escalationism and had pearled the Kallosian involved with skybridging Temporal Isles which angered many. Chosen was wanted in Icenia for killing a naked bloomean a few months prior, and burning nearly 400d worth of wealth. There was 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[1].
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, were given vault groups, and logged off for the night. This infuriated Icenia as PhysicsGamer was a former senator and should've known of Icenia's gripes with Chosen. Conversations between the SEC and Temporal Isles ensued, with Icenia expressing its frustration at a POS player being given 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 fighters from their groups and strictly policing the border they shared with Temporal Isles for any violations. Icenia also rapidly mobilized its pvp force and began construction of massive fortifications on the border of Temporal Isles due to the high density of farms related to XP production in that region.
Conflict and Resolution
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. [2][3] 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 placed a few pieces of unreinforced obsidian in their land a few days prior, and Temporal Isles was seeking retribution for these actions. Due to Arnen and Gang Shi's defensive agreement, Gang Shi also declared war on Temporal Isles simultaneously with Arnen. Their had been underlying tensions between Gang Shi and Temporal Isles from previously when Gwua had brought Pumpkin pie on thanksgiving as a gesture of goodwill between the two nations after the darkmuffin incident described above, and was jumped by two Temporal Isles pvpers.