Finite War
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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. At this point, many were spectating the incident and a citizen of kallos built a small deepslate skybridge towards Temporal Isles' bunker. On the skybridge, PhysicsGamer was able to pearl a noncombatant in Tolype_Velleda. Temporal Isles was furious at this incident and banned all Icenians from their claims. 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, 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 insight called 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. 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 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 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 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. [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 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 retribution for these actions. 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.
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 have come to Pavia's vault multiple times, seeing PhysicsGamer on radar inside the vault, and lingering for a time in each instance. How the situation will progress still remains unclear and both Gang Shi and Arnen have expressed outrage at the harboring of PhysicsGamer in the Pavian vault.