First Hell War

Hell War
Image of the warzone after the war had ended with the heavy desert grief. It shows both the skybridge used by the Hell Defenders to bridge the attack bunker and the skybridge used by the Coalition to attack the Vault.
Date June 18th - June 22nd, 2020 Location Hell Vault, Varathia, Chungus, Grand Imperium ,Otonabee, Calorman Result Capture of Hell Vault, Hell defenders move to other nations most notably Blackwater
Belligerents
Central Powers: Varathia File:MtA Flag.png Mount Augusta Otonabee Carbon: Carbon Bloom Agotep Zen Alexandria: Alexandria Accelerada SPQR LSA: Norlund IWW Saviors Republic Lone Nations: Blackwater Chungus Cantina Tchad Wheatistan File:ColumbiaFlag.png Columbia	Hell
Commanders and leaders
Convoy File:Bwlogo.jpg Phacad3 File:Bwlogo.jpg Pido Yaahya HiImPosey Evocat0r Seared Sharpcastle33	Vanax35 Saren_Solaris Twigbranch AltRaid HanTzu Ez2Obbybomb
Strength
~115	~15
Casualties and losses
14-18 pearled	3 pearled 2 Alts logboxed

The First Hell War was a major world war between a group colloquially known as the Hell Gang, and a large coalition of allied nations formed to fight them. This war saw a truly massive number of players (over 100) band together to free their allies and bring the Hell Gang to justice. This Gang compromised of citizens of the former states of Savaguard, now the Confederacy of Independent States (CIS) and a rogue Carbon member (and the owner of Hell Vault), Vanax35. The war began when some of the Hell Gang skybridged and took Varathia's incomplete vault in a decisive sneak attack on the 19th of June 2020. During the initial attack, the Central Powers alliance of Otonabee and Mt Augusta assisted in the defense of Varathia, along with members of neighboring Cantina, Chungus and Blackwater . The group retreated with the pearls to Hell, with several accounts logboxed in their attack bunker. An attack on Hell Vault was commenced by the Allies on June 18 and would result in the breaking of Hell Vault on June 22. Throughout the attack multiple nations joined the Allies, making it the largest coalition of nations in the history of the server at the time.

Prelude

The Rise of Blackwater and the Dissolution of the Kingdom of Savaguard

The arrival of former ReCharge members on the server in the new nation of Blackwater rapidly disturbed the established geopolitical situation on the server - the former top dog, Savaugard, had a strong challenger in the burgeoning Blackwater-Cantina alliance. The invasion of Eslenti and Savaguard's refusal of their ally's pleas for assitance showed weakness, and this was soon exploited when a group of Cantinans breached the Savaguardian vault, and it fell without any bloodshed. What followed was a complete collapse in both Savaguard's desire to fight, and the very nation itself, as the king Invader1337 abdicated and the nation balkanised into many small nations in a loose defensive alliance. While Savaguard had been defeated, many remembered the injustices performed., These grievances later extended to include GDAN (after he was pearled) and later the Roman Empire, as Cantinan mercenaries under R&S were contracted to return the former lands of Columbia to independent control. Cantina and Blackwater seemed undefeatable - at least, until a new power rose to challenge their newfound hegemony.

Chungus-Varathian Border Incidents

A series of minor scuffles on the border between Chesham and Chungus resulted in two minor conflicts that were quickly resolved by cooler heads , but tensions remained reasonably high between the nation and the rapidly growing city on their border, slowly encroaching on their territorial claims. Many believed an escalation into further conflict was likely. Most of all, the negotiations and general performance of Varathia showed weakness to be exploited.

Olendor Aqua Nether Attacks

On the 8th of June, Saren (assisted by kicky) trapped the Olendor Aqua Nether portal . Varathia, assisted by their Otonabian allies, managed to rally troops to push the invaders out, with Saren and kicky abandoning their position under overwhelming force.

As the attack on Varathia happened, many Chungesians arrived at the scene to protest for their lives. The people of chungus were unsure of what to do and so called out for Chungus Lives matter. Soon after, the clicking moved over to Chungus City and citizens slowly began to gear up for defending Varathia.

The Battle of Varathia Vault

The battle begun on the 18th of June after Varathia had discovered their vault being attacked by a mixed group of alts and known players via snitches and first hand accounts, at the time of discovery it was unknown how they were able to breach the vault and get to the center. By the time the majority of Varathian forces were able to log on it had already been under siege for around 10 to 15 minutes and thus it wasn't feasible to put up much of a defense of the vault itself and the battle soon became an attempt to retake the vault. By this time the vault was effectively discovered to be broken via sky-bridge and under the attackers control via city bastions, while minor skirmishing was happening outside the vault and in the general area, including Chungus, Chesham and Olendor proper. Numerous Civilian causalities took place, being around 6 players in number, and also the pearling of fighters within and around the vault in trenches, most notably Ibis1804.

Siege of Hell Vault

Initial attack

The war soon transitioned from an attack on the now enemy held Varathian vault and accompying sky-bunkers and ground bunkers to a rescue effort to retrieve pearls from Hell Vault as the pearls had been transferred to Hell before the ground bunker south of Varathia had been breached by Cantina and Blackwater.

Cantina and Blackwater forces began construction on the attack bunker during the night before the battle, but due to accidents, the location of the first attack bunker and attack tunnels were leaked by the potion status macro during the night. This resulted in the structure being immediately attacked by the Hell Defenders and disabled. The construction of a new attack bunker was then started directly east of the Hell vault. It would be this bunker that would serve as attack bunker during the entire duration of the conflict.

Battle of the desert

The early coalition, made up of Cantina-Blackwater-Varathia, began the assault on Hell vault in the eastern desert. Hell defenders attempted to hold back the assault with bows and the occasional sword skirmishes. As coalition forces broke bastions, an obsidian path was made from the forward bunker up to the vault trench. The obsidian path was created to shield the attackers from rumored sand traps created in the weeks prior.

Attack tunnels

The part where we dug attack tunnels at them and posey got spleefed.

Fall of Alexandria Vault

rip

Father's Day Cease Fire

Wholesome 100

Breach of the Hell trench

As Coalition forces pushed through the desert and created an attacking tunnel on bedrock, they finally arrived at the vault trench. After countless hours of battling for inches, the Coalition fighters felt they were ready to make a push outside of the tunnel and into the trench. With nearly triple the numbers currently logged on and the bastion on the verge of being broken, they planned to overwhelm the vault defenders in order to gain control. The surface team, lead by Commanders Seared and Phacad, was waiting for the ground (bedrock) team to give them the signal to jump. The ground team, lead by Evocat0r, needed to break a couple more pieces of stone reinforced obsidian before giving the signal. Suddenly, ground forces notice a friendly on the other side of the wall - it was Commander Seared. He fell into the trench minutes before the ground team was ready. Commander Evocat0r immediately gave the signal for the surface forces to jump in to buy him time. After only seconds of hesitation, they proceeded to jump into the trench from above. Evocat0r instructed ground forced to immediately break 2 pieces of obsidian and then to immediately flood the trench in an all-out attempt to save Seared. Forces flooded the trench, but due to the initial hesitation, Seared was already too low on health pots. Cantina lost the second of their three leaders.

Skybridge

After days of fighting in ground tunnels, and hardly any progress being made past the trench, Cantina released their secret weapon, Sharpcastle33. Sharp and Posey spent a lot of time theory crafting vault attacks prior to attacking Hell. Sharp was able to figure out a new and extremely effective way to sky bridge. With the addition of nations being added to the Coalition, they were able to attack from the ground, middle, and multiple tunnels in the sky - overwhelming the Hell defenders.

Vault break

The final push into the vault

S.P.Q.R. monument on the top of Hell following the collapse of Hell defenses.

Aftermath

Pearl pyramids

When they scattered the pearls in like 10 different places

Peace terms

The terms the defenders were given. Mention who didnt accept terms too