Mount September Ice Road Conflict: Difference between revisions

The Mount September Ice Road conflict is an ongoing dispute between [[NebulaSSR]]/[[minemaster933]]/[[KingOfTheMochas]] and [[SirTwiggles]]/[[Icyski]], which is notable for having involved both groups' home alliances - the [[Augustan Federation]] and [[UDF]].

On August 26th, [[bgbba]] posted [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/pccma8/get_off_my_lawn_zoomer_an_explanation_of/ an essay titled "Get Off My Lawn Zoomer: An Explanation of Yesterday's Incident by the Owner of the Iceroad in Question"] to [https://reddit.com/r/civclassics%7Cr/civclassics r/civclassics]. In this 1700-word treatise, [[bgbba]] thoroughly condemned "ungrateful vermin willing to engage in that most degenerate of behaviors: escalationism" ([[NebulaSSR]]/[[minemaster933]]/[[KingOfTheMochas]]), presenting an extensive "Sequence of Events" focusing mainly on the Boomer Iceroad rather than [[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker. Expressing dismay over "illegal iceroad entrances and snitches...made on our iceroad" (an issue mentioned (as [[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker was connected to the iceroad illegally), but not focused on, in [[SirTwiggles]]'s trial) and alarm over a shovel attack on [[Icyski]] by [[NebulaSSR]] on the iceroad adjacent to the bunker (which postdated the inciting trial), and stating that the @everyone snitches in question had fields overlapping the iceroad (making their violators innocent of deliberate harassment), [[bgbba]] leveraged the Boomer Iceroad predating [[Mount September]] to argue that the latter had no business enforcing itself over the former (which, as [[bgbba]] was quick to point out, it already successfully had once before for its vault); [[bgbba]] compared [[KingOfTheMochas]]'s argument that the age of [[Mount September]] was "irrelevant" to the [[Holy Jaded Empire]]'s casus belli against [[SPQR]] (use of a rail which predated the former's claims), generalizing that "[[KingOfTheMochas]] and his supporters are now directly saying that [[NATO]] was right", and used this to justify the conclusion of his treatise: the declaration that "Nebula/Nebulandd/ShockandAwe, KingoftheMochasKingOfTheMochas, and Minemaster are banned from entering the Boomer iceroad indefinitely". <br>

As August 26th became August 27th one time zone at a time, tension grew. [[UDF]] and [[Augustan Federation]] supporters bickered in the comments of [[bgbba]]'s and [[squareblob]]'s Reddit posts, while [[Augustan Federation]] members - [[NebulaSSR]], [[minemaster933]], and [[KingOfTheMochas]] especially - hurriedly prepared for the worst. Tension peaked at approximately 10:40pm EDT August 26th, when several fully-armored players (most from the [[UDF]], with extras such as [[The__druid]]) appeared ready to attack and capture [[NebulaSSR]]'s bunker. Players across CivClassic were forced to ponder the threat of war.

But nobody made a move; the sides began to talk with one another, and became less serious in their opposition to one another. As [[thraldrek]] put it, "in true [[CivClassic 2.0|CivClassic]] fashion, people forgot why they were there for a second and just started screaming about how many people showed up to the event". TheRemaining players, largely those from [[UDFKallos]] playersand Mount September, cleaned up theirthe damage, and tensions receded.<br>