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The newly elected Crown Prince, Gobblin I was barely 24 hours into his reign when the Estalia - Rhode Island conflict broke out on the 24th of July. The Principality's initial reaction was that of concern over potentially being dragged in via the defensive clause in the Elysian Pact,<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/july/25/estalia-rhode-island-conflict-threatens-elysian-pact-members/</ref>the Pavian government recognised that it was woefully unprepared to defend itself from raiders and the like, especially as Estalian fighters would be distracted by the on-going war. The newly appointed diplomat to the Elysian Pact & Rhode Island, Duke of Bedford BritishWanderer, engaged both parties to express Pavia's neutrality and wish to remain uninvolved, this wish seemed to be respected by Capri of Rhode Island and by Estalia with their assurance to not invoke the defensive clause of the Elysian Pact.

On July 26th, the Pavia Tribune reported on a battle that occurred just 200m off of the western coast, the ensuing battle resulted in a Rhode Island causality. The Privy Council immediately sent their diplomat, BritishWanderer to demand answers from Estalia for this usage of Pavian land to further the conflict, as a result of these conversations, Estalia promised to avoid using Pavian territory to conduct military strategy going forward in the conflict. Rhode Island also contacted the Pavian Government for answers the same evening. <ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/july/26/conflict-strikes-close-to-home-with-body-found-in-tunnel/</ref>

As a result of the growing tensions and being sandwiched between two superpowers at war, on the 26th of July, the Crown Prince made the decision to outline the excavation of a bunker hole, so that the Pavian state could defend itself should the need arise. PvP training sessions were also ran by the Head of the Coastguard, Cissonius, using the newly concocted 'BritishWanderer Baseline' method where all trainees undertook a best of 3 fight with BritishWanderer to find their ranking within the Coastguard.

The citizens of Pavia rallied around digging out the 'trainstation' hole as it came to be affectionally named, the hole was dug out on the 28th of July<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/july/28/train-station-site-excavated-in-three-days/</ref> however it was fraught with controversy such as strikes<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/july/27/government-refusal-to-pay-workers-spurs-unionisation-calls/</ref>, which resulted in the formation of Pavia's first worker's union.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/03/government-commits-to-union-pay-and-safety-demands/</ref>Construction of the bedrock defensive infrastructure was completed on the 10th of August. The roof was lifted off of the bunker on the 10th of August, allowing sunlight to touch the bottom of the hole for the first time since excavation was commenced.

The Coast Guard apprehended an obby bomber and murderer who wreaked havoc in the city of the Grand Imperium on August 11th, taking his pearl back to the 'trainstation' bunker.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/11/coast-guard-apprehends-international-fugitive-wanted-for-serious-crimes/</ref> This pearl took up the current prison population up to 2, joining UnholyOutlaw in the [[Jargon|spike]], who was pearled by BritishWanderer for raiding SPQR.

On the 12th of August, a Rhode Island fighter, Adderal, briefly crossed into Pavian land alongside RonPaul and engaged in breaking Pavian snitches which were surrounded in iron-reinforced obsidian. After the breaking of the snitch, they promptly tore up the surrounding lands and placed obsidian around the area. <ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/12/pavia-under-attack-rhode-island-breaks-vault-snitches/</ref>The Pavian Government immediately responded by notifying it's allies and engaging in diplomatic talks with Thomas, now leader of Rhode Island, for answers on this unprovoked attack. The Pavian Government were unhappy with the response by the Rhode Island government, who felt that Thomas had attempted to justify these actions as falling under the scope of the greater conflict that Rhode Island was involved in with Estalia.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/12/pavia-under-attack-rhode-island-breaks-vault-snitches/</ref>

This event sparked the government to partner with the Pavian institute to create the national threat level<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/12/national-threat-level-elevated-to-expected/</ref><ref>https://gov.pavia.institute/government/national-threat-level/</ref>, the NTL was implemented to inform all citizens and outsiders of the potential chance of an attack on Pavian lands, and contains advice of what to undertake as an individual depending on the level. The national threat level was immediately raised to tier 4, Expected, upon its implementation.

On August the 13th, the Head of the Coastguard Cissonius, renamed the Pavian Bunker to 'Terminus' in-part due its proximity to the Pavian train station. The Skybunker of the Terminus bunker began construction the same day, and the cardinal waterdrops were completed.

Tensions would escalate on the same day when Adderal of Rhode Island was caught on radar scouting Terminus by using a stone skybridge to avoid snitches and scope out the infrastructure from the sky.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/13/rhode-island-detected-scouting-prison-by-coast-guard/</ref> This action was coupled with obby bombing threats by Adderal and others of Rhode Island. The Privy Council once again sent their diplomat to Rhode Island, BritishWanderer, to Thomas in order to discuss this infraction and their relations going forward. Thomas and BritishWanderer eventually came to new terms regarding the neutrality of Pavia in the war. <ref>https://i.imgur.com/8Sh0RcB</ref>

In the early hours of the 17th of August, five Rhode Island fighters faced off against a contingent of Estalians and Titan fighters in SPQR lands, with one causality on the Rhode Island side<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/15/allied-forces-defend-sqpr-vault-against-rhode-island-attack-attempt/</ref>. This further pushed the conflict towards Pavia's borders. After this skirmish, Rhode Island fighters were spotted snitching various portions of Pavia's landmass, and scouting the shoreline, once again breaking the instructions to remain out of Pavian territory.

The leadership of Rhode Island changed once again on the 17th of August leaving Danirague in-charge of the nation, shortly after assuming sole leadership, they made a formal declaration of war on Pavia and it's allies public.<ref>https://tribune.pavia.institute/2022/august/17/rhode-island-declares-war-on-pavia/</ref> <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wqvgbt/the_olive_branch_is_no_longer_extended/</ref>Immediately following this post, Rhode Island fighters then bombed travel infrastructure connecting Pavia with its allies and re-entered Pavia to place more snitches.

Later the same day, Pavia instructed BritishWanderer to post Pavia's call to arms & declaration of war on Rhode Island. <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wr2bzv/a_call_to_arms_from_the_principality_of_pavia_and/</ref>The nation of Jorvik publicly answered the call, with a post of their own hours later. <ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivMC/comments/wr4bff/jorvik_denounces_rhode_islandusa_and_answers/</ref>

Rhode Island fighters subsequently decimated Pavian builds and lands with the spread of reinforced obby across the landscape, bombing indiscriminately. Although Pavian Coalition fighters attempted to catch them off numerous times, they continued to return throughout the evening and pile up obsidian, with some pillars of obsidian reaching 13 blocks high. Estalian forces attempted to put an end to the obby bombing, engaging in small skirmishes with Adderal & RonPaul in the north-west of Pavia, however to little effect as the obby bombings would continue until the north was littered with obsidian.

===== Further Engagements in the Pavian Theatre of the Conflict =====

When cleaning up obsidian on the western shoreline during the late evening of the 17th, Duke of Braemar Cissonius was set upon by 4 Rhode Island fighters, Cissonius was over 400m from the vault and without any reinforcements. He successfully kited back to Terminus, whilst a joint force of Estalian and Pavian fighters gave chase to the Rhode Island attackers, the Estalian portion of the defense force chased the assailants nearly 300m into the western ocean.

In the early hours of the 18th of August, a wooden skybridge was spotted circling the outside of the vault's snitch curtain and although there was no breach by RI fighters, Gobblin would instruct Pavians to ramp up security around the skylimit area of Terminus to prevent further attacks. Later that morning the Crown Prince, Gobblin & Duke BritishWanderer would respond to an incursion by HOODRATSLAYA to the Pavian vault, they would engage in a small clash just south of the townhall, where HOODRAT would place more obsidian whilst kiting towards the coast. The two Pavians would be joined by Walkers from Estalia who would eventually drive HOODRAT into the western sea.

Come the morning of the 19th, Pavian forces made up of BritishWanderer & Gobblin alongside Estalian fighters of Walkers, ZibeKabir & Shadedoom, would clash on the north coast with Dollaz, HOODRATSLAYA and Hokkaido__ from Rhode Island. The Rhode Island aggressors would place obsidian, and repeatedly attempt to kite to a trap they had constructed on an outlying sand island. This battle would result in no causalities and end with the withdrawal of the Rhode Island fighters back to their Nation-state. Later on in the day, Aprillia2002 of RI would be spotted building yet another skybridge to the west of Terminus. They would immediately flee after being spotted on radar, dumping lava on the bridge in their retreat which would pour down in-front of the Pavian Townhall. This skybridge was promptly destroyed by the Dukes of Bedford and Lugano.

In the early hours of the 20th of August, reports came through to Elysian Pact high command that SPQR infrastructure was under assault by a contingent of Rhode Island forces, made up of Adderal, HOODRATSLAYA, RonPaul & Dollaz. Estalia took the initiative to assemble a sizable force of fighters from Pavia, Jorvik & Estalia to counter-attack RI in SPQR, led by S4NTA & Gregy165 and supported by BritishWanderer, Gobblin, Quinndolin, Stardarkness, thejkh, tomyy789. Upon the Estalian response force's arrival into SPQR, the Rhode Island fighters promptly fled west thought by the Estalian force to be fleeing back towards their home country. However, the Rhode Island forces would loop south by 2000 metres and land on the shores of Pavia which was left virtually undefended with all the present Elysian Pact pvpers in southern SPQR, Walkers from Estalia engaged in a 4v1 clash in the fields of Pavia whilst the Elysian Pact force made it's way back down south, attempting to cut off any potential escape by the Rhode Islanders. The Rhode Island combatants, having successfully baited the Elysian Pact forces north and now back south, took flight back west towards Rhode Island before any causalities were realised.