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The Second Siege of Sempiternal was the secondthird major movementbattle in the NATO-Mir warWar, fought by players from [[Columbia]] and [[Hallow]] against [[Mir]]. It took place on the 23rd of February, 2019, between the hours of 10am5am and 1pm8pm GMTEST at the ColumbiaColumbian vault, which wasis named "Sempiternal," and has four rings total. This wassiege occurred exactly one week after the first failed attempt by Mir to break the vault, covered by the article [[The siege of Sempiternal]]. One player was pearled during the siege: Ahrimanne, Ahrimanea NATO fighter from Hallow.
 
Preparations for the attack had been on going throughout the week since the first failed attack. Mirian forces had been snitching the key infrastructure links between Hallow and the Columbian vault, theorising that once the ice road, the main transit conduit between Hallow and Sempiternal, was deemed potentially too dangerous to use by Hallow forces, they would be forced to go overland through water where they could be pickedintercepted offand harassed by theMir superiorTeam Mirian fighters6. Preparations were made - theThe ice road was repeatedly snitched at both ends and along the middle stretch. NATO forces mined out the area around their ice tunnel finding many of the snitches, but not all of them. Satisfied that their intelligence network was reasonable, the scene was set for Mir to attack on the weekend.
 
 
== Attack on the vaultVault ==
 
The vault -break began at approximately 10am5am GMTEST. Under the pretense of greifinggriefing the bedrock outside the vault, as they had been doing for the last few days, Krallen (Mir) was sent to the Mirianoutside forcesof enteredthe fourth ring to begin mining a port of entry into the vault's holeground level, followed soon by the rest of Mir Team 6, hitting snitches immediately. UtilisingUtilizing LysikaLysika_Lantariel's (leader, Mir) previous vault -breaking experience, they employed his preferred tactic of ring skipping - breakingskipping—mining into the 2ndsecond to last ring before attackingbreaking the bastions.bastions—which Duewas quite effective given the bastion layout of Sempiternal adhering to the webdesign setupof they[[Nerd Rings]]. They were able to do this without initial danger whenbecause there was only a single defender online for quite a while. shadedoom (Columbia) had again been the first to log on and notice the attack, Shadedoombut despite his efforts to harass the Mirian forces in the vault hole, onlinehe was poorly equipped and had unwisely moved his Columbian-based combat alt from Sempiternal to Hallow's vault the night before, thus making an effective defense impossible without reinforcements. As a direct consequence, theyMirian fighters were able to break the outer rings very quickly. Progress was slower on the third and final ring.
 
Progress was slower on the final ring and ground bunker of the vault. LyndonLaRouche logged in after the second ring was broken, and organized the defense force made up of Gbalelul (Hallow), shadedoom, and himself. Whilst the Mirians began breaking the final ring, they were harassed by a familiar barrage from debuff potions, on top of TNT and bow fire. While this tactic from NATO did somewhat slow the Mirian advance, enough bastions had been broken so as to allow them to build a reinforced stone room at the head of the attack tunnel, which would later be improved by replacing the stone with cobblestone. While this was a long term benefit for Mir, it also allowed more use of TNT by LyndonLaRouche in the short term to blow up unmatured reinforced blocks.
 
Eventually, although NATO had successfully slowed Mir Team 6's advance somewhat, the defense had become arduous and LyndonLaRouche realized they could not hold the ground level much longer without reinforcements. He shortly retreated into the sky bunker and logged off for about an hour. At this time, shadedoom organized himself and Gbalelul to evacuate materials from the ground bunker to the sky bunker, and begin filling the ground bunker with reinforced obsidian and cobblestone grief. The Mirian forces continued breaking the final ring whilst the evacuation was going on, almost entirely uncontested in their attack tunnel.
 
LyndonLaRouche logged in after the second ring was broken and organised the defence force made up of Gbalelul, Shadedoom and himself. Whilst the Mirians began breaking the final ring they were harrassed by potions, TNT and bow fire. However, the vault bastions had been placed incorrectly allowing the Mirian forces to build a safe room in the final bastioned ring. After approximately thirty minutes it became clear to the defenders that they were no longer able to slow the attackers and Lyndon logged out. The Mirians continued breaking the final ring whilst Gba and Shadedoom destroyed all the materials within the vault bunker and blocked it up with obsidian.
 
 
== Subsequent Disabling and Skirmish ==
 
Once the finalbastions vaultin the final ring wasof the vault were broken, the Mirians began placing reinforced stone into theshore ringsup intheir orderattack totunnel and further disable the vaultouter rings. At around thisthat time Hantzu, theHanTzu (leader of, Hallow,) finally logged in and began to muster a forcereinforcements in Hallow, someabout 3k3000 blocksmeters to the North WestNorthwest. Due to the worksnitching done by Mir in the preceding week, they were able to identify exactly when Hallow's forces began moving towards the vault, and their progress along the way. When the Hallow reinforcements, consisting of Destrudo (alt of HanTzu), AhrimaneAhrimanne (Hallow, Mount Augusta), and Erlich (Hallow), began moving towards Columbia, Ez2Clutch (Mir) and GregyGregy165 (Mir) were sent to intercept. The Miriantwo Interceptorsinterceptors caught sight of the reinforcements, andtriggering GregyGregy165 backedto back off whilst Ez2Clutch aggressively pearled into them. The Hallow forces randiverted, and in the confusion, leftAhrimanne Ahrimanewent toin fendthe forwrong himselfdirection. After a short chase, AhrimaneAhrimanne was pearled by Ez2Clutch in a river near Hallow. The remaining Hallow fighters tried to reach Ahrimanne, but backed off when they realized it would likely cost them their pearls as well.
 
Ahrimanne's pearl was quickly brought back to the main Mirian force at Sempiternal. Upon its arrival, the Mirian forces split up, some kiting to nearby bunkers, and some taking the pearl back to the Mir Vault. The attack had left Columbia's Security Council and the leadership of NATO with the decision to either repair the vault in an attempt to hold it once more, or to retreat from it with all of the important and valuable materials remaining there. Given the casualties had defending it, and the cost and effort it would take to repair it again, the choice was made unilaterally to abandon and self-grief Sempiternal to minimize future losses and the effect of future grief of the vault. Evacuation efforts were organized in the following days, headed by shadedoom and Ladezkik (Holy Jaded Empire). This siege was a tremendous success and major victory for Mir in its war against NATO.
The pearl was quickly brought to the main Mirian force at the Columbian vault. Upon its arrival the Mirian forces packed up, having placed sufficient grief to keep Columbia occupied for a few hours and escorted the pearl back to Mir. The attack was considered an unqualified success by Mirian forces.
 
 
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