Mount September Ice Road Conflict: Difference between revisions

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The Mount September Ice Road conflict was a brief dispute on [[CivClassic 2.0]] between [[NebulaSSR]]/[[minemaster933]] 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 post, [[bgbba]] thoroughly condemned "ungrateful vermin willing to engage in that most degenerate of behaviors: escalationism" 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, KingOfTheMochas, and Minemaster are banned from entering the Boomer iceroad indefinitely". <br>

[[bgbba]]'s declaration was met with a divided response - a 65:35 upvote-to-downvote ratio, and several comments to the effect of [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/pccma8/get_off_my_lawn_zoomer_an_explanation_of/hai1srk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 "My dude you really need to dial down that ego of yours"]. [[Mount September]] especially was incensed, and [[squareblob]] posted [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/pcend1/some_short_clarifications_to_bgs_post/ "Some short clarifications to Bg's post"], most importantly that [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/614147625809346581/880633084561727498/2021-08-27-035814_603x307_scrot.png "the @everyone snitch in question is clearly outside the ice road"]. With the [[Augustan Federation]] and [[UDF]] now both thoroughly enmeshed in the dispute, and the rest of the world watching, both sides dug their heels in.

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 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{{Citation needed}}. 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". Remaining players, largely those from [[Kallos]] and Mount September, cleaned up the damage, and tensions receded.