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After the negotiations with TRE fell through, Columbia looked elsewhere in search of better land to develop farms and a capital city on. It found its answer in ICOR, a large nation bordering Columbia to the South which just-so-happened to be in the process of looking for smaller nations to give some of its lands to. At this same time, a new and not-yet-public nation called Meridia had formed out of much of the lands that used to be ICOR. In the following couple days after initial contact, ICOR would peacefully cede most of its unused territories to Columbia, Meridia, and Arelat. This situation was essentially without incident except for the fact that some leaders of Meridia, players who had been part of Columbia or had dealings with Columbia on previous iterations, were growing nervous about having a spooky powerful civilization on their Northern border, especially because during the negotiations with ICOR, Columbia had proposed adjusting the initial draft of its borders with Meridia to conform to geographic boundaries rather than haphazardly crossing through mountains. This would've been mostly in favor of Columbia, and although a totally peaceful request on the part of Columbia, it made Meridia fear Columbian expansionism, so they made a counter-proposal in which most of the land Columbia had asked for stayed Meridian, but a small strip was given to Columbia just to connect their two separate landmasses. In return, Columbia agreed not to claim any of ICOR's former territories South of a nearby river, which would come to mark much of the border.
=== Greater Columbia ===
Another incident in the prewar period was when Emperor shadedoom of Columbia posted a map in the ICOR partition channel depicting something called "Greater Columbia". On the map, Columbia was shown claiming over the territories of multiple neighboring nations.<ref>[[:File:Greater Columbia.png|File:Greater Columbia.png]]</ref> shadedoom had posted the image under the impression that the channel being used for negotiations was between friendly neighbors, and believed that the fact that it was framed in a literal meme format would suggest that it was an obvious joke. Meridia and Arelat disagreed, and believed it was a sign of aggression. Many world leaders later criticized the leadership of both Meridia and Arelat for clearly misinterpreting
Months later Columbia eventually did claim many of the areas shown on the map, along with additional overseas territories.<ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/jgxhr4/columbia_declares_independence/]</ref>
== The First Romano-Columbian War<!-- Is there a better name for this conflict? Someone pls correct this if there is lol --> ==
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=== International Reactions ===
The invasion of Columbia was very controversial at its time, with multiple countries and players publicly denouncing the invasion, citing what they believed to be insufficient grounds for an attack.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/gh0029/the_duckapore_ministry_of_basic_human_decency/ "The Duckapore Ministry of Basic Human Decency publicly states that the invasion of Columbia is unjust..."]</ref><ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/gh0029/the_duckapore_ministry_of_basic_human_decency/fq5p7bq/ Christianada Leader Gus_was_here: "FreeColumbia"]</ref> One of the examples cited by the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Empire]], [[Meridia]] and [[Arelat]], when retroactively justifying their invasion, was the fact that [[Columbia]] had recently bought around 200 stacks of obsidian that they found while raiding their town bunker. This was framed to claim that Columbia intended to use this Obsidian, either to make a [[Vault]], or for other military purposes, or to obbybomb their neighbors.<ref>Citation needed</ref> This claim disputed by MCSPenguin, who made a post where he argued that there were many legitimate uses for 200 stacks of obsidian, and that that quantity of obsidian was nowhere near the minimum amount required for even the smallest vaults.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/ghizpb/on_the_subject_of_obsidian/</ref> It later became a meme among those critical of the Roman invasion to jokingly ask people if they had an "Obsidian License".<ref>Citation needed</ref>
=== T-Day ===
On May 10th, [[Tremerus]] was pearled while returning from his beet farm. His pearl was moved to [[Incentives]]' [[Vault]], which was located on the [[Wheatistan|Wheatistani]] part of the Eastern Mushroom Island. Later that day, the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Empire]] and [[Savaguard]], who had given their word that they would stay out of the conflict, along with help from [[Risunsky and Sons]], who had previously offered help to Columbia, launched an attack on [[Incentives]]' [[Vault]], which was being defended by many Columbians, most on unknown alts, along with some volunteer soldiers from a handful of other countries. One of the claims Savaguard used to justify their involvement and convince their people to attack the vault was that there were Mirians defending the vault, a common scapegoat at the time because of the post-Ez2Crew Invasion atmosphere of the server. No Mirians were ever found defending Columbia at any point, because there were none. It was another of Savaguard's many lies used to justify doing whatever they felt like. The attack resulted in a total victory for the attackers after just a couple hours of siege because most of the Columbian defenders decided Realms pvp was stupid and committed honorable suicide in the field of battle. Tremerus was freed, and shortly thereafter, the Treaty of Serenity was signed.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CivRealms/comments/gj75j5/tday/</ref> The entire battle was filmed and uploaded to youtube by [[Saren]], and can be watched [https://youtu.be/GXSBECCYQlM here].
= Treaty of Serenity =
On May 13th, it was officially announced that the Treaty of Serenity had been signed. The full treaty can be read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zo3MVZ92NMWyosRBWt6epglfa2RqX5EhVKun4KlbDZ4/edit here].<ref name=":0" />
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