Wagner War

The Wagner War was a conflict from December 13th, 2023 to March 2024 between Cascadia and multiple groups and nations under the coalition of Wagner Group. The war came about through the Osoyoos secession just a couple months before, the unbanning of BonZZil_, a prominent Anti-Cascadian, and most of all, the upcoming update of Overclaim to be released on the advent of the new year. Most of the fighting happened through fighting over territory mainly through the new Overclaim update, and through PR, with Wagner Group in particular attempting to sway international opinion against Cascadia. It was a purely defensive war for Cascadia, with most of their actions being protecting their claims and towns from upcoming Overclaim operations by Wagner Group. By the time Overclaim had been added on New Year's Day, Cascadian leaders had already prepared the vast majority of their vulnerable towns for the upcoming update. As a result, the only territorial losses Cascadia received were the territorial atrophy of some towns, a section of what is now Astoria, and a single chunk of Chaeronea that had been overclaimed by Wagner Group. The conflict is widely considered to be the predecessor to the Great American War, of which had similar belligerents on the Anti-Cascadian side.

Background and Prelude to War

Cascadia-Texas Tensions

Throughout the year of 2023, relations between Cascadia and Texas were always very cold, as Texas had previously worked against Cascadia. North_Paso, Texas's King at the time, was a major participant in the Battle of Oceanside, having been the one who owned and claimed the land for the Anti-Cascadia side. Texas also attempted a covert operation in April 2023 to get an entire group within Cascadia, the Frontier, to secede from Cascadia, though this was a failure. North_Paso was already well known for spreading rumors now proven to be false about pedophilia within Cascadia's ranks, and used it for the rise of Chad and other Anti-Cascadian nations to supply them with ammo for the smear campaign to come.

On the contrary, in November 2023, a nation-hopper named HersheyJr arrived in Texas, having previously spending time in Cascadia and contributing to the end of the RMF Wars. While in Texas, Hershey obtained perms to the Texan capital of Houston, and severely damaged the Texan capitol in a terrorist attack. Houston lost considerable materials in the looting of this attack. Sparked by this event alongside the aforementioned, Texas joined the war on Cascadia and Wagner Group on December 18th, 2023. Through this, they also had propped up a puppet state, the Restored Republic of Cascadia, out of the nation of Oregon led by Bon_Kranch, in order to fight Cascadia at their home turf and attempt to poach Cascadian towns to their cause.

The Osoyoos Secession to Chad

In August 2023, a political faction known commonly as Osoyoos, named after the town it originally resided from, was formed. It was mainly taken up by people of a friend group who had come to Cascadia on July 3rd, 2023, when the town of Osoyoos was founded. The group was hyper-nationalistic, imperialist, jingoist, and their ideology was comparable to a pathetic form of digital fascism, in contrast to the pacifism and wokeness among most other Cascadians. As a result, conflict would eventually spring, eventually becoming extremely tense after the September 2023 elections. Eventually, they seceded in response to a tie during the revealing of the results of the October elections, between incumbent president EmpressCorgo and the Osoyoos-backed candidate Flatvent_One, who was also one of the leaders of the movement. They then migrated to central Africa and made the nation of Chad. Their secession was bitter, so they were immediately very cold with Cascadia. Chad grew very quickly and even overtook Cascadia in population for a brief period before the war. Chad eventually formed the Wagner Group with originally the nations of New Mexico and Prairies, and subsequently declared war on Cascadia on December 13th, 2023, starting the Wagner War.

Overclaim

Overclaim had been proposed throughout the year of 2023 by the EarthMC staff team, and despite major disapproval among the playerbase, they eventually announced that it would be implemented as soon as New Year's Day started in Central European Time. This brought panic to many of those who had built up their towns and metropolitan areas before Overclaim had even been thought of, Cascadia being a major one, due to their large amount of enemies at the time and amount of towns that would be vulnerable to the update. At the same time, this gave a unique opportunity to the numerous enemies of Cascadia, who realized that this could be a way to gut Cascadia's major towns entirely. This would be the reason Wagner Group originally started the war, wanting to seize this opportunity to get revenge on Cascadia for multiple grievances. The Cascadian government had long recognized the threat of Overclaim, however their operation to protect their towns from it, REDACTED, was very sluggish in the buildup to the war itself, prioritizing other goals first, such as recouping from the activity loss caused by the Osoyoos Secession.