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[Writer's Note, this is still a WIP, I'll get the necessary format down soon]

The Wagner War was a conflict from December 13th, 2023 to March 2024 between [[Aurora:Cascadia|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, rising tensions between Cascadia and Texas, 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 Texan side.

The '''Wagner War''' was a conflict from December 13th, 2023 to March 2024 between [[Aurora:Cascadia|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, rising tensions between Cascadia and Texas, 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 Texan 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.

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 Hersheylr 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 day before they declared war, 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.

On the contrary, in November 2023, a nation-hopper named [[Hersheylr]] 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 day before they declared war, 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 ===

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On the Cascadian side, most of their actions composed of preparing their territory for Overclaim, now going significantly quicker through the process due to the war declaration. [Writer's Note: The rest of this paragraph is technically classified information despite it all happening a year and a half ago, I will go through the larp bullshit necessary to get it declassified]

On the Wagner side, they were primarily focused on preparing for a campaign to overclaim Cascadia, planting Overclaim towns near vulnerable Cascadian towns and preparing existing invader towns such as Bakhmut to overclaim neighboring Cascadian towns. This is where one of the only two territorial successes on the side of Wagner happened, in which 8set sniped the town of Seaside, a section of what is now Astoria, which conveniently bordered the Cascadian capital of [[Olympia]]. Alongside this, they also lashed out with a massive smear campaign, accusing Cascadia, usually falsely. This was through a few fronts, one being accusing Cascadia of being a dictatorship, citing the October 2023 elections, in which they claimed [[SayerQT]] rigged it against [[Flatvent_One]], though this was unfounded. Another was through accusing Cascadia of being a "scam nation" or "nation of scammers", citing primarily the Hanse Library Robbery, which had been committed by Cascadians. However though, the government had not been involved in the operation, and actively went through the efforts of getting as much of the stolen items back as they could. A last one was accusing Cascadia of being a pedophile ring, using the aforementioned ~~false~~ rumors from North_Paso. All three of these ~~was~~ used with mild to moderate success of temporarily damaging Cascadia's reputation.

On the Wagner side, they were primarily focused on preparing for a campaign to overclaim Cascadia, planting Overclaim towns near vulnerable Cascadian towns and preparing existing invader towns such as Bakhmut to overclaim neighboring Cascadian towns. This is where one of the only two territorial successes on the side of Wagner happened, in which 8set sniped the town of Seaside, a section of what is now Astoria, which conveniently bordered the Cascadian capital of [[Olympia]]. Alongside this, they also lashed out with a massive smear campaign, accusing Cascadia, usually falsely. This was through a few fronts, one being accusing Cascadia of being a dictatorship, citing the October 2023 elections, in which they claimed [[SayerQT]] rigged it against [[Flatvent_One]], though this was unfounded. Another was through accusing Cascadia of being a "scam nation" or "nation of scammers", citing primarily the Hanse Library Robbery, which had been committed by Cascadians. However though, the government had not been involved in the operation, and actively went through the efforts of getting as much of the stolen items back as they could. A last one was accusing Cascadia of being a pedophile ring, using the aforementioned rumors from North_Paso, later proven to be false. All three of these were used with mild to moderate success of temporarily damaging Cascadia's reputation on the world stage.

There was an incident at the Cascadian Capitol, where several Wagner members entered the building and claimed that they took it over, ~~though~~ the [[President of Cascadia|Cascadian President]] at the time, [[Setrus]], closed the ~~door~~ while they were inside and effectively trapped them.

There was an incident at the Cascadian Capitol on December 21st, where several Wagner members entered the building and claimed that they took it over, attempting to get the event on TBI. However, the [[President of Cascadia|Cascadian President]] and architect of said building at the time, [[Setrus]], closed the entrance behind them while they were inside and effectively trapped them.

~~Some things~~ that ~~could fall under Wagner's smear campaign could include~~ the Anti-Cascadia League ~~and the International Court of Justice~~. The former was an incident occurring between EmpressCorgo, the Treasurer at the time, and [[CDDragon4784]], the leader of the USSR and of the United Front, an alliance Cascadia was apart of. In it, EmpressCorgo joked in a public Cascadian discord channel about starting an Anti-Cascadia group to get donations from those who opposed the nation, scamming them. CDDragon4784 created a discord server known as the "Anti-Cascadia League", also in a joking matter. In response, North_Paso of Texas acted as if it were serious, and released a statement condemning Cascadia for supposedly conspiring to scam, and even confusingly declared war on the Anti-Cascadia League. The other incident consisted of Wagner members founding an organization of the same name on December 30th. The Wagner ICJ likely died out immediately, as no record can be found on it outside of the announcement of it's establishment. However, there was another organization, also called the International Court of Justice founded by the United Front, of which Cascadia was a part of. This was what the Wagner International Court of Justice was likely founded to combat, however Wagner members decided to instead infiltrate the existed United Front one, leading to 8set becoming a judge. Then, on Judgement Day itself, Wagner opened a[presumably rigged or biased] trial against Cascadia for supposed sexual grooming, likely citing the aforementioned rumors provided by Paso. Cascadia, not being a signatory of the United Front ICJ, refused to take up the trial for reasons that should be obvious. Not long after this incident, the United Front pulled out of the ICJ on January 4th, which made the entire organization defunct.[Writer's note: Yes, they really did attempt to try someone for sexual crimes on a fucking block game court, I'm not making this up, and personally I still can't wrap my head around it to this day. Also, will likely put this incident under "Judgement Day" instead.]

One other event that happened before Judgement day was the Anti-Cascadia League incident. The former was an incident occurring between EmpressCorgo, the Treasurer at the time, and [[CDDragon4784]], the leader of the USSR and of the United Front, an alliance Cascadia was apart of. In it, EmpressCorgo joked in a public Cascadian discord channel about starting an Anti-Cascadia group to get donations from those who opposed the nation, scamming them. CDDragon4784 created a discord server known as the "Anti-Cascadia League", also in a joking matter. In response, North_Paso of Texas acted as if it were serious, and released a statement condemning Cascadia for supposedly conspiring to scam, and even confusingly declared war on the Anti-Cascadia League.

=== Judgement Day ===

By this point, Cascadia's leaders were tense, although they had thankfully prepared most of their most vulnerable towns just in time for the update. The one major exception to this however was the town of [[Chaeronea]], which was the main town where the Frontier originated, a friend group whom Chad's leaders particularly hated. As a result, they were the only town to be targeted in the Overclaim operation on Day ~~Zero~~, though there may have been plans to target the Capital town of Olympia and it's surroundings[Writer's Note: Unconfirmed, I just assumed they would have.].

By this point, Cascadia's leaders were tense, although they had thankfully prepared most of their most vulnerable towns just in time for the update. The one major exception to this however was the town of [[Chaeronea]], which was the main town where the Frontier originated, a friend group within Cascadia whom Chad's leaders particularly hated. As a result, they were the only town to be targeted in the Overclaim operation on Judgement Day, though there may have been plans to target the Capital town of [[Olympia]] and it's surroundings[Writer's Note: Unconfirmed, I just assumed they would have.].

New Year's came to Fix's timezone at approximately 6:00 PM ET, however Overclaim would not be implemented for several hours. Eventually, at 1:11:55 AM, on New Year's Day, the staff team shuts down the server to implement the update, with CorruptedGreed testing it out on a neighboring town all the way in Europe while the server was down, becoming the first usage of the new tool.

30 minutes later, the server comes back online with Overclaim enabled at 1:41:38 AM. Immediately, Wagner members 8set, Karn4 and others come online with the town "The_BUFF", positioned against Chaeronea under the nation of Prairies. Unfortunately though, the then mayor of Charonea 3llies came online and enabled Overclaim Shield in the town in the nick of time, leading to Wagner only being able to overclaim a single chunk of the town. The chunk they had overclaimed was actually part of a house with tens of thousands of gold in valuables, however the vast majority of this was evacuated by ~~WrestlingwithGod~~ prior to these events, and Wagner was only able to acquire a very small fraction of the value stored in the house. After another temporary shutdown of the server between 1:47:56 AM and 1:52:29 AM, the rest of the night would be relatively uneventful, as Wagner was unable to attack any more Cascadian towns with Overclaim. Overall, contrary to Wagner's estimations and the worst fears of Cascadian leadership, very little actually happened and the attacks on Cascadia that night were minimal at best. Had 3llies not come online and enabled Overclaim shield in the nick of time though, it is likely that Wagner would have ravaged the town, alongside Montana's capital, a nation that the Frontier collectively owned to be a nation shop.

30 minutes later, the server comes back online with Overclaim enabled at 1:41:38 AM. Immediately, Wagner members 8set, Karn4 and others come online with the town "The_BUFF", positioned against Chaeronea under the nation of Prairies. Unfortunately though, the then mayor of Charonea 3llies came online and enabled Overclaim Shield in the town in the nick of time, leading to Wagner only being able to overclaim a single chunk of the town. The chunk they had overclaimed was actually part of a house with tens of thousands of gold in valuables, however the vast majority of this was evacuated by [[WrestlingWithGod]] prior to these events, and Wagner was only able to acquire a very small fraction of the value stored in the house. After another temporary shutdown of the server between 1:47:56 AM and 1:52:29 AM, the rest of the night would be relatively uneventful, as Wagner was unable to attack any more Cascadian towns with Overclaim. Overall, contrary to Wagner's estimations and the worst fears of Cascadian leadership, very little actually happened and the attacks on Cascadia that night were minimal at best. Had 3llies not come online and enabled Overclaim shield in the nick of time though, it is likely that Wagner would have ravaged the town, alongside Montana's capital, a nation that the Frontier collectively owned to be a nation shop.

=== Events After Judgement Day ===

Chaeronea was the last vulnerable town in Cascadia, and the town only had enough gold in it's bank for two days of Overclaim Shield.

Chaeronea was the last vulnerable town in Cascadia, and the town only had enough gold in it's bank for two days of Overclaim Shield. WrestlingWithGod, who was a former mayor of the town, put extra gold in the town bank in order to expand the shield's lifespan while they thought of a plan. Due to the fact that chunk refunds had been removed with the official update of Overclaim, town splitting was prohibitively expense, leading to Cascadia deciding to simply downsize the town from it's original 360 chunks to just a third of that.

One incident that occured during and after Judgement Day consisted of North_Paso founding an organization of the name "International Court of Justice" on December 30th, likely to be a competitor to the United Front's organization of the same name, an alliance that Cascadia was a part of and close with. North_Paso's ICJ likely died out immediately, as no record can be found on it outside of the announcement of it's establishment. Wagner members decided to instead infiltrate the existing United Front ICJ, leading to 8set becoming a judge. Then, on Judgement Day itself, Wagner opened a trial against Cascadia for supposed sexual grooming, likely citing the aforementioned false rumors provided by Paso. Cascadia, not being a signatory of the United Front ICJ specifically, refused to take up the trial for reasons that should be obvious. Not long after this incident, the United Front pulled out of the ICJ on January 4th, which made the entire organization effectively defunct.[Writer's note: Yes, Wagner really did attempt to try someone for sexual crimes on a fucking block game court, I'm not making this up, and personally, I still can't wrap my head around it to this day.]

Afterwards, not much action occurred between Cascadia and Wagner, with most of it simply just being a continuation of Wagner's smear campaign. Although this too would fade for the most part by the end of January, as Wagner's members gradually became less active and onlookers from neutral nations found the smearing to be increasingly more annoying and obsessive. The last action of the war occured in March through the [[San Francisco Offensive of 2024]], where towns surrounding the town of San Francisco, part of the Restored Republic of Cascadia, overclaimed the town partially. This caused it's mayor, [[UnbatedAura|Unbated]], to go inactive on the server and leave the town to [[NFISH2021]], who would join the [[Aurora:North Sea Republic|North Sea Republic]] through San Francisco's ingame nation of Norcal. The NSR would collapse several months later, and to this day San Francisco and Norcal remains in the hands of NFISH, independent.

== End of War & Aftermath ==

The end of the Wagner War was never official, and it only "ended" because Wagner Group eventually fizzled out and stopped their offensive after Day ~~Zero~~. As a result, the [[San Francisco Offensive of 2024]] is generally considered the end of the war, as it was the last significant action committed by any belligerent during the war. The end of the war could be compared to the end of [[wikipedia:Korean_War|Korean War]] in the real world, as it never had an official end, and neither South or North Korea made an official peace treaty.

The end of the Wagner War was never official, and it only "ended" because Wagner Group eventually fizzled out and stopped their offensive after Judgement Day. As a result, the [[San Francisco Offensive of 2024]] is generally considered the end of the war, as it was the last significant action committed by any belligerent during the war. The end of the war could be compared to the end of [[wikipedia:Korean_War|Korean War]] in the real world, as it never had an official end, and neither South or North Korea made an official peace treaty.

It is generally considered to be a victory to the Cascadian side of the conflict, as while their reputation was damaged temporarily and the town of Seaside was lost, these losses proved to be temporary. Alongside this, the territorial losses for Cascadia could have been severely worse, or even fatal if [REDACTED] was not successful at protecting vulnerable towns, most of which being in the central Metropolitan area. The preparations they made for their towns were permanent too. As a result, the war theoretically made Cascadia more proactive about it's territorial security, preventing another similar crisis in the future.

For the other side, the war was an overall defeat, as their gains against Cascadia were both minimal and temporary. All of the Wagner member nations with the exclusion of Texas ~~went inactive~~, however some of the leaders of said ~~inactive~~ nations would consolidate in Texas and go on to fight in the [[Great American War]], including Karn4 of Chad and Bon_Kranch of Restored Cascadia.

For the other side, the war was an overall defeat, as their gains against Cascadia were both minimal and temporary. All of the Wagner member nations with the exclusion of Texas became defunct, however some of the leaders of said defunct nations would consolidate in Texas and go on to fight in the [[Great American War]], including Karn4 of Chad and Bon_Kranch of Restored Cascadia. Texas would increase in activity significantly after the war, eventually becoming one of the strongest powers in North America, and they would begin fighting Cascadia again just a couple of months later in the Great American War, which would become a much bigger war than it's predecessor.

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 [Writer's Note, this is still a WIP, I'll get the necessary format down soon]
-The Wagner War was a conflict from December 13th, 2023 to March 2024 between [[Aurora:Cascadia|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, rising tensions between Cascadia and Texas, 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 Texan side.
+The '''Wagner War''' was a conflict from December 13th, 2023 to March 2024 between [[Aurora:Cascadia|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, rising tensions between Cascadia and Texas, 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 Texan 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.
+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 Hersheylr 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 day before they declared war, 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.
+On the contrary, in November 2023, a nation-hopper named [[Hersheylr]] 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 day before they declared war, 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 ===
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 On the Cascadian side, most of their actions composed of preparing their territory for Overclaim, now going significantly quicker through the process due to the war declaration. [Writer's Note: The rest of this paragraph is technically classified information despite it all happening a year and a half ago, I will go through the larp bullshit necessary to get it declassified]
-On the Wagner side, they were primarily focused on preparing for a campaign to overclaim Cascadia, planting Overclaim towns near vulnerable Cascadian towns and preparing existing invader towns such as Bakhmut to overclaim neighboring Cascadian towns. This is where one of the only two territorial successes on the side of Wagner happened, in which 8set sniped the town of Seaside, a section of what is now Astoria, which conveniently bordered the Cascadian capital of [[Olympia]]. Alongside this, they also lashed out with a massive smear campaign, accusing Cascadia, usually falsely. This was through a few fronts, one being accusing Cascadia of being a dictatorship, citing the October 2023 elections, in which they claimed [[SayerQT]] rigged it against [[Flatvent_One]], though this was unfounded. Another was through accusing Cascadia of being a "scam nation" or "nation of scammers", citing primarily the Hanse Library Robbery, which had been committed by Cascadians. However though, the government had not been involved in the operation, and actively went through the efforts of getting as much of the stolen items back as they could. A last one was accusing Cascadia of being a pedophile ring, using the aforementioned false rumors from North_Paso. All three of these was used with mild to moderate success of temporarily damaging Cascadia's reputation.
+On the Wagner side, they were primarily focused on preparing for a campaign to overclaim Cascadia, planting Overclaim towns near vulnerable Cascadian towns and preparing existing invader towns such as Bakhmut to overclaim neighboring Cascadian towns. This is where one of the only two territorial successes on the side of Wagner happened, in which 8set sniped the town of Seaside, a section of what is now Astoria, which conveniently bordered the Cascadian capital of [[Olympia]]. Alongside this, they also lashed out with a massive smear campaign, accusing Cascadia, usually falsely. This was through a few fronts, one being accusing Cascadia of being a dictatorship, citing the October 2023 elections, in which they claimed [[SayerQT]] rigged it against [[Flatvent_One]], though this was unfounded. Another was through accusing Cascadia of being a "scam nation" or "nation of scammers", citing primarily the Hanse Library Robbery, which had been committed by Cascadians. However though, the government had not been involved in the operation, and actively went through the efforts of getting as much of the stolen items back as they could. A last one was accusing Cascadia of being a pedophile ring, using the aforementioned rumors from North_Paso, later proven to be false. All three of these were used with mild to moderate success of temporarily damaging Cascadia's reputation on the world stage.
-There was an incident at the Cascadian Capitol, where several Wagner members entered the building and claimed that they took it over, though the [[President of Cascadia|Cascadian President]] at the time, [[Setrus]], closed the door while they were inside and effectively trapped them.
+There was an incident at the Cascadian Capitol on December 21st, where several Wagner members entered the building and claimed that they took it over, attempting to get the event on TBI. However, the [[President of Cascadia|Cascadian President]] and architect of said building at the time, [[Setrus]], closed the entrance behind them while they were inside and effectively trapped them.
-Some things that could fall under Wagner's smear campaign could include the Anti-Cascadia League and the International Court of Justice. The former was an incident occurring between EmpressCorgo, the Treasurer at the time, and [[CDDragon4784]], the leader of the USSR and of the United Front, an alliance Cascadia was apart of. In it, EmpressCorgo joked in a public Cascadian discord channel about starting an Anti-Cascadia group to get donations from those who opposed the nation, scamming them. CDDragon4784 created a discord server known as the "Anti-Cascadia League", also in a joking matter. In response, North_Paso of Texas acted as if it were serious, and released a statement condemning Cascadia for supposedly conspiring to scam, and even confusingly declared war on the Anti-Cascadia League. The other incident consisted of Wagner members founding an organization of the same name on December 30th. The Wagner ICJ likely died out immediately, as no record can be found on it outside of the announcement of it's establishment. However, there was another organization, also called the International Court of Justice founded by the United Front, of which Cascadia was a part of. This was what the Wagner International Court of Justice was likely founded to combat, however Wagner members decided to instead infiltrate the existed United Front one, leading to 8set becoming a judge. Then, on Judgement Day itself, Wagner opened a[presumably rigged or biased] trial against Cascadia for supposed sexual grooming, likely citing the aforementioned rumors provided by Paso. Cascadia, not being a signatory of the United Front ICJ, refused to take up the trial for reasons that should be obvious. Not long after this incident, the United Front pulled out of the ICJ on January 4th, which made the entire organization defunct.[Writer's note: Yes, they really did attempt to try someone for sexual crimes on a fucking block game court, I'm not making this up, and personally I still can't wrap my head around it to this day. Also, will likely put this incident under "Judgement Day" instead.]
+One other event that happened before Judgement day was the Anti-Cascadia League incident. The former was an incident occurring between EmpressCorgo, the Treasurer at the time, and [[CDDragon4784]], the leader of the USSR and of the United Front, an alliance Cascadia was apart of. In it, EmpressCorgo joked in a public Cascadian discord channel about starting an Anti-Cascadia group to get donations from those who opposed the nation, scamming them. CDDragon4784 created a discord server known as the "Anti-Cascadia League", also in a joking matter. In response, North_Paso of Texas acted as if it were serious, and released a statement condemning Cascadia for supposedly conspiring to scam, and even confusingly declared war on the Anti-Cascadia League.
 === Judgement Day ===
-By this point, Cascadia's leaders were tense, although they had thankfully prepared most of their most vulnerable towns just in time for the update. The one major exception to this however was the town of [[Chaeronea]], which was the main town where the Frontier originated, a friend group whom Chad's leaders particularly hated. As a result, they were the only town to be targeted in the Overclaim operation on Day Zero, though there may have been plans to target the Capital town of Olympia and it's surroundings[Writer's Note: Unconfirmed, I just assumed they would have.].
+By this point, Cascadia's leaders were tense, although they had thankfully prepared most of their most vulnerable towns just in time for the update. The one major exception to this however was the town of [[Chaeronea]], which was the main town where the Frontier originated, a friend group within Cascadia whom Chad's leaders particularly hated. As a result, they were the only town to be targeted in the Overclaim operation on Judgement Day, though there may have been plans to target the Capital town of [[Olympia]] and it's surroundings[Writer's Note: Unconfirmed, I just assumed they would have.].
 New Year's came to Fix's timezone at approximately 6:00 PM ET, however Overclaim would not be implemented for several hours. Eventually, at 1:11:55 AM, on New Year's Day, the staff team shuts down the server to implement the update, with CorruptedGreed testing it out on a neighboring town all the way in Europe while the server was down, becoming the first usage of the new tool.
-minutes later, the server comes back online with Overclaim enabled at 1:41:38 AM. Immediately, Wagner members 8set, Karn4 and others come online with the town "The_BUFF", positioned against Chaeronea under the nation of Prairies. Unfortunately though, the then mayor of Charonea 3llies came online and enabled Overclaim Shield in the town in the nick of time, leading to Wagner only being able to overclaim a single chunk of the town. The chunk they had overclaimed was actually part of a house with tens of thousands of gold in valuables, however the vast majority of this was evacuated by WrestlingwithGod prior to these events, and Wagner was only able to acquire a very small fraction of the value stored in the house. After another temporary shutdown of the server between 1:47:56 AM and 1:52:29 AM, the rest of the night would be relatively uneventful, as Wagner was unable to attack any more Cascadian towns with Overclaim. Overall, contrary to Wagner's estimations and the worst fears of Cascadian leadership, very little actually happened and the attacks on Cascadia that night were minimal at best. Had 3llies not come online and enabled Overclaim shield in the nick of time though, it is likely that Wagner would have ravaged the town, alongside Montana's capital, a nation that the Frontier collectively owned to be a nation shop.
+minutes later, the server comes back online with Overclaim enabled at 1:41:38 AM. Immediately, Wagner members 8set, Karn4 and others come online with the town "The_BUFF", positioned against Chaeronea under the nation of Prairies. Unfortunately though, the then mayor of Charonea 3llies came online and enabled Overclaim Shield in the town in the nick of time, leading to Wagner only being able to overclaim a single chunk of the town. The chunk they had overclaimed was actually part of a house with tens of thousands of gold in valuables, however the vast majority of this was evacuated by [[WrestlingWithGod]] prior to these events, and Wagner was only able to acquire a very small fraction of the value stored in the house. After another temporary shutdown of the server between 1:47:56 AM and 1:52:29 AM, the rest of the night would be relatively uneventful, as Wagner was unable to attack any more Cascadian towns with Overclaim. Overall, contrary to Wagner's estimations and the worst fears of Cascadian leadership, very little actually happened and the attacks on Cascadia that night were minimal at best. Had 3llies not come online and enabled Overclaim shield in the nick of time though, it is likely that Wagner would have ravaged the town, alongside Montana's capital, a nation that the Frontier collectively owned to be a nation shop.
 === Events After Judgement Day ===
-Chaeronea was the last vulnerable town in Cascadia, and the town only had enough gold in it's bank for two days of Overclaim Shield.
+Chaeronea was the last vulnerable town in Cascadia, and the town only had enough gold in it's bank for two days of Overclaim Shield. WrestlingWithGod, who was a former mayor of the town, put extra gold in the town bank in order to expand the shield's lifespan while they thought of a plan. Due to the fact that chunk refunds had been removed with the official update of Overclaim, town splitting was prohibitively expense, leading to Cascadia deciding to simply downsize the town from it's original 360 chunks to just a third of that.
+One incident that occured during and after Judgement Day consisted of North_Paso founding an organization of the name "International Court of Justice" on December 30th, likely to be a competitor to the United Front's organization of the same name, an alliance that Cascadia was a part of and close with. North_Paso's ICJ likely died out immediately, as no record can be found on it outside of the announcement of it's establishment. Wagner members decided to instead infiltrate the existing United Front ICJ, leading to 8set becoming a judge. Then, on Judgement Day itself, Wagner opened a trial against Cascadia for supposed sexual grooming, likely citing the aforementioned false rumors provided by Paso. Cascadia, not being a signatory of the United Front ICJ specifically, refused to take up the trial for reasons that should be obvious. Not long after this incident, the United Front pulled out of the ICJ on January 4th, which made the entire organization effectively defunct.[Writer's note: Yes, Wagner really did attempt to try someone for sexual crimes on a fucking block game court, I'm not making this up, and personally, I still can't wrap my head around it to this day.]
+Afterwards, not much action occurred between Cascadia and Wagner, with most of it simply just being a continuation of Wagner's smear campaign. Although this too would fade for the most part by the end of January, as Wagner's members gradually became less active and onlookers from neutral nations found the smearing to be increasingly more annoying and obsessive. The last action of the war occured in March through the [[San Francisco Offensive of 2024]], where towns surrounding the town of San Francisco, part of the Restored Republic of Cascadia, overclaimed the town partially. This caused it's mayor, [[UnbatedAura|Unbated]], to go inactive on the server and leave the town to [[NFISH2021]], who would join the [[Aurora:North Sea Republic|North Sea Republic]] through San Francisco's ingame nation of Norcal. The NSR would collapse several months later, and to this day San Francisco and Norcal remains in the hands of NFISH, independent.
 == End of War & Aftermath ==
-The end of the Wagner War was never official, and it only "ended" because Wagner Group eventually fizzled out and stopped their offensive after Day Zero. As a result, the [[San Francisco Offensive of 2024]] is generally considered the end of the war, as it was the last significant action committed by any belligerent during the war. The end of the war could be compared to the end of [[wikipedia:Korean_War|Korean War]] in the real world, as it never had an official end, and neither South or North Korea made an official peace treaty.
+The end of the Wagner War was never official, and it only "ended" because Wagner Group eventually fizzled out and stopped their offensive after Judgement Day. As a result, the [[San Francisco Offensive of 2024]] is generally considered the end of the war, as it was the last significant action committed by any belligerent during the war. The end of the war could be compared to the end of [[wikipedia:Korean_War|Korean War]] in the real world, as it never had an official end, and neither South or North Korea made an official peace treaty.
 It is generally considered to be a victory to the Cascadian side of the conflict, as while their reputation was damaged temporarily and the town of Seaside was lost, these losses proved to be temporary. Alongside this, the territorial losses for Cascadia could have been severely worse, or even fatal if [REDACTED] was not successful at protecting vulnerable towns, most of which being in the central Metropolitan area. The preparations they made for their towns were permanent too. As a result, the war theoretically made Cascadia more proactive about it's territorial security, preventing another similar crisis in the future.
-For the other side, the war was an overall defeat, as their gains against Cascadia were both minimal and temporary. All of the Wagner member nations with the exclusion of Texas went inactive, however some of the leaders of said inactive nations would consolidate in Texas and go on to fight in the [[Great American War]], including Karn4 of Chad and Bon_Kranch of Restored Cascadia.
+For the other side, the war was an overall defeat, as their gains against Cascadia were both minimal and temporary. All of the Wagner member nations with the exclusion of Texas became defunct, however some of the leaders of said defunct nations would consolidate in Texas and go on to fight in the [[Great American War]], including Karn4 of Chad and Bon_Kranch of Restored Cascadia. Texas would increase in activity significantly after the war, eventually becoming one of the strongest powers in North America, and they would begin fighting Cascadia again just a couple of months later in the Great American War, which would become a much bigger war than it's predecessor.
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