Icebox SMP Earth

Icebox SMP Earth was a Nations server on a 1:2000 scale of the Earth in Minecraft. The F.R.M attempted to colonize this server twice, both times with little success. This article will outline all events on the Icebox server that are related to Marthia during their colonization attempts.

## East Marthian Dynasty

The first attempt at colonization came during a time of relative peace on Xanez. On February 8th, 2021, PepeTheNoob and ComradeStalin48 joined Icebox and set up a town in the real-life location of the coast north of Hainan Island in China. They named their town Zijincheng, which according to Stalin meant "Forbidden City" in English. They named their nation the East Marthian Dynasty.

Throughout it's nearly one month existence, the East Marthian Dynasty saw a peak of 6 members at once, and gained lands including Coastal China, all of the Philippines, all of Indonesia, and planned to buy all of Australia. The colony had 4 towns, although one was destroyed.

#### Zijincheng

Zijincheng was the capital of the East Marthian Dynasty. It's where Pepe and Stalin first set up their operations, and where Food and Mango would later join them. Zijincheng was originally the site of a naturally generated village, but it was torn down for resources and to make a better settlement. At the end of the operation, Zijincheng included a small fortress on top of a large hill, several smaller buildings, a palace, and a church.

Zijincheng would also be one of many places griefed on February 18th. The damage was not severe and was quickly fixed, though.

#### Philville

On February 16th, Pepe decided to post an advertisement for the East Marthian Dynasty on a subreddit. His post attracted the attention of a small group of friends. These friends decided to create a town at the end of a path Pepe had created some days before, about 200 blocks northeast of Zijincheng. They called the town Philville.

Philville only consisted of a single house. The group, although in the same nation, maintained relatively little communication with the rest of the EMD. Check-ups on the town suggested that the group had been experimenting with the many add-ons which were on the server, and that they had been slowly gathering resources.

While the group was deemed untrustworthy from the start, things turned for the worst just 2 days after the group joined. On the morning of February 18th, Food discovered that Zijincheng and Philville had been griefed. After talking with an admin on the server, the group of friends became increasingly suspect. After about half an hour of back and forth, the group admitted to the troubles, and were promptly banned. Philville would remain a site of explosion holes and rubble.

#### Other Claims

Food would make the bare minimum of houses to claim other lands such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. These claims would consist only of 7 houses and would not be used for anything else.

### Alliances & Other Relations

During the colonization, the East Marthian Dynasty joined an alliance called the Pact of Four Crowns. The alliance consisted of the Holy Latin Empire, the Nordic Empire, and the Russian Empire. The EMD would build relations with these nations as time went on. Near the end of the colonization mission, the alliance got into some trouble with another alliance consisting of every other major nation on the server. While both alliances did stand a chance against each other, the EMD did not want to take any chances in a conflict. Fortunately for them, the server would reset, bringing an abrupt end to the conflict.

### End of the EMD

On February 22nd, the owner of the Icebox server announced that the server would be switching to Java Edition. This announcement surprised just about everyone. Because the members of the EMD were predominantly Bedrock Edition only, the only viable decision was to end the colonization mission and leave Icebox.

## Nova Tibrus

In Late April, after a long period of inactivity caused by the switch to Java Edition, the Icebox server owner decided to reset the server again. This time, he added the Geyser crossplay plugin, allowing both Bedrock and Java Edition players to play on the server. This change brought the server back to life.

In early June, after the end of the Xanez campaign, the Marthian state of Damaaria needed a new home. The members did want to settle on the Marthia homeland server, so Pepe once again looked to Icebox and saw potential. He set up a town in the real-life location of the Phillipines and named it Nova Tibrus, in honor of the now-lost colony of Tibrus on Xanez.

Pepe quickly gathered many Damaarians and some other Marthians to join the colony, and it soon rose to become one of the largest nations by population. This colony quickly grew to have a strong religious following unlike anything Marthia had seen before. The religion of Obama Pillarism had taken on such a strong role that a large pillar to commemorate the religion was built, which was estimated to have taken up over 6 stacks of diamond blocks to build. Obama Pillarism would spread far in Icebox.

During the colonization mission, Nova Tibrus would build relations with the United Kingdom and the Nordic Empire (both created by the same leaders in the Pact of Four Crowns). They would form a new alliance called the Imperial League. This alliance, not unlike the past season of Icebox, would come into controversy with many other nations throughout it's existence. Despite this, Nova Tibrus was never involved in any conflicts.

After about 2 weeks, Nova Tibrus began to decline. Damaarian leader LBSG, who along with many other Damaarians had been participating heavily in the colony, did not actually agree with the plan to turn Nova Tibrus into Damaaria's new home. Instead, he did actually wish to settle on the Marthian homeland server. Due to this, and combined with pressure from other Marthains not involved in the colony, focus shifted back to the Marthian server, and Nova Tibrus was eventually forgotten.

In the end, Marthia returned to the homeland server and has yet to colonize another server, and although the Icebox colonization missions were uneventful for Marthia as a whole, they did bring some new valuable members, establish some outside relations, and had effect for some Marthians on a personal level.