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**Business Bay** (pronounced, bɪznɪs beɪ) (in-game: "BusinessBay", a.k.a "The Bay"; Ru. *Бизнес Бэй*) is a faction created by TommyInnit. It is located in Khabarovsk Krai and Primorsky Krai, parts of southeastern Russia. Business Bay has no relation to the real-life location with the same name in Dubai, though his leader is a little bit interested. Though it isn't confirmed, they are most likely one of the weaker major factions due to being involved in many wars and losing the majority of them.

## History

### Day 1

Tommy first considered setting up his base in Europe, later more specifically around Israel but was hindered by Kara who had already claimed that territory. After entertaining the idea of joining Spain for a little while, Tommy ultimately decides to set out and start his own faction and he started making his way to the east, middle of the map. Tommy spoke to Altrive of Japan and expressed his wishes to take over an "island" to the north, Altrive agreed to this and told Tommy it's fine and free for Tommy to take.

Upon landing his plane, Tommy asked his chat for what the name of his faction should be, the name Business Bay was chosen, and the faction was created. Tommy was very pleased with this and asked for POGS in chat.

Tommy started construction on his house, wheat farm and started claiming some land around it. Business Bay officially became allies with Spain.

Tommy, now in the name of Business Bay, tried to once again start discussions with Technoblade and Ph1lza about the Antarctic Empire and Business Bay allying. The Antarctic Empire expressed doubts in Tommy’s trustworthiness and declined the allyship.

Tommy mentioned several times that Business Bay is allied with several different factions and/or people, even thou many promises of allyship had been made verbally, only one (with Spain) had been made and confirmed with the command /f ally.

### Day 2

Business Bay was deleted because of the faction reset, Tommy recreated the faction, claimed a large piece of land in the shape of a square and re-allied with Inquisitors (formally Spain).

To gather allies for his faction, Tommy approached WilburSoot and CharlieSoot, both of whom he interacted for the first time on the server. Tommy mistook Business Bay as located in North Korea (the entire Korean peninsula had been claimed by Charlie for Kpop) due to a geographical misunderstanding, but the latter two corrected him.

Tommy then suggested that the three of them, who share the same nationality (Brits), to band together and create an alliance. Wilbur liked the idea and invited him and Charlie to his home base, Newfoundland. There, Tommy, as the founder and sole representative of his faction, suggested various names for the alliance such as *Tommy and Friends* and *Tommy & Co.*, all were not accepted by the other two. Wilbur then officially named the alliance as the Cumin Squad.

During a skirmish between Tommy and San Diego, Wilbur threatened to un-ally Business Bay if Tommy did not stop trying to converse with San Diego. They remained allies but Tommy’s relationship with the Cumin Squad was affected.

Tommy together with Luke from Inquisitors infiltrated the Antarctic Empires base, Techno killed Tommy because of this. This resulted in tensions rising between Business Bay and the Antarctic Empire. Tommy considered declaring war between Business Bay and the Antarctic Empire but ultimately didn’t because Tommy believed It would damage Business Bay’s future potential allyships.

### Day 3

Business Bay become allied with Scottland after a business transaction. Tommy got three obsidian and payed for them with emeralds.

Tommy decided to prettify his claim, he unclaimed all his land and proceeded to auto claim around the island for it to be auto filled.

Off stream Tommy started working on his path system that leads to different places in Business Bay, he also stared building the enchanting area.

### Day 4

Tommy logged on to find the main house in Business Bay had been filled up with leaves and there was a hole in the roof.

Later Spifey appeared and placed more leaves around the main building, chest house and a lamp post while Tommy was working on a villager, confirming suspicions that Spifey was the one responsible.

Tommy acted quickly to defend his base resulting in the first fight on BusinessBay land and a mini dogfight.

Tommy declared Spifey’s faction SaveThePolarBears an enemy of BusinessBay but was later that same day declared neutral. Tommy said; “We are on thin ice”.

Tommy started construction on a separate storage building (called the chest room by Tommy) but was repeatedly attacked by unusual amounts of zombies and other hostile mobs which was most probably the work of Josh. He also built some glow stone lamp posts along the paths.

Tommy cut down trees in BusinessBay’s forests because the primary building material used in BusinessBay was wood, but he made sure to replant the trees. #teamtrees.

A zombie villager was successfully captured, cured and named Brock; Brock, a librarian, was given very cramped living quarters in a hole in the floor of the main house.

### Day 5

Tommy asked CaptainSparklez of the Kingdom of Jordan is still “allies / best friends” with BusinessBay, he answers “Ye definitely”. Though it’s debatable if Captain was honest in his response since there had been no official allyship declared and considering past interactions.

With eggs donated by Philza, Tommy crafts a villager spawn egg. He starts construction on a hut to house the villagers in next to the main building. Tommy proceeds to lure Brock into his new home. The second villager who was created from the spawn egg was named Bromber and was given the librarian trade.

### Day 6

Tommy engaged in business with his ally ItsAsaii of Aeropostale. They traded gold and emeralds the transaction ended on a bad note when Tommy tried to punch Asaii but was unable to, that resulted in Asaii insulting Tommy’s feet, Aeropostale declared BusinessBay as an enemy.

### Day 7

Tommy, inspired by Wilbur, decides to build a great bridge across the Pacific Ocean connecting the continents of Asia and America and their two lands and to help out The Cumin squad. This bridge is to become known by the name: The Business Bridge.

During a discussion between Tommy, IAmTy of Terre Du Ty and RobboTobbo of the inquisitors, Robbo calls Business Bay a "tyranny" and a "poor country" because Tommy has to ask for cobble for his bridge, he also proclaims that Business Bay is not making Business.

Tommy asks IAmTy of Terre Du Ty to ally with Business Bay but IAmTy refuses because of Business Bay’s status as a poor country, negations goes nowhere and Tommy leaves saying that IAmTy and him needs a break. Later IAmTy hears that Business Bay has villagers that sell efficiency V books which all of the sudden makes him interested to ally, Tommy is hesitant to ally because he suspects Terre Du Ty only wants to ally because of Tommy’s villagers.

### Day 8

The first phase of the Business Bridge was completed. Business Bay was also present during the Saint-Malo Trials, among other factions. Tommy offered to buy Philza for diamonds, but was denied and held against the jury.

### Day 9

Someone had desecrated the sign in front of the main building, the sign that normally said “TommyInnits very powerful home” was changed to “Lukeorsomethings very powerful home” which would suggest that Luke did it. Tommy quickly fixed the sign.

Tommy accuses Philza of stealing his infinity bow during the Saint-Malo trail making tensions rise between their two factions.

Business Bay allies with Packle after a successful business transaction between Tommy and Roasted James; rabbit’s foot for 27 blocks of emeralds.

Sylvee came over to Business Bay to gift Tommy some cookies.

Tommy expresses wishes to get a new faction member and speculates on who he could recruit for about 2 seconds.

Torches were placed around Business Bay to light it up and make it safer during the night.

Construction on Business Bridge towards Newfoundland continues and construction on a railway from Business Bay to Kpop begins.

Charlie of Kpop expands his lands closer to Business Bay in the process he over claims some of business Bay and thus breaking Business Bays autofill on the map. Tommy is not happy about this and proclaims Charlie a dead man.

Tommy chases after Charlie, they meet by the river that separates their two lands, Tommy demanded Charlie's diamond armor as reparations but instead Charlie gave Tommy one bone, rotten flesh, and steak. Tommy not very pleased with this went to Kpop to rummage through Charlie's chests. They agreed on reparations of 13 emeralds and 3 blocks of diamonds, Tommy also stole a knowledge book. The border was fixed shortly after.

### Day 16

The Battle of the Bridges took place between Business Bay (Tommy) and the allied forces of Technoblade and VoiceOverPete—both of the Antarctic Empire and the other two members of the Cumin Squad.

The battle was named as so due to the three bridges involved as the subject and location of the interfactional hostilities, the French Bridge in Antarctica, the Business Bridge in Business Bay, and the Transatlantic Median in Newfoundland. Wilbur and Technoblade also acknowledged Tommy as one of the bridge builders on the server.

Business Bay was very heavily attacked during this war, with wheat being griefed and creeper holes in the ground. Most people would consider this a loss for Business Bay.

The war ended with a stalemate when peace talks could not resolve the conflict and Wilbur eventually destroyed the Treaty of Broken Bridges.

After, Technoblade arrived in Business Bay. Tommy inquired Techno on his intents, but Techno started attempting to interact with the Bay's villager, Brombur. After many attempts to get Techno to stop, and chill out, Techno bought serveral Mending books from his villager. Tommy called Techno: "A jerk", and said that: "I thought you were not so bad." Techno replied that "when have I ever tried to show myself as a nice guy". There has been controversy on this with many saying Techno went too far. Tommy said himself, however, that "It is just a block game"

### Day 23

Tommy recruited Wispexe, who just recently joined the server, to become a member of the Business Bay. Wisp accepted on the condition of being able to back out when war would break out.

### Day 27

The culmination of the Battle of the Bridges took place when Tommy of Business Bay faced Technoblade one last time. Unfortunately, the Bay's potential allies were either absent (Packle) or turned against them (Bean Empire and Inquisition) during the Wednesday War.

Tommy arrived at Technoblade's castle at the Port-aux-Francais, and started attacking Technoblade. After multiple deaths, Tommy pretending to "admit defeat" and tried to trick Techno into falling in a pit that he made. This can be read in more detail at The Great SMPEarth War.

This left Tommy to accept defeat and signed the Treaty of Pit which ratified a temporary state of neutral ship between Bussiness Bay and the Antarctic Empire.

### Day 33

Tommy continues construction on Business Bridge. Even though Business Bay and Newfoundland was not on such good terms at this time Tommy expressed that finishing the bridge connecting the two factions is an important goal and has to be done.

### Day 37

Due to events of the Battle of the Bridges and the Wednesday War, Tommy began placing deadly pranks on his enemies base such as Newfoundland, Bean Empire, and Kpop. LukeOrSomething left the Spanish Inquisition and joined the faction.

Luke said he wanted to join Business Bay because the players in Inquisition was inactive, but he stated that he still considered himself a little of an Inquisitor still. Business Bay is a communist society according to Luke. Luke starts construction on his building.

Business Bay had received a not so favorable of a reputation, now when Tommy converses with other players they always seemed to bring up Business Bay's defeat.

### Day 38

Business Bay was griefed by Sylvee and Krinios of the Bean Empire as well as Thunder1408 of the faction EPIC, after Sylvee was killed by the trap that Tommy had placed the day before. Most importantly, the raiders kidnapped Business Bay's prized Mending villager.

### Day 39

Tommy laid out plans to build a casino in Business Bay. Later, after discovering that the Bay had been griefed, he declared war on the Bean Empire which caused the Raid of Bean York City.

After the battle and the subsequent Treaty of Bean York, Wisp decided to leave the Bay and joined the Antarctic Empire. Its remaining members discussed adding new people to the Bay and made plans to build a second Business Balcony adjacent to the 1st. Luke suggested the idea of building the Business Blockade, a wall that would surround the Bay.

### Day 40

Two new members of the server, TimeDeo and Bitzel, joined Business Bay to help Tommy in the great war against the Antarctic Empire. He planned to fight Technoblade side by side with Deo. Now armed with Deo's combat skills, Tommy's determination to stop letting people push him around and the number of faction members as well as resources, Business Bay began to emerge as one of the powerful factions on the server, possibly matching that of the Antarctic Empire. Tommy even had to change Business Bay's policy due to Deo's hostile nature⁠—people would be allowed to enter the Bay, but they are not allowed to be armed with weapons.

Alarmed by the presence of BrodyAnimates, the members of the Business Bay attacked and killed him on the charge of trespassing. Deo also killed Icebomb (despite not trespassing at all) and tried to attack Chip, one of the admins of the server. In retaliation for Chip's attempted assassination, JoshA20 griefed Business Bay. This led to the events of the God War.

### Day 41

The Bay claimed their second victory in the Faction Name Dispute, after killing IceBomb for creating a faction designed to insult Tommy called 'TommyIsStupidAndPoop'. Deo killed IceBomb over 20 times before the latter agreed to disband the faction and left to settle in other part of the world.

    Bitzel made custom armor for the members of the Bay and created the official flag of the faction. Tommy reconciled with Wisp, with hope that in the eventual battle between the Antarctic Empire and Business Bay, Wisp will attack but not kill Tommy. Luke started constructing a smelting hub, while Deo protected the prized Mending villager underneath the Hub. Tommy tried to befriend Sophietexas, even though she is a Newfoundlander, an enemy faction of the Bay. Tommy and Deo then travelled to DinksterDaily's base in Sevastopol to put a penis on the Slav Squat.

Luke taught Bitzel and Tommy how to make custom map arts. Using his newfound skill, Tommy created a map art of him being angry. Wisp angered Deo by saying he's terrible at Skyblock, thus all Business Bay members went to the Antarctic Empire territory to kill Wisp and place 'tommyisangry' images all over their base.

Wisp was spared, but the imperial base was griefed with images of Tommy. VoiceOverPete called them for a meeting at the Big Boomer Train Station. Tommy warned Deo not to kill Pete because he is innocent and no one has killed Pete, but if he aimed to do so, Tommy would help. They decided against murdering Pete because they have nothing against them.

Business Bay was given a peaceful tour of the train station. Tommy even stated they have nothing against SalC1 even though their factions are at war. Nonetheless, all groups were on alert. Pete then suddenly called two airstrikes upon Business Bay, though Pete was killed by the second one. Deo picked up some of Pete's items and they decided to keep them. Pete threatened to airstrike them at their own base and Deo then told Pete that they wold return his item promptly. Yet, Pete declined and decided to head over and airstrike them regardless of Philza and Wisp.

Business Bay wraps up their plans for a casino for the third time and guarded the cows against the eventual airstrike, thus triggering the New Year's Day War.

### Day 42

After brief negotiations with Deo and Tommy, CharlieSH, leader of Kpop, agreed to formally ally with Business Bay. This had resolved any ongoing conflicts between the two factions (initiated during the Battle of the Bridges). This alliance was under the conditions that the two allied factions were permitted to share resources and enter each other's land unharmed. However, Business Bay would have to defend Kpop if the latter was besieged.

### Day 43

A war broke out between Log Lagoon and the allied forces of Packle, Arkansonia and the Corvarian Empire. Mid-battle, Chip accidentally disbanded Business Bay, leaving the area vacant momentarily.

Later, Chip re-established the faction and remade the borders of the claim. Deo was then given momentary leadership of the faction, before returning it back to Tommy.

Pete joined Tommy's VC requesting peace between the two factions. Tommy and Deo then headed to Port-aux-Francais for a negotiation, where Pete said that he is not accountable for his faction's action and stated that all of the damage done was from Wisp alone. After leaving for their base, Deo and Tommy then returned to the palace and returned Technoblade's helmet and chestplate, but said that they would go to Wisp to end the war. Pete asked why they refused to return the rest of his stuff, but Tommy reminded Pete that it was burnt down by Wisp. Meanwhile, Wisp arrived at Business Bay unarmed to give them a care package as an apology for burning all of their stuff. Later that day, the Bean Empire allied with the Bay.

### Day 45

TimeDeo, the only online member of Business Bay, participated in the SMPEarth Moon Landing. He managed to land the final hit against the dragon and became the second person on the server to unlock the 'Free the End' achievement (CaptainSparklez was the first one to obtain it during the Midnight End Raid).

Later, Deo attempted to rob a beacon at the bottom of the Northern End Portal later became a heist called the Great Beacon Heist. It took him 5 hours to break a barrier block placed by the admin in order to mine the beacon. Nonetheless, he failed to acquire the beacon as it was world-protected and decided to destroy it and placed a sign saying "*Deo 1 - Chip 0*".

### Day 50

Tommy and Deo flew over to The RV Swamp to negotiate with Icebomb. Ice is then killed repeatedly by Deo as retribution for trolling on Minecraft Saturday. Business Bay kept Ice's trident and Protection 4 chest plate following the massacre, though Ice was unwilling to pursue the matter due to the power imbalance.

Tommy built a casino, named C ASS INO near the shores of Business Bay. The casino was built with the intention of scamming other players. He then tested the newly built casino on Thunder1408, scamming him in losing a round. Tommy ended up having diamonds and armor as profit from Thunder. He then invited Philza and picked him up from the Antarctic Empire's home base. They arrived at the casino with Ice sitting silently on a chair. Ice asked for a turn but Tommy indicated that Phil was to go first.

Phil and Tommy noted how depressed Ice seemed, staring blankly into the distance. Phil recalled Ice's earlier stream of death messages and asked what Tommy had done to him, though Tommy shifted the blame to Deo. Icebomb put on a mask over his skin; a smiling emoji to hide his torment beneath. He and Tommy began bickering as Ice, finally, also joined the call. He expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that Business Bay had kept his items, and Phil demanded they be returned to him. Tommy refused, and a battle broke out.

Phil perched on a tree while the battle broke out. Ice declared Business Bay as an enemy and went straight for Tommy, who wasn't wearing armor, and killed him. In response, Deo killed Ice twice. Tommy fired a shot at Phil, though it didn't do any damage. Phil, however, considered it an invitation to join the fight, thus restoring the enemy status between the two factions. After the battle known as the Casino Conflict, the Antarctic Empire reverted their state of neutrality with the Bay, though Phil hinted to his chat that it was not out ofthe pursuit of peace, for a more sinister reason.

### Day 58

Tommy, Deo, Luke, and Bitzel participated in the Port-aux-Offensive.

### Day 81

Due to the faction reset, Deo reclaimed back the original territory of the Bay. The faction currently belongs to him, likely for the time being.

## Members

### Current

As of Day 41, the members of Business Bay are known as the **Business Boys**:

* TommyInnit (founder and CEO)
* TimeDeo (member, right hand man, bodyguard)
* Bitzel (member, assistant to bodyguard)
* LukeOrSomething (member, head builder)

### Former

* Wispexe (left to join the Antarctic Empire)

### Pets

* Business Buddy (Deo's cat, currently living inside his home)
* Garden Golem (iron golem, deceased)
* Vibe Fish (cod, eternally jumping in Deo's aquarium)
* VibeBird (parrot, currently living inside Deo's home)

## Relations

### Allies

* Log Lagoon - following the faction's initial decommission by InkTea and re-establishment by Chip, Grunk took charge of the faction. Tommy also told Grunk that he was almost considered as a member of the Bay.
* Kpop - following a conditional negotiation on Day 42.
* Bean Empire - allied during Day 43, Sylvee gives Tommy 64 lilacs and 10 diamond blocks.
* Packle

### Inactive Allies

* Evil Inc. - found a mutually beneficial relationship between each other.
* Scottland
* Inquisition

### Inactive Neutral

* The Palms - a faction made by InkTea after the apparent disbandment of Log Lagoon, both factions are declared neutral as Ink helped with the renovation of the bay and the construction of the new and improved Business Towers.

### Enemies

* Antarctic Empire - after a brief period of neutrality, hostile relations against the two were once again after the events of the Port-aux-Offensive, which resulted with the death of two Antarctic pets, and **Business Bay** paying reperations
* Newfoundland - Technoblade convinced Wilbur Soot to turn on Tommy and exiled him (once again) from The Cumin Squad. Wilbur justified it as a preemptive strike before Tommy's inevitable betrayal, making the faction an enemy.

## Trivia

* Business Bay got its name from TommyInnit, a well known "businessman" (and definitely not a scammer).
	+ Business Bay is intended to be "where all the business happens".
* Business Bay's second balcony was an idea by its former member, Wisp.
* They all wear a suit and tie as their uniform.
	+ All of them wear a red tie except for Bitzel (and the tie in his shield is cyan in which matches the tie he is wearing).
* The Business Bay has fought in all wars in The Great SMPEarth War.
* Bromber (the Mending villager) has a dragon head.
	+ He is 1 of 4 villagers with a name. The others including: Bert, Bart, and Bort.
* Some other faction names suggested by chat: INNITInc, INNITEmpire and AlphaBusiness.
* Business Bay has lost a lot of wars on the server, yet most of them the Bay claims was a "W".

## Gallery

Business Bay bannerBusiness Bay flag(From left to right) Luke, Tommy, Bitzel, DeoBromber, the prized Mending villager of Business BayAerial view of Business Bay, taken by Eret on Day 81.

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