The Great Tank War of 2020-21

**NOTE:** Y'all need to help me out w this one cuz I joined super late in the war. -EyeGuy

**The Great Tank War of 2020-21** was a fake (but totally real) war that took place in the Ink Tank Discord Server. It lasted from December 15th, 2020 to January 25th, 2021.

## Official Armies/Factions

*Below is a listing of all the officially recognized parties that acted in the Great Tank War* [recognized by a role created for them, unless there's a major exception]*, along with each a list of all their known participants* [that we are unable to access since the roles got deleted so we will ask people to include themselves if they participated, prompting people to lie about it, but hey, I'm sure lots of people lied about participating in irl wars anyway.]:

### Fro's Army

**Fro's Army** was one of the main major powers of the Great Tank War. Started by Fro. Fro army also had a special chat known as the Olive Garden, Participants from the fro army worshiped him there and saw him as a god with some people even writing prayers about him.

Participants: Fro,

### The Resistance

Led by Hellbent & Staw, **The Resistance** was the second major power of the Great Tank War. TBA

Participants: Hellbent, Staw, The Heat

### Hurshie's Army

As the events of the war progressed, Hurshie became in support of Fro's army. TBA

Participants:

### Ash's Army

**Ash's Army** was added as the Tank War progressed, and is only notable for its namesake, O.R.Ash, having no clue at all that he even had an army. Ash's being in the dark was also aided by the concealment of this knowledge by mods, who covered up any slip-ups that revealed to Ash that he had an army.

Participants: EyeGuy Main,

### Kuro's Army

Kuro never cared about the war. This army also had only a few people in it seemed that they never interacted and discussed a plan that can put advantage in their favour.

Participants:

## Events

### Prelude

*(Note: All listed times are in EST.)*

On December 15th, 2020, before the war's declaration, it was a normal day on the Ink Tank Discord Server and people were talking about topics in General chat. Such topics were the idea of pizza cults, people posing as Tank member Casey, and others posting Bababooey gifs. Fro later on created the "**Fro Army**" role and gave it to Tank member Penguin, since he was stating that he was anti-Fro and that he had no fans as a joke. Fro then declared a war on December 20th, 2020 as other Ink Tank armies (and corresponding roles) were created.

[Placeholder for any notable events of actual "combat" during the war]

There came a period where the war had reached such a level of public awareness that it had become its own form of takeover; scholars agree this period came after the creation of new roles specialized for each party partaking in the war. The roles enticed more and more people to enlist, mostly just so they could have an extra role to their name. From the start of this period until the war's end, and as more and more people began signing on, the context of the war's original point of conflict became muddied and lost to the common people, who simply saw it as a trending opportunity to pick and support their favorite member of the Ink Tank Four (at the time).

Despite only a month having gone by, the general consensus was that the war was lasting much longer than anticipated.

### Ending

On January 25th, 2021, at around 9:00am, Fro started to talk with people in General chat. As NightShadow appeared in chat and said his usual opening catchphrase ("I'm bacc"), Fro decided to impersonate The Heat in order to respond to Night with Heat's usual reply ("Hi bacc, I'm the Heat"), changing both his nickname and profile picture to resemble Heat. This amused the people in general so much that they all decided to "become" The Heat themselves, starting a quasi-cult to intentionally commit identity theft against Heat while he was away from Discord and couldn't respond. Fro even created a new "The Heat" role for anyone who joined in.

As the people reveled in the joy and peace that merely impersonating The Heat brought to them, (whilst Heat himself was not even present) they suggested they use "The Heat" role to bring about a shared unity, rather than the divide that their army roles mandated. The people called for a permanent ceasefire of all armies and parties, and the deletion of all the army roles.

At 9:50am, Fro officially declared that the war was over, saying that "THE HEAT HAS BROUGH UNITY AMONGST ALL".

### Legacy

The long length of the war and its peaceful but anticlimactic fizzle of an ending greatly affected how people reacted to the aftermath. As expected, many members who weren't online very frequently would realize the war was over some weeks or months later. For a few months after the war ended, lots of members of the Ink Tank server lost their opportunity to fight for something, and were itching to take part in another war. Fro was frequently asked about the possibility of the next war, and when that would happen. Fro was against the idea of having a war so soon, after one that just ended, and denied it; but eventually, in due time, Fro would prepare the server for another war with much more time and care put into its planning.

[Gallery not final]

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