QE-FSA War

The QE-FSA War was a no-griefing war on Xanez Nations that involved Marthia. The war involved two coalitions, the Quadruple Entente (QE) and the Free State Alliance (FSA). The Quadruple Entente consisted of the nation unions of Damaaria, United States of Brasil, and New Rome (the Western Island Confederation is considered a member of the QE, but they did join the war). The war was considered by most on the QE side as confusing and frustrating, due to both the nature of the war rules and the moderators of the war, and the tactics employed by both sides to make gains during the war.

## Causes of the War

The QE-FSA war had several major causes that contributed to the start of the war.

### FSA's betrayal

Before the creation of the Free State Alliance, New Rome was conspiring with the nations of Rhodesia, Villa, and others in a joint war against The Low Republic. Many of the nations conspiring with New Rome later reached a deal with The Low Republic to backstab New Rome and protect TLR in exchange for financial compensation. New Rome then reached out to their allies of USB and WIC to help in the war, which resulted in the formation of the QE, and placed the two alliances at odds in a war already primed to begin.

### Xanez Culture

Xanez has had a long history of older players treating players new to the server as inferior. Some of the most dedicated to this culture were member nations of the Free State Alliance. This factor, combined with the fact that almost all of the population of New Rome were new players, gave FSA leaders a reason to refuse to work with New Rome and the QE.

As well as New Rome being at odds with Xanez "New Player" Culture, Xanez also was known for having a culture of toxicity. Damaaria and New Rome were not accustomed to Xanez toxicity, due to their mostly new player status. This aspect of Xanez culture also contributed to putting the QE and FSA at odds.

## Battles of the War

This section will list the various battles throughout the QE-FSA War in chronological order. Some of these battles were more of notable events during the war, such as occupations or assassinations.

### Day 1 Pet Massacre

On the opening day of the war, FSA forces blockaded the server, which was then on a temporary Realm with a 10 player limit, by logging on as many of their forces as possible. This blockade prevented the QE from using their advantage of having more players available to fight. During this time, the FSA forces that were online traveled to the bases of QE members in search of animals to kill. Many dogs were found in places such as Dureksburg, all of which were killed. Two QE members who were warned to stay off the realm at the time were killed after they logged on.

### The First Invasion of Villa

On the night of April 17th, QE soldiers Dungeon, LBSG, Stalin, and Commander Pepe, and potentially other QE members entered Villa in an attempt to hunt down FSA members to kill. Upon reaching Villa, the QE force discovered an FSA force consisting of Pineapple, Alkanel, and PotatoMan. The battle started as QE forces fired at Pineapple, who was flying and shooting from above. QE forces also fired at PotatoMan, who was positioned on a nearby rooftop. While the QE forces were occupied, Alkanel stealthily approached the forces, managing to kill Stalin. Dungeon shortly after managed to kill Pineapple, and started gathering his loot, occasionally killing Pineapple more as he attempted to re-gain his loot. Commander Pepe then ordered a retreat, but Dungeon and LBSG decided to try and kill PotatoMan before retreating. While they were pre-occupied, Alkanel engaged again, and killed LBSG. The remaining troops attempted to retreat through the Nether Highway with the loot, but were chased down and killed by Alkanel.

### The First Invasion of Rhodesia

After the Invasion of Villa, New Roman Emperor Loyally Benched, along with several other QE soldiers, would track down and attack FSA members in Rhodesia and various other locations across the Xanez world. During this time, Loyal scored around 15 kills and closed the gap in the score from the Villa invasion. Loyal would also force FSA members from Rhodesia, and occupied the land uncontested for nearly an entire day. Other QE soldiers such as Poland would also score several kills throughout the night.

### The First Invasion of The Low Republic

On the afternoon of April 17th, nearly 10 QE soldiers occupied The Low Republic without contest. TLR Leader Gnat fled the nation after learning of the approaching QE forces. During the occupation, though, QE soldiers used a map previously stolen from Gnat to track him down in his hiding place. After discovering it, two QE soldiers ambushed Gnat on the Nether Highway, and killed him. While travelling down the Nether Highway to store loot, the QE soldiers spotted FSA member Beans at the Nether Hub. After calling for reinforcements, 4 QE soldiers engaged Beans, driving him back into a series of tunnels branching off of the Nether Highway. Beans would escape them.

After QE forces stopped chasing Beans, he stealthily made his way back towards the Nether Hub, where two QE soldiers were still at. After Beans and another QE soldier, Biped, surprised each other, Biped was killed. Beans then killed Dungeon, who attempted to come to Biped's aid.

### The Betrayal of Alcatraz

Alcatraz joined the war on the side of the Free State Alliance. The Alcatraz leader, OutlawRogue (a.k.a Dino), felt as though the FSA used him and his nation for resources, and did not respect him, so he reached out to the Quadruple Entente and reached a deal. The QE would pay Dino in diamonds, at which point Dino would allow the QE forces to kill him up to 25 times to boost their score, and then Alcatraz would surrender to the QE with no repercussions, and leave the war.

At the scheduled time, 3 QE soldiers embarked on a journey to Alcatraz. As planned, Dino allowed the QE soldiers to kill him several times. But, in the middle of the killings, Dino's spawn was mysteriously reset, sending him back to spawn, far away from Alcatraz. Xanez Owner Nilsemand then announced a new rule prohibiting any side of the war allowing the enemy to kill them, and forfeited all the kills on Dino.

### The Second Invasion of The Low Republic

After QE forces learned that TLR Leader Gnat was planning to kick PotatoMan from his nation, and also realizing that PotatoMan was online and in TLR land, shortly after the killings of Dino, a QE force set out to kill PotatoMan in TLR. PotatoMan was killed 20 times, giving a large boost to the QE's score in the war. PotatoMan was promptly kicked from The Low Republic.

### The Second Invasion of Rhodesia

After the successful invasion of The Low Republic, the same QE force embarked on a journey to Rhodesia, where they met no resistance. The QE forces then decided to have fun, exploring the nation, planting flags and even creating a meme.

### The First Invasion of Nabatea

On the night of April 17th-18th, FSA member Ponk ambushed Nabatea leader TeakieBelt in Nabatea. After Teakie was killed by Ponk, he re-geared and secretly followed Ponk back to The Low Republic, where he killed him. Alkanel shortly after arrived at the location Teakie had killed Ponk, at which point Teakie combat logged. Alkanel managed to trick Teakie into logging back on, though, and killed him.

### The Third Invasion of The Low Republic

On the Morning of April 18th, QE soldier FoodPlayz hunted down TLR leader Gnat in his nation. Upon being fired at, Gnat logged. Food and several other QE soldiers monitored his log out spot for over 24 hours, with short breaks during the monitoring to engage in other battles. Gnat would log on three times during this time. During the first two times, Food was prepared, and immediately fired at Gnat when he logged on, but did not kill him. On the third and final time, both QE soldiers at the site were AFK, and Gnat was free for nearly 30 seconds before Food returned, and Gnat logged off once again.

### The Invasion of Tuscany

During the occupation of The Low Republic, New Roman Leader Loyally Benched discovered Alkanel in the New Roman region of Tuscany. QE soldier Food would leave his post at The Low Republic to assist Loyal, where the two forced Alkanel to combat log. Unfortunately for Alk, Loyal knew exactly where he logged out, and trapped his location. The next day, though, the trap was found to have been destroyed, and Alkanel had not been killed by it. The Quadruple Entente suspected that an FSA member had secretly destroyed the trap to allow Alk to log on without being killed, but the FSA denied this. To this day, it is still unknown how Alkanel escaped the trap alive.

### The Second Battle of the Nether Hub

On the evening of April 18th, QE soldiers FoodPlayz and ToxicTomato22 discovered FSA member BeansAreOk in the Nether Hub area. After engaging him in a surprise attack, Beans attempted to retreat, but was chased down and killed. It was the first death of the war for Beans.

### The Invasion of Asgard

On May 6th, FSA members Alkanel and Pineapple ambushed QE members TeakieBelt and IcyFlounder in Asgard. Originally, Teakie managed to make Alkanel combat log, but ended up getting killed. Icy would later be spawn killed several times by both Alkanel and Pineapple.

### The Whitelisted Assassinations

After Xanez was moved from Bedrock to Java Edition with crossplay using the Geyser plugin, Xanez owner Nilsemand announced a whitelisting system. Since everyone had to be manually whitelisted, a priority list was put into place. From highest priority to lowest: staff, donators, and alphabetical order for the rest of the players. Because of this list, several FSA members were able to log in to the server while active QE soldiers couldn't. This combined with the fact that regular civilians of the QE were joining, allowed the FSA to easily gain kills through assassinations.

### The Second Invasion of Villa

After the end of the Whitelisting Cease Fire, QE soldier Poland spots FSA members Alkanel and Pineapple in Villa. He attempts to get other QE soldiers to join him in an invasion, but no one is available. After some fighting in Villa, Poland would be forced to combat log. QE soldier FoodPlayz would attempt to save Poland by performing a surprise attack on Pineapple, the enemy soldier camping Poland's log out location, but Food's internet connection was too unstable to launch the attack.

### The Final Conflicts

Following the Second Invasion of Villa, no major battles occurred in the final days of the war. All conflicts were minor assassinations, which only resulted in a couple extra kills to count towards the final score.

## Negotiations

Throughout the war, several periods of negotiations and diplomacy occurred. This section will go into detail about some of these periods.

### The Treaty of Sarstoon

On the morning of April 19th, after the 24+ hour occupation of The Low Republic, TLR leader Gnat agreed to a conditional surrender to the Quadruple Entente, with the conditions being outlined in the Treaty of Sarstoon. The contents of the treaty can be downloaded in a PDF here. For a summary, the treaty banned the practice of the Osama Pillar religion, and forced the State religion to be Obama Pillarism. The treaty also designated The Low Republic as a personal colony of Icy, Leader of Asgard, which gave him full control of TLR, and the ability to order around TLR Leader Gnat. Finally, the treaty also prohibited The Low Republic from declaring war for 8 weeks.

The treaty was only partially fulfilled, though, as the QE became pre-occupied with the other FSA members, and TLR endured a civil war, in which The Low Republic became the Weimar Republic. The Trial in the Sarstoon Senate Building never occurred.

### The First Cease Fire

On April 19th, after the surrender of The Low Republic, FSA member and Rhodesian Leader BeansAreOk reached out to the Quadruple Entente and expressed his willingness to negotiate an armistice between the two coalitions, and potentially start negotiations of a treaty to end the war. The QE agreed, and a cease fire was agreed upon between the QE and FSA until further notice.

Treaty negotiations would continue until April 30th, where the Treaty of Romanov was reached. The treaty simply agreed to a white peace between the remaining FSA and QE nations still in the war. FSA member Alkanel, though, decided that the treaty signing was taking too long, and broke the cease fire on April 30th, and treaty negotiations broke down as fighting resumed.

### The Surrender of Dirt City

On May 4th, Dirt City, a nation largely on the sidelines of the war, agreed to a white peace treaty with the QE, and left the war.

### The Whitelisting Cease Fire

After Xanez was moved from a Bedrock Edition server to a Java Edition one, owner Nilsemand announced that it would take a long time to manually whitelist every player. After the FSA scored around 15 kills on QE civilian members, while QE soldiers couldn't log on, Nils implemented a cease fire that would last until every player was whitelisted on the server. Nils would then proceed to take 5 days to whitelist everyone, although he extended the war period to accommodate this time. The Cease Fire ended on May 14th.

## End of the War and Aftermath

On May 21st, the QE-FSA war was officially ended. Although FSA technically won the war (gaining more kills), many to this day dispute the actual outcome, considering other factors of the war. Regardless, the FSA was able to create conditions for the end of the war that were considered very harsh by the Quadruple Entente. To counteract the conditions, the QE, along with several other neutral nations, created a plan to unify into a single union, consisting of over half of the Xanez nations. The union was called the Confederacy of Xanez. The Confederacy protected each other from threats previously received from the FSA, generally threatening to declare total war on QE nations that didn't respect the treaty.

The Federal Republic of Marthia ended up completely leaving Xanez by May 22nd, renouncing all authority over any nations previously under Marthia that wished to remain on Xanez. The End of the QE-FSA war was also considered the end of an era of Xanez and Marthia.

## Credits & Other Media

All of the information on this page came either partially or completely from the private, archived Quadruple Entente discord server.

QE soldier Stalin was interviewed for information on the First Invasion of Villa.

### Videos from the QE-FSA War

Here is a list of videos relevant to the QE-FSA War. Some pictures featured on this page are derived from these videos.

Assassination of TLR Leader Gnat during the Third Invasion of The Low Republic

Assassination of Rhodesian Leader BeansAreOk during the Second Battle of the Nether Hub

Clip from the First Battle of the Nether Hub