VK-VIII Watoga

Watoga or valkyria outpost VIII was the eighth base built by valkyria and was (to my knowledge) the longest surviving base on 2b2e. The location of this base was chosen as it was the last battle site of the turk war and the main tower of the base served as a memorial to the conflict. The base was GundamTAKERU92's final attempt to kick start the Valkyrian Reich after the imperial era and salt war, which saw various groups hunt down valkyria members until only a handful remained. These few remaining were known as the crippled eagles and eventually succeeded in restoring the group in early November of 2020, recruiting members such as Hall771, optic and hemuli. The base itself was started in late August, when the salt wars were still causing major controversy and arguments between veterans from both sides in chat were very common. Although blitz had supposedly collapsed, many former members sought revenge by hunting down surviving asura bases, valkyria outpost VI "Citadel" was caught in the crossfire during a grief on spaceport, leading the past few crippled eagles to leave GundamTAKERU92 as the last valkyrian standing.

GundamTAKERU92's motivation for resurrecting valkyria dwindled, but he continued to build the Watoga tower until November, when he gave up building the base completely. To his surprise about 6 days after construction ceased, a player named Hall771 joined valkyria, inviting his friend optic and causing a small group of players to join Watoga. Construction restarted and the base was near completion by January. However, one member recruited into valkyria known as graynix began to fall out with almost all other members of the group, and was filmed blowing up his own and MetroKiller's houses. This led to him being constantly monitored by other members, this event lead to the downfall of the base.

## Battle of Watoga and subsequent greifing

A few days before the leaking of the base, snine19 joined valkyria and unknown to GundamTAKERU92, he had obtained the coordinates for Watoga from conversations in chat between members. A mysterious alt with a similar profile picture to snine began to spam the coordinates for Watoga in chat, strangely labelling it as a "Japanese base". Many allies and members of valkyria were confused by this, why would he label this as a "Japanese base" and why use an alternative account? It was later concluded that exodus likely leaked the base as he had received coordinates from olioq, who in return had obtained coordinates from graynix. Graynix was accidentally leaked the base as he thought it had already been leaked, the image of the base circulated around the community very quickly and then the griefers began to arrive.

This was the first time in over 5 months that a valkyrian base had been found, many doubted the existence of the group so many new players looking to make a name for themselves as prevalent griefers made their way to the base. For the first 5 hours, the valkyrian SF defended the base from being majorly greifed, but after the last scraps of valuable items were taken, there was no need to defend it anymore. The griefers arrived to an already ruined base, doing little but lavacasting a small portion of the base. Many members escaped into the old asura mining tunnels, leading out for thousands of blocks, dispersing them into unfamiliar territory. Members later regrouped at a mysterious base known only by the name "Eden".

Image of the base from the east