Nightwork War

The **Nightwork War**, sometimes referred to as *The First Civil War* was a conflict between Ninzard (before it became a "league") and Nightwork.

Governor Antares realized his plummeting ratings following the Antares–Senate scandal could result in losing the 2015 Ninzardia presidential election. Realizing his ratings had taken a turn for the better during the DNW War and his old Antares Administration, he decided to use this opportunity to start a war.

Antares manipulated Nightwork into declaring war on Ninzardia, using one of his spies to relay the message that Antares's Ninzardia community was seeking to destroy Nightwork. This riled up the Nightwork community while it caught members of Ninzardia by surprise. The Nightwork Halloween attacks on Ninzardia resulted in members of Ninzardia fearing for their safety and leaving the community. Many members were dispirited and did not want to participate in the war. Even Governor Netterix, Antares's ally, was not fond of the war and initiated peace negotiations.

From November through December, Governor Netterix communicated with Nightwork that the whole ordeal had been a "misunderstanding" and attempted peace negotiations. Nightwork's leader complied with negotiations. However, one of Nightwork's other leaders, Xsoumii, despised any ideas for peace and opted for continued war.

Following the disastrous December 2014 Ninzard Senate elections, Antares lost much of his influence. Netterix's power was also weakened, being unable to pass the bills that he sought for. The entire senate was under the reigns of the Original Party led under senate president Machitis.

During this time, Machitis gained strong support among much of the community. Rather than continue with peace negotiations, Machitis used the Halloween attacks as an argument that Nightwork had started the conflict and that they should apologize to the community. However, Nightwork insisted that Antares had began the war. Due to Xsoumii's continuous harassment, members became annoyed at Nightwork members and wanted some sort of end to the conflict. Clearly, peace negotiations were not working.

Sometime in January 2014, Machitis gave Nightwork an ultimatum, that they give up their community to join Ninzardia or even work under their leadership under Antares. This pissed off Nightwork members. However, YombiaX was somewhat open to the idea while second-in-command 24DegreeZ liked it. However, Xsoumii riled up Nightwork enough to make several threats and open several Nightwork harassment campaigns against Ninzardia members. YombiaX did not act in this situation.

This triggered Ninzardia's response, compromising Xsoumii's accounts and gaining access to Nightwork's various Skype groups. The disorganized Nightwork community appeared to be of no match to Ninzardia.

However, by February 2014, Vxage, the leader of Nightwork's "scoping" community (spyware), successfully infiltrated into the community. There, he watched over the community and then sneaked in various members into Ninzardia.

In the meantime, YombiaX complied with Machitis's orders and asked if he gain some time to get Nightwork under control first. However, YombiaX was NOT popular among Nightwork's community. This resulted in YombiaX's own little war against his own community. Some members were banned due to alleged threats made against him.

President Antares, who had lost much of his political influence, was pissed off at his lack of control. He began intentionally provoking Nightwork to cause Machitis to lose popularity. This caused Nightwork's members to continue to harass the Ninzardia community. For some reason, this only increased Machitis's popularity. However, due to this cold-war like state, YombiaX secretly became supportive of wanting to take down Ninzardia. Knowing Vxage was up to something, who cooperated with him there.

By June of 2015, Vxage had learned of the community's dynamic and had even obtained passwords. Here, he hacked every single general of Ninzardia and completely wiped out the platform. This would result in the loss of several key details and of Ninzardia's history. Vxage, completely ruining the community, when threatened Ninzardia and gave them the same ultimatum provided by Machitis originally. The goal had been to scare off and kill the Ninzardia community. However, Machitis was not really fazed and began a retaliation attack he had prepared earlier.

The following day, an operation led by General A1 and Orion1 completely destroyed the Nightwork community. After it was discovered YombiaX had complied with Vxage's demands, YombiaX surrendered. 24DegreeZ, supportive of merging, prepared how this would be undergone. He worked with Zap. Domestically speaking, this was met with opposition on both sides. Ninzardia's Resistance Party was angered at the merge while Nightwork's progressives under Vxage and Xsoumii did not want to merge. Following the June 2015 elections, the merge went underway.