Hundred-Day War

The 100 Day War was a very chaotic conflict that shook the structure of the Terminal Territories down to its core, and acted as the final climatic battle of that realm. This war came as a direct aftershock of the Capitalism vs Communism War, that occured a couple of months earlier. The Capitalism vs Communism War exhausted materials from all sides and all factions in the realm. The factions that sided with A.T.L.A.S, the factions that gave their allegiance to Stravapol, and faction that decided to remain neutral especially, were all exhausted by the end of the fighting. This ultimately threw off economic balance in the Terminal Territories.

Inflation became very common throughout the cities, towns, and villages planted across the realm's landscapes. Many businesses dealing in supply were shut down, or at best heavily reduced in stock. This eventually effected the amount of food that was put on the table of the households. This war began in New Taconia. It was hit harder than a lot of others, but there was no lack of food, in this taco metropolis. The origin of this issue is complicated at best. However, the records state it started with a media announcement from ObtuseTaco himself. A frantic announcement went out to the public. In it Dylan stated that he eats all of the food in the realm, and that everyone was going to die. The truthfulness of this statement has come into question, however the food all across the realm had seemingly disappeared, so this is the most likely explanation. Dylan was hungry, and that hunger sparked a war that ultimately killed the Terminal Territories.

Both New Taconia, and its offshore floating city of Taconia were hit the hardest at first. Food had vanished, and these two taco cities were the epicenter of this shortage. With the chaos that the realm had just completed months before tension was still high between the faction, and it's residents were still on edge. Crime intensely went up because of the lack of food in these taco cities, and much damage was dealt.

The A.T.L.A.S headquarters stationed in New Taconia was the location of testing of the Baritone software, an illegal system that would in theory be able to track every single resident on the realm with ease. In exchange for unmatched protection, privacy would be eradicated. When this software was brought up and questioned, it was determined to not be created and to be left alone. After the Capitalism vs Communism War, the Baritone software was re-looked into as a preventive measure from any wars or uprisings. This embassy in Taconia was where this software was put into a testing phase in secret from the rest of A.T.L.A.S. The Baritone software would track players through the item frames in their homes, and it would track them for a way around each one. Once the crime in Taconia became bad, the A.T.L.A.S embassy was raided, and the prototype of Baritone was released into the world. This was almost immediately detected by many, many people, as the items in their item’s frames were replaced by an error message only stating the words "Signal Corrupted"

This confused virtually everyone, and was the starting point of the 100-Day War. Baritone took over satellites and a network were put into place that tracked everyone, but the system was rogue, and not under A.T.L.A.S, so it ran rampant. Cities were thrust into chaos, and fighting began to break out in many cities, while A.T.L.A.S worked to find a way to shut down this rogue system. The system had begun a countdown of 100 days on top of all of this. Chunks of lands was starting to mysteriously go missing, causing even further panic.

This combination of events set the stage for the most devastating war in the Terminal Territories. The war officially began with Taconia. With the wrecked city of Taconia very close to out of supplies, they began requesting assistance from the city of Zero Point. During this time Zero Point was barely keeping itself alive too, and the talks became hostile. Taconia launched the first missile at Zero Point, and everything blew up from there. Eventually the repeated fire from Zero Point, and her allies, and Taconia and its allies led to a full-scale battle in Zero Point. Taconia was going to invade the capitol of the Terminal Territories. This led to a violent battle around the city, where many civilians were killed in this onslaught.

The city of Zero Point looked like a mess, but it did pull through. After the Capitalism vs Communism War, the Baritone software was rejected, but another solution was brought up to enforce peace, without getting rid of privacy. A.T.L.A.S was to create it's own military. Over months three Leviathan-class battleships where constructed. These behemoths were the biggest structure in the world, and had a massive amount of firepower. These ships were named Armigers, and one of them was sitting off nearby at a massive A.T.L.A.S base. The Armiger rolled up to the coastline of the Zero Point, and destroyed the forces of Taconia's military.

100 Days after the war had started, Baritone was shut down, and its source code was corrupted, never to be seen again in Meridian. The missing chunks of land were never explained, and is still a mystery to this day. After the battle of Zero Point however, Zero Point itself was damaged, and it began acting anomalous. The white spheroid soon gained a red tint, and it became redder over time passed. This eventually would lead to an implosion, and the destruction of the Terminal Territories, but that's another topic, and another account altogether.

The 100-Day War was the climactic battle that sealed the fate of the Terminal Territories, and has had a large lasting impact of the event of Meridian today.