First Helliger War

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The First Helliger War was an armed rebellion against the Republic of Micronesia (RoM) staged by Hazerd in order to gain independence for the abolished State

of Helliger. The war was very short but is one of the most destructive wars in this community's history. The war was the catalyst of the steep decline of the RoM due to internal instability, admin abuse, radicalism, and constant rebellions. The result of the war was a weaker government, a growing disdain for the state system and the start of multiple events which lead to the biggest landslide in Polynesian electoral history by the Labour Party along with the Second Helliger War.

## **Important Individuals**

*Note that there were many others who participated in this war but acted as standard soldiers/militiamen and were therefore not listed here*

#### **Attacking Side: Helliger (Total: 14 Members)**

* Hazerd (Kaiser)
* DragonKingsley (Admiral of the Helliger Fleet)
* Firecat (General of the Helliger Ground Forces)

#### **Defending Side: Republic of Micronesia (RoM) and the 21st of June Movement (Total: 10 Members *During its Peak*)**

* Tsar\_\_Putin (Prime Minister)
* Britannia (Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of State Security: Rallied RoM Troops Before the Skirmish at Stirling)
* Sealand (Leader of the 21st of June Movement)
* Asarokaa (General of the RoM 2nd "Contean" Division of the Army)
* ColonelKai (Head of the Bluefieldian Police Department)

## **Summary of the War**

### **How it Started**

**Tsar's Fight Against Crime**

In July 2020, crime was rampant in the RoM. Prime Minister Tsar went on a spree of law enforcement operations to crack down on this crime surge and passed many popular criminal law legislation. After Mafia Groups and cPyro's Hitman organization were forced to leave the State of Bluefield, they went to Helliger and were given shelter by Hazerd. With newfound allies in Helliger, cPyro lead a blatant criminal terror campaign to paralyze RoM police and military forces in order to reinstate organized crime and force the Federal Government to allow most types of violent organizations to be legal. To combat this, Prime Minister Tsar proposed an Act into the RoM Parliament to revoke Helliger's Statehood and sent military units with Police units to Helliger and Bluefield to eliminate cPyro and his allies. Arrest warrants were sent out against cPyro, Hazerd, and other suspected criminals. Although initially successful since cPyro's alt was arrested and banned, Hazerd soon took the Government's action as a personal attack by Tsar.

**The Helliger Swarm**

In response to the RoM stamping down on him and his ally cPyro, Hazerd rallied his friends from 2b2t and Gmod to help him dupe dangerous items and swarm the RoM's forces with more manpower and infinite weapons supplies. They sent a 24-hour ultimatum to Prime Minister Tsar: surrender, cede Lexon to Helliger and give Helliger independence. The alternative was to have all known settlements in the RoM utterly demolished and have every non-Helliger member of the community robbed and slaughtered. Tsar left him on *read*, and started contacting all reserves to begin a coordinated campaign against Helliger before the ultimatum expired to catch Helliger off guard. However, for this to work, Tsar would have to hope for Helliger to stand down for 10 or more hours since the bulk of RoM forces were in the European timezone unlike their American East Coast enemies. This plan failed just two hours in, as Hazerd obliterated Lexon and most of Bluefield just two hours after the ultimatum was sent; presumably due to his anarchy server friends wanting to blow stuff up.

**Destruction and War Crimes**

Tsar, the only one online and unable to act due to being outnumbered, was forced to watch as all 14 fully-armed players destroyed the two most populated States of the country he was leading in under a little over an hour. Volkan, a neutral civilian, came online and was immediately warned by Tsar to head for Nova Contea since Contean coordinates weren't public and made Contea Region a safe zone. However, Volkan thought that his neutrality would keep him safe and stayed in his Lexonian backyard to farm carrots. When Helliger's forces came to Lexon, they killed and robbed Volkan; burning his home down with the rest of Lexon City. The population of the RoM's capital shared the same fate as Lexon's, as PM Tsar's army was asleep during the destruction.

### **Admin Incompetence**

**No Punishment of Rule Breakers**

The destruction of multiple settlements while the RoM Army was asleep, along with the murder and theft of innocent civilians were all admin-enforced war crimes. The Owner of Micronesia, ColonelKai, instead made it a section in the Treaty of PBTown to pardon Helliger's war crimes. Additionally, Kai found a dupe stash of Helliger's items and caught some players flying in survival. Kai and Admin Tsar confronted Hazerd about this and Hazerd argued that he didn't know that duping was illegal since Kai once made a joke, saying "It's not illegal if you don't get caught!" To Tsar's outrage, Kai bought his story and let Helliger keep their duped items and left the people of Helliger go unpunished (same went for the flying). This and future stashes would be handled in the same way, which lead to another devastating war--the 2nd Helliger War; ending the server of Micronesia as a whole.

**Owner Interference in the War**

ColonelKai, who was initially in favor of militarily destroying Helliger, immediately gave up and betrayed the RoM when Bluefield was destroyed. In exchange for being left alone, Kai gave the coordinates to the RoM stronghold of Stirling to Helliger's forces who once again blew it up which was a war crime for targeting civilians. The departure of Bluefield reduced the RoM's numbers from 10 to 7 against 14 Helliger Soldiers. The destruction of Bluefield made Kai depressed, which made him message Tsar to end the war even if it meant defeat without a fight or else he'd side against the RoM or enforce an end to the war using Owner authority. He wanted the war over at *any* cost. Tsar declined and instead managed to convince Kai to rejoin the war on the RoM's side.

### **How it Ended**

When PM Tsar came online, utterly hopeless, he saw the entire active playerbase loyal to the RoM in a Discord Call.This gave him and Army High Command hope, and he lead his forces to recapture Stirling. After taking Stirling, the RoM forces spotted Hazerd in the RoM's Capital of PBTown and killed him; retaking the city. Sealand's 21st of June Movement helped everyone get to Helliger proper; destroying occupying it. The RoM forces, now fewer in number due to some needing to do things in real life, recaptured the capital of the RoM (PBTown) and awaited Helliger Forces. The battle came extremely close, but the RoM prevailed and gave it enough negotiating power in the upcoming peace talks to force Helliger to rejoin the RoM as a State. The miraculous victories by the end of the war and successful diplomacy by Prime Minister Tsar made the war end in a Close and hard-fought victory for the RoM.

## **Battles and Griefs**

### **Destruction of Bluefield**

 DragonKingsley

**Result:** Decisive Helliger Victory

**Casualties:** 0

**Information:**

All 14 invaders first set upon the undefended Port Otis, capital of the State of Bluefield. Not even the underground shopping district of the city was spared. Tsar flew in spectator to watch, unable to fight back against such overwhelming odds and instead wanting to save his gear for a coordinated counterattack when his European allies wake up. After the destruction of the major highways and cities such as Kalanchoe in Bluefield, Half of Helliger's forces left the game for roughly 15min before striking Lexon. This made the people of Bluefield demoralized when they saw their homes turned into craters when they woke up; eventually making Bluefield leave the war at any cost.

### **Destruction of Lexon**

 Dragon Kingsley

**Result:** Clear Helliger Victory

**Casualties:** 2 RoM Deaths, 2 Minor Helliger Injuries

**Information:**

Wrongly thinking that his neutrality would save him, Volkan decided to stay in Lexon regardless of PM Tsar's advice and farmed carrots in his backyard in Lexon City. Hazerd and cPyro tried to force him out of his home and killed and robbed him twice when he insisted they didn't have the right to do that against a neutral civilian. The rest of Helliger's forces soon came back and destroyed Lexon. Unlike the Bluefieldians, the destruction of Lexon instead motivated Lexon's popuation to join the RoM army and revive the 21st of June Movement to destroy Helliger. This newfound motivation nullified any decisiveness of this attack.

### **Destruction of PBTown**

 DragonKingsley

**Result:** Clear Helliger Victory

**Casualties:** 0

**Information:**

Helliger Destroyed the Capital of the RoM, PBTown. Like Lexon's population, the populace of PBTown was outraged by the savagery of Helliger and flocked to join the RoM army and 21st of June Movement; nullifying a lot of the decisiveness of this grief.

### **Battle of the Port Otis Ruins**

* cPyro (Soldier)
* Beer (Soldier)

**Result:** Pyrrhic RoM Victory

**Casualties:** 2 Helliger Casualties

**Battle Information:**

ColonelKai woke up and joined the game to his proud capital city of Port Otis destroyed. Hazerd and cPyro were patrolling there, and out of pure desperation, Kai engaged them in a gun fight. Beer soon joined Kai and together in a close battle they took back Port Otis. However, demoralized from the destruction of all other major settlements and infrastructure in Bluefield, Kai surrendered to Helliger and sold out the coordinates of PM Tsar's Military staging point of Stirling. Although this initially was an important battle that proved that the RoM Army could beat Helliger even when demoralized, Kai's betrayal turned this victory into one that in the end served as more of a disadvantage in the end.

### **Skirmish at Stirling**

* cPyro (Soldier)
* New Nethy
* Nethy
* UNB
* Enrique

**Result:** RoM Victory

**Casualties:** Minor Injuries on Both Sides

**Battle Information:**

Hazerd and cPyro blew up Stirling and occupied it while many European players were turining their computers on. When they came on en masse, Hazerd and Pyro retreated into makeshift underground tunnels and fled to Helliger proper. Pyro left the game and Hazed started patrolling PBTown in preparation for his allies to log back on to swarm the RoM before it can organize. Tsar took advantage of the Helliger retreat and swiftly gave supplies to all combattants on his side; ordering an advance on PBTown to hopefully catch Hazerd by surprise.

### **1st Battle of PBTown**

**Result:** Clear RoM Victory

**Casualties:** Severe Injuries on Both Sides

**Battle Information:**

As Tsar hoped, the RoM arrived at PBTown before Hazerd did and recaptured its ruins. After patrolling the city for awhile, most of the RoM forces left the game in order to do things in real life. Regardless, Hazerd was still caught off guard and lured into an inescapable pit caused by TNT under the ruined Parlaiment. In the pit, Hazerd was cornered and forced to jump into a hole which lead him to a cave where he was pursued for a few minutes but managed to escape using /home. Most injuries were inflicted upon Tsar himself since he was fighting using his cottage's WiFi which made it take him up to 45sec to load chunks.

### **Battle of Helliger**

**Result:** Clear RoM Victory

**Casualties:** 1 Helliger Death, Minor RoM Injuries

**Battle Information:**

The 21st of June Movement Commander Sealand told Tsar that the had the coordinates to the capital of Helliger proper, named Helliger. Tsar and Sealand ordered an attack there immediately, since they knew Hazerd would not expect the RoM to know Helliger's coordinates and would likely be caught off guard once again. The plan worked, and Hazerd was left with no options but to run for 5 minutes in familiar terrain until he was shot dead by Tsar. Hazerd combat logged after being killed 2 more times. With that, Helliger was under RoM control. However, Tsar knew that Helliger's forces would soon rally for a massive swarm attack and ordered his troops and allies to go back to PBTown and patrol, while he and Asarokaa recaptured Lexon without resistance and negotiated with Kai to get war equipment and rejoin the war.

### **2nd Battle of PBTown: The Miracle of Pariament**

* cPyro
* Dino
* Firecat
* 4 Other Unknown Soldiers
* Nethy
 Dragon Kingsley (Grand Admiral of the Helliger Navy)
* DragonBorn
* Enrique

**Recult:** Decisive RoM Victory

**Casualties:** 2 Helliger Casualties, 3 RoM Casualties, Severe Injuries on Both Sides

**Battle Information:**

Tsar's call to rally back at PBTown proved fruitful, as Hazerd tried recapturing it when the bulk of his forces joined the game. The 21st of June Movement Forces engaged him first, and the RoM forces soon joined them in the battle. The battle initially was a stalemate but Helliger was getting the upper hand, outnumbering 21st of June Movement Forces 10:2. However, the outnumbered forces under Sealand used the cover of the rubble under the RoM Parliament building and held on long enough until Tsar and Asarokaa's forces arrived. Disaster soon struck: due to lag, both Tsar and Asarokaa spent over a minute loading chunks and were killed; losing some of the best equipment the RoM had to offer, and knocking out the entire RoM high command in the battle for the time being. The 21st of June Movement, coupled with the 2 remaining RoM soldiers (Nethy and Volkan) were seemingly left to fend for themselves while Tsar and Asarokaa contacted Kai to get any supplies they can get. Tsar promised Kai the war would end if the RoM won the battle, and Kai gave whatever remaining Bluefieldian Police equipment he had that wasn't destroyed or captured by Helliger the night before. With Kai joining Asarokaa's Contean Division and some backup equipment taken, Tsar's and Asarokaa's forces rejoined the struggle against Helliger. The RoM's return caught the Helliger right flank off guard and cornered the bulk of Helliger's forces in a blown up crater on the right side of Parliament, killing some of their enemies. However, Hazerd's reserve units soon joined in and punctured the RoM's right flank; killing Enrique, Nethy, and Kai. Tsar's, Asarokaa's, and Sealand's remaining forces pulled back into the underground ruins of Parliament and hoped the mobs inside would distract Hazerd's forces long enough to pick them off and blance the terrible odds against them. Their gamble paid off, and many Helliger forces were enveloped from the left and right flanks in the underground craters of Parilament; leaving Hazerd, DragonBorn, and cPyro left against Sealand, Tsar, Asarokaa, and Volkan. DragonBorn soon died and the RoM counterattacked to corner Helliger once more. Sealand was killed in the push and Volkan and Tsar were caught in a short friendly-fire fight. They soon realized they were on the same side and continued their joint advance with Asarokaa. Kai called for peace talks and Asarokaa retreated to the negotiation zone 20 blocks away; heavily wounded from constant fighting. Volkan was killed by Hazerd after being separated from Tsar on the left flank. This left Tsar in the battle in a 2v1 against cPyro and Hazerd. DragonBorn also joined the fray but Tsar soon killed him as he was under-equipped. Tsar did a fake retreat into the underground Parliamentary ruins, and fired some shots at cPyro to suppress him and forced him to eat Gapples. This few-second distraction gave Tsar enough time to finish off the weakened Hazerd and cPyro retreated; decisively winning the battle for the RoM and giving PM Tsar enough leverage over Helliger in the ensuing peace talks to force them to rejoin the RoM as a State. The RoM, although outnumbered 10:7 and fighting against their own WiFi connections, managed to miraculously prevail in the battle and win the war.