Varna Debacle (August 2023)

The town of Varna is located on the western end of the black sea and it is owned by the Thracian Dominion. It used to be a movecraft storage town prior to the events that occured there.
On August 18, 2023, the town of Varna fell into ruin. This is because the last resident of that town had not logged in in 90 days and had his data cleared.

This caused 28 Heavytanks, 5 Tanks, 3 Dreadnoughts, 1 Carrier, 1 Destroyer, 1 Corvette, 1 Submarine, and a Cog (which was not moved during the events) to become liable to be stolen. There are still several broken ships located at Varna that are not economic to repair (as of August 22, 2023)

Instantly, many allies of Thracian Dominion responded by rushing to the site of the ruins as fast as humanly possible to recover movecraft. However, users allied with the Sahara Syndicate, an enemy of the Thracian Dominion, were also quickly notified. Since Thracian Dominion allies were there first, they quickly set to work moving movecraft. A carrier and a dreadnought were moved to the Thracian town of New Vatican before allies of Sahara\_Syndicate arrived. They drove the Thracian Allies out for a bit, took 2 dreadnoughts and presumably a few heavytanks.

Only 2 users died in the combat here. One was killed by user Ryuuuuchi (who was on the side of Thracian Dominion) and one was killed by user Carbii (On the side of Sahara Syndicate).

After this, allies of Thracia returned to the ruins. There was a submarine, a corvette (which was exceedingly ugly and damaged, but nontheless a functional corvette), a cruiser, and a destroyer as well as most of the tanks and Heavytanks remaining. The Heavytanks and Tanks were moved to the town of Rio Thracia, which was founded specifically to store these tanks. The ships were moved to the nearby towns of Crimea and New Vatican, both owned by Thracian\_Dominion.

Users \_Pigfarts and MCBurgerwarrior played pivotal roles in the moving of vehicles. User \_Pigfarts helped move ships as well as helping to direct people to move ships more efficiently. MCBurgerWarrior refueled all of the heavytanks and tanks, because they were mostly unfueled.

The allies of Sahara\_Syndicate noticed this and successfully distracted many users from this by sieging Nordic\_Conquerors. This siege was a loss for Sahara Syndicate, both in the initial intent and in the siege itself, because whilst it distracted people from moving ships, it also distracted people from stopping people from moving ships.

(The original author notes that he was on the side of Thracia, and has tried to be as unbiased as possible. However, there are certain things that he is unable to know and as such consider this non-authoritative until more users have edited and refined this article.)

First-hand account from user firestar9990:

"I moved a Dread and 2 heavytanks in the initial chaotic bit, but after that I stayed behind to get some other ships. There was a Cruiser that was merged to a Destroyer, and everybody in chaos just assumed it was a broken ship because the mass wasn't pilotable as anything. There was also a submarine merged to the ocean bottom, so I took these 3 ships to the port east. There was also a Corvette which nobody realized was a corvette because it was basically a vaguely ship-shaped mass of blocks, so I took that to the port as well."