The Great Boomer Misunderstanding

Pete celebrating his victory of "world domination"

**The Great Boomer Misunderstanding** was a territorial crisis that was committed by VoiceOverPete on Day 3. This was regarded as the first major territorial crisis on the server as the expansion went beyond everyone's expectation and led the server on the brink of war.

## History

Following the faction reset on Day 2, the Antarctic Empire has lost its claims on Australia. Therefore, the next day, VoiceOverPete set out an expedition to reclaim the continent for the empire. Upon landing and a brief detour to the Australian Triforce, he went to a mountain range and placed `"/f claim 50"` command to start the autoclaim. This was one of the features that allows players to autoclaim chunks depending on the radius they inserted.

Unbeknownst to him, the radius that he had ordered was too much. The claim started to grow exponentially, encroaching the entirety of Australia and half of the Bean Island. Pete was oblivious to the aggressive expansion, even though his Twitch chat was trying their best to warn him the consequences of his actions, and his in-game chat was spammed with a wall of messages `"You claimed land for your faction from Wilderness"` with the latter occasionally replaced with `"BeanIsland"`.

Meanwhile, other streamers had also gone into a state of panic. Krinios was baffled and furious as he found his Bean Island now colonised by the Antarctic Empire. Chip suggested that Krinios might be able to reclaim the land back soon. Jawsh personally warned Pete to unclaim the island protectorate of the German Empire, threatening to declare a state of war between the two empires if the crisis still persist.

Pete, on the other hand, was fighting for his life as he ventured the Australian wilderness at night, continuously attacked by hostile mobs. Tension was relieved after Pete apologized to the Bean Island, making it clear that his intentions were not to overstep his bounds. He immediately submitted the command `"/f unclaim 100"` to undo his actions, but the game prompted a different set of messages: `"You don't own this land."`.

At this point, Pete had travelled blocks away from his initial spot when he made the overclaim and didn't realize it. So he set out the command for 150 blocks radius, then to 500, thinking it would undo his massive accidental land claims. But neither of those commands worked, thus he asked Chip's assistance to resolve the issue in order to retract his massive overclaim on Australia while still retaining Antarctica.

Several minutes later, he returned to his initial position on the mountain range and fixed the situation by claiming a bigger radius than unclaim them all altogether. In the end, he placed a 5 chunk radius claim as he originally planned.

## Affected Colonies & Factions

* Australia (then-unclaimed by any other factions)
* Bean Island (a protectorate member of the German Empire)

## Aftermath

When Pete discovered the extent of his mistakes, he simply laughed maniacally and seemed to be both proud and bewildered by his newly-found abilities, even comparing his powers with that of Thanos. He did a monologue proclaiming his victory at world domination and how other members of his faction should be proud of this as well.
Afterwards, Pete joined a VC with Krinios, Chip, GrunksPromise, InkTea and other streamers discussing the territorial crisis. Chip admired his actions saying "all is fair in love and war". Krinios accepted Pete's apology as he went online for a while to reclaim his island territory and lamented how he could not even go offline for one day without his island being taken by other factions.

   Chip then tweeted an abridged version of the event to the tune of In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg, to which Technoblade had retweeted. The video can also be found in his YouTube channel.
This would not be the only time Pete had participated in a territorial crisis: he was also an accomplice in the Antarctic World Domination operation on Day 8, where the empire placed a global-sized overclaim, affecting almost every other factions on the server that led to the Saint-Malo Trials and the creation of the Worldwide Laws that prohibited aggressive expansion.

This would also not be the first time Australia had a territorial crisis: on Day 10, Jameskii committed a series of territorial crisis in what would be known as the Prime Claim Crisis, where earlier that day, he accidentally deleted other factions' claims in Europe, Africa and parts of Asia via overclaim. Later that day, he sloppily attempted to autoclaim the entire Australia, resulting in a serious case of border gore. Again, Chip assisted him to properly claim the land for his new faction, PEPEGA.

## Stream Reference

1. Pete's VOD
2. Inktea's VOD - the Inquisition's reaction