Luxembourg Massacre

The **Luxembourg Massacre** or the **Siege of Luxembourg City** was a siege and mass-murder event committed by Switzerland, California, and Germany that took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. The siege started on February 13th 2022 at 21:47 UTC, lasted a short time of 36 minutes and 32 seconds, and ended with Luxembourg’s surrender and signing of **The Treaty of Bern**.

## Background

The incident took place during the **Royal Ball of Luxembourg**, a ball hosted by Luxembourg leadership inviting foreign leaders and diplomats from all around the world to establish peace and diplomacy due to growing tensions in Europe. As it seemingly turned out, the event was a great success. It attracted many residents, mayors, and nation leaders alike from places like Scotland, Poland-Lithuania, the Philippines and many others. More people were joined together in peace than ever recorded since the server’s launch.

The attack comes as a retaliation by the Swiss after tensions between the residents of Switzerland and those of Luxembourg formed due to the latter hunting and successfully killing residents outside Swiss borders (specifically Bern, the Swiss capital) with no provocation.

## Attack

Seconds before the leader of Monaco, Vladdislav, was able to present his speech, hostilities had been declared towards Luxembourg by Switzerland and a siege banner had been placed at the site at 21:47 UTC. Swiss and Californian soldiers entered through the southern gates of Luxembourg City within seconds of the banner being placed and proceeded to brutally murder ball attendees. Reports from the battlefield count up to 30 initial deaths within a few minutes and 56 total deaths as of 22:00 UTC, twelve minutes after the banner was placed. Many attendees fled to safety, others were not as fortunate and fell to the hands of the Swiss’ surprise attack. It has been termed as the first terrorist attack in server history, totalling 174 casualties to a mere 10 for the Swiss mercenaries.

## Aftermath

It had been 36 minutes and 32 seconds since the banner had been placed, and Luxembourg surrendered the siege due to the unpreparedness of Luxembourg's citizens. Leaders from both sides addressed the situation on their respective nations' discords.

Here is the leader of Luxembourg, CasualCaino's statement:

> *“Switzerland attacked during the Royal Ball.* [I] *spoke with the leadership privatedly, neither of us wanted to continue the war due to people at the ball not equiped with items to fight. Feeling it was unfair for our allies and random people at the ball we ended the war already with @Api* [Apigale] *and @Con* [Conclusionz]. [It is unfortunate that this] *situation happened during a server event but sometimes that's just how it is with these types of servers!* [Though] *peace was met pretty quickly.”*
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Here is the leader of Switzerland, Apigale's statement:

> *“Swiss Victory in Luxembourg!”*
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> *“We recently sieged Luxembourg because of the actions of their members and us being told to apologize despite us trying to stay peaceful to our neighboring European nations. In the end, it was a misunderstanding with Luxembourg and we quickly made peace after the siege and we plan to support them in their future decisions.*
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> *Thank you to CasualCaino for being chill about it quickly and making peace instead of holding a grudge.*
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> *Switzerland <3 Luxembourg”*
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Monaco has expressed their distress and anger during and after the event and chose to no longer affiliate themselves with Switzerland or California after the supposed terrorist attack on their residents and leader.

### Treaty of Bern

Luxembourg surrendered the siege under the following terms, now established as **The Treaty of Bern**:

1. Luxembourg would apologise for the actions of their residents to Swiss Leadership
2. Switzerland would return all items received from the killings of innocent attendees
3. Switzerland would occupy the Luxembourgian capital, in attempt to protect Luxembourg from foreign invaders

The last condition was agreed upon due to rumours of foreigners looking to siege and tax them.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jackers <@400044048355688448>
2. ↑ Counted and verified by users pmkcanadian <@461674160301801474> and Apigale <@572656071123009538>
3. ↑ Luxembourg Discord
4. ↑ Alpine Pact Discord
5. ↑ Monaco Discord
Article written by pmkcanadian <@461674160301801474> and sahilan <@702160329550856224>.