South Porto(Peoples Island Republic of Madagascar)

South Porto is a small town located in Southern Madagascar and founded on September the 4th 2021. It is the first town of the People's Island Republic of Madagascar.

## History

### Founding

South Porto was founded on September 4th after the player, Erradication, made the journey to Madagascar on boat from South Africa.

### Early Days

Occupying the southern tip of Madagascar. Erradication first established the Porto Dock, a dock for boat parking. After this the Madagascar Star Fort, a fort for defense from invaders, was established. Though the Madagascar Star Fort was demolished soon after being built for a revamp.

### Madagascar Formation Plan

On September 6th, Erradication met up with VvegteHD, the leader of Mahajanga which is also located on Madagascar, to talk about the idea of a United Madagascar. While the plan is still in its infancy, a map detailing how the Island will be divided between the towns who will unite to form Madagascar has already been drafted.

### Skirmish of Mahajanga

On September 7th, a battle would occur that changed the dynamic of Madagascar, it is known as the Skirmish of Mahajanga. Before the Skirmish of Mahajanga occurred, the leaders of South Porto and Mahajanga had been trying to open up talks about Madagascar's unification with the nation of Madagascar\_ok to no avail. Everything was still calm until skirmishes started breaking out between VvegteHD, leader of Mahajanga, and Felcyn53, leader of Madagascar\_ok. This caused a quick response from both the nations of South Porto and Mahajanga who started preparing for a battle. While South Porto and Mahajanga wanted peace, any chance to end the conflict with diplomacy ceased after Felcyn53 showed up with his army on the borders of Mahajanga.

#### Troop Overview

South Porto and Mahajanga had players Erradication who had enchanted iron armor, VvegteHD who just had iron armor, and 001donald who also just had iron. While Madagascar\_ok had the players, Felcyn53 who had full non-enchanted diamond armor, FatMarioPoggers who had semi-diamond armor, and FadeBumf who had full non-enchanted diamond armor.

#### Battle

The battle began after the troops defending Mahajanga charged at the Madagascar\_ok position. At first, it looked like things were going well for the side of Mahajanga but the Mahajanga defenders were soon forced to retreat back into the towns borders with Erradication, the player with the best armor on their team, completely fleeing. The Second Push was the second assault on Madagascar\_ok's troops, this attack seemed to have similar results as the first one with some players who were fighting on the Mahajanga side, getting to half a heart. However after this attack, the Madagascar\_ok troops quickly retreated from the area leaving only their leader, Felcyn53 behind.

#### Death of Feclyn53

Feclyn53 tried to hide in trees growing in Mahajanga to ambush players who were going to leave the town though was spotted by South Porto and Mahajanga's troops. This caused Felcyn53 to go for a higher position in the trees ultimately leading to him falling to his death. Overall, the Skirmish of Mahajanga only had one casualty that being Felcyn53 who fell to his death but his death allowed both South Porto and Mahajanga to loot his body, getting the nations in total more than a full set of diamond armor.

#### Impact on Madagascar Formation Plan

The battle's biggest impact is the souring of relationships between Madagascar\_ok and the rest of the nations on Madagascar which undoubtedly will lead to problems regarding the plan to unify the island under one nation.

### The Blockade of South Porto

On September 8th, Erradication would log on to the view of a band of 3 players including JultenLP, a player that had recently on the same day set up a town called Fredonia on the island, digging a more than 4 block wide and 5 block deep pit around his entire town. Erradication was confused by this move and feared a 3 v 1 battle so called on VvegteHD to help him in his predicament. Erradication warned JultenLP and his teammates that if he were to not leave the area around his town alone, a fight would break out but this threat fell on deaf ears. Erradication counted to 3 in public chat before jumping into the pit that was being dug and attacking JultenLP, VvegteHD soon followed him after in 2 v 2 battle resulting in JultenLP's friend dying and JultenLP, himself retreating to Fredonia. After that short skirmish, Erradication rushed to claim the area where the 4 block wide pit was dug, worried JultenLP would come back and claim it leaving South Porto with no directions for expansion. This claiming endeavor however was very costly, it burnt through the bank of South Porto leaving them with about only $200 from what used to be more than $2,000. The violating of South Porto's sovereignty by JultenLP in this blockade caused Erradication to sail in a boat from Porto Dock to Fredonia, meeting JultenLP on a bridge in the town. JultenLP at first saw this as a retaliation attack by South Porto against Fredonia so ran into his town, though after Erradication said he wanted to diplomatically solve the issue, a meeting on the bridge commenced. In this meeting, Erradication only had one demand and that was for JultenLP to give Erradication all the blocks he gained from digging the pit so Erradication could fill it back in. JultenLP opposed this stating that he only had dug the pit to combat against what he called the "Northern Madagascans" Erradication at first thought that JultenLP was talking about the nation of Madagascar\_ok since it was north of them and the nation was quite aggressive to the other nations on Madagascar but JultenLP clarified that he was talking about Mahajanga. This very much confused Erradication as he knew that Mahajanga was a peaceful and much more diplomatically inclined nation but this confusion was soon cleared when JultenLP explained to him that he did the blockade to damage the power of South Porto, an ally of Mahajanga, as well as stave off Mahajanga from attempting to conquer his lands to unite Madagascar. After this statement Erradication realized that JultenLP must have taken VvegteHD's goals of a united Madgascar as VvegteHD trying to claim his lands. Erradication explained to JultenLP that the united Madgascar was meant to be a coalition of towns that work together to defend themselves not one big centralized nation and everything that happened prior to the conversation was a big misunderstanding. After JultenLP's teammate was given back iron gear, Erradication received the blocks he wanted from the blockade to fix the destruction around his town and JultenLP was forgiven for the misunderstanding. In conclusion, while the blockade may seem like a small event, its effects have both drawn the island of Madagascar closer than ever with more peace but also damaged nations' economies namely South Porto. The blockade was a success for Fredonia who achieved its initial goal of weakening South Porto, an ally of Mahajanga, as the nation's money decreased from more than $2000 to $200 mostly because of the emergency claiming of areas that had been dug out into the pit.

## Geography

South Porto is set up in an Acacia biome with much trees and sand. It occupies Southern Madagascar making it a city on the coastline with access to the sea.