The Two and a Half Men War

* Mindanao
* Tombstone

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FrozenFortress
 Ursus
Quig
 Eret
 BlueVacktor

**The Two and a Half Men War** was a conflict between the StateOfDeNile and the combined forces of the Antarctic Empire, Ursus, and FrozenFortress. It began late in Day 106 and extended into early Day 107.

## Cause

On Day 91, RedVacktor claimed an area of Antarctica for his faction, StateOfDeNile, which was later dubbed as Heatmoar on Day 96. The area of Antarctica, specifically Berkner Island, was previously claimed by the Antarctic Empire and was removed from the empire's control due to the Fourth Faction Reset on Day 76. VoiceOverPete missed this area while re-establishing the Antarctic Empire's claims on Day 81 and was greatly displeased by Red's presence on the continent.

Pete later voiced his disapproval of Red's actions in a discussion with X33n on Day 92 and attempted to intimidate the leader of the StateOfDeNile in to relinquishing the colony established by his subordinate. X33n affirmed to Pete, as a means to maintain his faction's neutrality, that he had no association with Red's actions and that his comrade would relinquish the claim eventually.

Later that day, Red returned to the colony and began constructing two large heaters, revealing his plan to melt the ice on the continent. His rationale for creating a drastic climate change was that the melting of ice would likely expose a weakness in the Antarctic Empire's base, the Ancient Stronghold, and therefore weaken the strength of the faction. He admitted that he was aware of the limits of Minecraft as the heaters would not function as intended, inferring that they would symbolically melt the ice. Red returned to the location again on Day 96 in order to continue the construction of the heaters.

On Day 106, Pete travelled to Heatmoar and demolished the heaters using TNT as requested by members of his audience. Red was notified by one of his viewers of Pete's actions after logging on to the server and raced over in order to see the destruction with his own eyes. He also vowed that there would be war while en route to Heatmoar, on the condition that the heaters were actually destroyed, and confirmed as such to his audience upon viewing the wreckage.

## The War

### **A Jurassic Meltown**

RedVacktor returned to Tombstone, his base, in order to gather TNT while discussing an appropriate location to strike back at the Antarctic Empire. Red realized that he did not own any TNT and figured that he would need to corral other players online to help him fight VoiceOverPete. He managed to gather Galaxies18, Basicallybea, and BlueVacktor to support his side.

Pete was quickly notified of Red's plan by his audience to return fire and enlisted the aid of Quig and Eret in preparation. He had tried to gather the other members of the Antarctic Empire to join him, yet was unsuccessful. Pete had travelled to Antarctic South Africa after destroying the heaters in order to continue his TNT strip-mining operation and debated abandoning his current project. He returned to Boomer Mansion in order to prevent Red from unleashing any wrath towards his base as retaliation.

Both sides discussed their battle strategies and prepared for battle by gathering weaponry and armour. Red, Logan, and Bea ventured to Blue's base at Mindanao to gather supplies while Pete, Quig, and Eret assembled at Technoblade's Palace at Port-aux-Francais in order to do the same. The situation quickly changed as Red, who was en route to the Northern End Portal in an attempt to gather more experience at The Enderman Farm, left the voice chat with his comrades after Blue voiced that Red should just rebuild the heaters; Red did not want to take the neutral stance yet resumed his conversation with them moments later.

While Red was on The Moon, Pete, Quig, and Eret travelled to Mindanao in an attempt to ambush Blue. Blue tried to reason with Pete and the other two, defending Red's actions as well as justifying that he preferred the neutral approach. Logan and Bea attempted to intercept their meeting as a distraction for Red to plant TNT at Boomer Mansion. Pete, Quig, and Eret noticed their approach and retreated to the Big Boomer Train Station awaiting the attackers in Pete's domain, forcing Red to quickly depart from the location.

Red, Logan, and Bea circled the airspace around Big Boomer Train Station and Boomer Mansion avoiding arrows being fired by Quig and Eret below. An argument quickly erupted after Blue revealed that Pete had mentioned to him that it was communicated to Red that the heaters should have been removed days ago, as they were all going to suffer from a rising sea level. Logan and Bea agreed with Blue's reasoning, yet Red accused them of uttering "words of betrayal" and left the voice chat, saying that he would establish his own faction instead. He began to make his return to Tombstone in order to unclaim his territory and was notified of Blue's withdrawal from the StateOfDeNile while en route. In the meantime, Logan and Bea contacted Pete, Quig, and Eret, announcing that they would like to change sides after their altercation with Red.

### **Denial is a River in Egypt**

Red returned to Tombstone by plane and began to manually unclaim each chunk of territory occupied by the StateOfDeNile yet hastily departed from his territory upon discovering that Pete, Quig, and Eret were travelling towards his location. Red flew back to Boomer Mansion and detonated a single block of TNT atop of the mansions central roof. Pete caught up to Red, circling above mansion in his plane and watched Red commit the act and take off.

Red returned to North America and landed at New Mexican Packle, waiting for Pete, Quig, and Eret to follow suit. In the mean time, Blue established his own faction called The United Nations yet did not make any attempt to make either side to establish peace negotiations. Eret and Quig landed in Tombstone, believing that Red would retreat there, while Pete struggled to find their location as he confused it with Salt Lake City. Red met Eret and Quig at his base and joined their ongoing voice chat, where the two immediately accused him of encouraging global warming. Red rebuffed their claim, asking if they even saw the wreckage and stating that they selected the Antarctic Empire's side without being properly informed of the situation.

### **The Historic Negotiation Situation**

Once Pete arrived at the location, Red began to broker peace negotiations and asked for 64 diamonds as compensation for his time that he spent constructing the heaters. Pete, Eret and Quig laughed at his demands and mentioned that the Antarctic Empire could easily wipe out his base as well. Red responded, pointing out that he would dedicate his time for the next 5 weeks to consistently blowing up their bases, with the exception of Eret as he admired his voice. Red then reduced his compensation price to 32 diamonds and threatened 7 weeks of explosions.

The trio refused to pay and Quig mentioned that Red should pay Pete instead for damaging the roof of Boomer Mansion. Red refused, asking to be paid in order to establish peace, lowering his price again to 36 emeralds. Pete replied saying that there would be no form of compensation, yet he could arrange that the heaters would be moved to Red's base instead. Red raised his peace price after hearing Pete's response to 32 diamonds and 36 emeralds, reminding Pete that he blew up structures on territory that was not claimed by the Antarctic Empire. Red then increased his threatened weeks of explosions to 10 and even mentioned that he does not mind to increase the number of weeks further.

While Red continued to barter for reparations with Quig, Pete had travelled back to Boomer Mansion in order to gather End Crystals and began to set them around Tombstone as he was finished negotiating. Red remained unbothered by Pete's actions and dared him to detonate the crystals if he was not willing to negotiate. Pete restated his position once more to Red, to which Red raised his reparations demand back up to 64 diamonds. Pete declared that he was leaving Tombstone as he was finished negotiating.

Seconds later, Beatsolos joined the voice chat asking what was going on and Red began to fill her in on his perspective of the situation, while Quig and Eret listened as Pete left the conversation. Beat was asked to support Red by Logan and Bea earlier on in the conflict yet was unaware of the change in events. While Red was talking, he was suddenly attacked by Quig and Eret and perished as a result. Red respawned and reiterated that he was serious that he did not care about the destruction of Tombstone. He even detonated some of the end crystals in order to prove his point, asserting that he will have his revenge. While the others were discussing, Pete joined Blue's voice chat with Logan can Bee to inquire if Red was actually serious about the situation as he was uncertain. Pete rejoined the other chat moments later after Red took is own life whilst detonating another crystal. After hearing the ongoing situation, Beat decided that she was not going to get involved and wished them the best in figuring out the situation.

Pete returned to Tombstone and began setting more crystals around the town while listening to Red bicker with Quig and Eret. The discussion between the four continued as Quig and Eret attempted to intimidate Red into backing down from demanding reparations. Pete grew tired of the endless argument and declared that they should leave as they were not making any progress. As Pete made his way back to his plane, Quig slaughtered Red again as Red was giving a farewell kiss to Eret.

After respawning, Red requested to have some of his items returned as Quig and Eret were still in possession of them and the two were about to depart. Quig responded, saying that Red must sleep on the bed he placed in order to return the items. The bed would have reset Red's set spawn location and allow Quig to break the bed and send him back to Spawn if killed again, instead of a location within his base as the times before. Red refused and asked for the 64 diamonds from Pete again after Pete revealed to regret missing some of the events of the discussion. Pete scoffed at Red's demand, noting that each end crystal placed was worth the value that the latter was demanding, therefore were far more expensive as well.

Red then reminded Quig that he reached out to him during the day of The Stolen Iron Scuffle, offering support when he was in a disadvantaged situation. Quig observed that Pete was the first to offer support to him in the situation and then requested that Red reset his spawn location once more. As negotiations began to dwindle, Red declared another offer to Pete: for 64 diamonds, he would return the property to the Antarctic Empire, they would return his armour to him, and that Pete would remove the end crystals from Tombstone as well.

Pete questioned why he would need to repurchase back his own property, yet Red revealed that he had plenty of time to claim that area and that Pete even travelled to Antarctic South Africa to reclaim a massive portion of the continent. Red continued, mentioning that he claimed the territory days after Reclaiming Day, where it was free game. Pete refused to pay Red for the territory and decided that he was finished negotiating, wishing Red enjoyment while rebuilding the heaters. Red reminded Pete of his offer once more, yet Pete declined and returned to his plane once more in order to depart. As Eret and Pete were leaving, Red observed that he would feel far more intimidated if Technoblade was present at the situation. Pete rebuffed, pointing out that Techno would have murdered him numerous amounts of times and not even negotiated at all.

Red was killed again moments later from a skeleton as his armour was not returned and was spawn-killed as Quig located his spawn area and filled it with stone. Blue rejoined the voice chat after noticing that Red was in need of support, noting that they were clearly bullying somebody who has nothing. Red observed that he did not care about the number of deaths he sustained as his faction power was not decreasing since it was never rectified by the server admins. Blue observed that Quig's actions were not warranted which encouraged the latter to remove them, yet Quig warned that he would attack Red if he saw any destruction.

The argument continued between Red, Pete, Quig, and Eret, where Red had not received any compensation, multiple of his builds were destroyed, and his belongings were not returned either. Red eventually reached a settlement with Quig, promising to not destroy his in return for his items. Quig tried to label Blue as scared of him for abandoning Red and refusing to fight, yet Blue immediately refused his claim and maintained his preference for a neutral position.

Red, Blue, and Quig remained in the voice chat together commenting on Quig's position in the battle. Red pointed out that members of the SMPEarth Wiki will likely heavily detail all the actions of the war (which he predicted correctly, yet we were a tad late on our end), exposing Quig's faults in an attempt to convince him to switch sides. They continued to discuss the developments of the battle as Quig defended his position as well. Red began dismantling the end crystals set around Tombstone while mentioning to them and his audience that the war between him and Pete is not over.

After Red concluded his conversation with Blue and Quig, he travelled to Boomer Mansion in order to broker one final deal with Pete. Pete logged off moments after Red's arrival at his base and Red acknowledged that they will continue the war another day.

## Aftermath

Later on Day 107, it was observed that RedVacktor removed StateOfDeNile's claim of Heatmoar from Antarctica yet he did not stream while doing so. It is believed that Red abandoned his plan to build oversize heaters on the Antarctic continent. It can be concluded that no settlement was ever reached between Red and VoiceOverPete.

Although Red removed his claim, Pete never reclaimed the territory on the server for the Antarctic Empire and it remained vacant until the server's closure on Day 142.

## Trivia

* Based on RedVacktor's actions leading up to this conflict, including The 1 Minute War, it is evident that Red intended to catalyze a 'Second Great War' on the server.
	+ Red conducted a series of pranks on numerous players on the server, beginning on Day 85, in order to disturb other players as part of his '*Secret Black Ops Mission*'.
	+ Due to the server's declining popularity, it is clear that other players were no longer interested in any sort of global conflict.
	+ It can be speculated that Red's efforts were also an attempt at generating more content on the server, yet they were ultimately unsuccessful.
* This is the final war to occur on the private SMPEarth server.
* Although BlueVacktor established a faction called The United Nations, he was likely unaware of the United Nations set up by WilburSoot on Day 8 following the Saint-Malo Trials, including the Brittanic House of Law.
* VoiceOverPete admired Red's persistence throughout the battle as the latter could be compared to TommyInnit throughout The Great SMPEarth War, yet Tommy often backed down easily when he was in a disadvantaged situation.
* This war would be the final large event on the server for both Quig and BlueVacktor.

## Gallery

VoiceOverPete destroying the heaters, constructed by RedVacktor located in StateOfDeNile's colony of Heatmoar.Pete marvelling at the destruction.Red witnessing the destroyed heaters.Red attempting to establish negotiations with Quig and Eret.VoiceOverPete placing End Crystals in Tombstone.A view looking at the building Red destroyed during the negotiation process.