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The empire as of Day 89

The **Antarctic Empire** (pronounced, ænˈtɑːktɪk ˈɛmpaɪə) (in-game: "AntarcticEmpire") is a faction created by Technoblade. It is the most militaristic and expansionist faction on the server. It laid claim to the majority of the world map's territory as a result of a successfully-executed world domination plan but was forced to restrict their territorial claims to the continent of Antarctica following the Saint-Malo Trials. However, Technoblade still managed to claim the entire lower half of South Africa without anyone's notice.

Beforehand, they claimed a few chunks outside Antarctica; namely in Australia, Madagascar, and Bengal (near the confluence of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers). They had also claimed other parts of Australia and the Octangula Symbol before faction claims were reset on Day 2.

They were noted by WilburSoot early on as a strong candidate for being the strongest faction on the server.

Currently, the two (unofficial) capitals of the Empire are the Ancient Stronghold and Port-aux-Francais. Most of the faction is moving to its resources away from the Ancient Stronghold due to many reasons with the biggest one being The Antarctic Animal Glitch.

## History

### Day 1

The Antarctic Empire was initially founded by Technoblade whilst he was in Africa. Its first territory, however, was claimed atop the Antarctic mountain. Ph1LzA was invited to the faction shortly afterward, and the two began to explore their new territory. Before they could even reach the top of the mountain, the two of them fought against and defeated Jamakattack (who had arrived at the base unannounced). Ph1LzA and Techno were the first to discover the Ancient Stronghold and began using it as a base.

The Antarctic Empire later invited VoiceOverPete to their faction. The three of them proceeded to claim parts of Australia together. Technoblade also claimed the Katla volcano in Iceland. On the same trip, Technoblade retrieved Alfred the chicken from Ireland.

VoiceOverPete was the first to explore the Octangula Symbol. He had to leave after ConnorEatsPants arrived but later returned with Technoblade to retrieve the Octangula Disc and beacons.

The Antarctic Empire formed an alliance with Florida, proving their worth by killing Florida's owner Fit in an experiment**.**

Technoblade stole diamond armor and tools from KaraCorvus after she died and he retrieved her inventory. Initially, only some of the items were returned, but the leggings and boots were returned on Day 2. The Antarctic Empire then later formed an alliance with the Corvarian Empire, under the promise of trade deals and protection against other factions.

WilburSoot referred to the empire on Day 1 as a strong candidate for the most powerful faction on the server at the time.

### Day 2

After a brief exchange in the early morning of Day 2, the Antarctic Empire was permitted to use WilburSoot's bridge in exchange for help with defense.

The faction reset occurred very early on Day 2, revoking all claims from the Antarctic Empire, including their claims in Australia and Katla. Before the faction could reclaim their land in Antarctica, TommyInnit entered the base through a hole in the railway system while Technoblade was online but not streaming. Tommy attempted to steal items but was killed by Technoblade.

Technoblade later returned to Katla to reclaim it.

OGBeefStew left a bowl of suspicious stew at the base near the 'dibs' sign in hopes of seeing Technoblade's reaction. Although he never drank the stew, on OGBeefStew's end it was a token of good faith as it was a regeneration stew.

Reflex entered the base later through the entrance by the 'dibs' sign, with VoiceOverPete inside. After looking around and discovering the end portal, he left with no conflict. Pete blocked off the entrances that were discovered in the direction of his twitch chat.

Technoblade and VoiceOverPete began construction on a tunnel between Australia to Antarctica.

### Day 3

VoiceOverPete traveled to Australia and claimed a massive amount of it, including land that was previously claimed by the Inquisition and Bean Island. Krinios claimed his land back and forgave Pete, as did the Inquisition.

VoiceOverPete officially started the construction process of the Antarctica-Australia Railway.

### Day 4

Transatlantic captured Katla from the Antarctic Empire.

Two of their members, Ph1LzA and VoiceOverPete participated in the Rails Experiment. They allied with Marioloogi, who also participated the same day.

### Day 5

After all the faction members had logged off for the night, the stronghold was infiltrated by KaraCorvus (Corvarian Empire), CaptainSparklez (Kingdom of Jordan), & IAmSp00n (Arkansonia), who opened up the End portal with Kara's Eyes of Ender and killed the Ender Dragon. Later, it was deactivated to its original state, while another portal was opened up by the admins at the North Pole. Before that, however, Ph1lzA took advantage of the open portal to gather as many resources as possible, including Elytras and Shulker boxes, this made the Antarctic Empire possibly the most powerful nation on the server. The infiltration has degraded any good relations between the factions and resulted in an increase of tensions between the countries.

### Day 6

VoiceOverPete mined cobblestone for the upcoming bridge.

### Day 8

Technoblade initiated his plan to take over the world with the help of Ph1LzA and ArlusFinch. The plan was to encircle around the world and exploit the auto-fill feature on the Dynmap to make it look like he claimed every continent on the server. Arlus temporarily joined the Antarctic Empire as a mercenary to execute the plan.

After the plan succeeded, all of the faction's members were placed on trial for war crimes in Saint-Malo. During the trial, Arlus betrayed and left the faction in exchange for evading punishment. The remaining three were found guilty and were forced to relinquish all territorial claims outside of Antarctica.

After the trial concluded, Techno reclaimed the Ancient Stronghold and declared war on the Transatlantic for their treachery to the Empire.

Later, Techno found the monument within the Wilderness square and claimed it. The monument was assumed to be created by chip and had been previously raided. After messing around for a bit, Ph1LzA got a diamond from a dropper at the monument, which leads to Techno breaking inside it even though the monument wasn't supposed to be breakable. Techno found a repeating command block and redstone line connecting it to the dropper. Before he could destroy the circuit in hopes of exploiting it, the command block and dropper were destroyed by chip.

### Day 9

The claim on the Wilderness monument was revoked, likely because chip either repaired or re-purposed it.

### Day 10

The Empire expanded, claiming the whole continent, overclaiming English Antarctica. Their claim on the monument was regained following a faction rollback.

### Day 12

The Empire allied with Stal following a bidding war between AntVenom and svyoshi, which AntVenom won. Construction on Technoblade's Palace at the capital begins.

### Day 16

The Empire claimed the southern half of Africa. They also declared war on Business Bay in the Battle of the Bridges.

### Day 19

Technoblade, Ph1LzA, and several allies helped start and develop a small village in the now complete Port-aux-Francais. An adoption center was also set up southwest of the temple, housing the "failures."

### Day 20

An iron farm was built by Ph1lzA northwest of the Port-aux-Francais. Ph1LzA was temporarily kicked in order for the Empire to test the power of weapons and armor in 1.14. They discovered that axes were effective for fighting against shields and decided to prioritize in making axes as their primary weapons. They also tested the power of airstrikes, which immediately killed Ph1l despite his incredibly powerful armor. Another airstrike was used against the adoption center, killing all the villagers.

### Day 25

Philza steals Packle's Pickle after Packle declares war on the Antarctic Empire for a charity stream.

### Day 26

ScotGriswold drops Floof off at Technoblade's Palace in an attempt at securing an alliance with the Antarctic Empire.

### Day 27

Technoblade and Philza play a leading role in the Wednesday War, killing Tommy a number of times. This eventually devolves into a number of different players (including Sylvee, Grunk, Fit, Sneegsnag, ScotGriswold. Thunder1408 and Eret) teaming up on Tommy. After battles move from Antarctica to South Africa to Business Bay, a peace treaty is finally signed that allows neutrality between Business Bay and the Empire for 3 days in return for Tommy building them a cow farm.

The Antarctic Empire later allied with Bean Empire as Techno's chat was impressed with Sylvee's performance in PVP. They also open Scot's present. Though Techno seems ecstatic at the gift, and he bonded with Scot over the horrors of long-distance livestock shipping, he still declines to ally with New Hawaii.

Seeking further bloodshed, Philza, with ally Sneegsnag, attempts to escalate tensions between Packle and the Empire by placing a number of provocative pictures and phrases around Packle's base.

Technoblade reveals that the Empire will soon be getting a new member, though Phil and Sneeg prevent him from revealing who. They claim it is "foreshadowing".

### Day 32

While trying to shoot Derrick, ConnorEatsPants accidentally killed Alfred. He was promptly chased by Technoblade, resulting in an aerial battle. They eventually landed, with there being temporary peace. Connor fired at Technoblade, breaking the peace. He was quickly killed with Technoblade announcing that he had avenged Alfred. While both Techno and Pete rendezvoused with Connor at the latter's base in Sicily, they were suddenly ambushed by a raid party consisted of Svyoshi, KaraCorvus, and Wuna301. Techno, however, was forced to retreat and logged out as he was not streaming, thus unable to capture the events live for content. On the other hand, Pete was flying in circles above the Sicilian skies during the period of the ambush, evading multiple attacks from the raiders. The ambush ended with a stalemate as all belligerents decided that a war could be scheduled at a later, more convenient date. No formal declaration of war was issued by the Antarctic Empire, even though they have been declared an enemy by the Corvarian and the German Empire during the ambush.

### Day 39

Ph1lzA and VoiceOverPete participated in the Raid of Bean York to help out their allies, the Bean Empire. While fighting, Phil offers an invitation to Wispexe to the Antarctic Empire. Following the raid, Wisp leaves Business Bay and joins the Antarctic Empire. Phil gave Wisp a tour of the Port-aux-Francais while Pete gave him a tour of the Ancient Stronghold.

### Day 41

VoiceOverPete invited over all the members of Business Bay over to see his castle. Shortly after, Wisp came by and attacked Deo in order for him to listen to what he had to say. Tommy, in retaliation, struck back at Wisp which escalated into a full-scale battle before Pete intervened with an airstrike to intimidate the members of Business Bay. Unfortunately, he accalidently killed himself as he forgot that an airstrike could harm the user. Following his death, Deo took all of his fallen items and fled via the ocean before being collected by Tommy in a plane, making his retreat back to Business Bay.

Phil later logged on and was alerted by Wisp about what Business Bay had done, and in order to get back Pete’s stuff, they destroyed Business Bay’s cow farm. After no one seemed to care about what happened to the cow farm, Sylvee intervened and offered a more diplomatic approach to the situation at hand. She offered to trade her armor for Pete’s items, but was quickly dispatched by Deo while she was taking off her armor. The members of Business Bay then fled by plane once more.

Wisp, angered by this fact, burnt down Business Bay’s storage shed and materials (After verifying that fire does not destroy items, each member present left to allow the items to despawn). He returned to Technoblade's palace and began preparations for attacking Business Bay with Phil. Wisp was given a brand new bow with max enchantments packed with harming arrows and they both armed themselves with strength 2 potions.

However, shortly afterward Tommy and Deo had to leave since it was late for them and they were exhausted. Many believe that it was justified as they had streamed for 5 hours straight, though others thought that they combat logged given the circumstances; they logged off right when Deo was attacked by the Antarcticans and their allies. The latter group believes that they could’ve stayed on just a bit longer for the battle to end.

### Day 45

The moon landing was finally at hand, and almost all players on the server were headed to the Moon using the Northern End Portal to fight a modified version of the ender dragon (nicknamed ”Big Bertha”). Technoblade began to stack up on all manner of potions, including strength 2, instant health 2, slow falling 2 and turtle master potions. He also acquired 5 stacks of arrows of harming (which later appeared to be ineffective against the dragon due to its immunity towards potion effects,) and an elytra with a stack of fireworks.

Wisp was supposed to join but didn’t come because he was away to eat with someone else. Phil tried to contact Wisp and asked if he was going to come but whether he received an answer remains unknown.

They then got teleported by Josh to the northern end portal where they then proceeded to have a group photo before they went on to the moon.

The battle mainly consisted of TimeDeo flying around on his plane while everyone who got elytras shot at the dragon from above, destroying the end crystals while the other assembled players attacked from the ground. Many players died, most died to the dragon itself, with some being accidentally killed by fellow players who either blew them up with failed bed bombs or missed arrows.

After a long and grueling battle, the Ender Dragon's health was brought down to around 20% where it appeared to be stuck as the admins were continuously manually placing down end crystals to heal the dragon. The stalemate ended when Sal placed down 2 beds and triggered them both, with the bed bombs dealing just enough damage for Deo to land the finishing blow.

Everyone rushed to get the Second Dragon Egg, but thanks to Phil, it kept teleporting. Eventually, it was collected by Technoblade using some quick mining and a slab.

A short while after this Egg was acquired, Techno found that there was another Egg, but he was too slow to prevent CaptainSparklez from collecting the Third Dragon Egg. Sneeg would discover the Fourth Dragon Egg, also from Big Bertha, collecting it and handing it off to Phil for his achievement. This last Egg would be tricked off of Phil and taken by Wilbur, causing the Empire to declare war against Newfoundland.

Technoblade, Phil, Voiceoverpete, Sneegsnag and AFitzy (who followed along to try joining the Antarctic Empire; she was declined since Technoblade wanted more enemies and conflict for content) flew over to the other end islands via plane and elytras, likely to avoid other players who used the End Gateway.

VoiceOverPete (who was accompanied by Sneeg) found their first city and the most end cities, following by Phil who found slightly less. Techno (who was accompanied by AFitzy) found only 2 end cities (one who was already looted) though the unlooted city featured an End Boat and seemingly more shulkers than average. He found the other end city on the way back to the Moon Central Island, but it was already looted by someone else.

Technoblade later teased his chat for a while about who the secret 5th member of the Antarctic Empire could be and stated that the reason the 5th member hasn’t joined yet is that he had not logged in as of then. He also gave clues that the 5th member is really good at pvp which is why he thought that bringing in Wisp was a bit too much considering what they already have up in their sleeves and Sneegsnag had shown excitement for when the secret member joins, indicating that the 5th Antarctican might have some sort of relationship with Sneeg.

He then read his chat’s guesses about what the 5th member could be, among these were: Skeppy, James Charles, Fruitberries, TapL, and Jschlatt. Techno later denies the guesses of James Charles, Jschlatt or Fruitberries, but did not deny Skeppy or TapL.

However in TapL’s 500k subscribers Q&A, he had said that apparently no one has contacted him to join SMP Earth but would love to do so. This implied that the 5th member would not be TapL (which came as a shock since many speculated that it was probably TapL who was going to be the 5th member), some who thought that TapL was going to be the new Antarctican instead choose xNestorio, who was also another popular contender for being the new member.

### Day 46

Phil continues to construct the interior of the Technocastle and later talks with TommyInnit and Wispexe temporarily, who were both in his chat.

Wisp reveals that the reason he didn’t log on during the moon landing was that he was away to eat with someone else and had forgotten the event completely.

He then heads off to the moon in order to find elytras, shulker boxes, etc and was then also accompanied by Phil who acted as somewhat of a guide. They found in total 5 elytras, 5 dragon heads, over a dozen shulker boxes and 2 stacks of end rods, along with countless other loot including armor, tools, iron, gold and even diamonds.

Wisp later drops a dragon head and an item frame into the portal back to the overworld which Phil later wanted to see where the items had landed in order to find out what the servers spawn chunks were located at. He then finds out that the items actually ended up to the spawn area in SMP Earth (the place where you get to choose which continent you wanted to live in) and was stuck thanks to the barrier blocks, but was later saved by JoshA20. He then toured Beef stews faction for a short while but later went back to Technoblade’s palace and logged off.

Pete continues to construct the Boomer mansion and had revealed that Technoblade wanted to invite infamous 2b2t griefer ”popbob”. The reason that he couldn’t come on to the server was seeming because the admins were not sure if he would follow the rules and not grief everything (as he did on 2b2t) and because popbob has not booted up Minecraft for a long time.

### Day 48

Ph1lzA continued working on the interior of Technoblade's Palace and created a new and improved version of the wall of fanart.

Wilbur later joined in and made Phil scavenge for the server’s elusive sea temple. VoiceOverPete later joined in and helped Phil out for a while.

Phil later tried to ”interrogate” Wilbur into giving him info which later proved to be a fruitless endeavor in their quest to find the temple. Afitzy and Techno later joined their voice chat and witnessed Phil getting scammed for the second time by Wilbur, who lied saying that he was going to take the dragon egg out of his ender chest. But unbeknownst to Phil, Wilbur hadn’t yet placed the dragon egg into the ender chest and later got spawn killed by Phil 2 times before he somehow got away and logged off to play DayZ with ArlusFinch. Sneeg later said in chat that Phil was dead to him.

Wisp later joined their voice chat and proceeded to laugh at Phil’s naive acts for a short bit. Phil, who was angered by getting fooled 2 times in a row, decided to kidnap Wilbur’s pet, Pee dog.

His chat told him that the Pee dog he captured was actually a fake one but was proven wrong when Phil blackmailed Sophietexas into giving him info about Pee dog’s whereabouts and confirmed that the Pee dog he stole was in fact, the real dog. Wisp later said that he’d go away for a bit, Techno seized this opportunity and called Wisp a multitude of names, including ”crisp” and ”frisp”. He then left the VC in order to eat a ”pulled chicken pie”.

Ph1lzA had confirmed that the new secret member wasn’t popbob and Techno revealed that he didn’t even know who popbob was and just thought he was some random 2b2t player. He then had managed to bring Pee dog to the Antarctic headquarters and hid him off-stream in order to hide his location before spies of Wilbur could be able to tell where Pee dog’s location was.

### Day 49

SophieTexas had found a message from Phil that says if Wilbur doesn't return the dragon egg after January 15th, Pee dog shall be executed by the Antarctic Empire.

Kara tried to rescue Pee dog from the Antarctic Empire with the help of the piston composter technique she learned from Phil, that allowed her to essentially x-ray but ended up getting interrupted by Phil who logged on because he was warned by someone on twitter that Kara was stealing Pee dog.

Phil explained to Kara about what Wilbur had done to him and Sneeg, which then made Kara return Pee dog under the promise of Pee dog getting proper care and a girlfriend. Phil then moved Pee dog to a more secure place to not repeat his mistake two times in a row.

Kara then also found the message Phil left for NewfoundLand about the fate of Pee dog.

### Day 50

Phil continued to construct the interior of the Technocastle and noticed TimeDeo killing Icebomb multiple times; He then said that Deo is taking things on this server a tad too serious and continues building.

Tommy later tried to get Phil to visit his new casino in order to try earning some diamonds, but it wasn’t long until he noticed Icebomb sitting on a bench, he questioned Tommy about what had happened but wasn’t able to receive a truthful answer. Phil then tried to prank Tommy by betting on lapis instead of diamonds that unfortunately he wasn’t allowed to do. Phil began getting suspicious and told Tommy that if the gold block comes out of the dropper, he gets to live, but if it doesn't, Phil gets to murder him. Unsurprisingly, the dropper shot out a gold block. Phil thought that it was a scam because Tommy put in the gold block last, making it drop out first. This lead to him believing that Tommy was indeed trying to scam him. However, the truth was that Tommy simply took out all but the gold block from the dropper which was later revealed through a clip that was sent to him by his chat. Phil proceeded to steal 50 of the casino’s diamonds.

Timedeo later arrived to make Phil return the diamonds and was disappointed in Tommy for losing 50 diamonds so easily. Phil stated that if they wanted the diamonds back they would have to reveal to him what happened to Icebomb. They revealed that they had stolen Icebomb’s items. Phil made another deal and said that if they wanted back their diamonds they would have to return the stolen goods. Tommy pointed out that Icebomb showed how to create a TNT duplicator to Business Bay and were going to use that against Antarctica but Phil retaliated by saying he was just trying to deliver justice.

Icebomb suddenly killed Tommy and got back all of his materials and decided to battle against Deo, but is defeated easily. They then talked for a while and Phil debated whether he should declare Business Bay as an enemy but was interrupted by Deo who thought that attacking Phil while he was wearing an elytra and therefore weakened would be the ideal moment to kill him. This unfortunately failed and Phil declared them as enemies.

Wisp joined the voice chat but only spectated . He ate chocolate and invented his new persona ”Grandma Wisp”. Pete and Afitzy also asked if he needed help but was reassured that he was going to be fine. They fought a long and pointless battle as 1.14 PVP doesn't allow much damage to be dealt while healing items were too overpowered, they came to a stalemate and decided to end the skirmish.

It was a victory for the Antarcticans since they got 50 diamonds but also a win for Business Bay since they got to keep all the stuff they stole from Icebomb, as Phil left he gracefully one shot Tommy while flying with his elytra and ended the conflict once and for all. He declared neutralship with Business Bay once more to his chat’s disappointment but hinted that it wasn’t for a very peaceful reason. The reason was likely because the Antarctic Empires' main enforcements weren’t online while Phil and Pete just wanted to build for the time being, which meant that if they were at war any longer Business Bay could potentially get their first loss in a battle.

Phil continued to build the throne room for the Antarctic Empire and thought of an idea about how he could use item frames and use google images to make it seem like actual thrones while Pete continued with building his fortress.

### Day 51

VoiceoverPete tried to claim the Boomer bridge but since he was only a member he couldn’t use autoclaim and manually claimed the bridge to the best of his ability. He then tried to kill Bitzel for attempting to trap the Antarcticans who combat logged. Afterwards, Pete then trapped the area that he logged off on and contacted Tommy about Bitzel’s actions. Tommy was slightly irritated by Pete as he was merely trying to build a bridge; After reading his chat, he thought that he would have to engage in another skirmish against the Antarctic Empire. Pete tried to convince Tommy to tell Bitzel to not do these traps again but Tommy ignored what Pete said and told him that just with what Pete said about Wisp’s actions: “It was his actions, not mine”. Wisp later joined in for a bit and tried to stay neutral about the whole situation until they eventually came to the agreement of letting Bitzel go without any skirmish happening.

Pete later gave Wisp a tour of his mansion with Wisp thinking about moving in or not, considering his lack of confidence in building. The former went back and continued building his castle while the latter decided to go mining in order to get a beacon. Phil then proceeded to claim the entirety of Boomer bridge since he was the co-leader and had the ability to turn on autoclaim.

### Day 54

Wilbur finally returned to SMP Earth and learned about the fate of Pee dog. The fate of his loyal pet was at his hands but first, he decided to see what Sophie had made while he was away. They then quickly got in a voice chat and Wilbur thought that this was the perfect opportunity for Newfoundland and the **Antarctic Empire** for the first time to confront each other with all of their members. Pete asked Wilbur about Wisp with the former saying he didn’t know who he was but quickly remembered and was surprised about the fact that Wisp left Tommy in order to join Antarctica. He then got Phil to fly him all the way to the Antarctic headquarters where he was given an ultimatum, return the dragon egg to its rightful owner or watch Phil execute Pee dog in front of his eyes. Wilbur tried to stall time and toured the Technocastle and then experimented on what can destroy items; Phil caught on to this fast, however, and warned him about a creeper that was behind him. Wilbur then got blown up instantly and died.

Phil later gave Wilbur the same ultimatum again, where Wilbur gave a speech about how he first met Pee dog and how much he meant to him and then proceeded to throw a grenade at Pee dog in an attempt to try and free him from his cage. To Wilbur’s surprise, the fake grenade didn’t go off and instead left Sophie to do the negotiating; Sophie then asked for the dragon egg to be given back but Wilbur had suddenly gotten the bright idea to take the dragon egg from his ender Chest and tried to get on the Boomer bridge and escape via minecart. Unfortunately for him, the bridge was in a claimed territory, and it didn’t allow items such as minecarts to be used in the area. In a panic, Wilbur sprinted away as fast he could while trying to dodge the Antarcticans mercilessly shooting him down with arrows of harming. Wilbur proceeded to dodge the arrows but his evasive maneuvers were finally put to an end by Phil, who came flying down with his elytra and slayed the Master of Fluids with his sword “*Justice*”. It was here that Phil, commented on by Technoblade, earned the nickname “Angel of Death”.

For the third time, Philza flew Wilbur back to the Antarctic headquarters where he got the last chance to decide between killing Pee dog with his own hands and keeping the dragon egg or return the egg and get his dog back. He finally decides to return the egg (albeit taken by force, he was going to return it anyway) and get Pee dog back to Newfoundland. It was then that Phil slaughtered the animal right in front of Wilbur and Sophie. Distraught, they stole Phil’s plane and escaped with it.

Shortly after that, Phil revealed it actually wasn’t the real Pee dog, and he had indeed cloned him. Techno asked if that was one of his dogs but Phil replied saying it was one of his own. Wilbur then told Phil about how cruel he was for killing an innocent dog just for a bit, but Phil said that it was merely a clone and therfore shouldn’t have mattered. Wilbur then committed suicide by throwing an actual grenade to his feet, which blew him up; Some, however, disagreed and thought he missed his throw with the intent of killing someone. Regardless, the situation died down, and Techno then sent a meme to Wilbur claiming it was the most effort he had put to sending a meme to somebody.

Wilbur left the voice chat shortly after while Phil and Pete helped out Sophie with transporting Pee dog. The 3 Antarcticans later discussed about the 5th member and Phil asked the Technoblade about why he hasn’t joined yet-Techno replied saying that he wasn’t whitelisted but was quickly proven wrong by Pete and Phil. Techno quickly messaged the 5th Antarctican what the IP was and then commented on how awkward if he were to join.

It was then the month-long mystery was solved, as Calvin (also spelled as Cxlvxn) joined the game. Techno then said that they didn’t know who that guy was and that he was probably just some random dude, but it was extremely likely that Calvin was indeed the secret new member of the Antarctic Empire, as he fits all the hints and criteria that the Antarcticans and Sneeg had given. He later tweeted saying that he was told to not log on (presumably by Technoblade himself) but proceeded to do so regardless, furthering the belief.

Calvin later said to Techno that he just logged on for a tiny bit and thought that no one was gonna notice. He thought wrong.

The 3 members of the Antarctic Empire then proceeded to chat with Sophie for a bit; Notable moments include Techno getting enraged by Wilbur’s mods on twitch timing him out from chatting, the Antarcticans making Sophie laugh so hard that she had to take out her inhaler and Techno asking if Pete was over 30 years old to which the latter replied saying ”no”. Techno then remarked on how Pete had aged poorly. He then proceeds to ban Technoblade from his chat.

### Day 55

Phil finally completes the new and improved wall of fan art; When he added a couple more fan art, Pete then began to claim an area that was part of the ARG, but quickly unclaimed thanks to Phil intervening.

Phil and Pete later arrived at a new volcano that suddenly appeared, which was part of the “7” ARG (Josh’s ARG, not to be confused with the Octangula ARG) and met up with Deo, Bitzel, Tanningoil and Grunk. The two rivaling factions decided to put aside their differences in order to pursue the mysteries of the looming structure, and waited for 25 minutes so that Kara could join. The group, after entering a tunnel, discovers new ARG clues. Phil manages to die twice in this adventure, thus furthering his death count up to 5. It is interesting to note that 4 of his deaths came from ARG related stuff, with his first death pertaining to a test of the power of airstrikes; This means that he still technically hasn’t died by natural causes or by the hands of other players in battle.

JoshA20 later gave Phil a diamond pickaxe that had both the enchantments of fortune and silk touch at the same time, as well as unbreaking 4. Josh quickly erased the fortune enchantment but still left the unbreaking 4 enchantment on the pickaxe. Phil was then given another gift, a stone button with knockback 50 and tested its power on Josh and himself; Josh eventually took it away from Phil who then tried to kill the admin to get back the button but failed since he had keep-inventory on (meaning he couldn’t lose items by dying).

### Day 57

Phil joined in temporarily and witnessed The Angel Dust Bombing but left soon after.

Pete continued to work on the Boomer Mansion but was interrupted by Tommyinnit and TimeDeo, who tried to assassinate Pete, since he was the only member of the Antarctic Empire that was online and the only one in that faction that they were certain they could defeat together. However, once the two businessmen had gotten there, Pete had logged off, since he wasn’t streaming. It is unsure whether he combat logged or simply had to go.

### Day 58

*Main article: Port-aux-Offensive*

Tommy gathered Business Bay in an attempt to murder VoiceOverPete. They arrived at Port-aux-Francais and TimeDeo accidentally wrote in chat that they were there to kill him. When Pete wouldn't land, Tommy began to ridicule him.

Phil joined the game, though Business Bay did not retreat. They realized with their numbers and gear they could have a chance. Phil taunted them a bit by mooning them through the glass, then left the game. While they were distracted, Pete flew away and managed to get to Business Bay by the time they noticed.

Things calmed down for a little while as Deo began to chase Pete around the world and the rest of Business Bay went to bully Krtzyy. While the others were preoccupied with this, Deo returned to the castle at the Port-aux-Francais to attempt to dognap Floof, Technoblade’s dog.

As Deo's flying machine was set off, Technoblade joined the game to stop him and everyone convened inside the castle, with SalC1 soon arriving to back up his allies. Phil also rejoined the game as battle broke out.

Following the loss of two of Techno's dogs at the hands of Deo and Tommy and the combined ten deaths of the members of Business Bay, the Antarctic Empire and an ally - namely Techno and SalC1 - travelled to Business Bay and extorted the inhabitants into paying reparations for the loss of Techno’s dogs.

After a long-lasting, and stubborn resistance in doing so (with the AE and Sal almost succeeding in attempting to blow up a valuable “Twitch Prime” shrine that Deo had built), Business Bay finally paid Techno his demand of $100,000, and he and Sal left afterwards; Both sides agreed to un-claim land on the other's territory that was claimed during the heat of the battle, and some of them later hung out in Techno's palace.

Phil would also later ferry Deo over to the CrescentMoonClan's territory for his duel against AllanahVA, who declared war on Tommy for killing Alfr2d during the war.

### Day 90

After over a month of inactivity Cxlvxn finally joins the server and officially joins the Antarctic Empire, making him the 3rd member of the Empire after the 3rd faction reset. He was given a tour of the Antarctic Empire headquarters by VoiceOverPete. They then joked about a second Antarctic world domination plan and Calvin then was allowed to acquire some of the Empire’s wealth.

### Day 142

After nearly 2 months of inactivity, Technoblade has returned to the server, where he proceeds to lay all of his greatest treasures in a chest in his chamber. Then he leaves a sign marking the exact place he laid his final rest, with another sign that tells of his many titles, namely ”THE BLOOD GOD, KING OF THE ANTARCTIC EMPIRE, WORLD CONQUEROR”. Finally, he leaves a message for everyone else to download the map and go to a specific coordinate, there they would find a beach and the source of his turtle potions, his turtle farm. Then signs that talked about how thousands of turtle had perished in order to brew the turtle potion and he only used it twice in the servers history. But most importantly, a chest with his original ranged weapon of mass destruction, the Technogun. Along with a secret easter egg wrote by the Emperor himself, that was left for you to see for yourself.

## Members

### Current

* *Technoblade* (De jure leader, temporarily removed following the 4th faction reset, yet to rejoin?)
* *Ph1LzA* (Co-leader, temporarily removed following the 4th faction reset, yet to rejoin?)
* VoiceOverPete (De facto leader, assumed leadership after faction reset in order to re-establish it)
* Wispexe (member, former enemy from Business Bay)
* Cxlvxn (member)

### Pets

* Alfred (founding chicken, deceased)
* Derrick (leading chicken)
* Two Trader Llamas captured by Technoblade on Day 13
* Those Two Polar Bears (two bears that are constantly renamed after being brought by Kara)
* Floof (Technoblade's pet dog, deceased)
* D O G G O (Another dog that belonged to Technoblade, deceased)
* Floof 2/ Reincarnated Floof (Technoblade's current pet dog after the first incarnation of Floof was killed by TimeDeo)
* Alfr2d (American chicken brought by AllanahVA to Technoblade's Palace for Technoblade, deceased)
* Finger Lickin' Good (chicken residing in the Boomer Mansion)
* Ms. Bitzel (pet cow residing in the Boomer Mansion)
* Ms. Innit (2nd pet cow residing in the Boomer Mansion)

### Former

* ArlusFinch (betrayed by)
* JoshA20 (joined in order to do Phil's World Police Trial)

## Colonies

### Current

* **Antarctic South Africa** - A colony under the domain of the **Antarctic Empire**, established on Day 16 by Technoblade. The colony has expanded northward following the fourth faction reset, and became the largest single claim in Afro-Eurasia.
* **Antarctic South Australis** - Claimed after the fourth faction reset, includes the islands of Tasmania and South Island of New Zealand.

### Former

Antarctic Madagascar, Australia, and India were relinquished after the Saint-Malo Trials on Day 8 as an agreement to give back all non-Antarctic territories.

* **Antarctic Madagascar** - A colony of the Antarctic Empire located on the island of Madagascar. During his transit to Antarctica on Day 1, Technoblade landed on the island and initially called "*dibs*" before making a proper claim.

* **Antarctic Australia** - A colony of the Antarctic Empire located on the southwestern side of Australia. Technoblade also landed on Australia before advancing to Antarctica on Day 1, calling "*dibs*" before making a proper claim later in the day. On Day 3, VoiceOverPete unintentionally claimed a large radius in Australia for the Antarctic Empire, overclaiming a chunk owned by the Inquisitors of Spain and several chunks owned by Bean Island. This led to Krinios declaring war, although the conflict was resolved shortly afterward.

* **Antarctic India** - A colony of the Antarctic Empire located mostly on Bangladesh in Asia. Ph1lzA claimed the colony on Day 5 while he wasn't streaming.
* **Antarctic "Nerds"** - A text written in Canada's territory of Nunavut. It was completely claimed over by marioloogi in order to comply with the first article of the Saint-Malo Laws. The fourth reset wiped the colony and has not been remade since.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Bean Empire - allies after Technoblade's chat is impressed with Sylvee's survivability during the Wednesday War. Though after the events of day 69 and Sylvee`s act of semi-betrayal there has been slight raised tension between the two factions.
* Kievan Rus - Became allies while StinksterDaily was giving building advice to Philza.
* Kpop - Became allies after banding together for the Battle of the Bridges.
* DeezNUTS
	+ After Pete assumed power after the third Faction reset, he decided to become allies with the faction, considering one of the faction's members - Krtzyy, had been working on Atlantis at his Boomer Mansion, and decided that if he were to live so close next to him, he had to be allied with him.
* Ursus
	+ [TODO]

### Inactive Allies

* Kingdom of Florida - In exchange for some stacks of premium sugar cane and Fit's blood sacrifice for an experiment, the two factions agreed on an alliance. Fit also arrived after the Battle of the Pit with the intention of taking the side of the Antarctic Empire.
	+ Florida helps out the Antarctic Empire thanks to Sal consistently helping out Pete with building, while both Fit and Sal would frequently arrive to aid the Empire during battles or events that could harm either of their factions.
	+ The Empire keeps good relationships thanks to Phil who often gives gifts, such as the resources necessary for them to make an end crystal and other useful items/tips. But also protects Florida from any enemies trying to attack.
* Marioloogi - They've allied as a sign of friendship, allowing the Antarctic Empire access to MarioLoogi's chicken farm. Later, Ph1lza added a 0-tick sugar-cane farm to MarioLoogi's base. Sneeg arrived for the Battle of the Pit and fought alongside the Antarctic Empire. He also did some end looting with Pete following SMPEarth Moon Landing.
	+ Due to Phil's mistake on Day 45, tensions were strained by the theft of the Fourth Dragon Egg.
	+ Phil would wage war on Wilbur, eventually using Pee Dog as a hostage and trading for the Egg. Sneeg would pardon him and leave the Egg in his care following this action.

### Neutral

* CorvarianEmpire (was first allied, but became neutral after Day 5 and temporarily an enemy on Day 32, but was talked back into neutralship) - In exchange for trade deals between the two (which included bread and emeralds), they would provide each other protection.
	+ The alliance did not survive for long due to the unauthorized use of the Ender Portal and the killing of Ender Dragon while a faction reset was occurring.
	+ Certain events following the End raid have suggested that the factions were still neutral. VoiceOverPete came to Kara's aid, but nothing has happened as of yet. Given Technoblade's declaration of neutrality with the Empire and the Ambush at Sicily, it is unlikely they'll become allies again.
	+ Kara would, however, participate as an ally during the New Year's Day War as Business Bay had assassinated Sylvee.

### Enemies

* Business Bay - after the events of the Port-aux-Offensive, hostile relations have kicked off with the two factions once again.
* Newfoundland - Initially, they were defensive allies; in exchange for protection from enemies and the Antarctic Empire themselves, WilburSoot gave Technoblade free admission to travel on The Trans-Atlantic Bridge. WilburSoot then died sometime following the Saint-Malo Trials, after which Technoblade said "F" in the chat. Wilbur instantly became enemies with the Empire. After being threatened by Technoblade of being raided, they became neutral but said he might ally with them again if they helped with the construction of the Transatlantic Median.
	+ They became allies again after Phil gave Wilbur iron needed to complete the railway.
	+ Declared enemy when Wilbur asked Phil to give him the dragon egg belonging to Sneegsnag for the achievement 'The Next Generation' . However, upon receiving the egg, Wilbur instantly logged out of both the server and Discord with the egg still in his inventory. Although the egg was returned, (after the threatening of Pee Dog) they are still somehow enemies.
* Packle - Declared enemy as part of a goal in Michaelmcchill's charity stream.

### Inactive Enemies

* ConnorEsports - Declared an enemy following the death of Alfred.
* German Empire - Declared enemy as part of the The Sicily Ambush alongside the Corvarian Empire and Packle.
* Poyo

* Transatlantic - After ArlusFinch's betrayal at the Saint-Malo Trials, Technoblade declared war on the Transatlantic but are now neutral sometime after.
	+ Currently, it is unsure if the factions are continuing hostilities following the Transatlantic's annexation by the German Empire and subsequent secession following The Prime Claim Crisis.
	+ They became enemies again for unknown reasons.

## Armory

### Technoblade

* **Diamond Sword:** A max enchanted Diamond Sword (Sharpness V, Unbreaking, etc.). Primarily used as his main offensive weapon in any fight really.
* **Diamond Axe:** Used to disable his enemy’s shields. Used when single target fighting is key (say, when there are animals of his in the crossfire).
* **Technogun:** Techno's most infamous weapon on the server, which he uses with extreme efficiency due to its superior accuracy, projectile speed and reload speed compared to bows, piercing enchantment that counters shield combat along with the arrows of harming that nullifies the crossbow’s main weakness which was its lack of raw power. Although he is not an expert at the crossbows differing range from the bow and switching between arrows of harming and weakness yet, Techno is still highly dangerous and to be feared while wielding this ranged terror.
* **Technobow** (Has no in-game name)**:** A max enchanted Bow (Power V, Infinity, Unbreaking, etc.) without Punch 2, used to bowspam and deal slightly better ranged damage compared to the Technogun. The blood god also seems to favor this ranged weapon in less dire needs though in fierce battles he often instead chooses to use the infamous Technogun.
* **Trident:** A trident he had supposedly received from his own hard work. It is a Trident with Riptide 3, Unbreaking 3, Mending, and Impaling 5. Though still strong in terms of melee battles, it’s main use is for Techno to be able to leap a considerable amount of height into the sky with his Elytra in order for him to fly without the need of fireworks. It also works as a emergency escape tool, the best showcase for its use is in his duel against Sylvee, who even with three enchanted golden apples were no match against the mighty riptide-elytra combo.

### Ph1LzA

* **Justice:** Ph1LzA's signature weapon. Extremely deadly in his hands, and earned him the title of Angel of Death following his kill on WilburSoot during the closing of the Dragon Egg War. Has split the blood of many strong enemies.
* **Vibe Check:** Another infamous weapon forged by the angel of death, it is also a bow that has every max enchantment on it except for Punch 2 and is Philza’s main ranged weapon. Though incapable of piercing through shields it still has been shown to be unbelievably lethal in the hands of the world police with the help of harming arrows, examples of its might was Phil being able to easily kill Wisp in 4 shots who wore full enchanted diamond armor (though not having protection 4, arrows of harming are shown to be able to negate protection enchants as shown with Tommy dealing 1 and a half heart of damage to Techno who had full protection 4 with a bow that had no Power enchantment and an arrow of harming he had stolen).
* Buttonator 3000 (Knockback X button owned by Ph1LzA). A gift he had received from JoshA20 and the standard weapon of the World Police. Surprisingly the weapon is very good at creating distance from those who are hit by this button and is currently trying to be implemented as an Elytra launch pad with a zombie
* **Tridents:** Trophies he had accidentally gathered from slaying drowneds.

### Others

* **Pete’s Trident:** A trident he received as a gift from Sylvee, though it only has Riptide 2 and Mending, it is still a force to be reckoned with.
* **Boomer Blade:** (Take a wild guess who owns this one)
* **Airstrikes:** (Primarily used by Ph1LzA as he is a filthy rich boi.)

Various arrow types, potions, consumables including:

* Strength II and l Potions
* Potions of the Turtle Master
* Speed ll Potions
* Instant Harming ll Arrows and Splash Potions
* Weakness Arrows
* Slow Falling Potions
* Splash and Regular Potions of Instant Healing (although rarely used)
* Potions of Regeneration
* Enchanted golden apples/God Apples

Many extra sets of weaponry, armor and war supplies are not included in this list.

## Trivia

* The Antarctic Empire has not claimed the Antarctic Peninsula (Graham Land and Palmer Land), and so doesn't *really* own the whole continent. Instead, it also controls the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
	+ As they hadn't, Bosnia had claimed the peninsula instead, before the 4th faction reset. The peninsula has been claimed by Pete and is now rightful Antarctic land.
	+ However, StateOfDeNile had a colony in Antarctica (Heatmoar), and Bosnia still has a claim, albeit reduced to an small island, in Antarctica.
* As of the end of Day 16, the Antarctic Empire holds the largest singular claim on the server, dwarfing the Corvarian Empire's Hong Kong, the second-largest claim, and New Hawaii, the third-largest claim.
	+ As of Day 112, it is still the largest claim, beating Alaska, Bosnian Greenland, and its own colony of South Africa.

* The Antarctic Empire is possibly the most aggressive and militaristic faction.
* The Antarctic Empire's official banner comes from this Reddit post.
* Two chickens were brought to the Antarctic Empire's base; Alfred (Day 1, by Technoblade), and Derrick from Japan (Day 4, by Ph1LzA). They are contained inside of The Coop.
	+ Following the events of Day 32, Derrick is the sole surviving chicken in the coop.
	+ Ph1LzA discovered that the animals couldn't be bred within the base, as feeding seeds to the two chickens produced no babies despite the breeding producing the usual XP. Ph1LzA had previous suspicions that mobs were unable to spawn within the area due to past complications and issues experienced while spawning in villagers. Ph1LzA mentioned plans to set up a base outside of Antarctica to spawn and trade with villagers.
* On Day 1, Technoblade planted an Oak sapling at the top of the stronghold, which was the only tree on the continent and set up a rudimentary wheat farm which was later improved on by Pete and Phil.
	+ By Day 5, thanks to VoiceOverPete, the base now has an orchard of trees and a sugarcane farm.
* Ph1LzA brought two zombie villagers, Jeremy and Boris, to cure in an attempt to secure cheap emerald trades for the future. They disappeared when he attempted to cure them due to the Antarctic Animal Glitch.
	+ A second Jeremy replaced the original on Day 4, but he despawned later on.
* The economy of the Antarctic Empire took off from Day 1, as the faction acquired a large underground lair, 6 beacons, 36+ blocks of iron, and 9 diamond blocks, as well as armor from 3-4 other players. Their wealth acquisition has slowed down since Day 2, however.
	+ Some of this slowdown can be attributed to the Antarctic Animal Glitch, which prevents passive mobs from spawning, although after the Antarctica-Australia Railway, it is likely this issue will be less severe.

* Some people say the more time that Phil and Pete spend with Techno, the more aggressive they become. This can be observed on Day 1, when Phil claims that Techno makes him "smell blood in the water", or on Day 25, when Pete scared AllanahVA out of the Stronghold, inspired by Techno's paranoia and differing from his initial welcoming persona. This has been dubbed 'The Techno Effect'.
* In the history of the entire server, the Antarctic Empire has never lost a single battle. Despite being one of, if not the most bloodthirsty faction on the server and responsible for many wars and greif. This likely stems from the spine chilling armory Techno, Phil and Pete had forged. The faction having 3 players who are extremely skilled in pvp and 1 who is arguably the most experienced survival player on the server. As a result of this the Antarcticans had always been feared and garnered a lot of attention.
* Though the Empire is involved with a lot of the important events on the server and plays a major role in making SMP Earth what it is, all of the members except for Pete are generally inactive and rarely plays on the server.
* Technoblade had teased the introduction of a new 5th member to the Empire. While said member was currently unknown, there was a lot of speculation on who it may be. Many believed it was either Skeppy, TapL, or Xnestorio, but the new member’s identity was later accidentally confirmed as Cxlvxn, when he logged on before his official reveal.
	+ Techno also announced that the new member was supposed to join “last time” (possibly on Day 16 where the unknown member was first announced) but that the admins said he was in “the next patch”. He found the reasoning strange since they invited a bunch of Business Bay members on to the server in a much shorter time span. Some speculate that it was done on purpose to keep the Empire in check and not making them too powerful.

## Gallery

Antarctic Empire flagAntarctic Empire banner

 Ph1LzA •
 VoiceOverPete •
 Wispexe •
 Pets
Derrick •
Floof† •
Those Two Polar Bears •
D O G G O † •
Floof 2 •
Alfr2d† •
 Colonies
Antarctic South Australis
 Antarctic Australia† •
 Antarctic India† •
 Antarctic Madagascar† •
 Landmarks & Locations
Port-aux-Francais •
Technoblade's Palace •
Boomer Bridge •
French Bridge •
Big Boomer Train Station •
Boomer Mansion •
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The First Dragon Egg War

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