Day 16

**Day 16**took place on 7 December 2019. It followed the events of Day 15 and was followed by the events of Day 17.

## Major Events

### The Battle of the Bridges

* Technoblade, Ph1lzA, and VoiceOverPete continued the construction of Technoblade's Palace and the French Bridge, a mine cart bridge connecting the capital city of the Antarctic Empire located on the Kerguelen Islands, Port-aux-Francais, to Antarctica.
* TommyInnit of Business Bay was paid by a member of his audience to carry out a hit on Phil.
	+ Before attempting to land his attack, he paid Technoblade $20k of in-game currency as a means to ask for permission to carry out the hit.
	+ Upon Tommy's arrival on the bridge, the members of the Antarctic Empire engaged in combat and easily defeated Tommy.
		- They placed most of his items in a chest, with the exception of his gun and some ammo.
* After retrieving his items from the chest, Tommy claimed that the whole situation was unfair and that Technoblade and Pete should not have engaged him in battle.
	+ The two had warned Tommy not to approach several times, citing consequences if he were to engage.
	+ In order to prevent an assault by mine cart, Tommy broke a hole in part of the bridge. This act infuriated the members of the Antarctic Empire, where Pete demanded that Tommy repair the hole immediately and threatened severe repercussions.
* Tommy escaped the situation by plane, while Technoblade and Pete followed him in hot pursuit.
	+ The three engaged in an aerial battle over Antarctica and New Hawaii.**​​​​​​​**
		- Jameskii joined their voice chat upon noticing their presence in his faction's air space, yet left after confirming that New Hawaii would not be involved in the conflict.
* The Antarctic Empire speculated that they will declare war on Business Bay.
	+ While on voice chat with Pete, Technoblade speculated the occurrence of a global world war as many factions have gathered resources for many days.
* Technoblade convinced, SootCharlie, and WilburSoot to attack Tommy and exile him from their group, The Cumin Squad.
	+ The two tracked Tommy down to mainland Business Bay, alongside Techno and Pete and proceeded to kill him several times.
	+ Tommy attempted to escape over the Business Bridge, a trans-pacific railway he built, yet Techno and Wilbur quickly hunted him down and escorted him back to Business Bay.
* Peace negotiations began, dubbed the Treaty of Broken Bridges, but eventually broke down as terms could not be agreed upon. No peace treaty was ever ratified between the rivalling sides.
* Later and after the failed peace negotiations, Technoblade launched a raid on TommyInnit's base, exchanging mending books with one of the villagers despite the latter forbidding it.
	+ Tommy managed to take back some of the books Techno had exchanged from his shulker box, but he still had 7 left. Six were in the shulker box and one was in the ender chest.

### Other Events

* Eret erected a wall between New Hawaii and Perthtopians, separating the two enemy factions that share borders in the country of Australia.
	+ In the process, he gave away two small sections of his land to the Perthopian side of the wall, although whether it was accidental or not is still unknown.
	+ He also continues his plan of harvesting Fiji water for mass export and profit.
* WilburSoot robbed the Grand Canyon for red, yellow and plain terracotta for the creation of houses in Newfoundland. He also claimed it as an excavation site.
	+ Ph1lzA assisted Wilbur in creating a market on Newfoundland.
* ArlusFinch's stream chat convinced him to go drain a lake in Iceland, which he complied.
* Following the Battle of the Bridges, Technoblade traveled to Africa and established Antarctic South Africa, claiming the bottom third of the continent.
* Its\_Jawsh gained control of the German Carolinas.
* BluesDank stole a fake version of Ireland's first potato and ate it, despite a sign saying not to eat it. The real potato is located safely at the top of the Dublin Spire.
	+ He later went over to deliver a gift to TommyInnit, where the latter would call Technoblade a thief to him. This was in response to the skirmish that occurred earlier in the day (as seen above).
* KaraCorvus claimed all of China for the Corvarian Empire, writing "HONG KONG" in claim-art on it.
* The faction of Japan's claim of Japan disappeared from the SMPEarth Dynmap.
	+ ConnorEsports' claim also disappeared.

## DEFCON Status

On Day 16, the DEFCON level was 1, as The Battle of the Bridges took place today.