Antarctic World Domination

The **Antarctic Empire's** **world *domination* plan** was a plan in which the Antarctic Empire would claim most of the SMPEarth world map. The primary motivation behind the plan was to show flaws in the current way faction borders work, and for content.

The plan's success received significant backlash from various players, primarily from admin JoshA20 and the leader of Newfoundland, WilburSoot. The plan was so controversial that the second of the worldwide laws explicitly prohibit such behavior from being allowed ever again.

## History

### Day 8

The leader of the Antarctic Empire, Technoblade, expressed his dissatisfaction with the server's border filling of faction land. To protest this, he and his faction's co-leader, Ph1lzA, proceeded with a plan that entailed that the two draw a claim outline encircling most of the world map. This would subsequently auto-fill, visually appearing on the Dynmap as the Antarctic Empire claiming most of the world. This would finally complete Technoblade's goal of world domination that he set on Day 1.

VoiceOverPete was online at the time and voiced his support for the plan. Before starting the plan, Techno unclaimed all of their faction's territory

During the operation, one of the server admins, JoshA20, made various indirect attempts to hinder their progress. Despite despawning planes and boats they rode in, reducing their faction power to -5000, and even creating a separate faction named "BetterFactions" (later disbanded) to overclaim the line being drawn, Josh was ultimately unsuccessful at preventing the plan's execution.

ArlusFinch, fearing that his faction's claims on Iceland would be lost, also attempted to hinder the plan by cutting off the claim line. Techno, however, managed to convince and bribe Arlus into joining the Antarctic Empire as a mercenary. He went on to assist with the ongoing operation.

After meeting up with Ph1lzA east of the Caribbean and completing the global encirclement, the two went on to fill in any gaps left over from the operation to fully complete the plan.

Whilst in-flight to the Atlantic Ocean, Techno was pressured by the admins, other players, and co-conspirator Ph1lzA to perform a test concerning whether an auto-filled claim would overclaim pre-existing claims. He used a strip of jungle in Africa belonging to the DPRC as a testbed, surrounding the claim with a box of chunks claimed by him. He successfully demonstrated that auto-fill was only cosmetic — appearing filled in only on the Dynmap — meaning that pre-existing claims remained intact.

Following the demonstration, Techno filled in the last remaining gaps in the line and fully completed the global encirclement, achieving his goal of world domination.

## Aftermath

Almost immediately, a large number of players rushed onto the server to figure out what happened. During the confusion, WilburSoot called for the arbiters of the plan — Technoblade, Ph1lzA, ArlusFinch, and VoiceOverPete — to a trial in northern France. This eventually coalesced into the Saint-Malo Trials, where ArlusFinch almost immediately betrayed the Antarctic Empire and the other three, who stayed loyal, were found guilty of war crimes. WilburSoot then ask the other players what should happen to The Antarctic Empire, TommyInnit and many other players suggesting cutting off their heads, but in the end The Antarctic Empire was forced to relinquish all claims to all continents, with the exception of Antarctica.

Following the trials, the first three worldwide laws were codified mainly to prevent another plan similar to this from being attempted ever again. This was accomplished via explicitly forbidding such practices via Law 3 and addressing some of the complaints that led to the plan being executed in the first place via Law 1.

## Trivia

* WilburSoot would state that, "a good 70% of the earth's surface" was claimed by the Empire, though a later calculation put the total claimed area to be around 49.82% of the world
* Techno remarked later on that due to the poor implementation of faction power, he could have done a /f claim 1000 and overwritten the claims. However, he noted that it was BM to do so, and hence never carried out another attempt at conquering the world.
* It is the first and only time in SMPEarth history that a faction took over much of the world.

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