The Star Tank Wars

The **Star Tank Wars** was a *Star Wars*-themed war that took place in the Ink Tank Discord Server. It lasted from May 11th to May 17th, 2021.

## Factions

There were only two factions in the Star Tank Wars, and a very clear line was drawn between them: there was **the Galactic Fropire**, who stood for chaos, destruction and the dark side; and **the Kuro Order**, who stood for harmony, unity, and the light side.

The way one would join a faction was much more streamlined than the previous Tank War: Fro created a special channel in the Chat category called **#choose-your-destiny**. Everyone could see it and it had only one message with two available reactions, one for Fro and one for Kuro. Once you had reacted to one of them, a bot would automatically give you access to a channel for the respective faction you picked. This allowed for a wide range of members to join in and take part in the war, from Fizzy Gang to VIP, all the way up to some of the Security.

Here is the list of some of the members who took part in each side:
*(Note: Especially in the case of the Kuro Order, there were many low-level members who took part who are just not notable enough to list. That being said, notable enough members who were below VIP will be italicized.)*

* Hellbent [Agent (Darthknight) Binks] - Warrior, Spy & Orator
* Mioribonucleic Acid - Warrior
* Chicken [Yoda Musk] - Warrior
* Rigby - Warrior
* Mortal 2.0 - Warrior, Spy
* Casey - Warrior
* MHGA - Warrior, Wrote "first"
* Diablo Loco - Warrior
* Claymorr - Warrior
* King Portuman - Warrior
* Drag0nfyre (Frogus) - Warrior
* *Raizer* - Supposed to be Warrior
* Yang - Spy
* SrCoeiu - Spy
* Wing King - Propagandist, Spy
* Skye - Orator
* Sauc3
* Scyro
* M.A
* Alien64
* Conmasitco
* Vantime
* Sketchy
* Fables
* Your Local Splixson - Interim Leader, Warrior
* The Rath [Ultimate Rath] - Orator, Warrior
* *Phantom of Shadows* - Warrior
* *Neo The No. 1 Jujutsu Kaisen Fan* - Warrior
* *CX Vampire Slayer* - Warrior
* XavierPokedex - Warrior
* *The Ben [Protector of Earth]* - Warrior
* *Beta* - Warrior
* *Atopik TheMultidimensionalBeing* - Warrior
* *Kenom* - Warrior
* *Alter* - Warrior
* Kallum - Warrior
* Karol248PL
* Existence
* *The Bois*
* Tempo - Spy for hire
* *Literally Me!!*
* *Normalperson*
* Eitzer
* Hotlinecarbon - Mainly joined for the blue colour
* Temporal Anomaly - Same as Hotline

### Neutrals

As the two factions reached out to recruit more members to their side, there would undoubtedly be people who stayed neutral. However, unlike in the previous war, the reasons for being were more numerous and didn't allow for any neutral factions to rise up. There were the obvious reasons, not being aware that there is a war, not having seen Star Wars, not liking it, etc. There were also more complicated reasons; EyeGuy was neutral because he criticized that there was no role that could represent the more morally ambiguous groups of the Star Wars universe, such as bounty hunters and Gray Jedi. Ł3nNy was a neutral because he's Ł3nNy. The Heat was neutral as he didn't want the war to end because of him like the previous one. All of these contributed to neutrality not having as much of a presence in this war.

It should also be noted that many people took the opportunity to change into a Star Wars character just for fun.

## Timeline

*(Note: All listed times are in EST.)*

It was a good day on May the 10th. International Star Wars Day had come and passed, and Fro was giving a speech in Discord's brand-new stage feature. It was at around 4:00PM that Fro was speaking about Star Wars when he made the decision to become like Emperor Palpatine and declared war on the Ink Tank, those in chat promising to serve him.

As information trickled out from the stage chat, and news of a new war was breaking out into the rest of the chats, Fro made it official on May 11th, when he created the **#the-galactic-fropire** and **#the-kuro-order** chats. These chats were to serve as a home base for the two factions that were rising up to take over/defend the Tank.

When the chats were active, faction members would chill in them, hang out, have conversations, and post memes. Sources tell that the *Galactic-Fropire* chat was more chill, and would have long shitposting sessions (which shouldn't be surprising, as some major Tank shitposters supported the Fropire), Fro often joining in on the fun. In the *Kuro-Order* chat, things were the opposite for leader interactions, as Kuro did not talk much at all; though he did express his support for his faction to win and named Your Local Splixson as leader in his stead. While the reliable and notable members mostly all joined the Fropire, the Kuro Order outnumbered them by having more lower-level members.

On both fronts, there was a good amount of badmouthing and talking about eventually beating the other faction, though the Kuro Order attempted to hold peaceful negotiations with the Galactic Fropire (which didn't succeed). Both factions also had spies infiltrate the other chat, by removing their role and choosing the other. Galactic Fropire spies were known for going into the *Kuro-Order* chat and posting/saying mean things, in attempts to break the Order's morale. Small attempts of battling and raids were held in other chats. These behaviors continued back and forth, until Fro had found a way to orchestrate a "legitimate" battle, one that would later be decided will end the war.

### Final Battle

On the afternoon of May 14th, 2021, Fro, along with moderators, devised a system to enable the factions to actually fight in a battle to determine the fate of the war. This fight involved using bot commands to shoot a blaster, swing a lightsaber, and use other Star Wars-related attacks, but first having to make the bot roll a d20 die to determine the strength of the attack and if it would hit the opponent in the first place. He let both factions know about it on the day and created a channel to use as a battleground, titled **#war-room**, a day afterwards.

On May 17th, 2021, 12pm, the *war-room* chat was opened to all the members of the factions to see. On that day, the **choose-your-destiny** chat was deleted, the factions were locked in, and the final battle was commencing. Those who would be fighting were given a role called **warrior**, which allowed them to speak and input commands in the war room.

The battle was a 12 v. 12, made up of 12 1-on-1 fights. 12 members of a faction were picked: 1 Leader; 1 Padawan; 4 Jedi/Sith; 6 Ranged Troopers. The outcome of the individual fights are listed below:
*(OR = Kuro Order; FP = Fropire)*

#### Highlights include

* Drag0nfyre and Neo's game came down to the wire, with their health at 3/20 and 2/20 by the 10th round.
* Portuman was going in during his fight, rolling critical hits out the gate and rolling high every other turn, while Phantom consistently missed. It took 5 turns before Port ever took damage.
* During the Alter vs. Chicken fight, Alter got an early critical hit and was whittling down Chicken's health. Alter was sitting at a comfy-enough 14 points, while Chicken was at 2. In an act of desperation that summoned the dark side itself, Chicken pulled a natural 20 roll. She slashed at Alter, dealing a combined total of 16 damage; completely annihilating Alter and making one of the most amazing comebacks in Tank History.
* The Rath was originally meant to fight a member named Raizer, but they were not available at the time, so Diablo Loco took their place. Diablo, although he lost in the end, exhibited some supernatural abilities, such as rolling a natural 20 in the 2nd round to match The Rath's own 20, and rolling two natural 20s in a row, what Fro referred to as "Demon Dice".
* After the Kuro Order was called early as the victor after the penultimate fight, Fro and Splixson still decided to have their fight, for fun. That would come to be a mistake on Splixson's part, because Fro absolutely *destroyed* him. To be fair to Splixson, he was throwing in the towel too easily, and when this health got low, Splixson focused and managed to get Fro's health down to 16. But in the end, with the crumbling of Fro's empire nearly in sight, there was no question that he would go down scoring one last victory.

### End Result

After the final battle between the two leaders, the points totaled 7 for the Kuro Order and 5 for the Fropire.

Despite this, Hellbent suggested that the final battle should award 2 points instead of 1, thus tying it: 6-6. This does not make mathematical sense, but Fro agreed that it was in their best interests to tie, exchanging some legendary wisdom with Splixon.

Despite being a nice moment, Heat pointed out the mathematical fallacy and Fro restated that the war was indeed won by the Order: 7-6. However, soon after, an executive decision was made to eliminate a point from the Kuro Order; due to one of their warriors, Beta, exhibiting some bad sportsmanship after his battle and getting muted. Thus, the *final* final tally was indeed a 6-6 tie.

## Legacy

After the final battle ended, members of both sides felt salty about how it ended. There was a small argument in general but overall most members remember the war as a very fun event. However, some members feel that there should never be another server event, and that if there is one, it should be at least VIP and up. It is referenced by members every now and then but it is not super common.

## Trivia

* Through some rough calculations, an estimated 48.3% of all Kuro Order members were pinknames.
* Fro's battling system in the *war-room* contained elements of rolling a d20 dice, rolling in order to hit equal to or above the opponent's AC (Armour Class), rolling to determine the strength of their attack, and different properties of an attack included in the bot's message. All of these elements were lifted from the popular tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons, of which Fro is a known fan.
* Records show the final battle, in its early stages, was intended to continue until all the warriors on one side were dead. The idea was never followed up on and the battle lasted only one bracket (likely after realising it would take too long)
* While Kuro did find out about the war relatively quickly, Ash and Hurshie only found out about it after it ended. *(Citation needed for Hurshie)*