First Worlda War

* Colonial Empire gains de facto control over west Kyushu, refusing to hand it back to Scotland
* Byzantium claims all of Scottish Italy

**Second Phase**

* Poland loses all territory granted to them by Scotland
* New Portugal gains control of Galicia and vassalizes Hispania

## Participants

### Participant 1

* Byzantine Empire
* Colonial Empire
* New Portugal
* First Libyan Empire (pre-March 27th)

### Participant 2

* Scottish Empire
* Mali Empire
* Mexican Republic
* First Libyan Empire (post-March 27th)

## Commanders and leaders

### Main leaders on Participant 1

* Theodosius of Byzantium, Basilicus Kotromanić
* James Spottin
* Samuel II
* Sarah III (pre-March 27th)

### Main leaders on Participant 2

* John II of Scotland
* Keita I, Keita II
* Matlalihuitl
* Sarah III (post-March 27th)

### Main leaders on Participant 3

* Acroteleutium Aemilius

The **First Worlda War** was the most extensive and deadly conflict in the history of Worlda of Nations. The conflict began in late 125AD, and ended in 145AD, lasting a total of twenty years. During the first stage of the conflict, Europe and Asia were the two major fronts of the war, with Byzantium and New Portugal invading Scotland, while Scotland invaded the Colonial Empire in Japan. After the first stage, the rest of the conflict took place within Europe. It was one of the most devastating wars in Eurasian history, and directly lead to the downfall of the Scottish Empire and their allies. Many new nations formed due to the conflict, and others would gain substantial territory from Scotland.

## Prelude

For over a century prior to the First Worlda War, the Byzantine and Scottish empires were allies. They frequently cooperated to thwart the expansion of their rival, the First Libyan Empire. However, the Byzantines became more skeptical of Scotland following many of Scotland's attempts to win over Poland. This was further complicated by potential involvement in the War of the Isles, as well as Scotland's treatment of Native Americans. The rift between them would eventually lead to the Sfax Incident.

### Sfax Incident and United Legion formation

On March 11th, 2020, the Byzantine Empire blockaded Polish Sfax, citing supposed suspicious activities in the region, which would begin what would become known as the Sfax Incident. This is generally regarded as the beginning of the tensions that led to the war. Scotland attempted to send blockade runners with supplies to help Sfax, however they were unable to resupply the region. Due to this, the members of the CSA and EA collectively decide to merge the two alliances, in order to counter Byzantium's aggression. This created the United Legion. The Byzantine Empire ended its blockade soon after, as Poland gave the region back to Scotland to prevent another blockade. Over the next few weeks, tensions between Byzantium and Scotland slowly rose, with frequent arguments between them occurring, mainly focused on them favoriting Poland.

### Start of escalating tensions

On March 21, 2020, the Colonial Empire and the Byzantine Empire privately discussed, and eventually accused the Scottish Empire of over-protecting Poland, which soon escalated to accusations of manipulations, which instantly sparked tensions between the nations. The Scottish Resistance was thusly created by the Colonial Empire and Byzantine Empire soon after, along with multiple nations, began creating plans to somehow combat the supposed Scottish threat. Eventually, the alliance attempted to confront Scotland during the 25th and 26th of March. The argument that followed this would spark the war.

## The Catalyst and the First Phase

### Start of the war

On March 26, 2020 at 04:29 AM, the Scottish Empire declared war upon the Colonial Empire, on terms of supposedly "refusing to hand over their land in Cuba that was supposed to be returned to Scotland in 96 AD". This officially marked the beginning of the First Worlda War. The Colonial Empire quickly retaliated, declaring war on the Scottish in response. New Portugal, as an ally of the Colonials, soon declared war on Scotland afterwards, on terms of "tyranny and ceaseless manipulations".

Immediately following the first declarations of war, the Scottish and Colonial engaged in a massive argument across multiple channels, which ended up lasting for over three hours up to 7 AM, increasing tensions higher than the server had ever seen. A world war almost seemed inevitable and huge repercussions for all nations were probable.

### Further escalation and beginning of skirmishes

17 hours later, the Mali Empire would back Scotland, and declare war upon New Portugal. In response, the Byzantine Empire declared war on both Mali and Scotland soon after in retaliation. The First Libyan Empire would then declare war on the Mexican Republic.

The very first military offensive of the war was the Scottish offensive against New Portugal, with battles raging in Northern Portugal. Soon afterwards, New Portuguese forces began to advance deep into Malian territory within the Great Lakes, and the first skirmishes between New Portugal and Scotland had devolved into a stalemate, with both sides being unable to decisively defeat each other. The Colonials also launched a minor offensive into southern Italy, but chose to instead focus on fortifying Japan itself after taking only a part of the peninsula, including Naples.

The first battles in Japan began after a sudden attack from the Scottish, pushing into southern Japan in an attempt to knock out the nation rapidly. The Colonials and Scottish fought tooth and nail in Japan, with neither willing to give up any of their territory. The royal family was evacuated from Tokyo to Kamchatka prior to Tokyo's occupation. During the battles, the Colonial Empire utilized over 13,000 sticks of dynamite, in a rush to push back the Scottish forces. It was quite effective against the Scottish, but it also injured some of their infrastructure in the process. In the end, this would also slow down Scotland's advance. The Scottish retaliated by bombarding areas in Australia held by them, but it was not very effective against the determined Colonials, as they targeted minor and mostly worthless ports rather than major ones.

The Byzantine Empire began its first military offensive against the Scottish Empire, crossing the border into Central Italy and pushing through the peninsula at a rapid pace, taking Rome within a month and leaving the entire northern and central peninsula under Byzantium's control. Afterwards, they shifted their focus towards France, moving rapidly north with almost no resistance from the Scottish forces in the area, capturing Lyon and severing their land connection to Iberia. Byzantium continued to advance through France, and they would end up reaching the major city of Paris. The southern half of the city would end up being captured. With Scotland's armies being strained due to fighting multiple fronts, New Portugal finally managed to break through Scotland's lines and captured all of Galicia, in addition to seizing large chunks of Malian territory in the Great Lakes.

### Ending of the first phase

With the war seeming to turn in favor of Colonial and their allies, the war was suddenly cut to a halt at around 3AM on March 27, as the Colonials and Scottish had a diplomatic conversation for the first time since before the war. Tensions steadily lowered as they ordered their armies to back down. In the following days, Scotland wound demand that all land that were taken from them should be given back. Most nations would end up giving all of their occupied land back. However, the only exception to this was in Japan, where Scotland still held onto territory. The Scottish forces in this area were mostly exhausted, and began to retreat as the Colonials launched major counterattacks.

On March 31st, 2020, the entirety of Japan was liberated by Colonial forces as all Scottish forces were fully pushed out, and almost every single border was back to normal. The only border change that was not reverted was the Colonial Empire's occupation of Kyushu. Their reasoning for this was to prevent Scotland from being able to jump to Tokyo once more, as they had did during the war. This would cause minor controversy, but it would be forgotten shortly after.

## Libya's Betrayal

At around the same time as the peace negotiations between Scotland and Colonial, the First Libyan Empire was suddenly removed from the Scottish Resistance. They were discovered to be ratting out the TSR and sending information to Scotland. This was discovered by the Colonials during their conversation with Scotland. The vast majority of WoN's community at the time, even Scotland, were angry at Libya for doing this. It seemed as if the focus would shift to Libya, as they were now the main public enemy on the server due to their actions.

However, the Libyans soon went mostly dormant for several months, rarely expanding until long after the end of the war. The exact reason for this is not known. Most assume that they did this either due to the lack of available land, or because they wanted people to forget about their betrayal during the war. It is very possible that Libya being active could have led to drastic changes in the conflict. It would have likely caused the war to continue, possibly in an active state. The most likely result of this would have been the First Libyan Empire being destroyed, or an earlier peace agreement and end of the war years before it did.

Libya avoided the consequences of this betrayal up until October 2020, during the Second Worlda War, when they were invaded by several nations who were angered following their attempts to obtain more land from a treaty. This lead to their downfall in the end, and the dissolution of their empire. Why exactly they chose to help Scotland rather than help fight them is unclear. Various theories suggest they may have been paid by Scotland to help them, or promised territories secretly in exchange for information from the alliance's chat. None of these have been confirmed, and the true reason will likely never be known.

It is also possible, but not likely, that the Scottish could have had even worse intentions. It may have been possible that the two empires were always secretly allied, and pretended to hate each other in order to obfuscate their alliance. Once the Sfax Incident occurred, they then became official allies for the first time during the turmoil of the incident. This theory is not confirmed and is not generally accepted. However, it has been widely accepted that the First Libyan Empire disguised themselves as a friendly nation to the TSR to gain vital information to allow Scotland to get their way out of the war. The Scottish princess Joan later married into the Libyan royal family, possibly in an attempt to merge the two states. This never happened, but it would have strengthened Scotland massively.

## Start of the Second Phase

### Conflict Era stagnation

With Libya's betrayal being mostly forgotten, the war reached a stagnant point. Neither side actually attempted to invade each other, but they wanted to continue the war in some form. This period is known as the Conflict Era due to the constant threats of war from both sides of the First Worlda War. While it has become clear that Scotland's true reason for attempting to end the war was probably to preserve their power, it would not last long. Soon after the war's first phase ended, Scotland's power would begin its decline. Soon afterwards, the First Worlda War would continue due to the nation that caused it in the first place, Poland.

### Polish Ultimatum

The conflict stayed dormant beyond March until May 7th, when Scotland would give up massive chunks of their land to nations such as Libya, Mali, Mongolia and the Polish Kingdom in the Great Giveaway of Paris. Due to this, many nations suspected that Scotland was still biased, including the Byzantines, due to them giving away massive amounts of land in Europe. On May 11th, 2020, a major string of protests began in France and Switzerland, where natives punched holes in Polish flags to protest their sudden annexation. Soon after, these protests spread to Germany and England, with rebellions starting to form in the regions of the Seine and Elbe by May 13th.

On May 13th, 2020 at 2:34 PM, the Byzantine Empire issued an ultimatum to the Polish Kingdom, demanding the release of their lands east of their original core territory, and the northern lands in Sweden. Due to Poland being extremely inactive, Byzantium did not expect a response. However, they suprisingly received one. At 5:34 PM, the Polish Kingdom agreed to these terms. The conflict continued with one of the newly-formed nations: the Hispanian Republic.

### Hispanian Republic

On June 1st, 2020 at 9:22 PM, the Hispanian Republic's leader demanded that New Portugal turn over Galicia, which had been recently taken after Hispania themselves were defeated by a sea invasion by Celtic tribes, who had fled during the transfer of land to Poland from Scotland.

After this request was denied, the Hispanian Republic declared war on New Portugal. In the first months of the war, the front lines were mostly stable until the Byzantine Empire stepped in to defend their ally. After the entrance of the Byzantines into the war, Hispania was overthrown and an unstable military-ran government attempted to hold the line against the incoming Portuguese. While this did temporarily help them, it led to further chaos and left them unable to respond to any further military operations.

The New Portuguese used this to their advantage, and broke through the Hispanian defense, leading to their capital falling within 2 years. After negotiations in León, the Hispanian Republic became a vassal state of the New Portuguese and gave up their territorial claims on Galicia, and the borders of the region were finalized. This marked the end of the First Worlda War. Some wars did occur in Europe after this, but they were fully disconnected from the First Worlda War.

## Legacy

The legacy of the First Worlda War is immense. With most nations involved in the conflict beginning to focus more on advancing technology, innovation rapidly sped up. This eventually culminated in the decades that followed with technological miracles like hot air balloons, machine guns, cars, and airplaines. This war had a massive impact because it was a major wake up call to all the major powers to accelerate the march of science and technology. As well, it was the first worldwide war to occur on a large scale, being remembered as one of the largest. The war was also one of the many causes of the eventual collapse of the Scottish Empire.

Its legacy continues even today, as any major war that is fought on several continents is referred to as successor conflicts to this one. Four decades later, another war which would become known as the Second Worlda War was fought, and several other conflicts have been suggested as a third worlda war. It was also the first major usage of group chats in organizing a war, something that would happen many more times throughout the server's history.