Sakhalin-American War (NewEarth 1)

The Sakhalin-American war was a war in NE1 fought between the third Sakhalin and the USA over claims Sakhalin made in United States.

## Pre-War

The CB was obtained by Black (Texas), when Cynzica (then Trichromium) of the USA surrounded their claim. This CB was then passed onto Sakhalin, which rose tensions, leading to a war breaking out.

Cynzica wanted Sakhalin completely ousted of the continental US, with the removal of their claims in California, New Jersey and the southeast coast, including Florida. At the same time, Sakhalin wanted some land Cynzica already owned in the Western US.

Before the war broke out, on November 18th 2020 around 12 PM EST, Poke led a wither to Cynzica’s main base in Wisconsin. The wither caused minimal damage, only breaking a few wood blocks from their house, for it was led to nearby Lake Michigan and axe critted to death. This, violated the rules, which resulted in Cynzica getting 5 chunks from Sakhalin. Cynzica chose Sakhalins New Jersey claim, which housed a large portion of Belarus's wealth, including many historical items.

## Battles

The first attack was made on Noobit, by Cynzica, who was on a boat just off the east coast. The fight resulted in Noobit’s death, but not much was lost as his gear was soulbound. The same day, Pyro was assassinated in Finland by Cynzica, with her obtaining a large portion of Pyro’s gear, including an illegitimate efficiency 10 axe, which was later used against her as an argument for staff abuse.

The second major attack was on the Sakhalin base, which from a misunderstanding by Cynzica, was presumed to have actual value other than being a build. Cynzica sent a wither in, but it flew into the air and she couldn’t get it to melee mode. She then engaged in a one-on-one with Poke, which she fled after her armor got low. Shortly after, another offensive was planned. Cynzica readied a TNT Cannon outside Hongsiben, which was the actual main Sakhalin base. The TNT Cannon did some damage to a house, but it was quickly claimed by Sakhalin and destroyed, contributing to a massive TNT loss for the USA. In the moments after this, Cynzica managed to kill Poke with an axe crit to the back, though this bore little reward, and she shortly evacuated with her armor on low durability.

By now, Sakhalin was ready to strike. Cynzica was having difficulty dealing actual damage due to combat logging as well as a disadvantage in numbers. Sakhalin’s members (Tony, Poke, Fly, Noobit, Pyro) all gathered up at Cynzica’s base in an attempt to assassinate her as she returned. Much to their surprise, however, Cynzica had preemptively emptied all their stuff in their base into an undisclosed location (later found out to be Louisville, KY) and filled it to the brim with TNT. Cynzica baited the members in, and blew the fuse, logging shortly before it detonated. This, though creating a spectacular crater, did little to no damage, claiming no lives and barely chipping their armor.

A marine fight was shortly fought in Lake Michigan, where Cynzica’s Riptide Trident proved very useful, but xd\_pokemaster1234’s firework crossbow dealt massive damage to both her health and armor. This eventually resulted in Cynzica fleeing to repair their armor. Around now, Sakhalin set up a bunker just north of Northern Michigan, in Lake Superior. Many attempts were taken by Cynzica to deal significant damage here, with the breaking of Tony’s helmet and leggings, Noobit’s boots and xd\_pokemaster1234’s and Pyro’s helmet. Even withering the bunker from a nearby unclaimed cave system, throwing Pyro a soulbound blistering ingot and several skirmishes. All effort seemed to be in vain, and the war reached a stalemate.

After days of fighting, Tony stepped down as leader of Sakhalin and Fly took over as leader. Soon after a deal was reached with Cynzica. It is unknown what drove the leaders to this decision.

## Peace

A peace treaty was signed at the 0, 0 museum by Cynzica, Fly and several other Sakhalin members. This resulted in all non-historical claims in the USA going to Cynzica, including New Jersey and California. Cynzica also conceded the Philippines and Hokkaido, which were claimed for easier access to Sakhalin. This didn’t stop Blacknite500 from exercising his CB, which led to the short-lived Texan-American war.

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/680822312764833826/680896036235247718/779343780968923136
2. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/680822312764833826/680896036235247718/779474807321657365