HatayLand (Season II)

**Hatay Empire** was a nation best known for claim blocking Constantinople. It is widely considered to be a troll nation.

### Creation

The city of HatayLand was created on the 27th of May 2020, extremely close to the city of Constantinople. A few hours after its creation, the leaders of the Ptolemaic Empire noticed the town's odd shape (it was shaped like a real life wall which "blocked" Constantinople's expansion to the east) and the proximity of HatayLand to its town borders (it was located just 16 blocks away from the Constantinople city limits). The leaders of the Ptolemaic Empire immediately reported the city for claim blocking to the admins. HatayLand decided to build up their city - with a massive wall along their claims, which they claim to be part of a large Castle that the leaders were going to build.

### Negotiations

Staff-supervised negotiations between the leaders of HatayLand and the leaders of the Ptolemaic Empire failed when the leaders of HatayLand demanded $1,500 from Constantinople to move, even when the administrators of the server offered to worldedit their "castle" to a nearby location for free, and compensation for the lost claims. HatayLand justified their actions by stating that they have sentimental connections with the area which Constantinople resides in. On the otherhand, Constantinople argued that they have a right to the land that HatayLand claims, as Constantinople was formed first. The admins decided to side with Constantinople. Helpers and Moderators eventually terminated the negotiations when the leaders of HatayLand refused the Helpers' and Mod's ultimatum: Either accept the admins' proposition, or face the consequences that may be imposed on them.

### Formation of the Hatay Empire

Immediately afterwards, HatayLand formed the nation of the Hatay Empire - a nation which was promptly declared war on by Egypt, MAY, Portugal-Brazil, and others. GeneralDarian and Fox began to patrol the 16-block-wide "no mans land" between Constantinople's and HatayLand's claims, and were quickly joined by soliders from other countries, such as Majapahit and UK & Ireland. The first kill occured when PraiseThLOrd2 - a player who has been sighted at HatayLand formed "Tursusuz\_Empire", a town south of Constantinople. Fox and GeneralDarian immediately travelled to his city. Praise attacked Fox, but was quickly overpowered by him. Praise respawned and was spotted by GeneralDarian while he tried to put on some armor, and was promptly shot by him. He fled to HatayLand, and was quickly joined by other residents of the town.

By now, a large crowd had gathered directly in front of the walls of the city, and several players with maxed gear and maxed swords eyed the nervous Hatayans, who remained well within their town's pvp-disabled claims. At this point, Fox and Sulphire noticed that HolyBeelzebub - another player who joined the Hatayans - was speedhacking. He was promptly banned, along with PraiseThLOrd2, after evidence was received by the staff team that he was using xray. Meanwhile, the Hatayans appeared to make fun of the situation by wandering outside of claims and then quickly re-entering claims when the crowd approached them - though, sometimes they reached their town claims too late, and were slaughtered by the crowd. Sick of the players "camping" within the safety of their clames, some players tried to lure them out with slime swords and fishing rods - which had some success. A few minutes later, the Hatayans had enough, and demanded that everyone leave their claims within 10 seconds. After 10 seconds, nobody left the claims - which prompted one of the players (OOONinjaSkills) to lavatrap some members of the crowd. Unaware that this action is prohibited in the rules, he was promptly tempbanned for 7 days. This apparently annoyed the leader of HatayLand, who quickly left, along with the rest of his friends. Meanwhile, staff-led attempts to renegotiate with the leaders of HatayLand also failed when several of their members submitted joke appeals with unreasonable demands, and insults directed towards the staff team. Cheeseknife, an expert towny staff member from EMC, had enough, and declared his intent to convince the admins to delete their city. This led to the crowd sticking around HatayLand, expecting the city to be removed, so that they can grief the remains.

### Downfall

The admins eventually gave the green light for the deletion of the town and the nations in 24h on the 29th of May. Hatay refused to respond to GeneralDarian's warnings, and the city was deleted on the 30th of May. The ruins were promptly griefed before the entire city was rolled back. No trace of the city remains to this day, except for a small section of the northern wall which survived the rollback, and stands as a stern reminder to those who wish to deliberately claimblock other cities.