The Wasp War

The Wasp War
Event
Name: The Wasp War
Date: 20th January 2023 - 18th September 2023 (7 Months, 28 days)
Belligerents: COF, TSCOT, Nexus
Location: Spawn, /world, Konogla, Hamadale, Excabor, Valor, 50k tempbase, Hole Base, Valleria
Result: Nexus and Wasp Coalition disband TSCOT and COF achieve peace + alliance.

The Wasp War was a conflict between January and September 2023, fought between the hegemonic Imperial Church of Francis and a variety of resistance or 'rebel' groups, most notably The Supreme Cult Of Tem. The near 8 months of consistent warfare makes it the longest war in the servers' history and resulted in the bombing of several bases and 40~ confirmed PvP deaths.

The member groups of the informal 'Wasp Coalition' (or 'FemWasps'), which over the eight-month conflict included The Peoples Resistance Of The COF (PROTCOF), TSCOT, Nexus and their initial ringleader Antzakes1 would initiate conflict in the early months of 2023 in a effort to weaken or hopefully defeat the perceived tyrannical Church of Francis.

Ultimately on the 18th of September 2023, the last active belligerent group in the informal Wasp Coalition, TSCOT would agree to COF's conditions and admit defeat in the war.

Participants

Below is a look at the participants of the Wasp War, breaking down the teams and members involved in fighting / griefing (NOTE: Only those actively involved in war affairs are included):

Church of Francis

War Leaders

• Lord1
• Swiggles
• Lpmaster123

Grand Imperial Army of Francis

• Tenced
• Xexc (former)
• Unkn0wnSFR
• James8B
• f8tal_
• Sice_01
• 4540
• SaluutSFR
• AlbertLark
• PowerXInfinito
• ItzPalo
• Chuckfuk
• Marcosgo
• escetat47
• KohukeSFR
• Moongoat47
• Glausthe
• Hijax (defected)
• ReviewerBoy
• White_Starline
• Cmeister
• Realmezzer
• Huckaduck

GS Trading Co.

• iLxgend
• 4Pilot
• SkullerG

The 88

• Lobster2337

Volenteers

• Bruno_vera
• Laztec

Vs.

Wasp Coalition

A loosely tied together group of players, unofficially going under the name "Wasp Coalition/Femwasps". Many of the players belonged to separate groups with different reasons for fighting the Church of Francis.
War Leaders

• Antzakes1 (former)
• OxTxXTXxTxO (TSCOT)
• Hijax (TSCOT)
• SupJOnline (TSCOT)
• PastChicken6240 (TSCOT)

TSCOT

• egnaroky
• Ghostblender
• theotherhades
• Augustlillehamer
• Kimle
• Papyrus839_ (Defected)

Clover Separatists

• LightBlueGinger
• Elhoffo2
• Moongoat47 (Defected)

Coalition Ally

• Gerb
• Hiiy
• Flipp3r7

Volunteers

• GentleGiant69

Timeline

(Only including major events.)

January 2023

• Antzakes1 becomes active on SimPvP again, reignites feud with Lord1.
• Antzakes begins supplying and conscripting the help of players who dislike the Church of Francis.
• The COF base, Deepslate Forge enters a internal crisis between members, causing half of the base to seize the farms and leave COF.
• COF griefs and kills 4 of the separatists at the Battle of Clover.
• The 'Clover Separatists' would start aligning with Antzakes and joined the secret 'PROTCOF'.
• TSCOT joins the Wasp Coalition after its leader OxT is ambushed and killed by swiggles.
• Aerial battles would start occurring in /World between the Church and Antzakes-Wasp coalition.

February 2023

• Both groups conduct extensive espionage on each other, most notably TSCOT's spy 'NoNamedLoser' into COF's ranks and Hijax's spying operations on/for Antzakes1.
• The Clover Separatists face a third attack, killing both online members.
• PROTCOF becomes defunct.
• COF member Glausthe dies to ambush, a lodestone to his base is acquired by OxT & Antzakes.

March 2023

• Konogla is griefed by TSCOT and Antzakes.
• Hijax conducts a spy operation for Lord1 to get as much information out of the Wasp Leaders (Antzakes & OxT) as possible.
• COF grows suspicious of Hijax's true loyalty.
• Papyrus839_ reveals to COF that NoNamedLoser is an OxT alt and it is swiftly assassinated by swiggles.

April 2023

• A phony diplomatic summit is organized by COF to lure the Wasps and Hijax to battle.
• Hijax is Assassinated by Supreme General Swiggles and the Francillians subsequently griefed a string of Hijax's old bases.
• Antzakes and TSCOT would come to defend Hijax's old bases, initiating the Battle of Hole Base, killing Hijax again and PastChicken6240 in a /world trap.
• The Clover Separatists face their fourth and final base attack, killing one online member.
• COF starts investing more effort into spy operations, most notably by Lpmaster123, Swiggles and Lord1.

May 2023

• Those spy operations acquired coordinates to a portal hub owned by theotherhades connected to various Nexus bases.
• Valor is griefed by COF.
• The last active member of the Clover Separatists, LightBlueGinger is griefed for a last time by COF after being sacrificed by a undercover TSCOT spy.

June 2023

• Hamadale is griefed by TSCOT due to them being misinformed about Saisei being COF allies.
• Antzakes exits the Wasp Coalition after deeming TSCOT "just like COF" for the griefing of Hamadale.
• Excabor's coordinates are accidentally leaked to Lpmaster123 by Gerbbb in a video call.
• Excabor is griefed by COF.
• PvP comes mostly to an end here and TSCOT stops making efforts to wage war.

July

• COF Continues to spy on TSCOT

August 2023

• TSCOT begins to recover, new bases are built.
• COF refuses to recognize peace.

September 2023

• Lord1 offers TSCOT peace and alliance in exchange for COF victory.
• TSCOT agrees.
• Sovereign of TSCOT, OxTxXTXxTxO and Holy King of SimPvP & COF, Lord1 sign the formal peace treaty on the 18th of September 2023, 8 months after it began.

History

Political Context

The origins of the conflict can be dated back to 2020 when Antzakes1 and the leader of COF, Lord1 get into a heated argument after Lord killed one of Antzakes's old allies at JezdziecBezNicka's Base. For years after the initial argument, Lord and Antzakes grew an intense rivalry, leading to countless small conflicts and dogfights mostly in the PvP world. Antzakes would return from his hiatus in late 2022, and for the most part both Lord and Antzakes were civil with each other. It wasn't until Lord discovered that Antzakes had been messaging COF members in a effort to turn them against Lord that the feud was reignited.

After the decisive end of the The GS-YMP Conflict, the Church of Francis entered a period of peace and prosperity. This peaceful period would last until late 2022 when The Dominion would return to the server and declare war on COF, initiating The Dominion-Francis Conflict. This guerrilla war between the two old enemies would open COF's eyes to how soft they had become during peacetime, so immense efforts to reinforce the Grand Imperial Army of Francis soon took place, old 2020 warriors were invited to return and fight, and newer fighters were highly rewarded. With this influx of bloodthirsty Francillians, the passive COF of 2022 was gone, and a more aggressive leadership had once again taken shape.

Operation Red Justice and the Deepstate Schism

In a new initiative undertaken mostly by COF Generals Swiggles & ItzPalo; Any and all COF rebels, pirates and people they just didn't like were to be swiftly killed on-sight without mercy. 'Operation Red Justice' would be a success resulting in 20+ high value enemy deaths from Dec-Jan. OxTxXTXxTxO would be killed in /World due to this, leading OxT to be recruited along with his friends into a Antzakes1 lead COF resistance. This early edition of the Wasp Coalition would engage with COF members in the skies of /World from mid January onward.

Server tensions would once again rise with the beginning of the Deepstate Schism, a COF crisis that took place after Pandyex invited a couple of new players to the base without asking the other base members, Swiggles would criticize this and joked he would "Sell the base to the highest bidder", which in turn caused half of the base to separate from COF and Deepstate, initiating the Clover Conflict.

The Clover Conflict

The realization of the new brutal COF mindset would take place on January 14th, where 5 Francillian troops arrived at Clover (the Separatist's new base), bombed it and battled the online members. The Battle of Clover resulted in 3 Clover deaths, 2 Clover Ally deaths and the destruction of all Clover farms and builds. Video.

The general response to COF's invasion of Clover was negative, but most players avoided direct criticism as to not get drawn into the conflict. However, behind the scenes, the Clover Separatists would receive both moral and materiel support from different corners of the community, including the newly established People's Resistance Of The Church of Francis or 'PROTCOF'. The Clover Separatists would go on to join PROTCOF and Antzakes1. It would be around this time that the COF resistance fighters/supporters would start being referred to as 'Wasps' and/or 'FemWasps'.

A PROTCOF banner found at Spawn.

A week later, the Clover Separatists next base would be the victim of another COF invasion resulting in 1 Clover death. Video

The Spy War Begins

With the conflict out of control and in full swing, the 'Wasp Coalition' would infiltrate COF with their spy NoNamedLoser. COF would unleash it's spy and informant network to feedback information of the Wasps, including their plans and motives. Both sides would inject misinformation into the other's clan, with most of it being scare propaganda in an attempt to make the other group back down. Hijax had ties with both sides of the conflict, Lord1 would capitalize on this by ordering Hijax to extract and report information about the Wasp Coalition, most of it coming from conversations with Antzakes1 himself.

The Clover Separatists would be hit with another COF invasion on February 15th, resulting in 2 Clover deaths. Video

The People's Resistance Of The Church of Francis would start to become defunct as of late February with Antzakes and OxT mostly leading the Wasp Coalition. The two would go on to kill COF Disciple Glausthe in a ambush, gaining a loadstone that lead directly to his base, Konogla.

The Ides of April

March of 2023 would begin with the bombing of Konogla by the Wasp Coalition. The unaffiliated members of the base would unite with COF after the attack. The backroom schemes and spying were still well underway by this point, however Hijax, the main informant feeding information to COF would come under secret investigation after some of his information wasn't aligning with other informants. To gloss over a very convoluted and intricate investigation nicknamed 'The Spyjax Conspiracy' (and is still disputed), COF Priests found Hijax guilty of Anti-COF espionage and kicked him from COF.

Lord1 then invited him to a summit to supposedly apologize and reinstate him (whilst also secretly planning with Hijax to lure the other Wasps into a portal trap). However, after arriving, Lord1 snuck off to try ambush the hidden Wasp fighters at Spawn and ordered Swiggles to assassinate Hijax, which he did. COF then immediately went to a portal chain of Hijax's old bases and bombed them, all whilst battling the Wasp Coalition in the air. Most notable bases to be bombed here were Valleria, Valleria II and Hole Base where the largest battle would take place, resulting in the deaths of PastChicken6240 thanks to a cleverly positioned trap and a half geared Hijax. Video

Only a few days later, the Clover Separatists would face fourth and final main base strike at the hands of COF, resulting in 2 Clover deaths. Video

Smoking the Hives

Mid April onward saw huge COF investments into spies and saw having a expanded network crucial for winning the conflict. After time, their investments paid off with coordinates to LightBlueGinger's base and a Nexus portal hub which included a connection to Valor. In May, all of these bases and connections were griefed, resulting in 1 Wasp death. Video

Hamadale would be struck by TSCOT after receiving false information that base hosting COF supporters, in response the initial ringleader of the informal Wasp Coalition, Antzakes1 would accuse TSCOT of being "Just like COF" and turned on them. Lpmaster would acquire coordinates to Excabor after Gerb accidently showed them in a video call. On June 28th, 2023, the Grand Imperial Army of Francis would raid and grief Excabor. Video

The bombing of Exabor and the schism between the TSCOT and the original Wasp could be seen as the real ending point of the Wasp War. TSCOT no longer had a good reason to hold any grudge nor seek fights with the Church, and the Church didn't have enough active soldiers to fight back with if a fight were to happen anyway.

The Peace Deal

In August of 2023, a informal peace request is sent to COF on behalf of TSCOT. Lord1 would reject it. A month later however, Ghostblender would query Lord1 as to why the Wasp War was even continuing, explaining to him that TSCOT had no plans nor willingness to continue the fight. Hearing this, Lord1 would send his own request offering peace in exchange for two conditions:

• COF is declared the undisputed victor of the Wasp War

• TSCOT will indefinitely distance itself from Antzakes and other rebels.

If both conditions were met and TSCOT agreed, COF would offer an alliance.

TSCOT would agree to COF's terms on 5th of September, with the official peace treaty being signed on the 18th.