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[quote name='Ardus' timestamp='1322325107' post='2852569']
Great read my ass. I'm astounded by my horrible grammar.
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You don't need to have good grammar to explain history well, which you certainly did. It touched on everything enough to explain how most events came about without going into too many details that would make it boring otherwise.

It really was a great read.

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[quote name='Ardus' timestamp='1322273896' post='2851319']
[b][i]I lied about updating via edit[/i][/b]

The stage set, both power spheres began searching for a way to start the inevitable war. Enter Farkistan. LUE and FARK quickly reached a tentative agreement to sign an MDP, but before the treaty could be announced, GOONS, citing the historic hostility between users of Something Awful and Fark, launched a full scale assault. The Initiative followed soon thereafter with declarations of support. WUT members argued that no treaty yet existed between LUE and FARK, and thus the LUEnited Nations had no business interfering in the GOONS assault. This would be the first active invocation of "if you have no treaty, you can't help them out," but certainly not the last. We're all worse off for it. LUE rejected the assertion, gathered The League, launched its counter-offensive, and announced the LUE-FARK treaty. So began the Second Great War on January 9, 2007.

Nobody really knew who would win at the outset of the conflict. First, most of the alliances in The Initiative had never engaged in major warfare, so many questioned whether they'd have the skills and dedication necessary to wage global war. Second, the statistics of the two blocs were all but identical save for one metric: nukes. Third, though the League held a substantial advantage in nuclear arms, it had tied itself up with FTLOGTOTC; nobody knew whether or not The League (and specifically NAAC, an atomic powerhouse) would break the treaty and launch. Finally, it was unclear Orple (The Legion and ODN, then attached at the hip) would enter in support of The League, to whom they were connected by MDP. An Orple-backed League would be plenty enough to tip the statistical balance against The Initiative.

The war lasted a week and answered all four questions in The Initiative's favor. The possible inexperience of WUT alliances was minimized by The League's decision to focus its firepower on the NPO, who effectively tanked for the entire Initiative, leaving the other WUT alliances free to attack at their own leisure. Meanwhile TOP and FAN chopped the sluggish GATO to bits. Their performance rendered both instant legends for military skill. But most importantly, The League never utilized its superior nuclear stockpile. Instead they gambled that The Initiative would use their own weapons first and force Orple into the war. Though a handful of Initiative nations hit the big red button, each one was quickly ejected and branded a rogue. The systemic condemnations had the intended dual effect: Orple stayed out and The League never used their own stockpile.

As strategic blunders mounted against The League, instability in GATO crushed morale. On January 14, 2007, the GATO Minister of Foreign Affairs, BenPG, announced GATO's surrender, much to the surprise of its allies. GATO immediately declared the surrender void, as the General Assembly hadn't voted on it, but the damage was done. Morale tanked and League allies began to surrender. The majority of The League admitted defeat by the following day, leaving LUE, unable to secure peace, to fight alone. LUE departed the bloc and canceled its various MDPs, suffering the full wrath of The Initiative until February 4, 2007. Farkistan, now without allied support, would wage CN's first prolonged guerrilla campaign until June 10, 2007, when it would accept a GOONS viceroyalty. Fark numbers, which had peaked over a thousand, declined due to attrition and the splinter group TotalFarkistan, which enjoyed GOONS approval and would later merge with COLD to form The Phoenix Federation.

Though the bulk of the war had lasted only a week, much to the disappointment of many, it effectively set the stage for what would follow: Great War III and the dominance of WUT. The League disbanded after the conflict while members of The Initiative flaunted their victory to secure new allies in small and upcoming alliances, all the while preparing for the next round in its mission to crush the old CoaLUEtion. NoR and the Maroon Defense Coalition joined WUT. Dilber, who'd led the NPO from ruin to glory, stepped down as Emperor and appointed TrotskysRevenge on January 30, 2007. To this day, Dilber is the only Emperor of an Order to retire without a military defeat.

Amid the adjustments, three events stoked tensions in the short peace: (1) IRON called out LUE for trolling NPO on 4chan, (2) VE and /b/ learned to viciously hate one another while racing to secure a Green Team sanction, and most importantly (3) Legion leaked a chat between its MoFA Sir Galahad and GATO's Assembly Chariman Vincent Xander, wherein the latter campaigned for a new organized opposition to the NPO and WUT. After another short spat between NoR and the commies, the NPO published evidence of spying alongside the logs and declared them [i]casus belli[/i]. Along with GGA, \m/, and the MDC, NPO declared war on GATO, initiating the Third Great War on March 19, 2007.

Once again The Initiative's knack for launching wars before treaties could be signed or canceled played a role, as the assault landed just before The Legion could successfully cancel its treaty with GATO. After a then unusual delay of 2 days, GATO's allies launched their counter-assault under the coalition banner of "AEGIS," derisively referred to as "WAEGIS" in what remains the most clever subversion of a coalition name ever. NAAC again fought its hated neighbor the NpO, Legion made the error of declaring war on the entire damn Initiative, and to the surprise of everybody /b/ broke it's neutrality to declare war (alongside LoSS) on VE. This author, then Minister of Defense for the Entente, took the opportunity to declare that no peace would ever be accepted between VE and /b/. I assure you it felt [b]great[/b]. Oh, and the crippled LUEnited Nations renounced its GWII surrender to get in the fray with its old friends, despite holding no treaties.

While the statistics favored The Initiative from the outset, few expected the lopsided outcome that occurred. Once again AEGIS held back on the use of nuclear weapons, this time hoping to woo the uncommitted IRON. Once again, TOP and FAN teamed up to utterly annihilate a major alliance, this time thrashing the larger Legion with some financial help from the rest of WUT. Once again, chaos from an AEGIS ally shattered what morale remained and triggered an avalanche of surrenders: /b/ launched an all-out attack on the forums on March 30 and disbanded, triggering unilateral cease-fires from a number of AEGIS alliances. As one would expect, those cease-fires were ignored by those winning the war.

The war ended on April 14, 2007 with The Initiative the unquestioned ruler of CN. GOONS managed to boot its Black Team neighbors LoSS and CDS off the sphere to the Pink Team. LUE and NAAC both disbanded. Legion was crushed. ODN was depleted. GATO was both crushed and proven to be utterly inept. The title of WAE, or "Worst Alliance Ever" would hound them for years. Nothing else to do, The Initiative would ultimately turn on itself.

The first alliance to depart the hyperbloc would be the Viridian Entente, disgusted by GOONS interference in its peace efforts with LoSS (requiring that they be ejected to Pink) and satisfied that its only real enemy, /b/, was gone for good. The Entente canceled its entire treaty catalog and declared independence while pledging that it still considered WUT to be close friends. Next would be Nordreich, who departed WUT amid a convoluted scandal involving internal intrigue and the undue influence of Stormfront (read: white supremacists and Nazis), a stain that NoR still struggles to shed today. The alliance ultimately disbanded on May 5, 2007. Third would be the Confederacy of Independent States. With VE gone from the Initiative and GGA setting designs on Green Team dominance, CIS, who'd only been admitted to the bloc thanks to campaigning by VE and GGA, no longer enjoyed support within the group. It didn't take long for folks to find a reason to throw them out (overblown hogwash about ceding authority to ODN). Each ex-Initiative would play a subsequent role in dividing WUT internally.

First, VE continued to have diplomatic run-ins with GOONS. Such might not have been a problem except for the fact that the alliance had been planning on establishing a Black Team colony, the Obsidian Entente, since before GWIII. When the Entente went through with the project on May 12, 2007, GOONS promptly told them to get lost. They did, and the OE moved to the new Aqua Team. War was averted, but not for long. Detecting impending doom, the Entente quickly organized a bloc under the Green Solidarity Act (VE, NTO, ArGo, and Gramlins) and on May 24 the GGA, GOONS, and NPO declared war on the Entente (and CIS and the post-/b/ alliance NTO), citing its "destabilization" of the Green Team. Unable to round up a sufficient coalition to oppose the Initiative forces (NpO, TOP, and FAN privately refused to participate), and unwilling to submit to GGA demands to leave the Green Team, the VE disbanded. NTO and CIS both left the sphere. While the war lasted only 24 hours, it unleashed a torrent of criticism both public and private, from within the Initiative and beyond. Emperor Sponge of the New Polar Order would later cite it as the point at which he began to distrust the bloc. Just like that, it had destroyed one of it's founding members.

Next the Initiative would cripple the neutral bloc of GUARD, the NPO declaring war on its strongest alliance, ONOS, on June 3. The war ended two days later with an NPO viceroyalty and a requirement that no members be allowed to leave the alliance. Fellow GUARD alliances never raised a finger.

At the end of May, FAN, alongside its Yellow Team neighbor GOLD, declared umbrella protection of all Yellow Team members and began to attack nations that raided the sphere, including allies. This pretty quickly pissed off the raiders in WUT, especially GOONS. On June 5, FAN followed up by declaring war on Norden Verein, a spiritual heir to Nordreich, to commemorate D-Day. Unfortunately, NoV was protected by the NPO. FAN almost immediately accepted a cease fire, but the damage was done. With the two biggest powers of The Initiative infuriated for different reasons, FAN was ejected from WUT and attacked on June 18 by the combined forces of WUT, the NpO-oriented bloc BLEU, NoV, and the previously unaligned IRON, demonstrating just how many people were either sick of FAN or trying to suck up to WUT (honestly a lot of the former). VietFAN would mark another long guerrilla campaign, lasting from June 18 to the end of the Unjust War on September 24.

The Initiative, however, was not statistically diminished. As original members were one by one annihilated, new powers seized invitations to join, including the Multicolored Cross-X Alliance, The Phoenix Federation, and Gen[m]ay. But the singular goals, trust, unity, and cohesion that had propelled The Initiative to its zenith were gone, replaced by distrust and division. On one end stood Polaris and Emperor Electron Sponge. On the other were the GOONS and its growing organization of personal allies called "The Unjust Path." The old rivalry between CoaLUEtion and NPO was "settled" and the Great War Era drew to a close. This new division would dictate the course of the future.
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Went through and revised many of the utterly convoluted sentences that made me want to pull my hair out.

Edited by Ardus
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