Chapter 4: Lords of Terror
Eye of the Storm – Summer/Autumn 2002
v July 22 – October 11
Ø August
§ IX sets out on a net gaining reset after two turbulent resets of conflict, including the First TIL War.
§ WoG and Oz divisions and other veterans leave for Lust, where DTA, Alena and Yheti reappear.
Ø August 11
§ TIL member Berserk collapses as an alliance.
Ø August 21
§ IX and LCN leave TIL in order to pursue their own ventures.
Ø August 22
§ 7th Day merges into ICN.
Ø August 23
§ Comwood declares that TIE will now be a member of TIL.
Ø August 25
§ Mass amounts of IX countries are deleted.
Ø August 29
§ TF declare war on LaF.
Ø September
§ 1,000 bot countries barrage and kill many of IX’s top countries.
Ø September 3
§ ICN joins TIL.
§ The Sith Empire (TSE), Unforgiven and Immortal Seawolf (ISW) declare war on LaF.
Ø September 4
§ Elitez declare war on Arrow on the basis that the latter topfeeded on them.
Ø September 5
§ SoL declares war on RED due to farming.
Ø September 6
§ Arrow counterstrikes Elitez. War stats are 5,383 hits for Elitez and 2,603 for Arrow.
Ø September 8
§ RED and SoL both reach a cease fire.
§ 57 Elitez are deleted leaving the alliance to fight with only 49 countries against Arrow.
Ø September 10
§ Quebec joins TIL.
§ TIL membership is now composed of Elysium, ICN, MD, Omega, Quebec, PDM, SoF, TF and TIE.
Ø September 12
§ TIE strikes Rival.
Ø September 17
§ Arrow leaves Elitez with only 12 living countries and declares victory on the war.
Ø September 21
§ A cease fire is effectuated between Arrow and Elitez.
Ø October 2
§ Duque declares that IX will be policing for AzN and Sanctuary in their war with RAGE.
§ SoF and SoL engage in the brief and polemic Retal War that ends in a surprise and virtual stalemate, leaving many to speculate who was the actual victor.
Ø October 11
§ LaF concludes their war with TSE, Unforgiven and ISW in victorious fashion.
§ Duque achieves the #1 rank; meanwhile three other IXers reach the Top 10 (Adingson, Serpentor and Vince). Overall, IX places 16 in the Top 100.
§ IX adds the total networth title to its belt as it finishes with $2,812,616,000 in total net worth and averages $14,498,000 with its 194 tagged countries.
§ IX and SoF are in a virtual tie for Earth supremacy, effectively creating a bipolar state of affairs.
Armageddon – Autumn/Winter 2002
v October 13 – December 31
Ø October 18
§ RED merges into LCN.
Ø October 28
§ MD asks to be put on DNH after RD multies ravage the alliance.
Ø November 7
§ The Angelic Skirmish - victory
· Citing the protection of an ally, IX declares war on FA
· IX vs. FA – victory
¨ All 19 of FA’s countries are annihilated by IX.
Ø November 8
· As of 2:00am, all FA countries are under protection (restarts).
Ø November 10
§ LaF declares war on LCN.
Ø November 11
§ IX and LaF engage in a land exchange.
§ The Ivy League War II (World War VII) – victory
· SoF was previously hit by multies and grabbed 9 times by Steel. To this end SoF responded by killing a Steel country and this obviously did not sit well with Steel leadership and their allies.
· In turn, Steel, united with allies SoL, Arrow and Lust, make their response and declare war on SoF.
· Early stats of anti-TIL/SoF amount to 5,510 hits and 14 kills against SoF.
· MD declares war and starts artillery barrages against Arrow countries.
Ø November 12
· ISW and RED declare war on Arrow in defense of SoF.
Ø November 13
· Quebec and Omega declare war on SoL.
· Sanctuary declares war on Arrow.
· Elysium declares war on Steel.
· Lust ceases hits on SoF due to internal issues.
· Oz Division breaks off from Lust and declares war on its former alliance.
§ The 2nd server wide conflict erupts between TIL and anti-TIL (now known as SALSA) and both sides ask IX for help.
§ Since IX has allies on both sides of the field, it decides on not entering the conflict upon the commencement of hostilities.
§ It is discovered, however, that PDM, an alliance with no pacts to IX, is going to enter the war on the side of IX’s TIL allies and will promptly hit another IX ally on the SALSA camp.
§ IX decides to pre-emptively declare war on PDM in order to honor defensive alliances on the SALSA camp.
§ IX vs. PDM – victory
· IX unleashes 7,700 attacks on PDM in the first 24 hours.
Ø November 14
· The overall war stats show SALSA with a slight lead over TIL & Allies. The attack breakdowns are as follows:
¨ SALSA – 28,168 hits and 96 kills
Ø Arrow – 8,341 hits and 22 kills
§ 518 hits and 2 kills on RED
§ 7,873 hits and 20 kills on SoF
Ø SoL – 12,328 hits and 51 kills
§ 654 hits and 3 kills on Quebec
§ 10,061 hits and 41 kills on SoF
§ 1,613 hits and 7 kills on Omega
Ø Steel - 4,519 hits and 12 kills on SoF.
Ø Lust (no longer in the war) - 2,980 hits and 11 kills on SoF.
¨ TIL & Allies – 24,969 hits and 90 kills
Ø Elysium - 1,795 hits and 10 kills on Steel
Ø RED - 1,758 hits and 6 kills on Arrow
Ø ICN - 1,756 hits and 6 kills on Steel
Ø MD - 3,726 hits and 9 kills on Arrow
Ø Quebec - 1,206 and 1 kill on SoL
Ø Sanctuary - 956 hits and 3 kills against Arrow
Ø SoF – 7,599 hits and 32 kills
§ 4,196 hits and 16 kills on SoL
§ 3,403 hits and 16 kills on Steel
Ø The Forsaken - 923 hits and 8 kills against SoL
Ø Omega – 2,074 hits and 7 kills on SoL
Ø TIE – 3,167 hits and 8 kills on Steel
§ Totaling 9,028 hits and killing 46 countries, IX performs the grandest first strike in Earth history after 28 hours of combat.
§ PDM surrenders to IX after the strike is over.
§ IX keeps hitting PDM till the negotiated cease-fire time of 12:00am of the following day.
Ø November 15
· Sanctuary and caRNage cease fire with Arrow.
§ The war between IX and PDM is officially over as a ceasefire is effectuated and a do not hit (DNH) status is signed.
Ø November 17
· RAGE declares war on Quebec.
· RED and MITH declare war on RAGE.
Ø November 18
· TIE declares war on SoL.
· Omega ceases fire with SoL and thus M4D ceases fire as well.
· Omega declares war on Imaginary Numbers (iMagNum).
Ø November 20
§ Since ICN had been obtaining IX spy-ops, the latter declares war on ICN and jumps into TIL War II on the SALSA camp.
· IX vs. ICN – victory
¨ IX smashes ICN with its FS by destroying its mid-sized and big countries, including some ICNers hiding in the MD tag.
· IX’s attack on ICN countries tagged inside of MD prompts the breaking of the FDP between IX and MD.
· Legend of Nemesis (LoN) declares war on SoL.
· Elysium declares war on Arrow.
Ø November 21
· Lust re-enters the war and declares war on TIE.
· LoN ceases attacks on SoL and declares war on RAGE.
Ø November 23
· SALSA, at this stage in the war and thanks to IX’s involvement, has a tangible lead over the TIL bloc in both hits and kills. The war stats are as follows (IX vs. PDM is included):
¨ SALSA & Allies – 108,894 hits and 465 kills
Ø Arrow – 23,963 hits and 93 kills
§ 3,331 hits and 13 kills on RED
§ 9,921 and 42 kills on MD
§ 10,711 and 38 kills on SoF
Ø IX – 21,423 and 103 kills
§ 12,395 hits on ICN (including 5,034 on ICNers hiding in the MD tag)
§ 9,028 hits and 46 kills on PDM
Ø Lust – 5,751 hits and 27 kills
§ 3,025 hits and 15 kills on SoF prior to their November 13 exit.
§ 2,726 hits and 12 kills against TIE upon their return to the war the previous day.
Ø iMagNum – 1,886 hits and 10 kills on Omega
Ø M4D – 6,298 hits and 25 kills
§ 3,188 hits and 12 kills on Omega
§ 3,110 and 13 kills on TIE
Ø RAGE – 6,820 hits and 21 kills
§ 2,135 hits and 11 kills on RED
§ 59 hits on MD
§ 4,626 hits and 10 kills on Quebec
Ø Ragnarok – 1,280 hits and 2 kills on RED
Ø SoL – 31,924 hits and 151 kills
§ 3,126 hits and 14 kills against Quebec
§ 19,769 hits and 98 kills on SoF
§ 5,652 hits and 24 kills on Omega
§ 3,377 hits and 15 kills on TIE
Ø Steel – 8,099 hits and 27 kills
§ 111 hits on Elysium
§ 7,788 hits and 27 kills on SoF
§ 68 hits on Steel
§ 132 hits on TIE
Ø TGA – 1,450 hits and 6 kills
§ 226 hits and 1 kill against Quebec
§ 1,140 hits and 5 kills against SoF
§ 84 hits against TIE
¨ TIL & Allies – 98,677 hits and 410 kills
Ø AzN – 2,939 hits and 9 kills on RAGE
Ø Elysium – 10,173 hits and 44 kills
§ 2,645 hits and 8 kills on Arrow
§ 7,528 hits and 36 kills on Steel
Ø ICN – 5,386 hits and 13 kills
§ 233 hits on iMagNum
§ 1,670 hits and 4 kills on IX
§ 3,483 hits and 9 kills on Steel
Ø LoN – 1,917 and 6 kills
§ 741 hits and 1 kill on RAGE
§ 1,176 hits and 5 kills on SoL
Ø MD – 12,735 hits and 46 kills
§ 11,913 hits and 43 kills on Arrow
§ 661 hits and 3 kills on iMagNum
§ 68 hits on IX
§ 113 hits on Steel
Ø Omega – 6,066 hits and 23 kills
§ 1,789 hits and 8 kills on iMagNum
§ 4,277 hits and 15 kills on SoL
Ø Quebec – 4,696 hits and 17 kills
§ 1,030 hits and 6 kills on RAGE
§ 3,666 hits and 11 kills on SoL
Ø RED – 5,791 hits and 18 kills
§ 3,246 hits and 8 kills on Arrow
§ 2,545 hits and 10 kills on RAGE
Ø SoF – 30,045 hits and 159 kills
§ 463 hits and 1 kill against iMagNum
§ 261 hits and 1 kill on M4D
§ 25,448 hits and 137 kills on SoL
§ 3,873 hits and 20 kills on Steel
Ø TF – 3,156 hits and 19 kills
§ 201 hits and 1 kill on iMagNum
§ 2,955 hits and 18 kills on SoL
Ø TIE – 15,773 hits and 56 kills
§ 1,662 hits and 8 kills on M4D
§ 7,083 hits and 24 kills on SoL
§ 6,652 hits and 23 kills against Steel
§ 376 hits and 1 kill against Lust
· The country breakdowns of the warring parties show the TIL bloc with an edge of 131 top 1000 when compared to the SALSA bloc’s 115 top 1000 countries.
· IX holds 60 or 52% of the SALSA bloc’s top 1000 countries and 21,423 or 19.7% of the SALSA bloc’s hits, thus showing IX as the determining factor in the war since it has stopped the previously existing stalemate and given SALSA an edge through its contributions.
Ø November 24
§ Helmet declares that the FDP between SoF and IX is no more.
· The SALSA has a total 1,217 countries within its ranks meanwhile the TIL bloc has 1,106.
Ø November 27
· Due to LaF’s attack on LCN and alleged practice of babysitting in the process, IX declares war on LaF to honor its FDP with LCN.
· IX vs. LaF – victory
¨ IX destroys LaF’s remaining big countries with its FS.
Ø November 28
· LCN declares war on Fist.
· The DNH between IX and PDM is over.
Ø November 29
· PDM declares war on IX since the DNH is over and because of the breaking of pacts between IX and MD/SoF.
· Citing the attack on their allies LaF and the breaking of the FDP, SoF declares war on IX.
· IX vs. PDM – victory
· IX vs. SoF – victory
¨ PDM commands the allied ICN, LaF, PDM and SoF war chat against IX.
¨ The TIL task force manages to dish out 5,504 hits against IX and kills 22 countries.
¨ IX’s casualties are mostly restarts since only a handful of middle rankers are killed or crippled. Their top rankers are intact.
¨ IX counters with 3,178 hits and kills 12 PDM countries and 1 SoFer.
Ø November 30
· LCN declares war on PDM.
Ø December 1
· PDM, SoF, LaF and ICN have hit IX 8,547 times and killed 38 countries meanwhile IX has hit back 6,024 and killed 25 enemy countries.
· Helmet requests the 60 member Camelot to declare war on IX so that they can break IX top countries in order for TIL to have a chance at winning the war.
· IX vs. Camelot – victory
¨ Acting as the breakers of the TIL camp, Camelot breaks down some IX top countries.
¨ IX rallies back and quickly dispose of the Camelot threat, leaving TIL effectively without breakers and at the mercy of the top rankers of IX and the SALSA camp.
· LCN declares war on Camelot.
Ø December 4
· Up to this point IX has concentrated half of their firepower on Camelot and have put out 4,459 attacks. Camelot has lost 27 countries (only 33 are still alive) and been able to perform 1,750 attacks.
· RED and Arrow agree to a cease-fire.
Ø December 23
· The TIL bloc has 367,948 hits and 1,763 kills, leading the SALSA bloc’s 349,168 hits and 1,645 kills.
· However, the SALSA camp breaks TIL at will and the latter is left to merely increasing their war stats by hitting restarts. The attack breakdowns are as follows:
¨ SALSA & Allies:
Ø Arrow – 61,666 hits and 252 kills
§ 13,075 hits and 59 kills on Elysium
§ 5,312 hits and 26 kills on RED
§ 15,422 hits and 66 kills against MD
§ 25,015 hits and 93 kills against SoF
§ 2,842 hits and 16 kills on TIE
Ø DA – 2,973 hits and 5 kills on LaF
Ø FBI – 8,514 hits and 32 kills
§ 4,116 hits and 14 kills on Elysium
§ 119 hits and 1 kill on RED
§ 709 hits and 1 kill on Quebec
§ 515 hits and 2 kills on SoF
§ 349 hits and 5 kills on TF
§ 2,041 hits and 8 kills on Omega
§ 665 hits and 1 kill on TIE
Ø Fist – 3,615 hits and 12 kills
§ 3,389 hits and 12 kills on AzN
§ 266 hits on Sanctum
Ø IX – 59,736 hits and 344 kills
§ 7,366 hits and 26 kills against Camelot
§ 2,581 hits and 9 kills against FA
§ 14,121 hits and 64 kills on ICN
§ 5,034 hits and 26 kills on MD
§ 36,222 hits and 163 kills on PDM
§ 840 hits and 3 kills on SoF
§ 212 hits and 1 kill on Master
Ø LCN – 45,973 hits and 227 kills
§ 3,197 hits and 22 kills on Camelot
§ 150 hits on FA
§ 1,037 hits and 4 kills on ICN
§ 30,412 hits and 144 kills on LaF
§ 139 hits on Master
§ 11,038 hits and 57 kills on PDM
Ø Lust – 10,293 hits and 81 kills
§ 5,215 hits and 25 kills on Elysium
§ 1,155 hits and 3 kills on Quebec
§ 4,368 hits and 21 kills on SoF
§ 406 hits on TF
§ 686 hits and 1 kill on Omega
§ 6,463 hits and 31 kills on TIE
Ø M4D – 17,754 hits and 40 kills
§ 3,186 hits and 12 kills on Omega
§ 8,568 hits and 28 kills on TIE
Ø iMagNum – 5,143 hits and 23 kills
§ 257 hits and 1 kill on Elysium
§ 4,085 hits and 16 kills on Omega
§ 801 hits and 6 kills on TIE
Ø RAGE – 12,789 hits and 47 kills
§ 1,552 hits and 6 kills on AzN
§ 3,964 hits and 18 kills on RED
§ 2,424 hits and 11 kills on LoN
§ 195 hits and 1 kill on MD
§ 4,654 hits and 11 kills on Quebec
Ø Ragnarok – 5,131 hits and 14 kills
§ 4,090 hits and 9 kills on RED
§ 1,091 hits and 5 kills on LoN
Ø SoL – 83,179 hits and 413 kills
§ 11,821 hits and 61 kills on Quebec
§ 28,596 hits and 144 kills on SoF
§ 5,298 hits and 23 kills on TF
§ 11,032 hits and 59 kills on Omega
§ 26,432 hits and 126 kills on TIE
Ø Steel – 28,547 hits and 142 kills
§ 3,983 hits and 23 kills on Elysium
§ 125 hits on Quebec
§ 14,427 hits and 71 kills on SoF
§ 486 hits and 3 kills on TF
§ 2,225 hits and 8 kills on Omega
§ 7,301 hits and 37 kills on TIE
Ø TGA – 3,855 hits and 13 kills
§ 221 hits and 1 kill on Quebec
§ 2,557 hits and 9 kills on SoF
§ 510 hits on TF
§ 115 hits and 1 kill on Omega
§ 452 hits and 3 kills on TIE
¨ The Ivy League & Allies
Ø AzN – 6,940 hits and 23 kills
§ 3,853 hits and 12 kills on RAGE
§ 3,087 hits and 11 kills on FIST
Ø Camelot – 4,401 hits and 16 kills on IX
Ø Elysium – 31,764 hits and 143 kills
§ 6,359 hits and 31 kills on Arrow
§ 2,239 hits and 8 kills on FBI
§ 14,631 hits and 69 kills on Steel
§ 8,535 hits and 35 kills on Lust
Ø FA – 2,030 hits and 1 kill
§ 1,910 hits and 1 kill on IX
§ 120 hits on LCN
Ø ICN -
Ø LaF
Ø LoN
Ø MD
Ø Omega
Ø PDM
Ø Quebec
Ø RED
Ø Sanctuary
Ø SoF
Ø TF – 6,379 hits and 36 kills
§ 1,046 hits and 9 kills on M4D
§ 4,344 hits and 24 kills on SoL
§ 989 hits and 3 kills on Steel
Ø TIE
Ø December 29
· IX helps LCN win a victory over LaF.
· IX defeats Camelot, ICN, LaF, PDM and SoF after their top and middle ranks are destroyed and much of their remainders are crippled restarts.
· SALSA achieves victory as TIL alliances are left in ruins.
§ TF merges into MD.
§ Rival wins total net worth with 87 countries and $2,117,453,000.
§ The Anti-TIL becomes the dominant bloc under the leadership of the IX superpower, and that of other powers such as Arrow and SoL.
§ The reset marks the demise of the Ivy League and the beginning of the political alienation of SoF.
§ IX concludes the reset with 140 tagged countries and 7th in total net worth ranking.
§ IX at last achieves undisputed world supremacy and becomes the terror of Earth with the utter annihilation of its enemies and by turning the tide of TIL War II, the greatest war in recent Earth history.
2003
Concert of Earth – Winter/Spring 2003
v December 31 – March 10
Ø January 3
§ MD, Omega, PDM and TIE leave TIL.
§ The Ivy League coalition is virtually terminated upon the departure of its members.
Ø January 8
§ Multies make artillery barrages on Steel.
Ø January 10
§ IX is struck by a bot which kills and cripples many IX countries.
Ø January 22
§ SoF asks for a war DNH after being hit by RD and losing 20 top rankers.
Ø February 1
§ LCN declares war on Elysium.
Ø February 2
§ Yheti returns to IX as Lust ceases to exist as an alliance.
Ø February 5
§ LCN and Elysium reach a ceasefire that is in effect as of 12:01am of this very day.
Ø February (1st week)
§ Lust merges into RAGE.
Ø February 8
§ Unknown declares war on the HeadHunters (HH).
Ø February 15
§ SoF declares war on FBI in defense of allies and in revenge for FBI participating against SoF in the previous reset.
Ø February 16
§ SoF declares peace with FBI after 24 hours of hostilities and unleashing 5,000 hits.
§ The NATO War– victory
· Helmet cites pre-emption and SoF declares war on IX.
· IX vs. SoF – victory
¨ IX stonewalls SoF’s attack as the Anti-SoF (NATO) alliances prepare to counterstrike.
· LCN declares war on SoF in defense of IX.
· SoL declares war on SoF in defense of both FBI and IX.
Ø February 17
· The remaining NATO alliances, Arrow and Steel, declare war on SoF.
· While claiming a NATO gangbang in response to SoF’s attack and past IX/RAGE grievances, RAGE declares war on IX.
· IX vs. RAGE – victory
¨ IX stonewalls RAGE’s attack and immediately counterstrikes causing greater damage on the latter.
Ø February 20
· IX and NATO destroy SoF and RAGE is left with barely any middle or top countries due to IX’s pounding. However, IX has taken considerable damage by this point from the two first strikes.
§ LaF destroys the Cult with a swift 3,000 hit strike that decimates the latter in four hours.
Ø February 21
· Steel declares peace and ceases all hits on SoF at 8:00pm.
Ø February 22
· Arrow and LCN proclaim peace with SoF.
· Additionally, Arrow declares victory and retribution over SoF’s destruction of Arrow during the Arrow/IX war in the fall of 2001 and the loss of the Arrow/SoF war during the winter of 2001/2002.
Ø February 23
§ SoL declares war on Teamwork.
Ø February 25
§ SoL reaches a cease fire with Teamwork.
§ SoL engages in a conflict against LoN.
Ø March 10
· IX is able to rout SoF with the help of its NATO allies and completely defeat RAGE on its own as the war draws to a close.
§ LaF wins total net worth with 142 countries and $3,310,886,000.
§ IX finishes 9th in total net worth.
§ Scarface resigns his co-President position and goes on a long hiatus. Duque takes command of IX, being its only President.
Although with a slightly weaker performance than the previous reset, IX retains its status as superpower in the game with SoF and SoL clearly in contention.