Shadow-Orovika War

Shadow-Orovika War
A screenshot of a battle between Orovikan and Shadow forces around Aret
Date 22 August 2023 - 29 September 2023 (40 days) Location Server-wide Result Shadow accepts conditional surrender on 29 September. Simmering tensions that would lead into the founding of RDY.
Orovika Cortesia Del Mar Vega (Working with Orovika as mercenaries)	Shadow Arimfea (Working with Shadow as mercenaries)
Orovika Cortesia Del Mar Vega (Working with Orovika as mercenaries)	Shadow RentDueYesterday (Working with Shadow as mercenaries)
Casualties and losses
32881 warship blocks lost 19979 freighter blocks lost	51511 warship blocks lost 12969 freighter blocks lost

The Shadow-Orovika War was a military conflict on Horizon's End fought between the nation of Orovika and the nation of Shadow, with substantial support from Arimfean mercenaries, in the late summer of 2023.

History

Prelude

Noix444 Joins Shadow

• noix was generally disliked & had been pirating before this
• joined shadow, then proceeded to attack someone in orovika (who?)
• orovika initially just wanted to hunt noix & not the rest of shadow

Conflict

22 August Incident

• what was the incident that kicked this off?

First Attempt at Peace Negotiations

• cite the negotiations channel heavily here

Orovikan Anti-Piracy Doctrine

• cite gen's statement @ the bottom of the negotiations channel
• shadow treated as pirates, unrestricted warfare
• less combat-skilled members of shadow at the time (ex. smolpotatolord, scar_litty, astrobolt) hard targeted
• maybe mention the diplomatic negotiations to get other nations off orovika's back over this
  • (Draft for this ^) After an atempt to end the conflict peacefully, The Shadow representives claimed "we believe there is a huge misunderstanding. We are not surrendering to Orovika. On the contrary, most of us are thoroughly enjoying this war and believe we are doing quite well." "However, from what we have seen, based on Orovikan's words and actions, the Orovikan people and leadership are tired of this war and want it to end. Therefore, we present the following terms of Orovika's surrender: The war is to be considered over Orovika will not siege any of Shadow's stations lest the war reprise Each member of Orovika will, individually, be given the opportunity to purchase 7 days of immunity from being pirated by Shadow's Vanguard for the price of $15k on a weekly basis. The cost of 15k is per-person per-week. Once purchased immunity will last until the hour it was purchased 7 days from the starting date." - Ae0n To wich the Orovikan Councels respons was unanimous: "fuck no" - Oliveburger22 / CrystaAqua / Crossac

Mass Player Exodus from Shadow

• most members of shadow were very unhappy with the war & wanted out
• who all left in this time besides star?

Final Peace Negotiations

• terms of surrender
  • mention that the dd was so bad oro werent sure whether to accept it lmao

Aftermath

Radiance Revolution

• aeon's actions here were extremely unpopular among most of shadow's members
• aeon proceeded to go completely inactive, leaving star to rebuild the nation mostly from scratch
• this set up the radiance revolution the following year