FAN-1V War

The FAN-1V (One Vision) War, sometimes called VietFAN II by some in reference to the FAN-WUT War, was an occupation-like conflict, which started in December 2007 to April 2009, initially and mainly between the forces of One Vision and the Federation of Armed Nations. The war began when the New Pacific Order claimed that FAN had violated the surrender terms which they accepted to end the FAN-WUT War and thus the Order rescinded the terms and re-declared war along with One Vision and a couple of other MADP allies.

In December 2008, the conflict eclipsed both the previous guerrilla-style wars - the GOONland Resistance Movement and the Holy War of Farkistan - when it reached the one-year mark of active hostilities. It was the longest-lasting active conflict in CyberNations history.

The war had raged on for more then two years before the Karma War broke out, during this time the New Pacific Order, One Vision, and allies engaging FAN for the most part could no longer upkeep their fight in the war.

Background
NPO claimed that 1/3 of FAN nations were found to be in violation of surrender terms from the FAN-WUT War leading One Vision along with several allies against FAN. Approximately 100 FAN nations stood accused, while FAN and others claimed that only a small handful of FAN nations had breached the terms enforced upon them, and many of them were only just over the soldier limit.

While two of the non-One Vision/Continuum members were involved in the war it was stated that the Continuum's Mobius Accords were not activated and the alliances that entered (TPF and Valhalla) joined the war through their respective MADP's with NPO. TORN entered the war citing their MADP with TPF, in addition to MDoAP's with the NPO, IRON, and Valhalla.

Casus Belli Controversy

 * See Also: FAN-WUT_War

Vociferous objections and refutations arose from FAN and other players about the accuracy, validity, and justification of both NPO's stated casus belli and the facts presented in support of it. Arguments flared in the forum, ranging from possible differences in interpretation or actual meaning of the treaty terms to accusations of total fabrication and intentional misrepresentation. Sentiments between FAN and the Orders by then had become so deeply hostile and bitter that both parties at least partially resorted to flaming and thinly veiled trolling in the forum discussions, leading to repeated thread locks. New threads would appear shortly thereafter. Members of the Orders and their allies chastised FAN for whining and accused them of hypocrisy. FAN leadership accused Order posters of intentionally trolling and derailing threads, to provoke moderators into locking the threads and prevent further discussion when opinion was perceived to have begun to turn against the Order, or when hard questions were raised about the justification and validity of the Orders actions.

According to mpol777, the FAN's chief spokesperson, NPO offered a list of nations that violate the terms and their specific violations. As presented to FAN: In total 18 different nations were named as violators of the peace terms, with 97 violations.
 * 8 Nations possessed Factories
 * 2 Nations possessed either Tanks, Aircraft, or Cruise Missiles.
 * 8 Nations had troop levels above 20% of their Citizen Population

FAN government has identified that several nations on the list--the exact number is unknown--were not registered FAN members nor did they have accounts on the FAN forums. There was also internal suspicion based on several factors that some of the nations were plants to create evidence, although offical statements to such effect were never ultimately made.

It is important to note that the Surrender Terms states only that Factory improvements had to be removed, not military improvements of all types, although some NPO members (none of which were leaders or representatives) initially used such claims as support for the war.

Golden Sabres Involvement
After the discovery that the Golden Sabres, a yellow alliance and former offshoot of FAN, was directly assisting FAN in attaining the yellow senate seats, which they in turn used to sanction members of the alliances against them, many alliances declared war on GS.

Name of the Conflict
The official New Pacific Order designation for the conflict is the InFANtile War. Both "Second VietFAN War" (and variants thereof, such as "VietFAN II"), and "NPO-FAN War" have been used. "NPO-FAN War, Part II" has been debated for possible inaccuracy, as the argument of whether the current conflict is a continuation or a successor is still active. Internally, many FAN members have begun to refer to the current conflict as "AfghaniFAN", "The NPOgrom", "FANocide" or "Deja Moo".

Timeline of the Conflict
December 16th, 2007 - 11:42pm: Attacks against 83 FAN nations begin before midnight.

December 17th, 2007 - 12:24am: | NPO declares war.

December 17th, 2007 - 12:26am: | IRON declares war.

December 17th, 2007 - 12:26am: | GGA declares war.

December 17th, 2007 - 12:27am: | TPF declares war.

December 17th, 2007 - 12:37am: | Valhalla declares war.

December 17th, 2007 - 12:45am: | NpO declares war.

December 17th, 2007 - 2:30pm: 371 Wars have been declared against FAN. 103 FAN nations are in Peace mode.

December 17th, 2007 - 7:40pm: FAN declares war on itself and releases a list of specific nations and their violations.

December 18th, 2007 - 2:55am: | TORN declares war

December 19th, 2007 - 10:00am: 556 attacks have been initiated against FAN. 110 FAN nations are in Peace mode, the other 184 remain in combat.

February 15th, 2008 - 10:28pm: Membership has slipped to 164. Only 9 FAN nations remain in war mode. Total nation strength falls below 850,000.

March 8th, 2008 - 1:08am: FAN commits espionage against the Mostly Harmless Alliance after revealing screenshots of MHA's forums through an Announcement of MHA planning to go to war.

March 8th, 2008 - 11:05am: Another FAN Announcement reveals more screenshots of MHA's forums from FAN's spy.

March 9th, 2008 - 11:25pm: The MHA responds by declaring war upon FAN for their espionage, the 8th alliance to declare on FAN.

July 10, 2008 - 12:04pm: FAN admits to infiltrating the Auric Armada

July 10, 2008 - 2:08pm: The Auric Armada admits to being spied on and attacked internally by FAN

July 20, 2008 - 11:14pm: Due to what was later found to be called internally by FAN 'Operation Australia' the Auric Armada disbands

July 26, 2008 - 3:49pm: FAN remains with 103 nations; 69 active nations; 67% activity; 736,739 NS; 7,153 average NS; 3.57 score; 32,396 land; 176,211 infra.; 28,591 tech; 220 aircraft; 39 nukes; 6 anarchy; 407,477 soldiers; 883 tanks; 30 cruise missiles; 0 navy ships; 7 nations in war mode, and 97 nations in peace mode.

August 5, 2008- 2:58am: FAN leaks NPO battalion IRC passwords, NPO vows to punish any non NPO that visits them.

September 8, 2008 - 11:34pm: The New Polar Order surrenders to the forces attacking them in the War of the Coalition, ending their involvement in that and this war.

April 2, 2009 - 01:52pm: FAN "Declaration of Victory"

May 5, 2009 - 8:39pm: Valhalla declares "peace" with FAN and Vox Populi

May 6, 2009 - 8:40pm: MCXA has peace declared with FAN as part of their surrender terms from the Karma War.

May 10, 8:55pm: TORN and FAN are at peace.