Great War III

Third Great War
Date	March 19 - April 14, 2007
Result	Initiative Victory /b/, SWF, LUE, BTA, Syndicate, NAAC and Sphere bloc disband
Preceded by	St. Patrick's Day War
Succeeded by	The Alaskan Folly
Linked and Sub-Conflicts
RIA-MDC War
Combatants
The Initiative & Allies The Initiative NPO NpO FAN GOONS GGA VE \m/ TOP CIS NoR MDC GDA MHA CXA Genmay FCO Syn FIRE PAGN Illuminati MCCF CNC TF! Inc. <acronym title="Walker Texas Ranger">WTR</acronym>	Aegis GATO NAAC The Legion ODN /b/ CDS LUE LoSS IAA ODS WAPA Fark ACID ICMS ASC SWF SOL RIA GCN <acronym title="Imperial Republic">IR</acronym> White Fang OG Ronin Grämlins Militia -AiD- MRA <acronym title="Irish Republican Army">IRA</acronym> <acronym title="TotalGenmay">TG!</acronym> APIN The Sphere BTA GoG R&R MRA EotS MCB
Strength
Cumulative NS 3/19 34,609,999 Cumulative NS 4/07 35,687,000	Cumulative NS 3/19/07 32,317,422 Cumulative NS 4/07/07 10,797,000

Great War III was a war fought during the spring of 2007 shortly after Great War II. It was fought between The Initiative and Aegis. It ended with a victorious Initiative over Aegis.

For a list of individuals who fought in Great War III see: Category:Great War III veteran.

Alternative Names

At the time of the conflict dozens of potential names were proposed. The most popular among them included The AfGATOstan War and March Madness. None of the alternate names stuck, however, and today the war is universally referred to simply as Great War Three, or some variation thereof.

Casus Belli

Not long after the St. Patrick's Day War began, the New Pacific Order claimed that the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization was spying on them as well as harboring intentions of hostility, as revealed by several leaked chat conversations between GATO's Assembly Chairman, Vincent Xander, and Legion's Foreign Minister, Sir Galahad. NPO also discovered and banned a spy from GATO on their forums.

Events of the War

Following the NPO/GATO dispute, on March 19, a post was made on the CN forums containing a leaked forums screenshot from mpol, the then Grand Bastard of the Federation of Armed Nations, discussing an upcoming attack on GATO. The content was later identified as coming from a private Initiative leadership forum. The post outlined an upcoming attack by NPO, the Maroon Defense Coalition, the Grand Global Alliance, and \m/ against GATO to be made that night at 15min before update. Additionally, it laid out the Initiatives plans to deal with other alliances coming to the defense of GATO. Specifically, it allocated the New Polar Order and an unidentified party to counter the National Alliance of Arctic Countries while FAN and The Order of the Paradox were to counter any intervention from The Legion and instructed the Goon Order of Neutral Shoving to counter the Orange Defense Network.

NPO made the first move by declaring war on GATO at 10:45pm on March 19. This declaration of war was followed only a few minutes later by \m/, GGA, and MDC with declarations of support from fellow Initiative members FAN, the Viridian Entente, TOP, the Confederacy of Independent States, Nordreich, and GOONS. The largest members of The Initiative had rallied support against GATO.

On March 20, shortly before update, Ivan Moldavi posted a controversial statement praising The Legion on behalf of the NPO and officially reactivating their MDP with Legion, 'The Imperial Accords.' Later that night, at 10:47pm, Genmay and GOONS activated their MDP and declared war on GATO.

On the morning of March 21, at 1:16am, the We Are Perth Army became the first alliance to join sides with GATO, approximately 27 hours since NPO had issued the first Declaration of War on GATO.

At 8:54 PM on March 21, 2007, NAAC became the second power to enter on the side of GATO, followed shortly by the Imperial Assault Alliance, who declared war on GGA. Legion announced its position at 9:07 PM, when VL Empire, their Prime Minister, declared war on The Initiative, rejecting Moldavi's previous statement regarding the Imperial Accords. However, Legion attacks on FAN, TOP and GGA had begun almost 10 minutes earlier at 9:00 PM, thus breaking their Non-Aggression Pacts with the former two. Both questioned Legion's so-called "defense" of GATO by attacking alliances uninvolved with that front. Less than an hour later, the Global Democratic Alliance activated their MDP, declaring war on Legion and other alliances attacking NPO.

Less than an hour after update on March 22, /b/, an alliance that had long been neutral in similar conflicts, declared war on VE and other select alliances of The Initiative. VE was outraged at /b/'s declaration and stated that they would never declare peace with them. This declaration caused Archon's DramaNations meter to go from Red (at which it had been for two days) to Black.

Later that day, alliances of The Sphere issued declarations of war. The first to do so was the Blue Turtle Alliance, who focused their attack on CIS, citing a defense clause in a PIAT as their justification for war. The other Sphere alliances, the Entente of the Sun, Guns of Glory, R&R, M. Carter Brown, and the Maroon Revolutionaries Alliance, declared war on CIS on the same day. On March 27, these alliances surrendered to CIS, effectively dissolving the Sphere.

The LUEnited Nations, at 8:58 PM, officially renounced the terms of their surrender to The Initiative from the aftermath of the Second Great War, activating their pre-Second Great War MADP with GATO and declaring war on Genmay.

At 10:31, ODN and the Coalition of Defensive States jointly declared war on GOONS. GOONS returned the declaration a few minutes later. One hour later, Farkistan entered the war on GATO's side.

On March 23, the Mostly Harmless Alliance joined the war by declaring on the Legion several hours prior to update, citing their MDP with NPO.

CDS Prime Minister Seleucus Ontuas later made the declaration of all out nuclear war on GOONS due to the fact that GOONS was not allowing the CDS to surrender. Realizing that this would mean the complete and utter destruction of CDS, former CDS members, including former leader filipinoboi122 staged a coup, deposing the government. The new government officially signed a surrender document and the war between CDS and GOONS was declared to be over.

Dark Friday

Two /b/ rogues launched nuclear weapons despite the universal agreement not to go nuclear. Unable to control her members as many more were following suit and beginning to spam the CN forums, Furseiseki disbanded /b/ in order to protect the members who still wished to play from becoming outcasts.

With the disbandment, more prominent members of /b/, to include their emperor, began "/b/ombing" the forums with obscene images, as was the tradition of 4chan raids: child pornography, goatse, mutilated animals, human torture, and other images. The moderators acted swiftly to erase these images, but they were not swift enough. With every IP ban, another /b/tard, using an anonymous proxy, would take its place and continue the attack. Shortly following this incident, NAAC announced that, in their disgust, they were ordering all of their nations to stand down. The Old Guard followed suit. The League of Small Superpowers did the same, and surrendered that week.

Shortly following the incident, massive DDoS attacks on the site by /b/ forced admin to take Cyber Nations down. admin implemented the "Confusion of Babylon" and closed down the Open World Forums. The entire forum soon followed.

Thus, with the forums and main site down, and the Month of March making way for April, March Madness ended with the very existence of Cyber Nations at risk. Despite this, the war still continued into the month of April.

Independent and Neutral Alliances

The two largest neutral powers during the war were the Green Protection Agency (see the Declaration of Neutrality) and the Independent Republic of Orange Nations. Both of these sanctioned alliances were pressured to join, and both could have given either side a substantial gain increase in nations, nation strength, and morale. Both had long-term relations with alliances on both sides.

GPA issued a statement, proclaiming that they were holding to their neutrality, and that any deviation from this would fundamentally alter the basis of the alliance.

IRON decided that protection of their members required that they stay neutral in the conflict. Since IRON's bylaws did not forbid an aggressive war, IRON was under considerably more pressure to enter the conflict than GPA.

The neutral alliance, the Organized Nations of Superiority, became sanctioned in the aftermath of the war. They and their neutral allies in the Grand Union of Alliances for Rapport and Defense, were also pressured into joining the war. Regardless, they too remained neutral throughout the conflict.

Other Events

• 3/21 - FAN announces its "X Nuclear Rogue" Policy.
• 3/29 - Legion member Cricket of Rlyeh uses his deceased friend's nation to aid fellow Legionnaires. It is attacked and he begs the attackers on the CN forums to spare it.
• 3/30 - "Black Friday" -Various former /b/ members attack CN Forums by posting various shock images or other spam. Various DOS attacks are also carried out on CyberNations and the source code was stolen.
• 3/30 - CN Forums brought down from 1pm 3/30 to 8am 4/2
• 3/31 - Cyber Nations momentarily shut down
• 4/2 - Forums brought back online as of 8:00AM, game itself remains off-line
• 4/2 - Admin responds to question about Game Time during the temporary shutdown of Cyber Nations with: "Time will continue on and when the game resumes you will collect taxes on all the days that the game was offline. There will be no inactivity deletions due to the downtime. If the game is down for 5 days I will put the cleanup schedule on hold for 5 days to allow everyone time to access their nations."
• 4/3 - Cyber Nations comes back online.
• 4/9 - A coup occurs within CDS and the new government immediately surrenders to GOONS.
• 4/10 - VE withdraws from The Initiative, but continues to attack nations holding the /b/ alliance affiliation.
• 4/11 - NAAC rejects surrender terms given to them.
• 4/11 - NAAC terminates MDP with GATO

Surrenders and Withdrawals

Part I, March Madness Surrenders

3/26 - APIN has an coup d'état and surrender to GGA

3/30 - Furseiseki disbands /b/.

3/30 - The Sphere alliances surrender to CIS.

3/30-3/31 - Old Guard announces their surrender with intentions to pay forty five million to FAN and TOP.

3/30-3/31 - RIA and MDC cease-fire. RIA agrees to pay sixty million in reparations to the MDC and replace their maroon team senator due to the sanctions imposed on MDC members at the beginning of the war.

Part II, April Finale Surrenders

4/4 - LoSS officially surrenders to the Viridian Entente under the terms of downgrading their current MDP's to PIATS and an alliance wide move to the pink sphere.

5 April- ASC surrenders to the MCCF

6 April- ODN surrenders to GOONS under the following terms.

6 April- LUEnited Nations disbands.

9 April- Prime Minister of the Coalition of Defensive States, Seleucus Ontuas, declares nuclear war on GOONS. CDS members stage a coup d'état in response. CDS establishes a new government and surrenders to The Initiative.

9 April- Powerful Alliance of Green Nations banks collapse and President Chris resigns from PAGN. RulerEthan disbands PAGN which officially made a peace between the former nations of PAGN and GATO. It should be noted that if this alliance is ever reformed, then they would be in an active state of war with GATO.

10 April- The Legion surrenders to The Initiative. (Legion's Surrender Terms)

11 April - The Mostly Harmless Alliance officially recognizes The Legion's surrender and announces a cessation of hostilities.

11 April- Global Alliance and Treaty Organization surrenders to The Initiative

14 April- National Alliance of Arctic Countries disbands

14 April- GWIII officially declared over

Global Shift of Power

Tier 1 - Initial Nation Strength Above 5 Million

Alliances	March 10, 2007	March 16, 2007	March 26, 2007	April 10, 2007	NS Change
New Pacific Order	8,008,303	8,341,556	9,265,826	9,229,464	+1,221,161/+15.2%
The Legion	7,744,524	8,096,994	7,241,697	2,998,006	-4,746,518/-61.3%

Tier 2 - Initial Nation Strength Above 2 Million

Alliances	March 10, 2007	March 16, 2007	March 26, 2007	April 10, 2007	NS Change
Green Protection Agency	4,612,552	4,828,925	5,236,343	6,117,437	+1,504,885/+32.6%
Independent Republic of Orange Nations	4,578,049	4,807,627	5,206,433	5,730,544	+1,152,495/+25.2%
Federation of Armed Nations	4,292,004	4,537,006	4,753,443	4,919,686	+627,682/+14.6%
Goon Order Of Neutral Shoving	4,129,267	4,355,045	4,751,003	4,696,171	+566,904/+13.7%
Grand Global Alliance	2,256,728	2,366,494	2,338,804	2,322,533	+65,805/+2.92%
New Polar Order	2,312,395	2,413,243	2,515,171	2,319,045	+6,650/+0.288%
Orange Defense Network	3,655,499	3,854,426	3,664,591	2,649,843	-1,005,656/-27.5%
National Alliance Of Arctic Countries	3,900,288	4,104,096	4,092,165	1,694,772	-2,205,516/-56.5%
Global Alliance and Treaty Organization	4,804,882	4,806,331	3,636,261	1,814,665	-2,990,217/-62.2%

Tier 3 - Initial Nation Strength Above 1 Million

Alliances	March 10, 2007	March 16, 2007	March 26, 2007	April 10, 2007	NS Change
Global Organization for Liberty and Defense	1,395,458	1,435,629	1,543,834	2,188,653	+793,195/+56.8%
Organized Nations of Superiority	1,822,213	1,890,531	2,041,828	2,518,897	+696,684/+38.2%
The Order of the Paradox	1,464,444	1,496,982	1,666,845	1,842,119	+377,675/+25.8%
\m/	1,098,874	1,207,749	1,246,837	1,457,920	+359,046/+32.7%
North Atlantic Defense Coalition	1,055,177	1,117,099	1,250,412	1,402,606	+347,429/+32.9%
Viridian Entente	1,764,972	1,801,044	1,974,164	2,045,663	+280,691/+15.9%
Nordreich	1,433,182	1,573,278	1,642,372	1,696,809	+263,627/+18.4%
The League of Small Superpowers	1,029,434	1,220,847	1,066,287	581,584	-447,850/-43.5%
/b/	1,787,458	1,887,555	1,666,427	156,401	-1,631,057/-91.3%

**Legend: Black-Neutral, Blue-The Initiative & Allies, Red-Aegis(Ex-League & Allies)

Aftermath

Sanctioned Alliance Audit:

After the war, the admin team performed an Alliance Audit.

• GATO lost sanctioned status.
• NAAC lost sanctioned status. (for the second time.)
• ONOS was sanctioned. (Making it the first of the maroon color sphere alliances to receive Sanctioned Status)
• GOLD was sanctioned.

Alliances disbanded During or Due to the war:

• /b/
• LUEnited Nations
• ~Dies~Irae~
• Socialist Workers Front
• Syndicate
• National Alliance of Arctic Countries
• Powerful Alliance of Green Nations
• Blue Turtle Alliance (reformed into The Aquatic Brotherhood)

The CDS was also couped and replaced with ex-CDS leadership(including former members of NPO and LUE after their Prime Minister Seleucus Ontuas had declared nuclear war on GOONS.

Many people had lost respect for the Legion who, up until the war, had been the second strongest alliance in the Cyberverse.

Other

• mpol discusses an upcoming attack on GATO}}
• NPO discovery and banning of GATO spy, Declaration of War on GATO}}
• \m/ Declaration of War on GATO}}
• GGA Declaration of War on GATO}}
• MDC Declaration of War on GATO}}
• FAN Declaration of Support for those attacking GATO}}
• VE Declaration of Support for those attacking GATO}}
• TOP Declaration of Support for those attacking GATO}}
• CIS Decalaration of Support for those attacking GATO}}
• NoR Declaration of Support for those attacking GATO}}
• GOONS Declaration of Support for those attacking GATO}}
• Ivan Moldavi attempts to reactivate the Imperial Accords}}
• GOONS and Genmay Joint Declaration of War on GATO}}
• WAPA Declaration of War in support of GATO}}
• NAAC Declaration of War on those attacking GATO}}
• IAA Declaration of War on GGA}}
• Legion Declaration of War on the Initiative}}
• FAN recognition of War with Legion}}
• TOP acknowledgment of war with the Legion}}
• GDA Declaration of War on those attacking NPO and the Initiative}}
• Dramanations Meter}}
• BTA Declaration of War on CIS}}
• EoTS Declaration of War on CIS}}
• GoG Declaration of War on CIS}}
• R&R Declaration of War on CIS}}
• MCB Declaration of War on CIS}}
• MRA Declaration of War on CIS}}
• LUE renounces terms of surrender and declares war on Genmay}}
• ODN and CDS Declaration of War on GOONS}}
• GOONS Declaration of War on ODN}}
• Farkistan Declaration of War in support of GATO}}
• MHA Declaration of War on the Legion}}
• GPA Declaration of Neutrality}}
• GATO Foreign Affairs Update
• NCAAbbs secedes from the Sphere
• IPA Declaration of Neutrality
• FCC Declaration of Neutrality
• NPO announces GUARD will not be harmed in the war
• IRON Declaration of Neutrality
• Ronin Declaration of Neutrality
• FAN announces 'X Nuclear Rouge' policy
• Syn Declaration of Support for the Initiative
• LoSS and ACID Declaration of War on VE
• /b/ Declaration of War on VE
• VE Declaration of War on on LoSS, ACID, and /b/
• GCN Declaration of War on NPO
• GOONS cancels NAP with /b/
• NPO statement on the Declarations of War issued on March 21
• PPF Declaration of Neutrality
• NpO-/b/ Friendship treaty nulled
• CON Declaration of Neutrality
• NCAAbbs Declaration of Neutrality
• Shadow Empire Declaration of Neutrality
• STA Declaration of Neutrality
• IR Declaration of War in support of GATO's side
• FIRE Declaration of War on WAPA
• ArGO Declaration of Neutrality
• White Fang Declaration of War in defense of IAA
• ION Declaration of Neutrality
• ODS Declaration of War on MDC
• NoR cancels treaties with BTA and IAA
• CIS Declaration of War on those who declared on them
• CNC Declaration of War on LoSS
• MCCF Declaration of War on /b/
• IDF Declaration of War on ODS
• Cross-X Declaration of War on /b/
• Illuminati Declaration of War on /b/
• MAD Declaration of Neutrality and statement to NPO and Planet Bob
• R.O.C.K. Declaration of Neutrality
• TDO Declaration of Neutrality
• TFD Declaration of Neutrality
• SFS Declaration of Neutrality
• -AiD- Declaration of War on those attacking GATO, NAAC, etc...
• WTF Declaration of Neutrality
• WTF Declaration of War on GATO and EoTS
• NpO cancels treaty with BTA
• USN Declaration of Neutrality
• ~Dies~Irae~ Declaration of War on those attacking NAAC
• GATO Foreign Affairs Update, Concerning Donald's Fake Logs
• ICMS Declaration of War on NpO
• IAA Nuclear Policy
• ASC Declaration of War in support of GATO's side
• SPSA Declaration of Neutrality
• RIA Declaration of War on MDC
• Tetris Declaration of War on /b/
• SWF Declaration of War on Nordreich
• GOONS and TotalFark Declaration of War on TotalGenmay
• Nordreich, FCO, and The Syndicate jointly declare war on everybody attacking Initiative Alliances
• Militia Declaration of War on FIRE
• NPO's Officer State of War Speech
• BANG Declaration of Neutrality
• WAPA Nuclear Policy and apology
• IRA Declaration of War on NPO
• Syn statement on the war
• ADD Declaration of Neutrality
• NPO Statement regarding nuclear rouge
• GoG statement on nuclear weapons
• IR v.2 Declaration of War in support of GATO

March 25, 2007

• PoC Declaration of War in support of the Initiative
• /b/ statement to MCCF, Cross-X Alliance, Illuminati,, NpO, NPO, NoR etc...
• GGA notice to the Legion regarding SilverAztec nuking
• FAN-Valhalla agreement about surrendering purple team nations
• GGA notice to IAA about nuclear threats
• APIN Declaration of War on GGA
• Ronin and Old Guard DoW on FAN, Gramlins Declaration of War on Illuminati
• PLUS Declaration of Neutrality
• Inc. Declaration of War on those attacking FAN