For the past two years, the two rivals of North America, the Telurian Federation and the Imperial North, have been engaged in a never-ending war. Virtually every siege weekend for the past two years has seen one side attacking the other. It’s been so long that many prominent members of both sides don’t even remember the beginning. Going into this, my biggest questions were how the war had gone on for so long and why both sides hadn't made peace. Through interviews with both nations, I tried to piece together the history of the war to answer my questions, although I often found that both sides had conflicting perspectives.
Canadian sources claim that the war stemmed from being in enemy alliances and that Floritânia’s aggression started with camping their members, then a subsequent siege on their fort, Nova Prospekt. However, Fake4, the Sustik of the Telurian Federation and historic leader of Floritânia, downplayed the aggression as nothing more than skirmishes between recruits, and told me that the war actually stemmed from his suspicions of the Canadian leader Greymesa’s involvement in a siege against Floritânia, namely in the moving of a zeppelin suspiciously close to the enemy siege base on Brigantia. While Greyemesa reportedly claimed he was just passing by, Fake4 said, "You have so many places to pass a zep. Why do you need to pass a zep through Brigantia? I then placed siege bases on their nations and proceeded to siege both, as we do not tolerate nations joining in against us.”
The Coalition-aligned Canadians, who were much weaker, were then sieged and occupied for multiple weeks by Floritânia. During this time, Floritânia switched from the Alliance to the Coalition, meaning that the two nations were now allies. However, according to the Canadian wiki, Fake4 refused to free them: “They (Canada) were of more use to him as a daily money machine than as allies.” When confronted, Fake4 claimed that he made multiple attempts to free them but blamed their leader for neglecting to log on to accept the unoccupation request, and, according to Fake4, instead of accepting the unoccupation request, they left the Coalition for the Alliance and revolted.
While peace has never been tried again, in November 2024, both nations did agree to a peace treaty, mediated by the CE leader, Supercell. However, it fell apart within a couple of weeks. Unsurprisingly, both sides have contradictory stories. Canadian Director Maruguchi claimed that spies in Floritânia overheard Fake4 saying that the treaty was just a temporary break to re-prep future sieges. He further claims that Fake4 accused Canadian leader Ekko—who had recently expanded his siege base on Brigantia—of prepping a siege as an excuse to leave the treaty. However, Fake4 tells a different story—he claims that his spies uncovered a plot between Canada and CE to siege both of Floritânia’s forts, and that Ekko expanding the siege base’s claims on Brigantia was just further confirmation of the impending betrayal, and that he was just the first to make the treaty's failure official by pulling out of it.
Mergers with other nations have expanded both the modern-day Telurian Federation and Imperial North substantially. With giant ‘meta-forts,’ sieges every siege weekend between the two nations are quite large and must be materially taxing; so how can they afford to keep up with a siege every siege weekend? Fake4 boasts of the Telurian Fed.’s team of some of the server's best grinders who are able to restock sieges within a couple of days, namely, him, Sqnky, Sevenplan, and Fraancis. He reportedly has enough resources that he's able to prep his ally's sieges. On the other hand, Director Maruguchi admits that Imperial North used to struggle with staying ahead of prep, but now the bulk of Imperial North’s logistics tasks are distributed between the members of their council, which was recently aided by the expansion of their leadership, giving them more people to carry out tasks. In emergencies, they can also buy prep or get some from allies. It appears that even with constant warfare, both nations are on top of their logistics—something many nations struggle to achieve, even in times of peace.
With a war going on for so long, it only makes sense that both sides would be exhausted and wanting peace—and yet, surprisingly, both sides seem to be not only fine but also seem to be using the war to grow. When both leaders were asked how the war had affected their ability to expand, Fake4 stated that it’s become integral to his nation: “War is indeed the main driving factor for growth. No one would play if there was no fun.” The Imperial North King Delotris told me that the biggest impact on growth was due to his recruits being killed in the wilderness, causing many to quit. Although he conceded that new members have a tendency to enjoy war. Maruguchi added that from his experience, the war gives recruits a common goal.
Imperial North tried to sue for peace in January but was denied by Fake4, who said, “Leave America; then we can be neutral.” In spite of the recent occupations, Delotris still believes that his nation will one day conquer North America through steady growth but doesn’t believe peace will come so long as Fake4 remains the leader of Teluria, blaming his “competitive nature” as a hindrance to peace. Although he stated that if offered, nothing was stopping his nation from accepting peace. Fake4 stated that due to the betrayal from November 2024, he would never make peace with Imperial North under any circumstances and agreed that peace will likely not come unless one side collapses, which wouldn’t come through war: “A nation doesn't disband if it doesn't want to, and it's not via siege you disband a persistent one like Teluria or Canada.” and added that even if Imperial North collapsed, he would simply find a new nation to fight.
While I wasn't surprised that the war was much more nuanced than I had originally suspected, I was a little surprised about how such a long war has had the complete opposite effect from what I anticipated. I find it fascinating how instead of being exhausted and burnt-out, both nations have been able to grow not just in spite of the war but for the Telurian Fed., apparently because of it. Although I believe that it's clear that the Telurian Fed. is responsible for continuing the war, I don't necessarily think the war as a whole has had such a negative impact as I originally suspected—both nations are clearly doing just fine. My original questions on how the war could go on for so long and why both sides wouldn't make peace have been answered: both sides are able to use the war to grow their nations, and peace will never come because of Fake4's strong objection, due to his distrust of Imperial North because of their previous betrayal.
There weren't any objective sources of information available, so if anything is incorrect, please remember that the bulk of my information came from interviews!
Sources: Fake4, Delotris, Maruguchi, and the Canadian Dominion fandom page.
