The Second Server War

The Second Server War, SW2, was the deadliest war ever in server history. It involved most of the server's factions or other groups. It saw the largest involvement of players of around 700 players(disputed, some say close to 900).

Background
After the defeat of The Axis Pact in Server War 1, the server saw the rise of the Sky's faction as being one of the most dominant forces alongside the other powerful factions. The war lead to The First Reconstruction Period, which only lasted around 2-3 weeks. It saw the heavy decrease in The Pact's popularity on the server too. Most of the factions that were allied with the Pact either disbanded or ceased in relations with them. But the treaty allowed the main leaders to still lead their factions under watch. Most of the server experienced some type of Golden Age. The server enjoyed months of peace and new factions began sprouting up. More and more settlements were expanding and being created. Though there was peace, there were some minor conflicts and disputes which would lead to an Summer Crisis of 2013.

Events leading to the war
During the early month of May in 2013, the server saw an gradually increase of conflicts that slowly erupted. This would lead to the Summer Crisis of 2013, where it saw heightened tensions between factions for various reasons, most notably was the Lil Jon-Chatter Conflict. The conflict would eventually lead to War in late August/early September due to the growing tensions between the two. Other conflicts involved territorial claims between Skylineply and Crusher1020 over a unclaim village, some SkyArmy members lived there. The conflict didn't last long since Sky decided it wasn't that important at the time and just ceded it to Crusher1020. The Summer saw a clear line being divided between the lighter and darker factions. There were numerous conflicts of the Summer of 2013, but none being severely as the Lil Jon-Chatter Conflict which resulted in an all out war. The war was pivotal part before SW2 started due to SkyArmy helping LilJon16 with supplies, which caused the Pact to be upset. It is also rumored that the Pact began preparing for an server invasion 2-3 months in advance, but is currently disputed. However, the Lil Jon-Chatter War in August would completely severed relations with the Pact as an 4 week tension phase began to happen after the short war ended.

Around a week before the invasion, numerous spies reported that the Pact was preparing for something but didn't know what. Other surveillance showed that there were constant meetings between the Pact at Crusher's disputed village outside Old Haven, around 8,000 blocks out. Four days before the Battle of the Forts, there were movements outside of the Outer Haven Defense Forts, but were not notified to Skylineply, as the guys thought it was nothing.

October
On October 13, 2013, around 4:30 PM CT, the war breaks out on the server when the Pact surprised attack Outer Haven's fort initiating the Battle of the Forts. The battle would be a decisive victory for the Pact, as there was minor resistance from the forts as they were ill equipped and was caught off guard. It resulted in the Outer Haven's defense to completely collapse opening up an path to Old Haven. New quickly broke out on the server after the forts were attacked, and most simply condemned the attack just thinking it was going to be an isolated event. They were wrong, as two smaller factions were attacked a few hours later causing most factions to declare war on the Pact. At this point the war was in full steam as a lot of the smaller/minor factions begin falling or joining the Pact side. Sky was notified on the attack a day late as he was busy over the weekend and quickly began planning an offensive to knock out the Pact. He thought they would crumble after a couple days since he believed that they weren't as strong. However he was wrong as the Siege of Haven began destroying a good amount of the city. The next day on October 18th saw the complete collapse of one of the most respected factions on the server at the Battle of the Avenger's Capital. The battle resulted in TargetTimeTV fleeing along with the remnants, while some joined ChatterBlock and his allies. The news hurt the morale of the factions on the server. The pvp faction, Phoenix, was responsible for the attack. After a week of fighting, it saw how dominate the The Axis Pact were, as more and more factions began to fall. It saw the Old Alliance begin to panic, some factions simply joined the Pact without fight. However, there was some light as the Elves begin to spiral into a Civil War due to the Elves Internal Conflict. Skylineply saw the opportunity and ordered an complete elimination of them. The faction, SpaceWabbits began being constantly attacked by the Pact, along with other serval larger factions. Close to late October, the war started favor the Pact's side as almost half of the server's factions were fallen or being attacked. There were some success also, as SkyArmy and Warriorz pushed back an initial attack on Warrior's base. It also so the first nuke ever used on the server during the Elves Camp Explosion. Around the time it looked like everything was falling part, EternalEquinox allied with the Pact, who were mainly neutral at the time. This would cause great alarm due to their status on the server. But most of the success began to dwindle, as in early November, it looked like the war was lost.

Aftermath
After the war ended on December 21, 2013 and signing the SW2 Treaty, the server experience a great relief that the war was finally over. Though, everyone knew that a lot of bases needed to be rebuilt or completely abandoned all together. That is when The Second Reconstruction Period began 2 days later, however, it soon to be realized that the damage was already done on the server. Since the owner, Rfi95, decided that a clean slate was in view, or known as the Great Reset of 2013, where everything was wiped off. Soon followed was the SkyArmy Occupation of RfiCraft in January of 2014.