Editing 2023 War for StuCo (Communist Revolution)

== Beginnings ==
=== Setting: ===
On August 14th, 2023, [[Jared Lemmon|Jared L]] made a post in the Courtyard saying, "It's almost that time of year- the time of year the Stucco emerges from their desolate caves and brings the party to this place 👀" 

=== Kick off: ===
Fifteen minutes later [[Nathan Rexroth|Nathan R]] responded, "...visible concern" and over the next few days a couple people jumped in saying he'd better get hyped for this next year. Jared L and [[Michaela O'Halloren|Michaela]] both made jokes about Nathan being attacked or put on a StuCo hitlist aaaaannnndddddddddd war.

On August 16th [[Jacob Grady]] joined in saying, "i'm here", "does that help?", and finally, "i start war". And so it began, Jacob fired a couple "potatoe"s at Jared L and [[AnneMarie Fitzwater|AnneMarie F]] (both StuCo members), and it was off. Minor food fighting between StuCo members, Jacob, and anyone else who chose to join in.

[[Cora Metzger|Cora M]] (StuCo President) brought up [[Anna Barry]]'s Ice Cream Truck, "DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND ANNA'S ICE CREAM TRUCK?!?!" and [[Naomi Eulster|Naomi E]] (StuCo member) "'''Goes into my shed, rummages around and pulls out the dusty truck'''" (Apparently the truck is back folks)

Cora offered a peace offering (a cookeh (wonder what that was about u_U)) Which two people took??? Hallie took it and Nathan ate half of it- and then proceeded to eat the other half, "...BOOM I HAVE BASICALLY EATEN A WHOLE COOKEH WITHOUT EATING A WHOLE COOKEH" (apparently without dying though this should be verified).

Still on August 16th, Mr. Hester comes in to put us in our place, "Why on earth are people staying in desolate caves so long? Come into the LIGHT, everybody!" (Though [[Ryan Boren]] replied with a picture of a weird guy with a mustache and beard, and the word "NO." underneath)

On August 17th [[Gabriel Nelson|Gabe N]] came in with, "what happened here", and "'''communist revolution vibes'''". After which [[Elijah Smith]] joined in responding "we can kill the stuco prez if thats what you mean", "We need the peoples republic of nsa".

Gabe responds "if you try and take over stuco I will form an army to take you on" and the ''war'' part of the war takes off. 

Elijah in turn calls [[Jacob Grady]], "Jacob will you join me in fighting the overlords and bringing power to the people" saying that he will take up the war, if Jacob will join him.

(Jacob seeks to understand what the sides are, wants to be neutral, but after settling some things he (and the "Spam empire") eventually joins Elijah, along with [[Ernest Cornejo|Ernest (Earl) Cornejo]], beginning the war)

=== Army Formation: ===
Elijah launches his campaign with this message:

"'''TO THE ANARCHISTS'''

We are thinking along the same lines every student should have equal voice with the admin no person should have more say than another, however there should still be rules set by everyone of us, the only resource we have to share is our intellect so let us openly speak and already be communist" — Elijah Smith (August 17th, 2023)

People begin picking sides (including Earl's joining the Anarchists), and the war kicks off.

(Elijah also went off on a minor "WALRUS" rampage renaming some chats and posting "WALRUS" both in the war thread and others)

Cora gives us one last message, "Yeah let's just keep in mind that the point of this is to help teams be more active again, and if a single person is too powerful in an RP then everyone gets bored and stops" and RP fighting commences.

=== The Armies: ===
Please list any armies present in the war, any names they might have had, and a description of who they are:

* The Anarchists/Revised Communist Party (RVC) 

Anti StuCo group originally lead by Elijah Smith (Later Ernest (Earl) Cornejo gained power, and they eventually split ways both leading armies under these names but declaring the other to be an outlaw) 

(Note from Ernest: Behind the scenes, I (Ernest P.) and Hudson Brott had cooperated to plan our rise in power in the Anarchists, even when Elijah split ways shortly before the war ended. <sub>(Now that it's been months since the war's end, I thought it would've been appropriate to discuss everything else that happened behind the curtains)</sub> ) 

* The Royalists/Loyalists

The Pro-StuCo group "Lead" by Gabe N, with [[Hallie Griffin]] as "Queen". Standing up for both the StuCo as they are amazing people who work to make our time here better, and declaring themselves Anti-Communist.

* [[Sarah Thompson]]'s group (I don't know if it has a name)

Sarah Thompson joined, spied on, or spied for (not really sure) the Royalists (she was in the Royalists chat at one point but was removed as an infiltrator (though this may have been a sham to throw people off)), she joined the Anti-StuCo group, was eventually kicked out of their army as a spy for the Royalists (maybe she was- maybe they just believed she was), and she began to form her own group (though as far as I know they did not take any action before the war ended).

* The Spampire/Spam Empire/Spam Kingdom?

A group lead by Jacob Grady, the "Spam King". They originally joined the Anti-Communists, but did not take any action whatsoever in the war itself, and later they signed a treaty with, and officially joined, the Royalists, though there was still no action seen on their part. (Lack of visible activity continued to the end of the war)

== The War Itself: ==


== Ending: ==
As this section may be disputed we will have separate sections for the different sides, please do not edit or delete anything written for/by a side you do not support/represent. (If you don't think your side is represented here feel free to add a section)

=== Ending (As told by Royalists/Loyalists or Anti-Communists/Pro-StuCo) ===
Cora Metzger (StuCo President): "To be honest I was pretty busy and wasn't able to keep up with the war near the end. I logged onto teams after being offline for a day, and went to one of the Royalist group chats. Everyone was saying that some people had gotten very...emotionally invested, shall we say...in the war. We agreed it would be best for everyone to end the war. A peace treaty was drafted by the Royalists and sent to the Pro-Communist groups. Several members of the Anti-StuCo/Pro-Communist groups said that this peace treaty meant the Royalists were surrendering. Royalist members asked the others to let it go, but arguments continued until I (Cora M) and Jared Lemmon (StuCo Content Creator) officially shut down the war thread with these messages:

"As StuCo officers Jared and I are stepping in to say it looks like this turned into more than a fun food fight, and it is time to stop. Thank you. Please do not comment on this thread anymore."  --- Cora Metzger (August 31, 2023)

"All further comments will be disregarded and not replied to. Thank you for your cooperation."  --- Jared Lemmon (August 31, 2023)

There were no further comments on the thread, and the Royalist group chats died out."

=== (If either of the Anti-StuCo/Pro-Communist groups would like to write something that should be put here) ===
Ernest Paul D. Cornejo: " Prior to what Cora had discovered, I was - like several other participants in the war - too emotionally invested into the war. Tbh, it was when I finally lost my steam in an argument that some of the Royalists group members had noticed that the tensions in the war had gone far too high. As Cora had said, when the peace treaty was being drafted, a few of us Anti-Stuco/Pro-Communist members had believed (or hoped) it to be a surrender from the opposite side. Eventually, however, Avi [Reedy] cleared things up with me in a one-on-one discussion and I calmed down and came to the realization that the war had indeed gone too far... and Hudson couldn't have agreed more. 

"I don't think that's actually a surrender. I think that people are getting too involved in this and they want to prevent arguments. I agree. This whole thing got out of hand.." -- Hudson Brott (<u>September 1, 2023</u>)

However, by then, this had left only Elijah Smith holding on to the belief that the peace treaty was a 'surrender'. This then continued on until StuCo officers Cora M and Jared Lemmon stepped in to shut down the thread permanently. The moment the thread closed, the war ended, and all other amends were made. Thus ended the second of the Hostility Wars"

== See also ==

* [[User talk:Obehrens#The war that never started|The Journal of Sir Kenobi]]

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