Bardonian Illegal Mining Incident

The discovery :

October 27, Prince Corvus and Dairbeag were patrolling in their territory : Zaalfyr Principality, the Mesa part of the Empire of Uldarash.

After a while, Prince Corvus found an illegal mining operation, but since no one was there, he assumed that it was abandoned. So Dairbeag left, but Prince Corvus continued to explore the illegal mines and found a bed belonging to Unic0rnb0i chancellor of Bardonia.

But he was astonished when he saw BackToTheHub, who just reconnected, coming out of a corner. Both were surprised to see each other, they were very suspicious at first, but they started to talk and the tension was brought down and both spoke friendly, but Prince Corvus didn't say why he was there— to prevent any conflict to break out — and find out what really happened in this illegal mining operation. BackToTheHub came into the tunnels through an active Nether Portal and was unaware of Uldarash's claim to the Mesa.

Uldarash intervention :

Following the discovery, while Prince Corvus and BackToTheHub were talking, Emperor Dentro, WhiskeyKnight and gencarrot from the Empire of Uldarash came to the illegal mines to confront BackToTheHub about Bardonia’s illegal mining and to ask him to call the chancellor of Bardonia, Unic0rnb0i, to come to Hapatmitas the same day for a meeting. BackToTheHub accepted on behalf of Unic0rnb0i and left.

Emperor Dentro and other members of Uldarash were demanding Unic0rnb0i come to Hapatmitas. Unknown to the Chancellor, BackToTheHub had scheduled the meeting over another meeting the Chancellor had with Dalatra of Ardat regarding his new book Kama Shiftra. Unic0rnb0i explained to Uldarash very politely, that he was attending another pre-scheduled meeting and would be there as soon as he could. During the meeting at Ardat Uldarash continuously sent their demands, including hints of war if the Chancellor wasn't there in 15 minutes.

The Hapatmitas meeting :

The first meeting between Bardonia and the Empire of Uldarash took place in Uldarash’s city of Hapatmitas.

After some discussion certain questions were cleared and the negotiations started.

Bardonia apologized for the ore that was mined during BackToTheHub's visit as the empire demanded a fine. There was much discussion for nobody knew how much gold was exactly mined, after being mine the gold had been sold off. After the initial questioning and a private Uldarash discussion, Dentro demanded a fee of 100,000 from Bardonia or they would declare war.

Unic0rnb0i tried to negotiate the price of the demand and the following offers were made by Dentro:

- Let Uldarash kill BackToTheHub as many times as it takes to get a head for each of their cities. This would reduce 20k from the demand.

- Put in a good word for them to the Vastallosi Alliance of Western Rathnir, Uldarash expressed intensions of joining the Alliance. The reduction was estimated between 20k and 40k.

- An Enchanted Golden Apple that Unic0rnb0i had offered for peace. This would reduce 10k from the demand.

During the meeting Prince Corvus began antagonizing BackToTheHub over personal messages. After the antagonizing coming from Prince Corvus and the suggestion to have one of Bardonia's senators repetitively executed for the unfortunate mining accident, Unic0rnb0i politely agreed to introduce Uldarash's demands and offers to the Bardonian council.

At the end after the repetitive threats of warmongering, the Empire set the demand of 100k to Bardonia for illegal state mining in Uldarash’s territory, they were given one week to pay the Empire or Uldarash would declare war.

The Second meeting :

November 1st, a second meeting was held between the Empire of Uldarash and Bardonia. WhiskeyKnight stated during the meeting that the fee should only amount to a total of 42k for the gold mined and the illegal mining fee, but he had to stay loyal to Emperor Dentro's original demands which remain unmoved. The representatives from Bardonia paid 100 instead of the proposed 100,000 that was set as the fine. Animosity came to the meeting and it quickly ended, with Uldarash stating they were declaring war.

The Third meeting :

November 2nd, less than 24 hours before war would be declared, the Silver Coalition brought together a representative from Uldarash who was there to seek non-intervention from the Silver Coalition and a representative from Bardonia at a final attempt of peace. Observers from other nations such as Escharia were present. In the meeting the Silver Coalition sought the perspectives of both sides of the conflict to try and reach a peaceful resolution. Bardonia's senate had already made the decision prior to go to war and were not interested in backing down, and similarly, Uldarash was ready for war and only increased their demands of Bardonia. Negotiations broke down and ultimately failed. What was brought out of this meeting though was a request for neither side to bring allies into the war and to leave the conflict as one just between the two nations. Ardat was originally posed to join on Uldarash's side, but this meeting at the very least convinced Uldarash not to call Ardat to their side in the conflict. Whether any of these negotiations will stay in tact is completely unknown.

The Rallying of Uldarash:

November 2nd, Uldarash went nation to nation to rally allies for the upcoming war against Bardonia, though many of the nations requested to remain neutral due to friendly terms with Bardonia.