Market 55 incident

The market 55 incident is an ongoing conflict between 55tremine and an alliance of nations, started when a variety of factors resulted in the empire of astyllea, in which much of the market55 land resides, nationalised the market in response to its increasing monopoly and political power, something a simple store shouldn’t theoretically hold. This would lead to the astyllean empire and their allies, notably bardonia and uldarash sending some forces and for the next hour battling against market55 staff, mobs, independent players and a stubborn 55tremine who refused around 6 requests made by astyllean citizen Jecten to open the basement door, while bandits clashed. Following this, several nations condemed market55 and the official merchants guild embargoed the store, discouraging members of said guild from buying at the market. Despite most of rathnir backing astyllea, the situation continued for a few more days until 55tremine finally gave into the demands, effectively ending the market55 incident. Plans are currently being made to replace the market with a shopping mall in the general area, this time owned by multiple people instead of having 1 controlling all the stock, in order to prevent a one man monopoly from ever taking hold, which although this is under construction and headed by the state of carn, construction of said mall hasnt yet been completed and is henceforth underway, yet the situation for the most part is effectively resolved