RaiderKnight Wars

The RaiderKnight Wars were a series of conflicts that occurred during the early days of Season 7, involving the now defunct states of Raidernomics Raj (India), Islas Malvinas, and Egypt.

The Falklands War
Just a few days after the beginning of Season 7, RaiderKnight had begun to launch his warmongering trail across the globe, starting with the Falklands. Parking his ship outside the island, he began to construct a naval base to exert power over the region.

Understandably, this angered the Falklands player at the time, Assbeater420, who assumed that RaiderKnight was gearing for war. Despite denying this, Assbeater420 took command of the situation and griefed RaiderKnight's ships in the port.

RaiderKnight quickly killed him, and Assbeater420 took to flying and attempted to get his revenge. This resulted in failure for him, and eventually he acceded to the Raidernomics Raj. The first war resulted in a victory for RaiderKnight, and this allowed him to be confident in future wars, which would soon follow.

First Raidernomics-Egyptian War
RaiderKnight's next target was the Dead Sea - specifically, he wished to drain the body of water. This was a large-scale terraforming project, and was disallowed by the admins and Congress, but nevertheless, RaiderKnight pursued his dreams of a dry Dead Sea.

The state of Egypt, however, had laid claim to the area surrounding the Dead Sea and Levant for many days prior, and took great offense to this attempt at terraforming a natural formation. Quickly, Egyptian warriors were on the scene, surrounding RaiderKnight and destroying his sponges as he placed them. Eventually, RaiderKnight grew frustrated, and shot an arrow at Ruther, sparking the First Raidernomics-Egyptian War.

After thirty minutes of fighting, RaiderKnight was finally killed, resulting in a victory for the Egyptian state, solidifying their control over the Dead Sea and Levant. Egypt's first war had been a success, and many saw the event as the beginning of the end of Raidernomic aggression. RaiderKnight was not one easily dissuaded, however, and he would provoke the Egyptians again, but this time, into attacking him.

Second Raidernomics-Egyptian War
After suffering this defeat, Raider attempted to provoke the Egyptians once again by building an illegal villager town somewhere in the Iraq-Syria region. When the Egyptians learned of this, they immediately set to work destroying the small base.

Raider quickly headed to the town, and fought Neighbour, Tooger, and Ruther in a fight that resulted in a defeat for Raider.

Accounts of the events that happened after that are muddied and scarce. What we can be sure about is that Raider's major cities were all occupied by the joint Egyptian-Banglatibetan forces which had beaten him decisively on land, and that Raider retreated to Cyprus, and then his base in Romania. During this time, a several hour long argument began on whether or not Raider should give up the war and surrender to terms.

RaiderKnight stalled, and despite his claims that he had plenty of stamina left to continue the war, he refused to fight the allies face-to-face. This led to Raider being jailed by DeathCow for not surrendering the fight, which then led to RaiderKnight using an alternate account to grief an Egyptian ship in the port of Alexandria. Congress was quick to act to this blatant breaking of the rules, and RaiderKnight was banned in the 7th season of PTR MC.

Egpyt won the war by default, a tremendous victory and a shocking defeat for RaiderKnight and the Raidernomics Raj, which eventually transformed into the state of India, headed by Shiite.

Effects of the Wars
The RaiderKnight Wars turned Egypt into the powerful state it was at the peak of its power. Though the wars were devastating, RaiderKnight's two defeats in the middle east had granted the Egyptians full de-facto control of the entire region, including the Levant. This monumental turn of events would lead to the destructive Levantine Wars, in which Egypt and Rome would butt heads over control of the same region.

RaiderKnight would also be banned from the entire server once again, a crushing blow to the now insignificant religion of Raidernomics.

These conflicts were the first real wars on Season 7, and generated much interest for the server as a whole. Currently, the RaiderKnight Wars are still some of the most talked about conflicts of the current season.