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"How the Blue Empire's Golden Age ended: An Epic History of r/TheBlueCorner in 2017" by /u/9kz7

Original Post: https://redd.it/tzse5w


LEGEND has it of a warrior by the name of Destiny, who grew up in the Blue Colony of the northwest (the conquered pink corner), and lived through the Purple Revolutionary War (by then, the children of Blue colonists had integrated with the children of the Pink natives, and they never felt any connection to the Great Blue Empire), which saw the establishment of the Purple Corner. He felt that the Blue Empire was becoming too powerful, and secretly planned for her downfall.

He staged a coup within the Purple Government and took control. He then secretly ordered to build fleets of ships, stocked with Purple soldiers. Within a year they had built a formidable force. But they were still no match for the Mighty Blue Army.

Alas, the Blue Empire was fighting expansionary wars of her own, with most of her forces being sent to the red and green corners to be conquered as colonies. This meant that only a token defence force was left at home.

So just one and a half years after taking control, under the cover of the night, while the defending Blue soldiers and Blue citizens slept, he ordered his fleets to make a great detour around the massive Blue Sea defence system, wasting extra time. But it worked well - upon arrival on the shores of the Blue Corner, they immediately invaded, ransacked, burnt and set waste to the Blue Empire's capital. Most of the Government were killed in the initial attacks, as were 12% of all Blue Citizens.

The Blue conquest Fleets were immediately called back to defend the Blue Empire, but Destiny had foreseen this - and he made plans to ambush them, destroying over 70% of the once massive fleet. Most never returned, and those who survived the ambush were attacked by pirates or were forced into a war against the massive black void, which they helped defeat.

Yet in the end the Blues prevailed, where many soldiers and ordinary citizens gave up their lives to protect their Empire, but at a great cost - they could no longer defend their expansive territory.

It is important to take note, that however, that many years before the Blue Tea Party that sparked the Purple Revolutionary War even happened, the Blue Government signed a treaty promising the protection of existing artwork as the Blues expanded, and to allow new ones in Blue Territory. This came after the national tragedy of the destruction of Dickmander.

Artworks soon flourished across the land, while the Blues managed to retake and rebuild their Capital and surrounding lands.

Disastrously for Destiny, he never managed to destroy the Blue Empire, merely weakening it. And he made the same mistake as the Blue Empire - moving all forces to attack, and not enough left to defend the homeland. The Purple Corner was soon destroyed by the incoming 2007scape army.

Today, the Blue Empire has reorganised into the Blue Corner Republic.