World War III

World War III, also known as the NATO-TEC War (July 9, 2020 – July 27, 2020), was a sandbox-wide series of conflicts spanning servers such as Apocalypse Build and Kill, Lucid Gaming, NPC Zombies Vs. Players, and Colurful Crew. The war was primarily between the New Ares Treaty Organization and the Technology Engineering Coalition, with the Petrograd Pact joining later in the conflict.

The war is regarded as one of the largest modern faction conflict, taking place during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. It is widely credited as the final act of many members, groups, and alliances before they departed the Meta. The conflict is considered a key transition point between the Old Meta and the Modern Meta.

One of the main reasons for the war is the Unified Defense Force and the United Commonwealth's mutual dislike of NATO. Historically, the two factions were united as the 1–47 Union. This changed when NATO approached 1–47 and informed them that they would be removed from the alliance if they did not improve their combat and communication capabilities. Some high-ranking 1–47 officers were concerned about the goals set by NATO. However, under immense stress and pressure, these officers felt they had no choice. When NATO gave them a two-week deadline to reform the Union or separate, they officially left 1–47 on August 9, 2019, and founded the United Commonwealth.

Later, after 1–47 rebranded as the Unified Defense Force, the UNC became more open to rebuilding relations with the faction. Eventually, the UNC engaged in combat on a server called Apex Networks—a relatively small ACF-3 server—against a faction known as the New Federation of Urtanesia (NFU). During these engagements, NFU would call in their allies, the Petrograd Pact, for support against UNC. In response, UNC called in UDF, solidifying their modern alliance with each other. Due to this new partnership between the two factions, UDF leaders Epic and Ally for Hire would purpose to UNC's leader XGONN that the two should go to war against NATO, This want of war was due to a sense of revenge wanted for what NATO had done to 1-47 the year prior. However, most other factions who would join helped out of boredom due to the COVID-19 pandemic ongoing. Due to Ally for Hire's connections with other factions, the Red Sun Military Forces, Sovinia, and the ACF Thailand Army. would come to help against NATO. The Imperial Alliance would also come to help TEC in it's war against NATO, the last faction to come to TEC's aid would be the United Legion of SCI who would announce their declaration of war in the G10 discord.