M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.

Existed: June 2020 - 30th November 2020

Members: 10+ at peak

Manchester Innovators Currently Residing Over Where A Van Exists, abbreviated as M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. or just Microwave was a griefing group mostly led by EdgyCommunist69. It initially was a discord server where various people would come together to make fun of the Provinces of Lumen and the state that VanillaCraft was in, however upon August 2020 they began taking actual action against Lumen. Throughout its history, the group has been very enigmatic, and it is said that the people in M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. didn't even trust each other.

M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.-Lumen War
The first conflict M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. found itself in was with the Provinces of Lumen. Before August 2020, they would merely make fun of the group and its members in their discord server. Thanks to the insiding efforts of sugasnaps however, The Dongos and EdgyCommunist69 had gotten coordinates to all of Lumen's towns. Upon hearing about Alkyrn and Tynominally griefing Fort Echelon, a Lumen spawn base, they invited them to their plans and on the 1st August 2020, they moved out and griefed Rouffernaught Outpost and Comet on the same day.

The next day, M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. would do their biggest grief yet: the capital of Lumen, Lumen City. The base was so big that it took over an hour for 4 people to fully loot and grief it, not including the giant lavacast, "Mount Manchester", that is still the biggest on the server to this day[citation needed]. The grief was so severe it caused a few previously active Lumen members to quit, including TChapman500, and kickstarted Lumen's downfall into inactivity.

Lumen City was the biggest but not the last base of Lumen's to be griefed. Exodus River would be griefed by randoms claiming to be associated with M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. on the 3rd August, and Lunaris would be griefed by Edgy, D4RON and Fallen014 on the 4th. Lunaris's grief would mark the end of the initial wave of griefs, and although it didn't go entirely to plan due to Ty and Alk's ban, the desired effect on Lumen was still achieved. The next grief would take place on 20th August 2020, when members of M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. would grief Tulipsfountain, another recruitment town of Lumen's. wertia3 was turned on and killed by the other griefers after BirbTech (who was providing M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. with information in order to prevent The Void from being griefed) revealed that wertia was insiding M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. for Lumen.

BirbTech would eventually be kicked from The Void and Lumen after his dealings with M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. were exposed. He would quit the server for good after that. So, on the 26th September 2020, M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. took the opportunity to grief The Void's base. They would not grief it as hard as previous Lumen bases however, as The Secret Society would arrive and fight the griefers off; though it was still a critical blow to Lumen, as a lot of their hard work at the base was rendered meaningless.

M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.-TSS War
After being routed by them at The Void, M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. turned its attention towards The Secret Society. At first, attempts to gain information about TSS and their bases were largely unsuccessful, as sugasnaps was being uncooperative and TSS were careful with who they trusted. After The Void was griefed, there was a lot of speculation as to who could have leaked the base: aria_minecraft and sugasnaps were both suspects, however most people were pointing fingers at hibi. Murphy dismissed these accusations towards them.

Thankfully for M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. though, TSS had gotten itself into a few controversies: commandervv killed Da_Noobiest_Noob, and KingGroyo often patrolled spawn invisible splashing people with harming. This wasn't helped by TSS alienating themselves from other groups by leaving The Senate, and refusing to give information as to the consequences of their members' actions, which led many to believe that the group endorsed them. This controversy would serve M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E., as suddenly members of TSS were willing to betray their faction. benchkcb leaked coordinates to Lagom and Varva, and M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. began to assemble an army to grief both bases. They would recruit CrankyNomad and HappyUnBirthday, Nolahn who was a very skilled PvPer, and an unlikely ally: Annick30. Annick claimed to be insiding M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. to get revenge on EdgyCommunist69 for the Lumen griefs, though it is likely he also wanted to see TSS burn as well.

On the day that M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. planned to grief Varva and Lagom, commandervv would pose as a defector, and gave them false coordinates to Gelato. This was actually an attempt of a preemptive strike on M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E., but the griefers were none the wiser: after Ty insisted that they attempt to grief Gelato as soon as possible, M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. moved out and the Battle of Lagom commenced.

After M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.'s victory at Lagom, things were set in motion for another unlikely ally to join them: the Provinces of Lumen. Annick30 was killed by ohKast at the battle, which raised questions from TSS. Annick explained that he was insiding M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. for Lumen, and after some back and forth, Annick agreed to let TSS know when a future grief would occur. Annick would not honour his promise though. Vortex, a low-ranking TSS member, would leak coordinates of Aska to M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E., and on the 11th November 2020, the Battle of Aska occured. Since Annick gave no warning about this, TSS believed that Lumen sanctioned the grief, and retaliated by griefing Howick Plains. EdgyCommunist69, and a new M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. recruit, Najivka, rushed to go defend Howick from TSS, but by the time they showed up the base was heavily griefed.

On the 13th November 2020, Annick30 revealed plans to grief Gelato the following day to erikblue1234. erik immediately warned Becka about this, and so Gelato was set to be immediately abandoned. Upon learning about this, Annick was immediately kicked out the group, and since not all of M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.'s members were available, Edgy reached out to Murphy to assemble a team to grief Gelato. Only aria_minecraft would answer the call, and together with Edgy, they griefed what they could of TSS's capital city. aria would be killed by ohKast at the grief after going afk, and Edgy was ultimately unsuccessful in killing anyone else.

Disbanding
After Lumen and TSS signed their peace treaty, M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. would still be at war with TSS, but TSS were a lot less active than at the beginning of the war. This gave M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. the impression that they had won, since they no longer had much of an enemy to fight. This led to the members getting bored of M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E., so the group unofficially disbanded, and most of its members would go on to either form or later join the Soviet Stardust Crusaders.