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{{War/Conflict_Infobox
|image=Final duel.JPG
|caption=TommyInnit and Dream, before the final duel of the war
|date=July 29, 2020 - August 2, 2020
|location=
* [[L'Manberg]]
* [[BSA L'Manberg Embassy]] <small>(TommyInnit's home/former Innit Enterprise)</small>
* [[Punz's house|Punz's tower]]
|results='''Both sides claim victory'''
*Dream SMP military victory
**L'Manberg is left pillaged
**L'Manberg is betrayed by Eret
**Remaining L'Manbergian supplies are sparse
**All L'Manbergians lost at least one canon life
*Diplomatic L'Manberg victory (secured independence via trading)
**TommyInnit's discs are traded for independence
|commander_side1={{Playerheadlink|Dream}}
|commander_side2={{Playerheadlink|wilburlman}}
|side1=
{{Playerheadlink|George}}
{{Playerheadlink|Sapnap}}
{{Playerheadlink|Punz}}
{{Playerheadlink|eretlman|<small>(betrayed L'Manberg)</small>}}
|side2=
{{Playerheadlink|tommylman}}
{{Playerheadlink|tubbolman}}
{{Playerheadlink|fundylman}}
|supporter1=|supporter2=|neutral1=|neutral={{Playerheadlink|Callahan}}
{{Playerheadlink|Purpled}}|side1first=|side2first=|faction_side1=[[Dream SMP (faction)|Dream SMP]]
* [[Dream SMP Unity Coalition]]|faction_side2=[[L'Manberg]]
* [[L'Manberg 5th Revolutionary Battalion]]|thirdparty1={{Playerheadlink|Ponk|<small>(briefly)<small>}}|playlist=[[The Disc Saga]] <small>(partial)</small>|title=L'Manberg War for Independence}}

The '''L'Manberg War for Independence''', also known as '''First Great War of the Dream SMP''', '''Dream Team SMP vs. L'Manberg War''', '''or the Second Dream SMP Civil War''', is a war that took place from July 29, 2020 to August 2, 2020. [[Dream/SMP|Dream]] started the war after [[Wilbur Soot/SMP|Wilbur Soot]] declared [[L'Manberg]]'s independence from the [[Dream SMP (faction)|Dream SMP]].


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==History==

===Drug van===
{{Main|Camarvan Conflict}}
Wilbur arrived on the Dream SMP when many of the other players had already established their roles on the server. He looked to gain power and rival the "big dogs," and decided that he would do this by creating a drug (potion) empire. He built a [[Camarvan|caravan]] (named "camarvan") to make drugs in, and disguised it as a hot dog van. 

After recruiting [[TommyInnit/SMP|TommyInnit]], the two of them decided to scam people out of their potion-brewing materials in order to be the only supply of potions in the market. However, while scamming [[Tubbo/SMP|Tubbo]], [[Sapnap/SMP|Sapnap]] became suspicious and started to investigate. Sapnap quickly discovered that Wilbur and Tommy were dealing drugs illegally and attempted to arrest them with the help of Tubbo, [[Purpled/SMP|Purpled]], [[Ponk/SMP|Ponk]], and [[Eret/SMP|Eret]]. As the two sides scuffled, Wilbur recruited [[Fundy/SMP|Fundy]], Tubbo, and Eret. While no one was truly arrested or tried in court, the drug empire fell apart, and Wilbur began forming a new plan.

===Motives for independence===
Following the fall of the drug empire, Wilbur realized that all of their enemies had been American. On this basis, he began drafting ideas for a server separate from the Dream SMP where Europeans could live without persecution. He brainstormed names with Tommy before settling on "L'Manberg", with "manberg" coming from the fact that all the Europeans on the server were men, and "L" to make the name sound more European. Together, they recruited Eret, Fundy, and Tubbo into their new server, and started building a yellow-and-black concrete wall around their land. Eret later replaced this wall with a larger wall made with blackstone bricks and yellow glass highlights.  

During this time, Wilbur also created revolutionary skins for the people of L'Manberg. Wilbur, Eret, Fundy, Tommy, and Tubbo all had their own revolutionary outfits, with Fundy's being the only different one. Of the five of them, Tommy would keep his outfit on the longest. 

===Declaration of War===
{{Quote|We have no mercy! No mercy for you!|4=Dream}}
At first, Dream did not object to the new server and even tried to work with them by naming Tommy's home the [[BSA L'Manberg Embassy]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/zTs1uMdoVww?t=1527 Dream allows Tommy's house to become the L'Manberg Embassy.]</ref> However, this changed when Wilbur wrote a formal [[Dream SMP books/Lore books/Declaration of Independance|Declaration of Independance]]. Right after it was signed, Dream, [[GeorgeNotFound/SMP|George]], [[Punz/SMP|Punz]], and Sapnap delivered the L'Manbergians the [[Dream SMP books/Lore books/Declaration of Independance|Declaration of War]].

==First skirmishes==
{{Main|Bombing of the L'Manberg Embassy}}
On August 1, 2020, Tommy and Tubbo would meet to come up with a plan to weaken the war effort of the [[Dream SMP unity coalition]]. Tommy would quickly reveal a plan to tubbo that would help to convince members of the Dream SMP to step down from the war. The idea was to sneak into their bases and place signs offering their enemies something they would want, in exchange for ending their personal participation in the war. The two agreed on the plan and made their way to Sapnap's house first.

==== Infiltration ====
After arriving at Sapnap's home, Tommy and Tubbo place signs referencing their history together, as well as offering Sapnap drugs in exchange for him stepping down from the war. After leaving Sapnap's house, they decide to head to Dream's base next. However, after entering his base, Tommy falls victim to the trap set by Eret and Fundy for Dream, and falls to his death. After Tubbo helps him retrieve his items, the two of them begin placing signs in Dreams base offering him one of Tommy's discs in exchange for him stepping down from the war. However, before they can leave the base, the entire Dream SMP army logs on and starts hunting down Tommy and Tubbo.

==== The Battle ====
After seeing the signs in his base, Dream declines the offer and is ambushed by Tubbo outside of his base. However, Tubbo fails to take out Dream and gets shot and killed in the process. Without a lava bucket, Dream guards the potions and waits for the rest of his allies to log on and destroy them. Once Sapnap, Punz, and George log on and help him destroy the potions, they kill Ponk, who was in the nearby the potions, as they considered him to be a potential threat. After getting rid of the potions, Dream leads his forces in raiding L'Manberg, leading to the destruction of their brewing stands and the confiscation of their blaze powder and remaining potions. Following the raid, the two sides, now including Eret, who showed up in support of their allies, meet at the embassy, where Dream and his forces have placed TNT.

As Tommy arrives, Eret is being taken out by Sapnap and Punz, forcing Tommy to order his men to stand down. As Dream continues to blow up parts of the embassy, Tommy tries to negotiate with them. However, as Tommy fails to come up with a peaceful resolution, Dream places more and more TNT around the area, before lighting one of the pieces and destroying most of the embassy. Dream places more TNT on the remaining intact land of the embassy while reminding Tommy that he has one more day to surrender. Dream finishes the destruction of the embassy by blowing up the Cuck Shed as a final warning to Tommy. Tommy lashes out at the Dream Team before getting put down by Punz. The day would end with Tommy rallying Tubbo and Eret to help strengthen their resolve to continue the fight for independence. 

=== The Message ===


On August 2, 2020, Dream sent Wilbur a video message. In it, he delivered his famous speech: <blockquote>"Tommy, Wilbur, and the rest of L'Manchildberg. We are at war. There is no mercy. We have burned down [[Tubbo's old house|Tubbo's house]], we have planted TNT canons around your land, we have cobblestone-walled the outside, and we have shot one warning shot inside your walls. We have no mercy! No mercy for you! We will burn down your houses, we will kill everything inside your walls, and we will take back the land that is rightfully ours! If you do not surrender! I wanna see white flags, white flags outside your base by tomorrow at dawn, or you are dead!"</blockquote>

==Final war for independence==
===Battle of the Power Tower===
The final war for L'Manberg's independence took place on August 2, 2020. The first official battle took place in Tommy's Power Tower, located right outside the embassy. It occurred thirty minutes before the war had been slated to start. 

Tubbo had been grinding away potions and other items needed for war when the Dream Team had found him in [[Tubbo's jungle base|his jungle base]] thousands of blocks from spawn. Tubbo had built his base so that it was only easily accessible through a Nether portal on the Nether roof, and realized that the only way for him to return to the main server was for him to die and lose all of his items or to return through the Nether portal. Tubbo managed to put some items in his ender chest before the Dream Team killed him over and over again. Then, he broke his bed and respawned at the server spawn.  

Tubbo contacted as many of his fellow revolutionaries as possible and hurried to the Nether portal closest to the jungle base portal in the Nether, the one in the Power Tower. With the help of Tommy, Tubbo trapped the Nether portal by surrounding it with obsidian and placing an end crystal inside. They hoped that the trap would kill every Dream Team member in one fell swoop.  

However, this plan proved futile. The Dream Team had found another way off the Nether roof through a broken piece of bedrock Tubbo hadn't known about, which allowed them to escape and catch Tommy and Tubbo unawares. Fundy and Eret were able to escape back to L'Manberg, but Tubbo and Tommy were trapped on the Power Tower and killed by the Dream Team. Tommy respawned in the embassy and fled to L'Manberg after the others.  

The Dream Team won the first battle of the war, and the L'Manbergians regrouped within their own borders. At this time, Wilbur logged in. 

===Initial negotiations===
After Wilbur logged in, the L'Manbergians met inside the Camarvan to determine their next course of action. Wilbur proceeded to read the Declaration of Independance, but during this, the Dream Team effectively surrounded the L'Manbergians but climbing onto the walls of L'Manberg. Wilbur attempted to negotiate with Dream, but both sides were unwilling to compromise, and they arranged for their armies to meet at the L'Manberg embassy.

At first, Wilbur refused the armor the others gave him in order to uphold L'Manberg's ideal of nonviolence, but later put this armor on for his own safety. He also considered himself to be too old, and as a result put Tommy in charge of the army. Tommy declared them the "[[L'Manberg 5th Revolutionary Battalion|5th Battalion]]" and led them towards the Power Tower.

===Battle of the Embassy===
The Battle of the Embassy began as the two armies marched towards the battlefield outside the L'Manberg Embassy.  

As the L'Manbergians arrived, they discovered that it was a trap. The Dream Team shot flaming arrows down from Tommy's Power Tower, setting off TNT that had been placed beneath the battlefield and forcing the L'Manbergians to retreat into the embassy. Once inside, the L'Manbergians attempted to return fire. However, they were scared and even attempted to retreat into the sewers before Wilbur commanded them to return. However, shortly after returning to the surface, the Dream Team began to retreat and headed in the direction of Ponk's tower. The L'Manbergians pressed this advantage and headed towards Punz's tower, the only other structure tall enough to rival Ponk's tower, and began firing down at the Dream Team.

===Battle of the Two Towers===
The Dream Team did not go into Ponk's tower as the L'Manbergians had expected. Instead, the L'Manbergians had the high ground and shot down at the Dream Team, who were unable to return fire due to the height of their opponents. Wilbur acted as a bait on Punz's nearby walls, however, and was nearly killed before the Dream Team decided to retreat. 

After this, Eret suggested that the L'Manbergians regroup in back in L'Manberg, as they seemed to be gaining the upper hand.

=== The betrayal===
Eret told the L'Manbergians that they had been grinding for the materials they needed to win the war. They brought them into an unknown, secret underground tunnel in L'Manberg and into the "Final Control Room". It was a small blackstone room with chests, each one marked with one of their names, and a button in the center. Wilbur realized the chests were empty just when Tommy pressed the button, activating a trap that Eret had set for the group. 

The trap caused a series of piston doors to open in the walls, which revealed the waiting Dream Team. The L'Manbergians, too stunned to react, were slaughtered by the Dream Team's weapons and harming potions. Eret then said, 

{{Quote|Down with the revolution, boys! It was never meant to be.|4=Eret to the L'manbergians in the Final Control Room}} 

The L'Manberg forces lost all of their best armor and weapons, as they had not taken them off beforehand, and started to lose hope for the future. 

Eret later revealed that they had betrayed L'Manberg as part of a deal with Dream in exchange for becoming the king of the Greater Dream SMP.

===Second negotiations===
Without any materials to continue fighting, the L'Manberg army was at a low point. Wilbur met with Dream and suggested peace and emancipation, stating that neither of them wanted to fight. 

Dream, however, asked for white flags signaling surrender. He claimed that if this demand was not met in thirty minutes, he would blow up the entirety of L'Manberg. Wilbur believed that Dream was bluffing, so the two of them returned to L'Manberg. Both sides gathered on opposite sides of the wall and Wilbur gave his most famous speech as commander of the L'Manberg army: {{Quote|Independence or death. If we get no revolution, then we want nothing. We would rather die than give in to you and join your SMP.|4=Wilbur Soot}}Dream placed a single piece of TNT and lit it using a flame bow.

===Dream detonates L'Manberg===
The L'Manbergians believed that a single piece of TNT would not cause much damage. Unbeknownst to them, however, Eret had placed dozens of TNT under the ground of L'Manberg before his betrayal. When Dream lit the TNT, it exploded the vast majority of L'Manberg's land, including part of the camarvan.

Having leapt into the lake to avoid the explosion, the L'Manbergians grabbed the Declaration of Independance and fled to an emergency bunker under the camarvan that Tommy had prepared before the war. There, Tommy played one of his precious discs, which Dream wanted badly: Cat. Wilbur decided that L'Manberg had to surrender because its citizens were suffering so much, and brought Tommy to the negotiations.

===The duel===
The aftermath of the explosion was L'Manberg's lowest point, and Wilbur believed that he had to surrender to avoid any more casualties. Prior to meeting Dream, Wilbur warned Tommy not to do anything rash and reckless, such as challenging Dream on his own honor. Despite this, Tommy challenged Dream to a one-on-one bow duel and Dream agreed to the conditions, much to Wilbur's dismay. 

The duel was a half a heart, one-on-one bow duel at ten paces. Both sides were present at this duel, which was hosted on a section of the prime path. If Tommy won, L'Manberg would be granted technical independence (its own nation, but still part of the Dream SMP server). If Dream won, L'Manberg would not gain independence and Tommy would give Dream the other of his most prized music discs, Mellohi.

With the terms set, the duel began. Although both Dream and Tommy missed their first shots, Dream shot Tommy and won. 

This duel also ended the first chapter of a longstanding conflict between Dream and Tommy (over the music discs Cat and Mellohi) known as [[the Disc Saga]]. 

===Redemption and independence ===
Believing that they had lost, Wilbur, Fundy, and Tubbo retreated to L'Manberg to mourn. Wilbur told Fundy that one day Fundy would lead L'Manberg, and asked Fundy to read out the poem "Ozymandias". The poem detailed the fallen empire of a once-great king, which mirrored the story of L'Manberg. 

However, while the others were mourning, Tommy entered one-on-one negotation with Dream. Overcome with guilt over losing the bow duel, he pledged to give up both of his prized discs in exchange for L'Manberg's independence. Dream agreed to the terms. After Tommy's sacrifice, the war was over.

== Aftermath ==

===Independance===
Wilbur, overjoyed that Tommy had secured their independence, began writing the Decree of Independence to formally end the war and to annul the previous declaration of independence, which had included Eret's signature. All the other L'Manbergians signed. Wilbur then made Tommy the treasurer of state, Tubbo the secretary of state, and gave Fundy the title "little champion". The group pledged to rebuild the camarvan and to create a war monument, and Wilbur declared himself [[The Soot Administration|President Soot of L’Manberg]]. 

Both sides claimed victory in the war. L'Manberg claimed victory because it won independence. The Greater Dream SMP also claimed victory because L'Manberg was only given technical independence, and was still part of the Dream SMP server (rather than the independent server Wilbur wanted L'Manberg to be). 

=== Welcoming new citizens===
After the war, Tommy welcomed [[JackManifoldTV/SMP|Jack Manifold]] (Thunder1408 before changing his username) onto the server. Tommy attempted to recruit him for L'Manberg, but Dream donated large sums of money (diamonds and other valuables) in an attempt to bribe him to join the Dream Team. Ultimately, he joined L'Manberg, at the request of Tommy and Tubbo. Because Dream kept pestering Jack after his decision, he was sent into the Dream Team SMP server as a double agent.

[[Nihachu/SMP|Nihachu]] also joined the server, and was welcomes by Wilbur and Tommy. Due to currently being a pacifist, Niki didn't pick a fight with anyone and decided to remain friends with both sides no matter who she officially was with. She joined L'Manberg and started a bakery, with Wilbur trying to paint Eret as a murderous traitor to her. Instead, she became close friends with Eret, not caring that they had betrayed the country.

To celebrate his promotion as king of the Dream Team SMP server, Eret built a large tower, the tallest in the entire server. Tommy, Jack and Fundy all expressed their annoyance with the tower, as it blocked the view of the sunset from within L'Manberg's borders.

Tommy joined forces with Jack and Tubbo to plot against Dream for revenge after the destruction of L'Manberg and its embassy, and to regain the music discs.

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== References ==
[[es:Guerra de Dream Team SMP contra L'Manberg]]

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