Legion's Arena
Legion's Arena is a project built by Legion on every Pxls canvas since Canvas 49. The center of the arena was conceived as a place for users and factions to fight each other without consequences, as long as they avoided damaging the template of the arena itself.
History
Canvas 49
The first arena was occupied mostly by small-scale art projects and all forms of conflict manifested themselves in small territorial disputes. Some Pxls Roads artwork was built on this area, as well as Femboy Volunteers and Imperium artwork.
The first organized effort by a faction to achieve an objective in the arena was conducted by the Navy Blue Grand Monarchy, which successfully occupied the entire territory of Legion's Arena with a blue template. Imperium's artwork was not covered due to its status as a close ally of the NBGM. In the initial invasion, resistance to the Monarchy was sporadic and disorganized. A small group of veteran placers, including GrayTurtles, hazard121000, Gaudi, and others, made a small counterattack on the template of buddy, but this was repulsed.
The day after the arena was seized, a small group of volunteer fighters began to cover the NBGM template with pink. As the attack started to make more progress and be taken more seriously, more users coalesced around it. This loosely organized group, retroactively called the Pinkchat Militia, was not defined by factional loyalties but rather a single goal: to push out the NBGM and restore the original "chaotic" state of the arena. The Militia covered roughly 2/3 of the NBGM template before they started to be rapidly pushed back. Soon the Monarchy's art defeated the Militia's, despite piecemeal counterattacks covering the front.
Legion began to build the arena template itself much faster after this point.
Sidestep and dani26795 began to build an independent template over the NBGM once the arena was nearly completed. They were supported by a small but high-endurance group of megaplacers, including hazard. While their initial incursion was repelled, they would fully commit to fighting in the arena after this.
Once the arena template was complete, Legion mounted a full scale attack on the NBGM template. Even the upper echelons of the faction were involved in the invasion, including Legate (leader) Molodoy and high-ranking officers Snegovich, Tyto_alba, and LDC leader uhbyr1. The engagement dragged on for hours, until ultimately Legion's forces were stalled in the southern portion of the arena. This prompted them to move users from the north to reinforce the south, but they were still unable to stem the tide of NBGM resistance. In the chaos of the Monarchy's counterattack, Sidestep and dani's faction, along with the stragglers of the Pinkchat Militia, mounted separate attacks against Legion and NBGM, before focusing singularly on the NBGM.
The NBGM and third-party template formed a ceasefire agreement that would last until the Legion offensive was completely destroyed. When this eventually happened, fighting immediately resumed between the Monarchy and third-party group. The NBGM won, but this was immediately followed up by opportunity attacks by Femboy Volunteers members.
The next day, Legion reorganized its forces for a second invasion into the arena. While they were briefly stalled in the south, the third-party template resumed attacks on the NBGM and led to a significant breakthrough by the legionaries. The heaviest fighting of the offensive was centered around the buddy template, then referred to as the Siege of Buddy. Legion covered the template in the early phases of the offensive but NBGM fighters never stopped resisting, and were ultimately able to retake buddy, along with roughly 1/3 of the arena. Hectic multi-sided fighting broke out, as the third-party template, Pinkchat Militia, and Gura's Supermarket templates battled each other, Legion and NBGM simultaneously.
After a few more hours of heavy conflict, Legion finally covered NBGM, which attempted a counterattack that was unsuccessful. Legionaries rapidly defeated the third-party template, Pinkchat Militia, and GSm art. The fully-complete Legion template remained the only art in the arena until the completion of the canvas, though it was updated several times at the request of volunteer placers such as Gaudi. The third-party group made several attempts to fight Legion for control of the arena, but these were never successful in taking more than 1/4 of its territory.
Near the end of the canvas, independent teal placers (principally Universe) began fighting Legion, though never making permanent or major gains.
Canvas 50
Canvas 51
Canvas 52