The ninth-floor war now includes a crawler-owned Princess Posse team and an active vote to remove the sponsors' safety protections.
The Princess Posse purchases an open team position through fan funding, making Carl and Donut warlords before they physically reach the ninth floor. Their forces have been transported ahead inside the High Elf Castle.
The warlord interface permits early voting. Carl is trying to make faction sponsors genuinely vulnerable to death, a proposal widely expected to fail but still capable of changing the political field.
Donut treats the team acquisition as one of the prior floor's great victories even though the new eighth floor delays their direct participation.
A multi-team war board with the new Princess Posse crest added among wealthy intergalactic factions.
Faction Wars is the looming ninth-floor conflict the crawlers can now influence from inside the game.
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