The Smoke War

The Smoke War as pictured in Gregor's Memories.

The Smoke War (연기 전쟁, Yeongi jeonjaeng) was a great Wing War that took place over 10 years before the events Limbus Company.

Overview

The Smoke War was one of a few, rare Wing Wars — catastrophic conflicts between two or more of the City's Wings known to result in mass destruction and bloodshed. Due to the pure power and influence of the Wings, wars between them are not started nor ended lightly. In particular, the Smoke War was known for the use of deadly chemical and biological weapons, and the fall of both the Old L Corp. and G Corp.

The seeds of the war began when chaos erupted at an Outskirts Laboratory that focused on curing the "disease of the City", where its head researcher Carmen attempted suicide after a series of failures in her research that led to her killing off a boy named Enoch in a failed experiment. Ayin tookplace as the head researcher and the other residents in the Laboratory died one by one over various reasons. Not wanting to see more people suffer and generally ignorant of The Head's inner workings, a researcher named Michelle reported the laboratory to the Head, and they severely retaliated by sending an Arbiter named Garion alongside a pair of Claws into the lab, who released all of the Abnormalities kept in the laboratory and killed everyone working there with the exception of Ayin and Benjamin, but not without being wounded to near death by the Red Mist. Benjamin and Ayin thought the Head retaliated because of the Seed of Light project; in actuality the severe retaliation was done preemptively in-response to the possibility of an A.I. being created inside the City (an explicit City-wide taboo).

With nowhere left to go, Benjamin and Ayin planned on continuing their research inside the City and evade the Head’s watch by taking over a Wing, at which the current L Corp was a convenient target due to their highly amoral businesa practices and horrific singularity, which likely involved enslaving a horrific monster that would constantly spew toxic smoke that controlled other's motions. As a result, most other Wings wanted it gone and gleefully stood on Ayin and Bejamin's side Dias was also involved in the war.

The war resulted in Ayin and Benjamin and they were allowed to build the next the next L Corp. known as Lobotomy Corporation inside the Nest. Despite the horrific nature of the war, the after effects were (surprisingly) beneficial for the City, as Ayin was generous in terms of energy and produced the highly valuable resource Enkephalin, and Abnormalities in-general were a significantly more effective and environment-friendly energy production method compared to the highly destructive singularity owned by the previous corporation.

However, their Nest fell following the events of the White Nights and Dark Days, although unbeknown to many, the majority of its employees are turned into immortal beings and continued to reside there, where one of the White Nights and Dark Days's culprits, the AI Angela residents at the middle of the nest drawing unsuspecting fixers to be captured. All of Angela's victims were later released back into the city and the Library itself is expelled into the outskirts due to Angela's existence being considered an offense to the Head.

Though the Smoke War played a large role in defining the City as it is now, little about the event is known concretely as most of the citizens have forgotten it as time passed.

Supporters of Old L Corp.

Wings

Old L Corp.

Not to be confused with Lobotomy Corporation, which overthrew them. The fallen Wing was also an energy supplier, but was widely unpopular amongst cityfolk and the other Wings for charging high prices and causing pollution in the form of smoke produced by an unseen source. Through a series of manipulations, three individuals caused the Smoke War, which led to this Wing's collapse and allowed the new L Corp. to take its place.

E Corp.

Known to have participated in the Smoke War in the Mirror World of Old G Corp. Their involvement in the main world is unknown.

F Corp.

Known to have participated in the Smoke War in the Mirror World of Old G Corp. Their involvement in the main world is unknown.

Old G Corp.

Not to be confused with the current G Corp., the former G Corp. involved in the Smoke War against several corporations, including the previous L Corp. They specialized in genetic augmentation which they utilized on their soldiers, usually in the form of bug genetics. They collapsed after the war under unspecified conditions and were eventually replaced with a new G Corp.

Opponents of Old L Corp.

Wings

K Corp.

Participated in the Smoke War as a major party. Promised Smoke War veterans that they would be allowed first priority when moving into their nest, but went back on this policy, ultimately not allowing any veterans whatsoever.

I Corp.

Participated in the Smoke War as a major party. Promised Smoke War veterans that they would be allowed first priority when moving into their nest, but went back on this policy, ultimately not allowing any veterans whatsoever.

Known Smoke War Veterans

• Gregor
• Tomah
• Hermann
• Old G Corp. Head Manager
• Outis

Aftereffects of the War

Most notably, the Smoke War led to both the downfall of the Old G Corp. and Old L Corp. This made way for the new L Corp, Lobotomy Corporation, which was the cause of the White Nights and Dark Days leading to the manifestation of Distortions and E.G.O from the City's residents.

However, countless unnamed lives were lost in the war and many individual lives were adversely affected. In particular, the Old G Corp. permanently altered many of its soldiers with bug augmentations, who would go on to be horribly ostracized as a result of their appearance and stigma that comes with being from a fallen Wing. Gregor himself would be forced to live with trauma from the war and a verminous arm which would sometimes act against his will, affecting his daily life. In Gregor's memories, Tomah also mentions a bomb which rapidly ages those exposed to it and even converted one outpost into a "nursing home".

External Links

Project Moon Universe

• Smoke War - Library of Ruina wiki

Foreign language wikis

• Smoke War (연기 전쟁) - Korean page (Namuwiki)
• Smoke War (Туманная Война) - Russian page (Project Moon wiki)