The Great Robloxia Terrorist Attack of 2028

The Great Robloxia Terrorist Attack of 2028, also known as The Federal Government Shutdown incident or simply 8/17 was a terrorist attack that occurred at Robloxia Corporation on August 17, 2028.

Following the government's plans to force Robloxians to become slenders, a crowd of aggressors, alongside their captain David Boris. Jr (who became a citizen of Robloxia for a long time) originally gathered into groups in Brookhaven, Robloxia on the early-morning of August 17 to rally against the plan. Starting at around early-midday, David ordered his attendees, most of them being armed with weapons to walk directly to the building and immediately after 12 p.m., hundreds of Robloxians busted through the fences and started attacking officers. During the event, nearly one thousand attackers were able to successfully break inside; many of whom heavily vandalized, assaulted federal government employees, looted and occupied the building. The second phase of the breaking in involved mostly cyberterrorism: they hacked in government computers, then once logged in, leaked private information about the government. The last phase involved bombs. Bombs were put in the building in what Robloxian engineers calculated to be the weak points of the building and then detonated. The expected result was that the explosion would leave nothing behind. However, the government reacted by cutting down the right wires of every bomb, save for one, which detonated and reduced the building to mere rubble, but not fully destroying it.

Another part of the first phase involved a series of mass shootings taking place: one mass shooting involved one gunman who fatally shot twenty-two federal government employees and wounded 27 federal government employees. In other areas of the building, two murderers went on a rampage, ultimately killing six federal government employees, while a massacre occurred at the very bottom of the building, where an attacker murdered around ten federal employees in total. Some destroyed or ripped most of the artworks and offices, before at 1:15 p.m. PST (9:15 p.m. UTC), when government websites started to report major outages and that a government shutdown is highly likely, but not certain. With security breached, the entire area surrounding Robloxia Corporation, as well as some nearby houses, were placed in mandatory lockdown. in the middle of the event, all government websites went down and the government had been placed in shutdown until further notice. By the late-night of that same day and into August 18, rioters left the Robloxia Corporation building, believing that they have succeeded in collapsing the fascist regime that had plagued Robloxia since 2017, leaving behind a pile of rubble.

Many Robloxians; mostly federal government employees were badly injured, with some having broken bones and resulted in the deaths of 192 victims, which nearly all of the causes were from gun violence and slabbing wounds in parts of the body. On August 25, 2028, the Robloxia government ended the shutdown after reverting government websites back to what it was before the shutdown, making this shutdown longer than the shutdown back in 2021. On November 5, President Roblox, the fascist, was ready to implement the plan, but he was stopped and assassinated by David, which was also killed by police officers, who had found out that what he did was a terrorist attack and assassinated him. Prior to his death, he requested that police officers lighten his punishment, stating that "it was for the community". The 2028 presidential election was held by anonymous government individuals in which Builderman won 538 electoral votes, mainly caused by police officers and citizens supporting him. Just two days later, Builderman became the next president of United States of Roblox and as his first executive order, repealed all legislation passed on 2017-2028, effectively bringing back the Robloxian constitution way before all the laws complicated it and made it hard for anti-Roblox parties to win. He also posthumously pardoned David, stating that "he is the community".

The attack itself received Roblox-wide mass-media, as news channels from all around Roblox were covering it live. While it is unanimous for its breaking status, historians could not tell if this was considered resistance to the plan or was a terrorist attack itself. The former is what David believed, and many historians agree. However, the latter is what President Roblox and the police believed. From the event, Robloxia's GDP suffered from a loss of 400 billion ROBUX that had been completely erased on January 21, 2029. Despite the nominal loss in GDP, this was considered to be the worst terrorist attack after December 2023 and was the deadliest raid in recorded history.

Background
During the early stages of preparations for the 2028 Federal Government election which would occur in that year, former Robloxia President Roblox announced on June 2, 2028 that Robloxians will have to become slenders by November 6, 2028, or risk deportation.

Within minutes of the announcement being made, the Robloxia government, including Roblox himself, started to get universal backlash from the citizens of Robloxia and different Roblox leaders, across the entire planet. The idea was criticized for being the worst and most-hated idea conceived in Robloxian presidential history, while fans of slenders, including supporters of Roblox praised the proposal. Starting in early-July, riots would begin to take shape. The first riots began in Brookhaven, where around 10,000 Robloxians marched across the entire city, demanding that the mandate be removed; in response to the riots, Robloxia President Roblox posted a video at 2:46 p.m. on July 10, 2028, describing how this plan would support Roblox. In the video, President Roblox describes it as "a Robloxian interview". It was criticized by Robloxians as they noted that each of the interviewees had one thing in common: they loved slenders and/or voted for President Roblox in past election years, such as 2020 or 2024, thus giving a undue bias towards President Roblox and revealing that the real purpose of the video was propaganda.

As more riots started to occur in Robloxia, reports of rioters breaking into government buildings in Brookhaven were heavily seen on the news, usually resulting in massive property damage. In one of President Roblox's executive orders that was issued in late July, he stated that all non-essential government buildings will be closed to tourism until the rioters pay for the massive property damage. President Roblox said that the federal government employees will not pay for the massive property damage as this was "not their fault". Before and after the attack, prior to his assassination, Roblox had made ninety-five statements, most of them being variants of Robloxians becoming slenders by November 6, 2028.

Planning of attacking and funding
With the 2028 Robloxia Presidential Election scheduled to be held in late-October to early-November and President Roblox setting the date that all Robloxians should become slenders on November 6th, Robloxians started to prepare major plans for a surprise attack on the Robloxia Corporation. To avoid getting caught on social media (which is heavily monitored by Robloxia federal government), which would render Roblox aware of the situation and take action to prevent it, a secret group started a fandom on Basecamp. The group's leader, David Boris. Jr, expressed extreme anger and criticism towards Robloxia, calling out their idea as the "worst one" in Robloxian presidential history before he felt pressured by the Robloxian government to delete his Roblox account and never come back as a regular user, but rather to be as an undercover account on the website and Basecamp as well. He was best-known to have Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED).

On August 2, when initial voting on the Robloxia Congress began, David, as an undercover user posing as a federal government employee, announced the plan on Basecamp. He then used it to post: "August 17! Be prepared." Throughout the days that came, the fandom eventually started to go viral, as 5,000 Robloxians were interested on the event and formulated plans for the yet-upcoming attack, which everyone agreed would use dangerous levels of violence. Blox-Twitter also had tweets promoting the attack as well, with users promoting it giving everyone victimized "death targets", which later resulted in the users being temporarily suspended for 24 hours in Blox-Twitter. During the time the plan was set, larger social media platforms were used to plan the attack, usually resulting in the users being suspended or banned from those platforms. Blox-Twitter and Bloxtok were used the most.

Those bans resulted in users to instead hide their plan somewhere, mainly on Fandom. Later on August 2, a community was started on Odoo Business Software and was named as "SlendersRiots". David, seeing this, posted a link to that wiki at 1:26 p.m. RST on August 3, and as a result, it start to explode in popularly.

Chatting groups were developed and considered to be part of a community. On July 29, all chatting groups unified into one big group called "The Bad Guys". On August 3, David began a fundraiser on GoFundMe. As GoFundMe prohibited using the software for promoting terrorist attacks (per its Terms of Use), he pretended that his mother just passed away and asked for R$4M to pay for the funeral plans. In reality, his mother was still alive, and this was all just a mere part of David's plan to fund money for the campaign and the riots as well. At first, 50 Robloxians are willing to donate to him R$80,000, making him accomplish his goal, but for some reason, he felt that with R$4M, he could only lobby about the cause, something Roblox prohibited. He then decided to post the link on the wiki, where it received much more attention and caused him to exceed his target. By August 6, 2028, nearly R$12M dollars were donated to the cause alone, with the average donation now R$2,000-R$6,000. Around that time, a new way to raise money came from hand-made posters and signs. Those sold for R$4,000 each.

On August 7, 2028, David, alongside few other people posted a tweet, explaining to the public that the raid will be "fully peaceful", including "no fights, no violence and no deaths" and that they are only doing it for Roblox to change the plan. On the same day, an announcement for a planned-pleasant rally were officially declared. Despite all of that, politicians and a couple of well-known Robloxians were still in distress, mainly from past tweets. In early-August, one member of a large group, that was going to be involved in the attack created a map and posted it on Blox-Twitter, showcasing the surrounding land with targeted buildings in red and the rioters in blue. From August 2-14, 2028 - just days before the raid, numerous weapons; mostly guns or bombs were reported to be purchased, while in districts where guns and bombs could not be purchased without permission, they were stolen instead. Throughout the first half of mid-August, David organized several buses, full of supporters to travel to Brookhaven. On August 15, David hosted a meeting near a building in Robloxia Corporation.

A August 16 article by The New Blockers Times said that Robloxians were on the verge of bringing bombs to the Robloxia Corporation as the page featured one viral tweet, posted on August 14, 2028, with the text saying, "GOT BOMBS"!.

Preparation
Just days away from the planned-attack, law enforcement officers started to prepared significantly for the event, even if the rally was going to be "peaceful". On August 13, President Roblox ordered all officers to be at the front gate of the building and to attack someone if they were trying to break in or harmed them. Due to the potential number of Robloxians being around 5,000, with some estimates calling for 10,000, and the fact that many Robloxians were already near the Robloxia Corporation building by August 15, they decided to close the building to everyone but federal government employees. The closing of the building to outsiders failed to quell the upcoming insurrection, and the numbers kept on rising.

On August 11, the Robloxia Corporation requested that all officers should be at the site.

Before the rallies
On August 14 and 15, a estimated 1,000 protesters arrived in Downtown Brookhaven and were seen by Robloxians to hold flags, signs, large black bags in their hands, bats, "death ropes" and others, with some even completely wearing masks or covering their whole body in black, to not get caught by officers or anyone else. During the night, rather than finding a place to sleep in, they instead focused on sleeping on the streets in front of the Robloxia Corporation. By the afternoon of August 16, around 10,000 protesters were located and spotted near the Robloxia Corporation. Most of the protesters had dangerous and harmful weapons and had came via trains, planes, and cars.

On August 16, the "Slender Are Bad" rallies was started to get prepared and also organized by "The Bad Guys" and David himself for the event tomorrow. It was set to have around 2,000 rioters on the streets, calling out for President Roblox's idea, eventually rioting the building if demands are not met.

On the same day as well, several major protests were beginning to form together and were also getting ready for the attack, including one community, named as "Stop President Roblox!" and an another one, called as "Slenders Suck".

According to a recent poll by RBC News on March 30, 2034, most of the protesters and attackers came from Robloxia, while around 40% of the rioters were from other countries.

August 17 protests
Beginning at around 5:00 a.m. on the early-morning of August 17