The Tipharean civil war was a three way battle for control of Tiphares following Desty Nova's public revelation of the brain bio-chips. It pitted the survivors, consisting of a band of teenagers and children led by Jim Roscoe, against a much larger faction of adults led by his C.C.M., Casey. Both sides faced the killer robots of the Medical Inspection Bureau (M.I.B.), which carried out their programming to eradicate those who knew about the brain bio-chips. After she awakened in the Imaginos Body, Alita played an instrumental role in bringing the civil war to an end.